skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's called the "service economy". 99% of us will be fighting to capture some income from the 1% either in zero-sum services (such as advertising), or better and more exotic leisure (travel, cooking, experiences) and healthcare and other services for the 1%, with some spillover effect.

I imagine something like the Apple store extended to the whole economy, with thousands competing for one sale, a few big winners (the chosen restaurants, the chosen services) and thousands or millions of losers for each winner, surviving on the long tail.

As the article says, more lawyers and burger flippers. No more middle class clerks or bank tellers and especially no more blue collar workers or farmers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_economy

Edit: what Joe_Altmaier said

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6990430

Edit2: World Bank paper detailing the growth of services in a postindustrial economy:

http://www.worldbank.org/depweb/beyond/beyondco/beg_09.pdf

"As incomes continue to rise, people’s
needs become less “material” and they
begin to demand more services—in
health, education, entertainment,
and many other areas"

"Meanwhile, labor productivity in services does not grow as fast as it does in agriculture and industry because most service jobs cannot be filled by machines. This makes services more expensive relative to agricultural and industrial goods, further increasing the share of services in GDP. The lower mechanization of services also explains why employment in the service sector continues to grow while employment in agriculture and industry declines because of technological progress that increases labor productivity and eliminates jobs. (Figure 9.2). Eventually the service sector replaces the industrial sector "
I feel like the biggest killer of Moore's Law is how much emphasis has been put on lowering/maintaining power consumption in recent years, similar to airplane performance/cost in the 1970s.
Hey, congrats on putting something out there, and for learning something new. Keep it up!

At one point in my career, I did electronic discovery and electronic forensics for a bankruptcy trustee as part of their fraud investigation process. One of the central principles is that you want to take every step you can to prevent changes to the examination target. The best way to do this is to mount the volume read-only from a boot CD or separate partition from the examination target.

The Digital Ocean documentation says that you can request that your Droplet be switched to a recovery ISO, but you have to make the request through support. I don't know if this is a technical limitation or a policy decision, but it ends up being a good mitigator against a mass examination of data using these techniques. You can see more details about how to request this under the section section "Attempt Recovery with a Recovery ISO":

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-recov...

You'll want to complete the network setup, but when it comes time to mount your filesystem, use the `-o ro` flag with mount

mount /dev/vda /mnt -o ro

From there, you can perform a forensic examination of your disk under /mnt, without risk of altering any data.
"How common is "common"? This is the first I'm hearing of it, and I'd like more than the author's word."

They're scientifically proven to be medically ineffective although for people with psychological non medical issues they are scientifically proven to reduce anxiety. Daughter's got a cough. Moms freaking out. Doc verifies its not bacterial so there's nothing to do but chill out, these viruses take care of themselves, rest and hydrate. Moms freaking out. You treat MOM not the daughter with a harmless magic potion. Mom is now calm, that makes daughter calm and unstressed, and thats medically proven to help or at least not harm someone who needs hydration and rest, and issuing poorly distilled water is medically proven to be much safer for everyone involved than giving antibiotics for a viral infection.

I'm a pretty strong supporter of homeopathic treatment of viral illnesses, at least in comparison to the US (edited: informal) standard of antibiotic treatment. Its enormously safer than antibiotics and its just as effective WRT virus infections. Just make sure its really viral in nature not just a poorly tested culture test in the lab.

(edited to explain I'm not talking theory here; my daughter's pediatrician has recently switched from antibiotic treatment of minor viral infections like coughs and colds to homeopathic treatment... when I found out from my wife what my daughter was prescribed, I was momentarily furious, come on lady I'm a hard science guy don't BS me with homeopathic stuff like that, but I thought about it for about five minutes and decided to high-five her next time I see her, it really is genius in that people too dumb to understand antibiotics have no effect on viruses are too dumb to know homeopathic stuff doesn't work, so the net result is positive)

I've been trying to figure out how to convince idiot industrial farmers that homeopathic water might be a better idea than pumping the livestock full of antibiotics. The problem is in filthy industrial farming operations, the livestock all die without antibiotics because ... drumroll ... filthy industrial farms are filthy.
NSA has Apple iPhone spy program
Doesn't that make this service website independent?
It is like twitter without the downtime, or twitter with multiple twitter networks all being able to collaborate with one another, or twitter without legal BS.

And those are beautiful ramifications. Flaws anyone?
"the idea that it's impossible for students to get an education without outrageous monthly loan payments is just wrong."

- Can I ask why you defined it this way? One could very well argue that this is precisely the problem. Students are looking at "cheap" monthly payments and not looking at the actual debt amount they're accruing. Cheap interest rates for student loans may or may not go away. The total amount of debt they collect will certain not go away. So we let them get saddled with debt in the hope that historically low interest rates aren't going anywhere. Sounds familiar.
I self-published my ebook Mastering Modern Payments: Using Stripe with Rails[1]. I wrote about my experience and income a month after launch on my blog[2] (hn comments[3]). Current total revenue is ~$19k, averaging around $2k per month.

[1]: https://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments

[2]: https://www.petekeen.net/adventures-in-self-publishing

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6320333
I find there's some truth to his philosophy, though. There doesn't seem to go even a week between my having said or thought something, and then realising I've been a fool or at best not quite correct in my reasoning.

I'm 25 years old, and it's been one of -if not the- most important discovery of my life so far that compared to those older than me, I know hilariously little about (all aspects of) life.

Of course young people add value, we do after all make our own world by our subjective views, but those older than you generally have had more time to explore more of those views, and have a much richer notion of how things are and can be.
I was wondering what was the year like on HN. Here are some top posts from this year

Aaron Swartz commits suicide (tech.mit.edu)

Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails (rapgenius.com)

Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown (bjk5.com)

XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' (theguardian.com)

Google Reader shutting down (googleblog.blogspot.com)

I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115 (blog.jenniferdewalt.com)

A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no library used (jsfiddle.net)

Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5 (bombermine.com)

Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript (codepen.io)

Hello Firefox, this is Chrome calling (blog.chromium.org)

SteamOS (store.steampowered.com)

Amazon Prime Air (amazon.com)

Explain Shell (explainshell.com)

Sprite Lamp (spritelamp.com)

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months (microsoft.com)

Ubuntu Edge (indiegogo.com)

FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner (reuters.com)

Victory Lap for Ask Patents (joelonsoftware.com)

So, in a summary: some bad things, some good things. JS is getting more and more powerful, NSA, BTC, lots of SV drama.

I apologize to HNSearch for DOSing them with my query
A Modern Youtube Experience - Echoes Music Player
Are The Techno Riche Really Ruining San Francisco? Yes, Says Rebecca Solnit
Those statements don't conflict. Not surprisingly, the female founders I talked to who felt that YC is a "frat house" did not apply or go to YC.
This looks very cool, I will keep an eye on it, thanks!
Google and Audi’s new connected cars are really just about selling you apps
Did you even read his comment? Of course he's aware - it's forms the premise of his entire position.
Becoming better at designing algorithms
One of the main things that I want to work on is the speed at which I can design algorithms. I am wondering if anyone has any tips or resources i could use to accomplish this. Thanks!
There is http://writers.stackexchange.com/ maybe you can find something interesting there also.
I wouldn't be too worried about this. Batman: Arkham Asylum and Arkham City both utilized GFWL, and Rocksteady (the developer) simply released a patch that removed the GFWL software. They play just as great as ever.

EDIT: Just kidding. I did not read your comment close enough, clearly. Here's to hoping that Rockstar is as stand-up as Rocksteady, at least.
I totally agree.

I sat silent at europy in 2006 as guido explained he was breaking the print statement. At europy in 2007, when he gave the same talk, I boo-ed, loudly. He said "well no-one complained when I talked about this last year." My bad.

Being able to instantly pepper my code with print statements is how I (and many others) debug. It really gives me the shits these extra parens.

So I continue to boycott py3.
The same way ThePirateBay is guilty of infringement when all the host is "links". They host "nothing" and yet are the scourge of the interwebs.
Show HN: CanadaLive.ca made with Meteor
From an anonymity perspective, it is just as secure as current bitcoin protocols. Public anonymity at the sacrifice of privacy. In which case, if your 'twister' info is out there, you can theoretically be identified.
> It is not a goal to insanely optimise where that would make the code less readable and maintainable.

> Future improvements: * Unroll assembly loops

:)
The hell of CPU debugging
Linking can be considered "dissemination" thanks to the DMCA, see http://www.chillingeffects.org/linking/faq.cgi#QID152
That's a pretty good score, considering how unfixable the laptops have become.
On Design: Searching for a More Visual News Site
When I point out the fact that science does not mean "just trust the experts, they are experts", and the scientific method does not mean "peer review by the anointed institutional authorities", the typical reaction is revealing.

The same people who bemoan a failing trust in our scientific institutions are themselves furthering it, by adopting starkly authoritarian anti-science attitudes. They compound the problem by rabidly attacking anyone for daring to question, which is behavior more fitting to a religious dogma than to a science.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio
One of my coworkers actually expressed this sentiment to me. He's generally a smart guy but I don't know how you get across how damaging this is to basic commerce.

The NSA is destroying the American technical industry piece by piece. How do we approach this existential crisis, when the folks behind the NSA apparently don't give a shit what damage they do to America?
A step toward simulating a worm brain in a computer
Their reply looks like a template so I'm not sure they even read your email.
I was congratulated by a newspaper once. Scaring is a huge understatement, I avoid any interaction with formalized media since then.
This sounded... difficult to believe, so I thought I'd read the actual report on the Pew website.[0]

They seem to use "social media website" interchangeably with the actual apps in question, and their methodology writeup doesn't mention the actual questions they asked in their telephone surveys.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if more people used the Pinterest website more than the Twitter website, as the latter seems more oriented to being a website. It would appear that Twitter has way more users overall as compared to Pinterest though.

Pinterest: "50 million unique monthly users worldwide" [1]
Twitter: 117 million monthly active tweeting users [2]

So headline should technically be "Pinterest website passed Twitter website in popularity ..."

[0] http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Social-Media-Update/Main...

[1] http://allthingsd.com/20131023/pinterest-does-another-massiv...

[2] http://blog.peerreach.com/2013/11/4-ways-how-twitter-can-kee...
>(I'm not talking about someone with a PhD in Physics here)

But that's kind of the point isn't it? We should judge people on their qualifications and achievements, not their age.
Default isn't the concern: it's being packaged at all. That, and the ensuing support, is the important issue.
Yeah; it means when you put a non-therapeutic dose in place of a real active ingredient. But we were discussing how the placebo effect works. It works because you feel like it should work. Its not a conscious thing.
That's a common sentiment, particularly in the world of fiction books. However, the same could be said of software even though we've seen how much money that can make, even with open-source software.

To paraphrase very financially successful authors like Stephen King, D. W. Smith, and Joe Konrath: "good books are a labor of labor; the more books you write, the more you will sell."
Not so sure about that.

Chinese peasants seem to be doing quite a bit better these days, for example.

Here's a graph for ya (stolen from elsewhere in the comments):

http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecac...
Don't be so lazy. If you're just interested, click and find out. If you feel it should be, suggest why it's an interesting read.
There is another degree of freedom in that equation, Cisco.

The Chinese networking gear has become shockingly good. performance per dollar and performance per watt they are extremely competitive with Cisco, especially in the higher end. I couldn't talk to gateway routers but their switches also have accurate documentation. Ciscos biggest edge is institutional memory, a bunch of CCxx certifications, and they are assembled in America or owned by an American company or something like that which meant security.

Can any one tell a remotely interesting story as to why Cisco wouldn't aid the NSA? I mean Apple, google, etc did..
Page loads kind of slow but I'll chalk that up to Meteor being in it's early stages. I like the concept.
Ah, sorry. Bitcoin is a collective bet that more and more people will be using it. Like a pyramid scheme, but without a fraudulent promise from anyone that you will buy a share in some particular activity. More people make this bet — more valuable Bitcoin becomes. If one day everyone decides that it's not a worthy bet, the value will collapse to zero.

Pyramid lottery schemes can work the same way, but they always collapse because the only use of such scheme is to sell everything to later coming people. Because otherwise the tokens you bought are useless. Bitcoin has interesting fundamentals that allow your tokens to be incredibly useful without ever "cashing out". Thus it can theoretically be stable money like gold. Fundamentals ("programmable", "secure" etc.) are important because without them people either would not make such bet, or those who will try, will only play like in a good old pyramid: selling out before others.

Bitcoin as an investment today is a combination of long-term believers with short-term players. Each run-up in price has both groups there and short-term players sell off when they feel the top is reached. Then other, less lucky short-term players are selling in panic, thinking that pyramid has collapsed. All the long-term investors ("believers") simply put their coins under the mattress to be slowly spent on various goods in the future. Without fundamentals, there wouldn't be any long-term believers, only a single bubble and a single crash.

http://blog.oleganza.com/post/69887761276/bitcoin-value-prop...
Significant in what way? Pinterest users are (often, not always) looking to buy things.
Isn't the interest rate locked in on student debt?
I've seen exact scam before. Young people flying on private jets with so-called hot shot young entrepreneurs, only to find all the expenses on their credit cards. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
I understand where you are coming from. I agree it is essential for any business that uses the web. But if you have the wrong product, no matter the amount of SEO, you will get nothing out of it.

What I want to say is that SEO is important, but not more important than finding the pain and the product.
I hadn't realized how small this is. I was imagining something about 1.5x to 2x as tall from the previous pictures I had seen.

It is impressive how modular they have made it in such as small package, but the inability to expand without thunderbolt is a turnoff to me personally. Maybe once thunderbolt becomes more ubiquitous and cheaper it won't be as big of a deal. Apple wants $30 for a half meter cable http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD861ZM/A/apple-thunderbol...
This link came together at a good time because I usually get bogged down in the research stage. I always over research and then I lose hope and confidence in myself and mankind.
I bought the paper book and the ebook (pdf, epub, mobi) from No Starch Press through this link for $70 last year:

http://man7.org/tlpi/purchase.html

I didn't end up doing as much Linux C programming as I expected but for the little I did I found the ebook version more useful -- the paper book is hefty and doesn't travel well. It looks great in my bookcase next to Knuth's TAOCP though.

O'Reilly seems to source their ebook files from the original publishers so I assume their version is identical.
Yet somehow Google still operates.

But to respond to OP, IANAL but I think that you might have folded too easily. But it's understandable that you probably want to avoid a lawsuit at any cost.

Also, you might want to check this out

http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq.cgi#QID862

and google around for 'wrongful dmca takedowns'.
Nice piece--and, I suppose, ultimately hopeful in the sense that it suggests there are a variety of paths to increased throughput even if we're close to losing Moore's Law (at least as it comes largely from CMOS scaling). Ones does wonder though what the ultimate effect of losing the CMOS scaling lever will be on IT economics. Certainly, not all computing innovation has been about continued CMOS process shrinks. But those have been the foundation for an awful lot.
His app actually played the media though and not for personal use. The copyright holders have exclusive rights to determine how their content gets played/broadcast.
I believe this is a marketing problem (from the developers). See, I am a non-tech founder, I don't understand why X is cheaper than Y. If I perceive the same benefit, I will get the cheapest one.

(This is hypothetical, but not so much: I understand a bit of tech and even so I don't have so much clue on how to judge a developer besides what he shows me he had done).
I learned a long time ago from Edward Tufte to be wary of the two axis graph, especially when different scales are used. One can manufacture just about any point using one of these and still be telling the truth.
It's not at all clear that he's violating any laws. There is no infringement in providing access in a good-faith belief that the content is legit. And it's a fair assumption that the people actually publishing the music files on their websites wouldn't be doing so without authorization from the rights holders. Further, downloading in general (as opposed to publishing) is expressly legal in some countries (e.g., reportedly Germany).

RIAA's best argument would be "contributory infringement", but findings of CI have succeeded only when the actors had some reason to think the files in question were published without authorization. Further, the RIAA offers no evidence for its claim that many of the files were unauthorized, and its implication that you have some way of knowing their licensing status is pure fantasy or lies.

So, I disagree with the "give up, it's illegal" assessment.

The real problem here is that success in civil litigation is directly related to wealth, such that we have a two-tier court system which is a travesty of justice for the have-nots and an unregulated weapon for the "haves". So yes, you have to capitulate, but not for the reason the above poster suggests.
... one of the prospects was an HR person from a huge Indian manufacturer. They wanted the system NOW and wanted to speak to me. [...] I just needed to build what they wanted.

I know startups that charged down the other path, being hyper responsive to their big customers, and they suffered for it because their biggest customer steered the product vision straight to crazy town. Such startups essentially become the contract development shop of a few big customers, living and dying by the whims of those big customers. Yes, you can pay the bills, but you're essentially working full-time for a few customers rather than building your own enterprise.
does. not work on mobile.
Great story. Thanks for sharing.

While others are focusing on the $s, 2 non-cash things jumped out at me.

And then… taxes. Which are brutal. I suspect it's the administrative overhead, rather than the taxes themselves. This can take away a lot of energy and focus.

Now that he is getting a bit older (2 years old) it’s been harder to take long flights with him. Kids don't travel well when they're old enough to walk, and too young for iPads. this will get better in a year.
Correct but you could have given him an analogy to help him understand.

A non-placebo analogy of "Just going through the motions" would be stretching and warmup before serious exercise, which provides a medically proven advantage to overall systemic performance, lower likelihood of injury, faster overall gains, etc.

Now a placebo of "Just going through the motions" would be skipping the exercise and watching an exercise DVD or perhaps watching a professional sports game on TV.
Not quite.

http://cphpost.dk/news/denmark-is-one-of-the-nsas-9-eyes.761...
Yes, but the first members are driven with higher goals then just "Starting a business". A business person is driven with the intention of making money. If it were otherwise, they'd learn a trade/skill.
Missing a question. "Would you switch to python 3 if they brought back the print statement"

Edit: I really just like the statement for the interpreter, and IPython Notebook. To me the statement syntax feels less like programming, and more like using a computer.
Nicely spotted. Though to be fair MPIR's assembly was improved using a superoptimiser and many more complex algorithms have assembly versions. It could take days for an inexperienced person to understand them. I hope to avoid that complexity (at the obvious loss of some performance) in bsdnt.
To be frank, I think that is exactly what I used. I just didn't judge was important enough to mention.
Seconded. I can't count the number of connections that I've rekindled after several months of no reply, just because I had a reminder and a willingness to try again.
Did you look at software collections? I don't know what the state of repackaging them from RHEL for CentOS is, but they're Red Hat's supported means for using Python 2.7 or 3.3.

http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/09/12/rhscl1-ga/