skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess this is the dilemma with the big fuss the other day (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1103339).

When I see something from readwriteweb.com now I think the submitter has been "bought" to submit the story. I'm not sure who or what to blame or whether this is a good reaction.

Bottom line is, the biggest loser here is definitely readwriteweb.com since I basically thought less of the article in question without looking at it.

Either way, the fact that Google is (partially) killing support for IE6 has made its rounds on HN before, so news-worthiness of it is so-so.
It probably doesn't help that, while "Socal" is associated with LA in our consciousness, "socialism" is also associated with California, in the sense that California is a leftish, high-tax state. I certainly didn't agree with the appraisal of CA as socialist, but I've heard it so often that the confusion of parsing neologisms like "Socalistan" led me fairly readily to the assumption that this guy was making a political statement.
Just because someone comes "from a distant country" doesn't mean you can make any sort of preconception about them...
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I'm looking for a simple text editor for the Mac that non-technical users can use to save text files in UTF-8 encoding. Anyone have any ideas?
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Are you saying you want to live off the generated income forever? Do you have anything you are passionate about that you might want to build? Might you one day soon?

I think you have to expound on what you want to do with yourself before deciding what to do with this boon. Until you answer that, stick to highly liquid very low risk assets and forget about a target return.
Hmmmm. As it happens, you're wrong and to the extent your parent supports your thesis, he's wrong, too. I work for an SEO marketing firm and one of my coworkers built up a portfolio of $1/day projects exactly in the mold of this article over the course of 2 or 3 years, and once he got to about $6000/month, he quit to do it full time. And he was no genius and had very little technical skill--he hired out all his programming.

I would do it myself, but I have no desire to work on projects like that full time, even for only 2 years.
One could argue that the root causes and phenomenons outlined in the parent article actually define "the dating game", thus it would be difficult to say it's really irrelevant.
I should have been more clear. I think private research oriented institutions where most of the money comes from research proposals don't have many good teachers. It's especially bad at private schools because almost no money comes from the state so there is very little incentive on the part of the school to hire good teachers and a lot of incentive to hire the guy that will bring in the most money.
> Treasury bonds as they have no credit or call risk

Arguably not 100% true anymore. Some people are buying insurance on treasuries these days.
What's wrong with TextEdit?
Before some you guys start acting like a nutjob towards women I encourage you to check out http://zanperrion.com . Its the natural and true way to be more attractive to women.
Our non-technical tester said that the Mac doesn't have UTF-8. I'm not on the Mac but I guess I'll have to check it out myself. Is this feature hard to find?
I can't believe this number is correct, but one of the Xiph guys claimed that the MPEG 2 patents (i.e. DVDs), which are all still in force and built on top of for MPEG-4 part2 and part 10 (i.e H.264) took in $67 dollars for every person on the planet in 2008.

That's half a trillion dollars in a year, and that's not even counting revenue they get from MPEG-4 or the audio codecs.
I don't think it's only an American phenomena. Your example is only about the lowest common denominator of what happens in America but the main thesis of the article seems to work in any setting. The self-centered, narcissistic male usually ends up sleeping with more women than the courteous, humble male. Maybe it's a matter of self-confidence and the narcissist displays it better but women are really bad at discriminating between narcissism and real self-confidence. In the end nobody likes a wimp with low-self esteem but it seems that being an asshole is a sure way to imitate confidence.
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you're right...

Sal received his MBA from Harvard Business School. He also holds a Masters in electrical engineering and computer science, a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, and a BS in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

...but I don't think that he's too poor to buy one. everyone has its own methods to work ;) he surely would draw better images, but I personally think that the quality of the lectures would remain on the same high level :)
I understand people's fear of having other people in charge of your money but maintaining a portfolio and keeping allocations at a certain level (like 30% stocks, 70% bonds) on a daily basis requires some help. Some investment advisors manage many portfolios and can therefore buy bonds in larger quantities at better prices.

Saying that you shouldn't hire a professional to create a suitable strategy for you and maintain your wealth doesn't sound right.
The US Govt. can always print money to pay off creditors. Yes, this would be highly inflationary. But, it means the bonds can always be paid. More likely, they will simply raise taxes to cover the debt load.

But compared to other bonds, the US Treasuries are probably the safest. Even the Euro bonds are less safe. IMO. They are having big problems that will only get worse.

However if this all goes to hell, then you have an allocation to gold to cover the inflation fallout from the mess.

But in 2008 everyone thought inflation was coming when gas was $4 a gallon and climbing. But by the end of the year we had a deflation situation and Treasury bonds went up 30%. Nobody saw that one coming which is why portfolios should hold a wide variety of assets at all times and not try to use market timing.
ah can't correct the spelling mistake now, thanks for spotting it.

A video I saw on a few years ago which was great for getting a fast paced over-view of how starting with digital electronics one can build a computer and write a program to work on it "From NAND to Tetris in 12 steps"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7654043762021156507
There are plenty of times when the customer should only very rarely be right. When you're a designer, for example.
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A lot of passive strategies involve allocating some of your capital in areas like emerging markets, which would potentially be beneficial in that you'd be gaining exposure to businesses that earn money in currencies besides dollars/francs.
Interesting! So, what's the state now, has he been able to continue that trend? Does he have maintenance issues yet? Or does it seem like his model will scale forever?

My 'little projects' make about 800 euros or 1200 dollars per month, so that's about 1/5th of what your friend is doing, or rather was doing when he quit to start working full time.

I'm not saying it's a total failure, but it's not the success I'd hoped for either. And, to be honest at $6,000 per month I'd probably still not be too happy about it, but that's simply because I figured I'd be doing much better when I started out. (I already had a $10,000 per month project with 0 maintenance to tide me over while doing this, if it weren't for that I wouldn't have made it this far).

If he's managed to take $1 / day with 0 input from now forward then he's done very well, but from a business point of view investing 2 to 3 years and getting to $6000 (or $1200 as in my case) still does not count as time well spent.

For instance, if I had spent that time consulting it would have brought a multiple of that (but I'd have to continue to consult, which is of course the whole point of this exercise).
This is a good example of the type of scientific caveats you need to worry about when you run an experiment. Chances are, your experiment will tell you something, but it won't tell you the full story, and if you drill down further you'll discover something else that's more accurate but probably a less sensational headline.
TextEdit does this by default in Plain Text mode (under the Format menu). Screenshot of the save dialog: http://drp.ly/mms3Y
Use as in optimised for them and actually made an effort to learn how to make things work with adsense. What I did on the video site was embed the code google gave and that's it. That does not mean I know anything about adsense.
IE6 is a long way from dead if I look at our web site stats for January. 17% for IE6 and 17% for IE8. Firefox total at 28% and IE7 at 20%. So there is quite some ways to go for us at least.
Yeah, but I'm not going to waste my time on an area with no market, even if it just a little time. I start off with the high market thing, if it works I can modify to enter the smaller markets, but I test on the most likely first.
To be fair though..

in June 2009 I was brought in as the Events and Business Development Intern. So I wasn’t hired as a writing intern. I started writing for TechCrunch by accident, actually. And it’s an interesting story. I was up at 2 AM and none of the other writers were up and a story broke about the iPhone 3GS Jailbreak and no one else was up and it was a breaking story, so I took a huge risk and I hit the publish button.

This guy is a risk taker. That includes good risks like the above, but also stupid risks like trying to roll some payola. Most risk takers who go on to become big successes make some stupid and unethical ones..

If Daniel can learn from this and restrict his "stupid"/reputation-breaking risks to his youth, he could go far with his can-do, proactive attitude. Even with this little payola scheme, he's still contributing a lot more to the world than the average 17 year old kid eating junk food and playing Xbox all weekend.
How should I value prospective angel investments?
In this episode of the online show "Hak5" they demonstrated some home-brew multi-touch interfaces and they used those to interact with demos built in Flash : http://www.hak5.org/episodes/episode-624
Found it. thanks
I do something roughly like this on the side, but trending more towards MFA stuff (not that ninja videos with ads isn't the same). Rather than $1/day, I look to cover the base cost of the domains as a starting point (4c/day at least). Some sites absolutely struggle because they're half-arsed with poor content, no pagerank and few backlinks while others rank really well for reasonable 2-3 word keyphrases.

Of the sites, 5-10 have some traction, took a few hours to set up (total) and make $3-4k/mo, passively.

It's definitely possible and can ease pressure enough to give you time to work on more serious side-project pursuits because your living costs are already taken care of.
Having spent much time in Paris during my lifetime, and far more in France itself, I'm very doubtful of this piece. In my entire life, I've only met one rude service provider in France and incidentally he was Croatian and despite speaking fluent French he had a heavy accent I couldn't understand.

I have a strong suspicion the author of this piece is violating basic etiquette on a regular basis. The key to the French is to start any conversation with 'Bonjour' regardless of if you know French or not, because 90% of the time you won't even get a chance to use a second word in French, especially in Paris where virtually everyone in the tourist areas speak decent English.

I remember me and my wife were in a little bistro near the Eiffel Tower, I took the lead and ordered. I got about half-way through before the waiter interrupted me and let me finish my order in English as it made it easier for both of us. Two or three tables down we saw an American couple (I'm guessing New York area by the accents), they got the same waiter as I did, but they said 'hello' and started trying to order in English. The waiter played coy, he didn't let on he knew English their entire meal, I think it took them 5-minutes to get through the entire order with him.

I find it quite moronic that people visit a foreign country and don't even bother to learn how to introduce themselves. I expect non-English immigrants to my country to at least know some basics, and 99% of them seem to. However the majority of English-speakers who go to France invite this trouble onto themselves by not even bothering to use a single word of the native language.

I've been to France, Spain (and several Spanish islands where dialects and customs differ a fair amount), Portugal and Turkey and I've never had this problem, because I always introduce myself in the local language. I remember getting a discount on speedboat rental in Turkey, the guy stopped us speaking Turkish (quite thankfully, because I think we got through the A-material in the first 3-words) and explained in English that we're one of the few 'Anglo's' in months to actually try speaking Turkish.

Common courtesy in a foreign country goes a long way, but most people are too ignorant to understand. In France, Spain, Portugal and Turkey if you spoke the local language, people appeared to bend over backwards to help you because you just showed them immense respect, not just personal respect but to their nation too.
A bulgarian with bad english is very distant from the silicon valley connections.
Agree about hedge funds.

To the OP, listen: The markets, all of them, are damn close to being efficient, and that means that nobody can really predict the future, unless they have the inside on some market defect. Think of financial advisers as psychics, who can be refuted with one question: "So, why aren't you rich from betting on the market?" Why do they work 9-to-5 for other people? Because they really don't know.

Also, people are being a bit too negative about targeting an interest rate. Right here, I think this is the largest bond fund in the world,

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=PTTAX&t=2y&l=on&...

...a little over 5 percent (yahoo is out of date), and notice that even during the financial crisis it was in pretty good shape. Keep in mind that such funds already have better advisers than you could ever afford, and they know how to vet. Just divide your money into 10 or so such funds, put a few 100K of physical gold in a swiss vault if you're paranoid. Ta da.

If you want to be more active, research actually buying bonds yourself, as you won't lose that 1 percent to the managers. Most brokerages have this.
Google's announcement is relatively recent and hasn't come into effect yet.
How much privacy does one share with his housemates/spouse/siblings? Pretty much nothing. Facebook is one big house where everyone gets to know about each other's activities. Though such sharing might be unacceptable to certain people, most people (especially college under graduates and younger) love it. So this is probably the future!

At the same time, it must be remembered that facebook never forces anyone to share their personal information. You do have control over who sees what.
Ask HN: Product "to-do" lists
Inevitably, when you build a prototype you discover "to-do" items where expanded functionality impacts base functionality. Or, new ideas crop in your head to get to later. Sometimes these items depend on another item to be resolved/added first.

Right now, my answer is a "ToDo's" plugin to Firefox. This no longer meets my growing needs to keep track of items, priority, and dependencies. Especially, when new co-founders are added in the near future.

Can anyone recommend software that would help me better manage these items? If not software, how have other startups managed the priorities and direction of their product?
Ask HN: I am a writer, how do I get traffic to a non techincal blog?
I disagree with portman. Investment is a function of one input - risk OR return. If you follow the diversification strategy of portfolio theory, then you will generally be choosing a multiple of the market beta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_(finance)
Your risk tolerance dictates an expected rate of return OR your desired rate of return dictates a variance of return. Of course these are averages and YMMV, but over a 30 year period there IS something approaching "steady".

I think your question is perfectly stated, and gives an investment advisor all the information they need to choose an asset allocation.
How many hours did you spend making them?
Investing over a period of time instead of all-at-once, in order to diminish the effect of market peaks and make sure you hit some of the valleys, is called Dollar Cost Averaging. I think the reason no one seems to talk about it much is because it's a relatively rare occurrence that someone suddenly has a large lump sum to invest. Most financial talk is about more common personal finance scenarios. That said, there's lots of discussion on dollar cost averaging, which, like most things, is easier to find once you know its name.
Someone (Mark Pilgrim?) recently pointed out that Android is so divorced from standard "Linux" once you get above the kernel that it's relatively easy to have a completely separate debian that sits alongside Android without much overlap.

If it is just personal hacks then that might be a way forward.
One problem: humans, even in western societies, aren't strictly monogamous. Men and women both can, and not infrequently do, have more than one partner, even when married.
I got a financial advisor after winning and selling a car, and the funds he recommend I invest in (Fidelity) ended up, over 7 years, to just about double in value. So a financial advisor can be good - you just state the level of risk you're willing to take. Mine was 3 out of 5 (risky ish).
I actually find the US way more uncomfortable. It seems to come across slightly in your face.

All of my favourite restraints are in France (thouh not Paris) almost exclusively for this reason. Quiet, polite, restrained.

As another poster in this thread touched on it is simply a case of local custom. Not tipping in the US, for example, is sure to net the same response I suspect.
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Thank you for posting this link. I'm 15 minutes into the interview right now, and while there are no big revelations, it gives context to the whole thing.

edit: Finished it, and feeling hopeful about the potential of the web to both make the best teachers much more accessible to everybody, and to create mechanisms to select for those good teachers.
Indeed. Unfortunately for us I think that our users aren't that heavy users of anything more advanced at Google, but only time will tell I think.
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Plasma Jets Could Replace Dental Drills
I took the liberty of following the link to slashdot and from there to livescience.com where I found a much more interesting article:

http://www.livescience.com/technology/plasma-jets-dental-dri...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108455
Is anyone hiring for less-experienced roles? Either for new grads, or for someone who is trying to change careers.
This is essentially a repost of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108392 , but this article has much more, as well as more interesting, content.
I really like this guy's articles... But he seems to have two styles:
1) When he doesn't have much time he'll bang out an amusing, readable rant.
2) When he gives himself space, he writes better than anyone else on TechCrunch.
More of 2) !
All the bits you mention weren't peer-reviewed. How is that a problem with peer review?

(I think peer review has issues, I just don't understand what you're trying to say)
Open Angel Forum San Francisco March 4th
Very happy to report that Chris Sacca and Kevin Rose have opened the third chapter of Open Angel Forum. The San Francisco chapter will be hosting it's first even on March 4th.

We are accepting applications from startup companies actively raising funds, as well as applications from angel investors who have made at least four known investments in the past year.

all the best, and I hope the HackerNews community has many members apply! Jason
LOL. At about 37 minutes in Daniel answers a phone call from his Mom. Pretty rude to the interviewer but hilarious as well.
put x% (10<x<50) of it into counter moving assets like gold, oil, energy, etc. this acts as a safety valve for major calamities. a financial adviser probably won't help you with this too much. you have to decide how paranoid you are.

split the rest between investments of various risk depending on how much risk you are comfortable with. a financial adviser will help with this.
You can get plenty of traffic by posting the blog on a news aggregation site with a misleading title, apparently.
Perhaps I'm biased - I work for an Enterprise Focused Organization (about 100 Engineers) that builds applications for Utilities. Outage Detection, Network Monitoring, Advanced Meter Reading. We never even considered building any of these tools as thick apps - 100% Web Apps. The Tools we use to manage the builds, file the defects, track customer requests, monitor networks - all Web Applications.

But -your point has merit when I look at the _number_ of applications I use - Around 25 in a given week (Terminal.App, Mail.App (Irony. :-), Colloquy, Adium, Excel, Visio, RemoteDesktop, FireFox, VMware, iTunes, VLC, CiscoVPN Client, Calc, Wireshark, etc...).

I guess, at the end of the day, the question is, what type of user are you - Those of us who are developers, SysAdmins, may be more likely to use a lot of thick clients, whereas people who have a limited number of tasks (Customer Service Representatives, Purely Administrative) may be be more likely to use Web Tools.

I make the argument about technology that "will do" - because I recognize that most people aren't you and I, they really just want to use their computer for a very limited set of tasks and move on. But, your point about turning the tables is well made. Overall, we should recommend the best tools for the job.

It's just that Web Applications, once built, are so easy to deploy across the enterprise. It really is hard to build a decent application that can be (A) Rapidly Deployed to everyone, (B) Be maintained with patches on everyone's system, and (C) Be useful on Windows, OS X, and Linux, _unless_ you deploy it as a WebApp. For some reason, Java Apps never really took off (I'm not sure if you consider Java Apps to be Web or Thick Client - I think they are in the middle.)

And, I agree with you in terms of where I get Value - at the end of the day, when I _really_ need to get some serious content creation or analysis done - It's Excel, Visio, and, interesting enough - my local shell. I'm astonished how, 15 years into technology management, I use awk on 10 Gigabyte files to do critical work. Definitely not a webapp.

So, I guess after reading your analysis, I probably agree with you more than I disagree. In particular, "html as a more advanced 3270 terminal" brings it home for me. The reality is, when I need more than just a terminal onto a back end application, I _do_ use a local thick client, and, I'm guessing that if most of the HN audience reviewed their work habits, they do as well.
Everywhere I have ever lived (the US and Europe) I noticed the same principles apply. If you approach people humbly, grateful for their willingness to share their culture with you, you will always get a positive response. Learning the local language, following the accepted social norms, and eating the local food will always go a long way. In fact, if you don't do most of those things to at least some extent, what's the point of being somewhere different?