skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference looks fairly consistent:

Febuary 1995: U6 is 183% of U3.

Febuary 2000: U6 is 175% of U3.

Febuary 2004: 173%

Febuary 2006: 155%

Febuary 2007: 182%

March 2008: 178%

Febuary 2009: 183%

March 2010: 172%

Febuary 2011: 177%

Febuary 2012: 180%

March 2013: 184%

Febuary 2014: 188%

There quite a bit of variance, but it seems to be seems to have been consistently in the 170-185%, with a few outliers.
Thank you so much for the catch.

We fixed this in early morning but things are cached in CDNs so it might take a while to get reflected.
Royalties are tied to list price.

This avoids accounting shenanigans of the kind observed in music and film, where creative properties with millions of dollars in revenue somehow make little profit, reducing payments to the talent.

A fixed list price means that royalties can be calculated based on unit sales, rather than unit sales times a variable price (even within one outlet) at thousands of retail outlets. Shenanigans are then limited to inventory accounting.
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For those of you who like me who aren't sure what this is about: Atom - text editor from Github, Io.js - node.js fork.
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A quite misleading title.
mmm, not necessarily. If you were interested in a specific field you could visit the class a few times and sit in, observe, ask questions of the professor or aids on office time. If you want to do a lot of things at a university, you can likely make it happen.
Nice website... but please, oh please... don't put the content of the website in a lightbox. Don't limit my access to your content to a 800x600 modal.
Use DuckDuckGo for your Octopress site's search
I think this is what you're looking for: http://www.ikvm.net/

In particular: http://sourceforge.net/p/ikvm/wiki/Ikvmc/
Exactly, CMake getting more traction like this should be good. I know quite some devs who're like CMake? Why don't you just use good old Makefiles? and then struggle with it's syntax and/or fail to provide working Windows or even Mac builds of their software simply because they stick with plain makefiles. (don't get me wrong, they work fine, just not so much for cross-platform projects)
Interesting. I always thought Alan was one of the most quietly effective executives I've worked under. I wonder what the new culture & executive structure of Google will look like after this shake-up.
> The number of cab/tuk tuk drivers and street vendors is astounding, way more than there should be.

How many there should be?

> Technically employed, but driving the wage down.

If they are sustaining themselves with the work they are doing, I don't see what is so "technical" about it.
Quoting a webpage about beavers is laughable.

The author has projected knowledge onto individual beavers, which is...asinine, to use your word.

The beavers don't look around and think "man, my legs are too short for this location. I need a lodge, dam, and pond!" They just do it. They don't "have a pretty good idea why."

The species as a whole has a motivation (survival), but it's a motivation selected by evolution, not by thought on any level.
That's why we created https://github.com/jhollingworth/marty-chat-example. It's got proper examples of using HTTP & WebSockets
"In November, San Francisco voters overwhelmingly passed a measure that will increase the minimum wage within the city to $15 per hour by 2018. Although all of us at Borderlands support the concept of a living wage in principal and we believe that it's possible that the new law will be good for San Francisco -- Borderlands Books as it exists is not a financially viable business if subject to that minimum wage. Consequently we will be closing our doors no later than March 31st."

I would love to know why Borderlands thinks "it's possible that the new law will be good for San Francisco" considering other employers like them will be closing down because of it. Low wages > no wages.
magemello, please stop creating new accounts to push your app every day.
The basic meaning of 'knowing what you are doing' is "to be aware of through observation, inquiry, or information of an action, the precise nature of which is often unspecified".

This is completely different than what the author (and other commenters) are suggesting, which is that one should have a completely in-depth understanding of all aspects of a given idea as far as human culture is capable of understanding.

If you are walking, you know what you are doing. If you are reading, you know what you are doing. If you're commenting on a web forum, you know what you are doing. You are not confused. You know what typing is. You know what the words you want to say are. You know what you intend to say. This is knowing. This is doing. That's it. That is it.

Most of us, except for maybe the mentally handicapped or the catatonic, know what we are doing. There is no big secret or mystery or hidden understanding. It is not correct to suggest that the majority of people do not comprehend the actions they take. Most people comprehend their actions, even if subconsciously in many cases.

If you watch the video, Feynman gets pissed off. He's not pissed off because he can't answer it, because he could just state "I would have to explain all of physics to you for you to be satisfied." He's pissed because this person doesn't even know what they're asking for.

This author doesn't know what he's talking about when he says he doesn't know what we're doing. But that has nothing to do at all with the rest of us.

The best comparison I can make is to say that most of us don't know why we do anything. There is seemingly no purpose to the universe, or why any of it does what it does. Yet there is completely obvious purpose to everything.

I drink because i'm thirsty. Why am I thirsty? Because my body needs to be hydrated. Why hydrated? Because it's made mostly of water. Why water? Continue that logic train until you run out of ways to explain why the universe exists. Nobody needs to know why the universe exists. But we do know when we're thirsty, and why we drink, which is what we're actually doing, so we do know what we're doing, and why.

We do know why we do things, and what we do. Anyone telling you different is selling something.
> The number of people employed "full-time" on paper doesn't say much about the health of the economy.

No single number is going to say much about the health of the economy, that much is obvious.
most examples i've seen amazon refunds the money... so saying they "WILL STILL CHARGE" is very misleading. they'll charge you because the service is automated... when you complain, they'll reverse the charge. if they don't, fuck them forever and move to google cloud.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/turing-papers-tha...
This is really cool from a first glance. I definitely think one needs to take this sort of approach when learning a new technology. Despite having enthusiasm about a new field of software development, it's far too easy to abandon any attempts education oneself due to the dryness of the material.
Maybe I'm not exactly understanding your context, but how, exactly, do most fridges have the capability to make coffee? Because my fridge doesn't make coffee. And I'd wager most don't either since http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/18/technology/innovationnation/... is a news article from last month under the category "Innovation Nation".
You can also identify rings by dropping them down wells—different rings fall down (or don't fall down) the wells in different ways—and identify wands by writing on the ground with them. Definitely hard to pick up any of that on your own, though.
Let's leave aside the current crop of folks who're still reclining in the easy insight of "there is no objective truth".

If you don't want to seem like an idiot, then don't write like an idiot just because recent descriptivist dictionaries were pleased to take note of the increasingly widespread misuse. You will be judged and you won't always have time to explain your principled write-like-an-idiot stance.

Unless you couldn't care less how you come off, because you already care the minimum possible amount.
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I believe cordite is saying that Atom's syntax highlighting fails when your code contains a huge regular expression.

I don't believe cordite is claiming that Atom's syntax highlighting fails because it uses regular expressions internally.

(I don't know if Atom's syntax highlighting even works that way, FYI. Though I would guess that it does.)
Hopefully this is not a NAT, just wifi.
I would not think the merge back is going to happen. The longer they separate, the more unlikely (and apparently harder) for them to merge
The C++ project I'm working on at the moment has many dozens of 1Mb header files. Its very frequent for source files to go past the two megabytes mark. Splitting these files is no option either; there are over three thousands of them and compilation times are slow enough already (many hours without distributed build systems).

As for data files, we have XMLs (yeah, I know..) over 50Mb in size.

Atom is a long way from supporting such projects. This probably doesn't apply to most web projects, but 2Mb is far from a huge file :)
Yeah, I'm pretty curious to see what secret sauce they would have had to have invented to make these claims. If true, this would all be great, but seems damn unlikely.
Actually, pagans (at least some) celebrate jól during the solstice (december 21). Christianity plus the Gregorian calendar moved it 4 days to late.
I know a few people in Jewish culture that feel this way.
I've just bought one of the courses. This looks awesome :)

Is there an easy way to buy courses as a gift for someone?
I just ran their example (Rails): https://commits.io/builds/de927875458
Be careful with interfaces and enterprise clients. They are both very slippery slopes at first and generally unnecessary unless you're really targeted there (which it appears you are not).
Even my ~10 kb files syntax highlighting & scrolling lags on a computer where I play Battlefield 4 at almost highest settings.
Agreed. We were actually debating this for a while :) Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it.
I just signed up for a class based users comments on this post.
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definitely drop me an email. I'll make sure it's seen and I promise a response.
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We took the word "exciting" out of the HN title, since doing so makes the title more neutral.

I'm sorry about your friend and can easily understand your feeling. But could you please not turn these threads into off-topic arguments about the topic being on HN? This article is substantive and of interest to the community. Upvoting it doesn't imply endorsement, just curiosity.
That does answer an unanswered question I had on SO about string hashing. If strings are immutable, why isn't the hash code memoized? Seems like it would make HashSet/Dictionary lookups using string keys much faster.
> It was bound to catch up with us eventually.

"Catch up" and lead to a situation where even the higher of the estimates has interest payments at a level that "Most economists and budget experts would agree [...] are manageable for an economy"?

Not seeing the problem.
ASP.NET support on Mono is very shaky, with random things missing. I tried to develop a Mono ASP.NET MVC app on it recently and I had to switch to Windows due to the number of issues.
Thanks! There currently is not but email me brian@teamleada.com and we can figure something out!
JIRA is awful. But fogbugz? fogbugz? It's the worst piece of crap I've ever used.
I get the paywall for that as well.
Thanks for the kind words! Glad we could help :)
Thanks for all the help.

I just upgraded to Debian 8 and I'll try mozilla.debian.net after I get my desktop sorted.
I am surprised. I always thought that increasing low salaries was good for the economy because those people generally put 100% of their take home pay back into the economy. On the other hand I put a large percentage of my pay into savings (including 100% of the differenc when I get a raise) which has a much smaller benefit to the local economy.
I am suspicious of the imposter syndrome self-diagnosis. It permits you to explain away your problems and possible deficiencies without being confronted with the often not so nice reality. As the author rightly says, it is not a solution. To anyone diagnosing himself with the imposter syndrome, I would say: great, so now that you know, you don't have it anymore.
I find it striking the amount of testimonials from one time commenters. It looks like one of the accounts was even created to post a testimonial.
While this is undoubtedly exciting, lets not forget what should be for us (specially people in the technology who have seen waves of the same 'fad' come over and go) this paragraph from the article:

>The first wave of research into psychedelics was doomed by an excessive exuberance about their potential. For people working with these remarkable molecules, it was difficult not to conclude that they were suddenly in possession of news with the power to change the world—a psychedelic gospel[...]It didn’t take long for once respectable scientists such as Leary to grow impatient with the rigmarole of objective science. He came to see science as just another societal “game,” a conventional box it was time to blow up—along with all the others.

Special emphasis on the last sentence.
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I've been thinking for a while that there need to be incentives put in place for companies who short-change their their employees (and by extension, the public as a whole) by hiring 3 part-time workers instead of one full-time.

This goes towards the "good job" / "American Dream" aspect of the article. People shouldn't have to work 2 or 3 part-time jobs to make a living if they don't want to, just because those are the jobs available. If somebody wants full-time employment (for which they are otherwise qualified), it would be better for them to have that.

Of course, it is cheaper for the corporations to use part-time, because it keeps them flexible with scheduling/substitutes and due to added costs like benefits etc.

I have been trying to figure out whether it makes sense to offer tax incentives/penalties which would push the balance towards more full-time jobs instead of part-time. One piece I have envisioned is forcing employers to offer the benefits a full-time employee would receive prorated to part-timers, with a penalty added for splitting it up. Make them want to offer a full-time job instead.

The part I am worried about is whether the effect is too strong and prevents somebody who actually only wants part-time work from finding employment (e.g.: a student, full-time parent, senior citizen or handicapped person). There needs to be some part-time work available, but generally a member of the workforce probably wants a full-time job.
The intended point was probably that they enabled the complexity in the interface pre-GUI.
Is "data science" a new hipper name for "statistics"?
In the same vein (and including at least one essay by him):

http://csp.org/practices/entheogens/EFR.html
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Thanks for pin-pointing the problem.

In this instanced, "poised" means "may happen in ten years if my pet theory comes true".

Another crank article, essentially.
Thanks for this. I'm brand new to Meteor and have been looking for resources.

Does anyone have an idea of when the official Windows installation will be released? I've been struggling with trying to get this working correctly on my windows pc and signed up for their email list when it comes out. Hopefully soon?
Yes, we should report up stream. I apologize for speaking ill of Package Control- it has been quite stable lately.

The problems with ST3 don't make it impossible to develop plugins, they just make it harder than it should be. Bugs in the API and the 2/3 split have wasted weeks of our time.
Bookstores in SF have been closing for a while; blaming this closure on the minimum wage hike is specious, to say the least. Yeah, I read the blog; but closing the bookstore today, because wages will go up in 2018 (3 years from today), is ridiculous.

Let me offer an alternate explanation, based on speculation (but grounded in the realities of the booming SF realestate market): someone offered to buy out Borderlands lease for a ridiculous amount, and it was an offer they just couldn't refuse. So basically it was a choice between (a) struggling along paycheck-to-paycheck for the next 3 years, or (b) getting a nice fat check to close the doors and do something else. They chose (b). The Valencia corridor between 16th and 24th has exploded, with a large number of hipster restaurants and boutiques, and money is flowing in like crazy. Might as well tap into that while the going's good.

Expect to see some hipster cafe, restaurant or boutique opening in their place in the next few months.
If it makes it clearer, please insert a "sufficiently" before the low in that sentence.
Many online retailers do this. I personally know of REI, Nordstrom and Best Buy who have done these types of price encodings.
They had prime real estate that a more robust business will pick up. The jobs will be replaced.

Whether this is good social policy is a much more complicated question.
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It is always an incremental straw until the camel's back breaks.
If you increase the minimum wage for the worker, all prices across a system will increase as the business must remain a going concern to compensate the increase. The price increase affects end-users purchasing power.

The median household income in the United States is $51,000, tech worker salaries are are not the norm, they are 6% of the population ($100,000 for a single individual). Their effect on society is negligent in the purchase of everyday goods as they are only 6% of the population and purchase affluent goods and upward.

Assuming direct elasticity, if a place increases costs by 30%, 30% less will shop.

If a median income family has a 10% increase in food prices, they have to absorb it. Try getting a 10% wage increase across an entire operating company, let alone a single employee.
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That search... shows up nothing?
A trip to a bookstore, for a large section of the book-loving populace, is indeed something of value beyond just "curation" – the experience of browsing shelves, randomly finding or remembering something you wanted to read, seeing new releases on a table and judging the quality of the paper or the binding or appreciating the rag of the edges – none of this can be reproduced online. While you certainly don't have to appreciate them personally, many folks do.
You say this, but most Libertarians do not really give a fuck about competition, only that the government does not interfere with corporations in any way, and they get theirs (no matter the cost to anyone else). Despite the fact there is boundless amounts of evidence of companies using their influence to force monopolies or crush competition.

Oh, but Libertarians don't like that (allegedly). Well then, their answer is simple: But if you don't like that, just move! Don't support that company! Bootstrap harder! Externalities don't real! That'll show those big mean old companies (nevermind the fact you don't have the money or ability to move or go without services like the internet, making the point moot).

At the end of the day, having dealt with many of them here in Texas, most libertarians are just dumbass 20 something white male Republicans who want to smoke weed and end the Fed. They're a joke, but they're a joke that exist on this site in quite a plentiful manner, as you can see. They don't care about the monopolistic control most ISPs have over their customers in plenty of places in the US. They only care that Obama doesn't get all up in their internet; everything else be damned.
It's the subtitle.

And 'exciting' was used to describe the results, not psychedelics.
Forgive me, but I'm struggling to keep your argument straight. Your post goes back and forth.

For example, there's a subtle difference between these two stances...

your title:
"A dirty secret: Most people probably shouldn’t go to school"

your conclusion:
"So here’s a dirty secret of our times: you MAY just be better off not going to school."

If you're arguing that education could be faster and cheaper, I don't think that comes out in your post due to other distracting claims and anecdotes.
This makes me sad. If you make a mistake, own it. If you get a fair parking ticket, pay it. Don't be a leech. Cities have scarce resources that are not designed to fight people looking for loopholes.
> What is this nonsense?

> What world are you living on?

This breaks the HN guidelines twice: it's uncivil and unsubstantive. You could make it a much better comment by taking the substantive sentence ("Things...") and following up with some concrete reasons.
On first glance I thought this was a joke:

"Required

Javascript - JS first?! Yes soldier, don't question me again or I will karate chop you!

Shell (Terminal)

HTML & CSS

JSON

MongoDB

Handlebars

Git & GitHub

jQuery

LESS and/or SASS

Underscore and/or Lo-Dash

Bootstrap

NodeJS

Cordova

ElasticSearch

Ionic - Meteor Package Meteoric
"

Then immediately following, "Now that you know the above you are deemed worthy to tap into the power and awesomeness of Meteor!"

Meteor's probably a good framework (I wouldn't know one way or the other since I haven't tried it), but from that summary it doesn't seem like an easy sell to someone looking for a framework to use.
>If you're clearing $3k in profit a year you have a very expensive hobby, not a viable business.

Depends on whether you pay yourself before the profit or not.
The op-ed misrepresents its own opinion, I think.

Their real gripe is in their belief that the average American is clueless about what goes into that ~5% unemployment stat.

BLS is transparent enough to make this criticism unwarranted, but the media/press covering unemployment statistics certainly aren't careful to define the stats they use.

Whether the 'sleight of hand' is intentional or not is another story (I'm inclined to say it's not, people just need a figure to benchmark to)
The license text as found in the Shen and KLambda sources lacks the "Comment on..." section, i.e. it's boilerplate 3-clause BSD.

Apparently, Dr. Tarver intends the license.pdf file to serve as a "licensing guide" for would-be port authors, while not intending to add terms or conditions to the BSD license by way of the Comments section. I think that intention could be made a bit more explicit, but I'm satisfied that the license as given in the sources is plain vanilla 3-clause BSD.

Perhaps a better solution would be to have a license.pdf file which contains only the BSD text and a separate PDF file which gives commentary on the license. Someone mentioned that possibility on the mailing list yesterday; if there's enough hubbub about it, perhaps Dr. Tarver will implement the suggestion.

I am doubtful that a BSD license excludes the possibility of a port author licensing the port author's own original code under a GPL license, though that seems to me to be Dr. Tarver's conclusion. At most, I think Dr. Tarver could choose to withhold certification from and refuse to list on the download page any port that includes GPL'd code.
And people looking for their first job.

We should be upfront about it: controlling prices, including the price of labor, is cruel.
How would you say TFS (Team Foundation Server) and related tools compare to JIRA? I'm working through TFS training right now and haven't found too many weaknesses with it as of yet.