skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Actually the bigger question is what gives you the right to play with mother nature?

Nature doesn't care about us (or anything), and our genes don't care about us (only about being replicated). But we care about us, and if we don't take charge, nobody will. Reducing our suffering and making our lives better is a noble goal. It's the same as helping someone on the street or caring for a sick friend, except on a much larger scale.

> So? I've had relatives dying, not that big of a deal. They live on in the heritage they leave behind (like their children).

That's fine, you can refuse to take the medicine, then. But those that want it should be able to develop it.

> Very low birth-rates so that some old farts with money can live longer?

So that everybody who wants to can live longer. Once these things exist, there'll be such popular pressure to make them accessible that it won't be a choice, and like all technologies, at first it will be expensive and won't work very well, and later it will be very cheap and work well. Even if not everybody gets it simultaneously, it's still better if it exists than if it doesn't.

> What do you think, those vaccines or those modern HIV treatments are getting to poor countries like those in Africa?

Would things be better if those vaccines didn't exist at all? And yes, they are getting there (ask the Gates Foundation or Larry Brilliant about his work on smallpox), just not as fast as most people would want to. But that's not the fault of the science.
They're related, so until you have different people to fill each role, yes, they're the same thing.

(The marketing person will own advertising, and the SE will own web-dev)
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Read the Art of Designing Embedded Systems by Ganssle. Lots of good info on his website as well.

This should give you more information on which to base your decision.
It's a shame you didn't find it humorous. I laughed loud enough to startle my nearby co-workers. I mean come on... the potatoes just kind of roll into the bucket. I wasn't sure what to expect from the commercial. It could be that because I thought the video was going to be serious I was caught off-guard. I've seen that potato ad a hundred times on Hulu so it made for a good laugh.
I didn't mean to imply this article was about how FarmVille started or grew.

This history of FarmVille implies it was better game mechanics than Farm Town, and Zynga's installed base, that lead to FarmVille's success: http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/01/farmville-history/.

I'd also hypothesize that Zynga grew because they:

* Had a working revenue model, so they could pay for advertising without burning cash. And being able to advertise in the place where someone plays is helpful for conversions.

* Built on a growing platform (i.e., Facebook)
From the author's notes:

I started writing this story in part because I'd bogged down on a book I was working on (now debogged), and that means my top priority was to have fun writing again.

It might have helped in other ways, too. Release of this fanfic correlates with increased traffic on LW: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/lesswrong.com

Apparently if you want to get more people to visit your site, write Harry Potter fanfic.
Themes caused the most round-about slowdown for me when they were introduced. I haven't gone back to using any theme sense and I get fast speeds on a 5k msg account.

Also - Hooray for a free, fantastic email service. Thanks google!
Could Gambling Save Science?
Here's the intro: http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2010/05/27/announcing-...
The Essay on family
Though there are a million things that we could say about families in general, it is a challenging task to write an essay on family life without any bias. This is because; as humans, we are subject to the ties and pulls of those we have been in touch with since our births.
I disagree with this, since I was able to land a job in cities hundreds of miles away not once, but twice. I was able to land a job in New York City while living in Puerto Rico. I do admit, however, this was partially due to some plain ol' luck - One of the startup's co-founders was actually travelling to Puerto Rico on vacation, so I was able to meet him personally and have an impromptu interview at the San Juan airport.

Two years later, I got laid off due to economic factors. This led to getting a job in the Bay Area. I had multiple phone interviews and a short programming test before getting the job, but I didn't have to fly over to California once.

The author does raise some good points, though. While I obviously don't have any proof, I have always suspected that some job offers were passed over me due to my location at the time, especially while in Puerto Rico (two prospective employers strongly suggested that I get a visa to work in the U.S. - ignoring the fact that Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, making me a U.S. citizen). So while I would say it's a bit more difficult to go job-hunting in remote locations, it's definitely not impossible.
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These "younger drinkers" looking to make a "non-mainstream" statement -- a.k.a. hipsters -- made the beer so successful that the company felt comfortable raising prices without risking their customer following.

I guess everything old is eventually new again. I remember when the statement Pabst made was that you were looking to get hammered for cheap (but maybe a step above "cheapest").

Perhaps of related interest, the Schlitz brand was snapped up a couple of years ago by a large distributor in the area, where one of the younger generation of the family business intended to relaunch -- returning to the circa 1930's recipe -- as a premium craft brew.

There appears to be a significant lingering value being assigned to these brands, regardless of their intervening depreciation.

I wonder just how sticky is the presence of such public brands. And whether there is a common interval between their degradation and renewal; some timeframe short enough that they remain in the memory of a younger generation, but long enough that the accumulated or final negative connotations have been lost or don't carry significance with them.

In the tech world, IBM seemed to go through something somewhat similar with regard to brand when it sort of embraced open source (which surge in brand value we seem to be moving beyond). And HP has worked to unbury itself from its "Compaqification". Mentioning these is a stretch in terms of comparison, but the industry is young enough that the long term role of brands seems something of an open question.
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Awesome, I was thinking of making something like this, so glad that you already got onto it. Nice work. Could we see a window with a frame like the Reddit comments window, where the list of bookmarks are on the left and the content is in the main window on the right?
Hot Lara Dutta Graces Cover of Marie Claire Magazine May 2010
Bollywood's hot and sexy actress Lara Dutta on the cover of Marie Claire Magazine latest issue of the May 2010 month. Lara has embarked on another path the road to stardom in Bollywood. Her debut film was Andaaz. She got the film fare award for Andaaz as a new comer. Here Lara Dutta says: "Nobody can do what I do", in the latest issue of Marie Claire. It is in this issue, wherein, this 'confident and sassy frame' girl gives a lowdown of what makes her what she is today: a top contender to the Numero Uno spot. in this issue, Lara Dutta talks about her age and the reality check with that. Check out here Lara Dutta on the cover of Marie Claire Magazine latest issue of the May 2010 month.
"I would personally rather pay a fee and keep my data private and not see ads."

I thought that one could do that with a Premier Edition Google Apps account.
Finding the best jobs takes a lot of commitment to taking many different networking meetings with executives, recruiters, entrepreneurs, VC’s, investment bankers, etc.

What type of position does he think his readers are looking for?
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." -- Kierkegaard
That's hardly a "picking apart." He basically says "Yeah, your one example, which was basically a metaphor anyway, well, it's actually true, but well, it's not as neat as you think it is."

Ok, and?
"The irony of this whole thing is that I don't want hundreds of millions of dollars. I think my ex-husband is brilliant and works like a demon and deserves his success and his wealth. But I also think -- after eight years of marriage and six kids (five surviving) -- that I am entitled to a fair settlement..."
http://moschus.livejournal.com/140502.html

I think her demands are surprisingly reasonable, with the exceptions being the stakes in Tesla and SpaceX, which I think Elon doesn't want to give her for understandable reasons (IPO Complications, Pride, etc.).
Strange no matter what browser I try to copy and paste, can't seem to see this happening. Any ideas as to why I'm unable to see this script.. I guess its a good thing I'm not effected by it, but out of curiosity would like to see.
I guess at least now I know I'm not alone. I'm very OCD about clicking on random words, triple clicking on paragraphs to highlight them entirely while I'm reading or just dragging my mouse over random amounts of text on the page. I don't know why I do it but it drives pretty much everyone reading the same thing as me on the same computer insane.
I'd say that the narrative that the women knew what they were getting themselves into, given their behavior in the original story, does seem to make more sense to me. However, that doesn't make it any less commendable that they may have been given an at least temporary reprieve from the abuse of human trafficking and prostitution. What they choose to do with it is now their decision to make.
I wonder how representative the "selects text while reading" crowd is.
I put together my own mail server on Linode a while back, after getting frustrated with Gmail's ridiculously limited filtering and tagging.

I use RoundCube webmail, Dovecot, Postfix, managesieve, SpamAssassin, and a few custom hacks. It works great. Gmail used to have the added annoyance of making Firefox unusably slow if it was open for hours at a time; I now can have my mailbox open for days at a time with no browser performance hit. I can make filters as simple or complex as I want.

Gmail has now become my spamcatch.
where is slashdot?
I have two family friends who are recently retired and are currently about 2 months into their walk. The American Discovery Trail is actually a partially-marked cross country trail. The thing I take away from their trail journal is how many great people they've met along the way. http://www.discoverytrail.org/
At the University of Waterloo just west of Toronto, almost everyone gets a job from a remote location during their CO-OP terms while in university, and then also when they graduate.

I got a job in Boston from Toronto, and then one in New York from Boston. Getting flown out to Silicon Valley or Seattle for the bigger companies is also pretty common. It's even easier when you have a friend working in another city. The best places to work don't care where their candidates come from if they're good and willing to move.

I think the guy who wrote this article meant to say that it's easier to find a local job. But he's seriously out of touch with reality if he believes it's really hard to find a job in another city.
For more (mostly non-fiction) by Eliezer, check out:

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences
crippling the functionality of the browser isnt going to harm people developing these exploits, they will just use toolbars and plugins whatever.

all it does is hurt people who want to build real web applications, the complete lack of support for copy and paste is a major major pita in that regard.
Google trends issues hot media: Universal unveils rebuilt studios
PhD Student gets quadrotor helicopter moving aggressively
$100M scareware sellers facing charges
That's because you were a student. I carved young people out of my argument. It's mostly about senior hires.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Enterprise 2.0 ROI
The movie's interpretation of Tony Stark is inspired by Elon Musk.
I have a social bookmarking site and this drives me nuts. Lots of users just copy the articles headline, and this garbage comes with it... I suppose one way of fixing that would be to chop everything after \n...

Huffington post was the first one I noticed.
It would be more appropriate for Digg.
Director, VP, COO or even CEO roles at startups. To find these jobs the best sources are the ones I mentioned. You don't have to agree with me: but my empirical evidence suggests this is true. Now ... I'm clearly not talking about developers, who seems to be the main readers of HN so I know that this advice may not apply to many of you.
Abso-fucking-lutely.

Let woman-kind make that decision, no reason you should pre-empt them.
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I do all of this, too. Especially selecting paragraphs. Actually, now that I think about it (which I do fairly often, tbh), this is one of the reasons I've stayed with Firefox. It only highlights the text of the paragraph. WebKit highlights to the end of the line, and some more, I think. It isn't as visually appealing, at all.

We had an intern at our company for a week, a smart guy who is graduating from high school, and he pointed out all of these things about me. I also manically tap caps lock with my left pinkie.

I'd rather not think about this part of me too much, especially when it comes to picking browser based on how it renders (manically) selected paragraphs.
My cousin does this as well. When she reads something online she highlights the half-line she's reading at the time. You can always tell when she's gotten distracted and started reading something because there's a constant clicking coming from her mouse.
I've been having the exact same problem. I've been playing around with Outlook + Xobni as a possible solution. Xobni is really nice software. It has some killer features that I'd love to have on any webmail client.

Syncing contacts and email with Google apps is an issue, but from what I read, paying GOOG $50 a year solves that problem.
Chinese Networking Vendor Huawei's Murky Ownership
Not that I don't mind giving Brooks a good lashing, for I too "Now and then I don’t mind David Brooks’ columns at the NYT" (heck, he wrote one in the last month that was better than OK :-), but isn't this sort of the reverse pattern of posting, in that the essay on how people who don't have a clue about complexity ritually invoke it as a "thumb-sucking, multisyllabic way of saying something is hard" as Kedrosky puts it?

I'd go further, pointing out e.g.:

The success of D-Day/Operation Overlord and a lot of other complex stuff that no one person could understand. We have proven techniques for dealing with these sorts of things. Would that our ruling class of social engineers that includes him be a fraction as good at dealing with their complex problems.

Tree Mile Island is a poor example as he uses it: "In the first place, people have trouble imagining how small failings can combine to lead to catastrophic disasters. At the Three Mile Island nuclear facility, a series of small systems happened to fail at the same time."

Well, I'm sure this is true, but the people who count in this, the designers of the reactor, imagined it and e.g. included a conic spreader at the bottom of the reactor vessel to allow for a serious core melt-down. Which is the worst case that indeed happened and that the system they designed contained, as they planned. No China Syndrome in the real world (in the US, at least).

I continued to analyze this essay, but it's, say, 80% bogus and not worth the trouble of debunking in detail. Let's just say that when he closes by saying we live in an "imponderably complex technical society", he's mostly revealing that Sons of Mary like him can't ponder it. Sons of Martha like us can make a lot of sense of it and we will continue to do so.
Uh, you can tamper with the clipboard from JavaScript. That's why this works, and why it's a problem. You shouldn't be able to by default.
Before I clicked on the link, I thought "Tynt" was a new acronym I hadn't heard of since it didn't sound like a word. I figured it must be Thank You No Thanks... which kinda works. :)
whats up with cats, i prefer dogs.
Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Address [2005]
'mercilessly'

That's modern media for ya - any opportunity for hyperbole, confrontation, and/or controversy. Even when it's not. It wasn't merciless, it was just funny.
Wait, what? There's plenty of blame to go around, here. Blame the websites that decide to screw their users, but also blame a company who makes a product that screws users.
Not only does this break copy and paste, it's incredibly annoying when I want to paste a single line into my IRC client, and tinker with it before sending.

Instead, I end up pasting the thing, and the stupid URL, since the newlines send the message.
What about option 5:

Learn while doing, or more specifically while someone else does and teaches you. You're clearly highly skilled in your technical niche why don't you find someone else with complimentary skills (mechanics, electronics and computer science) and partner with them. You can start building your business immediately in the time that you have and as part of the partnership each teach the other. I know that as a hacker having the opportunity to work with a real specialist in another field and for us both to teach each other would be a massively satisfying experience.

You get two benefits the way I see it
1) You can start building your startup now
2) You get the two skilled specialists to work on it and share the excitement

I see the only drawback is that you don't get to go and spend a few years learning a new thing without any commercial pressure. If this is about learning how to be a hacker that's bad but if you're really into the startup thing then you save yourself a lot of time.
I'd like to use this opportunity to ask people about their results with marketing "infographics" like this one.

What are you doing that's working? Where are you posting to get traction?

I'm working with Trapster - which just blew past 6,000,000 users - and thought we could put together some interesting visual examples of just how many people that is . . .
Sorry! I must have missed that.
How does "the reason that more people die in crosswalks is really that the cars can't see the crosswalks" count as "picking apart" an argument that familiarity and perceived safety lead to complacence? If anything it would seem to corroborate it (the cars see no difference, so it must all be due to pedestrian carelessness).
I'm not sure I see it (and I met Musk briefly at the Detroit Auto Show and I've been following him for years), but that's possible.

What's your source on this?
related to the size of your inbox

I wish there were an easier way to export mail. Probably half my gmail storage consists of mail & attachments from a project I worked on last year where the the other guy absolutely refused to use Google docs or dropbox or any similar solution, and insisted that every revision of every document be transferred via attachment, so that one folder is taking up most of a gigabyte.

I'd love to just zip, burn to DVD, and shelve the data but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way to 'archive for export' and then just download it: I have to set up a mail client and transfer it all via IMAP, which will take a whole day :-(
I guess I'm two of 7.
I think tynt actually knows what was selected and copied even if it wasn't pasted. That nugget of data is captured and the content source can see what info people wanted a deeper dive on. ex: people commonly paste names and unfamiliar words. It's an indication of the lead generated by the article and helpful for editorial and advertising teams.
"Suffice to say, both the NYPD and an employee of the State Department directly involved in human trafficking cases believed that the situation was sufficiently dubious to warrant intervening."

Before or after it became A Thing?

If they were involved before anybody on MeFi heard about it, I'll accept that as evidence. If it occurred after, unfortunately it is completely plausible that these agencies decided they must be seen to Do Something (TM). I mean these "ifs" because I honestly don't know which is which, and am curious, because if it is established that they were interested first than that's pretty strong evidence.
Amateur astronomer spies on spy satellites
He's still wondering why he hasn't met another opera user like him.
You can actually do pretty good potatoes in a microwave for about a minute per potato (or something there about).
Please remove the number from the title.

From the guidelines:

If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
Glad you liked it :-)
The marketing definition is a bit weak. Analyzing the market and determining who will pay and ways to make the market aware of the product are certainly major aspects of marketing, but they don't provide the entire picture. Interestingly enough, new product development is a huge function of marketing. Most engineers don't like to think of themselves as marketers (at least I assume so), but in fact much of what they do is a function of marketing.
I just moved from Montana to San Francisco for a job I got while in Denver looking for a place to live.

I was leaving MT and thought it'd be great to move to the Bay Area but figured I couldn't afford it without a job lined up so I decided on Denver. While in the process of moving, a job opportunity came up in the Bay Area (I wasn't looking but it's the exact job I wanted) so I pursued it, not thinking I would get it but for the interview experience. Well, while trying to figure out what area of Denver to settle in I got a job offer. I repacked the U-Haul and headed West. Now I'm here and loving it!

I think it's silly people still say things like "You can't do this, it'll never happen and here's why." It might be unlikely but "never" is a pretty strong word.
Fair enough - I was being a little sensationalist in expressing "relevant article", but . . .

Brooks uses it as an example, but I'm not seeing the metaphor. He uses the crosswalk as an example of how people put too much faith in safety systems. The example is flawed because crosswalks are not (well-designed) safety systems given that drivers can't see them.

"The world is a crosswalk . . . ?"
My "must have" software list, what is your list?
Nice! I love jQuery, but I wanted something with no dependencies so people can just drop it right in. I'll add a link to yours though, thanks for sharing.
How is it screwing you? At most it is a minor inconvenience.
Maybe? :) Hacker News was originally to be a subreddit, after all.
I also do this, but I think it is at least slightly correlated with what I am reading. So the false positives aren't really false, they might represent, to a degree, what people are spending time reading.

Also, this would be really to filter out, the amount of highlighted areas would just be ridiculously large.
I think it was sub-par wifi in my hotel room. I shoulda wired up before the interview. Sorry everyone.
Because that wasn't the context in which Brooks was using the example. He started that paragraph by noting the "people have a tendency to place elaborate faith in backup systems and safety devices."

In response Kedrosky pointed out that "This isn’t like a functioning safety system in an oil rig, which is what Brooks is arguing, but more like a dummy dial unconnected to anything."

It does support Brooks' overall theme (most especially his previous points about Feynman's observations on NASA's safety culture (or rather lack thereof)), just not as he used it.