skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that I entirely disagree, but I think this article was motivated by trying to debunk popular examples of data abuse. Granted, they could have limited themselves to just debunking the "ancient buildings" stuff, but if GW was also a motivator for them, why not? Ultimately, the point they are making is actually well known, going the "Woolworth" route can only have been aimed at the media.
There may be some truth to that, but I think it is more complicated than that.

In the US, women who are childless and unmarried make about 98% as much as men with similar education and experience. Women who are married and/or have kids make, on average, about 2/3 what men make which means men make about 50% more than women make. About 90% of women have kids, sooner or later. Those who don't, are likely to adopt. When a man moves, it is usually because he got a job elsewhere. When a woman moves, it is often to follow her spouse or boyfriend to his new job. This means when a given couple move, he is probably taking a step up in his career and she is very likely taking a step down. Given that women are much more likely than men to stay home with the kids for a time or otherwise take time off from work to attend to the children, for most women it makes sense to favor supporting his career goals over hers.

Additionally, most jobs and education are geared towards a schedule that works well for your typical white american male with his own car and with a woman attending to details like grocery shopping so he can focus on his job/education. This hurts not only women but minorities who have fewer resources and/or a different lifestyle/different values and cannot readily conform to such expectations. Benefits also tend to line up with the expectation that you can work full time for a number of years at it. So a woman who works part-time (even 30 hours a week) at the same company for 20 years will have nowhere near the resources that someone working full-time would have. She is not likely to get tenure, she may not qualify at all for many of the benefits programs, etc.

Additionally, studies show that male traits, like being tall or having a deep voice, are generally viewed as "authoritative". This can be an insurmountable obstacle. For example, high heels may make a woman appear taller but they are not generally associated with being in charge. They are more likely to be interpreted as "sexy" rather than "authoritative".

My personal experience has been that behavior which is viewed as normal and acceptable in men is often interpreted as extremely aggressive in a woman and is socially censured. The fact that I tend to sit up front in classes or large meetings often gets noticed by other people and seems to be viewed as "aggressive". The truth is, I do so for reasons like: I don't see that well and I have some hearing problems. Other people don't necessarily know that and seem to assume I'm some brass balls bitch....or some such. Even if they did know it, I don't know that it would be viewed as more acceptable. The last week of GIS school, I realized that most women consistently sat in the back two rows of class. Given the amount of negative attention I get for doing "aggressive" things like sitting up front, I really can't blame other women for avoiding such behaviors. <shrug>
Why and how are different. "Why" is because I prefer to see discussions linked together rather than spread. In this case there is some previous discussion (although not a lot) and anyone coming across this and finding it interesting might find the previous discussion worth reading also. They could search for it themselves, but it's easy for me to do, and one person's work (mine) saving lots of people work seems a good trade-off.

"How" is different. I just tend to remember stuff like this easily, so I know if something's duplicated. A quick search will usually find it, and that often turns up other stuff that I find interesting in its own right. I haven't scripted this, I just remember stuff.

That also feeds back into the "Why." I've found many things of value (to me) on HN because an article that was vaguely interesting prompted a search for an earlier duplicate, and that search turned up related, more interesting material. Having found any duplicates I then put in the comment to help save other people some time because, well, why not?

However, I'm pretty much considering stopping. Although I'm not really bothered about karma, the recent instance of PG linking the ability to vote to one's average karma has made me re-evaluate what I'm doing. Although it's only approximate, clearly "karma" embodies an indication of the behavior PG wants. Flagging duplicates like this drags down my average karma because it rarely gets up-voted and occasionally gets down-voted. That suggests that, in some sense, PG doesn't want me to do it, even if I think it saves people time and helps to cross-connect related discussions.

If you'd like to discuss this more, feel free to email me.
Great picture. Is that the backside of an Amiga 500 on the bottom shelf to the right?

[Edit] You already answered that. I had a 1200 bps modem for that rig around the same time and would sit around on BBS'es for hours.
Not inflation adjusted but given the short time frame near 0 inflation (in the US) means a small return still allows for growth. A 3.5% annualized return is also a very conservative target.
I think I am missing something here. People are told the initial price and a few minutes later the sale price and are asked to _estimate_ the savings as a percentage of the original? Are we this horribly bad at basic fourth grade math?
"It’s true all browsers have security flaws, but to have 2 national governments speak out against your browser? That says something."

Yes that says something, but what? Governments don't care about computer security, they usually care about politics.
To quote The Sting: "I'd just blow it anyhow".
Thought Experiment: Give it to your 18 year old self...what would they do with the money?
Can your online comments affect your credit?
Digital subscription costs are bleeding consumers dry
Some of my thoughts run similarly. Where are senior people going to come from, given that they need to grow from junior positions. If you are eliminating junior positions domestically, the answer seems obvious.
Such things take time. Take a break and if you've got the monetary reserves go travel on your own or start learning to play guitar.
No, I guess I should have said "This is becoming the norm for me, for nearly everybody that I know, and for nearly everybody that they talk about.".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_it_till_you_make_it
I'd like to see this correlated to any changes in US international travel. Without reference it's hard to tell what would be driving this.

I know personally, I used my debit card whenever overseas and I barely got charged. I know now I'm here in Canada that I can easily get an account that covers international debit transactions, but many also provide free travellers checks.

I believe travellers checks are still used as frequently as they are because of the insurance they provide on the money. Much easier to replace than dealing with credit card fraud with some of the institutions.
Once some of my hard earned knowledge has internalized, I often feel like its just a collection of parlor tricks and sleight of hand. If other people took a moment to think about it, they'd see through what I'd done and exclaim "That's easy! He just XXX".

Sometimes it makes it hard to contribute back to the community, even though that same community makes my employment possible, because I fear that once they learn my tricks, the magic will be gone and I'll be seen as someone who merely pulled a fast one.

I've decided that this will be the year that I really work on some introspection and posting some of that knowledge. It will either help me get over my fear, or prove that I didn't know that much after all. At least I'll know.
I guess that explains why it's on HN. It still doesn't explain the author's glorification of his incompetence...

From the bottom of page 4:
"It would have been reasonable to assume that a man with Tackmann’s criminal smarts would be on a Greyhound bus to Virginia or Florida or anywhere across state lines to get out of New York. But he went to Spanish Harlem."

It seems like the entire article is about this criminal genius who is so insanely good at being a criminal, he actually appears to be a _bad_ criminal. Why not just make the leap to the conclusion that he simply sucks at being a criminal?
Yeah, why invest in some company you don't know anything about (stock market), if you can invest in yourself?
The Apache Software Foundation has something similar. It's mostly for ass-covering should future "SCO"s arise.
jQuery Lint
I play bass guitar and I love it. I don't have much cash on hand, but the misses and I can probably make it last to the beginning of march. Definitely not enough for me to fly off somewhere. It's also too cold in Kansas City for me to go one one of my bicycle camping adventures. I should probably get out and ride some more, though. Maybe that'll help.
The only thing that could be "safer" about it would be to invest in the stock market as part of diversification.

Seems to me for any kind of investment, there are risks that could destroy it - houses can burn, companies go broke, money can be devalued, and so on. So some diversification is essential.
I am on my last week at Microsoft right now. Although after a paltry 2.5 years, not 10, my reasons for leaving are pretty similar.
I don't understand all the commotion surrounding this story. I think this falls under fair use for one and secondly I don't see why everyone is making such a big deal about this. the only part of the picture that is the same is the guys hair other than that the two look completely different.
As per HN guidelines, direct link to the news article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8465038.stm
The ecosystem is pretty damn stable when you have a relatively up-market app. We've had stable growth with one application for the past six months, and crazy little variance in our category rank. Maybe develop a larger application, one that you can market for the long-term?
He's so good at predicting human behavior and noticing minutia...his tales of escape place him well above the average intelligence of a typical inmate...yet he robs places as if he was in a 70's straight to beta-max released cop movie.

The two pieces of the puzzle just don't add up.
Yeah, i'd take at least %50 of your income, and put it in various things, some CD's, some foreign currency investments, govt bonds (tax free), etc... Then save the next %25, for rainy day's in an account, interest rates are terrible right now, so you might try one of those savings accounts which earns miles.

Then with the last %25, use that to invest in more appstore / development projects.
I agree. Though I'd say id or const or even less interesting than ($).
The hallmark of bad gamblers is that, if ever they get ahead, they look desperately around for a way to lose so they can get back to their comfortable status quo: Grifting, in poverty.

You appear to be using a very roundabout way to say that there is no reasonably safe way to turn tens of thousands of dollars into hundreds of thousands in 2-3 years. If that's what you mean, just say so. Implying that everyone already knows this by insulting the OP doesn't really have the same effect.
The President Doesn't Like Broccoli and Mark Zuckerberg Doesn't Like Privacy
Invest in yourself.

You've already proven that you are capable of doing great things. Work to increase your capabilities.

To generate wealth, in my opinion it's best to do things that are aligned with what you are interested in. Since you have demonstrated ability with business and technology, and some capital, start with that.

One way to generate wealth is to start a company, then sell it. There are many skills necessary, but the essential one you already have - being able to just plunge in and do it.

I'd say, dive in and see if you can learn to build a small company by bootstrapping it - without taking investment money or going into debt... take it slow and incremental, not going into debt or taking investment unless you think you have a winning team and product. Usually at that point you don't really need investment, but can use it to expand a lot.

These days, software development done by yourself or a few friends and servers in the cloud are so cheap that you can build whole software or software-as-a-service companies with your existing cash flow. Learn the technical and business skills you need. Plan experiments that help you learn - that won't kill you if you fail. You can learn much more from failure than success, so make mistakes as fast as you can.

Oh yeah, and find a good accountant and make sure you pay your taxes.

Here's some resources:

Cheat sheet on how to get people to change - and buy your products. The best summary I've read:

http://www.chrisoleary.com/projects/TheParadoxOfPain/Documen...

. . . .

My bible on how to learn customer problems and turn them into money. Also has a great annotated bibliography of other good books to read, and a methodology for becoming a self-taught entrepreneur. The author founded 5 well-known tech companies that did IPOs, generating a great deal of wealth, and now teaches at Stanford business school. I can't say enough good things about this book:

The Four Steps to the Epiphany - Steve Blank
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...

. . . .

The inside story on nitty-gritty details of how to start a start up, do the legal work necessary to create the machinery for wealth generation. Written from the perspective of helping tech entrepreneurs protect themselves. If I would have had this book when I was starting out, I'd have held on to much more of my wealth:

High Tech Start Up - John L. Nesheim
http://www.amazon.com/High-Tech-Start-Revised-Updated/dp/068...

. . . .

Last but not least, a very important short text on how money works. Written by the founder of MasterCard. Extremely helpful in thinking about money, how to work with it and think about it, what it's good for, not good for, and its capabilities and place in ones' life:

http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Money-Shambhala-Pocket-Classics/...

Bonus text - the classic manual on leadership - really helpful instructions on gracefully working with others. How to lead effectively and with a minimum of muss and fuss. This is my favorite translation.

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu, translated by Stephen Mitchell
http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Te-Ching-Stephen-Mitchell/dp/00608...

- a serial entrepreneur
Ohh, good eye! The monitor on my left was my Amiga monitor as well. My 1200 baud hayes is standing on edge between that monitor and my main pc monitor.

Those were good times. Damn I feel old.
Wow, so this is where this new influx of traffic to my wiki came from!
That makes sense.

You'd almost expect that every single widely-used project should have something like this (jQuery is a good example).
Using A/B split testing to reduce bounce rate by 20% for an eCommerce store
Wikipedia did not invent the term dynamic programming for that particular technique. See:

"The term was originally used in the 1940s by Richard Bellman to describe the process of solving problems where one needs to find the best decisions one after another. By 1953, he had refined this to the modern meaning, which refers specifically to nesting smaller decision problems inside larger decisions,[1] and the field was thereafter recognized by the IEEE as a systems analysis and engineering topic. Bellman's contribution is remembered in the name of the Bellman equation, a central result of dynamic programming which restates an optimization problem in recursive form.

Originally the word "programming" in "dynamic programming" had no connection to computer programming, and instead came from the term "mathematical programming"[2] - a synonym for optimization. However, nowadays many optimization problems are best solved by writing a computer program that implements a dynamic programming algorithm, rather than carrying out hundreds of tedious calculations by hand. Some of the examples given below are illustrated using computer programs."

(Stolen from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#History)
I can't speak of Germany, but France certainly isn't a technology-forward country. Of the people I've got to know in the country, they'd likely think this is the French government trying to look like it's tech-forward by 'supporting open-source'.
Probably buy video games and make an arcade. That was the business I was into at the time, never could afford the equipment though.
What I don't understand (coming from communities where duplicate posts are simply killed) is why this manner of handling is favored. I do understand that the community cycles in more people who haven't seen all the older links, and so it's nice to present them again for their sake every once in a while. However, if that's the goal, why start with a fresh discussion thread every time? Why not just put the old one on the front page again, together with the discussion attached to it? Presumably the comments haven't rotted.
Also on Chrome 4.0 (Windows).
I think that a site like HN works best if you do what you think is right and ignore what PG wants on a case-by-case basis. If overall your actions are getting downvoted, then clearly there is a fit problem between you and HN, and either you must change, HN must change, or you should go elsewhere.

However if overall you are getting positive karma, then overall there is a good fit and don't worry about the odd bit of behaviour that gets negative karma. Unless it's something specifically discouraged, I think you should let it slide.

FWIW, I don't think karma reflects utility for something like this. I just saw someone post "[2005]" as a comment on another post, and it got some upmods. Obviously that's helpful in a certain way, but I didn't bother to upmod it myself. That doesn't mean I don't appreciate it.

So... tl;dr; version: Rock on!
The dedication to continual education is difficult and something that you have to fight for. Some employers are more understanding than others. If you fail to keep learning, your skills will be obsolete and it will be harder to find work.
Actually, status (as described on that page) is something you play, moment to moment. You are giving off a signal of "don't come near me, I bite" or "don't bite me, I'm not worth the trouble" or something somewhere in between, every second that you interact in person with someone else. Unlike stupid tricks like "mirroring", giving off status signals is not something you can stop doing. What you can do, though, is become more aware of it, better able to modulate it. Socially adept people are very good at varying their status moment by moment. For many of them, it's probably not even conscious.

The main reason an actor needs to learn about status is to be able to make scenes realistic. When the characters don't have a status relationship, a scene looks wooden and fake.

BTW, playing high status is not necessarily better. People who relentlessly play high status in every situation are commonly called "assholes". (Usually behind their backs.)
Drupal's Dries Buytaert on Building the Next Drupal
Note that saying "google is a search engine" is not an answer.

Why not? If I type "mickey mouse" in to Google should I get no results from Disney because that isn't scientifically accurate about mice. Google isn't the halls of science, it represents and returns what is currently available on the internet about the query terms entered. The second Google starts deciding scientific truth is the second I stop using it.
How would you do this correctly without a calculator?

You basically need to do a calculation like this in your head:

100*(3 - 2.33)/3 ≈ 22.33%
Most prisoners don't escape at all. Since the naive assumption is that most prisoners want to escape, the fact that he's managed to escape repeatedly seems impressive.

Of course, it might be that most prisoners don't want to escape, for various reasons.
Your insular social circle is abnormal.
Incorporation can help with U.S. taxes by enabling a tax-free retirement account with a large contribution limit. (SEP-IRA has a 25% of salary / $49k annual contribution limit.)
Common sense can be used here.

The issue is whether highly ranked search results can mislead the public into believing things that are not true scientifically.

Google can fix up its rankings for the most popular scientific queries.
Exactly. Check how Pinboard differentiates itself against Delicious:

http://pinboard.in
Spatial autocorrelation of homicide in Philadelphia
On Ageism
this is getting more and more ridiculous, do we have to report every cyber attacks in China? Newspaper are running out of hot word combinations these days.
I am quite sure there is not going to be any inflation or hyper-inflation. The U.S is spending a lot, but it's also very very high income. And a lot of countries have no interest in one of the biggest consumer group for their products disappearing.

The U.S dollar will stay weak because this promotes manufacturing, which is what the U.S needs to be doing right now. But it will not weaken much more.

The one thing you can use to measure the long term financial stability of a country is its infrastructure, and when you start seeing roads decaying then start expecting inflation in a year or two. Till then, things are fine.
"GNU's Not Unix!" is actually what the GNU acronym stands for. To verify go to http://www.gnu.org/ and search for that phrase.
Social Networking Platform
I always get lost on the difference between "program manager" and "product manager".

Is there a standard breakdown between these two?

For some reason I have the feeling that Microsoft popularized the usage of these titles - does anyone know firsthand if this trend started at Microsoft?
iSlate is an opportunity I am watching for. Let's see what Steve tells us. I'm appropriately positioned, seeing as I have all this know how.
Lucas Kovar, Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass

[http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html]

Abstract: The exponential dependence of resistivity on temperature in germanium is found to be a great big lie. My careful theoretical modeling and painstaking experimentation reveal 1) that my equipment is crap, as are all the available texts on the subject and 2) that this whole exercise was a complete waste of my time.
With new times come new perspectives. The downside is that new people don't know that the same-old, same-old points have already been made argued to death already. But what if they have a new insight, or times have changed and the old ideas are no longer relevant? If they see pages of discussion, they might be suckered into thinking their new thoughts are irrelevant, when the opposite may be true.

In general, I like starting over with a blank page if enough time has passed that we will have new faces and changed circumstances. Two weeks is not enough, but a blog post from two years ago might be interesting to re-examine with fresh eyes.
The beginning of Mcarthurism in Google, where you have to swear you are not a commie...
Not really. It's more for ease in relicensing. When contributers don't assign copyright, the license can never change, since their contributions bind the original project to the original license.

Emacs is a good example of this working. Because Emacs is copyrighted by GNU and not its contributers, it was a simple matter of changing a few strings to change the license from GPL2 to GPL3.

For projects without copyright assignments, this is not possible; the Linux kernel will be GPL2 forever, even if someone wants to change. Some copyright holders are long dead, and contacting their estate to change some terms in the license agreement is impractical. (This is a shame, too; a GPL3 version of Linux would be great for hardware hackers everywhere.)
Design feedback: That background needs to go.
Marketing feedback: Tell me what I get out of using it, not how it works.