skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One good thing about actively managed mutual funds (as opposed to index funds) is you get the experience of the money manager working in your favor. The majority of actively managed funds fail to beat the market, but if you do your research and find experienced managers who have been at their funds for a long time, an actively managed fund can be a good part of your portfolio.

Index funds should probably be the bulk of anyone's retirement portfolio. Fidelity (for example) has a total market fund that's 0.07% expense and no transaction fees (min 10K investment) -- hard to beat even with an ETF.

Read, read, read.

Picking individual stocks is very hard -- stick to funds and ETFs.
I'm leaving in Amsterdam and here the housing situation seems a little different. There is a really high request for rooms and a big scarcity of them, so I was thinking of buying a house with many rooms and rent them (while leaving in the house).

But for now I can't afford to buy one, so that's why I'm looking at the stock market.
The bookmarks bar is always visible, I have to click at least twice if I want to access Instapaper (three times, actually, if I hide the bookmarks bar which is the point of this whole discussion).

That’s not a big difference but sometimes that’s enough. (There is also a ever so slight delay when loading a webpage. Native UI is just faster.)
I started by learning 5 commands I would use a good bit at a time. So basics for me were copying lines/deleting lines/moving around/inserting text and saving files. Then I moved on to tabbing, splitting etc.

Once I mastered those, I learned 5 more, etc.
Put in your vimrc:

" disable arrow keys
map <up> <nop>
map <down> <nop>
map <left> <nop>
map <right> <nop>
imap <up> <nop>
imap <down> <nop>
imap <left> <nop>
imap <right> <nop>
So... are you saying that the author is trying to persuade us her belief system is the best, or that she's trying to prove objective reality?

And remember that belief of a certain state of objective reality is still, to outsiders, merely belief, not fact, especially in an area like this, which is full of misleading information on all sides.
Your impression is certainly consistent with the major environmental legislation that gave the EPA its teeth: we have a Clean Air Act and we have a Clear Water Act. We do not have a Carbon-free Act from the same time period empowering the EPA to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
emacs with espresso mode; rhinounit.
I may not be entirely sober yet but I believe the problem at hand is what happens when window.console isn't defined at all.
The entire Steve Jobs email story... It's real
Don't worry, it's all corn under wraps.
“Lessons Learned” Posts You’ll Never Learn From Me
I know node.js is massively hyped up right now, but seriously. Using the Google translate API directly is hardly rocket science.

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#Exam...

Wrapping simple existing js APIs and presenting them as 'for node.js' is pretty stupid. Reminds me of 'jquery plugin to do <mundane thing you can already do just fine in js>'.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1407725

From 27 days ago, and much discussion there.
Ex-plugboard operator here. I do not think the DIY computer community exists or will ever gain traction. For one, I don't understand how one could build a computer in their garage. Two, I don't understand how people could afford mandatory tools like hard vacuum pumps and tungsten furnaces. Three, the results from your labor don't seem tangible or exciting. At least with the car hacking movement in the '20s and '30s you could go for a drive around the town, you could see improvements in speed and performance as your tinkered. When doing mechanical work, the change in the sound of the engine would be realized as soon as you released the choke. Computers are too complicated to wire, too tedious to replace dead tubes and too expensive to ever be fun or support a hacker community.
Ex-engine mechanic here. I do not think the DIY car community exists or will ever gain traction. For one, I don't understand how anyone could build a car in their garage. Two, I don't understand how people could afford mandatory tools like a boiler welder or a metal lathe of required tolerance. Three, the results from your labor don't seem useful or safe. At least the the electric light movement in the '90s and '00s you could replace a dangerous and unreliable flame with a modern Edison Lamp. Why, you realize the benefits as quickly as you can toggle the switch lever. Steam engines are too complicated to tool, too dangerous to operate and too expensive to ever be fun or support a hacker community.
Dropbox API is available
Here is a word from horse mouth itself - Bram's tip on "Seven habits of effective text editing" - http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html
Thank you for this comment. Now, instead of wasting our time considering the article, in which the founder of the SANS Institute is lobbying the government to set up semi-official capture-the-flag contests (which he'll presumably get paid for), we can engage in the much more purely intellectual debate of whether people are using one word the way we want them to.
To assess the value of the business you would have to look into finacial statements. You are incorporated, after all, but I suppose you don't have many assets and liabilities (I might be wrong though).

Revenues do not say much, you must subtract costs of running the business. To do that, you must also decide, what is your wage (or what would cost to hire someone to do your job) and what will be left as the profit.

To simplify, the value of your business is present value of future profits.
Yeah, I like VisualStudio 2010 also, I know it's not a popular choice amongst HN'ers, but MS started as a Tools company and out of everything they make, I think their dev tools are actual quite good. I do a lot of JS/jQuery coding and it works reasonably well.

I'm curious about Visual Assist X - does it add more/better support for Javascript and/or jQuery?

I also use Aptana Studio on OSX when I do pure UI coding. It's not bad for pure JS/jQuery but their isn't much autocomplete support.

Edit: Side note on the cost of VisualStudio 2010 - I signed up for MS's BizSpark program and was given a free MSDN license including full copies of VisualStudio 2010, SQL 2008, etc.
Do you really believe that governments are more responsible than corporations? What do governments manage better than corporations? When something does go wrong at least corporations can be held responsible while governments can claim sovereign immunity, like the Mexican oil company did with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtoc_I_oil_spill .
Buffet may not live in a Hollywood mansion, but his home isn't actually "modest". He lives in a nice part of Omaha, not the middle of nowhere, and he lives there because that's where Berkshire is based.

It also might be just a tad disingenuous to talk about the cheap car of a man who owns and makes use of a fleet of private jets.
Spinning wheels [Storing energy using flywheels, not batteries]
Take home paragraph: Back on the road, flywheel hybrids that cut both fuel consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions by 30% or more appear to be only three or four years away. When they arrive, today’s coal-fired electric cars will look decidedly dirty by comparison. Roll on the day.
Do Graphics Matter?
if(!window.console){window.console = {};}
if(!(toString(window.console.log) === '[object Function]')) {window.console.log = function(){};}

there, fixed..
If your Chief Financial Officer is indicted for money laundering, it is a bit of a problem. Even if the charges are related to a completely separate company.
Disturbing Second Life Confessions - Virtual Sex Video
He almost had me with the band-aid, but you could only do that once, maybe twice, per social circle before it became a gimmick.
Speaking for myself, I found the assessment about labeling all experiences as good, bad, or neutral (and then ignoring the neutral bin 99% of the time) to be right on the money.

I also find the rollercoaster metaphor to be pretty on the money as well. Yes, there are nice experiences, but they do not last forever and in the end are empirically unsatisfying; as a result, their shadow side is that we compulsively try to attain them, thus causing suffering.

Not sure where you are getting the postmodern vibes from, this is basic buddhism dogma for the last 2500 years. It seems the very thing the author is pointing out is what is ticking you off: this is a shared experience of all humans. But I don't think that just because its a lowest common denominator is a reason to dismiss it out of hand as a manipulation.
Ask HN: Has iOS irrevocably fallen behind?
There is no good place to ask this, since there are loyalists on both sides. I can only hope that Hacker News has enough sane-minded people who will answer this properly (if it gets upvoted enough to show up on the front-page, of course).

After watching the complete Google I/O keynote and WWDC '10 keynote, even I have to admit that Android (Froyo) has left iOS behind on features. Articles like [these][1] might say that Apple has given a solid reply, but I don't think they have. When I see features like Android's cloud-to-phone messaging APIs, I long for them to be in iOS. But then iOS 4 has nothing of this sort. Froyo also has APIs to make app data searchable, which iOS 4 doesn't for non-Apple apps. And these are just a few things that looking back at it now makes iOS 4 just seem so much weaker. Gingerbread will be out in October if I believe Engadget, and that will pull Android further away from iOS. People can talk about fragmentation — which will become less of an issue with Gingerbread, and the fact that users don't care about such features. But developers do. If Apple falls behind on features that developers want, the App Store numbers they like to tout to loudly will stop growing so rapidly.

To be honest, as a user, iOS 4 adds nothing that truly stands out as "THIS is why I must have the iPhone" except for Facetime and the Retina Display. Being a long time Apple loyalist and enthusiast, it both worries and saddens me to see Apple so blatantly miss the boat. So my question is, has Apple dropped the ball after a solid start and fallen behind so much that the trickle of developers will slowly become a full flow which they won't be able to stop?

[1]: www.roughlydrafted.com/2010/06/08/apples-ios-wwdc-strikes-back-after-googles-android-io/
If I had the money I would hire Zed, cuz' he's smart and gets things done.
I personally think its best to think short term with stocks. Who knows what will happen to a company 10 years from now. If your careful, you can continually buy stocks when the're at a low and sell at a high. Here's some guidelines for doing this:

buy stocks only from the large stable companies, because they pretty much never do radical or unpredictable ups or downs. The're are also the most liquid so you can buy or sell them pretty much instantaneously any time.

Buy the stock when you see the markets moving up, and sell the stocks quickly, before it goes back down. Don't try to sell at the peak because it's almost impossible to know that point. Quit while your ahead.

If the stocks goes down just sell it right away to minimize your loss. if you always do this you won't run the risk of significant losses, but you will have modest gains, which will add up in the long run.
I'm curious, do you keep this around to this day? I never thought to do this when I started, but it might have been a good idea.

In similar vein I would say: If your fingers aren't constantly resting on home row, there's a problem.

Another advantage learning to use hjkl is that those keys are common in other unix programs, like less for example (which also has gg, G, / and some others)
It is a bit sad to think that the first thing people think of is how impractical or malicious these ideas can be. How about instead of pure biology, it turns out to be a mesh of several fields? Photosynthesis + energy breakthroughs (custom designer plants for home decoration? grow your own furniture?), biological computing, or biomechanical machines...
It can be, but only if console.log is defined in your source code. It isn't when you use Firebug, so it won't be when you're not using Firebug.
Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs
Yeah, I haven't wanted to reach through the internet and smack so many people since the last time I read the comments for a YouTube video.

I suppose they deserve to know why they're wrong though. For starters the article isn't saying anything beyond the fact that there are people who buy used PCR machines and run reactions in their basement. Now, I think that's pretty cool, but nothing meaningful is going to come of it. There are a few reasons for this:

1) Biological Research Is Expensive - Setting up a real lab so you can do the basic stuff like running gels and western blots is going to cost somewhere around $100,000. Note that this isn't like buying a computer where once you pay for it you're set. Actually performing an experiment can cost hundreds of dollars for reagents alone.

2) Biological Research Requires Oversight - If you're going to work with radioisotopes, or toxic chemicals, or animals you need permits that are not offered outside of an academic or industrial setting. Two of the basic techniques of molecular biology, northern blots and southern blots, use radioactive reagents. I'll grant that there are alternatives that use fluorescence, but they're expensive, and aren't widely used.

3) Biological Research Is Tedious and Slow - I think part of the reason computers took off so quickly is that you can run a program and get quick feedback on whether or not it worked. Most of biological research is not like that. In graduate school I worked on genetic modifications that hypothetically extended the life spans of fruit flies. In order to see if a modification worked, I had to assay their life span over a hundred days. I'd normally be incredibly excited about getting the result on day one, but by day forty my interest was mostly exhausted. Biology doesn't give you the instant thrill of knowing a piece of code worked, which is one of the reasons it's not going to take off like personal computers did.

I'm not going to single anyone out, but if you've been making comments in this thread there's a high probability you have no idea what you're talking about.
If you can invest in stocks like Apple, you can invest in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Take a look at what Vanguard has available in index funds with an ETF equivalent, then buy that symbol as a stock. For example, VTI is their total market fund. You get basically the performance of the US market (Wilshire index) minus .07 basis points (i.e. 7 hundredths of a percent) minus whatever your trading costs for the shares are.
IntelliJ IDEA (http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/) has good JavaScript support, including refactoring. I also quite like Komodo Edit (http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit), since it's more lightweight but has JavaScript code completion & is easily extensible.

While you're looking at Node, I also suggest you take a look at RingoJS (http://ringojs.org/). It should be easier to get started with & has debugging support.
We use KPMRS.com, pretty satisfied.
You don't know what Apple is working on. Nor do you know if any of those Android features will work properly or will be "all that." This is just the typical hopscotching that happens all the time in the industry. In a few months, you might be doing a post about webOS vs Android vs iOS. Buy something and just enjoy it.
Nice. Would like to reiterate Last.FM scrobbling requests.

Also, could you log my last 20 played tracks, or tracks listened to in the past 24-48 hours, so that if I leave the site and come back later I don't keep hearing the same track. Listened to 3-4 songs, accidentally left the page -- returned, and then got a repeat straight away.

Would also be nice to see a history of tracks, but Last.FM integration would solve that neatly.

edit: and a back button please, tracks can be slowed to load (pre-load the next track?) and sometimes I click next as I think it's stalled, but with hindsight it hasn't and misses the track.
None that know of. Intelligence cannot be related to time. It is unpredictable, even a stochastic model cannot do it justice. There are too many unpredictable points.
Democrats Push for Internet Sales Taxes
That's my point though. Society shouldn't own IP just because it is old and we got used to it. We should protect the IP's rightful owners until the rightful owners are gone from this Earth. You're acting as if you're defending our children's children's children by wanting Mickey Mouse forced into the public domain. This isn't a matter of 'evil megacorps' robbing our children of something precious.
Here's my off-the-cuff analysis based on the limited information you've provided:

Keep it. The consulting business is worth very little, I think you're right to view it as "selling a job". Take it out of the equation for now. You have $25k - $35k in passive product-based income. That's your sellable asset.

So what's it worth? Three years of demonstrated profit would probably be a fair selling price. Based on that you're looking at about $75k pretax. Why do that when you can just sit on it for three years, realize the profit, and still have a business that generates income?

If you don't want to do any more consulting work but have recurring business coming in, consider finding a trusted developer who can assume your clients and will pay you a commission on future billings.
Wow! Chaos on an electronic circuit. That is something I could not imagine to have existed.
I think that should be read as 'modest' in relation to the kind of mansion the rest of the super wealthy live in.

That said, Buffet is not exactly the most person on the planet but in comparison with the rest he comes off pretty good, and I highly doubt he'd be wearing a token of insecurity like this.

I've met some pretty rich people and the funny thing is that those that are truely wealthy and capable don't need such frippery.
What a incredibly ugly watch. Even the typography is ugly. Not only that, it also looks cheap. Who had the brilliant idea of writing “Gold” on that thing? Shouldn’t materials speak for themselves? Does Apple etch “Glass” and “Steel” on their iPhone? No, they write that in their marketing materials and that’s were it belongs.
I've still got an Amiga 3000 in a drawer around here somewhere that was working the last time I turned it on.

It was the last interesting computer I used as my primary machine, before I starting buying PCs. They were definitely ahead of their time.
> It's hard to judge predictions from so long ago because they were used to influence policy. That policy then influenced what actually happened

No. The author's point is that the model used to predict climate change was terribly broken. Scientists told Nixon "if CO2 goes up by X in the next 30 years, average temperatures will go up by Y". That hypothesis is now testable, because we can look at CO2 and temperatures over the predicted time span.

Anything else the EPA may or may not have done has no bearing.
If I had the money, I would hire Zed because I think he would bring a lot more into play for me than just "slugging at code" for me.

I think he's smart enough to contribute strategically to the project and the direction it takes.
I think he's knowledgable enough to teach me and other people in the group things we don't know.
I think he's good enough to bring in other good people when we need to expand.
And I think he'd just be an awesome, fun guy to be around.

Hiring a cog doesn't get me any of that. If I have to pay Zed two-three times what it costs me to hire a cog to get all those skills, I'd consider it a bargain. And I'm guessing he'd be pretty happy at that rate too.
As an unabashed Apple hater who thinks the company is little more than hype and marketing, I have to say strongly NO, iOS has not fallen behind the other OSs.

You point to Android specifically, but I don't think anything you've mentioned is a selling point on the device/os specifically.

is 'cloud-to-phone messaging api' really something that a customer is going to be looking at when comparing devices? And if so, is it actually a feature that can't be replicated in any OS quite simply?

I think the market share challenges in the mobile space are less about OS feature capabilities like you describe than the more basic requirements like battery life, screen quality, design and brand perception.

Using your cloud-to-phone example again, is this really that much different from app notifications in iPhone (I'm pretty sure that is in the api). You say it's the features that developers want, but developers need to focus on the needs of consumers, rather than just what's the geekiest thing I can build.

If Apple is falling behind anywhere, I suspect it is in the UI design, which I don't find particularly compelling. It does a decent job of getting out of the way, and it is nicer than blackberry, but it very quickly seemed to have gone from cutting edge to ho-hum. I don't look at an iphone and think that it is beautiful and easy to use. The home screen with all the buttons and no way of organizing them seems clutter, and the grid is bland without any character.
How would you make a company around a webserver?
Go tell your mom about the new features that Froyo has. Watch her eyes glaze over as you talk about "cloud-to-phone messaging APIs" and "APIs to make app data searchable".

Now show her the iphone 4 retina display.
It was a skit on Mr. Show - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI
Rank Tracker: http://www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/
It even is a problem if the charges do not stick.

If these guys are as upstanding as Obie suggests they should resign as officers of Hashrocket immediately to avoid tainting hashrocket further.

The damage that has already been done can't be avoided but no need to risk further damage.

Distance is key here. Silent investor, maybe. Officer of the company, no way.

The bad bit here is that bankrolling legit companies like hashrocket from cash made with this scammy 'service' makes the money laundering claims more believable.
Maybe steve should just start twittering with a verified account. Also, in my day we didn't get so mad at rumor sites for being right or wrong. If these guys want to be journalists rather than muckrakers thats fine. But if you're whole business is dealing with dirt, gotta get used to getting dirty (the readers and the writers).
"For Everything You Have Missed, You Have Gained Something Else, And For..."
That sounds really useful... Any chance of sharing this part of your vimrc?
The difference between BioE is scale. Both cars and computers were built from large objects you could hold in your hand. BioE is at the nano and micro scale. Bio work requires a sterile environment, expensive hard to obtain chemicals, and fancy machines like atomic microscopes. In my mind Biohacking is as far fetched as nano-engineering and time travel.

Full disclosure: I have an undergraduate degree in bioengineering from 2008. I did a lot of lab work, but never worked in industry. I've went straight into web apps after graduating.
As well as paying your (meagre) salary, the funding usually also covers your tuition. So while $25k / year will cover your salary, it won't also cover your tuition.
tl;dr: Some email was sent by Steve Jobs, but the "It's just a phone...Retire" comment was incorrectly attributed to SJ.
If you're billing at 150 to 250, I'm sure you could hire someone at 50 to 75 to do all the support work full time.
Any way of either converting this to PDF or getting it into something Kindle can read?

Edit: Found this http://epub2pdf.com/

It's OK... Looks like it might be good for reading on an iPhone, not an iPad. Are the pages supposed to be this tiny or did the converter not do a very good job?
Excellent, that ship should help a lot if the numbers I've seen are accurate.
Indian Government May Ban Skype And Gmail.com