skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the OP's main point was that when you date a woman in her 30s, there's a lot of pressure to get married and have babies ASAP. Because while it's certainly possible for a woman to become pregnant in their 30s, the chances pretty much go into a freefall during that decade. So even though as a man, you stand a higher chance with women in that age range, you'll always have this lingering doubt of whether she's with you because she wants you or if she's with you because she's running out of time.

You're right though that there are plenty of other reasons a woman could be interested in you, but I think you might be underestimating just how loud that biological clock is ticking in a woman's brain when she hits 30.
Einstein anticipates and addresses this criticism in his essay:

"...economic science in its present state can throw little light on the socialist society of the future [which has evolved beyond the 'predatory phase' with which economists of today are concerned with].

Second, socialism is directed towards a social-ethical end. Science, however, cannot create ends and, even less, instill them in human beings; science, at most, can supply the means by which to attain certain ends. ...

For these reasons, we should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems; and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society."

(Comments in brackets are mine)
You mean like the 2000 Nobel prize in Economics?

The deficiencies in my college preparatory training were
quickly made up, and at age 19, I received a B.S. in
Physics with highest honors.

I continued my studies in physics as a graduate student
at Minnesota, but was strongly attracted to the study of
human behavior.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2000/...
Welcome -- to Zumodrive

Pay no attention to the Cylons behind the mirror.

It's impressively quaint that they think they can protect your data by not telling you how it's encrypted.
The real world is full of emergent properties ... socialism is top-down control. Surely the idea of applying the mind of man to better controlling man is abhorrent.

"It is evident, therefore, that the dependence of the individual upon society is a fact of nature which cannot be abolished—just as in the case of ants and bees"

Sure. But it seems as though Einstein is arguing against a _caricature_ of capitalism, ignoring the free and voluntary cooperation required among its participants for it to succeed. The _cooperation_ inherent in a functioning market economy so often seems to be overlooked.
I took 18 months off to do a startup+moved to the valley and am now back finishing college before doing another startup. Why? It shows that you're good at finishing things and the degree is something you'd probably rather have than not have. Some lessons learned I guess:

* don't try to do a full time startup AND college. By full time, I mean the serious i want to raise money, grow the company, big vision startup. It won't happen. If it somehow gets to the point that you think it can, take time off. Side projects are okay, and I'd encourage them. Keep making your own stuff. Not every project you build has to be the next facebook.

* you know the path youre going for (engineering/startup stuff). Go learn the things that interest you while you're at school that you know absolutely nothing about.

* meet as many people as you can.

* if you're not challenged like patio said, find something that will challenge you.

* you might take some business classes. everything they say to you will seem wrong because of the way we do things in a web startup. that's okay. you're not going to be able to all of a sudden make them see what you see.

* use your student discount for everything you can. conferences, software, research material access, ways to get people to listen to you (youd be surprised at how much the "im a college kid, can u help me" line gets people to respond),etc.

* keep in touch with the industry, but don't get pulled into the echo chamber+desire to social climb too much. for every kevin rose there are many many more like Ryan Allis or other successful entrepreneurs that have made millions + never graced techcrunch/techmeme. youll feel anxious seeing x company get funded y amount, 500 mentions of twitter, and google buying x company for obscene amount of money y. Youll somehow feel as if now is the only time this can ever happen and unless you jump in, you're screwed. this isn't true. Even though there are boom periods, there will always be new technology companies and market needs. I stopped using Twitter the other day and deleted my entire feed reader list. I only read what's on HN when it comes to tech. I'm already a happier person, because I'm less stressed.

My biggest mistake is that I really only got one year of the "real college experience". that's when I was at boston college my freshman year. Somehow when I transferred to UMiami, I just stumbled into entrepreneurship, which meant the real world. If I could go back, I would have found a way to enjoy more of just being a normal college kid, worked on fun projects, and then gone balls to the walls with startup stuff.
The desire to systematize every aspect of life is why you're still just dating.
Go to graduate school in human-computer interaction or software engineering. Get an MS and then apply to a startup program.
One extremely annoying bit watching the video is that for an IDE manipulating text files it requires that your hand never leave the mouse. Every single operation it looks like requires that you right click, click to activate, click to drop down, click to open. Even the 'insta-search' box requires a click. Someone should buy a one button mouse and install it on their computer or just take the mouse away completely. A mouse has a place, but it shouldn't be the primary means of interacting with something that is text.
In Swedish:

() == Paranteser (Parentheses)
[] == Hakparanteser (Hook parentheses)
{} == Måsvingar (Gull wings)
Klammerparanteser (Brace parentheses)
Krullparenteser (Curl parentheses)
Spetsparanteser (Tip parentheses)
Ackolader (Swedification of the French accolades => Hugs)

Swedish uses left, right or more commonly amongst developers start and end prefixes. Måsvingar seem to be winning as the word of choice for braces amongst developers.
UW Seattle has a lot of really amazing computer scientists and mathematicians. Even ignoring all the stuff you learn just from being around a huge number of folks in your own age range, and intro/intermediate classes which you can learn on your own if you have a "sufficiently good" textbook or lecture notes, there is still a huge amount of physics, statistics, general mathematics, combinatorics, probability theory, theoretical computer science, algorithms, computer vison, and other cool things. UW Seattle has cool faculty in all those areas, and if you take advantage of your school, you stand to learn from them! (or do cool stuff like learn some mechanical engineering or take some drawing classe)

Also, little/well known fact, most tech startups aren't that technically interesting, and rarely does a startup leave its employees with much time to do much else. (Yes, many counterexamples exist, but even at those, how many roles are the interesting ones at even those places?)

there are other bits, but those are the broad points
"The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort. Production is the application of reason to the problem of survival.

Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on the individual, man’s survival requires that those who think be free of the interference of those who don’t. Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man’s mind."

-Ayn Rand

Socialism is fundamentally opposed to this view.
Perspective changes as you get older. Besides, women live longer than men, and reach their prime later. There are a lot of reasons it makes sense for a female to date a male who is slightly younger than him.

So. . . I daresay that the comment does sound pretty awful. Awful is probably the wrong word. Delusional, megalomaniac, may be better words. Anybody who doesn't have a bell curve around the ages of people they're willing to date (yes, with his/her own age in the middle) is probably missing a few logic gates.

Given the gendercide and such, it's pretty certain that the world will never have shortage of creepy old men.
While it may make a difference in the future when we have millions of users using video calling on phones, Installing these right now wont have any noticeable effect simply because the routers in use currently are not the bottleneck(s) causing a horrible experience with AT&T.
Interesting, they assume you get 20mpg. Does the fact that I get 50+ change my impact, per miles driven? Apparently not.
Friendster is alive and well. I have many friends who aren't into cool new stuff who still use friendster. :)
As noted in the how it works link (posted twice on this page, or at the bottom of your chart), they've assumed you have the average emission levels for all sorts of other activities, such as home telephone service, car purchases, apparel purchases, and, of course, alcohol and tobacco.
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, is The Lord of the Rings."
Exactly. That's actual contribution to a field of knowledge, not a political essay.
I think it depends on what language you're using at the time. If I'm using a static language I'll give an IDE a try. Otherwise I use Emacs.
You seem to be misreading what I wrote, above. That or you might need to RTFA and compare what Einstein is saying with a discussion of economics.
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I enjoyed the titration lab :-(

Maybe boring when you have to do it often, but I enjoyed watching the liquid all of the sudden change colors.
> And also why I feel like I should be coding as much as can now.

Yes. DO it. It's important. Code for fun, code for interest, code code code. Just remember that the main objective right now is to learn things and sharpen your skills, so don't get too hung up on external validation/objectives for your coding projects.

You can learn a lot of stuff at university, but the prescribed path isn't going to do it for you. You need to seek out the interesting people, interesting projects, and interesting opportunities to really learn stuff.
You'd have to be pretty drunk to accidentally hit the most remote tree in the world. I can't decide if I'd have to be more or less drunk to do it on purpose.
I don't see what even needs explanation. Really, monads are just a monoid object in an endofunctor category. [0] What's the problem? [1]

[0] http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/monoid#examples_6

[1] http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
You presume wrongly. Communities begin with a "primary demographic"—people who are there for what it says on the tin. Over time, though, these communities start to lure in "secondary demographics" that are interested in both the community topic and other topics, but then those people in turn lure in "tertiary demographics," who aren't interested in the stated purpose of the community at all, only about the hybrid on-/off-topic stuff the secondary demographic posts. The tertiary demographic then posts stories like this one, which the secondary demographic upvotes, and the primary tolerates because they value the participation of the secondary demographic. Before you know it, the tertiary utterly dominates the community, and there is no more topic to be "on topic" about (especially in communities where "on topic" is small and static, but the community allows growth despite this.)
peoplemover
I completely agree with you. Thing is, I also think that Lori is not the exception, but may be very well part of the larger group. In that light, the article is something much more important and interesting.
I was 19 when I first read Rand. I'm 29 now, and I still love her philosophy and her novels. I'm willing to be that you haven't read her very closely.

At any rate, your quote is a mere ad-hominem attack, and I don't think that anyone here will mistake it for an actual argument.
Well, as it's not an economic argument, I'd agree.

However, his political argument in that essay should not be given special credence because he was one of history's greatest physicists.
High School can definitely be tedious, but it does leave a lot of free time to tackle things on your own.

When you get to college, that time may diminish somewhat (coursework is a bit more demanding), but the important thing to realize is that college is what you make of it. If you view it as a four year hurdle to getting a job, then it's going to feel like that. If you view it as an opportunity to have experts direct your learning (which makes learning on your own much faster, having someone telling you what is important), then it'll be much more pleasant. Throw in the freedom to work on your own projects, and it'll be a great time of your life.

It'll be hard to maintain that attitude though. >90% of students (and parents) view college as the ticket to a good job. As an analogy, you could go to a barbeque to please your boss, or you could go to have fun. It's the same barbeque either way, but your outlook can determine whether it's enjoyable or not.
I beg to differ. All the approaches you mentioned are still under heady investigation. It's only the name of AI that has been tarnished.

And the progress in the tools will eventually lead to more "intelligent" systems.
Curiously, W.B. Yeats wrote that his father John Yeats did his best work only when hurried; otherwise he went back and redid the painting until it was worse.
Agreed on so many levels. I have a (slightly OCD) issue with stuff. I've been working hard to reduce my library of about 100 books down to the bare essentials. (Mostly beautiful technical references).

The Kindle has been a godsend in my desire to be mobile, but not go without. I expect the iPad, too, to further allow me to enjoy the technical riches out there without causing more than a few watts of transmission waste.

To think that an author who so valiantly argues against "Stuff" would not have their book available in "non-stuff" format is, kind of mind boggling.
Unless you're planning to work on wall street, at google, or go to a top med/law/business school, there's no point in worrying about school or grades at all. It's a time to socialize with people and makes friends in a way you'll never get to again. You and everyone else are naive little adults unspoilt by the harsh realities of life. Even delaying college by two or more years will destroy that, you'll be a 'mature' student and it won't be the same.
Go to college, party hard or just hang out, drop out in later years if you build a million dollar startup, otherwise scrape through to finish.
To expound on that, http://phandroid.com/2009/08/18/smit-android-mid-560-gets-le... has the OP commenting that he's ordering a lot of the SMiT devices, and is in a "trading" business. I think we're looking at a reseller here, not a manufacturer, which would explain a lot of the confusion regarding the specs and shippability of the device.
Surely the Kindle counts as the "stuff" the author is railing against, as opposed to hardcopy books. In fact, by not having a Kindle version, I'd argue she's sticking to her principles more than otherwise.
Socialism was very popular around the turn of the last century and for several decades before and after. Especially among intellectuals.

Then people saw what happened when you tried it.

The foolhardy still believe it has never been tried successfully.

Karl Popper saw this flawed reasoning and how it was never satisfied with any experiment (especially around Marxism) and made a strong case for a firm definition of the word "science"

la plus ca change le plus le meme chose
This made me think in a way I never thought before. Thanks.
Here is my hard learned lesson: DO NOT STUDY JUST TO GET AN DEGREE! It such a waste of good time AND money (lost income) to study some random topic that you could not care less about. MANY students fall into the trap of choosing a study/career that brings them status. Unfortunately, they will either 1) most likely drop out, or 2) Become average at doing what they do. Why? Because the guy who always is curious and maybe even passionate about his domain will always go to greater lengths to get there.

Study something because of your curiosity towards the subject.

The day your curiosity has dried out, you are finished with the topic. Its as simple as that. Do not study something because its interesting; you got books for that. University degrees are meant to prepare you for research and a academic life, and ultimately become professor/PH.D. The degree aside, the network one can establish during your study years is once in a lifetime opportunity. But I repeat again, follow your curiosity. The story will write it self.
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Ask HN: What payment gateways do you use for your app?
I guess the question is more toward the Canadian HN entrepreneurs. Since Authorize.Net require you to have a merchant account in US, we, Canadians, can't use it. What are your choices for merchant account/payment gateway (in terms of building a web app)?
I will note that scientists of any degree of renown tend to be absolutely fantastic at careful, hard-nosed, scientific analysis that leads to the conclusion that the very political beliefs they already have are objectively correct.

Every downturn of the economic cycle leads to declarations that capitalism is disproved. Oddly, some people refuse to acknowledge that tens of millions of dead people seem to be much stronger evidence against command economies and socialism. (Socialism in the 20th century sense, not "welfare systems bolted atop market systems" in the Teabagger sense.)
Why do I think "stealth pepsi ad"?
Do the averages for beef consumption and airline hours seem low to anyone else?

I checked the sources for beef...it's only the amount you eat at home. Doesn't include eating out, which would like double or triple it.

Couldn't find fault with the airline numbers, but four hours a year? One two hour roundtrip flight? Srsly?
last.fm has some cool systems as well: http://blog.last.fm/2008/08/01/quality-control

i especially like the build status bears :)
Was it Max Planck who gave up economics for physics after finding the former too difficult?
How far can you take a brain out of it's environment before it stops working? For the brain the body size is just an external factor. I suspect changing any factors will probably make copying the brains rather harder than easier.
School consists of sitting in a lecture hall with 100 other students listening to a middle-aged lecturer talk about his interests for 50min, 3 times a week. Unless you aspire to be a good listener / note-taker, no, there is no actual point to school, unless both common sense and modern psychological learning theory are both horribly wrong.

HOWEVER, when you get a degree what you are getting is a signal to potential employers that you are of roughly the average intelligence of other people with that degree. This signal is of varying importance in the real world.
They really need to. If the thing you're doing is important enough that you need SSL (and a custom domain), you have to be pretty big for SSL not to be prohibitively expensive.

SSL alone is as expensive as a 1.5 GB slice from slicehost. I know it's not really their fault, but they need to work with amazon to get several IPs for each of their images, or something.
I would be surprised if this result holds up on review.
This article sums it up pretty well: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/03/03/just-in-case-versus...
If you haven't had a chance to mull over Heroku's architecture, I'd suggest giving it a look. http://heroku.com/how/architecture

Basically, nginx fronts a bunch of Varnish caches, which are then in front of a "routing mesh", which queues up requests for individual "dynos". A dyno is a single-threaded instance of your application. When one dies or is migrated, another is deployed in its place. Multiple dynos are automatically spread across multiple machines. It's a very neat solution to automatically scaling hundreds or thousands of apps.

In other words, bundling the apps and pushing them out is just the beginning of a pretty fascinating architecture.
A canonical package manager?! Concurrency? swoons It would totally rule to be able to have a script to install all the package I use instead of having to keep them all in repo myself. Also, not having to wait for Wanderlust to fetch my mail would rock.
This is actually a pretty likely occurrence when navigating. The tree serves as a landmark and if there are no objects in the field of view to serve as a visual reference one can lose all sense of perspective and collide with it.
I am curious why he says that VCs don't want to invest in a company in which the angels diluted the investor too much. Why should this matter to the VC?
30 year old male here... I'm not really happy for feeling this way, but I treat relationships with women not unlike I treat my jobs/career.

With my career:

I get bored after 1 year, and have never stayed at a company for more than 18 months. Once I understand a company/team, it's hard to picture settling for this position and the realistic growth prospects forever. I'm always networking to find the next job/startup that is more promising than what I have now.

You can fill in the parallels with women, except these feelings creep in even faster.

The confusing bit is, doing this with a job is rewarded. My salary and reputation is much higher for moving around than staying one place.

It's not dissimilar with women. I've been dating more and more attractive women, and I have an easier time bagging them, then dumping them quickly or converting to a relationship depending on how I feel.

I'm a pretty humble person, but on good days I think I will continue to churn through new opportunities for 10 more years, and becoming a rich startup founder with a cool, hot wife isn't out of the question.

At least with respect to his career, how many HN readers don't think this way?

But more and more days now I feel weary. I don't want to work on tons side projects in case they take off, I don't want to hit on strangers at the bar. I want to work reasonable hours, and come home to a woman that is happy to see me.

But still that voice tells me not to settle... When will it, if ever?
Economics is not a natural science. It is a social science. It's pretty important to understand this, but most people don't.
Good to know! I can imagine using 'git bundle'.
Yes! Confirmation that they're bring back Crystal Pepsi.
Dude, listen to the requirements and treat technology as is it a set of tools in a plumbers box.

What makes a size 16 spanner better than a size 15 spanner?
also, the pie chart has a slice of a significant size for the $0 electricity bill
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