skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a kind of dead area, and haven't met people that I respect enough to want to do something with, who wants to do something, and who feel able to committing to do something.. I also don't care much for doing something completely alone, because I don't feel that I learn nearly as much when I'm solo as when I can have people questioning my work.

I'm working on trying to get a hold of work in the US so that I can start the journey back to permanent residency (moved away and am 'back to square zero,') hopefully that can net me some fun people to work with.. But you know, years off, even if I manage to get a hold of a job. I've had a fair amount of smaller companies who have been interested, but not capable of bringing me over, and my (rather few) attempts at getting into larger companies have been stopped thus far by my lousy résumé writing skills.. Have a couple in the works that I still have hope for, but we'll see.

So now I got that off my chest, congratulations on your launch btw! :)
Nice, right on spot.
No she didn't.

According to her data, income rose 75%. Mortgage increased by 70%, but note that houses are bigger and have more amenities. Two cars in the early 2000's costs 55% more than 1 car in 1973. Health insurance increased 60% and pays for far more procedures and treatments than in 1973. Taxes increased 140%.

You are confused because she presents the numbers in a strange way.

She presents the increase in mortgage/car/health insurance as a percentage increase: [mortgage 2000 / mortgage 1973 - 1] x 100% = 70% increase.

She then presents the increase in taxes as a percentage of income: 33% of income in 2000 - 24% of income in 1973 = 9% of income.

Her raw data is great, but her presentation is really confusing. I'm rather leery of her conclusions - she is great at gathering data, but terrible at analysis.

[edit: really curious why a simple presentation of the data is getting downmodded.]
Sorry to break it to you, but reading Reddit isn't more useful
From 13 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1577896

When you have a question, searching often turns up a previous discussion:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/best+conferences?sort=by_dat...
It is not that long ago that if you wouldn't use animal products or labour in most of Europe you would starve and/or freeze. Veganism as a lifestyle is utterly dependent on huge energy subsidies.

They love to play tricks with statistics too, comparing the calories in an acre of simple carbs in crops to the calories in the complex proteins in a cow. That's where the energy has "gone"...
Google purchased Android Inc. before the iPhone had been announced.
Off-topic, but have you tried Gugod's Perlbrew for handling multiple Perl interpreters? It's like rvm, but for Perl. I've been using it for a bit with great results.

http://github.com/gugod/App-perlbrew
Android has improved upon iOS in certain aspects... I would expect the same of an Android/Chrome OS tablet
> A person who can't understand the concept of "physically present but working and unavailable" is likely a person who is stuck in their own head and can't appreciate that you have your own life. That can be a real problem.

That, or they're a perfectly normal young child.

And it works both ways: when you hid your kid crying (which you'll hear even with the door closed), it overrides pretty much everything else in your head.
Google bought Android in August 2005.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2005/tc200...

The IPhone was launched January 2007.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/01/09iphone.html
Agreed, the only problem with these devices as I see it is that they themselves consume energy. Also I suspect the output is not so fun / worthwhile. Perhaps it can help people to tweak their refrigerators a couple of degrees but then again, the only real weapon against electricity overuse is pricing.

What we "need" is a carbon tax, I do not like people telling me I cannot use electricity in whatever quantities I feel like. I will however respect the fact that said electricity cant be had for free.
People still use Ruby packages from their Linux distribution? I've always compiled, especially since Debian cripples RubyGems. Either that or I use ArchLinux, which uses the actual stable version of the software.
`--head` is not necessary since it's included in the latest release (0.1.46)
Every time you type on Windows Phone 7, it plays a subtly different sound
I think it might be helpful to be specific about who is making this claim. Is it a major environmental organization like the Sierra Club? A highly regarded university research group that studies sustainability? An environmental think tank? Or some random crank on the street?

There are lots of crazy or ignorant people in the world who say crazy or ignorant stuff. It doesn't necessarily make sense to ascribe every self-described environmentalist's claims to all environmentalists. This seems like the real world version of nut-picking.
Sounds like analyzing why so many people these days take 10 types of medications daily just to survive. Oh, wait, they're 70 year old... ah, OK.

A hundred or so years ago the life expectancy in the west was 40 or something. These days we watch our 80 year-old grandparents work part-time, drive, go on vacation 3 times a year and generally have a good time. Is it really strange then that the urge to "hit the milestones" has lessened.
Perhaps if the baby boomers didn't rig the financial system in their favor, inflate housing prices, crash the dollar, grant themselves unfunded medicare and social security benefits for their vastly extended lifespan, increase college and healthcare costs 20-40%/yr, start two hugely expensive and mostly pointless wars, burn half the world's oil, scalp the science/tech sectors that their parents built for WWII and the space race, replacing them with finance/real estate ponzi schemes to extend an empty consumer lifestyle, and then outsource virtually everything except for senior executive and imigrant service jobs, their kids could start their own lives?

Just sayin.
I agree in general. About the last point: When you are running a (small) company for yourself, you are much closer to the market than when just having a job. There are lots of things to learn either way, I guess.
See my response to masterj. She presents the numbers in a rather confusing manner, sometimes listing percentage increases, sometimes a percentage of income. Virtually everyone who reads her book/watches her talks is confused.

I presented the raw data in a homogeneous manner in my response to masterj, which will hopefully reduce the confusion.
This desired effect, however, is exactly what makes these kinds of taxes politically unfeasible, at least in America.

Sadly true. The other factor is that conservatives won't like them because they're taxes, and liberals won't like them because they're market-based. ("Rich people shouldn't be able to pay to pollute").
Lasers could make virtual particles real
Forking before marriage? You kids these days!
Call of Duty: Black Ops Unusual Solo Campaign Hides Secrets
Where to Get the Best Free Education Online
Cool stuff. How are you getting the data on new books? Do you have a cron job that uses Amazon's API to search for new books? I'm not really familiar with their API so I'm not sure if that makes sense.

Are the categories grabbed from Amazon too?
They missed one: Rock-n-roll. That derned rock-n-roll is EVIL. It's just a bunch of long haired young'uns, a jumpin up and down and a twangin on gee-tars. It causes the kids to GYRATE!
In the US at least, efficiency improvements over the last decade or two have generally been offset by safety and performance improvements. Modern engines are more efficient, but they're also more powerful and they're driving heavier vehicles that are more likely to keep you alive in a crash. Americans drive on highways a lot and the need to be able to accelerate through an on-ramp quickly enough to feel safe has lead to cars with less net fuel efficiency than we might have.
How would/could it be cheaper?
This is kind a little off topic but I have a question for you.

I am in the middle of being diagnosed with ADHD (I'm 30). It was actually HN that prompted me to take action, but that's another story which I can expand on if anyone is interested.

I haven't read much about ADHD being linked to shyness and introversion, although I certainly haven't done enough research. But it describes me very well, could you possibly say a little more or point me to some resources? Everything I've read talks about impulsiveness and extroversion. I would guess that shyness and introversion are learned reactions to the impulsiveness.
Biggest problem with the G1 is that it was RAM constrained to begin with, and that's only gotten worse with 2.x.

FWIW, CyanogenMod has bee solid on mine. CM6 RC3 (Froyo) runs pretty nicely on my G1.
Right, but Yegge's 2007 audience is likely a big pile of programmers coding in Java, C++, and Perl who have never even heard of Backus Naur Form.
Starting a business often means zero k for some period of time. Trading 30k sounds reasonable (in some parts of the world), but what about 10k? 5k? And "complete control of my time and decision making" reminds me of that old saying about business owners - "I get to choose my own hours, as long as its all of them."
Comparing the descriptions of climate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen#Climate and http://www.city-data.com/states/Michigan-Climate.html, yes. Michigan has a worse climate for biking. Particularly in the portions that are subject to lake-effect snow.
It's also worth noting, though, that early Android phones were much more like Blackberry competitors:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ip-telephony/two-photos-here-of-a-...
http://gizmodo.com/334909/google-android-prototype-in-the-wi...

And once the iPhone was released, the target form factor changed. There's a fair share of Apple inspiration in the industry.
Two things to say here. First: I am sorry for the author, and I sympathise with him. It's that the techy world (and not only that one) likes dichotomies a lot more: good/evil, USA/Russia, Apple/Microsoft, iOS/Android, etc... Sad but true.

And while I think that it'd be hard to defend WebOS now even though not much has changed in the last few years (is this correct?), and consumers have not been very keen so far (in terms of units sold), I agree it's a problem. It would be a pity if once the new WebOS/Pre comes out it will get ignored, or even the new Windows Phone 7. Indeed I am very much looking forward to Meego, but even that seems to have a tenth of the hype surrounding the Android.

Second: I liked Lifehacker in the past. But more and more they seem to be turning into a me-too tech news site, and a pretty biased one at that (towards FOSS). I enjoyed it much more when it stayed closer to the theme... now I hardly read it anymore. (not sure if in the last few months it changed much, to be honest).
aha.. with all these spaghetti-coded plugins you will make it scale.. ha ha. WP became good inside, but third-party code is still too bad. The only way to make it scale and work secure - to use limited set of third-party modules and you can't do this is, 'cos people need them.

wp ecosystem is still too young to do this.
Changing from washing in hot to washing in cold? That's all I can figure. If that is indeed the case one should wash in cold AND line dry their clothes.
Microsoft Silverlight 4 vs. Adobe Flash 10.1: Developer's view
Yes in some cultures (China) children often don't leave home at all. And the result? Life long infantilization, seriously Chinese are treated like children even after they marry.
I don't know any liberals that don't like carbon taxes or cap and trade regimes because they're market based. I mean, the EPA already runs a cap and trade system for some pollutants. I'd say the bigger issue is that there are some states represented by both liberal and conservative politicians that will lose under a cap and trade regime, and those politicians are going to oppose any carbon price because of that.
I didn’t know that there are places on the world where glass bottles are not used several times. Even some PET bottles are used several times in Germany. I’m drinking Coke out of one of those right now. You can even crudely gauge how often one has been used by how clear it is. (Mine looks pretty new.)

Wikipedia tells me that those PET bottles are used about twenty times (and then they are recycled). They were introduced in Germany in 1990 by Coca Cola.
I suspect it's two things. 1, the need for shared resources (users shouldn't have to connect to server71231.example.com, they should be connecting to mail.example.com. (2) performance (via fiber link or something)
Why is every tablet assumed to be inspired by the iPad? All sorts of companies have been creating tablets for a long time.

Sure Apple apparently made a nice one. But it is not only Apple's genius, it is also the the progress of technology that made it possible (faster, more power efficient CPUs, better batteries, better displays...).

One big thing hindering other companies' tablets was probably Windows, which presumably just sucked too much. There were attempts with Linux tablets, but again, the sleekness wasn't there yet (in the meantime, as with the hardware, things have improved).

So now Google has their own OS, so they can make a new attempt at creating a nice tablet without Windows suckage. They are not just copying Apple.
Digital ads can better track their effectiveness pretty well, traditional ads IMO not so well. Until that gap closes, it's harder to say which is better and which is worse.
Does Bergen have ice on bike paths for much of the year? My dad traveled to Bergen when he was in his 60s, but I have never been there. Here in Minnesota (which has a climate similar to Michigan), a big barrier to biking or walking outdoors for shopping or commuting (which I do a lot) is the presence of ice on the streets. In places with a freeze-thaw cycle repeatedly during the winter (and Minnesota is one of those places) streets can be covered with ice on random occasions during six months of the year.

Some Minnesotans fly to Arizona every winter to avoid the icy streets here. They are called "snowbirds" locally. I used to think that was an extravagant lifestyle, but when my dad was not quite seventy-two years old, in April in Minnesota, he slipped on ice while on a trip to the local grocery store and then was paralyzed (quadriplegic) for the last six years of life, unable to care for himself at all. Since then, I have taken icy streets much more seriously. I still bike a lot, and I still stay in Minnesota during the winter, but I realize now that walking or biking on ice can have catastrophic consequences.

I agree with the idea that designing a city to be more bike-friendly increases bike trips. I enjoy where I live now because my city has an extensive set of city bike trails (which in the winter are sometimes used by Nordic skiers) that connect to regional trails (former railroad lines) that extend all over our metropolitan area. But I watch out for ice for half of each year.
cannot build working binary with clang sigsegv in ./miniruby on linux/x86_64 =(
Google adds multitenancy to App Engine SDK
I recently wiped CyanogenMod as it wouldn't run the example scripts supplied with the Android Scripting Environment.
It's pretty neat. The inbox picture isn't the easiest to pick out that it's an indbox - make it look like the normal window view of mail with the split views for easier recognition.

Besides that, the top menu animation is a bit distracting (which you're going to reduce - from your comment above :) And it would help if you had most of the inbox if not all of it showing up without scrolling down a la Apple.com style.

You also have a pretty good search layout, which is nice, but it would benefit more if there were pictures. Personally, I'd die for to have a spotlight like/apple.com search like filtering with tiny thumbnails of books.

As about your next iteration, you could potentially do some collaborative filtering for recommendations. Of course, that's something for the long run and is essentially a non-trivial yet money maker (if you're into that sort of thing).
I saw her speech. It's great by the way, but you're wrong about healthcare. Healthcare is more expensive in every way than it was in the 70s.

She shows how everything in our society is less expensive now, except the places where we are spending all our money: Housing, Healthcare, and Education. And how ridiculous it is for families to have 2 incomes just to afford a house in a neighborhood that has "good schools". This is the 2 income trap. 2 income families are twice as likely to suffer the loss of one of those incomes, and if their mortgage requires 2 incomes to pay, there goes their house.

For some reason the US has fully bought this ridiculous obsession with housing. A $3,000 or $4,000 a month mortgage that takes 50-75% of their monthly income is considered "normal" somehow, and keeping up with the neighbors in conspicuous consumption is considered normal as well. No wonder it is unsustainable and our economy is suffering.
Jonah Lehrer: Sex Is Stressful, But Good For You
Create a Club for your Startup
I'd compare it to the cost of housing/food, not the cost of stuff for the purposes of this article at least. "Stuff" always gets cheaper and cooler. The fundamental things you need for independence don't necessarily.
I understand the benefits of incorporating in Delaware, but why a C-corp instead of an S-corp?

Doesn't a C-corp have a substantially higher tax burden?
Not political views, but I have passed on overtly religious people as I view religion as a sign of mental illness.

Mod me down if you like, but having "faith" in invisible people is oddly creepy to me.
http://vook.com/literature-and-fiction.html
Heh, consider yourself lucky, in Costa Rica you can't even buy from the Android Market, or Amazon mp3 store. Hell, I had to use a US vpn just to be able to buy my phone.
I know it's probably a negligible piece of market share but it sucks to feel excluded.
Re heating/air-conditioning: get a passive house [+], but those work probably best in relatively moderate climate and you will have to sacrifice some comfort.

[+] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house
Inequality in educational attainment: Do family and neighbourhood matter?
One major difference is the update pattern. Chrome OS silently and constantly updates itself so that you will always be running 100% modern software. I hear more complaints about being stuck on old versions of Android than anything else about that OS.

Chrome OS does serve a different purpose. Being so tightly integrated with the browser will definitely give you a better Web experience than you could ever have on Android. Then again, Android has a platform for running applications natively.

What I'm trying to say is...they're different. Maybe you don't want one, and that's fine. But I suspect there are a lot of people who will.
I personally think we should have consumption guages on our major energy users. Getting a hybrid woke me up to this and I have since added one to the house electrical system and built one for our heat. The cool thing is that it gave an intuitive sense of different energy draws.

In general it is true. Our intuition is wrong in many cases. For example, I found unhooking our doorbells was more significant than not using the clothes drier. Today our house uses 20% of the energy it did before having the gauge. We don't even try to conserve because the effort to reduce the baseline made such a difference.

Why don't they require this sort of device in all new cars? One study indicated that it would add $12.50 per car. Adding the ones to the house was about $200.
How corporate America went open-source
The problem with dropbox is that they don't have a client for automating backups. That means everything I store there has been manually dragged into the dropbox folder (see NB). It would take me a long time before the number of files I needed to share online exceeded their free limit.

NB: Truth be told, I run batch files via task scheduler for backing up certain folder to dropbox, but I doubt the typical consumer does.
Google TV facing resistance from studios
She's being directly quoted by the grandparent. How can you get a direct quote wrong? In any case, I think we generally agree with her data.

The 2 income trap is real, and the US seems to have fallen for the ridiculous trap that is expensive housing. The sad thing is that it will take a societal shift away from obsessing with McMansions in order to affect any meaningful change, and it's unlikely to happen in our lifetimes because the realtors are the #3 top donor to government (See opensecrets.org - the NAR is #3)
what if you have cold water baths? The comparisons are really unclear - really poor use of language. And they assume too many things. What if you don't take any warm/hot baths AND turn off lights? Would that save energy?
We use Debian for the CI machine. CI failures are taken quite seriously, and we have a person maintaining this CI box. I believe that is why Debian is considered highest.

The next level of OS support are core developers that use that OS for work / home, but we don't have CI machines.

I think if we had more CI boxes, then more platforms could join the "highest level" support. I know there was a conversation on the Japanese dev list about this, and I can try to dig it up if people are interested.
I'm not a guru, but I have my own experience, which matches resent publicly accepted studies.

http://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Intelligence-Matter-More-Tha... is a good starting point.

I think everyone involved (I'm with Asperger's) should study the topic, to be able to understand (and then make a corrections to) one's own behavior, instead of believing what other people (including doctors) are saying.
I haven't, but I don't read paper. I do have a photo of a huge QRCode on a billboard, tho.

Here, I posted it in case you want to see:
http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/huge-qr-code/
1st amendment guarantees that right to sit around and mock people for whatever you feel like.
Technical issues. I've been struggling with OpenSSL problems for weeks, but I haven't been working on it very much. I've finally decided to buckle down and use Python instead of Ruby due to its better OpenSSL libraries.
Empires on the edge of chaos: lecture by Niall Ferguson
Man I hate when an os tries to give too much feedback, and audio is one area Windows has been particularly annoying (that annoying 'click' navigation sound comes to mind).

And now they are adding that kind creative thinking to mobile? Good God no - I don't want to hear the sound myself, now imagine sitting next to someone txting like mad on a bus...
> They are incredibly adapt at spotting advertisements, and will simply block them from memory.

[Citation Needed]

[Editing Needed]

In the comments, there's some discussion about ad quality. Users should be allowed to upvote or downvote ads. (Maybe upvote only is better?)
I disagree, but it may depend on where you live. In Silicon Valley, working on your own for 5 years on cutting edge technology, even if you fail, gives you a distinct edge in the job market over someone who spent 5 years working on an obsolete stack and probably a significantly higher salary. The salaryman probably has a far higher burn rate and no significant savings.
The house is 60% bigger [1], and according to Warren's data, costs 70% more. Most likely, it also includes more amenities such as washer/dryer (which were uncommon in 1970). We spend more, but also get more.

See my other post which gives numbers on healthcare. I agree that college costs are out of control.

People choose to take on a riskier financial profile in order to consume more. That doesn't mean things are more expensive.

[1] http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/us-home-size.html#axzz0wycZ...
1) Get article written about you, linking to page on free hosting saying nice things about you

2) Change free hosting page to say something nasty

3) Sue for libel

4) Profit

no need for ???