skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would just like to say that should anyone of you here feel this way I am more than willing to take this burden out of your hands. For 1 million dollars I could live for the rest of my life not working a single day by surviving only on money generated by interest, as well as spending my time more productively.
AOL Plans to Sell or Close Bebo
Well, the K&R book talk about the complicated declarations, and recommend the use of the typedef command. Also, it contains a simple program called "dcl", analogous to what you linked.
I hope this thing gets settled in congress, as it has been suggested and attempted by civil-rights groups. Whatever precedence gets set, it will spread to Europe too, and I really hope a mistake like this doesn't determine the way westerners get to use internet in the future :-S
OP "This is all mildly interesting and nice, but honestly $30K projected for this year is nothing."

I was suggesting that if the OP applied his own logic...

Personally I think making any amount of money is cool and something to build on.
well as far as i understand things, an arm chip is a collection of modules that perform different functions. so it could have described which modules are present (you'd need to grind horizontal sections).

also, although i guess more difficult, it could perhaps have tried to look at what makes this chip different. arm chips seem to be pretty common; what was so special about this that apple needed to do their own?
The problem is that only a millionaire can say/realize this. So, ironically one ought to become a millionaire to really realize money can't buy happiness.
Yahoo + Foursquare= YourSquare
If they are in fact phoning home, wouldn't that be interesting to know?
Thrilled to the startup scene in Boston getting some love. Sign this angel investor up!
Just to clarify what Steve said, if the company actually goes under and you want to move away from Pittsburgh there is nothing wrong with that and you don't owe anyone anything. The terms state a company needs to maintain a presence in Pittsburgh. I don't think this necessarily means your entire team has to pick up and move here, but I would think at least some of your team should be in the area during working hours more often than not. It's not like applying means you have to commit, it's just another option on your plate and you can obviously talk to the Alphalab advisors during later stages of the application process and see if it's something that's right for your company.
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"They own the equipment; they should get to control how their property is used (in accordance with their contracts)."

The Internet was developed with tax-payer dollars. Parts of it are now owned and maintained by various corporations, but the existence of this part of their business is based on public investment.

How is it then that select businesses then get to have exclusive control over what gets passed over certain parts of the 'Net?

I'm not a fan of centralized control nor do I want a nationalized 'Net. I would prefer as a much of a free market approach as possible. But we're well past the point were private companies are going to be inventing and building their own infrastructure, with free and open competition, and arguing for the telcos on the basis of private property or free enterprise seems disingenuous.
It wasn't just naming a large number: It was taking a random number (last 2 social security digits), writing it down with a $ in front, compare it as price to certain products, and THEN bidding on them. Not just naming a big number.
It's in one of his 2 TED talks, which both are great to watch.
He made $30k at 5 hours a week. That works out to $120/hr. Not bad.
You're right it isn't free to move, but what I think their point was is that not many people do the math to see how much it is costing them in money and time. I've done both, but when I was driving an hour each way I never sat down to think of how much it was costing. Normal people probably just don't even think that way, but once you see it on paper it is scary and I think a lot of people would reevaluate things like the cost to move, schools, and your job.

This calculator seems pretty useful:
http://www.commutesolutions.com/howmuch.html

Lastly, although I can't find a statistic on, you have to think the more miles you drive the higher the risk of dying/getting hurt in a car accident.
I wonder if Kevin has done this because he is so in tune with what the geek-crowd think and if so has he made this decision for the right reasons? The geeks here in HN and elsewhere are always going to complain the loudest about things like the DiggBar. However, Digg is trying to go mainstream - do the normals really care about the DiggBar? Presuming they represent >99% of Digg's desired audience should they really make a change for the 1% that are moaning? Admittedly I have no idea what the point of the Digg bar is because I too hate it, but I wonder if amongst the normals it is achieving its business goal and therefore should stay?

Just playing devil's advocate.
"Giving the FCC a mandate to enforce openness is in no way giving it a mandate to enforce censorship."

Exactly.

It's similar to how the government now has the power to enforce the First Amendment. While one can argue with how well they do that, I don't think anyone wants that power removed.
The Making of The Elements, One of the iPad's Most Magical Apps
I haven't watched IBM since the '80s, but their MO as described in the first article was essentially that back then.

As for the second one, it gives me greater hope that ITA Software will survive Air Canada's suspension of ITA's new product/project/service.
They're both equally illegible to my eyes!
I think you didn't quite get the message. From his point of view he isn't limiting his freedom but expanding it.
I guess you can't tell if he's right unless you have the same amount of money and feel different.

"The things you own, they own you."
I've been kicking around a similar idea, but with a stronger emphasis on the user model as a mentor/apprentice experience. It would be certainly harder to implement than what you are describing, which, and correct me if I'm way off here, would be a set of interactive lesson plans presented in a fashion similar to a wiki where the end-user gains experience and credibility given their progression and rank (or karma, points accumulated) for a set of lessons belonging to a particular category or domain of interest. As they gain more credibility for domain they are granted additional permissions for editing or adding content for that domain.
50/50 deal with God
Is this like a wiki for education plans? Sort of like ehow except for education plans?
This brings up how public transit is a LOT different than driving. You have the ability to do other things safely so it's not like it is a total lost in productive time.
Ten Things We Want in iPhone OS 4.0
I don't think you can do it for everyone who clicks your ow.ly link. You can only turn it off for yourself (like it sets a cookie or something).
I agree! Allow the bar to record the click through but quite the framing biz. I use the service but shy away from the shortner ever time due to this very point.
I like the irony of a media company from the most religious civilisation currently existing calling Apple a cult. At the same time, I can't disagree.
Not always an option. In my case, moving closer would quadruple my taxes. Decent neighborhoods are 40 minutes away (average commute in my office is about 40 min).

There's also the question of working spouses and kids.

If it were for a boffo CEO position I'd consider moving but, to be just another seat warmer, not so much.

(disclaimer: I really like my job which is why I drive 2 hours each way. If I can work out moving closer that would be beneficial to all involved I would. I won't get within 30 minutes though - that I already know).
> "It was the biggest shock in my life, when I realized how horrible, soulless and without feeling the five star lifestyle is," Mr Rabeder said.

You can use money to go to exclusive resorts and hobnob with similar folks.

Or you can use money to go backpack the Appalachian trail, take guitar lessons, and do other interesting things.

I agree that more is not always better ... but money means having options, and just because there are some lame options doesn't mean all options are lame.
Also once Microsoft found that their undocumented APIs were in widespread use, the still continued to support them or created shims that recognized certain applications and made sure their still worked.
> I think you didn't quite get the message.

He got it; he just disagrees.
I wondered the exact same thing.
7500? I think you mean ~1.2 million.

Still, this is what I was curious about -- is it possible the journalist screwed up the numbers? Five million bucks doesn't make you especially wealthy nowadays; it's more a "comfortable middle class retirement" sort of sum. And yet this guy supposedly had a net wealth of five million bucks, of which $2.34 million was in his primary house, $1 million in his secondary house and $600K was in his glider collection. Add in some cars and furniture and he would have less than $1 million left over for sensible income-producing investments.

Seems like an unwise proportion of his money was plunged into useless toys; he was trying to live like a super-rich man without the super riches to back it up. No wonder he was unhappy.
Scientists Discover Heavy New Element
Would it feel as good being given it vs having earned it though?
The crap that MBAs come up with is unbelievable. I am fed up of this insane bullshit that can apply to anything and everything when told with a straight face. Scamsters all of them.
Quadruple?? If you're talking a state boundary, I think you're probably missing something. Some states have higher income tax, some have higher real estate tax (which you pay for indirectly via rent).

Quadruple your cost of living, I could believe.

EDIT: Additionally, somewhere around 80% of the taxes that you do pay go to the federal gov't -- so it'd be really, really hard for a change in state to quadruple your tax burden.
I moved August of last year, and got my current job in October (after my main client, a startup owner, just up and stopped paying me.) I don't want to move again for maybe another year. There are other personal factors involved.

Other reasons to stay put are that my current living place is of really high quality for the price. I live in a very beautiful area very close to beaches, which I means a lot to me. I also have a great landlord that I consider a friend.

The cul-de-sac I live on is pretty close-knit, which is pretty rare and which I appreciate a lot. A lot of the people who live on the street (or within visual range) are relatives. A month after my girlfriend and I moved in, we got invited to their family reunion by the... 'patriarch' of the family, and we had a good time with them. That level of friendliness and familiarity really does a lot for me.
I think that's the point, not the irony: "we believe in an actual deity who does various things, whereas elite Westerners believe in a manufacturer of gadgets."
I believe their desired audience is that 99% (now that the core tech crowd has left). Have you seen the programming section's 'popular' page? It's practically barren. That's how you know the original tech crowd left. In Digg's prime that section was poppin', so to speak.
I agree with you that it seems like there should be an upper limit. But if this article is correct about there not being a rebounding effect, then asking for an extravagant amount seems like your best move. Although I'm guessing that things are a bit different if they haven't indicated whether they plan to hire you or not, i.e. if this is something discussed in a screening interview, asking for an exorbitant salary will likely prevent you from moving forward. I'd also guess that in a trial, the plaintiff has no continued relationship with the jury, while in a job you probably don't want to have the reputation for being the person with completely deranged views of reality.
I have something very much like your feelgood idea. I made a tab for myself on http://bulletxt.com where I record all the things that I like to do and every now and then, I look at it to find out what else to do. Currently on my list: kayaking, Scrabble, comedy club, and theme parks.
Is 'the new messiah' able to walk on the water ?
Agree or disagree, even the most rabid Apple haters must agree that this is not a "new phenomenon." Help me understand why the word "hacker" and/or "news" applies here?
"What To Do When A Hard Drive Fails:" Spinrite http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
Russian Physicists Synthesize New Superheavy Element 117
Weird, I wrote something almost identical to this. Still waiting on permission to open source though.
5 Features that Would Have Truly Made the iPad A “Magical” Device
So, as I assume you know by now, Apple released their extremely over hyped and some say most important product ever this week, the iPad. Steve Jobs, when first introducing the iPad referred to it with so many different adjectives, like only Steve Jobs knows how to do. The two words that stuck out among the bunch were “Magical” and “Revolutionary”. Now, here’s the thing, the iPad has been out for days now, and it has gotten endless positive reviews, however, with all its amazing graphics and smooth UI transitions, the iPad is hardly magical or revolutionary.
A high stakes fail-safe system: US Nukes aimed at ocean
Is the answer here then for Apple to release two versions of iWork for the iPad then? For example, have one version of iWork that only lets you read documents for $13.99, and then for $14.99 have version that lets you read + write documents?
My ambition is to get rich just so I can go into space, pay people to invent robots for me, and live forever.
Java programmers don't need to read algorithms books to get sorted-access lookup tables. That's all I'm saying.
Listen, you give me $10M, and I will sing songs and make merry while I give $9M away. It is just a case of diminishing returns, when you live in your in-laws trailer with your 3 kids, a $30k trailer can make you a lot happier. When you live in a $500k house, a $1M house has much less effect on your happiness then that trailer did.

Millions of dollars more probably isn't really noticeable day to day. Going from a boat to a bigger boat, a house to a bigger house, an X to a better-X doesn't do much for you.

That first 50k in the bank does everything. When you have a year of living expenses in the bank, you don't fear losing your job. When you have 10 years of reasonable expenses in the bank, you have freedom. It's the points that you have something you didn't have before that make you more happy.

If this guy gives away his money to the point that he starts giving things up, not just having to downsize, then it is a story. A story about an idiot (prophet?), but otherwise it doesn't mean anything.
Wow - I thought my 50 min. one way commute was bad, but I guess I should be considering myself lucky. For those commuting long distances by car, has anyone figured out how to optimize that time? I usually try to make calls, listen to podcasts, or just take some time to think about projects that I'm working on. I figure that about 50% of my commute is being used productively--if anyone feels much more efficient than that, I would love to hear strategies...
Fully agree. Having a developer work remotely requires the manager to also be more organized and work differently.
Hopefully a version of Dropbox designed for the iPad will solve this problem, and they're already working on it: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=18663
"from the most religious civilisation currently existing"

That's baseless nonsense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qui...
AOL confirm as being notorious for making bad bets.
Why not sell your newly open sourced app? Lots of companies do it. If not the app you can certainly sell services around it.
At least I can prove, to a reasonable level of satisfaction, the existence of Apple.

Also, they've never told me to kill anybody.
Or get two desktops. I just assumed nobody is buying desktops anymore.

I have a laptop even though I don't commute to work with it. I like to take it along when traveling occasionally. Is this very funny?
A 2.5 Year-Old Has A First Encounter with An iPad
> Since that blogger got a hold of it, I'm sure it's available outside of North Korea,

He is a student in Kim Il-sung University in Pyongyang.
Have you actually ever watched Al Jazeera, or are you just repeating the blather from Fox News? It's one of the most well rounded international news outlets around.
I find it useful from the perspective of analysing a phenomenon that as you mention is intimately familiar, but from an extremely different perspective than I am accustomed to. Not just outside the hacker community, but outside the structure of western civilisation. Without attempting to be too critical; more specifically from the perspective of a civilisation intimately familiar with fanatical religious behaviour from an every day perspective.

I wouldn't have been able to predict what the kind of analysis such an organisation would come up with based on this familiar part of our landscape. Within that context I find it quite interesting.
So easy a child can do it? I really think testing a user interface on a child is key to good design.
Which Ted talks are you referring to?

edit - (Just realized you were referring to Dan Ariely)
"Ritchie, right, auditioning for the role of Saruman."

What the hell ;)
How to resist price anchoring
Give me some iPad app ideas
What kind of iPad apps do you want?
Somehow mac laptops remain functional and malware free despite not being locked down by apple. They've remained this way for many, many years. I'm not sure how much more real world evidence you need that this argument is not good.

The truth is that Apple does it to maintaing market control on their software, not for some altruistic "malware prevention" goal.
That doesn't discount my original statement does it? Sincere question, it is a media company and it exists within the structure of the most religious civilisation currently in existence?

For the record, I don't watch fox news.
to nitpick: the government doesn't 'enforce' the first amendment. The first amendment prohibits congress from creating laws which would abridge the free speech rights of the people (which they possess inherently, independent of government)
Well, now we know which were the disagreements between Kevin and Jay.
I really can't believe how often these giant corporations throw hundreds of millions of dollars at companies they then shelve or sell at a loss just a few years later.
Yeah, well, I still envy him his ability not to live in town.
Honest question, is it really? In which sense do the nations which make up modern Middle Eastern civilisation not match with the description "the most religious civilisation currently in existence".
The Tuesday Birthday Problem
For further discussion by Stanford's Keith Devlin, see http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_04_10.html

Author John Allen Paulos nicely clarifies the intuition behind the solution here: http://twitter.com/JohnAllenPaulos/status/11699672607
iPhone UI design process
I guess he's never owned a waverunner.

His quote: "Money is counterproductive - it prevents happiness." Is incorrect. Money is amoral and depends on the subject.

Money is not the root of all evil. The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. So yes, it's subjective.
You could always run it under some virtual machine and verify if that's really the case. (with packet captures)
I wish I could mod this up more.

As I've gotten older, I find I avoid using our vehicle more and more (I commute the 12 mile round trip to my office on my bike year 'round). Sitting in traffic in a car seems like a massive waste of my time (and my family's). Of course, I am, perhaps, quite lucky--I can live near my job, in an affordable neighborhood (my mortgage is less than the rent many of my friends pay) that has actual stuff in it. Yes, I sometimes drive the four miles to the store for food, but sometimes I ride my bike there, too. Our kids play soccer at a field one mile from our house (we ride our bikes) and take piano lessons two blocks away.
Asteroids (arcade game) Player Smashes 27-Year-Old High Score
And software managers don't need to know anything to tell you to write a program - I wouldn't brag about knowing Java here in 'C' land ;-)
Doesn't Bump for the iPad just seem like a bad idea? I certainly wouldn't want to have to bump my laptop against someone else's laptop (and sure, a tablet isn't a laptop, but the form factor is closer to a laptop than a phone). Once you get up to such a large device shouldn't the interaction be something more like flinging the contact info toward the device (like the scrabble tile interaction from iPhone to iPad)?
"...but I found the lit ones to be particularly mediocre"

That's a gross generalization. You're basing that statement on your personal experience with many a handful of 'lit' teachers, out of the thousands of lit teachers, and trying to make a generalized statement about all of them? Please.

Maybe the ones you had were mediocre, but just leave it at that.
"Incidentally, the people who started the war ..."

These are the people who authorized, and continue to authorize, having troops there?

Do you not hold the government ultimately culpable for this? Claiming Bill Kristol et al started the war is just asinine.
It's a very uphill battle. I worked for the company that provides the "Get ___ Channel" promotions for MSOs (Multiple System Operators, like Comcast, Charter, Time-Warner before being bought by Comcast, etc.), and the stranglehold they have on cable is staggering.

When cable first came out, it was seen as both a luxury and a way to bring high-quality programming to rural areas. Once MSOs began providing upstream data connections, they jumped through a lot of hoops to remain out of reach of telco regulation.

Considering Comcast is the largest cable system provider in the US, they'll either keep lobbying themselves into immunity, or someone in Congress will get a big hair up their ass that can't be removed by "greasing the wheels," and it'll be a monopoly breakup on the scale of AT&T in 1984.

Personally, I wouldn't hold my breath. Lobby money is still pretty powerful.

Some good reading on the cable system history:
http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=unitedstatesc

It was sickening when I first read the history of cable, but I have since come to realize that many industries operate the same way. Expecting companies to regulate their own industries is precisely how we arrived at the current situation. Anybody remember cable deregulation in 1996? Has it gotten better since? http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/06/cable-deregulatio...

How about energy industry deregulation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
Excellent article.

I wish that the Basho Riak product pages had at least half as much high-level technical information about their data model without having to dig deep into their site. All I find on their product pages is marketing speak ("scale predictably", "fast and easy", "fault tolerance", "map/reduce"). I finally found some info on the data model though: http://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/An+Introduction+to+Riak#A... http://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/How+Things+Work
Not for me, but it would feel just as good if I was given $1M and then worked hard to turn it into say $10M.
There's some accounting voodoo with capex that brings incentives into the whole process.
On Perfectionism
This is all manner of awesome. There's no such thing as having too much statup energy in Boston.
But Steele isn't much thicker. It's not hard to see that he was sticking to the K&R philosophy
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