skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... also, the 2014 number is with two incomes, expensive and shitty healthcare, unaffordable real estate, and ridiculous college tuitions.
http://i.imgur.com/SIYIz37.png
There was a discussion on exact same article a month ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7783550
How many Uber drivers have you talked to? Every driver I've asked has been quite happy with the job. While they might avoid open criticism, often they've provided sufficient details about their other or previous job that it's clear that this is an improvement.
Why is it compared to Burning Man? Music + Drugs + Kooky People? Oh ok that's burning man alright... Lazy journalism.
Pay it Square shows how to integrate for a new payment processor..not PayPal
I agree that Valleywag shouldn't be banned on the basis that they often contribute unique articles not discussed by other tech outlets. (e.g. http://valleywag.gawker.com/the-laundry-quarters-startup-is-...)

Although to be fair, there are a few "rich people in tech suck because they're rich" articles which are more hostile.
You missed a key qualifier: if you can create something that other people want and can afford.
if the US had held to the system it was intended to have in the constitution

What was the intended system?
"But the inconsistency strikes me as odd."
Hello, I'll be your friendly anarcho-capitalist for the day. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask away.
+1 for SizeUp, tried most of them and prefer this app.
> Which is not funded at all by federal income tax.

The link you provided does not support your claim -- it says that the vast majority (93.5%) of the federal funds for regular financing of the Interstate Highway System comes from specific non-income tax dedicated revenue sources, but it doesn't say where the other 6.5% of the federal funds comes from, and it doesn't address one-time investments in the system like those made through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and other historical one-time efforts with large investments in the system, which are often made from general funds (which largely means income tax, either directly or through debt financing which is repaid that way.)
I find the phrase "Don't A/B test with people's lives" to be in search of something catchy, or a zinger. The reality of big insurance has always been to be paid more than they pay out. Simple. You've always been a number to an insurance company.
>or does lower demand raise prices?

No. Draw a supply and demand curve. Shift the demand curve to the left (representing lower demand). Clearly the lower demand causes lower prices.

>But when other things change, they move the supply and demand curves and the equilibrium price will move.

And that is exactly the problem. Raising the minimum wage does not cause "other things [to] change." It is changing a single variable. With just a rudimentary understanding of economics the result is lower demand for labor (unemployment).
> A generator isn't special, it is just a function returning an iterator. A generator should be able to return normally as well as yield.

But in a generator function the iterator is returned immediately, before any of the code in the function runs, so how would it return anything else?

For example:

function* f() {
console.log("function commencing!");
for (x of [1, 2, 3]) {
console.log("yielding " + x);
yield x;
}
}

var it = f();
console.log("iterator returned from function:", it);
console.log(it.next().value);

would print:

"iterator returned from function:" Generator { } Scratchpad/1:19
"function commencing!" Scratchpad/1:11
"yielding 1" Scratchpad/1:13
1

So even if the very first thing the function does is

if (isTuesday())
return something;
else
yield somethingElse;

...by that point it would have already returned an iterator, so it would be too late to decide otherwise, wouldn't it?
Robots: man’s new best friend?
I think it's actually EGA, but it's definitely not CGA. CGA only supports 4 colours and you can tell immediately from the dark blue that it's not CGA, because that's not one of the 4. There are also at least 5 colours shown, all of which happen to be from the standard EGA palette.

VGA generally used the same text modes as EGA and very few people actually had an EGA, so referring to it as a VGA mode is an understandable mistake.

There were actually some VGA-specific text modes (80x30 mode for example) as well as SVGA modes, but they weren't really used much because the EGA modes were good enough, more widely compatible, and IIRC the 80x30 mode was noticeably slower.

Also IIRC, 80x30 mode used a slightly different font than this one, which is why I think it's the usual 80x25 EGA rather than one of the other modes.
it figures: free speech is down voted and circle-jerk propaganda is up voted.

1984 is here. It's just not the government we have to worry about
LOL, the turbo button when the front of the PC displayed the number of MHz the computer was operating at, and you could slow it down so you could play old games. Good times.
Why Barclays lied: Thoughts from a dark pool operator
You say that as if those things are bad? They're not necessarily bad.
If you only want to use Flash from within Chrome or IE10/IE11 then you don't have to install Flash from Adobe because it comes bundled with those browsers. So, the installer should not run at all for those users.

Other than that - I don't see an option to install Flash without PlayPanel.
You must have eaten the "Who Will Build the Rocky Roads?" ice cream.

Government-built roads are a libertarian trope, because non-libertarians always bring them up, eventually. It's almost like the Godwin's Law of a libertarian discussion, except it has competition from the hypothetical lifeboat scenario, the starving homeless person, the Keynesian economics argument, and the foreign invasion by a nuclear-armed power.
> I believe that if the US had held to the system it was intended to have in the constitution, we would have eliminated poverty by 1940, the great depression never would have happened, and everyone's effective purchasing power would be an order of magnitude better.

Lots of people believe lots of things. What reason is there for anyone else to adopt your beliefs on these points?
I have this feature I really like in Windows, Linux and Mac OS X that's called "hibernate". It basically works like you described :-)

(Expecting explanation on why hibernation is considered harmful. )
The elephant in the room here is that openness doesn't make business sense given the current state of the industry.
Great, now I have to go back and spend 3 hours re-reading all his blog posts...... wait its steve yegge, make that 30 hours;)

Other good posts on that blog:

- http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ca/2006/03/math-for-programmers....

- http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ca/2009/04/have-you-ever-legaliz...

- http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ca/2008/06/done-and-gets-things-...

- http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ca/2008/05/dynamic-languages-str...

- http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ca/2008/03/get-that-job-at-googl...

- http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ca/2008/01/emergency-elisp.html

The abstract, long reads with a good message:

- http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ca/2007/06/rich-programmer-food....

- http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ca/2007/06/that-old-marshmallow-...

- http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ca/2006/12/parabola.html
Thanks for the "Advanced C++" tip. "Eloquent Ruby" did the same for me when i was looking into ruby.

"Effective Java" is a similar book for Java.
I don't subscribe to the extremes that libertarianism can be taken to, but I support most of the party's candidates because I simply want to be left alone. I give a huge portion of my income to charities and causes that I feel are good for humanity, I want to take responsibility and pay for everything I personally consume, and then I want to be left alone. I find so often that the 2 major parties in the US interfere in how I want to live my life when I'm not hurting anyone. So I don't think there should be no emergency services and no public infrastructure, but I think the government should be a fraction of the size it is, and there should be a fraction of the laws that there are. In keeping with the "take responsibility" theme, I think booze and marijuana are a horrible thing to have near guns, and I was very alarmed at the initial description of this event...
>> You seem to be referring to the non-aggression principle. Libertarians believe that the initiation of force is immoral. This is not the same as "all force". Thus, self defense is moral to a libertarian, while aggression is not.

Yup, that's exactly what I'm talking about.

>> You seem to be claiming a right to access any land anywhere at any time? Doesn't that conflict with government's belief that it owns the land?

No, I'm not really talking about governments, more the abstract idea that on some level all property is theft from the commons, particularly land which is a limited resource. It seems to be a common theme amongst libertarians I've talked to on the net that they consider tax to be theft at the point of a gun, but not private land ownership even though the point of the gun is very much still there.

>> You also seem to see libertarians as land owners and "the rest of us" as taking income in compensation (for the land?)

It's not my view that libertarians are landowners, I'm talking about the attitudes of libertarians towards their land and the rights they assume around it.

>> Taking away someones' property is roughly equivalent. If you want to argue that nobody can own land, you can do that.

I don't dispute land ownership rights under our current model at all, from a utilitarian standpoint they allow society to operate, without them we would have a hard time doing a lot of things. It's the aspect of application of force being bad in one circumstance (taking my money) and not in another (get off my land or I'll kill you!).

>> But that argument is orthogonal to libertarianism. There are libertarians who believe nobody can own land.

Then I have previously only encountered the internet libertarian breed that are inconsistent in this way.
That actually confused me. I understand how they can run off of any heat source, but then why is it touted in this article as a heat source? It mentioned that it might be a good idea for a laundry that needs a lot of hot water. But if that's the case, don't you just need an efficient furnace to heat the water regardless? Or is it that this thing can recapture a lot of the energy you're already expending heating up the water by some other means?
There are many cases where higher prices raise demand.
Kids Tech Workshops in #Amsterdam!
Top Portland tech CEO faces sexual assault investigation
What I love about this is that if you up-arrow through your past commands, the "sudo !!" shows up as "sudo apt-get update"
I use aol reader.

http://reader.aol.com/

I found it is very close to google reader.
And if they were poor, they'd just be people jealous of the success of others. Ad-hominems are an easy way to sidestep discussion.
Isn't the reputational damage already done? The leak happened.
After "cloud to butt" and "disrupt to bullshit" how long until there's an arbitrary regex replacement addon for Chrome/Firefox so we can stop writing new plugins and just add new replacements?
I think here there's some truth to both propositions (why are people so black or white in their thinking when the world is always shades of grey?)

Clearly without demand (consumers with money) you can't create jobs in the economy. Just as clearly, without entrepreneurs willing to take the risk and put in the effort, and the investors who fund them, you can't create those jobs either. So the truth of the matter is that economics is complex, and you need plucky entrepreneurs, wealthy investors, and consumers with lots of disposable income to create jobs, among a whole host of motivations, cultural and societal influences, international trade and agreements, infrastructure, even healthcare, and other human factors.
As a kid I was fascinated by the fact that turbo button was actually a brake button but there was a perverse incentive to call it turbo because of the psychological effect.
PitchTennis - a Pong clone controlled by pitch detection
VCs invest in monopolies, not (actual) openness.
This CEO's out for blood
Yes, but better wages don't necessarily equate to higher prices.

During the domestic auto bankruptcies it was a bit grating to hear people ramble on about the "high" wages of union workers being at-fault for the domestic's inability to compete.

Considering domestic vehicles are already generally less expensive than imports, just how much more less expensive do they need to be to get people to buy them? If union labor represents $1,000 of every Malibu sold, and union wages were cut in half across the board, and that savings was passed onto the consumer with a $500 lower MSRP, would that move significantly more vehicles?

I'd like to think common sense would say "of course not". The price is already (generally) very competitive.

It's like basic reasoning skills go out the window in these discussions.

To make the argument higher blue-collar wages are a problem, first you (you'd think obviously) need to quantify the impact of those wages. Is it 2% of the cost? 5%? 10%? 20%? Would killing the retirement benefit, and cutting the base salary in half drop that ~$60 total compensation package to $35? If labor compensation is 10% of the cost of a $30,000 vehicle, you can now theoretically (if the savings aren't simply reinvested elsewhere, or disappear in management bonuses) drop the price of the car to $28,750.

All of those "savings passed onto the consumer" assumptions seem real unlikely to me. But even then, is that $1,250 savings going to move more product?

Probably not. While there are always exceptions, most people who aren't already considering a domestic vehicle aren't making their decision on price alone. Price isn't even the primary concern for someone who purchases a Camry over a Malibu (obviously; and there's nothing wrong with that).

So yeah... I don't think increased wages for the average worker have a whole heck of a lot to do with higher unemployment. And there are a lot of business advantages to being an employer who takes care of their people IME. Especially when applied to software development (you'd think here of all places that would be glaringly obvious).

I think your comment is needlessly snarky. You could as easily suggest that "Anyone who understands basic economics knows that higher wages increase purchasing power" (in the short-term at least). Furthermore that the people in the lowest pay brackets are the ones most likely to spend it in ways that benefit the overall economy. Which is why (as distasteful as feels sometimes) extending unemployment insurance is one of the most economically beneficial and stimulating things you can do in times of recession. Those dollars are going to get spent, and they'll get spent where they'll be most effective at creating new jobs.
Vive - Very Immersive Virtual Experience
This is awesome!! Should use this as resume template!
If you want an amazing book on Design Patterns for ruby, http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Object-Oriented-Design-Ruby-...
If you actually cared about understanding supply and demand you would know:

“supply and demand" is really a theorem about microeconomics and you’re on shaky ground when you start trying to apply it to macro phenomena. People do it all the time, but that doesn’t make it valid, because…

“supply and demand” requires that everything else in the market is held constant; you can’t make that assumption for macro phenomena, and you especially can’t do so when discussing wages.

“supply and demand” as commonly quoted is a theorem that depends on certain assumptions about the demand curves of the goods in question, and it’s at least not obvious that the demand curves for labor satisfy those assumptions.

Looking at your other comments, you don’t really seem to be interested in understanding anything, however, so I’ll let you resume your regularly scheduled trolling now.
The Kinesis Advantage is an unknown form factor, I don't know if it would give me the relief that the split-wave form factor does.

If I tried a Kinesis and liked it, then yes I would buy it in a heart beat.
Bash substitutions are done prior to execution so your history stays intact. Older open source projects are just amazing for how complete their feature set is.
I actually preferred the Porcupine Peanut Butter. My friend went with Bananarchy.
I am surprised they list Windows XP.
Electrical stimulation of a small brain area reversibly disrupts consciousness
Isn't it only trolls? Barbarians are too busy pillaging to count.
I just updated to Flash 14 on Windows 7 both, other browsers and IE, and the PlayPanel was not installed along with it.
In the absence of formal command structures it's human nature for informal ones to form. This is a theme that comes up time and time again when reading about organisations with very flat management structures (eg Valve and Corel). It turns out that while formal management structures can have accountability and systems to deal with unfair actions, informal ones can't. I know which one I'd prefer to work under.
This is all "chicken and egg" stuff; does the demand for goods create jobs, or do the jobs create demand for goods? I think it's both.

Regardless, the premise is flawed. Rich people don't create jobs, smart and ambitious people do. There just happens to be some overlap between those groups.
Well, there is already one "Observatory for Everyone". Of course, I'll forgive the kickstarter person for not knowing of it. It's small and it's in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. (Full disclosure: That's where I live, too.)

"Hyde Memorial Observatory is, as far as we know, the only observatory anywhere that is: built, furnished and operated entirely by donations, devoted exclusively to public viewing, completely free of admission charge, staffed only by volunteers. Hyde is open every Saturday evening, year round." -- http://www.hydeobservatory.info/

So, I do support the new observatory, but I'd encourage folks to consider investing in the existing one.
> Whether you are accepted as member or not is arbitrary and the decision is made in an even more arbitrary process by the members of Metaflask. Rejections can be challenged by flamewars on the closed issue.
Build your own app-specific REPL interface, for your NodeJS app
Are you sure the root of economic problems like 2008 was taxation?

EU colleges are compelling, because their students graduate without a burden of debt to be repaid over a decade or more. It's unlikely any private system could fund all students in a country for no returns (other than the benefits of an educated population).
Most Startups Fail Because Founders Have Too Much Passion
It is, without a doubt, the least dangerous-feeling festival I've ever attended. In fact, I have never felt so free from fear.
Erlang is strongly typed, not weakly. You mean "I no longer advocate dynamically typed languages."
Intelligence--the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. That's how Google claims to define it, although frustratingly, it doesn't list its source.

That seems like a reasonable definition.

As a result, I think it's reasonable to say intelligence in humans is a lot more varied than intelligence in cockroaches. There are some humans who will never be as productive as the least productive cockroach. On the other hand, there are some humans who will create things more profound than the most productive cockroach.

I assume I know what makes a cockroach productive...obviously I don't, but it's seems reasonable to me to assume that cockroaches haven't had their version of cockroach-on-the-moon moment.

The day they do, we may be in trouble!
How to Write a Nonfiction Book in 10 Days (Free Kindle Book)
>> By that argument, how can you justify reserving the section of earth (by force of arms if necessary) that your house resides on? Aren't you taking away others' access to that land?

That's actually exactly what I'm talking about! Not the festival but the general principle.

>> Presumably they paid to reserve the land for a week, just like you can pay to reserve a house and the land it sits on for a period of time.

Who are you paying? You presumably haven't paid the whole of the rest of humanity in perpetuity, yet it can be considered right to defend a piece of land you consider your property with deadly force?

All I'm saying is that it's not really consistent with the non-aggression principle.
This is by far the coolest thing I've seen in months. Kudos!

Now, excuse me while I find my Def Leppard cassette tape and turn up my collar.
Yes. I believe such a book exists (or should at least) for every language as well.

Effective Java — http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Java-Edition-Joshua-Bloch/dp...

POODR (Ruby) — http://www.poodr.com/

Javascript the good parts — http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockfor...

There is of course also the gang of 4 language agnostic classic on design patterns http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Obje...
> And that is exactly the problem. Raising the minimum wage does not cause "other things [to] change." It is changing a single variable.

It will increase the income of people paid minimum wage, allowing them to buy more things, therefore increasing demand for some products.
Richard Bird's Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design is probably close for Haskell.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0521513383?pc_redir=1404313638...
I like the concept, but it hurts my eyes and, more importantly, is a constant reminder of the imminent blue screen of death
I still don't understand how a bot can sign a takedown request that is executed under the penalty of perjury and why no one has gone after misfilings legally.
>> our right to anonymous speech

You lost me here. Privacy, yes, anonymity? Where is that in the Constitution (assuming you're a USA-ian).
> CGA only supports 4 colours

In graphics modes.

In text mode it supported 16 IIRC: black, white, two greys and two shades of 6 colours.
I strongly agree with this. Not only is the "why is anyone surprised" a cynical ploy at seeming "sophisticated," but it serves to make people feel foolish for their initial anger, distrust, fear, sense of betrayal etc. And they have very good reason to feel those things! But we look at them with blank, bored eyes and ask why they're surprised.

I mean, do we really expect anyone else to seriously care about this stuff, when we kind of subtly mock them for having initially cared at all?

"I'm not sure why anyone's surprised" is the nerd version of being too "cool" to ever care about something.
OK, well at the basis of it, how can taxes be considered a form of violent theft if property (particularly private real estate defended with deadly force) is not?

(apologies if this is not the view you take! I'm getting the picture this is not a consistent thing across libertarians, I may be getting confused by objectivists....)
Ask HN: Sending a newsletter on a Friday?
Hello,

I have a few thousands email subscribers for one of my project. I usually send them emails at the beginning of the week, and have good open rates (>50%).

However, this week I'd really like to send one email on Friday (tomorrow), and I'm afraid to get a lower open rate than usual.

Do you know if sending an email on Friday is bad for open rates? Any study about that, or personal experience?

Thanks!