skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That really hits the nail on the head. I am currently trying to learn chemistry, and trying to figure out the what to learn part has been extremely hard. Even trying to get a handle on the correct terminology so that you can then search online for more information was hard enough. I am trying a two-pronged attack on this problem. First I am reading Asimov's short history of chemistry, to try to get a basic understanding of the field. Second, I am trying a couple of projects where I think chemistry could be useful, and so by exploration I hope to also get a handle on some aspects of the field.
these so called "the most professional in business" were really "mom and pop" type amateurs. So which one is it?

Even today, there are an awful lot of fund managers and traders who got their jobs because they showed up to the interview wearing the "right" tie, i.e. through the Old Boys network.

Goldman Sachs, despite what it might look like from the outside, isn't really a part of this network. They started out as scrappy Jews competing with old-money white-shoe WASPs, they were the outsiders that everyone looked down on once. It's baked into their corporate DNA that these guys are prey.
Hi, I'm from superfuture and I can simulate the world of your time in my phone, except I'm still paying 40c per minute for phone calls.
I'm sorry but this...

We're talking about a generation that, although its members had much less material amenities than us, they had an easier time getting ahead. Try buying a house as a young person now. When my dad was my age, he could support a family on his salary.

Is a myth.

First, mortage rates haven't gone up they've been going down for 28 years (though in fairness they shot up before that): http://mortgage-x.com/trends.htm. If you're a Gen Xer your father was having to contend with rates double what you'd pay today.

As for career you could probably move up the ranks faster but that's because it was a much steeper climb. Think about it. You're talking about an era where there was no Excel. There had to be people who actually did those calculations by hand.

As for money the average income of an American household has not only gone up but has gone up sharply...

http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2006/08/15/average-incom...

(The graph is in inflation adjusted dollars)

While the cost of goods has gone down due to technology improvements. The cost of a Gallon of Milk in 1967 was double what it is now (http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/fa...)

The average house size has doubled since 1950 (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5525283). Yet the average price only went up about 60% (http://www.lesjones.com/2008/11/25/inflation-adjusted-us-hou...)

The reason most people have less money these days is because there's so much more to spend it on. VHS didn't even exist until 1976 much less computers, xboxes, iTunes, etc... U.S. population went up around 46% between 1967 and 2006 yet the number of new car registrations grew by 139% (http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/fa...)

Gen Xers and beyond have a much higher quality of life, even in a recession, than their grandparents did and to say otherwise is an example of the very self involvement that's being criticized here.

Oh, and P.S., Jeffrey Zaslow was born in 1958 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Zaslow) so there's no chance he is a Gen Xer and it has nothing to do with fuzzy dates and everything to do with you being too lazy to do a simple Google Search
Haskell: Pure and Lazy, yet Functional
He actually said he is not interested in jobs which just require you to have the piece of paper saying you have a CS masters, but more interested in jobs which require you have the knowledge a CS masters gives you. From this conclusion he then comes to the idea of just gaining that knowledge doesn't require you go to a university.

This was more on a primer on really thinking about why you want to go to university. Do you need the piece of paper? Or do you just need the knowledge?
If you have friends like that it is your own fault. Expect duche friends to pull duche moves.
Except there are crimes this community often thinks should not be considered crimes.

If we just got on that whole drug decriminalization / legalization bit, we'd drastically reduce our prison population in a comment on this thread, got 9 points right now.
They do, and then they forget it later and start ranting about how kids today are so screwed up.
All of these articles bemoaning "kids these days" are starting to get really tiresome.
A TV show can’t possibly have that kind of influence. It might be a symptom, it might transport and maybe even amplify the current zeitgeist, I don’t believe it can cause large scale changes in society.
and return the trend to flash again.

Flash is not a codec. Flash can be used to serve H.264
Me too. I can think better now than ever.
Gen Xers and beyond have a much higher quality of life, even in a recession, than their grandparents did and to say otherwise is an example of the very self involvement that's being criticized here.

Humans readily adapt to changed circumstances [1]. It's not "self involvement", it's just human nature.

Also, above a certain threshold[2] absolute wealth is less important to people than relative wealth in terms of happiness. Hence "having more stuff than their grandparents" doesn't make people feel any happier because their peers all also have more stuff.

[1] For example, people who win the lottery are really happy at the time but six months later have reverted to the baseline level of happiness they had before the win.

[2] ie: having enough to survive reasonably well.
what about sitting on a big bouncy ball?

http://blog.makezine.com/upload/2010/03/toolbox_take_a_seat/...
I use Gnome built-in timer (see keyboard options). You can use WorkRave.org, or similar program (google for "RSI break program").
I only use Facebook and Hacker News (and a couple of forums: BoS and FreelanceSwitch). I use Facebook because all (yes, with no exception) my friends are their and we have fun commenting at videos or chatting. Sure I do control my time on FaceBook and the overall experience was always great.
Self involvement is human nature. It's our nature to be concerned with ourselves because it was an evolutionary imperative to our ancestors. That's why we, as evolved people living in a modern society, have to force ourselves to put things in perspective.

The very existence of the phrase "put things in perspective" proves the point that our instinct is to over inflate those challenges that we face.
Another simple but effective hack: have a standard untrue answer for your mother's maiden name, first school, etc. Only you will know them. Your mother's maiden name is McLuvin.
At a guess, using bluetooth, the input is the camera.

http://shop.lego.com/Product/?p=9847
Interesting post. It's probably worth adding columns to show things like the founders' return in these scenarios to illustrate where this middle plateau is (where the investors return is the same or near the same).
I created kneeling stool for myself using bicycle seat and two strips, but found that regular flat stool is much better. When sitting, I stretch my legs and lower my knees as wide and as low as I can, so my back is flat.

(Sorry for my English).
I don't think chairs are the biggest problem facing office workers. Desks and monitors that don't adjust well are.
I've never been under any illusions about Facebook's business model or intent, but the expansion of their boundaries and Zuckerberg's stance on privacy mean I feel I have to take an ideological stand. Professionally, I argue for strong access controls, user control over data and the ethics of privacy in web applications, and that's incompatible with my continued presence on Facebook.

It's not just hackers and Internet professionals who are worried by this. So I reckon it's up to all of us to create an easy-to-use, secure, friendly web-based framework for us to share and collaborate with our friends.
I got apple care for my macbook air (1st gen) and it was nearly worth it when the power transformer broke. I bough apple care for my laptops.
Mark Pilgrim, IIRC, uses a Poäng chair. I thought this was a bad idea at first, but if you can get the keyboard and monitor adjusted right, it could be quite comfortable.
If you want to optimize for other people's productivity, that's fine. But that's not what's best for you.

Also, there is a simple solution to this problem -- a program that converts $foo into HTML and a program that converts HTML into $foo. pandoc is an example.
I thought that one could now veto tags for yourself in pictures? Doesn't prevent you being named in the description.
Fluids come as hypotonic, isotonic and hypertonic. Water is hypotonic, and before it can be absorbed, the body has to add in glucose and electrolytes from internal supplies. Hypertonic drinks, like Coca Cola need to be diluted with water from the body. An isotonic drink which is 6% glucose + electrolytes can be used almost immediately. That's why sports drinks are often isotonic.
okay. please spend your own money to do this and not mine.
Tetration
I bought a standing desk couple weeks ago. http://www.amazon.com/Euroflex-Stand-2dUp-Mobile-Workstation...
So far I feel much better when I work standing, but my body still needs to get used to it. So I sometimes work sitting at the regular desk.
Consumer Tracking Outstrips Protections
By crossing their fingers... and toes.

The only reason there isn't widespread tampering and adulteration of goods made in China (or anywhere) is that it's usually cheaper to do things right. Manufacturing Cisco routers exactly as they are told to is easier than making ones that are undetectably compromisable. Today.

In other cases where doing it wrong is cheaper, we've already seen what happens. Lead paint is cheap. So, of course, we end up with kids' toys with lead paint that flakes off.

But hey, at least it's one cent cheaper.

(And just so it doesn't sound like I'm being anti-foreign-goods or whatever, we do the same thing domestically. HFCS is slightly cheaper than sugar, so it's used in everything, even though the production is harmful to the environment and the health effects versus sugar are in question. But hey, at least the profit margin on sugar water is even higher now!)
الان فك شفرة جميع انواع موبايلات نوكيا bb5 بكود - شركة الصباحي
Why I Canceled My Facebook Account
I used to adjust my sleep schedule on weekends like he does towards the end of the chart, but I have recently lost that ability. (I think I stopped caring what time it was, so I lose/gain just about two hours a day now. This gives me one day every two weeks where I am awake at 9am :)

Someone should do this analysis with HN comment posting times. I only use IRC for being productive, which is not necessarily indicative of when I am awake ;)
>This is also similar to why it's bad to drink soft drink, the body consumes more water to break it down than it gains from the soft drink.

The longest one can last without additional water is something like 3 days, no? http://health.howstuffworks.com/live-without-food-and-water.... (it gives a couple of citations but I haven't checked them, I tried the sciam.com one but it's paywalled) gives 3-5 days + 1 for a "healthy" person.

So if this assertion is right then drinking exclusively soft drinks for about 5 days will kill you. A simple experiment to do.
> the future = the present + <some innovation>

That reminds me of this :

http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/04/postcards-showing-y...
The Philip K Dick Android Project
Wasn't having panic attacks a normal and healthy reaction for traders in 2008? Just saying...
There's a bunch of other complicating factors, too, which interact with the founders' share. For example, when hiring early employees, startups often use equity as a significant part of the compensation package. But, roughly speaking, the better for the angel or VC the preferences are, the less value any given offer of % equity will have to the employee. So, unless the employee is a sucker, better terms for the angel or VC mean more % equity or up-front salary you'll have to offer the employee to compensate.
The first mechanical calculator was actually designed by Da Vinci not Pascal. http://aleembawany.com/articles/history-of-computers/
Hi, I created an account just to respond to your post. I used a Salli MultiAdjuster for a couple of months. I'm a guy, and my genitals couldn't tolerate it for more than half an hour or so. Fortunately, I didn't pay to use the chair. A local high-end office furniture store let me borrow it. I'd recommend looking for a similar store in your area. I still haven't found a good chair.

On a non-chair related note, to those of you who take breaks, I strongly recommend that you consider taking exercise breaks rather than simply walking around or stretching. Google "grease the groove". I'm currently GTGing pull-ups and overhead kettlebell presses.
I'd assume mains control valves would be computer controlled and be easily recognised by one of the lead engineers. Compare to an electricity outage - when the cables in our street were cut through the electricity company new within half hour which substation was out and within 2 hours had an estimate for repair. The repair was about 8 hours, granted this was a relatively minor repair.

Don't main pipes have flow monitors? In which case it could be almost automatic.
You can't argue with a statement like that (that you probably would have killed yourself). Still, I can't help noticing that there were obvious real world conditions that might have caused the panic attacks, not just a biological irregularity of your body.

That doesn't imply drugs are the wrong treatment. Maybe circumstances like the ones you experience are like accidents that break things. If some treatment can help the healing, why not. It just seems dangerous to assume that one can not live without the drugs forever after.
I actually inherited this book from my grandfather. It's actually quite a nice book, and for the times, seems like a introduction.

I remember being pretty impressed by punch-cards for some time after I read the book--my attempts to find one at school were met with some quizzical looks though.
Seems like a good time to re-read Zodiac.

What IS it about Boston?
It seems like there is persuasive evidence that if the Glass Steagall act were NOT repealed, this wouldn't have happened - or not as badly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass–Steagall_Act

A lot of the gutting of regulatory agencies began at the end of Clinton's reign, and Bush hurried it along as much as possible.

The past 12 years have been one long thread of cutting regulatory agencies off at the knees with low funding, figurehead leaders, the repealing of valuable and important regulatory laws.
All the advice like standing, breaks, etc., is very important. Productive, too!

But you can ALSO help by investing in a chair specifically designed to prevent the pressure on your leg veins. The only one I know of is the HAG Capisco, and we have had them for two years now.

They are worth every penny.

The only downside is that, because your weight is all on your feet and ass -- not your thighs -- if you sit with poor posture, your ass will fall asleep.

But this is really a feature, since it reminds you you're not sitting right and should stand up.
Is your brand a reflection of you - or a fragile jigsaw of obscurity?
It's not a EULA clause as I understand the term, as it's not asking or assuming agreement and not restricting what you can do, but rather informing you of rights you have been granted.

You can't use a patent without a licence, this text is simply informing you what patent licence is included with the purchased software or hardware. The vendors of that hardware and software are likewise only passing on the rights that they have licenced. If it didn't include a licence at all (like if you'd downloaded Handbrake or x264) then you'd be violating a patent. If you go beyond a provided licence then you're infringing on the patent too.

(And pre-empting the MPEG patents don't apply in Europe/Germany argument, you might want to ask why Aldi and Lidl just got sued by the MPEG-LA over MPEG 2 patents).
It's my party...
Found a copy of this at my Grans house, about a month ago. She had just picked it up at a church book club to learn more about how her (Windows 3.0) computer works :) If only we can get her to upgrade..... alas. She found it very understandable and definitely a good intro to old school computing.
Google translation:

§ 307 content control
(1) Bestimmungen in Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen sind unwirksam, wenn sie den Vertragspartner des Verwenders entgegen den Geboten von Treu und Glauben unangemessen benachteiligen. (1) Provisions in standard business terms are invalid if the contractor of the user to meet the requirement of good faith and unreasonable disadvantage. Eine unangemessene Benachteiligung kann sich auch daraus ergeben, dass die Bestimmung nicht klar und verständlich ist. An unreasonable disadvantage may also result shows that the provision is not clear and understandable.
(2) Eine unangemessene Benachteiligung ist im Zweifel anzunehmen, wenn eine Bestimmung (2) an unreasonable disadvantage is in doubt, be presumed if a provision

1. 1st
mit wesentlichen Grundgedanken der gesetzlichen Regelung, von der abgewichen wird, nicht zu vereinbaren ist oder with essential basic principles of the statutory scheme that deviates from the not compatible, or
2. 2nd
wesentliche Rechte oder Pflichten, die sich aus der Natur des Vertrags ergeben, so einschränkt, dass die Erreichung des Vertragszwecks gefährdet ist. essential rights or obligations arising from the nature of the contract, so restricting that the purpose of the contract is at risk.

(3) Die Absätze 1 und 2 sowie die §§ 308 und 309 gelten nur für Bestimmungen in Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen, durch die von Rechtsvorschriften abweichende oder diese ergänzende Regelungen vereinbart werden. (3) Paragraphs 1 and 2 and the § § 308 and 309 apply only to provisions in general terms and conditions that may be agreed upon by law, additional or different provisions. Andere Bestimmungen können nach Absatz 1 Satz 2 in Verbindung mit Absatz 1 Satz 1 unwirksam sein. Other provisions may be invalid under paragraph 1, sentence 2 in connection with paragraph 1, sentence 1.
Why Engineers Hop Jobs
Why are people holding themselves hostage by demanding that their tools work with a 9-YEAR-OLD browser?

Yes! IE 6 was initially released in 2001!

That's about 100 years in Internet Time. Screw it.
I saw this guy speak in SF one time, it's really very instructive.
Lemon helps if possible. Lukewarm or hot water by itself = bu hao (no good). Lukewarm lemon-flavored water = much more drinkable.

/in China and Taiwan this year
You couldn't pay me to use Windows either.
The Rise of Content Farms
plus I mean, is HTML syntax really the pain point here, vs you know figuring out a CSS layout?
I fail to see the usefulness of this... curl + http requests are easy and highly googleable in most languages..
Infinite Zoom effect using CSS3 Animation
Identifying and realizing "the easy way to quality" is impressive. Especially when no one else seems able to duplicate it.

That's the holy grail of your industrial & operations type.

It's like you're deriding an app for being written in Python instead of C. The easy way is the smart way!
I like Facebook, I also like the new features they are adding. I never posted anything under the assumption that the world couldn't see it. So no, I won't be joining you.
You would also have to avoid juicy foods. You could probably avoid drinking water indefinitely if you ate enough apples.
The bugs in 10.04 are annoying, but it's a beta.
It's driving me up the wall though, I wish I had not upgraded but I'm just on the edge about whether I reinstall or no.
The Revenge of the Brands
i have atheros AR928X wireless built in card on my asus laptop, is this supported? i tried airmon-ng but there are no list of my wifi card? please reply help thanks
I use a big inflated ball that sits on a base with coasters. I've seen some with back support, but mine doesn't. It forces you to keep some weight on your legs, like the perching mentioned in the article. But it has an additional benefit: you can't help but bounce a little bit. You're body's not designed to remain static for long. Overall, I feel less lethargic and less prone to neck and shoulder pain.

Most people have weak core muscles due to chairs with backs, so if you're going to try out this kind of chair, don't be surprised if you can't do it for more than an hour a day at first. Also, it may not be a good idea if you're tall, since the ball can only inflate so much. If the angle between your upper legs and your body isn't greater than 90 degrees it probably won't work for you.

I still have a normal chair. If you're working crazy hours, you need to give your supporting muscles a break sometimes.

Oh, and it's really cheap: mine was about $60 if I convert from my local currency.

EDIT: here's an example, but don't buy it online if you haven't tried it:
http://www.opentip.com/Sporting-Goods/Dynaflex-Fit-Chair-p-1...
Doesn't exactly sound like a well thought out plot assuming it even was a plot.

"Inside the vehicle, police found three propane tanks, two filled five-gallon gas containers, two clocks with batteries, consumer-grade fireworks and a locked metal box that resembled a gun locker."

A few gas tanks, fireworks and clocks does not a bomb make. And mentioning that the box resembled a gun locker just sounds like the journalist trying very hard to make this more dramatic than it is.

"the Nissan Pathfinder with its engine running and hazard lights flashing"

Surely if you're going to the trouble of setting a bomb you're not going to go out of your way to make the vehicle stand out.

Assuming there isn't an innocent explanation it sounds like a lone mentally unwell individual rather than anyone with any kind of bomb making know how.

Time will tell I guess.
Facebook's new Open Graph makes it easier for a "replacement Facebook" to help you find your friends!
Chip & Pin has been a major headache for me...I'm living in the UK for a year and neither one of my Canadian CC's have chip and pin. On numerous occasions cashiers have to call management to find out if they're even allowed to accept my credit card....I just carry cash now.
Py2rb: A Python-to-Ruby Porting Assistant
>Of course, you have to memorize some keystrokes such as ";bo" for bold. or ;fo for font or ";fc" for font color etc, but these are really easy.

I hope those shortcuts are writing CSS?!
There are lots of soft was to scam the system. The question is are you that type of person? Is that the life you pick? Running small scams hoping you won't get caught. Focus your energy on building something useful. You've already completed step one of that process "read hacker news."
Of course Jobs' answer is pure FUD. The MPEG LA and its Members (e.g. Apple) should either sue or shut up.
There is a reason, Apple will get revenue from the likes of Google. Apple is a licensee of H264.
Secret Tip to Reverse Long Term Effects of Alcohol on the Body
The Art & Science of Evidence-Based Design
FUD? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1312180
I've done stuff like this - just made a smiley face on the sign line. Never had a problem with it. It's funny though, occasionally at a very official place I've had a staff member say my real signature that matches all my ID is too messy and ask me to write down my name beneath it in print. That happened to me at at least one or two consulates over the last few years when applying for visas.

Also, I remember one time a friend got a 250 euro ticket driving through Austria, and I thought it was nonsense. He was speeding sure, but I think they inflated it by more than it was, and they said he had to pay on the spot or they wouldn't let him go. If I was in that spot, I think I'd write "Coerced Void" in artful cursive on the receipt and protest it later with the credit card company.
A better ATM experience from Wells Fargo
Does someone have tutorial for cracking WPA ?
Cable company Ziggo in court over Pirate Bay