skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"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."

Would they? Maybe I've just been hanging out with too many women (in a non-sexual context), but they complain about guys that talk to the obviously-prettier girl at the bar all the time. Meanwhile, talking to the more successful-looking of two guys is pretty normal, as long as you aren't blatant about it (eg. asking how much they make).

I think it's more that girls will judge guys for going solely for attractive girls, and guys will judge girls for going for richer guys. Both sexes are shallow, both sexes complain about shallowness in the opposite sex, and most people of both sexes will recognize that basically everyone is shallow - in private. But public discourse tends to feature more males, so we hear more about how golddiggers are evil than about how babewatchers are evil. Either that, or it's just because we're male and girls tend not to share their real opinions for fear of offending us.
He's in charge of the tech arm of the Sunlight Foundation, a pretty cool group working for increased transparency in government. They're behind projects like opencongress.org.

I'd say he's pretty well known among the "open source government" crowd.
I don't see how you could have possibly drawn those conclusions about Clay based only on this post, and I simply disagree with the idea that Assange has to grandstand in order to protect anyone's identity.
Please explain this site... I don't get it! Especially the part about how it gets traffic! :)
the factor of production was time spent searching per pecan yielded.
In python land (Django) for the past couple of months and I've been loving it, just thought this was a good excuse to fire up slime. In clojure...

(defn map-comprehension [f sequence]
(reduce #(assoc %1 %2 (f %2)) {} sequence))

usage:

user> (map-comprehension count ["one" "two" "three"])
{"three" 5, "two" 3, "one" 3}
maybe people who are happier don't spend as much time thinking about their own condition as unhappy people, and are thus more free to think about others' conditions. or maybe people who are happier in general take more pleasure in giving to others than people who are unhappy in general, and thus they continue to do so.

there are numerous causation possibilities.

(that said, at the end of the day, being happy is a win for everyone.)
I don't think this is the solution, but not because it will negatively impact the 'objectivity' of the press. The BP example is strong, and as an ex-jounro myself who's been around the newsroom, I know that for the vast majority of writers the memory of a free lunch fades by the time you need to write about it.

I think this will fail in the way that all welfare-dependent industries must inevitably fail. If the business model is such that it requires significant, ongoing government subsidies then it isn't sustainable. You can prop up the US Auto industry, some agricultural sectors, and even the media for only so long. If the end result is an inferior product, what's the point?
candis.com.cn is the only one to use!
One I came across:

http://fastsoft.com/kernel-developer/
I'd love to see some statistics on the number of these incidents that have occurred with Toyotas versus other makes as a proportion of the total fleet.

These incidents happen all the time, and it almost always turns out that the driver was standing on the accelerator instead of the brake. (Naturally they adamantly deny it - if they'd thought they were pressing the accelerator they would have stopped, after all. Everyone underestimates how much your brain can play tricks on you in this situation.) Of course that does not eliminate design flaws as a cause - for example in the Audi case the pedals were too close together.

Ever since this all blew up I've suspected that it's quite possible the floor mat recall may have simply brought a lot of cases out of the woodwork that are actually not inconsistent with the normal "background" level of such accidents.
Apparently you're not an engineer!

Here's my proposed solution based on current technology and about 10 seconds thinking about the problem:

- Battery is in an externally accessed compartment mounted on a sled with a pair of clips.

- Driver opens compartment door and backs into "battery loading bay" at gas station.

- Clips engage matching latches that sense battery and extract it from car, then rotates a new, charged one in place and loads it.

- Driver pays and drives off.

None of this is more complicated than filling up your car with gas and the mechanisms are cheap and easy to build.
My company actually uses hosting in Hong Kong. But to note, in HK you can still get blocked by the firewall, but they respond quickly and change IP's. Dedicated/VPS solutions not so easy.

You will also need an ICP number for hosting inside mainland China. This is linked to the IP number. You need this.
Python futures - execute computations asynchronously (PEP 3148)
Seems fine just so long as (False + False) doesn't equal True.
This problem isn't substantially different than deciding how much gasoline/diesel to keep in the storage tanks at a rural gas station now. Fuel degrades quickly.

And don't assume added staff. Anyone thinking about this problem seriously will build in automation from the beginning. It doesn't take much energy to lift a 400lb battery.
Business in the See-Through World
And I hope you stop putting words into my mouth. I just said that there are 5 sources of energy (solar, lunar, geothermal, nuclear, and fossil fuels) on earth. Also, you're also factually incorrect regarding the Sun being the only energy source. The lunar / tidal energy is due to the gravity between the earth and the moon, and the geothermal energy is due to the gravity of the earth itself. Fact of the matter is that there is no silver bullet that'll solve all our energy problems ala Star Trek unless there's a breakthrough in something like nuclear fusion.

The paper you cite assume 100% uranium recovery from uranium contained within the Ocean waters, which holds most of recoverable uranium on Earth. The Japanese have some interesting research that they're doing to recover the seawater Uranium using a giant sponge like device, but it hasn't been proven yet whether it's possible to extract uranium from seawater in net-energy-positive manner, not to mention most of the seawater being fairly inaccessible.

I don't understand your hostility, as I've mentioned over and over again that I am in agreement that Nuclear power has gotten the short end of the shaft, and that more investment is needed. All I was trying to do is to say that there are benefits of investing in pure renewables like wind and solar - wind energy is already almost cheap enough to compete with other conventional energy sources even without the PTC. And as a working engineer in a tiny startup struggling to fix the very issues that you bring up (and completely re-imagine the wind industry as it exists if we succeed), I'm not a mouth piece of this large wind power conglomerate that you seem to make me out to be.

I'd highly recommend reading David MacKay's "Without the Hot Air" which is available free on PDF at http://www.withouthotair.com/ . David is much more eloquent than me and has done far more research into the issues at play here.
I've been getting these infinite loops at login in gmail about once a week now. It's getting ridiculous. Google, please fix this. Sometimes clearing cookies doesn't even help
> ZFS? I certainly desire for it to be ZFS.

NetApp seems to be threatening to sue people who ship devices based on ZFS and suing Sun itself. Might want to stay away from that.

> What software would be best to control it, rather than writing our own, which would slow things down. Ideally this would amount to putting parts together, not reinventing the wheel.

Just need to create a web interface to the underlying tools.

> Time Machine backups from Apple's kit

Possible with Netatalk.

As far as hw specs and whatnot, you could do a basic 2 disk atom server if you just want storage and minimal NFS/CIFS sharing over the network.

My preference would be a Core i5/i7 4 disk system so you could real-time transcode HD video for streaming to UPNP media devices.
But that's the case with nearly everyone who has >~3 months of savings. If it's just one isolated person that's being a jerk to you, quit and find another job. Hell, you can do that with no money in the bank if you find the other job first and then quit.
There are a lot of people who think the thing stopping them from writing that great novel they plan to write is the fact that their job takes up all their time. In fact what's stopping 99% of them is that writing novels is hard. When the job goes away, they see how hard.

This resonates. I quit my dot-com job before the bubble burst and I had order 10^4 dollars in my bank account. I decided that rather than invest the money in an apartment house, or pay off debt from college, I would take some time off, and just... see what happened. I had enough money that if I wanted to get into e.g. videography, I could go out and buy a nice video camera and a computer to edit my movies (storage was a lot more expensive back then, no way to do this sort of thing on an iPhone!). If I wanted to get really into mountaineering, I could buy a bunch of gear and go wild. This was a first for me, my family and I had always been pretty broke as I grew up.

And what happened? Well, I rediscovered my enjoyment of life drawing, and went to some open sessions, the kind where you pay $10 and everybody draws from the model. And I hung out with friends a lot, and basically re-socialized myself to learn how to relax and have a good time with people. And I ate out a lot, and I partied, and I horsed around. Oh yeah, and I discovered that I really like to run in the woods, up and down hills on narrow trails.

But essentially, there was no 'passion' uncovered by that freedom. I discovered my passion when I went back to work. I was sick of programming for money, so I got a job in a molecular neurobiology lab. And that was 9 years ago, and I've been busting ass and totally engaged with science ever since.

FU money would be great, but in some ways I feel I already had an experience of it -- or at least, of some of the more interesting things that can come of it. I do feel like I'll drown if I stop treading water, it would be nice to be rid of that sensation.
I long to live in a society where "difficulty with technology...because they can't think scientifically" is seen as a disability!
If you're really having performance problems that will be fixed like that then why not use Duff's Device? It's (and this is sure sayin' something) easier to read than that.
"In fact, the people that have 'fuck you' money (that I know) tend to be pretty rude to people that are simply trying to make their lives a little easier, such as people waiting tables or running a store."

The people I know with FU money have generally been really nice - there was this one kid in college who was an asshole, but he's the exception, not the rule. Most will go out of their way to help people, and are always polite to waitstaff etc.

Maybe I've just been lucky. I've found that the comment someone made in the original thread holds pretty true. ("Whatever type of person you were before FU money, you'll be more of afterwards. If you were a jerk beforehand, you'll be more of a jerk afterwards, while if you were a nice person beforehand, you'll be a nice person afterwards.)
CouchDB on ZFS
Keys to success - notes fr Eric Greenspan talk at Entrepreneurs Institute
I'll let you know what it's like in a year {just turned 64 this month). I wrote my first programs in September 1963.

I don't have a great deal of money, but I do have enough coming in that most months I end with more than I started, and don't have to worry about starvation, foreclosure or eviction, and spend a fair amount on books and gadgets.

It's not a very exciting life, but I enjoy it most days, and it's been years since I had to listen to anybody telling me what to do.
One could argue that this has already happened to some extent (where the domain model is commonly known and well explored: blogs, ecommerce) via packaged solutions and web frameworks.
Probably the more significant factor is the bottom line.

Reddit doesn't make much money from advertising. They have 4 salaried (I assumed) full time employees, a bunch of servers, and other miscellaneous expenses. It's not like they're a startup looking for that burst of growth to take them to the next level. What you see is what you get in terms of revenue. Conde Nast isn't going to start dumping more money for nothing, it needs to see some sort of return on investment to justify that.

Their "donations" experiment was really just a test for a subscription based model for premium users. This is a business model struggle, not a leadership/vision one IMO.
It just occurred to me that "Thou shalt not kill" has become a part of my deeply-ingrained ethos. I wonder if that's awesome, or if I should really take a theism break ...
$ time echo '(println "Hello, world!")' | clojure

Clojure 1.0.0-

user=> Hello, world!

nil

user=>

real	0m2.756s

user	0m1.040s

sys	0m0.140s

$ time echo 'print "Hello, world!"' | python

Hello, world!

real	0m0.018s

user	0m0.000s

sys	0m0.010s

Beware the horrible startup time for small programs.
I'd love to read a blog post about bingo cards' seasonality. For real.
Thanks hackers, for understanding me. Happy to be 1.0!
It's going to be a tough pill for Apple to swallow if they have to go through with it. I'd bet dollars to donuts that the Android marketing team at Google is putting in over-time this month.
Another Malicious Firefox Add-on Discovered : Mozilla Sniffer
Picnik in Picasa Web Albums
Why bother with hardware, why not use the cloud? Hardware gets expensive, plus some sever fans can sound extra loud in a home. Maybe someone can give you a heads up on how to do it in Amazon or RackSpace.
"Once a new technology starts rolling, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road." - Stewart Brand
Linux is only free if your time has no value

True, but in my experience it's a worthy investment of valuable time. I spent three years using Linux distros, and though I use OSX now, I'm much more comfortable with general system administration than I would have been otherwise.
It sure looks interesting, but I doubt that it will really look like a laptop. I think that it will look more like a desktop replacement and weight accordingly. Most screens are too thin to have space for that arm and the case is already crowded[1] in my opinion.

[1] http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Unibody-M...
Ask HN:
Do any of you not use Microsoft products for your startup based on cost or are there other larger factors?
may be it cames out as I-did-it-and-I’m-fine because, well, you did it and you are fine, duh!
I mean, why are so many parents deny their children the fun they themselves were going though being young and all?

some lessons are to be learned on your own, and not to be told about.

I can understand the pressure to prevent the hard and most dangerous stuff, but with stuff like moderate alcohol and recreational drugs I think the risks don't great enough to warrant all the craziness.
I have to agree, the fact that this is a WSJ article makes me curious about the possibility that this is a Toyota-paid-for damage control article. Especially due to the FRBNY/WSJ editing scandal exposed by ZeroHedge last week. I expect this is a PR attempt by Toyota to discredit the lawsuits in the eyes of the general public and counter their dropping sales figures.

Unless this diagnostic system is completely separate from the drive-by-wire system, this isn't pertinent information.
Don't knock the M3; funnest thing I've ever driven.
I prefer the weaponized version myself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon
$5M puts you in the top 1%. I'd say that fits the definition of "rich" for most of the other 99%. Maybe $5M wouldn't put you that high in the Silicon Valley but I'm sure it's close.

Also, can I ask if you experience is first hand? If not, be careful with appearances. I just recently discovered that someone I've known for years has significantly more money than their lifestyle would indicate. Not everyone lives extravagantly just because they have money.
I saw a talk by Matt Ridley, the author of The Rational Optimist, and it was quite interesting.

One interesting question posed was whether Ridley believed in Ray Kurzweil's singularity theory. He responded that he believed futurists are looking at the wrong area of technology as the center of advancement in the next 50 to 100 years. Just as futurists from previous eras predicted huge advancements in transportation (like flying cars), because transportation happened to be booming at the time, current futurists focus too much on communication, and assume it will continue to advance at the same rate. He predicts that advancement in communication will slow down in the future, to be replaced by another area, such as, for example, biotech.
A book, written by a web designer, for web designers, does not need to get into the matrix math involved in coordinate transformations of the canvas tag, database denormalization for use with Web SQL, writing a back-end server to integrate with WebSocket or Server-Sent Events, &c., or in general how to write complex in-browser apps, &c. That would dramatically expand the scope of the book, and distract from its core topic. There are much better resources about those topics. Those who care can easily buy a second book.
wasn't knocking it, personally I think that the M and the AMG models are some of the best options if you like to be low key.

Just debadge them, and 99% of people won't know that you have the high end version.

Audi S line is kinda good too, but they really dropped the ball this generation. The S4/S5 are barely making enough power to compete with the 335i. The upcoming RS5 should fix that, but Audi is probably going to charge so much for those, that the $60K M3 will look like a bargain by comparison.
The time spent searching is still constant. It is just that the yield per unit time has decreased.
Firefox 4's JägerMonkey JIT status
I can't upvote this enough. ranking for red blue yellow is a trivial example on its own, but with an exact match domain, it's hard to NOT rank for it
In each of these cases, you still have to find another job, which means you still have to worry about paying the bills.

It also doesn't have to be your employer: it can be anyone you're financially tied to in some way.
One-click browser window sizing
I guess "Bad Publicity is still Publicity."
Ontario is highly dependent on trade with the US for it's income, but BC and Alberta have economies that are more resource-based, IIRC. Prior to becoming a huge trading partner with the US, Canada's economy was largely resource-based (though I couldn't tell you which resources these were).

This is why BC and Alberta were thriving when the Canadian dollar was worth more than the US dollar and the price of oil was sky-high, while Ontario was suffering. That said, I'm not sure of the larger implications to the Canadian economy as a whole if the US tanks. It may be simple to move to trade with China, though it may not.
I just found this, not sure what a good HN title is for the submission, but it looks pretty useful.
I disagree with that, unless you are reading something very specific, and for short periods of time. Reading can so easily become something that takes up a lot of time, no different to tv. And if you are not creating, then you are not being a producer, you are being a consumer.
Work for the government or government contractor. Closest thing to a guaranteed job you'll find. Ability to get a clearance will make that 100% security.
I'm really surprised in all 61 comments here no one has bothered to mention Apple left the "Serious Antenna Problem!" thread active. Basic forum moderation -- no need for duplicate threads on the same topic. I guess it's not quite as entertaining to look at it in an objective way though and, of course, that's what everyone on the Internet really wants: Entertainment.
Anything in an iframe or under an iframe is susceptible to clickjacking. Firefox + NoScript does a pretty good job of preventing this.
slk. At 50,000 km/year they're a bit much to keep in good maintenance, eventually I sold it and put the money towards reducing my mortgage, I think that was the sensible thing to do.
Information is a public good[1] so there's a standard case for subsidizing it. To preserve choice and competition other folks have proposed giving everybody a $50 voucher that they can give to the news source of their choice. That would guarantee a minimum level of aggregate news production but not specify the particular producers.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good
Right, but finding another job is typically not a problem for people with the skills to make FU money (through means other than the lottery and inheritance, at least). If your boss is an asshole and you're not, and you're skilled in any reasonably competitive field, you shouldn't have trouble finding another job where the boss is not an asshole.
Trend Guardian: The Entrepreneur's Credo
Why not a nonprofit model instead? NPR has been operating successfully on donations for years! News organizations are already basically not making a profit. By reorganizing and paying back their debts, they can go back to focusing on what matters instead of increasing the bottom line.

Why not take the meager revenues that news organizations are currently earning, deposit them into an endowment and supplement with a huge yearly fund-raising campaign, or a one time large insanely public grant from the federal government. If managed responsibly, something like this could sustain a decently sized news organization for a long time. Especially if we begin to rethink and reorganize how it might be done.
When I achieved something akin to FU money, there were the expected benefits (i.e., greater freedom), but that freedom also strips away many excuses we come to rely on.

For example, if you spend hours coding at the computer (because you love it), that is now YOUR choice and it affects how the rest of your family will perceive it because you can no longer claim that you NEED to spend that much time. In fact, if you are not careful, you may end up with your family controlling more of your time than you want.

You also go through a bit of an identity crisis. So much of your identity is tied up in what you do. All of a sudden when you are at your kids soccer game, casual conversation becomes more awkward as people inevitably ask "what do you do?".

Put these together and you clearly need to come up with your next purpose because otherwise you will have a heck of a time deciding how to spend your time.

In the process of figuring out the planning and investing piece I became a CFP and registered investment advisor (more of a multi-family office). I have now seen a number of others go through the transition and can offer the following observations for different levels of FU money.

< $10 million -- The focus stays mostly on the individual and family with the money supporting their pursuits.

$10 - $50 million -- At this level there starts to be a strong pull between wanting to support the family and wanting to create a lasting legacy. The pull from these two directions can create a lot of stress depending on the person's values and the values of the rest of their family (mainly spouse).

$50 million+ -- At this level the legacy becomes the focus. The responsibility of making that money improve the world becomes paramount. You don't see someone with this kind of money deciding to become a math teacher. In this sense, someone with this much money is less free than someone with only $10 million who wont feel as strong an obligation to ensure their money gets put to good use improving the world.