skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not dishonesty per se because it's not a conscious behavior. Most women don't know they give a rich guy bonus points, just as men consciously underrate the importance of their spouse's appearance. It's one of many areas where humanity's conscious thoughts and actions radically diverge.

It's a subtle subconscious leaning. A similar example: doctors routinely prescribe things that get them paid more (for instance neurologists whose practices own their own MRI machines prescribe 4x more MRIs than ones who do not) however when examined under a polygraph, both groups say that the money is not an influencing factor. The money clearly is the difference, they just don't know it.

(FWIW, rape is not believed by most in the field of evolutionary psychology to be a behavior that has evolved into "normal". It's gotten a lot of coverage in the field due to the controversial nature of the idea of rape as an adaptation, but there is no clear evidence for it in anthropology or studies of closely related primates.)

The argument you pose about morality is dangerous. Who defines which of our genetic attributes are ok and which are not? Why is it perfectly fine to have brown hair, but immoral to want a rich husband (if only subconsciously) when you can't help either of them? If anything the latter is universal, the former occasional.
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Uh oh, do you think this means that people who have RECEIVED phone calls from iPhone 4s will be in on the class action? Great.
You are absolutely right, I added a correction. What confused me, was the wording on the Google Suggest help page and the num_queries parameter name, as rbrcurtis mentioned. Please see my replies to this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511824
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What sorts of new problems do you have when you are rich?

Do people treat you differently? Perhaps they are not as nice?
Your mentioning of the iPad strikes me as peculiar, as it hasn't had any significant widespread problems and has been out for months now; in fact I was struck last night when I realized that there hasn't even been an update of any kind to the OS yet, though there's not clamor for it either. "Never buy rev 1" might be a decent rule of thumb, but it shouldn't be made more than that, and at this point it seems like we can draw some very good conclusions about the reliability of iPad 1.0s, whereas iPad 1.1 or 2.0 could be riddled with problems.
Not if you're dead from what you'd sue them for.
So, to go along with this, has anyone been successful at building a charger for an electric car that could be used to replace a gas pump (safe in weather, 80 - 100% charge in under 8 minutes)?
Ask HN: Is the Hacker News site is a little less responsive?
Over the last few weeks, the HN website has been a little slow for me. Loading the homepage takes a good amount of time. I was wondering if this was the case for most people or if I was simply imagining it.

I love Hacker News, and would love to help in any way that I can if indeed there is a problem. I also wanted to thank Paul for putting up this website and building such a fantastic community around it.
Wow - you're awesome. Fly that flag!
Indeed, if the goal is maximum rate of innovation.

If the goal is to make as much money as possible, probably not (well, a faster rate of innovation would probably increase the total productivity of society more rapidly, but the people personally involved with open-source might be making less).
Well specifically speaking on this example. In order to install chrome extension like this pop-up, it will redirect to chrome extension gallery page. So if the pop-up is doing something other than that, it should trigger a WTF meter in your head.

To install a chrome extension you have manually install it by clicking "ok", even after that if it accesses your private browsing data (which is the only thing Chrome extension has access to) you will get a second warning, making sure you understand this. Even after that, Chrome extension runs on its own process, seperate from each tabs (which runs in its own process). And each of those process runs on its own sandbox.

Lets even leave all that out of consideration, and that javascript is being used by some very popular websites, includeing huffpo, independent and some random sites I encountered but don't remember right now.

The guy from DS is just crying fowl.
I think the most noteworthy feature is the 10G Nic

The NIC is not the most interesting part, but the network is: not only do these new instances offer 10 GigE, but they also offer full bisection bandwidth to all instances in a placement group (=> no oversubscription of core switches). That is pretty unusual, and a big win for network-intensive applications.
You need to first be blessed by the Holy Spirit, aka Paul Graham. Otherwise, you might even see the buttons, but your votes have no effect because you're an Outcast.
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And centralized financing and management of large segments of the economy tends to encourage top-down decision making.

I think one of the biggest problems with modern society is that due to the scale of institutions, there are way too many layers of abstraction and aggregation between decision-makers and the decisions they make. This breaks the feedback loop, since decision-makers can only operate against generalities and not actual knowledge, and it encourages a great deal of risk aversion that prevents the exploration and variation necessary to create real solutions.
I'll probably get downvoted, but just a friendly PSA: "successful" does not mean "has lots of money". I might ask the community members what they perceive success to be, if it hasn't been asked already. And if I didn't already have my own definition.
Alternative explanation: The search is performed by new parents looking for tips on what NOT to do when caring for their baby.
Puerto Rico and Powergrid are my favorites.
Some other great games: Dominion, Cosmic Encounter, Space Alert, Risk

Also take a look at: http://boardgamegeek.com
When was the last time you've used C#? The fact you are lumping it in with Java already suggests your C# skills are very out of date. C# is by far the fastest growing mainstream language. C# 3 and now C# 4 require very little boilerplate code. I'm often amazed at how clean and succinct my C# code can become nowadays.

As for UI programming in C#, give WPF and/or Silverlight a try. They both have their downsides, but in the end they offer a far more pleasant experience than Cocoa Touch. I haven't written an MFC app in about 1.5 decades or so.
yup, definitely a little slow for me.
They feel like they have the freedom to be all 'FU'. It's all in the eye of the beholder.

By some people's definition, having 'fu money' means you can tell people to F off without risking your financial security. So... if I'm a homeless and broke person, or someone with really low financial standards - that's true - isn't it.
And even if you survive, you probably don't have much of a chance unless you have lots of money to pay enough good lawyers and expert witnesses (which rules out most people).
It's entirely sexism. Most people wouldn't condemn a man for choosing to talk to the more attractive of two girls at a bar. It would be considered normal behavior. Yet most would condemn a woman for talking to the richer of two guys.

Unless appearances are some better indicator of a person's quality than wealth neither is more or less shallow than the other, but one is judged to be moreso. If that's not sexism nothing is.
The problem is that the browser owned control bar is right next to the web content. It's good for usability (quick to reach with mouse), but opens the door for trickeries like click jacking (that's actually why there's a countdown when you want to install an extension in firefox).

I filed a related bug a year ago at Mozilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497388
but it didn't get anyone busy (no offense). We probably have to wait until browser extensions are more common place and these kind of UI vulnerabilities get exploited on a regular basis.
There's a need for some space in a web browser that is reserved for browser messages. This space has to be distinct from space that can be used to display content, otherwise the website can spoof browser notifications.

Of course, this has to be balanced with the desire to devote as much space as possible to content and have the browser get out of the way of the browsing experience. But any browser notification that's displayed only in space that's otherwise content is just asking for trouble.
Are you kidding me? I burst out laughing when I saw this:
http://www.python.org/doc/humor/#python-block-delimited-nota...
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I don't doubt for a second that web and mobile development (or mobile web development) will become increasingly important.

I was referring to the specific tools and frameworks I use today: Rails, iOS, and so on. Hence the reference to educability; basically, I think it's far more important for the OP on Stack Overflow to ensure his kid knows how to learn than anything else.
Google thinks about all sorts of things that have never been related to reality, or have ceased to be accurate because they are being heavily gamed. Then, to adapt to SEO gaming, they start to ignore things that were once or are potentially useful. I loathe the entire system.
so, if I write "apple", no link, and if I write "Apple"... what do you link? Apple.com, the homepage?

And what about "Dell laptop", where will that take to? A page on Dell's site where they talk about all their laptops (and not other products they sell)? Not an easy task.
http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/d...

This is a book on the topic you brought up. Doctor's have too much ego to follow a checklist. It doesn't make sense however since extremely smart people in the military and nasa follow checklists all the time.
Yes. You simply swap the battery out for one that is already charged. The model works where the person owns the car but effectively leases the battery, so your fee at the station includes the battery "rental" and the delta in its charge. http://www.betterplace.com/
Can this gadget be used outside of Google Apps for domains?

In other words, can I use it on my gmail.com account?
yeah, it's also forecast to be particularly bad in Lake Superior this year because the surface water is 10-20 degrees warmer than usual. Good swimming, except for the whole drowning angle. Thanks for the links.
Moore's law says that CPUs improve faster than I/O. Therefore any program that is I/O bound today is likely to be I/O bound for every future generation of hardware. And programs that are not I/O bound today, may become so down the road.

Incidentally on the final point, there was an interesting test that was run many years ago. Multiple teams were given the same spec, but were each told to optimize for a different characteristics (speed of development, speed of execution, maintainability, memory use, etc). Most of the teams managed to come in #1 on what they were trying to optimize for. The team that optimized for maintainability came in #2 on most other characteristics. The team that optimized for speed of execution came in last on most other characteristics.

The lesson from this is that a consistent focus on maintainable code results in more of everything else you need. Yes, there really are times that you're writing throw-away code and can forget all that. But by default, code well and let the other details take care of themselves.
java -jar ~/clojure.jar will give you a REPL. It will be a less convenient REPL though. In particular:

* No history support. Try to use the arrow to go back to the previous instruction and you'll be greeted by ^[[A.

* No tab completion.

* No exit function.

* No startup file with your customizations.

* No clojure.contrib automatically in your classhpath.

* No simple way to automatically place a list of jars for a given project in the classpath by simply specifying them in a file.

java -jar ~/clojure.jar will do. But this, I believe, is nicer.
I just tried etacts for the first time and it seems to think I've received emails from some people before I ever had my gmail account. :/
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FTA: It takes more transistors and the packaging of DRAM is more regular. Even if you are willing to pay 6x as much for the needed transistors, you would also need to have your memory chips be much large physically, which, I assume, scales up the cost quite a bit.
The most ghetto parts of SF are Hunter's Point and Bayview. It is hard to end up in those neighborhoods unless you have a reason to go there (maybe to buy some discount siding?) so I wouldn't worry about them. If you are looking to actually live in the hood, that is where to go. Now if you have to commute to your yuppie startup job from these places, it's going to suck, because the public transit to these areas sucks.

The tenderloin is the most ghetto in the middle of the city. Personally I feel the danger in this area is overrated but it definitely seems sketchy. The 2nd sketchiest seeming part of the city is 6th and Market. It's like a zombie movie after midnight.

In the city I had more trouble from roving bands of drunks looking for fights in North Beach than I have from either crazy people or muggers.

I have been mugged in both Oakland and Berkeley near the Ashby stop. There are many more spaces where you can be walking around in the dark with nobody around in the East Bay.

You generally need a credit report but the last 2 apartments I rented in SF, the landlord did not ask for one. If it is being rented "by owner" it is up in the air. If it is a management company they will usually want a credit report. If you have no credit report (like, you're from overseas) you can often get by if you pay for a number of months up front.
Agreed. There is some really shitty content that gets ranked highly on Google. We still need a better search engine.
I have some rules when buying gadgets:

- Never buy it in the first six months of release, even if it is a holodeck.

- Read/watch review. Not only from fanboys but also from rivals and people who despise this gizmo.

- If its expensive (and a bit out of your range), wait to see if there is any competing products. (I am still waiting to see what Google has to offer before getting iPad)

Frankly I am surprised that most tech savvy consumers don't follow some of these rule.
Thanks for the reply Cindy (yeah, I think we corresponded once or twice). I'm relieved to hear this decision was based on some hard data and I can see how the pricing model might be good for KISSmetrics. Obviously, it's not quite so good for me and the rant really came out of my surprise about the pricing.

I think some sort of "startup" plan would not only be good for a sizable-percentage of your beta testers but also good for KISSmetrics. After all, if a company isn't profitable enough to justify $149/month on analytics but wants to improve their conversion ratios (and hence profits) they will likely go to, and stay with, a competitor.
More a question of fewer people involved in software than software professionals making less.

I've been paid a fair amount of money to write software that I could have created just as easily in a tenth of the time with off-the-shelf FOSS software, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that. Did I make money? Yes. But I could have made just as much money, and accomplished 10 times as much if my hands hadn't been tied by proprietary preferences. (And just for the record I'm talking about entrenched legacy stuff that's still in use, not any big modern names.)

FOSS shrinks markets, but it doesn't make work less valuable. If anything it makes work more valuable.
Thanks, that was kinda the point I was making when I said KISSmetrics needed to make you $200 on the $149 plan... you'll have invested your own time into this tool so that needs to be accounted for.
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I read the cached version. The damn form post was a flame war about how one dude can't stand consumer reports. Its amazing how well he baited people.

However if no more posts arise, that is a problem.
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I've used Highrise and Salesforce.. SF was too expensive and pandered to fortune 500 companies with large budgets and long lists of feature requests.
Highrise was a huge improvement but still fell short in terms of email integration and some other key features.

We're working on a fully email integrated simple CRM. If you want to be a part of our free private beta (to be released late next month) please let me know. My email is in my profile.
If you're a physicist, please COMMIT, and forward to your colleagues.

Thanks!
If you really like theater, the Berkeley Repertory Theatre is just across the bay.

There are a wide variety of other theater venues around the Bay Area. Santa Cruz for small stuff, San Francisco for a huge mix of productions from Broadway shows to weird warehouse stuff, and San Jose, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Marin all have theater companies.
So of the folks on here who got FU money - how do you invest it? Do you actively manage it or have a manager?

I saw something on HN a while back called the permanent portfolio which looked simple and conservative (25% stock, 25% bonds, 25% gold, 25% cash) and was curious if any rich folks out there are using that in practice.
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I was thinking more of companies that sell software, rather than individual programmers. But you make a good point.

As I said, the overall productivity of society would definitely go up.
Thanks. I was just a bit confused by the wording. The last finance person I talked to, made much of the difference between `hedge-funds' and `prop-shops'.
No doubt it's expensive, but it has been several years. A natural hardware refresh should have helped. Check out these guys getting it right:

http://blog.linode.com/2010/06/16/linode-turns-7-big-ram-inc...
Except that there's plenty of discussion about this on Apple's boards. This looks to be a case of deleting a bunch of "me too" topics. As a board admin myself, I like to make sure things are on topic and free of trolls.

This Apple antenna thing is like a magnet for rabid pro-Android fans gloating, rabid anti-Apple haters schadenfreude, Internet trolls who do it for the lulz, and the poor people who actually have an issue. I really feel for the poor board moderators who have to sort between the four.
You're confusing branding with identity. The previous three iPhones were all roughly the same hardware — incremental improvements with each model. The iPhone 4 is significantly different hardware. It keeps the iPhone brand, but it is a new piece of hardware. Similarly, the PowerBook G4 was not the fourth revision of the original PowerBook hardware.
> there was an interesting test that was run many years ago

Source? I'd really like to read about it.
Yes: https://etacts.com/
Let me see. Here are some of the performance related cases I encountered.

1. A critical process slowed down drastically on certain days and certain times. Narrowed down to Oracle. Turned out another group went behind our back and ran expensive reports on our database server. Solution: Politic, spent half of a year to kick them out.

2. Some distributed processing slowed down steadily over time. Narrowed down to bandwidth throttling on the cross data center fiber optic. Solution: Scheduled emergency migration of processes to the same data center.

3. Site-wide page serving time slowed down. Narrowed down the Regex and XML parsing on pages; yes, this was CPU bounded. Solution: Faster libraries, pre-computation, caching result.

4. Lucene indexing took longer as data volume grew. Narrowed down to database bottleneck. Solution: revamp indexing architecture to use DFS and Hadoop.

5. Linux process spawning drastically slowed own on 64-bit machine. Narrowed down to OS page table copy-on-write overhead. Solution: work around the spawning requirement.

6. File system driver slowed down with more cache. Narrowed down to inefficient sorting algorithm. Solution: replaced bubble sort with heap sort.

In all these cases, language is never the issue.
Correction: especially if its a holodeck.

haven't you seen what happens when the holodeck is broken in the next generation?! it is no laughing matter.
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1. A critical process slowed down drastically on certain days and certain times. Narrowed down to Oracle. Turned out another group went behind our back and ran expensive reports on our database server. Solution: Politic, spent half of a year to kick them out.

Have also experienced this firsthand. Blame is automatically pinned on us, and it's never our fault.
I'd buy a holodeck even if 50% functional. I think as long as it does not kill me its good, eh?

However never buy in 6 mo is a fairly good soft restriction. You can probably wait 2 months and buy it. My rule is "don't give in to the hype".

I also have the same outlook as I did with the iPod. If it is expensive wait till there is some good competition because after some good competition it can only get better, or the competition will. No competition = shit products. Hence Pentium 4
Thanks Patrick, I'm sure it was one of your blog posts that put me on to KISSmetrics so I'm interested/glad to hear that you're going to stick with them. Perhaps you'd do a review in 6 months time to see if their pricing plans vs the effect to your conversion ratios really has balanced out? (I'm not being snide, I'd be genuinely interested how it works out)

I agree with how market positioning is so important to a startup, and yeah I kinda respect KISSmetrics for having the guts to do this. My anger really came because I felt they'd cut off the bottom of the ladder where those of us who can't justify $150/month on analytics where standing. And this was a surprise because nothing until the pricing announcement indicated that this was the direction they were going to take.
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> 1 ton of thorium roughly equals 1 GW of power for a year.

Just so we're clear, that's a metric tonne -- 1000 kg. And that's one GW electric (GWe), so you can get more power if you're using it for heat, such as for ammonia synthesis.

Also, for comparison, the conventional light water reactors we're using today require 250 tonnes of natural uranium to produce that 1 GWe-year of energy.
Couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure to sit down with Mathias Meyer, Chief Visionary at Scalarium, a Berlin startup and discuss NoSQL adoption. Like myself, Mathias is really excited about NoSQL and he uses every opportunity to introduce more people to the NoSQL space.
The discussion has focused on how would someone start learning and using NoSQL databases and the path to follow in this new ecosystem
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Berkeley all the way. North side of campus is quiet and cheap, and I'm sure you can get rent down to the $700s if you share a house/apartment. It's also close to all the engineering buildings, so any interns you want to hire will be within shouting distance. South side has more (cheap) food options though, but it's also less quiet and more messy (Telegraph, etc).
I dunno man, if I had an insane holodeck I am sure its better than not having one :)