skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My concern with any comparison of the Industrial Revolution to today is where we establish the mean. What, precisely, is the "normal" state of labor w/r/t capital? Looking back over the last several hundred years, it seems there isn't one. It's in been in a state of flux. There are many parallels to be drawn, relatively speaking, between then and now. But there are few absolutes (theoretical concepts notwithstanding).

It's tough to set an arbitrary pin in, say, in the 1940s in the US -- or conversely, the 1800s in the UK -- and claim that such an era represented the natural equilibrium of things, and that eventually, we'll smooth back out towards it. There simply isn't enough longitudinal data on capitalism and industry, both of which are fairly recent inventions.

The very idea of a regular, salaried job is astonishingly new in the sweep of human history. The idea of a salary can be traced back to the Romans, but in a very idiosyncratic context [1]. Where we go from here is going to be fascinating to watch. But we're deluding ourselves if we believe it necessarily must bear a strong resemblance to where we've been.

I'm optimistic about the future, but I draw that optimism from the benefits of technology, and from the ability of humanity to adapt. I don't draw my optimism from any certainty about the way things "should" be. The only thing we should always count on is change.

[1] "Salary" derives from salarium, the wage paid to a Roman soldier in order to buy salt (among other things). This is notable because, prior to the reforms of Gaius Marius, the Roman military comprised only noblemen who could afford to drop everything, buy their own gear, and go to war as volunteers. Rome's move to a professional army, manned largely by peasant-soldiers paid in salaries, marked one of the first instances of a permanent, professional, wage-based class in Western society. (In some Eastern societies, a rice-based wage served a similar purpose.)
Hacking Shenzhen - The Economist
That's the purpose of the Rune type, I believe. When you iterate over text, it gives you one character at a time, not a fixed number of bytes.
I am sure the Winklevii are salivating over this....

I wouldn't doubt they are trying to use their network to get hold of these...
Gaia for HTML5 — introducing Giga.js
It's a Gawker site, being a troll is practically a job requirement.
It wouldn't be unprecedented. I believe that mass sells have caused price crashes numerous times in the past.

Perhaps I misunderstood you?
FireUser - a Firebase user management library for Angularjs
What was the price at time of seizure?
Yeah, there's plenty of people here saying "hey, you use OpenSSH on x86, you should donate". But the the reason they need the donations is to pay the power bills for running things like Vax servers for OpenBSD development on ancient platforms? Not the most convincing argument.
"Imgur for Excel" is the most disorienting startup summary I've ever seen. We must use imgur differently... or Excel.

If any of your ideas would be potentially useful internally too, you might be better off hiring people rather than finding a cofounder.
Yeah. We've noticed, to our own amusement, that Jira (we're on an older version) can't handle non-ASCII. Makes entering tickets involving other languages fun.
"Residents"?
Some do. And we get many requests from people who want to. As such we tend to try to inform them about the potential costs and risks associated. In many cases they had no idea, so it usually ends there.

But yes some landlords do. But it rarely tends to last long. All it takes is one bad tenant to fully appreciate the potential risks you're exposed to, because remember that rent is generally applied against a mortgage.
I keep a notes.txt and errant random files in a folder hidden in .gitignore and keep that open in sublime text, or else just leave myself a note in a comment at the top of the main source file. It's easy enough to break my stuff as it is.
On this site, in this context? Functional programming.
Maybe that's exactly what they want to do to this rogue currency...
H+FJ have repeatedly made public statements referring to an "equal partnership". Oral contracts are enforceable. This sounds like it's going to be extremely expensive for all involved.
Hold on they haven't found anyone guilty in a court yet have they?
Sounds interesting. How do I get a hold of you?
The article speculates these Bitcoin will be auctioned off. I wonder if that would be the entire wallet as one lot. Not too many people have the resources and willingness to throw $25 million into Bitcoin outside of the Winklevoss twins and hedge funds. Odds are they might get a good discount, but that might be preferable to the Bitcoin economy than the government selling the coins in smaller lots. 30k coins suddenly flooding the market at once would cause a pretty dramatic drop in price.
Introducing our smart contact lens project (for diabetics)
I somewhat would think they'd actually want to maintain ownership - but create the illusion they no longer do, so then they can make transactions. It'd be smart to track how those Bitcoin move and all accounts it touches.
I do enough front-end to understand why Youtube does what it does. I don't do enough to think that every site implementing its own way to reload parts of pages is a sane idea.

The beautiful thing is that the progress bar in question comes from one of the companies that pioneered lack of a progress bar in the browser. But hey, Javascript.
> When the FBI first seized the coins in October, they were worth about $6 million
Challenging Conventional Wisdom
No. The market won't value Yahoo's Alibaba stake at market value because it's an illiquid and large stake. Were Yahoo to attempt to sell it, the price would collapse. Further, Alibaba's value is possibly inflated as well, but since prices are set at the margins, it might take a while to find out. Thus, there is no reason for Yahoo's stock to track Alibaba directly.

A similar phenomenon occurred when Cypress owned half of SunPower, but its SunPower stake virtually represented its market cap. Of course, SunPower was to crater later on...
Donated. Hope it helps.
If you remember the GAIA Flash framework, you remember what a timesaver it could be
for building rich sites that have nice transitions from page to page, deep links, seo friendliness, etc

For those unfamiliar, this module wraps a state machine around the mechanics of preloading, transitioning, and managing history in Flash-like, animated sites.

I've missed this terribly in HTML5 [sic] and I finally decided to do something about it.

Currently weighs in at about 100k minified (not gziped) and I think I can improve that.
This is pretty alpha at present, but I can't tell you how excited I am to put this through the paces.

Questions, comments, and snide remarks welcome as always.
It's a repo, it can be forked at any moment if something goes awry. And I don't really think a misguided blog post is 'forcing out one of the biggest nodejs contributors'.

I'd rather have nice tools made possible by a company I disagreed with on petty grounds than no tools at all.
"I lived in Palo Alto myself for a while. It's a nice place to raise a car." - Geoff Nunberg
$6 million, according to the article.
You're assuming that research is fungible. That, say, if someone is really good at developing novel, efficient data structures, they'll be just as good at finding ways to help homeless people. Why do you think that's the case? Nothing in the real world suggests it works like that.
Stripe will have no motive to start doing same-day payments as long as they are dominating in different areas - the interest they collect on the money for those 7 days is quite valuable.
Only if they try to sell them in a trading venue. Anyone with the bankroll to buy that many probably understands how markets work.
Civil forfiture doesn't require a criminal conviction. In fact there's hardly any process at all. Just one more twisted doctrine justified by the War on Drugs.
Obama and the N.S.A.: Why He Can't Be Trusted
Why would the feds care about crashing BTC? If anything, it seems like it might be a desirable outcome for them.
This reminded me of the mother of all type designer business partner falling-outs:

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21591793-le...

One difference, of course, is that digital type can't be dumped into the Thames.
The Nazis also had some mean things to say about the US, too.
>Puyallup, Washington

Figures that I should see my first reference to Puyallup in an article about prison.
I don't think they have to get a conviction in order to permanently keep (or sell off) seized assets.
it doesn't directly affect it because EMV is a card present initiative (online transactions are card not present transactions). that said, these newer cards tend to be more "advanced" in the sense that they have on-display rotating pins or support for two-factor authentication so payment providers will need to be able to support them. these changes will be driven by the card issuers.
They might want to, but I think it is illegal to. They have to auction it just like all other siezed assets.
If their books are clean, this is actually pretty easy. Just pulling an annual operating budget should be much easier, if they have good financial practices and controls in place.
Very relevant - http://www.angadmakes.com/virtual-brailler
I do carefully think through a lot of things, I just don't end up with the conclusion that companies should be free to form cartels while passing "right to work" laws that hobble unions.

I'm ok with you disagreeing with me and/or insulting me for not playing the society game by your rules.
Is there a "pro-TSA" forum that would have a different response?
They always said nerds would inherit the earth, people shouldn't be so surprised.

Haters gonna hate though, especially in SF the snob capitol of the world[1].

1.http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/03/travel/snobby-cities-usa/
Ouch, don't try this one on a slow connection.
Those 3 sound like a good breakdown. You can have celebrity intellectuals, celebrity care takers, and celebrity good people / entertainers? :)
Exactly; and that number just keeps growing since everyone thinks they can build a better wheel. I agree with the poster; thought what they said was an understatement so I threw out some sarcasm :) Oh noes!

Quick; somebody down vote this guy with his 20 karma! Seriously; down vote me some more people! I want to see what happens after zero!
So the feds are gonna give the bitcoin to people who owe them money so they can pay the feds back?
Latest Perk on Google Buses: Security Guards
Actually it might be interesting. Technically yes if they sold at any price they'd burn through the orderbook and the price would crash.

But if they set a flat sell price then that'd make a buy (edit: sell) wall (price can not go above this amount until all 25 million have been purchased).

The sell wall could help stabilize the price.
"The right kind of narrative could destroy, not only Obama's personal prospects after his presidency, but everything else he worked on during his presidency"

Bullshit.

A guy who the MSM regularly photographs with a halo, or publishes such pictures as supplied by the White House (there's a bit of a tiff right now about all that). Who's described as "sort of a god" by Newsweek's Evan Thomas. Etc. etc. ad nauseam.

The scandals for which we have firm evidence, and actual bodies (dead boys, as it were, but a number of dead girls in Mexico too) are so numerous that we can be very sure the dominate culture that makes or ignores scandals will continue to do the latter.

As for future prospects, you really believe Obama could have done something that only the NSA knows that will keep him off the speech circuit, unlike Clinton??? He's set for life ... or perhaps only until the Federal government runs out of money, but that's a very different thing. The scandal of "trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see" is not in the least hidden.

Your Clinton example again fails to impress, plus moves the goalposts (considerably less damage; heck, Hillary! becoming Secretary of State did more damage to his opportunities and income than anything else, Obama's low cunning WRT to that was much remarked on at the time).

I'm not aware of any damage that did to what Clinton worked on during his presidency (although I could have forgotten), you're going to need to expand on "affected leadership in the House of Representatives" since as I remember the Republicans captured it in 1994, halfway through the 1st term (although, yes, scandals were a part of that, e.g. Waco), and I suppose the razor thin margin of 2000 means that any single thing like that could have flipped it to Gore. Joining a crime family does have its downsides....

Now a case can be made that all this will harm Hillary! ... but that's complicated by the palpable desire of a lot of Democrats to avoid having her on the ticket, e.g. she doesn't have a fraction of Bill's political skills.

But I think all this still falls substantially short of the impact you claim is possible, I still maintain he's in Edwin Edwards territory.
I believe the best solution right now may be to get an MVP without worrying about technical debt too much while not purposely doing things to step on your own feet while acknowledging you'll need to do a full rewrite before 1.0.
The artifact approach is unambiguously better for any production deployment.

Which is only a problem if you're still doing application deployments directly to production machines, which is becoming less and less common. Tools like Docker, Packer and Aminator allow you to do the package install at build time.
When you think about it, even "buying and selling" don't exist as far as the Bitcoin protocol is concerned. There is only creation of new Bitcoin (via mining) and transferring them around. Granted, there is a lot of potential complex functionality based on Script, but as far as I know not much is supported by widely-used Bitcoin clients.
I feel like they should just hold onto it so it will increase in value. ;)
Interesting if the Singularity mean there were no jobs. But even more interesting is what happens if productivity crosses a tipping point where all the GDP for a country like the US can be provided by .1% of the workforce? I always loved how Gene Roddenberry envisioned a future in Startrek where everyone had jobs but nobody used money. Sort of like ClubMed but for work. That made the Ferengi in the Star Trek universe interesting in their focus on wealth.

Of all the arguments for basic income, this one (100x productivity gains) is the strongest. It then changes the way to reward people for work. Perhaps the employed have extra perks or something.
> With how widespread the use of webkit is, I would have thought it was among the more cleanly designed pieces of software out there.

Sadly being widespread is no guarantee of clean design ;)

WebKit, like other browser engines, was originally designed in the 90's, and evolved over a long period of time. Again like the others, it's a large and complex C++ codebase, with all the good and bad that comes with that.

WebKit does have some advantages over other browser engines though, specifically it is the most embeddable, and I would say that is the main reason for its being widespread today.
A difference of 10^-100% is statistically significant with a large enough sample size. The question of actual significance is how relevant is the measured difference. Statistical significance asks how likely it is that the difference actually exists.
Huh? Why would they sell it all at once and crash the price?

They won't.

That is like Warren Buffet deciding he wants to exit a position and dumping tens of millions of shares on the market. No one does that.
Ask HN: I've done absolutely no work since December 15th
The last day I wrote any code for my app was December 15th. I fell into one of my usual anxious and depressed modes , and I was surprised to not resurface after a couple of weeks.

It's now been 4 weeks and 1 day that I have done absolutely no work on my app. I graduated from school in May, and since the 15th of last month, I've spent almost every day in my office rental doing nothing but walking around, eating, going to work out, surfing the web, and going back home. I've tried working from home, but no luck. The distractions kill me, and it's lose-lose either way.

I never wanted to succeed so hard, but I can't get myself back up. This has never happened to me before and it's really bad.

Everyone is asking me how I'm doing, and I've been lying through my teeth. There are a few clients waiting on me to finish up, and apparently that's not enough for me to get cracking.

Is something wrong with me?
`it only took Mozilla 2 decades to get Firefox to not leak memory like a sieve`

I'm sure you're aware that this is quite an unfair/exaggerated statement to make. But yes, I'm all in favor of language features that help prevent memory leaks.

But the reason the smart folks at Mozilla don't just switch to using a GC for all of Firefox (as do none of the other major browser vendors) is due to GC pauses sucking for user interaction. If you don't think that's a concern, or have a solution for it, please elaborate.
In the shortest term, voting third party makes little to no difference for structural reasons. That's not necessarily an immediate condemnation of the policy, though - a pattern of people voting third party could eventually flip things if only enough people sign on... However, once third parties start getting some clout, what stops the Powers That Be from co-opting them just as effectively as they have co-opted the major parties? How do you see this actually fixing things?
Sort of. To me, it looks indistinguishable from randomness with /r/bitcoin trying to explain the randomness with news stories. But maybe I'm wrong.
I don't think it matters that much from a library maintainer's point of view.

If you you want to change a public method and can find all the type's usages, an IDE or search engine can tell you which call sites will break. (Or just compile everything and see what happens.)

If you can't find all the type's usages, you're screwed anyway because any change that would break an interface will also break a call site that calls a method directly, without using an interface. So having all the interfaces declared right there doesn't help that much.
#DevJobFail: The worst game job applications ever
Name, mailing address, phone number included in Target Breach
I don't understand how they can write an entire article about a radio and not include a picture. Anyway, for anyone interested: http://mmuseumm.com/pieces/srf-39fp
Tcl might've been elegant but StoryServer most certainly wasn't. Http variables automatically injected into the code was a particularly fun security risk. Then they provided helpful (to hackers) error messages that could be googled. Still came up with a result all these years later! :-)
http://www.google.com/#q=intitle%3A"StoryServer+Error"
$30 for that radio is price-gouging. A couple of moments googling found the non-clear version for half the price, which is closer to what it should be worth.
Google pioneered a minimal browser that left most things up to the sites inside it. Seems to have worked out for them.

If Youtube finds that a progress bar is good for their user experience, more power to them. They can make sure it works as well as possible with their site, and change and remove it if necessary. It seems that you know more about Youtube's design than Youtube's designers.
It's no trouble at all to work on a personal branch and merge it back in once it's fixed/complete. Especially if you're planning on doing it and are using a tool like git flow.
The article says the radio is "under 30 dollars." I would expect something like that to cost less than 5 dollars.
quannabe: It looks as though your account has been hellbanned.
I suspect he's after something a little like Google Docs?

Otherwise, following his description literally, he wants a web-based way to share read-only copies of random spreadsheets.
Wouldn't that just be an end to the explosion, rather than an extinction event?
That one's not loading for me, but I found this large image:
http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz117/NewYorkCompany1/Ele...
That's really cool! And yeah, doesn't scale as you said, so I still don't see how we can go GC-less for everything.
From the point of view of the manager, I agree (you need to proactively make sure the people you want to keep are happy).

From the point of view of an employee, I disagree. If you are contemplating looking for a new job, then you are unhappy. If you are unhappy with your job, you should at least try talking to your manager. Either:

A: They want to keep you and are reasonable and capable of making the adjustments you desire

B: They don't want to keep you

C: They aren't reasonable

D: They are not capable of making the adjustments you desire

In the event of B they don't want you to be working there any more, so look for a better job. In the event of C or D, you probably don't want to be working there anymore, so look for a better job.

That makes it really easy to reject a potential counter-offer; if they won't give you what you need without you threatening to leave, you probably don't want to work there.
That's iteration by code point, not by grapheme. For example, the grapheme 'ä' may be represented as two code points: an 'a' and a combining diaeresis.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme
I read the parent comment's argument as suggesting that secrets should be inversely proportional to power.
It's just $25 million of $11,386 million.
Is it legal to buy/sell bitcoin as a person or as an exchange?
Twitter and Stripe building in-tweet payments
This master’s thesis does provide some evidence that shuttle stops are correlated with localized rent increases. This is a survey rather than an experiment; there’s no way to tell whether the shuttle lines caused rent increases, or whether they simply started in already up-and-coming neighborhoods. It’s also impossible to tell whether the desirability is due to shuttles or other transit; all the chosen shuttle stops (“selected by the San Francisco Tenants’ Union”!) are also within a couple blocks of a Bart station or the intersection of major Muni bus lines. I wish she had at least compared these locations to other Bart and Muni stops that don’t have shuttles (although admittedly this can be difficult). She also makes no attempt to correct for geography or neighborhood differences and just assumes that the annulus around a circle contains “similar units in the same neighborhood.”

I doubt that this would be too useful to the greater debate, however. The real problem is not that a few bus stops are getting too expensive; it’s that the entire city and peninsula are getting too expensive. And to discuss that, we really need to quote the number of housing units and the number of jobs in the area.
They are not buying coins, they are selling them, so it would be a sell wall. The price couldn't go _above_ their selling price until all 25 million (dollars worth) have been sold.
Yes, the complaints about full screen mode not working on multiple monitors always seemed idiotic to me. Full screen mode is designed for small laptop screens, to free up some extra screen real-estate. Not for multiple displays.
You might like ogonek[1].It’s currently still not implementing regular expressions and thus strongly limited in its capabilities (and C++11 regex are so badly designed that they cannot be extended meaningfully to handle this case), but it has hands down the best API for working with text in C++. It makes using a wrong encoding a compile-time error and offers effortless ways of dealing with actual Unicode entities (code points, grapheme clusters) rather than bytes.

[1] https://github.com/rmartinho/ogonek
All my praise to these Google engineers and scientists. Another completely crazy idea that will really help millions of people every day. Thanks Google!

We have discovered a lot of Google X technologies in the last months. It seems that Google X is really working. We may have to stop having fun of Google+.