skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read your quote, but it was framed in such as way that I got the feeling that you were being self-righteous and shallow. First of all you started off with "Surviving..."

Now I don't know anyone with a family who would consider their raison d'être as "surviving."

Then you continued with "...but the quality of your aspirations aren't for me to judge". As if their aspirations were of such inferior quality that it's not even worthy of your judgement.

Anyway, maybe I'm being a bit too defensive in this case, but many people have many different reasons for doing what they do. They are motivated by money, sex, success, spirituality, family, all kinds of things, and they show dedication to them.

Without sounding too philosophical, life should be lived as balanced as possible and time should be given to a reasonable amount of disparate things like work, love, play or (heaven forbid) even nothing!
I guess to me, tax rates are really low on the list of concerns. If someone's agitating over free speech, over unreasonable searches and seizures, etc., then I'll support them, but whether taxes are 5 or 10% this way or the other way just doesn't seem to be that big an issue to me. It's not a totally unimportant issue, but I wouldn't put it in my top-20.

The only way I could really see tax rates being a top-tier freedom issue is as a restraint on government: the Grover Norquist theory that low taxes starves the government of the ability to do things, so in turn reduces spending and government involvement in everyone's lives. But I haven't seen that over decades. We lowered taxes in the 1980s, and that didn't stop government spending from more than doubling in that decade. We lowered taxes again in the 1990s and 2000s, so the government couldn't afford to invade Iraq or Afghanistan, and we invaded both anyway, borrowing money we didn't have to spend on the invasion (and we're still spending money we don't have on both), and then we spent more money we didn't have on bailouts in late 2008. Basically it seems over at least 70-80 years or so, tax revenue hasn't really been a meaningful constraint on spending.
It seems to borrow heavily from Cabal, the Haskell packaging system: http://cournape.github.com/Bento/html/faq.html#is-bento-base...

It would be nice if they were in fact instances of the same format and not just very similar.
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"Nothing gives him permission to say that"

Let's not nit-pick, it's an exercise in futility. By permission I meant he's not going to be killed or tossed in jail for saying that, that should be obvious.

"Our entire short history is a narrative of how the government erodes the Constitution and that basic idea at every opportunity"

Selective memory? Let's just forget all the examples where basic rights have been expanded to people. How about the restraint shown when women won the right to vote? Or when black people became officially recognized as people? It was in fact the government that enforced these laws and sent in military personnel to protect black kids from the angry white masses during desegregation.

It has rules and procedures in place on what each branch of government can and cannot do. Etc. Sometimes they break these rules, yes, but that's getting back into the same nit-picking of whether mudil had "permission" to speak his mind. For the most part these rules are followed, and for the most part when they're broken there are consequences.

The government created laws and amendments that clearly demonstrated restraint. How could it do this? Because our government, while imperfect, isn't (yet at least) completely in the hands of some aristocracy, and it has over the years both limited and expanded its powers.

"The Government" is also not an individual entity with a single consciousness that's out to get you. It's a synecdoche that refers to a large group of _elected_ officials. If there's something wrong, the entire country shares the blame.

To view it through a monochromatic lens is to ignore history and to be cynical for cynicism's sake.
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I ordered from Digikey. It was backordered, but has now shipped.
Makes me feel a hell of a lot better about the few thousand I've lost over the last few years from cockups. Good man.
Maybe ask digg instead ?
Glimpse of A.I. with John McCarthy, Nils Nilsson, Edward Feigenbaum (1984)
You also split debts. I had a friend that split up with his wife but got saddled with half of the debts she ran up running her own business that he had nothing to do with. This is why it's very important to document the date of separation because that's what's used to decide who gets what.
To say that incremental hardware improvements are hypothetical, I think that you have to argue against history on this one.
I hope you’re right.

If we may dive into a tangent, I am quite interested in why you say Google "generally groks UX." Their search home page is a great example, sure, and Gmail for the most part (certainly not their Contacts organizer). But then I think to Buzz, where I think the UX was terrible (I wrote about this here: http://alanhogan.com/buzz-is-already-dead, HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1125126). I’d love to hear your thoughts on Google and UX.
It has been a year since I saw this posted on HN and it got me started with meditation, so I figured I would repost it :)
We do need a simple tax code. The current mess is unsustainable, distortive (yeah, its not really a word) and costly.

But taxing imports won't fix our trade imbalance. Especially if other countries reciprocate.

We are borrowing too much and consuming too much. The world MUST send us more things than we send them.

The US government has to stop spending more than it takes in and it has to stop holding interest rates so low. Only then will consumption and production begin returning to normal.

That realignment means massive, painful, but necessary change in the economy. But the sooner we choose to begin, the less painful it will be and the more we will be in charge of our own fate.
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well, it's just what we need. Thanks for the idea, I will implement this concept on my internal ERP

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Except, sIFR has been around a lot longer. HN still uses tables for layout. YouTube still uses Flash for video.

HOW DARE THEY!
Best of luck with it! Many here will be rooting for you.

Was mich nicht umbringt macht mich stärker.
The quickest, healthiest way for our society to put people back to work is to develop decentralized agriculture.

A carefully planned network of farms around every urban area will drive the cost of eating good food down while providing an almost endless source of baseline employment.
In that, there is a problem, but it's a lot more subtle than the issue being discussed here-and-now.

Essentially, by focusing only on how legislation impacts consumers, politicians set aside the effect on producers. New laws and regulations are generally considered good if they help consumers, but no expense to producers is ever mentioned, and neither is the possibility that the laws and regulations may be a net loss to us all.

Of course, if you replace "consumer" with "citizen" you've turned implicit political omissions into explicit political lies, and totally buried the issue.

(Fun aside: I view my interaction with my doctor to be just as economic as a date with a prostitute. Sure, they do a lot of personal things and have to demonstrate some care for you as a person, but in the end they are a professional, they have a job to do, and they are entitled to be paid for it.)
thank you. Fortunately I am not that well educated on the subject :)
Yup. Presumably the non-earner is contributing something else to the marriage and to the household (like child-rearing). And you'd think that if that person was a total slacker and bad spouse, the court would divide the stuff in favor of the earner.

But who knows. I'd want to talk to a divorce lawyer or judge.

I just wanted to clarify the common misconception that you can "marry someone and take half of their [existing] stuff".
It's hypothetical that future Android hardware will outpace the display quality of future iPhone hardware for sure. And even if it's likely, the question isn't whether Android will overtake iPhone in the future, but whether Android is ahead of iPhone now.
It's no more anti-science than speculative science-fiction is anti-science.

Neither HN nor Slate are peer-reviewed journals. Speculation on odd correlations is not meant to be conclusory, but to spur thought on mechanisms, alternative explanations, and possible investigations.

What if this speculation prompts a study of soccer players, and finds that compared to their countrymen and controlling for other observable factors, pro players are more likely to show toxo infection?

To me, the effects of Toxoplasmosis on cognition and behavior, together with the wildly different national infection rates, are fascinating. The correlations with World Cup results may wind up to be meaningless, but merely highlighting the strangeness of the possibility raises awareness of this parasite, which I view as a positive thing.
Even MIT grads are having trouble? That surprises me. There seems to be a lot of work for web coding monkeys. Are people just being stupidly pedantic about requiring X+ years of experience in random trivial technology Y?
also, I understand there are a lot more oil rigs near the disaster site... So I guess a nuke would mean a halt in oil production, and maybe a worst problem...
In my original post: s/straw man/weak argument/

I'm in disagreement with the idea that developers will abuse something that Apple has ultimate control over.
Specifics matter. Please give several valid examples of the word "consumer" being used by contemporary Western politicians where "citizen" would be more appropriate.

And no, a single example--or an expression of disbelief that not everyone agrees with you--will simply not do here.
I'm a VP of IT at my company and I have an Aerospace Engineering degree. The only distinction that I can say between problem solving with an engineering background versus a CS background might be the breadth of the tools you have to solve your problems. Many times, I noticed programmers do a great job of solving problems, but they are only able to use the languages they know best to solve them. As an engineer, I felt that I was, mentally, more free to solve problems with out-of-the-box ideas. I don't believe there is a book or write-up that can help you there though, other than experience and the willingness to open up your mind and research solutions outside of your normal expertise.
I have been enjoying WebStorm. BTW: it'll do Zen Coding[1]. That's a plus!

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[1]: http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/
Would this not simply mean that even more business would move outside the US? OK for physical good's that won't happen but SaaS, why not relocate to ... Ireland or even better, Iceland (I know for a fact tax in Ireland is much lower, not sure about Iceland, that's an assumption based on something I vaguely remember reading).
And you'd think that if that person was a total slacker and bad spouse, the court would divide the stuff in favor of the earner.

Again I think this varies from state to state but at least in CA considerations like this make zero difference. You split anything acquired during the marriage 50/50. Period. I imagine the intent of this rule is to limit the legal wiggle room and consequently the court costs of a divorce but the first thing they'll tell you is to not even use the word "fair".

But you're right that things you owned beforehand remain yours.
Hire an intern, teach them how to do the tech support, collect a check. I think you'd be foolish to get rid of it.

I'd happily support it for you and pass on a cut of the earnings. ;)
Not at all.

I went to restore my faith in humanity after reading about the gifting culture. It was at a very philosophical point in my life. I decided that if there were people that gave with out asking still left on the planet that I'd find them there, and so with that in mind I put an ad up on CL offering a free ride.

It was a great party and I ended up doing a lot of that, but wandering the playa by day and night in varying forms of consciousness was some sort of vision quest for me.

For me it's not a question of can you afford it but can you afford not to.
"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."

I am confused. You started your post as a developer and end being an user.

There are some big things in iOS4. Multitasking (done properly), iAds, Game Center and 1500 New APIs and tonnes of improvements that apple has put in after taking experiences of millions apps created by thousands of developers. And That's HUGE.
Hmm, worksforme on 5.0.375.70 beta, Linux.
That's so true. The other advice reads like security through obscurity, once the secret is blown (and there are no secrets if there is more than one person involved) the security is too.
Have a look at the top comment from 1 year ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=612276
Why don't you go after external capital, it looks like you're well positioned to do that ?
Bad choice of words perhaps. I really meant hide it out of reach, not hide it out of sight.

Good point though. Actually hiding assets is a terrible form of protection (just as in computing security through obscurity is a terrible means of security).

EDIT: Looks like jacquesm can type faster than I :-/
Okay, but you'd have to come up with one, write it in cross-platform C and then have bindings for each of the target languages. And then you'd have lots of people complaining about missing features (or too many features), and quite a lot of them would still use another toolset. Never mind getting everyone to agree on the same repository...

Considering the balkanization of even the Linux binary package market, it's not very likely to happen, both for political and technical reasons.
Apple does better frontend. Google does better backend. It will be interesting to see which makes the difference. The transparent, sync-free integration with Google services is the main reason I prefer my Android phone but if Apple steps it up with Mobile Me and bundles it with the phone they might be able to catch up.

My hunch is that Google will have an easier time staying close enough on the UI front than Apple will catching up on services but we'll see. Lawsuits might make the difference.
I'm not sure you answered the poster's question, though. The criteria you describe are equally applicable to a bunch of if statements.
I think a buyer will be findable. Not easy but surely one or more are out there.

You have enough business savvy to find customers, use the same savvy to find buyers.
We've been doing everything possible to not give up any of the company. We won't let it kill us, but we're going to try and get it off the ground without taking any investment if at all possible. We're starting to bring in money now, and we've got a lot of interested people, but the timing is just horrid.
I was CS for undergrad, but my school had everyone take an intro-to-engineering-principles class that used digital signal processing (DSP) as the domain. There are pros and cons to that, but it provides one view on a lot of things that come up in many areas of engineering: mathematical modeling (and validating and knowing the limits of mathematical models), analyzing systems in frequency and time domains, different tools for characterizing the aggregate response of systems (resonant frequency, impulse frequency response, etc.), different ways of visualizing or analyzing the behavior of systems (mostly in Matlab), solving mathematical models in reverse (e.g. finding a physical system that will produce the desired behavior), and so on.

There are a bunch of good DSP introductions, and it's a useful thing to know in itself, so I think you could do worse than working through one of them.
But without it being in database X, it's (very) hard to know the context of those sources. Without context, you're more likely to get irrelevant data which just happens to contain X. Unless your machine has no irrelevant-to-your-current-query data in it (unlikely). And in that case, the whole device is effectively a one-trick-pony, significantly less useful than simply being bound to a single application.

Know of a search API which properly handles (every possible use of) context? Without that, people distrust searching because of irrelevant results. Google does well because of PageRank; as far as I'm aware, nobody has arbitrary-context searching which is effective, because it's such a ridiculously complex and/or processing-intensive problem. Such a filter would probably be integral to passing the Turing test, so we'd probably have heard of it if it existed.
Thanks very much -- honestly, if it wasn't for the support of the startup community (even though I'm not one of the cool kids doing web apps ;) ), there's no way in hell I could've made it through thus far. This has been one of the most incredible and incredibly stressful and trying experiences of my life, but it's all worth it, even if it doesn't pan out. If nothing else, I won't look back and wonder "what if".
Haven't been on the hiring side, but in my experience as an applicant years-of-experience requirements are often inflated and represent wishful thinking. I'll usually apply to anything that lists within 50% or so of what I have, and often still get called in for interviews despite my resume clearly showing I don't meet the nominal criteria.
Thanks for the great recommendation Romy. Things are gonna keep getting better.

Chase
Founder @ AuthorityLabs
That sounds extremely face-numbingly painful.
Options, warrants, futures, currencies, bonds, ETFs, et al. Check out: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_instrument, but obviously, these are often or the more advanced (with the exception of ETFs, which are traded as stocks, or bonds).
Agreed. I recently posted this:

Debunking Intel's Attempt to Debunk the GPU Performance Myth
http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=20
"It's the difficulty of the macro-concepts that makes the most difference and most people find imperative programming and mutable state and infix syntax easier to handle than declarative programming and immutability and prefix syntax."

Where is the empirical data to support this?
Except some things are more dangerous than others.
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Just dropped you a line on your gmail account.

Kudos for hanging in there that long and keeping it all, it's a principled way of doing things but in the long run it is the better strategy if you are sitting on a sure bet.
Well, you get basically nothing for free with the if statements; you have to explicitly code every possible variation in reactive behavior. The ideal system is one that lets human specify the parts they want to specify, and not specify the parts they don't want to specify, so you say "I want you to do X", and then it does the right thing in thousands of possible scenarios.

I mean ultimately, all AI is just a higher-level way of writing normal programs, because it compiles down to the same assembly code as everything else. It's just an issue of what you have to write explicitly, and what you get seemingly "for free". In many areas, the human wants to specify very little (say, a fitness function, or some planning operators plus a plan goal) and then get an automatic answer, but in areas like game-AI, the human wants to specify quite a bit more, but still wants some stuff for free.

So the difficult problem is coming up with a behavior-specification language, supported by a backend that implements it, that lets people specify exactly the parts of things like NPC behavior they want to specify, but then figures out how to apply them in various situations, resolve conflicts, enact them jointly, etc. NPC designers really do have a ton of specific things they have in mind for the NPC's behaviors and personality that they want to be able to encode somewhere, but they don't want to literally have to script every possible variation on every possible NPC interaction, since that blows up exponentially, especially with multiple NPCs and nonlinear storylines. Admittedly, behavior trees are fairly far towards the "you don't get much for free" end of the spectrum, even compared to other reactive planners.
It's awesome on the other side, with a caveat. You will get rejected. Again, and again, and again. Things will go wrong. Your dreams will get shattered. The moment you demonstrate signs of success, suddenly people will start knocking on your door. And when things change, you'll get rejected again. People will leave, mutiny, and flip out. The worst and the best of human nature will come out in plain sight.

If you're unprepared for this, a sliver of ice will form in your heart and will grow larger and larger, until there is nothing left. At the end, you will end up where you were before, with all your dreams shattered and endless cynicism about life and your fellow man in your heart. If you choose to say yes where you said no, and no where you said yes, you must learn to love people for their best and worst qualities, always and unconditionally, lest your adventure ends in a disaster.
Hey Derek,

That was pretty brave of you to write that and publish it for all the world to see.

I don't doubt that this will only lead you to greater success, you're more free now to achieve that than you have been in more than a decade.

Maybe the grass on the other side really is greener :)

best of luck!

Jacques
So you're basically saying it's better to re-implement the API, with everything it implies:

* examining the docs

* taking care of error handling

* coming up with an easy to use developer interface

* keeping it updated if the API calls were to change

every time you need translation.

You're also implying it's better than having a package that can potentially abstract many different translations API, that you can just add as a submodule of your git repository, and use with one `require()` call away.

I disagree.
One suggestion is: stop. Get an editor or IDE rooted in the practices of today or at least, the last decade of the last century. It's not going to do half the things vim can do and you'll never notice. If you really really really care about the full end-to-end customization and programmability of your editor, learn emacs. No great or useful product has ever been created solely because someone knew vim. Or emacs. Move on and tackle actual problems.
Fortunately, composite materials tend to disintegrate quickly to red-hot powder once broken, instead of large chunks of high-velocity shrapnel.[1]

There's also anything built in layers, where the outermost layer will shred, bleeding off massive amounts of energy in relatively low-mass pieces, much more easily contained. Often carbon fiber, but that's just the main material I've seen for this. Dangers associated with flywheels are becoming less and less of a problem, and will only continue to do so with more research.

That said, I'd still be interested in seeing how it reacts to a hard collision. I think that quote mostly refers to over-spinning.

[1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage#Advanta...
Hey, all I have is a typing diploma and a driving license, both were money well spent and I use them every day. It's not a whole lot of formal education but I get by ;)