skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Exactly. Imposing a price floor on labor does nothing besides driving up unemployment.

Uh, no. My state, Washington, has the highest minimum wage in the country and is doing better [1] than most states in the US in terms of job creation. I expect Seattle's recent move to a $15/hr minimum wage to improve the economy and the lives of low-wage workers there.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-05/washington-shows-hi...
Show HN: Public drawing on FB posts and photos.
'My house is on fire m8 lol' ... 911 texting tested in the US
> the entire place (Canary Wharf) has a feeling of being important

Heh. To those of us who work in the City, the Wharf feels like Siberia - somewhere you get exiled to if things don't go well for you.
> Obviously Fortran is used a lot in HPC and numerical routines, but I always figured those were closed-source and rarely updated, with development focusing on their wrappers.

There are quite a few that are open-source, and often under very permissible licenses, even public domain, because they were developed under university research programs.

I remember finding at least half a dozen, if not more, open high-performance libraries that implemented a direct method for solving sparse linear systems. I'm fairly sure that applies to most everything else.
How do you build a city in space?
Quite. Postman's a good reference. Another I'd run across recently are Michael & Joyce Heusemann, authors of Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment

The book addresses three questions:

1. Can technology solve major environmental and social problems? What are the limitations of tech?

2. Why do most people believe in technological progress and uncritically accept any technology?

3. Are there simple and effective low-tech solutions, and what can we do?

In particular, one point he makes very clearly is that technology is not value-neutral. It is value laden. If you adopt a technology, you also adopt the values (overt or otherwise) inherent in it. As with Postman, the Heusemanns discuss the example of the automobile.

Another good reference is What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly.

There's also the case of the Paperclip Maximizer (or the Robot Butler), discussed in this reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/25cnbr/science_ama_...

http://redd.it/21pc8c
There are computer games made for cats, and of course many videos of them playing them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxW_qPU4KVQ

This one is interesting because the cat tries to reach underneath the tablet to get the mouse, which to me implies that it perceives it as an object rather than just showing a "swat at any movement" reflex.
For people without flashplayer:

rtmpdump -r 'rtmp://cp262207.edgefcs.net/ondemand/techchannel/10385/videos/OW10002.Claude_Shannon-FL8_550x310_700K' -o Claude_Shannon_Demonstrates_Machine_Learning.flv
Well if you can find links to content on Google your hypothesis must be sound. Your comment is exactly the kind of elitist, generalised nonsense that should have no place on HN.

A few clarifications to help you out and keep you from ranting -

[1]
Your current username has been slightly longer than my current username. Whether one or the other of us has been here longer is unknown.

[2]
If being compliant with ISO 27001 is laughable to you then I await your superior system for the baseline of Information technology; Security techniques; Information security management systems and their Requirements, accredited by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

[3]
If you have empirical data to back up your assertions post it. Huffington Post articles and LA Times articles which are technically illiterate are not empirical evidence.

[4]
The majority of all technical accreditation and training programs including SANS, EC-Council, CISSP, CISA et al all utilise the ISO suite as a baseline.

[5]
Your entire post reads as if you hate banks, you hate 27001 and you know of better established security practices than are currently in use by the worldwide banking industry.

A few facts for consideration -

[a]
Assets of the largest 1,000 banks in 2008/2009 financial year were US$96.4 trillion. 96 Trillion.

[b]
The United States alone has an estimated 82,000 banking branches spread across 7085 institutions.

[c]
As of Nov 2009, China's top 4 banks have in excess of 67,000 branches (ICBC:18000+, BOC:12000+, CCB:13000+, ABC:24000+) with an additional 140 smaller banks with an undetermined number of branches.

[d]
Japan had 129 banks and 12,000 branches.

[e]
In 2004, Germany, France, and Italy each had more than 30,000 branches—more than double the 15,000 branches in the UK.

Is your hypothesis really that banks have laughable security? Not a specific bank or a specific department of a specific bank but banks?

An industry worth a 96 thousand billion dollars (96,000,000,000,000) does not know how to secure customer data?

Interesting viewpoint you have and ludicrous. It is right up there with the sort of people that say things like "I hate all wines from California" or "All Microsoft products suck."

IE - Juvenile comments submitted to HN with no regard for accuracy, clarity or discernment.
I'm actually pretty familiar with the literature concerning urban pollution from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The amount of crap the 120,000 horses of New York City could produce was prodigious.

But it's also true that the automobile exhibits (and delivers) a clear set of values, and that in adopting the car you adopt those values. Simply looking at the streets and city layouts of towns which pre- and post-date the automobile makes this starkly clear. James Howard Kunstler, as noted, reflects on this, Jane Jacobs did in an earlier age. I mention the Heusemanns in another comment to this post, their book Techno-Fix focuses on the values aspect and automobiles specifically.

There are points where Postman does exhibit a certain failure of imagination, though many of his points do hit the mark. It's a good perspective.

As for commercials: I see them increasingly as a significant problem. Even "public" broadcasting in the US includes "sponsorship credits" which are increasingly little-removed from advertising.
It is insensitive. Unless you enter an uppercase character, in which case that search turns case sensitive. Just like in every other program...
Facebook’s Plan to Conquer the World – With Crappy Phones and Bad Networks
That's why I'm thrilled it's Sonic doing this. They've been my (DSL) ISP for almost 3 years now, and I couldn't be happier. (Well, it could be faster; I'm 9k-odd line-feet from the CO, so even with bonded Fusion, I'm only getting 10/2 — but I'd rather pay Sonic more for less bandwidth than subsidize the stain upon the species that is Comcast.)
That's perfectly correct, and a sensible response. The comment I replied to, however, was simply saying that those books need to die, which is much less sensible.
Auto-expiring TODO notes in Ruby
Due to the marginal utility of money dropping rapidly as you get more, uneven distribution is much worse than it sounds.
The next best thing (but without Steve Russell himself, sorry) can be found here: http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar (a JS-emulation of a PDP-1 running various versions of Spacewar! – the version closest to the program described in the article is "Spacewar 2B", but the version seen in the photos is probably a bit later and more advanced.)

But of course we ought to visit the CHM, in case we would have a chance to do so.
An ex co-worker of mine had that happen to him. Him and his wife traveled to Austria in the 80s and were having trouble checking into a room in some rural town because it didn't seem as though they were married.

He was able to find an encyclopedia on a bookshelf in the lobby that said something to the effect of "In Iceland women do not take their husband's name when they marry". That resolved that situation.
It's pretty clear that Chesky was talking about "company culture" as opposed to the broader (and generally longer-termed) anthropological culture (societal culture?). The idea of "company culture" has been around for as long as I've been in the workforce (approaching 30 years) and I think it's perfectly valid that Chesky's readers would (rightly) assume he wasn't talking about societal culture.
Stop the Internet slow lane
Why I Don’t Code Late at Night Anymore
What a pathetic response (from Google)

This crappy reaction to any form of customer communications will be the eventual ruin of Google.
So we went from sexist (op) to classist? I don't understand how you got away so far with all that "lower-status" shit. It's not only that you call some jobs "low-status jobs", but you went as far as calling people "lower-status men" just because.
aWOT – IoT toolkit for Arduino
One disadvantage is that your phone would need to be turned on and in range to receive the message. This could be solved by a hybrid system where the carrier also stores it.

A perhaps more important factor is that when you call the carrier to get your voicemail, you sort of automatically know you'll have to pay for it. But if your phone silently downloads a message you may never check, not so much. So that crestes a billing problem.
Methods and concepts of anthropology and ethnography apply to groups of various sizes, not just to large societies. They also apply to subcultures.

Berkun's arguments are that there is an established body of knowledge and methods about culture, and people who care about culture in their companies would benefit from learning about those. This notion does conflict with the common, latent self-perception of founders -- that they are starting and inventing everything anew.
Imagamin desktop app, minify GIF, JPG, PNG and SVG
16 May 2014 – What has changed in India.
This is a pretty broken argument. Those companies also wouldn't exist without the steel industry, or the construction industry, or the electronics industry, etc. etc.
> Do you have any evidence to back that up? I know it was orthodoxy like twenty to twenty-five years ago, but I remember there were plenty of other theories in my university days.

There have been dozens of studies which show a positive correlation between minimum wage and unemployment. Here's just one: http://businessinnovation.berkeley.edu/williamsonseminar/rub...

> Pushing young people out of the job pool isn't such a bad thing if there's an educational alternative.

That might indeed be true, but the problem with a price floor is that you have no control over which workers are displaced. I actually think in many places employers would prefer to keep the teens who can, ex. carry more boxes per hour, than older and potentially more vulnerable workers.

Hence, the right solution is to attempt to shift the supply of minimum wages by ex. providing more support/incentives for college education.

> Directly increase their disposable income with a minimum wage and I find it hard to believe there won't be an increase in spending in the economy - and that has its own multiplier effects.

I'm actually not convinced of that. People living on minimum wage often have negative net worth and depend on credit for day-to-day expenses. Hence all that marginally increasing their wage will do is decrease their indebtedness, not increase their spending. Of course, a huge jump in the minimum wage would be enough to push every employed person into the middle class. But it would provide substantial incentives for automation and essentially eliminate low-skill jobs, creating mass unemployment.
The Mythical “Later” of Software Development
Companies cannot have an unchanging culture. Business and new opportunities always come up that aren't the same as when the company started. People get complacent, executives demand more and more pay/power, competitors find weaknesses, and the response is to either stay the course (get more conservative), or more flail around and try to adapt somehow. Either way you eventually have to do something different which changes your "culture." Companies which refuse to adapt to changing conditions wind up like the dodo.
Your scare quotes on public are really only appropriate if you think PBS is misrepresenting itself. I don't think they work hard to make people think they are part of the government (but I don't watch closely).

As far as the videos they show between programs, those are advertisements, I don't see any reason to treat it as ambiguous. It is nice that they are mostly between programs.
It would be interesting to see the same data broken down by year. Lua, Clojure, and Go are at about the same position, but I wonder which one is gaining traction. Probably Go.
Wow:

* 2C. Syntactic Extensions. The user shall not be able to modify the source language syntax. In particular the user shall not be able to introduce new precedence rules or to define new syntactic forms.*

Sounds like somebody had had a bad time with LISP at some point. Or maybe the point of that requirement is to combine with this one:

* 1E. Simplicity. The language should not contain unnecessary complexity. It should have a consistent semantic structure that minimizes the number of underlying concepts. It should be as small as possible consistent with the needs of the intended applications. It should have few special cases and should be composed from features that are individually simple in their semantics. The language should have uniform syntactic conventions and should not provide several notations for the same concept. No arbitrary restriction should be imposed on a language feature.*

To make LISP programmers explode with outrage.

Joking aside, requirement 2C sounds good to me. Having dealt with macros in a few languages, and DSLs in Ruby, i'm not convinced they carry their weight in the long run.

Nitpick:

5E. Initial Values. There shall be no default initial-values for variables.

Java: partial. Java defines initial values for all types, though recommends against using them and Java compilers attempt to warn of such use.

Eh, no. Local variables don't get initial values, and you can't read from them before their first definite assignment. Fields in objects get initial values, and i'm not aware of any standard recommendation against, or compiler warning for, their use.

That said, common best practice these days is to declare fields final, which means they get vaguely similar semantics to local variables - they have to be assigned values in the constructor (or their declaration, or an instance initialiser), and they can't be read from in the constructor before that assignment. The minor difference is that if the constructor calls an instance method, that instance method can refer to uninitialised final fields. It should be noted that although the compiler allows this, Joshua Bloch doesn't, and if you do it, he will come to your house and beat you with a sock full of billiard balls.
But there's a lot more that aren't.
I'm not sure why you say things aren't "reducible" to PPP numbers - low PPP-adjusted income corresponds quite well to the low consumption levels you are describing.

In any case, I'm glad we are agreed that unreal37 is incorrect, and it is possible to "live on" $1200/month. It's not anywhere near as nice as American poverty, but it's hardly clear that $7.25 is too low.

I'd propose an alternate direction for the discussion - if we believe the American poor are lacking in some necessary good or service, lets be specific and name it.
Damn that sounds like a textbook solution to a serious problem. Kudos on being that strategic and methodical about removing the real problems.
I've never understood why they weren't sent as MMS to your phone as soon as all the phones supported it (which was when, 2001-2003?).

In the pre-smartphone era, Japanese phones actually had a answering phone feature inside them that would receive and record the message to the microSD card. This had the big downside of not working when you're out of range or out of battery, which is still probably the #1 reason for a call to go to voicemail (IMO).
Dart, CoffeeScript and TypeScript all have +50M lines of code.

It is weird that Dart has 50M LOC when Go only has 100M LOC. My analysis of Dart's popularity suggests that it is actually a lot less than 2x less popular than Go. I though Go was actually 10x more popular that Dart at least.

I wonder how much double counting and so forth (as a result of forks) is present in this analysis. Maybe there is a bias as to what is released publicly to Github versus used in production.
You can buy all sorts of Chinese phones (with dual SIM) directly from China online on sites like Aliexpress.com. The thing is, US uses weird 3G frequencies or something from the rest of the world.

I bought my 3G MTK phone a year ago on Aliexpress.com. It worked fine perfectly while I was living in Europe. Then I came over and now I'm always on Edge network and network speed is significantly slower.
The downvotes are because you didn't make a clear point. Chicago has a high minimum wage and high unemployment, seemingly affirming the economic rule of price floors creating surpluses. So was that your point?

Just stating a data point and then offering a generic platitude (things depend on things) isn't making a substantive contribution.
Sure. For some definitions of popular.
Sure, but sometimes you need to build an internal app or something else where SEO doesn't matter.
Even in the top 50, the paid app market on iOS is dire right now. All the money is in freemium.
Which customers? Google's customers are advertisers. Users are the product.
Culture Always Wins (Scott Berkun on WordPress)
Flag: The data's from Feb 2013, i.e. over a year old, which should be reflected in the title.
> Also, the MT6589 platform does not have 4G, it's 3G.

The confusion probably comes from the fact that US carriers were branding HSDPA as "4G" to fool the US public that they were keeping up with the rest of the world.
Culture doesn't mean not adapting to change. Amazon is adapting wonderfully, and I'd argue it's not because their culture keeps changing, on the contrary.
This is excellent. I always fail to keep track on my TODOS in files. Very useful.
n00b question: My Node hosting on Modulus falls under the "Other" category, right?
You are absolutely right, I didn't think about this when I wrote my comment. LOC is in itself a very poor metric, therefore "Changed LOC" doesn't improve any interpretation. Including the number and sizes of repos would be better, since LOC pushes verbose languages. Java and C# code usually features a lot of empty or hollow lines (in C# for example, one opens the curly brace for a function in a new line).

I mean, yeah, most of the comments indicate that we agree that this kind of graph or "false statistic" is flawed.

But can we find any value in it? How do we interpret this graph, despite its basic problems? What good stuff can we do with it?
If someone is shocked viewing the Market share of all sites and thinks it's tltr, here is the relevant snip:

Nearly 20 million of the new IIS sites in the US are
hosted by a single company, Nobis Technology Group, which
was also responsible for much of Microsoft's growth in
February. [...] Many of the new IIS sites hosted by Nobis
Technology Group feature similar content and form part of
a Chinese link farm.

Market share of active sites:

52% Apache
14% nginx
11% Microsoft
08% Google
That doesn't mean it isn't normal for the early stages of a STEM career (grad school, post-doc, pre-tenure professorship) to demand such work-ethic.
The effect is that lower skilled swiss citizens will emigrate now that they can no longer be employed in their home country. It is the wolf of eugenics under the sheep's clothing of leftist charity.
We specifically talk about how nobody, even myself as the CEO, is "above the law" with regards to our values. We've had several instances where values were invoked as reasons why we shouldn't want to do something that was against what I wanted to do. It was a surprise when it happened, but I deeply appreciated it. It's part of teamwork as sometimes people can lose site of things or by omission or oversight make decisions which aren't the best or aligned with a company's true mission. We talk a lot about this and I really hope that it continues.
Had to spend two bucks yesterday to find out that Airmail doesn't support the new Gmail folders (Primary etc). Back to Web client.
Further, Motorola is no longer part of Google. So, who is agreeing with whom? and who continues to sue whom?
That logic is flawed because you're comparing apples to oranges without controlling for exogenous factors.

Perhaps the Washington economy has been growing which allows employers to both pay the higher minimum wage and continue hiring.

If you want to do these terrible comparisons, I'll give you Norway where there isn't any minimum wage yet the unemployment rate is far lower than in Washington (3% vs 6%).
Does having a piece of paper from stanford stand out more than a piece of paper from somewhere else?

I'm from australia, we don't really care where you got the piece of paper, just that you did your time and even then you could probably argue your way into an interview without it.

We value education sure but we don't really have the whole ivy league elitism thing going on. I don't think there is even much of a deal to do with alumni.

Economies of scale I guess.
You mean like Atom, Adobe Edge, TileMill, PopCorn Time, Light Table or any of the other things on here :

https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/List-of-apps-a...
>> "When business and tech people sling the word culture around as if was invented along with silicon transistors they get themselves into trouble."

<swoon> I've been trying to argue this for years. To call a business environment "culture" is to grossly misunderstand the nature and importance of culture and to over-aggrandize the business environment itself.
I don't think you understand Swiss, the large incomes and low unemployment rate is mostly due to the protectionism of the country. Which would fail in a country that is bound to globalized economic rules. They also do a lot themselves (eg. agriculture, which is heavily subsidized), which is why the unemployment rate is so low.

Everything there is extremely expensive because of the higher salaries. Which would make it impossible to live there with a lower income.

Your statement: lower salaries doesn't create more jobs is false through my point of view. I live in Belgium and a lot of multinationals don't ever consider Belgium because of the high taxes (= which create higher salaries, but only the governement is taking the biggest portion). Our politicians try to compensate this by heavily subsidizing multinationals (which create 1000's of jobs in a snap, while heavily taxing the SMB's at the same time), which isn't the way to go.

PS. Switzerland tries to introduce immgration quotas, which would be illegal as member of the EU : http://goo.gl/xBmX12 (is an example of their protectionism)

PS 2. High taxes in Belgium isn't the only reason why multinations neglect us, but it's an important one :)
Some of it is also the CDMA legacy of the U.S.

(I guess the carriers probably liked that the system didn't use SIMs, but on the other hand, the technology has proven itself)
So at least the famo.us open beta will open beta will open up properly tomorrow.

This is an html5 app built in famous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXeFl093_FI&t=50s
Show HN: Instrumenting an emulator using JavaScript
Wouldn't this be much more suitable to do in an IDE or compiler? Raising exceptions during runtime seems the wrong approach to me. I wouldn't be suprised if this is possible and used in e.g. Mylyn.

Another idea would be to automatically create a task/bug/issue for every TODO created (which closes when the TODO is removed)