skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks about right to me.
Thing is with stats you want to tell a story and ideally create testable hypothesis based on it.It might be a wrong story but mouthing off "Correlation does not imply causation or the plural of anecdote is not data"(statistical tourettes anyone?) adds no useful insights and qualifies as not even wrong(adds no new information and is intrinsically untestable)
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We see price stickiness around the £50 mark with some very high paying jobs for some clients with deep pockets who aren't so price sensitive (London finance most probably),even if we assume half of the +100 people are lying it still represents an interesting view of the market.

Im in the 50 an hour band myself,would be interested in scaling up a bit.
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You know, I've never been able to convince myself that the quantization error is correctly taken into account by standard statistical error bars / power of study.
What is the reason? Can't find any news.
Journalism at its most - erm journalistic? A lot (a very lot) of words written with none of them actually on the supposed subject. Filling column inches I suppose.
China announcing they want a new world currency that doesn't depend on US, and Baidu adopting Bitcoin, I assume.
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If only there were some way we could compare large groups of people. Maybe we could have a federal agency that does that. It sounds pretty useful; maybe we should put that in the constitution.

Snark aside, 26% of Miami has Bachelor's degrees. San Francisco county is 51%. Marin, 54%. San Mateo county, 46%.

Source: US Census, by way of http://chronicle.com/article/Attainment-Interactive/125995/
There is some more prize gibberish in that article:

Saxena said IBM is ready to make a big a bet on Watson, as it did in the 1970s when it invested in the emergence of the mainframe.

Leaving aside the grammatical error (it's probably just an editing artefact), what bed did IBM make in the 1970s on the emergence of the mainframe? Is that a typo for 1950s? Or just unvarnished ignorance of computing history?

It's stuff like this that makes me mistrust a news source: if they get it blazingly wrong about something I know enough about to have a working bullshit detector for, what are the chances that they're not also getting it wrong about everything else?
Its inherently deflationary anyway (which is a terrible idea for a currency).
This completely ignores the fact that the word "Sorry" is not always an apology.

"Sorry your dog died." is an expression of _sympathy_ for your dog's death, not an admission of guilt.

In fact, the first definition on Google for "define sorry" is "feeling sad or distressed through sympathy with someone else's misfortune"

And yes, I'd be more likely to lend my phone to someone who had shown signs of sympathy to me first.
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Why does this imply a bubble?
> I'm only joking, but seriously, does anyone remember how lightning fast VS6 was? That was over 15 years ago with much slower computers.

Keep in mind that "nostalgia" is another word for "brain rot", and the human memory is a liar.

I spent most of 1995 and 1996 using Mac LC 475 for DTP. Great times. Hauntingly easy to use.

I spent 1998-99 on Windows NT with Office 97, which was actually more usable for the same job.

1999, I used someone's LC 475. I was horrified how clunky the exact same thing felt, a few years later.

tl;dr I suggest you actually fire up VS6 and try using it for stuff and see what you think now.
Become a Fan of you, i want to learn this level. One line from my side "For me this is 1000 time better than GTA 5 " :)
I wonder if it's a lot more respectable now SilkRoad is gone?
Also, if you don't have that much external expenditure; then you can sign up for the flat rate scheme, which for tech essentially gives your income a boost of 4% for free.
Are those UUCP paths in your comment?
I heard Anthony Bourdain being interviewed in SF (on City Arts and Lectures, I think.) Somebody asked him what he thought of the food in SF, and I thought his answer was really interesting. He thought that at the very top end, New York won without question. But that the average restaurant in SF was substantially better.
You misunderstand me.

If you start in comparing X or Y to nazis then it is unlikely that the rest of the post will be read - even if there is a legitimate point to make.

Mind it looks like ChikkaChiChi did have a stab at it and found that the complaint had no substance.
I know too little about currencies but to me it looks like that our "real currencies" are inherently deflationary as well... At least this is how it is supposed to work - right? I mean what if governments weren't printing new money all the time? Then there would also be a limited amount of money available in a big pool... Wouldn't it depend on the growth rate of country to determine weather or not a currency is deflationary?

- Number of people is growing, same amount of money for the people, no new money is printed => deflationary?

vs.

- Number of people is shrinking, same amount of money for the people, no new money is printed => inflationary?
Very cool, but for some reason I really just want to know if you're using text-to-speech for that short demo video. I honestly can't tell with certainty.
Last year, Tim Cook said that 75% of all Macs sold are notebooks[1]. Not all Mac desktops come with a mouse. Of course, people can buy a mouse, be it for their desktop or notebook. Or they can buy a tablet, trackball or external trackpad.

For mouse use on the Mac to be the most used input method, over one third of Mac notebook users would have to permanently use a mouse instead of the built-in trackpad. You can go to any Starbucks, airport, or school to see that that is not the case.

[1] http://www.macworld.com/article/1167850/apple_revenue_profit...
Make sure that all your clients are VAT registered business, otherwise you work out 20% more expensive.
Because nowadays any exponential growth is called a "bubble in forming". And because all stochastic exponential process eventually crash, or "underperform", it sounds really smart to "predict" a crash months or years in advance. Especially when using non-logarithmic axes, the predictions and the crash look really impressive.

You don't, however, often see these prophets of doom profiting from their predictions, because the exact timing of crashes isn't that easy at all.
You mean a 16.6% discount ;)
Seriously, does that sound like an even vaguely scientific study? How do they know the effect is due to what was said as opposed to _saying anything polite_ first?
If you register for vat and go on the flat rate scheme you charge 20% and only have to pay 14.5% to the vat man. If you charge £50 an hour, you get an extra £110 a week for simply being registered. Also, it makes you look like youre big enough that you need to be vat regged.

Also you get an extra 1% in your first year.
Ask HN:  Why no option to export my Likes 
How come HN does not have the ability for the user to export the stories I have liked during the years? It would be nice if there was an open import/export for HN, Reddit so I could archive my favorite stories.
But at the cost of having to raise your rates by 20% without seeing any of that.
Problem with finding web design clients solved?
Well, price has risen not because of businesses across the world adopting the currency but because of only Baidu saying they will accept Bitcoin. That does not justify 50% rise at all.
Ask HN: Do rich kids learn programming?
I'm curious if people from rich family background go to learn programming and computer science or most CS / programmers come from middle class or lower.
Someone should benchmark the infamous for its speed node.js again after this (it should be slower)...
But it can be regulated by the government. And if they behave responsibly that's a big feature BC doesn't have.
I use emacs for email and news reader (gnus), Irc (rcirc), jabber (jabber.el), twitter (twittering-mode), calculator, password storage (PGP encrypted file), and sysadmining (remote/sudo file editing with tramp).

And I use it as my primary development envrionment. I get the same text editor capabilities if I'm writing a tweet, email or code. And yes, vim is a far superior editor. Luckily emacs implements that as well (evil or viper).
How do you know that that's why it's risen? Why does that not justify a 50% rise? Why does that imply the price will suddenly crash? Is this idle chat, or have you attempted to significantly short bitcoin somehow to take advantage of the financial gain from your certainty?
Their mice aren't very good. And the current one in particular, the one you can do gestures on, is no exception. However, I really like the trackpad and the current keyboard. It's exactly what I want in a keyboard.

The problem with the mouse is that it's hard to do gestures on something that isn't stationary. I've always had a thing for a particular model of Microsoft Intellimouse but it's about ten years old now and getting hard to find, and mine was starting to go on the fritz. But I've been using the trackpad for about six weeks now and I really like it.
It was a bubble at $100 apparently. So this must be a double bubble :)
Rhythms, frequencies, sequences and lawlessness?
I'm still hesitant to sell my (smaller) stash. The probability that bitcoin will explode is fairly low, but trading a small but real possibility of becoming a millionaire against a few thousand dollars is a difficult decision :)
I wonder if someone could build a new digital currency that starts let's say at 1 trillion units, and is expanded by 2 percent per year (that 2 percent being split so a slight increase happens every day, so it doesn't happen all at once, but after a year, the increase rounds up to 2 percent).

The problem would be seeding it and distributing it early on. But it could still be mined much like Bitcoin, with the difference being that the total amount will never be limited. Also, it should be easier to mine them, since the (non-finite) total (1 trillion) would be a lot larger than the 21 limit for Bitcoins. Someone should also do the math for this new currency's adoption rate, so all of the 1 trillion units (adjusted with the 2 percent inflation rate) get distributed in 3-5 decades.

Basically we don't want a few thousand people to get that whole trillion within 10 years. I'd also prefer if anonymity would be built it (look to Zerocoin for that). Perhaps it shouldn't be anonymous by default, but you should be able to "switch it on"). It should also be as easy to use and as secure as possible (the clients), so normal people can use it safely on all of their devices.
7.04 install upgraded to 13.10 here. Worst I had to do was apt-get -f install after an apt-get dist-upgrade. So six years now.
I see  in many mice. Is it supposed to be Apple's logo? It looks like box(F8FF) to me.
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Of course, sold != in use. Another assertion, but in my experience, desktops have a much longer lifetime than laptops. I think 'most used' is a bit of a diversion, since that's almost certainly the keyboard.
There's a difference between "i havent been paid fully yet" and "I'm hesitant to give them the source code until I get fully paid. I've already invoiced them and they are late on payment according to the terms of the invoice. They've been late before also so this is new territory. I tried talking to the client but he wouldn't answer my call."

Typically 1099s submit an invoice and are paid according to the terms of the invoice. Saying you haven't been paid yet when you haven't invoiced is a bit dramatic and such anxiety is unlikely to win you any future business/referrals.

Which is it?
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It's a terrible idea for a sovereign currency for a country, sure. For a store of value ... seems pretty good to me?
Printing money is basically intrinsic to our "real currencies" so if you remove that you have something quantitively different,effectively a new type of currency.
Technically currency is a medium of exchange and can be linked to anything,industrial production,gold,number of cows,someones else's currency etc ,so whether it is inflationary or deflationary depends on its social framework and design.

Now what is a deflationary currency inherently bad?Say I am Mr Big with my 2 million bitcoins, I can invest in your new business with a variable prospect of success or I can sit on my arse and watch the value of my money go up due to deflation,which am I more likely to do?
How do you deal with exiting debits in a deflationary spiral?
In deflationary systems money does not circulate and that is the death knell of commerce.
But bitcoin is circulating! Well yes,but its value is due to it being traded for speculation and extralegal activities (a lot of which Im actually sympathetic to) ,not as an actual replacement currency.
The resolution of textures has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the size of the framebuffer is only 1920x1080x24 bits large,so 6075KB(5.93MB). Unless you are trying to imply that the memory in the monitor will be used as an extension of the GPUs memory, which I really don't see how it would work over existing connections and deal with the latency and relatively low bandwidth involved.
So take a decision now about when you'll sell, write it down, and stick to it. Mine has a 5 year timeline, or a specific value (a few orders of magnitude more than today) at which I'll sell.
Exactly right. And spot on about choosing your place in the stack - to some extent, it is as simple as deciding to be a higher-value worker. Of course, you will need to have a convincing history to back you up.

For example, a friend of mine markets himself as basically a part-time CTO. He's been there, done that at a number of startups over the years, team lead the last few, a strong record of delivery. Management (who are not or only partially technical) does not hire him for his programming skills - that is not even a question at the (short, single) interview. He develops software, yes, but the main priority is giving management confidence that their software story is in safe, experienced hands, gives them someone to interface with, and frees up their bandwidth for other concerns. This guy makes well over six figures working part time.

It's no secret that many startup founders come from finance - and despite their bad rap here on HN, mostly they are very smart, decent people. But they don't know tech like we do. What are their needs? What are their fears?

They're not looking for the cheapest typist in town. They're looking for a credible partner to take co-ownership of the tech side of things. Maybe that's taking co-ownership of the mobile product, or something more inclusive, it doesn't matter - they just don't want to have to worry about it. So be that person who can take care of that for them.

And one more thing. There is a bizarre tendency in the software world to eschew anything that smells like management, and to almost revel in the fact that IT people can often get away with dressing down at work. Don't do that. Always wear a suit, or at least a shirt. Business has rules, and the dress code is one of them. Demonstrate at the very first impression that you understand this, and you will gain a lot of respect. Suddenly, you are not just another slob typing gibberish in his dirty t-shirt, you are a fellow manager, but with rare and valuable technical skills. Big, big difference.
Mpv video player 0.2 release
For those of you wondering, mpv is a fork of mplayer2. It was already discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6194563

This new stable release introduces some popular features like VAAPI support and the On Screen Controller for mouse users.
True, but there are things that governments can do to influence how infationary/deflationary their currency is. Bitcoin by design cannot be influenced in this way. Once the production of new bitcoins end (which is guaranteed by its algorithm), then it is highly likely there will be deflation, possibly a deflationary spiral.
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I presume this is just trolling, but in case you actually think that, for New York, Michelin lists 7 three-star restaurants, 9 two-star, and 46 one-star. San Francisco's numbers are 2, 6, and 39. [1] So not as high, but given that the SF Metro area has a third the population of New York, we do ok.

(For those unfamiliar, Michelin stars are sort of like the Academy Awards of food. Even a 1-star restaurant is an extraordinary meal, and you should expect to pay $100-200 a person. 3-star places are reputedly the best of the best; a meal there runs $300-600 per person.)

[1] http://sf.eater.com/archives/2012/10/23/michelin_guide_2013_...
I tried and wound up with RSI.

I quit my office job after a year of saving, and I'm about to launch the project I've been working on full-time (and plenty more) since I quit. I did have a few small gigs to keep me afloat, during that time, though.
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You may have heard that a proton is made from three quarks. Indeed here are several pages that say so. This is a lie — a white lie, but a big one. In fact there are zillions of gluons, antiquarks, and quarks in a proton. The standard shorthand, “the proton is made from two up quarks and one down quark”, is really a statement that the proton has two more up quarks than up antiquarks, and one more down quark than down antiquarks. To make the glib shorthand correct you need to add the phrase “plus zillions of gluons and zillions of quark-antiquark pairs.” Without this phrase, one’s view of the proton is so simplistic that it is not possible to understand the LHC at all.

http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/largehadronc...
I'm going to sell when I can retire on it. Which won't be for a couple orders of magnitude yet. Some of us are holding for the longest time...

I apply this same logic to my startup attempts. If anyone offers me enough to retire, I'll sell with no doubts.
Assuming you have $5000 worth of Bitcoin that's 25 bitcoins at the current $200 exchange rate.

So bitcoin has to go to $40.000 for you to become a millionaire.

Bitcoin at launch was $0.05. So value of bitcoin has doubled 12 times since launch, and the value of bitcoin has to double 8 more times for your to become a millionaire. So that's quasi-plausible. Not holding my breath, though :)

[1] Source https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmcTCtjBoRWUdHJ...
A poll would probably work better for this
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Its actually generally a lot easier to profit buying a bubble than shorting it.There are a lot more points of increase than points of collapse.
Paulson made a fortune shorting the housing market,plenty of people predicted the collapse but Paulson picked the peak correctly.
The interesting thing is given his shocking trading performance since then he appears to have been lucky rather than smart.

Didier Sornette has some interesting theories(and dubious models) about bubbles,well worth a read.
The way i understand it, this system offers data to physicians ,it doesn't offer treatment, so it doesn't have to be clinically tested.

It is the the responsibility of the hospital and doctors to evaluate and see if it offer any benefit to them.That's the usual standard information systems are bound to.

But watson is quite new. I'm pretty sure testing will come with time.
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Let's keep in mind that the D-Wave machine is not a general purpose quantum computer. It only runs the quantum annealing, which is an aptimization algorithm, on its quantum register. This is the only thing the machine is able to do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_annealing
Search. Seriously.

For many queries Google search is now better than Wikipedia. For example, Google 'Tom Cruise' and the right-hand side of the results page has an almost perfect summary of the actor: A great selection of photos, a concise biography, a clickable list of his popular movies and other actors related to him. This is the sort of thing that makes Google search far better than the competition for most people.
You're absolutely right. The majority* of people on HN seem to have no clue how TV and Film is actually paid for, how the content ecosystem itself works. They just see the end product.

To flip the tables a bit, here is the same logic being applied to tech, instead of TV/Film:

First, lets get rid of these incubators, angels, VCs, and IPOs pumping money into the system up front. Surely, the $30 million spent to start Foobr.com could easily be paid by the users, right?

Second, instead...sell time on Foobr.com at $2.99/day a la carte. Multiple by the 1 million users that the $30 million pre-funded Foobr.com has today, and Boom! Foobr.com can clearly exist (in the same form, too!) if we got rid of incubators, VCs, IPOs, aquihires, and all the rest.

Third, gloat on HN, in blogs, podcasts, and on Twitter. It's math, dude! Bask in my brilliant economic analysis of the startup ecosystem. You people working at Ycombinator and VCs, and buying stock at IPOs? Chumps, all of you! You're just subsidizing my usage. I get for free what you pay billions for. Idiots.

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This analogy (if you don't know TV and Film is funded) is much stronger than you'd think. It's amazing how similar the two are in terms of funding.

And hopefully everyone can agree that removing literally all of the up front funding channels for tech startups, and instead moving to a la carte pricing on the final product, is not a workable plan. The same is true of TV and Film. You cannot simply move it to a la carte pricing and expect the exact same things to be available, and at the same quality level.

There are very strong reasons why the Film/TV ecosystem is the way it is that are not immediately obvious to people outside of it. If you want to disrupt it, you'll first need to understand it.

*as best I can tell
Cryptolocker started using it as a payment method...

(I'm not sure what the real reason is).
>>>So in a way, this is saying that a raytracer is made of C?

>Yes, but isn't it?

If you understand 'made of' as: a program that produces identical output from the same input can be expressed in C, then absolutely.

> These fields are very real, it is our understanding of them that is perhaps inaccurate!

Again, this depends on the precise meaning of the words. To start with a analogy, at some point the gravitational force was understood as a instantaneous action over some distance, nowadays it is understood as curvature of the space-time. So if you say that 'the fields are real,' then you implicitly claim that they are fields. And as our understanding evolves, perhaps we will call them something else entirely, we may not even describe them as fields anymore than today gravity is described as a action at a distance.

So you may argue, that this is just semantics. But semantics become important, when you have a theory which predicts that the fundamental particles of the theory can not be observed in isolation. If the only thing that you actually observe is the response of a 100-ton detector, and where you heavily post process the data you gain from observing the detector.
I know you can sell your coin when the price is high; but can you trade quickly enough to profit from such temporary surges (buy low then sell high only a dozen hours later) ? What is the average request processing time if you want to buy, say, 10 BTC on mtgox ?
$200? Hardly. Maybe if you look at Mt.Gox, it might look like you could get $190 per bitcoin. Howerver, there is no way to actually get that money to your bank account, since Mt. Gox hasn't been doing any banktransfers for months.

The price is high on Mt.Gox because people that have money on there can only get it out by buying Bitcoins and transfering those to other exchanges. This drives the Mt.Gox price up.

If you look a the exchanges that are actually solvent, the price is more around $160.
How does it work? It doesn't say.