skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paul Krugman has written at length (exhaustive length) about this. The rich invest money rather than spend it. Investment doesn't automatically create jobs. Jobs are what redistribute money back to a large number of people, who then turn into consumers and spend. The proof that money is being permanently redirected to the rich is the income inequality that's well-documented and increasing.

The idea that jobs have come back in the past and history must repeat isn't comforting. It's not simply automatic.
I find a lot of the issues are a bit beyond the syntax as well. Looking to pivot or otherwise manipulate the data which require advanced query and data analysis skills. It does help to show that their reports aren't always as simple as they think.
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I've been hearing from more and more people each day that they have opted to receive curated news instead of jumping from site to site. Mainly from people outside the IT circle. They seem to me -- my impression -- to be less tolerant to ads then us, and even less to poor quality content. I think we from IT tend to judge content faster by just scanning headlines -- thank HN for that skill. Most people just can't do this, so curated news are a good thing for them, to the point some are actually paying to receive it on a regular basis.
Who’s tracking your porn?
State-of-the-Stack, JavaScript - with Ben Lupton
In reference to your point 1: Ask! It'll get you a funny look or two, maybe, but my experience has been that people love explaining things that "everybody knows" almost as much as they do expounding their opinions. (I couldn't care less about the Superbowl, but I recognize lots of people do -- so, when one of them asks me what I think of it, I shrug and say I don't know a thing about baseball. This always gets a laugh, which usually leads into a conversation that's enjoyable for all involved even if the informational content thereof isn't worth committing to memory.)
> Only if they want ultra-high performance, for writing games and suchlike.

CUSTOMERS want ultra high performances, especially on mobile. Therefore businesses will have to deliver these performances.

Trust me, in a few years , getting a good client-side gig will mean knowing C/C++ .

The limitation today is the size of the "js" code produced, which is way too heavy.
I think there's some misunderstanding over the meaning of the word "news" here. The author of the article uses the word "news" when referring to "sensational, bite sized news articles" (because it makes for a better headline). He doesn't think all journalism is bad. The article concludes with this thought:

"Society needs journalism – but in a different way. Investigative journalism is always relevant. We need reporting that polices our institutions and uncovers truth. But important findings don't have to arrive in the form of news. Long journal articles and in-depth books are good, too."

You and the author seem to mostly agree in that respect.
Ask HN: Any way to borrow a Macbook?
I basically made an app for iOS using Phonegap and want to release it to the app store. I tried to use the macs at university but they require admin access to install XCode. So sort of in a bind here, and really need to release this app into the app store soon.

Is there any way to say borrow a Mac very cheap online? I just need to do a remote session in to use XCode and build + submit the app. Or if you'd be so kind enough to let me do a join.me on a Macbook you own with XCode for about an hour, I would be more than grateful.
When I attempted a similar thing on a C64 the external 5.25" disk drive was similarly inoperable. Turned out the elastic bands from the motor to the little ring that camped the disk had just gotten too lose with age.

Was a pain in the ass finding one that was tight enough to stay on and not to tight just just stop anything moving but got it eventually.

Might be worth popping the lid off and checking yours?
To be fair, if you want ultra-high performance for high quality 3d games, why did you learn javascript? Go away and learn C or C++ ...

This doesn't give anything to web developers. It gives C / C++ developers a way onto the web.
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No payroll for 2 days? QuickBooks Intuit Online down again.
Imagine no payroll for 2 days. Imagine how your employees will feel if you are late, the penalties and the time to fix it all. And when you call, after waiting forever and having your call dropped a few times - if you ever get through, they tell you it's working (for them) or "Clear your cache".

https://community.intuit.com/questions/797455-is-quickbooks-online-down-right-now

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40IntuitPayroll

http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/intuit.com.html
I'm fond of www.bustaname.com for combining keywords in every combination.
You can get a 3% discount by using Bitcoin:

Coinbase (-1%) -> Gyft (+4%) -> Amazon/BurgerKing/Sears/GAP/Groupon

All transactions have a ~3% credit card tax (even if you pay with cash). With Bitcoin, you can avoid this tax and get the discount.

Try sending money to a family member in Africa, then understand why PayPal and credit card are bad.

If you have qualms with bitcoins (the unit), then hold them for less than a minute and don't expose yourself to the exchange risk as you use the Bitcoin payment network to transfer value.

Finally, Bitcoin is FAR FAR from anonymous, it is as public as it could possibly be (everybody everywhere has an index of every transaction!!).

Thank you for your comments, I hope mine helped.
> single server not-proven-scalable setups

Using AWS Micro instances will not solve your problem, no matter how many you have. It's also worth noting that AWS costs around 5x more than a good dedicated server, which is a factor for many people.
If you're looking for a private Heroku that's multi-host, check out http://deis.io/. We are about to announce our 0.3 release which features team support (e.g. deis sharing:add <user>)
The amount it would cost (me for example) to track the commercial license terms across several projects is far in excess of the licensing cost. Not to mention the binary only/compiled binaries restrictions make it useless.
Ask HN: So I have my MVP, now what?
Hello HN,

I am reader from some time and now I have a question for You.

To make long story (few months) short we've build this: http://enduhub.com/en/ - sport results agregator. We collect results from different sports/sources - running, cycling, swimming, triathlons - all results in one standarized format.

We are living (and racing) in Poland so kind of naturally we focused on local events first. So MVP working, users are registering, adding results to their lists, got many 'good job' emails.

Now the question :-) How should I proceed ?

1) Start looking for some income ASAP. I do not have a clue how our income model should look like :-(
2) Just wait, maybe add some features, get more users, then maybe some ideas pop up naturally
3) ????

What do U think ? Anybody was in similar situation before maybe ?

Regards,
Tomasz
enduhub.com
Technology doesn't inherently reduce the number of quality jobs, but in very recent history it appears to have had this effect. From the MIT Technology Review:

http://www.technologyreview.com/review/426436/tectonic-shift...
Perfect. As long as programmer hasn't slipped a backdoor into their robot code...
The Verge 50 - stuff that mattered in 2013
Doesn't this theory also apply to a stock traded on a stock market?

edit: reading the wiki article, I see that it indeed can. The assumption being that there is no rational justification for the price paid.

However, this assumption is wrong. Simple calculations give a price much higher than the current value if Bitcoin comes into widespread use as a currency. In more detail, given the limited supply and any arbitrary transaction volume, you can come up with a price for Bitcoin. The current valuation is not supported by the transaction volume. However, low estimates of transaction volume if Bitcoin comes into widespread use imply a much higher price.
Bitcoin wasn't that popular back in April. I think it's reasonable that Schmidt hadn't heard of it yet.
Sure, for a program like Word, most users just know a small subset of the features. But they use many more of them because they rely on documents from people who know a different subset.

A useful analogy would be library functions. A new Python doesn't need to know its C Language Interface to use a library that relies upon it.
No, these choices are not really competitors for each other. I don't mind having only 2 choices if they were just comcast and optimum or at&t and verizon. I think you are confusing between choices and competitors. dslextreme is a competitor to verizon and thats what will keep verizon delivering better service. But if verizon and optimum are the only choices (with prices fixed) , none will work to make it better for the consumer. And lack of competition is the reason why these companies are jacking up prices.
Maybe that's my trope as much as Snowden looks like a trope to some other commenters here but 2013 was the perfect timing[0] for a POY "LGBT Recognition" or so.

Anyway, I'm betting on a science-related POY in 2014, remember to check if I was right ;)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage#Timeline
Don't present this as a fact please. EM hypothesis is still a hypothesis.
It doesn't have to be realistic looking. Just use any game avatar system that seems to work okish today.
Tried it out. Very sleek with a nice ui but I fail to see the benefit or even the use of it. Why not just use Excel where you have access to hundreds of features (charts, vba, lookup tables, better filtering/sorting, validation, conditional formatting)? My suggestion, after trying it out, would be to add API bridging where they can populate tables from external data. Adding the right features (like ones that are difficult for users to do in Excel) could give this app some traction.
Hey @mattdeboard,

We are aware of the issue with requesting too broad permissions. We fully understand you don't feel comfortable giving them.
For the time being, if you want to login to the demo app, please use the usernames that are listed below the login screen. Any of the usernames: fox, scully, skinner. Password: codebrag.

-Maciej, Codebrag team.
I disagree. Without news, I wouldn't be able to determine which organizations are legit and good for humanity. Armed with that knowledge, I join the appropriate orgs (i.e. EFF), donate money, and send nasty-grams to the proper senator/congressperson when needed.

The caveat is that it's necessary to know which news is garbage and which is meaningful. Clue: meaningful news is not typically popular.
Don't you think there's a difference between isolated anecdotes and two dozen paragraphs with very similar content? Not to mention the fact that Dobelli reviewed Taleb's book, and that other authors have noticed similarities.

Also this paragraph:

Note that correspondence of content doesn't imply plagiarism. There is a book EXTREMELY similar to Fooled by Randomness called The Drunkard's Walk. Yet not a shade of plagiarism. Why? the examples and terminology were very different. Some ideas can be rediscovered by two people. And when asked, the author said: Had I known about FBR I wouldn't have written that book. An honorable man.

EDIT in reply to above edit: Note that Taleb isn't saying he's the originator of all the examples. Many are attributed in his footnotes, and he's not claming authorship of them. Many of the examples, as you say, are already in the common consciousness. Taleb is using these examples to drive other points. The only thing he is saying - in this article - is showing how Dobelli is obviously plagiarizing what he has written.
I think its a side effect of the division of labour at the top. Between Page & Brin I don't think its unreasonable for Eric to focus on the corporate aspect & trust that the duo will hold the fort on the tech front.

Naturally it would have been better if he could be current on both (/all?) fronts, but thats a big ask.

>bitcoin really isn't as big

It is to you & me, but they think on a billion people scale & the number of people thinking about bitcoins isn't quite there yet.
I've spent a lot of time in technology product management (PM) and I still frequently encounter "Product Managers" who are doing entirely project management (PMO). And there's business analysts and other technical product management functions that are centered around requirements and specifications rather than market discovery, product fit and strategy, plan for making actual money, etc.

I'm not suggesting that anyone in the thread is conflating PM and PMO in this way, but it's a challenge for the profession and I wouldn't be surprised if given posters perspectives reflect different views on what the PM role is actually supposed to be the expert on. I don't think it's their fault. We use a hyper-generic name that is almost indistinguishable in full and acronym'd form. We also tend to write awful job postings, though that's a rant for another thread.
I just hope that it helps drive growth away from Internet Exploder ...
This is way more personal than texting or even a skype call, and allows people to connect that are separated by thousands of miles.
There can be no options since volatility is impossibly high.. lets take an example. You buy an $850 put with the spot price at $850 and it expiries in 6 months. 90 day realized volatility has been 130% annualized so the black-scholes formula says i have to charge you $300 usd for that option. You make money if BTC is $550 or below in 6 months. Your upside is $550 if it goes to 0 and down side is $300 usd. Still want to trade?
Some microscopic organisms are said to have survived exposure to space. But just because some of the pieces have been shown to be plausible, doesn't justify accepting the entire scenario.
Hopefully they go after the porn industry for infringing this patent. The porn industry has the muscle to move (and change) the patent system.
Minecraft is FAR bigger and more complicated than people give it credit for. Getting a terrain generation demo running in a browser is not even remotely the same thing.
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Taleb concedes that Dobelli's work references Taleb 23 + 12 times. The examples I didn't recognize as being specifically Taleb's (and I have read all his books). These popular science examples get regurgitated over and over on websites, blogs and so on. Perhaps Taleb was the first to think of these examples, perhaps he was not.

For example the comparison between wall street investors and monkeys and the subsequent selection bias was featured in A Random Walk Down Wall Street - 1973.

So I'm not convinced there was malice involved here.
* Push notifications for phones
I can't vouch for this service at all, but it looks like it would meet your needs: http://www.macincloud.com/
That will weaken the attack, make it a little more difficult, but it won't thwart it.
I'm "he". And I was entering Shengen in Germany and then flying to Italy within the zone.
Similarly, I've always dreamed of a service like this. At least one that informs you of world-impact-level events; wars breaking out, major disasters, etc. It'd be nice to find out about these quickly, without stumbling on it later.
"On the 23 of June, 2011 a secret five hour meeting took place between WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who was under house arrest in rural UK at the time and Google CEO Eric Schmidt."

Knowledge of bitcoin was very limited in 2011... I only recall hearing about it by mid 2012.
GMail will now always show images by default
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Because of the inability of most modern PC floppy drives to read Amiga disks (since Amiga floppies use sectors outside of the appropriate "readable" range for PC disks, IIRC), it can be hard to convert Amiga disks to ROMs.

However, in ~2000 there was a mechanism discovered whereby you can take two PC 3.5" floppy drives and get a ROM from an Amiga disk. The way it worked is you have one PC disk that will be destroyed, and you instruct the floppy controller to do a low-level floppy-to-floppy copy operation from the Amiga disk to the (burner) PC disk. The CPU will listen in on the copy and get the full Amiga disk image, while the PC disk gets overwritten with junk.

I used this mechanism and saved all my old Amiga files, and happily play many of my old games (awesome retro demo-scene crackers/trainers included! yea!) using the UAE emulator to this day.
That's not the version people criticize. The 9 minute edited video is the one that people criticize.
Is my understanding mistaken that the new patent laws in the US don't treat unpublished findings as prior art, as part of first to file, so a notarized undisclosed design doesn't count as a public application or publication of the invention?
I understand them, people are guarded and skeptical and they should be w/r/t the homeless. They are exploited almost by design at every level. This isn't what happened here, and I actually think what happened here is a model for starting to think about the "working class" going forward. The fact that lots of "working class" jobs are gone now is causing serious problems - but what if what we traditionally think of as the working class becomes low-level IT and other, newer fields. It's not about teaching everyone to code - it's about re-thinking the economy.
I wouldn't say it's completely irrelevant -- MMSes are heavily compressed by every phone OS I've ever used. Wikipedia lists a "recommended limit" of 300 kB[1], and Verizon's developer site lists a hard limit of 1.2 MB[2].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service

[2]: http://developer.verizon.com/content/vdc/en/verizon-tools-ap...
Doesn't this mean people can track whether you've read an email by including some kind of unique identifier in the image path? If not, how could this possibly work?
leinigen is the most commonly used build tool for Clojure. They now added a routine to block project names ending in "jure" because so many used it as a "pun".
You can simply turn this off in the settings ("Save Incoming Media": OFF).
I saw this. Unfortunately the $30 up front for the month is quite steep for me.
I dont understand the (Tracking always?) part of the title.
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To indicate that some library is a Clojure library people often use "cl-" ("clatrix") or "-jure" ("compojure") in the name of the library. This patch in the most popular package manager software for Clojure rejects names that are of the second form when building project.
Way to devalue yourself, The Guardian.
South Africa admits mistake over 'schizophrenic' Mandela signer
I tried it once a long time ago. It didn't do anything for me. It would be nice to have the opportunity to try it again someday.
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"Darpa has set up a new gaming site, called Verigames, that it says will help eliminate vulnerabilities in commercial off-the-shelf software the U.S. military, government and other organizations use, marking an interesting move that the Pentagon’s research wing is turning to the crowd to solve the problems of private enterprise."

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/12/gaming-national-secu...
Oh, and that's why the guy/guys used a pseudonym? It was exactly created for that purpose - (pseudo)anonymous electronic cash equivalent, which has just one purpose.
Please note this commit is 4 years old.
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That commit is four years old. Now, here's what happens:

% lein new testjure
Sorry, names such as clojure or *jure are not allowed.
If you intend to use this name ironically, please set the
LEIN_IRONIC_JURE environment variable and try again.
I was joking with a friend I should patent "uploading yoga to YouTube" just a few days ago!

This patent is literally a joke.
> Schmidt and Cohen requested the meeting, they said, to discuss ideas for "The New Digital World", their forthcoming book to be published on April 23, 2013.
I was confused until I saw this was a 4 year old commit. I remember when he originally did this. Dunno why someone would feel the need to post it to HN (again) now.
Unfortunately the "enterprise" seem set on it. Yesterday I was working with a new content management platform and I had to downgrade my Internet Explorer to 9 because it only works with IE 7,8 and 9. Then that still didn't work because of some MSXML problem I couldn't fix and I ended up having to use a VM with XP installed and IE 8.

Un-be-lievable. I don't know who these Enterprisey IT managers are who are making these decisions but they seem to have a lot of power which they are using irresponsibly. And they seem to love IE.
What's the pun? Is it just that it sounds like clojure?
Now being "authored 4 years ago"
I'm in your situation but my MVP is not done yet, now what you do is get interesting users, learn how they use it and then maybe add some features.
Read : http://blog.frontapp.com/leveraging-twitter-to-find-beta-tes...
Like the OP said, because of the photos.

In business a photo can often make the difference between a sale or no sale, or more important, which shop the sale goes to. Some businesses, like fashion, are almost entirely "photo" based. Others, like food, cars, etc. rely on it extensively.

Here's an example in which, for arguments sake, we state that all non-photo factors are equal and the best they can be.

Your business spends $100,000 a year to have top quality photos taken for the products you sell and you find the photos lead to a five to ten fold improvement in sales vs. stock or no photos. Now say all your competitors just steal your images and use them for their sites. Your sales drop back to where they were and your advantage is gone. And now you've got to make up the $100,000 to top it all off.

Having a watermark won't stop lesser competitors from sealing your image, but other "on par" competitors will likely not due to potential litigation. If you don't have a watermark everyone steals it with the line, "I didn't know it was something I couldn't use ... my web guys just found it on the internet. I'll talk with them." (or whatever) So now you have to constantly police the internet for competitors using your images, deal with take-downs, and lawyers.

Hope I've cleared things up a bit.
Snapchat's timeout feature is not just a novelty, is it allowing for a whole different type of digital communication. The sender does not have to worry about where their image might show up. It frees people to take goofy photos and act more naturally (as opposed to all the posed, staged shots on Instagram and Facebook).
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you can name it whatever you want

$ lein new default testjure
Sorry, names such as clojure or *jure are not allowed.
If you intend to use this name ironically, please set the
LEIN_IRONIC_JURE environment variable and try again.
Nokia to release an Android phone in 2014? Don't believe it
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> "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." Thomas Jefferson

To be fair news papers are much different now than they were then. A history of newspapers in America will show you journalistic credibility was hard to come by early on.
I agree that you don't have to learn anything about mathematics to become a programmer - that's how I started.

I will say that having learned relatively advanced math since my start has proven to open interesting new doors and paths of thought to me.

You don't have to learn it, but it does make a difference/change your perspective if you do.

Touch typing comes along naturally as you code and is a skill best suited to letter writing than code forging.
On 23 June 2011, it wasn't that unreasonable for Schmidt to know little to nothing about Bitcoin.
I didn't even notice. I deleted my comment.