skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People should only have the right to earn one's profits in voluntary exchange. > The free market will not work without artists starving on the street, or taking a part time job to support their art career.

It's almost comical that you wax poetic about the capitalist system, and then in the next sentence blithely assert that art must necessarily exist outside of it! Especially given that the two have fruitfully coexisted for some four hundred years. Oh, but I guess the interweb changes everything, doesn't it?

> Our economic system is a dynamic one, and thus, cannot have an equilibrium that is so often at heart of economic models.

Our economic system is a dynamic one? Well done, Sherlock! To say that dynamic systems can't lead to equilibria ('so often at heart of economic models' -- I chuckled when I read that little pearl of wisdom) is patently wrong and frankly asinine.

> For the reason of satisfying consumer preferences, we must ignore people who insists and demand compensation for their work without giving people a reason to buy.

And I think we should ignore people whose prose and logic are reminiscent of Manuel from Faulty Towers. Remember that the 'reason to buy' -- as opposed to stealing -- in the physical domain is the fear of being locked up. Getting stuff for free, in case you haven't noticed, will usually 'satisfy consumer preferences'!

> Why should they make people fork money over something that they would not buy without copyright and government intervention?

Because a) it's unethical not too, and b) if people don't do it (i.e. if property rights aren't respected) then markets cease to function. Do you not agree would be unethical to steal a purse from a stall in Portobello Market? Do you not also agree that policemen, the agents which 'give [you] a reason to buy', as opposed to just grabbing the stuff and running, are a form of 'government intervention'?

You assume a pro-market, libertarian mantle, but the truth is that you are a fraud who uses such lofty talk in much the same way that New Agers use quantum physics to make vacuous points about the inter-connectedness of everyone and everything. Markets rely on the respect of property. That is no less true in the physical domain than in the intellectual one.
It seems so small. For those of you that have actually been there, is it really small, or is the perspective just warped because of the medium through which I'm seeing it?
It's clear that this administration is very much against startups....with government takeover of many industries, healthscare bill designed to tax investments/burden small companies with large health premiums, and now this.
What can we do? Well, unless we remove the politicians that keep voting for these proposals, we will have no choice but to relocate to a friendlier country that doesn't try to kill startups at its infancy. In this day and age, anybody can launch a lean startup overseas.
Some things would be improved with more attention to accessibility. Ext.tree.TreePanel, for instance, allows keyboard navigation out of the box. In a similar vein, the results grid doesn't allow row selection/keyboard navigation (ref. Ext.grid.RowSelectionModel).
Life is a game. The objective of the game is to make money. The person who has the most money when he dies, wins.
... I had no idea! This is awesome (Its like discovering Firebug for the first time)! Thanks!
This is really innovative and I suspect it will force the rest of the industry to adopt similar technologies.
Damn good insight, Cianestro. Thank you very much. I really appreciate it.

I like how you've made it so simple and action oriented.

You're speaking of flow when you mentioned "Wow, I've been working for 2 hours! Better take a quick break." I definitely think that's a good gauge of setting the right goal, or at least doing what you were meant to do.
This was on the front page yesterday:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1227279
One of the things I really like about the current HN is that it is easily skimmable.
I think a combination of smallish fonts, fairly small font-size range, and the user of a non-serif (if I've got that right) font enables that.

The redesign you have done makes each article pop more, but for me, that isn't a concern.
I want the 'pop' from the content, not the design.

I also think that the Verdana or any other non-serif font has a cleaner edgier look which fits HN well.
I'm wondering what kind of computation engine and database they use to process and store the torrents of data. I bet its a no-no-no-SQL
imp -- Thanks for the insight. I really need to re-read Think and Grow Rich. Awesome link. Had no idea Bruce Lee did that.
In order of importance:

- have a great family with someone awesome

- financial independence so I can take my family great places and pursue my own projects (several million or more would be great; see next point)

- spend any "fortune" I get on fixing some specific problem(s) in the world

I suspect quite a few people have a rough variation on this.
Great -- so here he we are in the 21st century, with the wonderful new empowering technology that is the internet, and you're saying that as far as art is concerned, we should go back to the seventeenth century.

Reality check: you can't finance or organize an album or single launch across 30+ countries using a patronage system. It just won't work. To claim patronage is the solution to the woes of the music and publishing industries is naive, I'm afraid.
Haworth Zody chairs are worth a try. I LOVE mine. Some of the Steelcase Leaps are nice, too.
What i like about vim's UI is that it's very reduced to a minimum. New users have no idea how powerful it is.
I think there are some people who can only find happiness in always striving for something. Sort of like an explorer - he does not explore to find a better place to live in, he explores because it's the exploration that is what makes him happy.

So for the people for whom the search is happiness, it will look from the outside like they are never satisfied, but they were satisfied already when they went from nothing to almost nothing.
Facebook Killing 'Become A Fan,' Embracing 'Like'
I'm looking forward to the Dot-Narc implementation for Windows users.
xwrits (http://www.lcdf.org/xwrits/) is good, too.
Let me elaborate. I have a nice laptop because I need one to do my job effectively. Want isn't actually the correct word. I have some desire for materialistic things (as most do), but I don't see them as things that define my life.

I believe that most of the people here on HN would like to "make their mark". Starting a company is one way to do so.

As far as things moving away from materialism, I doubt it. I feel that as we get older we learn to value the less material things. Look at the nearest teenager and you'll see what I mean (or even look back at yourself as a teenager).

This is all dependent on where you're from too. The US is extremely materialistic. Historically, what you own is a measure of how successful you are(Or how big of a mark you've left). The metric for rating the size of your mark needs to change before we can even begin to move away from materialism.
Wow. Your life sounds like something out of a movie. Living near the sea, a volcano... finally living near the woman you love (despite sacrifices) and near your son.

It definitely sounds as if you have your priorities in a good place: the people in your life, working on only work you enjoy, creating environments that make you happy (physically and otherwise). Do you think you are common amongst the people you know? How much are you a product of your environment? i.e. Your family, Sicily (I assume this is home), programming community (I assume that's what you do for Redis).

Actually, given how colorful your life sounds, I would love to see more on video. Would you be interested in a Skype chat, and even shooting a bit of video with some sort of handicam, or whatever you have (still photos even)? It doesn't have to be now, but something to consider.

I'm glad you enjoy the exercise. I find it impossible to be happy without thinking about it once in awhile.

I like the idea of walking away from your laptop for a couple days every week. I do that for most of Sunday when we visit my in-laws, but if it weren't for that day I'd find it difficult to avoid.
FREEDOM - having the ability to do whatever I want, whenever I want.
Exactly which industries have been "taken over"?
I'm going to advertise for Michigan here. If you'd like to explore some wilderness, I recommend checking out Isle Royale. It's in the middle of Lake Superior, and doesn't really have any settlements on it.

Good luck on your journeys!
This is the kind of thing worrying me more than a single search engine being shut out. Once infrastructure services start to suffer it becomes effectively impossible to do (internet) business in China without VPN.

I've been thinking about setting up a 'dashboard' website much like Google's services dashboard that goes beyond Google's services and includes access to websites essential to run a modern internet business.

Here's my list, please add to it:

Google search
Wordpress / Tumblr / Other blog services
Twitter
Facebook
Google Appengine
Amazon AWS / EC3 / Mturk / etc ...
other cloud service providers?
There've been a few articles on that topic over time, though I don't have any links handy. Databases don't even enter the basic processing infrastructure, as they're dealing with on the order of terabytes of new data per second! I thing they even had to connect their cluster together with fiberoptics just to be able to handle all the data traffic!
Rumors of Yahoo Taking Down MyBlogLog could be False
I would agree that part of the enjoyment of life is continually striving, or growing. For me, that exploration is less physical and more intellectual/emotional. And maybe I'm biased, or hitting this point too hard, but I would again argue that those who search for a better place to live in physically (a bigger house, etc) will be less satisfied than one who strives for a better place emotionally/intellectually.
There are microlending sites like kiva.org.

However, if you're talking about investing in terms of buying stock in a typical technology startup sort of scenario, I doubt it. The legal hurdles are one thing, the other is that for each investor a company brings in, there are about $500-$1000 in related overhead costs. Just dealing with the legalities and the requirements for things like sending copies of the board meeting minutes to the investors make $200 investments a losing proposition.
This is a good example of how to do a simple tutorial.

The tutorial video itself is well done.

Following the video is a concise recap of what was covered in the video.

At the end is a short, relevant list of "learn more" resources.

Well done.
Article Summary:

Buried inside of the new banking bill is a provision that will raise the requirements to be an accredited investor. The new bill is proposed by Chris Dodd, the senator from Connecticut. The requirements are increasing from $1m in net worth or $250k in annual income to $2.3 million in net worth or $450k in annual income. Angel investment will also have to undergo a 120 day SEC review.

http://hnsummary.com/2010/03/30/get-the-anti-startup-and-ant...
Wow, we launched this like 2 years ago (okay, September 16, 2008 to be exact) at TwitterKeys.com. Was wildly popular for a week or two and then died off.
Come to the Dark Side. We have buffers.
Advanced Yoga Can Challenge Your Body - How to Push Your Body to Another Level
I'm with you on the sans-serif (it's french!). A lot of designers dislike Verdana, but I (as a programmer) have never been exactly sure why. Maybe someone can explain? I find it's readable and neat, even when small.

The Georgia font seems cheesier to me, but (once again), I'm not a designer.
How to optimise CRM for email campaigns
I'm going to wait until I can at least play with one at an Apple Store. I'm probably most interested in using one to experiment with tablet-targeted web UIs, but I can also see it working as a good motivator for me to continue learning Obj-C.
Auto, Banking, Student lending, Home Mortgage, Healthcare.
Beerjot: A mobile beer checkin app
How social networking is seeping into enterprise software
I was there about 7 years ago and it seemed a decent size, but it wasnt big like St. Peters.

A more objective view from wikipedia: "Above is the main space, the Chapel, the internal measurements of which are 40.9 metres (134 ft) long by 13.4 metres (44 ft) wide—the dimensions of the Temple of Solomon, as given in the Old Testament[9]."
Not before I've made 500$ or so off iPad apps ... label me frugal.
Feature detection is not browser detection
The titles stand out more from the rest of the details. Although I usually do two scans of the page. First for the titles and second for the points, often a title I skip over has high points and I go back and read it. This seems to make my first scan easier and my second harder.
The back-end printing operations.
Refactoring vs. Refuctoring
Use this to get the full article if you don't have a subscription: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22but+also+in+the+global+com...
James Truslow Adams coined the phrase "American Dream" in his 1931 book Epic of America:

"The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position."

The American Dream has never been about someone owning a car or house or even being happy, its the simple idea that in a society based on equality guys who drop out of college can go on to form some of the most important and most valuable companies in the world.
I tried to get this ideology through to my boss at my last job, I said "Which features are the most important and must be done before we can release?" His reply was "All of them, somebody out there needs each of those features!" It was very frustrating not being able to make him see the benefit of less.
Money quote, the final paragraph:

"Everyone doing business in China should be clear by now on the rules—there is no rule of law. Deals can be done on the basis of mutual trust, which creates some level of certainty. The four Rio Tinto executives may be guilty of corruption, but the real reason they are in prison is because that trust broke down."
The ongoing story of a Dreamhost account compromise
But why can't you create a business that is an accredited investor, which invests in companies based on its LP's choices?

In other words: Let's say I want to invest $100 in SmallCompany.com, for the equivalent 100 shares. I make that bid, and if SmallCompany accepts the bid, then I give Me-VC.com (the accredited VC company) $100 and Me-VC would make an equivalent investment in SmallCompany of that amount, for that number of shares. If SmallCompany exits, I get a return commensurate with the number of shares Me-VC invested for me.

Edit: I developed a site to back this but I've been searching for someone to co-found on the business/legal side, which in this case, is by far the tougher role.
Not actually a run-on, which refers to an ungrammatical sentence. The quoted sentence appears to be grammatically correct.
I feel your pain. As do most. =)
There is no sales opportunity until a benefit is established
Thanks. I was wondering about the files issue. And I just added some contact information.

Do you have any experience building furniture or is this going to be a learning experience? I wonder about how the growing DIY movement (at least online) is affecting our happiness. Is there something innately satisfying about making things?
Testing is a vague term. There are lots of types of testing, which other posts go over quite well, but I'll give a rundown.

* Requirements testing - take the napkin you scribbled your idea on, and mentally run through it a few time. A feature that is 100% correct code but does the wrong thing, is still a "bug".

* Unit testing - low level, typically at the database and business logic level. Does this function return what I think it does?

* Integration / Frontend testing - automated scripts that run through and 'click' on elements, and verify content. Webrat and Selenium are a great tools for this.

* Usability testing - throw some real users at it, find bugs in your design and workflow.

* Penetration / security testing - attack your site from the outside. Alternately, audit the site from a code-level point of view. Find security holes, figure out ways that people will abuse your site.

* Load testing - once you get a site up, will it stay up after traffic hits. This is a rather deep topic in and of itself.

You get the idea. There are probably more that I didn't hit. But basically every step along the way to having the final app can and should be tested.

Testing is more than finding bugs, it's finding flaws in thinking. Whether it's the 'business analyst' aiming for the wrong target, the designer having a hard-to-find button on the mockup, or a coder using the wrong import() function override.
I had plans to retire at 45. Today, I want to have sufficient financial independence to be able to choose what I work on.

Love, family and friends are now more important than they used to be.
Freedom to explore the world and do what I want.
Wanting to solve problems for other other people.
Have a family.
I guess you missed:

>(Then clean it, so it's not shitty for anyone else again.)
Huh, you're right. It is definitely grammatically correct, now that I look at it. It's unquestionably rambling, though, and (I should hope) an example of bad style.
Thanks for posting this. I will definitely add this to my ever-expanding lit review for my thesis on SQL Injection Attacks/Web App Development Frameworks
Wouldn't a filter icon be more obvious?
Fixing Cognitive Biases to Shape the Next Generation of Humans
Anyone else notice Carbonite is a sponsor? I'm going to move to another backup solution.
Brian, I like the link you have at the end of the article: "Back to Hacker News". I assume it does the same when referred from Reddit?

[ retracted comment ]
No. Apple have this habit of leaving out no-brainer features from first iteration of their new products. The one that I can think of is Video/Camera. Also, I don't know if I can use my existing collection of PDFs and other ebook formats on iPad, if not, this thing has no use for me.

I will wait for 2nd/3rd generation iPad, when all the kinks will be fixed and price will come down.
This is cool. 15 years ago I did my Master's thesis at ATLAS, but that's the last I had to do with particle physics. I'm glad I didn't wait around for data to actually show up... (Back in 1995, 2004 was the planned start date.)
A very well reasoned comment from the article itself!

http://nat.org/blog/2010/03/we-have-an-api/comment-page-1/#c...
(I can't believe that we have a Glenn Beck discussion without this comment yet.)

I am not saying that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. I'm not saying that he didn't. But I'm asking why he hasn't denied it.

Also see Jon Stewart's take: http://unreasonablefaith.com/2010/03/20/jon-stewart-becomes-...
Verdana is designed for small type on monitors, so above about ~12px it becomes quite ugly and the kerning doesn't work as well.
Sdultfriendfinder
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IMO, Beck is exactly the type of person who enables fascism.

Hitler wouldn't have made it anywhere without Goebbels.
It's kind of sad to be so narrowly defined by politics like that.

I'm not really interested in being friends with someone who would dislike me due to someone there's a 75% chance (totals + participation) I didn't vote for. Which doesn't even begin to scrape the surface of the importance of knowing and talking to people with opposing views in the first place.
Life is a game. If the objective of the game is to make money, the person who has the most money when he dies, wins.
Is this a surprise? Who exactly is going to stop them?

They own half the world's debt and most of the USA's including the trillions borrowed to fund the two wars going on. They will just get a severe finger wagging from the state department.

What can anyone do to change this, we can't even support the people in Iran when they are actively fighting their government.

If half the American corporations left China, China would simply make clones of those companies or just seize their remaining assets and use them for themselves (like Russia does).
Cool idea. Reminds me of a niche Alibaba.
Large Hadron Collider as Massive Grid Computer
What do you mean by filter icon?
I miss the recycling symbols: ♺, ♻, ♲, ♼ and ♽
Useful for "classic" retweets.
Thanks, and yes--it should do the same for reddit. To take this off of HN, could you e-mail me your browser so I can look into the --> problem
Science Term Papers must Discuss Topics
While science term papers are no different from other academic assignments, students must understand the major difference that separates them from other types of research papers.
Even if you have a nail, not all hammers are the same
YouTube didn't receive billions of dollars from Google for the cute homemade videos of cats or the like. It received that money for the illegal content it hosted.

I doubt Google was buying content. It bought the ability to communicate to an established audience.

That is a true injustice when you look at the plight of EMI, which has brought us Coldplay, Pink Floyd, the Beatles (to name only a few), and which is close to going into administration.

EMI is not about what is justice. Music or any content is not dying because EMI are in trouble, EMI may well be in trouble because content is easier than ever to produce. EMI is not in trouble because of YouTube. It is so cheap now to produce a record that artists can do it in their bedroom. Even creating a record label is inexpensive. Numerous artists have made it big precisely because they put music together in their bedroom. There are independent and indie labels that done some really good business in the last 10 years. From where I sit the better distribution of music, however imperfect, has created more diversification in music.

Really I cannot understand why the record industry isn't making record profits with the ability to create, produce and distribute an album for next to nothing: compared to a time where studio time was scarce and manufacturing was pricey.

I know of artists that have used YouTube and other online media to get noticed, one may be signed to EMI recently.

One thing is for sure, there will be more choice for the music buyer of the future. Something that I think is wonderful.

There's money to be made in Music like there is in Photography. Reduced barriers of entry still cannot account for talent. So make Autotune available to all and let music get better.
I'm not yet decided. Waiting for more reviews and videos of it in action.

I'm in Canada, so I'd have to wait anyway.