skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no part of that that isn't illegal collusion and if true then there would be overwhelming incentive for some aspiring legal minds to launch class action suits against that
Interestingly the entry doesn't mention that the original finding was linked to an observation about the worn out chairs in the doctor's reception.

The cardio patients (type A's) wore out the front edges of the chairs because they were sitting on the edge all the time.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Attributed to Cardinal Richelieu, or possibly one of his agents.

edit - I think if Richelieu could see today's security apparatus he would be very pleased with how far we have managed to move forward his ideas.
Have you considered making a HN poll for this?
100$ startup: Reinvent the way you make a living, Myths of Innovation - Scott Berkun
> Feel free to visit any of these reservations and see the kind of lives they live.

And is this squalor & dysfunctionality entirely absent in reservations without significant revenue to distribute?
Apparently you cannot do this:

From http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ:

"HN does not have a way to delete your account directly, but you can ‘anonimize’ your profile by removing any identifying information there. The email address is not visible for outsiders so you don’t need to worry about that, simply wipe your about box and call it a day. If you used your real life name as your username it’s a bit more of a problem, especially if your name is not ‘John Smith’, you could try emailing the owner of the site but I would reserve that to those occasions where you really think it matters.

If this is to ‘unsay’ stuff that you wrote in the past then that’s a good reminder to think twice before you hit that submit button lest you cause someone needless work."
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Thanks, that was a really clear and helpful explanation!
Add exercise and you got it.
Np , good luck with whatever you have going on.
startups.

Google and Apple are huge money-printing machines, not startups.
Was that a state or federal court?
For starters, this isn't "mass surveillance" on China, so maybe you should use the right buzzwords. :)

Also, "IPR skirmishing" is actually worse I would think. Military/strategic intelligence-gathering is as old as Caeser (and for that matter, Sun Tzu...) and is well-recognized as legitimate (if distasteful).

However even that doesn't directly affect the economy of either party. With "IPR skirmishing" it's possible to go almost straight to the acquisition phase of a particular tech without having to do the R&D, which can have substantial effect to the groups who actually did have to pay for that R&D.
Starting to think I should have gone into programming, not networking :)
thanks , just edited it
You'll notice all successful corps have happy, hard working people, who believe in what they do.

They'll always eventually change into unhappy people with no cause left to work for.

That generally seems to happen because as soon as the company is successful, people see opportunities of getting rich and squeezing as much as they can from it "before its too late".

Ie the wealthiness of one seems to be worth making thousands miserable in their eyes. Since they're not directly making people poor and it takes some time I'm sure they don't even feel bad about it.

Of course, some people are better at keeping the ethical trajectory for a longer time and some companies are successful for a longer time than others.

I believe that the basic trigger for this to happen are called "free market" "capitalism" and "board of directors", "share holders".

It also means stuff will go up then down (and eventually up and down again and/or die). As human, we're pretty at good at going up/down in all areas.
This is one of those things that is almost certainly illegal, but it depends on the wording of specific laws which vary by state and locality.
And a nice 'meet the people' page :-)

Of course you don't need an Sun box to run it.
tl dr: "talk != actions"
except it hurts more when its tied to income or employment.
Wind Powered Spiders Are Clearing Afghan Landmines
Looks like an interesting read. Apparently it's supposed to be pretty humorous as well which is a plus.
Which is absurd because Eric continues to collect huge compensation packages from Google "for contributing to the company's success".
In theory, the engineers have incentive option plans with vesting terms that provide incentives that make them work cooperatively, and make the company more valuable, and less brittle, than an ibank. It is often suggested that ibankers receive their bonuses some years out from the year they earned them, otherwise there is an incentive to load up on future risk.

In practice, it looks like tech companies were able to avoid wage competition through collusion, while keeping their workers hopefully waiting for the option payout.

If collusion like this gets appropriately punished, wages should get bid up, along with option incentives.

An ibanker like compensation might work at a "hits" business like a casual game company, where there is strong reason to believe that whatever confection you are coding on this year isn't going to last beyond the vesting period for your initial option grant. If you overtly reward making hay while the sun shines, there would be less bitterness when it gets cloudy.
I see this as a great tool for teaching the basics of git. Definitely saving this for the next time I have to explain why branching is useful and how it works. Great tool.
so if the ceo and executive are happy and all minions are unhappy, that's ok, right.
It is not surprising that older risk takers lead the younger and risk adverse. I dont think that per se is ageism. They have accumulated the capital and connections to make a startup work. YC counters that somewhat. It's not necessarily for someone new to hone their skill and maybe be part of the founding team next time around.

That said, this industry is rampant with ageism. Once you get beyond 40, it takes longer and longer to find a new job. The presumption is that, if you are older, your skills development stagnated somewhere around the turn of the century.
Normally, such recurring charges are for the month (year, whatever) of service that's about to be provided, not for the one that was just provided. So when the charge fails, you don't actually owe the vendor anything.
No discussion of the proportion between poor and non-poor overall?

If you pick a household at random, you're 3x as likely to get a household with over $50,000 in net worth (their cutoff) as you are to get a household with less.

According to this article, if you pick a household with no cash savings at random, that drops to 2x.

Thus, households with over $50,000 in net worth are much more likely to have cash savings. In other words, no shit.
Does the site offer hosts/guests any protection (a la AirBnB) in case something goes wrong?
Does anyone know how we sign on to the class action? I was at Microsoft and then Google during this time and this probably affected my starting salary at Google.
I'm very glad you've done this. For me, the difference between pending comments sitewide and pending comments per thread is the difference between stifling all but 4.5k users's comments and a having a civil site.
Ask HN: How to mock up physical products that don't exist?
What's a lean way of mocking up a physical product without actually building it?

Also, what are some ideal ways without being strong in design skills?

How do people typically validate physical products without the investment of building them?
I don't see any unions representing M&P grades negotiating these sorts of agreements as it woudl not be in the members best interest.

You know the entire uk telecoms infrastructure was revamped with zero fuss about new technology one of the main reasons was all the techies where union members.

And I know one ftse100 CEO was a union member and had been an activist and the CTO of one of the worlds largest phone manufacturers was a member of my branch.

as I said you just repeating folk propaganda based on stories about decades old "craft unions" which have nothing to do with how a union for developers/engineers woudl work
Issue opened: https://github.com/etcet/HNES/issues/52
:)
> the roughly $25K per year they get for doing nothing

If you think that you can get that amount of money from doing nothing in France, you must have spent that year on crack. Do you have any idea how the french welfare state works? The minimum income (if you're eligible) is currently about €6000 per year. And that's not even enough to pay rent in most french cities (I'm paying €700/m for a 35 m², one bedroom, apartment in one of the poorest suburbs of Paris).
In the downloads section, the most recent ISO I can see (the one with the highest version number) is 3.8 and that is a Debian Lenny based system. Anything newer available for public download?
Yes. There are quite a few apps / browser additions that enhance the usability and or readability of HN. Aesthetically, I actually like the minimalism of HN, but would love for some of these usability features to be added in by default
Sometimes I forget that I've skinned HN until I see posts like this or get asked what am I reading. I've used this Chrome extension (http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/hn-special/) for a long time, if you're looking for the white-space that HN truly needs then something like this will sort you out. There are tons of extensions out there, even some that even make HN look like a feedreader like feedly.
Warning: Cynical poster alert.
Modern economics is inextricably entwined with politics. Look at the last line of the conclusion:

> Second, we showed that the model that allows for W-HtM behavior implies that to maximize the aggregate consumption response to scal stimulus payments, the payments should feature more moderate phasing out with household income.

During the economic shock of 2008, there was a fiscal response applied that was pretty much formulated in the wake of the depression: Give money to folks who are very poor (unemployment, welfare, foodstamps), who will then boost the economy a bit because they will not save/hoard the money or go tie up wealth in long-term assets.

The current paper is pointing out: "Hey, there are wealthy people living hand-to-mouth. If you give money (= "fiscal stimulus") to them, you will achieve a boost in the economy as well."

Who knows, maybe the conclusion is right. But god knows how you'd achieve any confidence that the conclusion wasn't a function of the authors' funding.
I think this post is ironic in retrospect given a comment I left yesterday about the probable skill of DGSE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446666
Thank you. The arguments here that you need to calculate your time developing a side project at your market rate for clients or it "doesn't count" is ridiculous, and frankly kind of self-important.

A side project is something you choose to do, and saying you're still in the red because of your time, even though it cost you $4k to get off the ground and it's given you $40k back is ludicrous.
If you don't mind sharing, I'd love to know some more. According to what you've written plus your website: founded in 2010 (FOWD), so broke even sometime in 2013, and currently supporting 14ish people + is profitable. Kudos. That is really cool.

- How many founders do you all have?

- How did you get your initial set of (small) customers?

- How are you all expanding to new customers (bigger customers): via advertising? word of mouth? initial customers increasing seats? other? salesmen ?

- Why did you all pick CRM initially? (isn't it pretty crowded already: SugarCRM, ZOHO, Oracle, et al.). I'm genuinely curious as I don't know much about the market.

Thanks.
Well kdbus is arriving, but the copy to other process memory does not seem to have.
I thought this was pretty awesome :) Would be great if it were fleshed out a little more with more complex examples. Kudos!
Reqflow a tool for traceability of requirements across documents
I'm an atheist, it's all non-sense as far as I'm concerned, I don't pretend anything.
Amazon Route 53: $1

Bitbucket: Free with 29 private repositories.

GitHub: Maybe $7 in the future. I would like to test my product against their enterprise version and $7 is the cost to join the developer program but they don't say you are are guaranteed a test license. Obviously if I can't get a test license, it doesn't make sense to pay for a plan.

DigitalOcean: $15 - $50. I really see them as a cheap download service for my products installer which is 225MB. It's basically $5 for 1 TB. This sounds like a good deal, but if somebody could correct me, I would love to know.

Stripe: $0 because my product is in beta and is free.

Google Business Email: $50/year

For everything else, I can do on my own.

SIDE NOTE

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I would like to test my OS X installer on as many different versions as I can, so I'm wondering is their a VPS service for OS X?
Functional Composition – Chris Ford
This is very helpful. For something as important as how to make money, a long answer and detailed one like this is welcome. I'm currently at a technical skill level between "freelancer" and "consultant" (loosely speaking, that is). This is useful advice. Thanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic
Start with honesty, that's a pretty good one. Don't mentally abuse your child with delusions, that's a pretty good one too.
> probably the only web browser with a `garbage collect` menu entry

In Firefox, you can force the global JS engine to GC on the `about:memory` page.
Couldn't, let's say Google, run this server side and redirect legacy browsers to it? It could potentially allow large websites to drop legacy support more quickly and move to more modern technologies.
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It's not riskier first off, it's less risky, by far. Bitcoin is cash, it can't be charged back and it doesn't incur the fees cards do. To say it's riskier shows you don't know what you're talking about.

Secondly, why would a business turn down any means by which a customer wants to pay? Have you ever run a business? Do you typically turn down cash payments? Bitcoin is cash.
Rich counties are also more indebted as percentage of GDP than poor countries. If you're well off people will lend to you and it makes sense for you to leverage.
Classic correlation vs causation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_de...
Sometimes I think back and ask myself if all of this progress in web standards has really got us anywhere. What can we do now that couldn't be done 20 years ago (putting aside connection speed) and is all of this progress really worth the trouble.

It makes a person want to start over, from scratch while keeping it simple adding as little as possible. Of course something like that would have to be done extraordinarily well to be worth it at all to avoid https://xkcd.com/927/
Ask HN/PG: Is there an API for hackernews?
If so, where can I find it? If not, how did everyone who got data about HN (such as in posts about the best time to post etc.) get their data? Did you just crawl HN?
Legacy systems, unfortunately, are here to stay. Not everyone gets to update their browsers whenever they want to. And while I don't have to deal with IE 1.5, I definitely have to deal with IE 6 in my workplace. IT is a bunch of idiots, so we'll probably still be using it for the next ten years. Hell, some of them actually updated to Windows 7, and we're using IE 7 on them. Completely absurd.

So if there are ways to make pages accessible to older systems, that is a very good thing. Of course, I'll never be able to use it, but someone else probably can.
lamernews monocle etc etc

Most interesting concept was the one where you needed an invite and everybody could see who had vouched for who. Can't remember the name and also found no one to ask for an invite ;-)
The AMA is not a union by any traditional metric. It is a professional association. If a doctor is lured to a hospital for enormous sums of money, the AMA has absolutely no say over it. Nor do they dictate that another doctor has to be offered the job because they've been practicing for two months longer. Nor do they dictate that the doctor has to be paid for scale grade 7E because to do otherwise would cause resentment among other doctor's.

Nor does union have to do all that stuff. You're attacking a strawman.
> I think if Richelieu could see today's security
> apparatus he would be very pleased with how far we
> have managed to move forward his ideas.

Yes. American centralization of power under royalty and French world dominance are clearly in ascendancy.
Calling out to Node is certainly not the end of the world :) I just wanted so show how convenient it is to do when you're on a JVM anyway. Only actual benefit is the API part, i.e. not doing remote calls, just invoke your API in procrss.
Many great new ideas aren't legal. Use your own car like a taxi? Rent your spare bedroom to strangers? Sell electric cars direct, without a dealer? Share music, books and movies with your friends? Run a mesh network in your city to bypass the local monopoly? Trade cryptocurrency for national currency?

Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it's not a killer idea.

Congratulations, Cozymeal!
How Your Tweets Reveal Your Home Location
Wait, Chrome? With its horribly slow 2D acceleration and aliasing? Why would you want that for your game?
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Pound_Note

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG2rWWIc1SE
>I'm not trying to be a shill for Google here, but I think it is a little misleading to say Google is hoarding all of this money and making their engineers live on pennies. The engineers are paid well,

It seems to me you're sneaking in a little argument about what people 'deserve' here, and appealing to a predatory modesty. OH, sure, google is making an insane amount of money, and they're not passing it down to the people doing the work, but do workers NEED that money? Couldn't they, in fact, get by with less than they're paid now?
In Chrome on OS X, either two or three fingers will both scroll and change page.
It would be incredibly unfortunate if this were found to be illegal. You take many of the same health risks when eating at a friend's house. The only difference is you don't pay your friend.
Agreed. People want money for nothing, which will inevitably amount to nothing. Chosing to do nothing, that's no concern of mine. Should I be punished for the stupidity of others? Giving a paycheck to those who are rendering themselves useless to society?

Suprised you didn't get negative Karma for your comment like I did. Ha.
So you also know how to do key rollovers?
Thank you for making detailed calculation. None of the country that has significant social coverage (comparable to what you describe) has kept a significant Army, or significant social unrest that needs too heavy a Police force. I’m assuming that social quiet is where the equation start to add up.
> The other type is startups that sell something (product / service, one time or subscription), in this case you can have revenue from day 1, so I would recommend this route,

This is good advice. A few years delayed, but slow, steady, stable growth or your mental self as well as your brand and of your team is a pretty good platform to launch something bigger.
It is a revelation how quickly some sites will load when you turn off JS, and by extension much of the modern web. I mean, really, really quick, as you avoid the blocking of third-party services, which is quite common these days.

It does also highlight how many sites actually depend on large numbers of external sites for basic functions on their own site.

As an example - a site would not load at all, because it was trying to load dogshit like Disqus. Sigh!
It is kind of shocking to me that the state isn't liable for defendants' legal fees in the face of an acquittal. If I sue someone in civil court on frivolous grounds, they can countersue me yet no parallel exists in the criminal realm. Perhaps more than just an acquittal is necessary and you'd have to show some sort of prosecutorial overreach to collect. But, in that case, the damages should include compensatory and punitive damages.
"Perfectly functional"? How can you properly engage when it doesn't even notify you of replies to your comments?
Why not pending delete instead of pending acceptance? Any comment is posted immediately but can be marked inappropriate by >1000 users within a certain (short) time span. If the comment reaches an inappropriateness threshold within that span it's deleted automatically.
I think the difference is it may be more expensive to live in a city but may still make sense because of the availability of jobs and higher income. With basic income the income aspect of choosing a place to live is weakened.
GPG in the same boat, and DANE & DTLS.
It just made us lost the sense where to go, by re-inventing, badly, what was already possible on the desktop with Hypercard and similar systems.
Yeah, HTML scraping with PHP's DOM functions... I'm cleaning it up atm and will release it on github wehen done.

HN is, from a technological POV, stuck in the Middle Ages when compared to the startups that YCombinator backs.
I skimmed over it earlier. They are reasonably consistent in saying "wealthy hand to mouth", which I think is at least a strange construction, but it is clear enough in describing a particular group (they do define it as you say, having some non liquid assets, but they don't take the next step and say that this makes them wealthy in any unqualified sense).

They put the total number of hand to mouth households at about 1/3 (in the U.S., paragraph 2 of their page 4, pdf page 6).

The last few paragraphs seem to sum it up well enough, they think that this analysis and some of their modeling work point to some changes that could be made in fiscal stimulus programs (to make the programs have a larger impact).
Chrome for Android has GPU-accelerated 2D canvas and WebGL support now, and it's great for browser games! Probably the best mobile browser in fact.
I don't see the point of providing a life-support system for these old, insecure, outdated web browsers.

It's not really analogous to, say, driving old, restored cars. These browsers are rootkit magnets. The people who use this unmaintained software are inherently less safe.
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Dnssec was already in use before by using trusted anchors.
Friendly reminder... Label your axis people! Especially if you're using them as evidence to prove your point. Though, due to the image quality, I'm wondering if these images were actually taken from the original study rather than produced by The Atlantic.
This happens in the US too with human growth hormone prescribed to older people. I don't really see any stigma to it myself. Their hormone levels drop as they age, they don't want to die, so they get that part of aging fixed chemically at least. It's just like a recent study came out citing people over 60 are better off eating animal protein while the rest of us aren't.
HN is in desperate need of an API, or at the very least "id"/"class" attributes on the HTML it emits to ease parsing.
Thats a misapplication of the aphorism. People don't start off trying to do wrong, they start off trying to benefit themselves.

And an ignorant, unstructured, or illegal approach to benefiting yourself often hurts other people.
We are using:

Windows Azure
Google Apps
GitHub
Dropbox
Evernote
Zerigo DNS is free and solid.
Win7 shipped with IE8.
It's in an industry ancillary to web development.
The Extended Phenotype: Richard Dawkins.
Applied Cryptography: Bruce Schiener.
Linear Algebra: Friedberg, Insel and Spence.
Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate

I've recently finished Dan Gilbert's: Stumbling on Happiness and I highly recommend it. It's witty and gives you a very different way of looking at what you think makes you happy.

I know these aren't start-up books, but unfortunately I haven't read any to recommend.