skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of my friends on Wall Street say you shouldn't trust random top money managers at major Wall Street firms - that's not over the interesting competence threshold. I am, obviously, paraphrasing, but it's the impression I get.
An expert is someone who is sought out by others for their skill and paid well for it.
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From my comment

"I suspect that there are going to be A LOT of long-time TurboTax users like me who feel the same way."

From yours

"You seem to believe that just because you will not use the states tax software that NO ONE will, which seems to be a error in generalization."

Seems to me like you made an error in reading comprehension.
Improvement on that is avoid family housing and go for industrial/commercial.

You can get a quality property with minimal leverage for your $2million. You will get a blue chip tenant like a national retailer or even a government department, and they'll sign a 10 year lease with mandated, upwards only, CPI-indexed increases each year. You won't even have to fork over 8-10% on a property manager because the tenant will maintain the property. And at the end of it, you'll have a property worth much, much more than what you paid for it.

Compare to a portfolio of houses, this strategy is higher return, lower risk and much lower management. The problem with family housing is that they are full of families, with all the associated problems that brings. Families split up, move out, get into trouble, have parties - blue chip businesses just keep their place tidy, make money and get on with life.
Thank you for providing detailed and concrete information about how to go about buying foreclosure properties at courthouse auctions. I admire people who are confident/kind enough to share inside information about their business to the public, as opposed to most people on HN who just engage in self-congratulatory circle-jerk. You have a good day, sir.
That didn't really answer the questions.
True - I aimed for brevity instead of clarity with my point. I mentioned film for its ease of use in a variety of situations, meaning its invention made it much more likely that photos would be taken and maintined - as you point out, earlier technology has survived.
will the decline in suicide represent people who are no longer depressed, or people who are slightly less depressed but constantly at the edge of committing suicide?
C has got macros, so it can be very hard to read too.

Generators (http://docs.python.org/tutorial/classes.html#generators) in Python can make code very hard to read as well in "hiding" a lot of complexity inside the generation.

In other words, such code:

r = f(param)

can be a lot of different things as well.

The enter/exit clauses hide a lot of code as well, although they should be used for (de)initialization they can be abused (I've seen it).

Finally, I think you should elaborate more when you say "for what the STL accomplishes, I'd rather just use OCaml" because I don't understand what it means and I know both languages (C++ much better, admittedly).
Based on the little I know about this, it probably beat being almost any employee. With $6 million invested, sold for $50 million, wouldn't you need more than a 2% stake to earn a million on the sale? Could someone more knowledgable break down how that $50 million was likely distributed, and what number employee you would have to be to get a million? (also what's the tax difference between the founders award and a million dollar startup exit)
Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?
Thought it would be helpful for HN'ers to see what others are up to and potentially find cool projects to collaborate on.

Bonus points for keeping it under a tweet + demo (or github,etc).
I think more interesting than the fact that one guy wrote the entire application is that Apple gave one guy the time and space to create the application on his own.
Re: "15. FreeBSD hasn't had a default install, STABLE security advisory in ~10 years."

You make several good points here, but I'm not sure what you mean by that one.

Consider the most recent advisory, FreeBSD-SA-10:07.mbuf, listed here:

http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories.html

default install: yep, kernel mbuf code

STABLE: yep, FreeBSD 7.1 and later

security advisory: yep, privilege escalation

in the past 10 years: yep, three weeks old
News that isn’t: Android-powered phones outsell Apple’s iPhone
IRELAND, loads of tech companies have set up in Dublin, and also with the recession Ireland has become cheaper.

I live in Galway is an amazing city loads of creatives around and a HUGE hackerspace and many festivals all year round.

Irish are cool and laid back, anglo-celtic culture and everybody loves the irish around the world.
No, I'm saying it's a national capitalist trick to save a few bucks by risking your health.
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The N+1 Theory
But it depends on the sort algorithm. In the exercise I did this on (in Ocaml with some custom lazy code, since Ocaml's wasn't lazy enough for what I was doing) I did sort in descending order.
I'm not an expert at anything but I do follow my University's motto 'Ancora Imparo' (I'm learning). I personally think it's difficult for you to know when you're an expert at anything but other people will start labeling you as an expert. They'll ask for your opinions, help, etc and wouldn't mind paying for it. Just do whatever interests you. Share what you've learned. But always know you're just a student of the field, let other worry about how they perceive you.

How did PG become an expert at starting up? He did it himself. He wrote essays about it to share what he learnt. I'm sure he was never trying to be an expert. Even in his essays now, he never makes "expert claims". It's the people who found the advice helpful that labelled him so.
I think you should submit. For a great hire, a great start-up will pull out the stops and help you sort out an appropriate visa.
You know you are an expert when you start saying "it depends" to questions you are asked.
This was my first thought as well, specifically with regards to weight discrimination which is now on par with race discrimination.
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When people in your field cannot answer your questions, but you can.
This movie is not about attacking Zuckerberg, not even a little. I'd be very surprised if funding came from him or Facebook, but I wouldn't be surprised if the creators talked to Zuck about it quite a bit.
Much of the Northeast has this flavor. I dunno if you've ever been to the Boston area, but many of the buildings have this same sense of history to them. In the leather district, you've got former tanning factories which became porn studios which became software offices and yuppie lofts. In Maynard, you have old textile mills from the industrial revolution, which became DEC in the 50s and 60s, which became Monster.com in the dot-com boom of the 90s, which are now used for web2.0 startups and consultancies. In Lowell, you still see the old textile mills and canals alongside the remnants of the Wang Labs towers and newer businesses.

From what I know of NYC, it's much the same, with bohemian lofts where old tenements once stood.

That's one of the things I miss most about New England, having moved out to California. Here, everything is cookie-cutter suburbia, built in a hurry during the 70s and 80s. There's none of the charm or history of the Boston area. I can walk around downtown Lowell and say "This is a charming city, even if it's a little economically depressed." I can't really say the same about San Jose, even though it's cleaner, safer, and much more well-off.
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Ah, I think it would be a mistake for anyone to assume they are an expert unless they are in a field that has nothing left to be discovered (rare!). If you are in tech, then I think "Ancora Imparo" (I'm learning) - as referenced in an earlier comment - is the way to go. If you have anything to do with startups, then I think you should be ready for your knowledge and expertise to be disrupted everyday.
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I love this snippet. Awesome! Anything else you care to share?
I'm using the official port right now with no trouble: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=146302

It's not in the tree yet due to some licensing problems that need to be sorted out. The newest shar file as of this writing is here: http://chromium.hybridsource.org/chromium-stable-125.shar.tx...
Why trust your friends on Wall Street then? ;-)
Point 4 applies as much in Linux as it does in FreeBSD. I've got binaries I compiled against 2.0 and 2.2 kernels in the mid to late 90s that will still run on 2.6 kernels today. Stable userspace ABIs are something that everyone agrees on.
The Euro-centric view is that Europe is the battlefield of the world, and that Poland is the battlefield of Europe, and during World War II that was more true than ever before or since.

The cities of Rotterdam ('the city without a heart') and Dresden still tell a pretty grim tale today if your eyes are open to it, and Warsaw and Poznan have plenty of places where the repair still hasn't caught up with the damage. There isn't a month that somebody doesn't dig up a piece of ordnance (in some cases very large bombs) when working on their houses or doing public works.

Be grateful for the world you live in and strive to minimise war, it wasn't always this peaceful and the chance is that it will not always be.

Europe is still quite anti-war (in spite of the apparent ease with which some countries, including mine joined the Iraq adventure) there are lots of older people here that still remember what it was like. But we tend to forget and when the last of them dies and stops reminding us how bad war really is the risk is very large that past stupidities will be repeated.
But does Unconscious Competence == Expert ?
I don't think that's sufficient.

Or 'sought out' and 'paid well' has a more restrictive meaning for you than for the thousands of big businesses that spend tons of money on IT Consultants.
Ask HN: Need feature advice for startup
I am building a simple communication platform for small to medium companies. It is a webapp (Saas). I built a messaging system look like an e-mail and a forum for discussion. I built admin system for centralized administration. I am now building chat for real time communication. What else can I do to make it better? Actually these companies are still using a desktop e-mail client and maintain their own e-mail server for communication, which will not allow real time communication and when I was an employee of a company which was using this desktop e-mail client, I was asked to not to send too many messages because they are not able to maintain the server load. I want to change that and I also want the employees more engaged. What else can I add to make it better? Another thing is that the users are not so tech savvy. They use computer to get their work done. They do not know about blogging, twitter, social networking etc.
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OR: Apple selling close to 10% of all mobile phones in the US with just 2 models (iPhone 3GS and 4) without spending a penny on ads in a market they entered only three years ago...

http://www.dotcoma.it/2010/08/03/in-news-that-isnt.html
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Banning DDT was one of the stupider things the government has done. The EPA studies showed no reason for it; the first EPA administrator just up and did it - against the professional scientists' recommendations. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, which was the original "justification" for it was pure BS.
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Which programming language is fastest?
There are lots of YC companies who have hired foreigners, and have paid for the H1B, T1N, etc. (I'm basing this on the YC mailing list traffic). It seems to happen frequently.
I don't see any evidence that corporations and capitol are following any pattern of "decentralizing" whatsoever. What do you base that assertion on? Rather the opposite. Multinationals already run roughshod over nations. Stronger international governments are what is needed. Wouldn't more "powerful" States be even cheaper marks for corporate soft power?
Being an employee is significantly less risk and less stress than being a founder. Most of these companies have funding, traction, and a real product. It's different than being given $17K to make something of yourself, and presumably appeals to different people.
One nice thing about the BSDs is that their users don't get annoying things like this when they look for basic manual pages:

The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents
instead. The maintainer of tar falls into this category. This man
page is neither complete, nor current, and was included in the Debian
Linux packaging of tar entirely to reduce the frequency with which the
lack of a man page gets reported as a bug in our defect tracking system.

If you really want to understand tar, then you should run info and read
the tar info pages, or use the info mode in emacs.

Problems with this man page should be files as bugs against the Debian
tar package, not submitted to the tar maintainers.

There is a fair amount of truth in the old joke that BSD is for people that love Unix, and Linux is for people that hate Microsoft. As the name says, GNU is not Unix, and that shows through in most Linux distributions.
Here is their article in Science, where the authors describe what they believe to be new behavior and use the word "adaptation."

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/329/5989/333
FU money can be just enough to buy a patch of land and build one of these:

http://earthship.com/
I quite like Debian for development - when installing a new system there's a slew of packages I always add (eg "manpages-dev"), and after that it's plain sailing.
i sincerely hope your startup fails. i simply do not want to live in a world in which an expectation of passively recorded videos "scales".
Don't tell your current girlfriend that you still love your ex, though ;)
how can you sometimes have a little less than 1 person working on one of the most important parts of your runtime?

You make sure that person knows a lot about garbage collectors? If he's implemented garbage collectors before and is up-to-date on GC research, there's no reason one person couldn't implement it alone.
You'll know you're an expert when you don't care about being labeled as such. You know your stuff really well, so well that it's a matter of intuition. If you care about being an expert, you're not one.
There are far more ways to be weird than ways to be right.
Yes, apparently they have been covered on Wired, PC Mag and other high profile blogs (way back in 2003)
or was it... 1984 ?
I run a podcast about cognitive science you may enjoy: http://cogscast.ca
"Pure optimism sprinkled with tenacity" - that's a pretty good definition of a start-up, when you think about it.
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I won't speak for him but I've been on it before for the treatment of bipolar disorder. It works for some people. It didn't work for me - too poisonous - and I'm on something else now. But I don't blame his reaction; there were horrible side effects.
Is there any upside to you in this? Seriously.

Three months from now, you'll have a "negotiation" where you've already compromised your perceived value (they've already had the milk for free, how much could the cow possibly be worth), and the BATNA on the negotiation is your pick of grossly underpaid or unemployed.

This is not common practice among organizations which do not exploit their employees. You can do better than this job.
It's not prohibited by law. Canadian law has no jurisdiction in other countries.

Also, if titular honors are prohibited by foreign governments why do we have a Queen?
This is trailer of animated reconstruction of Warsaw after uprising in 1944:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYmxhnIJ3g4&feature=relat...
emacsclient helps with that style of work. It sends the editing job to the running emacs.
There is a lot of helpful context that could theoretically be added to an article like this, which would obviate a lot of the "wow, so depressing" or "Google has succumbed to the times" comments here.

Alas, for confidentiality reasons, such cannot be shared :|

Suffice is to say, do be sure to take this as but one data point of many :)
Love this thread found some new podcasts I haven't heard of before. Ever since I started my own business podcasts have taken over completely from movies and tv as my primary source of entertainment. Here are my favorites:

1) The Adam Carolla Podcast - Its not heavy material (this is my daily candy entertainment) but I marvel at how well Adam communicates and improvs-- he's been doing radio for over 10 years and he's the most consistently funny improv guy I've ever heard-- he constructs some pretty complicated comic maneuvers in real time, like call-backs and alliterative rhymes and stuff... anyway the guy is a mench

2) This Week in Start-Ups - I think @jason 's podcast is the currently the best consistently produced business related entertainment on the web (second is now defunct UK version of Kitchen Nightmares by Gordon Ramsay, watch out you might get addicted) sometimes interview podcasts can frustrate you with their non-sequitor randomness but this show involves experienced high-level tech entrepreneurs in pitch reviews, business advice, and news commentary. There are also some pretty awesome narratives to the show, like Jason getting in random fights, confronting celebrities, calling out other entrepreneurs, and starting businesses on the show. GREAT stuff.

3)Fresh Air - The most entertaining and insightful interview podcast I've come across. Terry Gross interviews people who do interesting shaz and she asks really damn good questions.

4)Mixergy - Andrew Warners show is like entrepreneurial popcorn, its fun to hear what other folks are up to. Andrew pretty much seems like the nicest guy ever and is really good at pulling out interesting stories from his guests.

5)This American Life - Finds SUPER interesting stories, tells them awesomely, and from time to time if you are alone in your car you might pop out a tear or two. Very pro.

6)Internet Business Mastery - The content might be a little beginner level form many HN users, but if you are just getting started marketing an internet based business, these guys have some really professionally produced episodes (100 now) that walk you through every single aspect of setting up a blog based marketing type business. Not much start up or tech info, but lots of good mindset and basic business 101 stuff. This really helped me out when I was making the transition to quit my job.
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Suggest you get your application online and invite HNers to take a look?

It will be much easier to offer advice when we can see your product and what it's trying to achieve
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Har har, nice try Steve.

In seriousness, I find this a curious thought experiment too. Obviously, minimum salary at first makes perfect sense. But let's say that there is a successful business with good cash flow -- what then? One doesn't want to appear gauche, but it's good to allow the founder to lead a more full life a little bit, same idea as allowing for liquidity events in subsequent rounds of financing, right?
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That's 7 years old! I'm not sure it helped make your point.
What Europe can be quite proud of is how not only war was avoided during the last decades but also that war was made less likely over the decades. Suggesting that there could be war between Germany and France would be crazy today but certainly wasn’t always.

That’s not just some flimsy anti-war sentiment which can change as new generations take over, that actually has something to do with lasting change initiated by the war and post-war generation after the war. The EU is the most visible symbol of that change and for all the flack it gets, European integration made war less likely.
Ask HN: Best way to organize files for a book?
I'm sure there are some of you that have written books before. Would like the 'hacker' (if you guys still read this site) approach to maintaining the contents for a book.

I was thinking of some sort of vim extension that had a windows explorer tree on the side of the screen (for weaving through folders/text files).
Happy to help. While I can say 'footfalls' is an unfamiliar word for a US reader, it might still have some curiosity-generating value for its novelty -- as long as you aren't expecting it to have explanatory value alone. (I might have thought it was a brandable word you made up, to describe some unique feature/metric of your product, had the context of your question not made clear it was a real word from elsewhere.)
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Agreed, it's less likely. But idiots like Wilders are pushing the exact same buttons that a certain Austrian guy did and there is a real risk of him or someone like him rising to power.

There are more and louder voices for the break-up of the EU in the last 3 years than I've ever heard in my lifetime.
It would be really neat if this were interactive — that is, if you could paint on the modern image to reveal the 1940s image underneath.
Direct link to 2:40 of the referenced video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfMbYllbN6c#t=2m40s
if you don't have 2.2, download an app called 'linkpush' sits in chrome and you click it, copies the url and then you can open the app on your phone to open it.
While this is perfectly true, Linux is A) not dead and B) gaining market share, so it is simply disingenuous to claim that it has lost or that it definitively didn't "win". To the extent that it's even meaningful to refer to "winners" and "losers", the game's still on.
There's a good joke about that, it goes like this:

A man is seated next to Bill Gates in the business class of an airplane.
Mr. Gates, he asks, how come that with your name and brand recognition and your tremendous turnover as well as the locked-in nature of your customers that you still spend money on advertising.

Gates replies: Do you like the speed at which this aircraft is travelling ? How about we turn the engines off ?
How many lawsuits figuring with the GPL have you seen?
I know of a handful and I've read and heard that the focus is not to sue but to educate the companies in compliance.
This seems relevant:
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"Researchers (Bloom (1985), Bryan & Harter (1899), Hayes (1989), Simmon & Chase (1973)) have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas, including chess playing, music composition, telegraph operation, painting, piano playing, swimming, tennis, and research in neuropsychology and topology. The key is deliberative practice: not just doing it again and again, but challenging yourself with a task that is just beyond your current ability, trying it, analyzing your performance while and after doing it, and correcting any mistakes. Then repeat. And repeat again."