skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a really big deal. If Silicon Valley companies are colluding to suppress programmer salaries, perhaps it is time for programmers to team up to fight back, using a union or a guild.

Now, before the usual tropes about the software industry's meritocracy and rugged individualism lead everyone to laugh at the idea of a labor movement for software engineers, let's all just take a moment and have a look at what happened to the Hollywood visual effects industry. It is one of the very few parts of the movie production process that is not unionized. Because of this lack of protection, studio execs openly brag about putting them out of business as a normal part of making movies (see the quote "If I don’t put a visual effects shop out of business (on my movie), I’m not doing my job." in the first link below):

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117965871.html

http://www.npr.org/2013/03/19/174703202/visual-effects-firms...

http://www.visualeffectssociety.com/node/2425

Something similar could quite easily happen to the software industry. Now is a perfect time to start a labor movement, as the settlement and pending class action suit clearly show the need for such a thing.

EDIT: Just to be clear, the reason for the comparison with the VFX industry is that it is a solid example of a bunch of technocrats who had a chance to unionize but didn't, and now they are being ground into the dust. The exact same thing could easily happen to the typical Silicon Valley programmer. This case with Apple, Intel, Google, and Adobe shows that they are already trying.
Can't agree more. Myself and few friends are part of an "AAD" initiative where we visit deprived and apart from donating money for basic amenities, we take care of school fees and other things. We make sure to visit and actually engage with people other than third party donations. I am sure there are others who do the same.
Someone had to write the web browser. Is that the "front end" or "back end" I wonder?
of course 'dont use xml'; unless your data mainly looks like documents, needs to handle mixed content, need to represent richer types and/or if you already have a robust, full featured, stable XML toolchain.
> Excessive wealth is usually hoarded (in bank accounts), not used: But if you want the economy to work the most (creating jobs, etc.), you need to make money circulate as much as possible (which is not what rich people usually do).

Hell no. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_identity
Very cool! I'm very interested in raspberry pi hardware control. I've built a car similar to yours, you can find out more about it on my website here:

http://jack.minardi.org/raspberry_pi/android-controlled-toy-...

I am slowly building up a raspberry pi hardware control python library. My goal is to do as much as possible on the Pi without bringing an Arduino into the mix. You can check out the code on github:

https://github.com/jminardi/RobotBrain

Let me know if you want to chat, I love talking with others interested in Raspi hardware control.
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This error isn't from node rather the OS has a limit on the number of files than can be open at once.
The same limit would apply for another language/stack
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell
Marie Curie lived to be 66 at a time when the life expectancy in France was around 45. It's true her husband and co-experimenter, Pierre Curie, only lived to be 46 - he was killed by a heavy horse-drawn cart!

Perhaps we are a little too paranoid about the risks of radiation.
If you make one, please post your results to http://extremecloseups.reddit.com !
They give valuable feedback, how is that bad?
Cheapest 150Mbps broadband in big US cities costs 100% more than overseas
Yeah... I wasn't so much suggesting that it's a viable path to a career in research as observing that if you missed your chance to do a PhD, you're not cut off for life from the subjective rewards of research that Dr. Harchol-Balter alluded to, like the satisfaction that comes from working on fundamental problems. You'd need more self-motivation. However, when research isn't your real job, there's no pressure, so you can take your time, and produce results or not, as you wish.
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Out of sight, out of mind
Data visualization on "surgical precision" of drone strikes in Pakistan
> - Excessive wealth is usually hoarded (in bank accounts), not used: But if you want the economy to work the most (creating jobs, etc.), you need to make money circulate as much as possible (which is not what rich people usually do).

Another economical fallacy. When you put money in the bank, it's not standing there doing nothing. Savings are invested, loaned, used to create additional value. That's why banks want your money. If not, it would be a simple cost for them with no value to have it there, and they would charge you to keep your money instead of rewarding you for it.

> Excessive wealth will always has the tendency to become even more excessive: it gives its holder an "unfair" advantage.

Nature is unfair. We don't have the same genes. We don't share the same risks for illness or reproduction. We are not all top athletes. Stop the egalitarian bullshit. The only thing society should do is ensure everyone has the same rights in regard to the Law no matter how rich, how poor, how different you may be. Anything beyond is just a call for arms-race to make everyone the same in every aspect (and incidentally, to render everyone poor by default).
This is a perfect example of why you should ignore the naysayers and "experts" on HN when you first pitch your idea or product. Also, a great example of why the best startup ideas look initially like bad ideas (http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html)
Amazon provides infrastructure for ("security") government agencies (NSA included, if remember correctly).

But given Snowden's work, we'd be foolish to assume the collaboration is limited to this fact.
Computer proofs of the classification of finite simple groups are also being worked on.

Well, parts of it at least [1].

1: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/gonthierpr...
Sorta relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/810/
It's also pretty interesting to look at the other side of this: the person giving away the money.

Michael Norton and a group of researchers (http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/10-012.pdf) at HBS have found that giving away money increases happiness, and that happier people give away more money. This logic is awesome.
Why is it that in a lot of recent American articles, the words 'conspiracy theory' are invariably linked with 'nutjob' 'wacko' 'tinfoilhat'. (This is the 'inception' of conspiracy theories.)

I am a European wacko and proud; I believe that whole JFK thing was highly suspect.
> Workers will have less disposable income to spend, so economic growth will slow down.
Yes, Karl Marx noted this a century and a half ago.

> Workers will be more likely to leave their jobs if offered a salary that's just a few percent higher

The current unemployment rate is 7.2%. From 1987 to 2007, there was a 14 month period circa 1992 where unemployment was 7.2% or higher, otherwise, it was always lower. Unemployment is at historic highs, not really a time when companies have to raise their salaries to attract workers. Also, industrial capacity is at historic lows ( http://monthlyreview.org/2008/12/01/financial-implosion-and-... ). Just think of the anecdotal discussion on HN and elsewhere about the VC crunch. Capital is sitting on the sidelines - just look at the industrial utility chart. Companies aren't using the capacity they have, never mind new investment.
Just because the examples look similar doesn't mean they are the same thing. For one, Android had a huge headstart before WP, the phone market itself is quite different from Desktop OS market, specifically compare to the time Windows cemented its dominance.

Other counter example includes iOS taking over BB and Nokia from behind, Android surpassing iOS (in terms of usage) coming from behind.

Mobile market and desktop market is not the same thing, so its a silly point to bring up.
The problem with the 'science' is that the main study done on this topic cherry picked the countries it included in the results and excluded some 20 countries. If you only is d data from the excluded countries you would find the reverse correlation. One has to be very careful to look out for confirmation bias in research.
The main problem is that it's a cat and mouse game that really should not be happening in people's email. Saying, "hey, it's no big deal that we're clumsily wanking with your email contents/security because we'll easily be able to fix any problems that arise" is less comforting than simply not clumsily wanking with your email contents/security in the first place.
My opinionated design principle for RESTful APIs is to keep in mind that REST is just a style sheet of good practices and patterns as in, do not apply it blindly and just use whatever makes sense.

From there, I have conflicting emotions with this:

Although the web generally works on HATEOAS type principles (where we go
to a website's front page and follow links based on what we see on the
page), I don't think we're ready for HATEOAS on APIs just yet.

I do not think "being ready" is an argument to use or not use HATEOAS. Sure, HATEOAS as defined by Roy Fielding contains a lot of clutter, but there's nothing bad if it makes sense to assume a client that does not know how to construct URLs. Generally I find it nice to have something similar to:

GET /fooes

{
"fooes": [
"foo": {
"bar": {
"some": "baz"
},
"name": "The Mighty Foo",
"id": "the-mighty-foo",
"href": "/fooes/the-mighty-foo"
},
...
]
}
I wasn't on HN at the time but I do remember being an early user of Dropbox, and I remember being totally blown away on first use.

So I looked into my email to see when I signed up, it was 14 months after this post. I also found a gtalk chat log with the friend that recommended it, and it looks like my memory is quite wrong, I was just as skeptical as much of the linked HN thread:

>the thing about 2gb dropbox

>is i carry 6gb on my keychain

>and 8gb on my phone

>and i don't exactly trust them with important data

>also my iphone has shared folders that look just like any other computer on my network

>the keychain is kind of a hassle though and i mostly don't use it, i should probably throw it away
The hard part about this problem is getting the scale and thus volume of the objects right. How big is that bowl holding your cereal?
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> we've tried so far!

"We"? Define "we," please. It isn't like the rulers of countries just decided one day that they were going to implement some reforms and transition out of Feudalism, because they thought that on the whole, it would just work out "better" for "us."

(Please also define "better." Democracy is not better than monarchy from the monarch's point of view.)

These changes were brought about through bitter class struggle, and bloody revolutions, through the noble sacrifice of many revolutionaries.

Please at least respond and refute if you're going to downvote me immediately upon seeing marxian terminology.

Your paradigm of thinking is so fucking simplistic and dumb, you should really take a look at how much sense it makes and consider finding a new one.
Ah, laughed out loud for this string of comments. Great job, all. And not a verge "combo breaker"-comment in sight.
I think it is just a matter of conditioning and habit. I have been using linux on and off for the past 5-6 years, but using it exclusively in the past 2 years. I am a little uncomfortable on Windows 7 now, and I am totally lost on windows 8. The UI isn't user friendly for me any more. I'd take Unity, or even Gnome 3 any day.
Yeah I had the same, I figured out it was more the acceleration that was the problem rather than the cursor movement itself...moving slower than usual meant I could use it without problems.
No, the prior for "air is the only safe thing that can go in your lungs" is very low.
Here's my fave obituary so far: http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2013/10/27/l...

Jenny said when she was just five years old
There was nothin’ happenin’ at all

It was the fifties. We were living in cookie cutter houses in the suburbs. Our parents will still recovering from the war, buckling down and making a better life for their children, with barbecues and trips to the beach and…

Every time she puts on a radio
There was nothin’ goin’ down at all
Not at all

The radio was primarily for baseball. They played music, but it did not change our lives and then…

Then one fine mornin’ she puts on a New York station
You know, she don’t believe what she heard at all

It happened overnight. Sports became secondary. The music, the politics, suddenly life was full of opportunities and children were the leaders, not their parents.

She started shakin’ to that fine fine music
You know her life was saved by rock ‘n’ roll

Imagine that. Not an iPhone. Not an iPad. The greatest exponent of technology was the transistor radio, almost no one had a color television set, never mind a flat screen. But that rock and roll music coming out of the tiny speaker or earphone…was enough.
No, Pfizer advances jack shit. They get massive state funding, as do the rest. They then turn around and abuse their consumers. If you don't believe me, which would be pathetic, you could try googling "Pfizer malfeasance."
So who is this "main growth hacker"?

Sidebar: What the heck does "main growth hacker" even supposed to mean? It blows my mind when people start coming up with new names for what they do. "Senior sanitation engineer" etc.
Wow. Way to be a dick.
this is classical bait and switch. No idea why everyone is discussing that *

They 'invest in the future' by selling at or close to a loss, until they kill everyone around them. When they are the only ones around they can dictate price and terms.

* actually, just realized. For whatever reason, amazon is spend some PR money to give out the message that they are investing in the future like anyone else. I've seen some articles in several news papers and radios. They are probably in or expecting legal action on that and want to influence some group toughs.
To be fair, this is how people with tiling window managers feel about the rest. It's just another step further.
The UK isn't the only country with cheap broadband. Most of the US has a population density[0] higher than Finland(16/km^2) or Sweden(20/km^2), yet they also have low cost, high speed broadband(faster than the UK). So I think this argument is misleading

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_populati...
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Let me ask. Is it also a "cool hack" when hotels inject ads into free WiFi?

... Because it is basically the same concept but worse because you just gave up the privacy of your inbox to be data mined and sold. All for some minor conveniences masquerading as a "cool hack".

I don't think that's cool at all.
Replace "HTML/CSS injection" with the word spam and reread it again.

If things were true, spam would have died out by now. Admittedly, companies like Gmail do a good job of controlling but sufficiently large volumes of spam get through to the point where it's being opened and clicked where spammers still consider this a viable business.

So not, it's not a cat-and-mouse game where the owner wins. A sufficiently determined attacker will still get in. If your thesis were true, we would have built an unhackable computer by now.
And here is his YC application: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27532820/app.html

You have to watch his Dropbox video and read his YC application to really appreciate how articulate, succinct and fluid Drew communicates.
> Another economical fallacy.

What I meant is: this money is not used to promote consumption (which it were in the hands of poor people).

It's consumption (of services or products) that creates jobs.

Jobs get created because there is demand for something, not because some rich elite decides they can invest (because they have money). Investment does not depend on the existence of some rich elite. "Trickle down economics" was a joke created by a couple of rich people, to justify and protect the inequality.

Investment can easily be accomplished by "the crowd", and it should.
And that you can actually communicate via email/twitter/g+ with the creators or the core developers of those languages and expect to even get an answer is pretty awesome as well :)
Isn't killing jobs through automation a good thing?
So no one has the right to, for example, clean water?

Or is that just egalitarian bullshit that is going to make everyone the same in every aspect too?
And is that Coke or Diet Coke?
That means he was at least partly if not mostly wrong.

I don't agree. You'd have to look at his reasons for calling it the way he did.

Your "betting" objection is a red herring. To identify a bubble does not require predicting exactly when it will pop.
Uh, it has nothing to do with automation. It has to do with illegal collusion on salaries. Wrong thread?
I wonder how many people that initially thought/said that they wouldn't need/want/use Dropbox are actually using it now. Would be particularly interesting to know what reasons convinced people who didn't believe it would work to end up using it themselves. Particularly, would be cool to know if it was due to lack of understanding of the product, lack of a clear enough pitch, or something else that established the wrong expectations.
Let's be fair though, there's a survivor bias here. It's probably more dangerous to blunder on and simply tune out any criticism.

If you look at the top rated comment on that thread it is certainly a valid criticism, namely that corporate computers are often locked down and won't allow installation of third party software without getting sign off from IT. In the case of dropbox that managed to sidestep this by mainly targeting smaller businesses and individuals and also have the fall-back of letting users access their files over the web.
A: Because our government prevents competition by granting monopolies in exchange for revenue and political support.
Reminds me of the fake Apple company names and back stories when they were building the iPhone and had to meet with cellular companies. (I guess Steve Jobs was less recognizable back then?)
Nature may be unfair, but it is way more fair than modern wealth distribution.

The richest 300 people in the world have more money combined than the poorest 3 billion people. You don't see deviances like that in genetics.

Also, if you believe all Americans (also applies to all other nationalities) have the same rights in regard to the law, well I don't even know how to respond to that, because believing that would make you incredibly, desperately naive.
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> In his world, there are no facts -- just assertions made by interested players. His job as a reporter is simply to record the stage managed argument.

IMHO this is also why journalism has had so much trouble recently monetizing their product, they are a middlemen pushing a message from someone that wants it disseminated as widely as possible onto people whom they expect to pay for the privilege. They are asking for money to the wrong side of the equation.
Governments exist to give everyone a basic set required services. I think even the biggest free market/ small government advocate would agree that access to clean drinking water is one of those services.
When all you have is a launch page and no functionality demonstrating the features of the site, the points you mention are what many people are likely to focus on.
pg once pointed out there may be far fewer startups in a society that does not allow concentration of excessive wealth. That's at least one single valid reason.

http://paulgraham.com/inequality.html

"People start startups in the hope of becoming much richer than they were before. And if your society tries to prevent anyone from being much richer than anyone else, it will also prevent one person from being much richer at t2 than t1."
I live in Paris and have a basic bundle with Orange, the main telco in France. I pay over 60 euros a month (about $90). This is the same as the American average according to the article. I don't know where you can get a bundle in France for 35 euros (about $25).

I think the numbers are skewed by their use of a purchasing power multiplier. Everything costs more in Paris, so the price of broadband is relatively less compared to places with a lower cost of living. However, based on my experience, the broadband prices are the same, which is what you would expect to see.
panorama-like shot + obligatory 'token' in the shot should solve that, right?
> The only thing society should do is ensure everyone has the same rights in regard to the Law no matter how rich, how poor, how different you may be.

No, society should seek to maximize widespread improvements in quality of life and further humanities cause through social, technological, and cultural investments. Nature may be unfair, but just because we were born from it does not mean we have to model out society after it.
And smoking isn't unhealthy, because my dad is still alive and kicking at 80 years old, right?

This is the reason why the size of the samples are important.
Spiders at 175x magnification look much worse. Not sure that this is a great idea. Even dust mites look scary at high magnification.

Try letting the spider walk all over you instead.
That's the point - not all feedback is valuable.
the text is blurry, much like a lot of the apps that hand't had retina support when the rMBP was released.
Science at the time may have "proved" the origin of the bullets, but I thought modern science, including audio processing was a bit more ambiguous....
I'm working on Revision Path (http://www.revisionpath.com), which showcases black web designers, web developers, and graphic designers. Right now, that's in the form of interviews, and I've got 28 done (10 audio, 18 text) with about a dozen more in the queue.

Why is it cool?

Well, whenever the mention of race and technology get mentioned together, people get extremely bent out of shape. Instead of going that doomed route of asking why the industry isn't more diverse and arguing statistics (on it's visible edge, I mean), I decided to showcase the people who ARE actively working in this industry.

The site is just a few months old, and the reaction has been mixed (as you can imagine since I'm only interviewing Black folks), but I'm definitely interested in telling these people's stories who love this industry, love the work they do, and are interested in telling their stories.
A few thoughts

* I hear "app" I think "app" as in iOS or Android or Mac app, I have never heard anyone say "app" for "application".

* The whole thing smells of "charge people before you even have a product" to me: you came up with the idea on Wednesday, there is no way you have a system in place to justify asking people for $10.

* You need to establish trust on your front page: why should I do this through your system? A blurry, hand-wavy graph is not enough.
Would this reduce administration cost also? We always hear of charities where 20 cents on the dollar actually makes it to the people. If this can reduce admin cost by not having to make, control or follow up on conditions it could really help more money get to where it is needed.
Why doesn't romania appear in the list?
Here we have
50mbps at $9
100mbps at $12
500mbps at $15
1gbps at $18

I think these are the best rates in the world, right?
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...what? a package deal from SFR/Free/whoever is 30 euros a month. Also $35 is 25 euros

http://www.free.fr/adsl/freebox-revolution.html 30 euros a month bundle.
Spotify, Hulu and Adobe CC. Spotify hands down is the best $10 a month I spend.
Another one: http://tympanus.net/Development/ModalWindowEffects/