skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real US median household income hasn't budged much since the mid 60s ($35-40k, inflation adjusted), and I think that's on the back of more hours worked, lower job security, etc.

Health is better, and people are better educated, but it's just not paying off for the average household.

Most countries don't have this problem though.
AIRO wristband tracks not just sleep, exercise and stress, but also what you eat
In the real world, a contract that's impossible to perform is not enforceable.

https://www.inkling.com/read/wolters-kluwer-mbe-bar-prep/mbe...
> The national debt is a bullshit non-problem.

i don't disagree with you, but i'd love to hear why you think that.
One of the most important roles of a CEO is to tell a good story, so writing is an excellent way to practice that and you don't need to write about things that will benefit your competitors.
With a certain reading of Marx you could make the argument that startups and the freelancer movement embody Marxist ideals.

Technology empowers and magnifies the productive ability of creators while decoupling their dependence on and/or displacing traditional economic structures (e.g. companies and markets). As an added bonus technology prices have historically fallen over time which further reduces the value of (demand for) capital.

These aspects enable individuals to minimise "Marxist alienation" by creating goods without needing (much) capital, owning the output of their labour, and increasing their share of the surplus value of their goods (PG's "100x multiplier").
> Seven months after purchase

Hahaha. Many people waited over a year.

> If Butterfly Labs had shipped their devices anything like on schedule, it would have been easier to make a small profit.

Only for the people who ordered pre-2013 (as they were supposed to ship Oct. 2012), and back when btc was $10. That would exclude you.

As others mention, bitcoin as a currency seems to have a better chance of ROI (or at least quicker ROI), unless you can get in on the shipping and upcoming 28nm ASICs. I feel bad for the people who ordered from BFL using bitcoin back in 2012.
You're describing a cultural and economic shift towards collectivism and away from individualism, which, to me, seems no more likely than basic income.

I think it may take decades for basic income in America to go from unthinkable, to radical, to controversial, to reasonable, to seemingly inevitable, to reality. But that's all the more reason to start talking about it now. Let's get the ball rolling!
Thanks! I'm planning on digging into Cam Davidson-Pilon's Bayesian Methods for Hackers soon:https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...

Thanks for the link to the book. I could see it being really helpful to me to have frequentist examples alongside Bayesian examples.

I'm hoping to learn Python so I have both tools. R is so domain-specific that I doubt I'll ever completely stop using it in my career. Who knows, though!?
@IBM,

Perhaps it is risky for Apple to take such a stance, but it is most certainly good for Tim Cook!
I had similar experiences. The real value for a lot of folks would be to develop the proper mindset and decision making process for everyday spending.

I have a hobby project (http://www.spendlight.com/) that's growing out of my own household's efforts to get on the same page with our mental model of our finances. The charts in Mint or the wall of numbers coming out of a typical bank statement wasn't directly helpful for my wife and I to truly coordinate our spending and reach a consensus on what expenses were good vs bad. The more we've focused on our decisions rather than the mere dollars and sense, the more progress we've made in becoming responsible spenders.

Anyhow, I'd love to get more insights from folks such as yourself who were able to get their finances under control. I think a tool that accounts the behavioral realities of our spending habits would have substantial value for at least a handful of folks. Agree? Disagree?
Looks like it fixes a bug in eDP clamping that scrambles by screen.
Mark Cuban, anyone?
The problem as I see it right now is that capital-holders are treated very well because capital can slip through borders, while labour is a bit more tricky, because it comes with the implication of having an extra person around...

In an open border world, the balance would be more equalized, but that is more theoretical than practical at this point.

The recent rounds of QE are a great example of this. Those were basically made to inflate asset prices for capital-holders, because economic policymakers are conditioned to placate capital. Case in point: 90% of shares in public markets are owned by 10% of Americans. The hope was that some of this benefit would trickle down, as the infamous term goes---unfortunately that hasn't happened, so far.

So now we live in unequal times not seen in America since the late 20s.

pre bust: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/business/15gilded.html?pag...

post bust: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/income-inequalit... (big ups to Shiller)

There's a couple of ways to go about resolving this, from heavy handed government intervention to restrict capital, to loosening government restrictions on labour movement.

There's outside the box thinking too, from how Iceland forgave those holding good homes rather than those holding bad debt to opening the pool of capital to a wider pool of people in the vein of equity crowdfunding---

this is a very pressing issue, and there are tons of solutions out there. I think the one constant is that if technology is going to play a role in solving this, people need to be given equal access to that technology, and the knowledge required to understand it. discuss and spread code!
I read the article as saying that she worked at the secure (target) agency, hence the fake profile was for someone that already worked at the agency. It was just using a photo of the waitress.

So there's some assumption on the part of the employees that she is already employed by the company, and hence she's been vetted somehow. That would also explain the job offers since other companies would want to poach employees.

Though my take away from this is that there are a lot of men that think that niceness at work is a way into a hot girl's pants.
The name Direct Rendering Manager has been around since the '90s, since the XFree86 days. So I'm pretty sure this abbreviation predates that of the "bad" DRM.
All cats are mammals but not all mammals are cats.
> the big one is giving you a bad rate
Not sure about that, they gave a usual bank rate, I doubt you can get a much better rate when you transfer and convert money from/to bit coin exchange.
How I used OkCupid to advertise my dating company and increased signups by 400%
Countdown timer: http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=blockedinchina.net
You can try out the PLATO system today by getting a signon on http://cyber1.org/

Plasma display technology was invented there.
It's the distance, average speed and the number of stops that the trains make. Trains depart frequently during the rush hour (4-7 minute wait, depending on the line), but at night wait times could be 30+ minutes. Trains are also quite slow, compared to some of the more modern systems around the world - because of tight curves, narrow tunnels, lots of complicated crossings and frequent repair work.

So even a one-seat ride (no transfer) between the "outer" boroughs through Manhattan could take a really long time. Add in a few connections, and fuhgeddaboutit.

The truly awesome thing about NY subway is that it never closes, except in significant weather emergencies, so even in the dead of the night you can get from A to B, if you have to. It could take an eternity, though.
I wasted 10 minutes reading that entire thread. Probably could have written a blog post in that time.
But can we say that with any real precision?
I came here to post the same links to the Minneapolis PD ShotSpotter page. What's more depressing is that nearly all the shootings are concentrated in a few North Minneapolis neighborhoods. I've hung out in those neighborhoods a lot and I would hear gunshots, see shot-out street lights, etc. especially at night.

Crime is way down in Minneapolis since the mid-1990s though, apparently in 1995 North Minneapolis blocks had the highest rate of violent crime per capita in the nation.

Looking at this table of murders by city internationally, it should be pretty obvious what all these locations have in common...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate
@ceejay,

The FDIC isn't really relevant here ー it doesn't really insure against theft or bank error. But banks have other insurance which does precisely that.
Dick Costolo tweets. Close enough.
Qatar DNS Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army - Facebook, Google Defaced
Interesting story. I say give these people resources to be productive and a certain number of hours a day. Let them own their own IP. The point of prison shouldn't be to punish, but to rehabilitate people, if possible, and if not, to keep other people safe from them. Either way, if people have the capability to contribute to society while behind bars, why not let them? (As other posters have noted, it's important to make sure the prison/industrial complex isn't being incentivized to increase prisoner count in all this, as they are today.)
Will India’s low cost Mars mission rewrite space economics?
People have been doing this kind of thing for a long time, long before there was anything like the Internet.

It suits a certain type of entrepreneurial personality which probably does not frequent HackerNews.
This is what bitcoin is great for and will be used for. Medium for transfering the purchasing power, not for storing it.
> Mint doesn't actually get you to change your behavior...

Bingo! If you're spending more money than you should, it does you no good to see colorful graphs indicating you spent too much. If you get budget alerts but still blow through your budget, it really does you no good. Maybe it even makes you more resolute in your careless spending.
From a cursory glance, I can see that scoop is installed in your $env:LOCALAPPDATA path. While Chocolatey is, by suggested default, installed in C:\chocolatey\. This is a plus for scoop since installing in your root is usually bad practice and can make managing your machine more difficult for systems administrators. This also allows a standard user to install applications without administrator approval. (so long as they can execute unsigned PowerShell scripts)
Hawala sounds a lot like Bitcoin (with maybe an extra layer of intermediation tossed in).
This is something that needs to be more widely understood. Direct feedback is gamed. Even Amazon reviews, which are more indirect than even professional reviews, are gamed.

It's a common response to the need for regulatory systems that we should "trust reputation systems" instead. This is what happens. Regulatory systems can at least be audited and held accountable. In reputation systems, absent an unforeseen innovation, you'll never be able to do better than currency.

That's how reputation has been used since the dawn of man. It has always been currency. Sites like Elance merely made efficient.
Has anyone tried tethering a laptop from this free plan yet?
Georgia Tech had a lab of CDC 721 terminals and used PLATO for at least one class. It always felt weirdly futuristic (or Hollywood fake) for a seemingly "dumb" terminal to switch into a graphical touchscreen mode. I wish we'd had some of the more fun stuff running on them, but they were already being overtaken by X-Windows (Sun 3s and Macs with A/UX), Macs, and PCs with a mix of DOS and early Windows.
The same thing sort of did happen during the industrial revolution, but not really because of the machines, as Marx is careful to point out.

Regular economic history assumes that life before the industrial revolution must have been worse. Sure, people worked 11 hour days, had no weekends, but if it were that bad why did they go and work there in the first place? It must have been better.

Similar arguments today are made about sweatshops in 3rd world countries.

The answer is simply that they were kicked off their land via the enclosure movement and the game laws. So they were left with very little option. This was intentional.
It's a specialised service and the guy that runs it knows everyone who's anyone in the biz.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/ex-banker-brings-road...
And no successful VC's blog...oh wait.

Obviously most "people" do not blog regularly. Whether it is CEO's of startups or chefs at top tier restaurants or whatever else you can think of. Does real questions is whether anyone have time for blogging? And the answer for the most part is no.

Yet a few people persist. People laughed at Fred Wilson when he started blogging. VC's mocked him. A decade later, every major VC started blogging and are falling over each other to start their own online entrepreneur magazine.

How is this to turn the question on Keith's head: founder CEO's that blog will in fact be a bigger deal and provide better "cost/benefit" than any other communications channel?
"Send the technology back to 1945, and you'll have iPads by '55 at the latest."

Complete horseshit.
because oftentimes you need external pressure to force the issue. to some employers, they don't even care if it's potentially better for business, they're "not gonna hire a bunch of fags".

additionally, the ability of consumers to have in depth knowledge of every political stance of every business in the production chain of every product they buy means that the free market is ill-equipped to encourage good employment behavior.
Yeah I was wondering if I got the two confused. You are correct, it was Acer. The other points you bring up are also correct. But there is more:

If Aliyun does not pass CTS, it's good enough to run those stolen apps. Also, as I pointed out, other OEMs get away with having both Google logo phones and Aliyun phones. (Aliyun was the Alibaba OS, and has been "spun out" though it's hard to tell if that is a meaningful separation.)

Aliyun is certainly not the only app store selling apps that were never submitted by the developer for distribution. It's a commonplace form of sleaze.
Google.cn is blocked though, oddly enough. http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=google.cn
Are you arguing that all currently protected classes (e.g. race, religion, sex) should be abolished? That would to me be a logically coherent and non-bigoted (well, sort of, at least if the belief that the market can solve this problem and the belief that it is a problem is behind it) view of current policy. One I disagree with, but also one I can respect.

However, that’s not typically what the argument is about. Those who are opposed to this are often not opposed to other (either some or all) protected classes. That, to me, seems like an untenable view. You cannot have religion and sex as a protected class but not sexual orientation.

If I look at the protected classes I see one very obvious and big gap and that’s sexual orientation. It’s unquestionably incredibly bad policy to selectively exclude that (that is, if you are not a bigot).
Effectively argues, to use an analogy, that China with its explosive market-based growth needs Western debtor nations to buy its stuff, and that acknowledging its superior economic sustainability is "arrogant". And the "paper belt" isn't the arrogant one?

I view this author's attitude a lot like I view that of Fareek Zakaria, whose tripe we're all force-fed in high school: "We may be entering a post-paper-belt world, sure, but we can't be certain how this will all turn out so it's best to speak moderately and carry around a copy of the New York Times."
I'm curious why you think this....if "bigoted" ideas are delusional, shouldn't the fact that we have far more integration and exposure to different sub-cultures in sufficient time eliminate all bigotry, as it will eventually become self-evident that there are in fact no differences between people?

And if not, what might it be about this sub-group of people that will never ever "get it" - what's different about them that they simply can't?
why should we not use the law to prevent abuse of marginalized groups and correct for imbalances of power in the market place? what else is the law for?
What I don't understand is why humans are so obsessed with labor. Robots are doing stuff for us, and some people are actually complaining about it. To me, this seems really sad. It's like they're saying "I'm so worthless, I can't even compete with a robot."

Maybe that's true for some people. If so, then the problem isn't robots, the problem is that there are people who are less useful than robots. For a human to survive in the era of intelligent machines, he/she needs to have unique skills that are not possessed by robots. If they don't have those skills, they need to find them.

For those in the tech industry, those skills are already there. It will be decades, or longer, until we can automate software/hardware engineers. Entrepreneurship is another unique skill that will be even harder to automate. I believe that once machines are capable of conceiving, starting, and operating businesses, they will no longer be called machines.

What we must never forget is that humans aren't intrinsically special. We just happen to be the most capable organisms on the planet right now. The current rate of technological progression suggests that this will eventually change. When it does, we'll need to adapt or we'll go extinct.

If we cannot adapt to this reality, we will simply end up serving as the spawning ground for a new species (biological or otherwise) that will make humans obsolete. If we survive, it will be as little but a historical curiosity.

To adapt, we cannot look at robotics and automation as an enemy. It IS the future - we need to accept it, exploit it, and ultimately incorporate it into ourselves.
That's fine, though. Put down a basic income. People can live reasonably as they like, and then work on top of that because people get bored. Putting down a BI isn't going to stop people from having money; you're still going to have venture funding. Let someone take a risk on your idea. You deal with all the snafus and shenanigans of today, except neither of you are risking life itself. Worst case scenario, you live comfortably without having achieved anything.
Interestingly, the word for wire transfer in Turkish is "havale", which I imagine is borrowed from this.
totally agreed. though I hope you meant that in a completely non-sarcastic way. :-) (because I know there's a vein here on HN that believes every positional claim must be backed by some scientific paper.)

there are many negative things to getting older. but one good thing is you accumulate a larger set of direct RL observations and experiences, out of which you can see certain patterns, some good, some bad, and certain correlations. Treating these correlations as black-or-white indicators can potentially be bad if it closes you off to opportunities. But it can also close you off to bad experiences. You might lose on the small/near-term but you win more in the aggregate and in the long run, playing the odds to your benefit.
You don't have to wait a whole day. It takes 10-20 minutes to transfer bitcoins from one account to another. Add another 10 minutes to initiate the withdrawal. Bitcoin dosen't change that much in 30 minutes.
His business was built on blogging and vlogging, it's at the core of how he makes money and markets his products. Not the best example because, of course he still blogs and vlogs.
Starbucks customer base tends to be less-bigoted than Apple's?
"Extremist" points of view are relative to the audience.

At one point, scientists were 'extremists.'
This is interesting, but their are two possible ways to read this: (1) Overdiagonoses; (2) Actual Bias. They are quite different in character.

An actual bias would be (for example) poor people taking unfair bets. We know they will dis-regard odds and buy lottery tickets that are negative NPV.

An overdiagnoses migh be something else altogether. If i know dis-proportionate rewards accrue to being "first" or early, I will overdiagnose. This is a variant of strategic precedence (to infer seniority, status, or special priveledge). This goes buy other monikers, like offensive "land grab" or the more defensive "lick the cookie" tactic.

In any event, the con is just a trick to manipulate someone who has linearly locked on a path (biased or not). However you feed them the bait, your goal is to get them to believe they do not need to revise their priors.
Gosh, where I live, it'd be useless during much of the year, what, with the rednecks and the backfiring vehicles and such. ;)
Many people believe that the greatest good for everyone simply cannot be achieved without some degree of violence actively directed towards a few.
Seriously, I get a kick out of weekend HN. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
"If staying at home to watch the kids and scrub floors was so much more satisfying than a "real job", why didn't more men stay home in the 1950's and send their wives to work?"

Um... because women didn't have the same opportunities then so the household would make less money, and it was considered really bad for the man to be a stay-at-home "bum"?
agreed that's more fair, if the client can only offer low pay, they need to at least give them a piece of the potential equity upside. though in reality, in the general case, all other things being equal, that equity share will probably be worthless. plus in this day and age it's never been easier for a developer to purse a wide range of business venture ideas, and retain full ownership and equity upside. "Gee, I can work on your Big Idea for small pay and 1-10% equity, or, I can work for somebody else for Big Pay and, disconnected from that, either on the side or afterward (during "bench time" or sabbaticals) work on my own thing for ~100% equity." Choices, choices.
Hey again! Thanks for the support everyone. Definitely cool when this is about a meme. With everyone's suggestions and contributions, dogescript has improved greatly. I've added documentation to the page. Cheers!
At first I got "dodgescript", but yeah, then I was thinking, "what the heck does this have to do with doges?"
Sorry to chime in. But I do want to remind everyone that Federal Reserve System and other major central banks did print money like crazy since financial crisis in 2007. Perhaps Zero Hedge is a place to get some sense in that part. Maybe I'm wrong, but finance world is definitely a fundamental aspect we have to take into account when we want to talk about the future. When we have A, we tend to think we can achieve some dream with just A, however, usually there are B/C/D.. needed to actually make that dream come true. And at that point A might be not even a crucial driver. Just my 2 cents.