skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except people post whole books to Scribed, while on YouTube, you can't post a whole ripped DVD in one post.
I thinks he refers to the fact that the above post by yummyfajitas says that Americans have a higher standard of living than Swedes.

While they may earn more, they also benefit from much much higher social security (for instance family allowances). Also I don't think the gap between Americans and Swedes is such that just by saving a couple of years you can match the paid leave. You must also consider various expanses that Americans have but not Swedes : a personal pension plan (or at least, a more consequent one), tuition fees for the older child, or saving for that of the child just born.

Finally the claim that people don't stop working to take care of their children is a proof it isn't enjoyable is laudable because it doesn't factor in psychological and sociological parameters.

tl;dr Swedes don't have a lower standard of living than Americans. Maybe the reverse is even true.
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Someone enlighten me, how can the author talk about a marginal tax rate for the entirety of ones income?

Isn't a marginal rate by definition the rate which applies to earnings above a specific benchmark (thereby providing no disincentive to cross it)?
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The interesting part, to me, was the difference in what "upstanding citizen" means, clothing-wise, depending on your position on the case.

I hadn't thought about it much, and I was guilty of assuming more dressed-up was always better.
Well there's still plenty of uses for a fast and helicopter. Patrol missions for one. But hopefully they'll be able to scale this up to bigger sizes.

Does anyone know if that would be much harder? I.e. is it inherently harder to make heavier helicopters go faster? Or do you just have to scale up the fabrication.
Isn't that an example of the sunk-cost fallacy?
My family nearly went bankrupt from my mom's cancer treatment even though we had health insurance. Until the recent healthcare reform, yearly and lifetime limits and the ability to deny coverage due to pre-existing conditions after enrollment were allowed. My cousin who is healthy but has severe asthma has been unable to attain health insurance on his own since graduating college. He works two part time jobs, but does not have employer sponsored health insurance. The American system is broken and the people who'd benefit the most from fixing it are more concerned about "death panels" that don't exist than looking out for one another.
On matte? I have a matte screen and can touch it here and there's no fingerprint linger. On my glossy-screen Macbook at home the screen looks like an oily mess (and all I do is sneeze occasionaly!).
Organizing for America releases door-to-door canvassing tools in iPhone app
That's the thing that impresses me most with Chrome. They are innovating the browser in a variety of ways while keeping it slim and very, very fast. Like most, I was a Firefox user as well and even though Firefox 4 is pretty sharp and quick, there's no reason for me to go back to it now.
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For less formal coworking, become a "regular" at a cafe on a particular day of the week, and invite everyone to join you. I hang out at Sugarlump in SF every Wednesday.
Yes, I'm quite sure having a year and half of your life subsidized by people who made different child-bearing choices than you is nice.
Impressive. Does anybody know which algorithm is used?
"The universe does not necessarily exist. Something or someone had to create it from nothing at some point (which we can call the beginning of time)."

Not necessarily. The universe could have been existing "forever". If something created it, who created the creator? if this creator is "special" why not the universe?
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This is really huge for anyone who has ever volunteered for a candidate before. See what TechPresident had to say:

http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/dems-iphone-app-now-equi...
I wonder if Digg could have sold the relaunch off as a "failed premium service for users" and treat the power users really well. Obviously, everyone gets pissed off and Digg backs down and opens if for "everyone" and refunds any paid-in fees.
> a high school course called Home Economics, or something like that

Wow, I'm only 26 but this makes me feel old. "Home Ec" was a pretty well-known course when I went to school.
At least the qvik.fi guys are developing iPhone/iPad apps.

I have met other iPhone developers now and then, but it's not very easy line of business. I do web development mostly, and try to make iPhone apps when I have time/money for it.
All I'm saying is that the original post which talks about standard of living and then backs it up with income figures is incorrect but I don't mention spending at all (though the original poster does seem to imply their interchangeable I don't comment on that).

As it goes I'd entirely agree with you that many people could lower their income and / or expenditure without impacting their standard of living and / or happiness.
Cross-subsidy is a part of life in a civilized society.
Ask HN: How to build a Crunchbase clone using Wordpress?
I'm trying to figure out how to build a website with features similar to crunchbase.com.

I think the best way to do it is by using custom post types and the One Click Post plugin.
More about that here: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/381/implementing-a-crunchbase-com-clone-using-wordpress/

My problem:

Lets say we are adding a person to the directory.
Name and bio is easy to add aswell as website, hometown, email etc using custom taxonomis.
But when it comes to adding companies it gets harder. The form must be extendable if the person has worked for more than one company. How should we do that?
And the company name isn't the only info we want, we also want to know how long the person worked there, what his role was and so on.

Anyone have any ideas about this?
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Sounds like there are a ton of compelling reasons to try it.
Another shitty situation would be if all of your friends' coworkers had to work more and earn less to pay for your friend's decision to have a kid.
Typo: I think you probably meant garlic 'cloves' not garlic 'gloves' in the onscreen recipe. Minor, but I noticed.
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That's just begging the question.
No. I stand to gain more than the opportunity cost of staying.
Congrats on implementing the Minimum Viable Product!

Care to share any rough details of how long it took to ship the MVP?
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I'd be interested in seeing if there's been any effect on Swedish entrepreneurship resulting from generous family leave.

Obviously I'm not talking about high-powered startups here, but lifestyle businesses, freelancers, that sort of thing. Probably hard to draw out causation, but worth thinking about too.
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This probably won't solve your problem in the long term, but maybe it can make one afternoon a bit brighter for you: watch Office Space and think about the life you are not living.
I'm really curious how many of these videos there are! I did get a couple of 404's, but there are a lot of distinctly different and funny clips.
There's not a lot you can realistically do about it in an automated way.
I think the problem is not that people are wilfully ignoring it, rather it's just not prominent enough.

When I open HN, I am immediately seduced by an interesting headline (or point score) of a frontpage story. I don't have time to make a conscious decision to visit /newest. There's no way it's getting precedence over "12 ways to speed up your Erlang programs with NoSQL".

If new and the frontpage got equal treatment, then I'd be seduced by interesting headlines of frontpage and new stories equally. Meaning the good new stories would have a better chance of being upvoted.

I wouldn't like to see frontpage and new stories merged into the same list, since a great deal of new stories are spam or otherwise devoid of interest.
They didn't decide to. Apparently it was an accident. You do have a point though. I hope nothing happens, considering I don't make that much money.
The author didn't do that. Instead he reported on research that found that the effective marginal tax rate across a broad range of incomes and life situations was generally close to 40%. So no matter what your income, your marginal tax rate is probably close to 40%.
It's all about trusting that other people have decent understanding of whether or not an interruption is warranted.

I don't have the sort of wife who interrupts me during work hours or whilst on business trips with trivial things, so I can trust that if she initiated such a call she believes that I'll be glad I was interrupted. The question about the dog would most certainly arrive via email.

As to your other point, I worked with a lot of people over the years, and if I trusted their judgment then I picked up their calls whilst at home. If they had a track record of calling me with non-urgent items that would've been better dealt with at a later point in time, they went to voicemail which I listened to at my convenience.

So truly, if you're offended when I answer my wife's calls, that's your problem.

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edit: real life addendum. When my wife's father died while I was on a business trip, she not only didn't call me, she tried to pretend nothing was wrong when we talked that night, because she felt it was more important that I be 100% on my game for the final day of my trip, than that she have my comfort a day early.

There are some people who are thoughtless about the impact they have on their partner's careers. My wife is not one of them.

If she called me during your utterly ridiculous hypothetical scenario, it would be because of something equally ridiculous. Perhaps she found out you're a hitman.

So again... if you're bothered by my wife calling you, that's your problem. Deal with it.
Reddit has 40% more traffic than Digg, you mean.
Why? Every single one of those coworkers was born at some point. So they benefited from their parents coworkers getting some time off. And almost all of them will themselves eventually benefit when they decide to have a kid....
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I guess it's not a replacement.

I am trying to make a 'myspace for books'. Whereas scribd is a kind of repository. Libboo lets you write things online and/or upload your stuff.

Make sense?
For me the ideal would be part time. I'd love to spend more time with my daughter (15 months old) but I'm not cut out for 7 days a week childcare.
I think I'll try the feta soup!
An easier solution is to remove the points received for stories submitted.
If your marginal tax rate is approximately constant, then it will also approximately equal your overall ratio of tax/income. So even though the article doesn't seem to be particularly careful with the difference, it doesn't really matter in this case.
That's nothing. I was on 2 year paid paternity leave in Lithuania :-)

First year - 100%, second year - 85%.

Won't do that again :-)
interesting to see how they manage sales for hyper-targeted areas. someone has to build a self-serve tool for these services.
Similar to his talk at TEDxBoulder, CO some weeks back (which I attended): Quarterly Week off the Grid. One solid week away with his wife: no cell, laptop, etc.
http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/03/the-rhythms-of-life....
http://boulderreporter.com/tedxboulder-lets-hear-it-for-the-...

Good prioritizing in a routine, but the argument becomes..is "4 minutes" (4, 15, 1hr) / 1 week a quarter adequate? How about daily several hours with the people you love? Her opinion?
The costs of the assorted govt benefits is included in the figures I cited. The figures take Swedish income proportions, but scales them upward proportionally to GDP.
Your tone is negative. You seem to believe that making parental leave a positive economic choice is a bad thing for those with no children.

Do those people benefit in some way from the children that the parents have (pensions, steady supply of labour for the economy, etc)? Do they benefit from those children having the parents at home a lot when they are very young - does it lead to better-adjusted adults in the long run? What are the alternatives - subsidised child care so that the parents can work? No subsidised child care so that parents are exhausted and do a bad job when they are at work? Does it pay off in ancillary benefits even for those who choose to have no children?

If everyone benefits, then why is it a bad thing? In order to persuade people that subsidising parental care is a bad thing, it's probably better to show your working. It's not clear to many people that it is a bad thing, even people like me who are single males who end up paying for it.
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Well, iTunes isn't really built for a cross-platform kit, it is primarily built for OSX with a compatibility layer for Windows where needed (I think)... at least the shortcomings only really show up under Windows, under OSX it's a big app but generally runs well (speaking for myself here).

But, my point is that you'd think a company that knows how much ported/meta-platform apps suck would try to avoid it by making iTunes for Windows (along with QuickTime and Safari) look and feel less like OSX apps wedged into Windows and more like "good Windows citizens".

Granted, iTunes for Windows is pretty old, and it's possible Apple's struggles with it contributed to the decision to ban 3rd party toolkits from iOS.

(Or Apple just doesn't give a shit about Windows and is annoyed they have to cater to it at all, which is why all their Windows software kinda sucks.)
There's actually one major additional factor here: health insurance. I actually had a lot of money saved up with I had my first kid, enough liquid to pay the rent for four years.

I could probably have gotten private health insurance. However, it's very expensive once you no longer get it through a large institution with bargaining power, and I know many people who were denied due to existing health problems.

Plus, if your baby has health problems, you're in a very risky situation if you're an individual buyer.

Your original point still stands - it's essentially the same equation, but I think that health insurance changes the values of some of the variables. The pediatrician, rather than the rent/mortgage, was what kept me pinned to a job I actually kind of hated.
> The true benefit of this is that I don't have to feel worried about over/under charging my clients.

Why not? If you could (should) be charging $120 then that'd be $60 of future spending.
> Trip Hawkins, the founder of Electronic Arts Inc., who now runs mobile-gaming company Digital Chocolate. He calls Google's policy of letting people use paid apps for as long as 24 hours and return them for a full refund "senseless and lazy."

I think this is interesting. There is a definite divide between game programmers and "utility" programmers on this issue.

As a developer of a utility app, I am in favor of the 24 hour policy. It means people will try my app, see that it does what they need and decide to keep it. Of course this only works because it offers ongoing utility. (Shameless plug: http://www.appidio.com/apps/gas-oil-mix/)

Given the typical quality of mobile apps in general, I know I would personally be much less inclined to buy one without the possibility of a refund. Nobody likes being ripped off.

However, games are typically a fleeting distraction. You download a game, play it for a half hour and may very well never use it again. I'm quite sure the 24 hour refund policy hurts game sales.

Perhaps what Google needs to do is allow developers to choose whether or not they allow refunds. I do not mind at all if someone returns my app. It obviously wasn't worth their $0.99 - that's my fault. But there are plenty of apps that have a very short anticipated lifespan or single plausible use event. Making them subject to the 24 hour return policy really hurts those product categories.
The shops may hate it, but if the software can be better written in a different language and the software is important for their business it doesn't matter - either they use the best or some other company does which then replaces them.

Most of the places this happens are properly already ineffective companies - which doesn't notice they aren't effective anymore and therefore gets eaten by bigger companies.
Really? Effective US tax rates are about a third higher than Canadian rates?

I find that difficult to believe, but I'd be greatly amused if it was true.
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That is so low compared to the UK.
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Actually there's already a few git mirrors I'll pull from if people tell me to. I then have a few branches from the fossil repo that have the git stuff in them. Works pretty easily actually.

But, I really should just follow this so I can get the changes as an email.
The "marginal" think really does throw this off. The "marginal rate" means the amount you'll be taxed for the next dollar you earn.

So this tells us little about the rate that each person already paid for the amount below the margin, the "body" of earnings, if you will.

Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think that the idea of a flat marginal rate is a good thing: that means there's little disincentive to produce more. I would have thought that a flat marginal rate with a curved "body" rate would be darned near impossible to implement, but this makes it sound like that's been fairly successful.

Of course, the fact that the marginal rate is 40% is a very bad thing. The government should not make up a plurality of our spending.
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For the most part, I agree with this, except where people do care what tools you use for the wrong reasons. For example, a VP of Something dictates that you use DB2 just because he wants to be on the good side of IBM. Or VP of Something Else says you can't use Apache because she distrusts open source and says you have to use IIS with your Java application.
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But then we end up like Digg, right? And then who is watching the watchmen? If you give a super-user more weight then you're just increasing the potential power of a "corrupt" super-user.
As someone who runs multiple sites and who doesn't have a major problem with apache, what here should compel me to try it?

Ragel parser? Um, why should I care if I'm not going to dig into the code myself?

because zedshaw is so fucking awesome? Not a compelling reason to try a web server to me, is it to you?

sqlite configuration? Maybe, but that's not super compelling to me at the moment.

despite my sarcasm, my question is sincere. I'm curious how mongrel2 could be an improvement over what is currently used, which for me is mostly apache

Any other reasons?
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We have a class project at my high school, just a few simple questions to be answered in a email. More details later.
I transitioned recently from my parents' insurance which they pay for themselves as small business owners to the insurance my employer provides, which is probably the best insurance situation I could possibly be in. I pay about $16 a month on my paycheck for no deductible, very high lifetime limit, essentially unrestricted healthcare coverage, and pretty decent dental and vision as well. I'm lucky I love my job, basically, because being in my parents' situation where they paid thousands of thousands of dollars a year for practically no preventative coverage would be pretty awful if anything actually happened.

Basically, if you work for a large company and are in a large insurance pool, life's probably pretty good. If you're a small business owner, fresh out of college, unemployed, or have a preexisting condition that can't get covered for whatever reason, you're potentially quite screwed.
I agree. Congrats to the team. Its been a long process. Im happy to see the team make a final release. I for one will be buying once they come out.
Not sure what there is to really review, but the domain is good, and there are certainly tons of amateur bike mechanics out there that will find this useful.
Encouraging procreation isn't a sustainable solution. The planet is over populated and building economic models which depend on an ever growing population (or even one sustained at it's current level) is asking for trouble.
I recently bought an iPad so browsing the app store and downloading pretty much everything that is free has become a hobby of mine :)

My favorite is LinKing (iPhone and iPad). It's by a German game company (they have 180 employees and pump out a lot of games) so they're not quite "indie"; but the game's sole review is from me (I reviewed both the lite and pay versions), and no one has rated it. It's a well done puzzle game with a really nice interface. It's my current favorite iPad game.

Just Deliver It (iPad) is a really polished game from a Japanese developer. Great music, graphics and interface. IMO the game itself is not so great, but it may be other people's cup of tea. It's also a puzzle game. It has 13 ratings and no reviews, so I'm sure the developer is not seeing a return on investment.

Brainstory (iPhone) is surprisingly polished for such an obscure little entry tucked away in the app store. It's got great graphics. But the whole thing is just really weird, and I think that turns people off. It's a pretty standard puzzle game ala columns or dr. mario.

Ninja Block (iPhone) is a strange beast. Also from a small Japanese team. It has beautiful graphics (their artist is awesome), strange canned music, engrish galore :), and the game itself is mindlessly stupid. You have to stack blocks on top of each other as high as you can. The engrish, bad music and slightly raw feel the game has is a turn off. Some things just aren't very polished, it could have used another week of dev time. But I actually think if they could have polished it up just a tad more (and hired someone who speaks english well), they would have had a good entry in the very popular "super simple games that only shoot for a high score" that totally dominate iOS.

ESP Galuda II (iPhone) is from Cave, a very successful long time player in the shmup genre (huge in Japan). ESP Galuda II is by no means ignored (63 ratings and 27 reviews), but since it's from Cave (they are just a fantastic company), it's disappointing. iOS users, you were given caviar and you ignore it! :)
So you will be driving down the street. You'll see this thing that looks like random markings...and then when you get close it will quickly resolve to be a girl chasing a ball?

I wonder if anyone is going to not realize it is a clever illusion, and think that a girl just jumped out in front of them, swerve, and have an accident?
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We should revist this. It's mostly for convenience since lots of people just put the m2sh stuff wherever everything else goes. Problem is that screws up virtualenv folks.

Any ideas on it other than disabling?
Same here, and while Firefox is somewhat faster now it's still much slower to start up, and for me occasionally the whole process will freeze due to activity in a single tab.

I don't have to deal with any of that with Chrome.
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Jefferson was 33 when he drafted the declaration of independence, he had made many achivements before than and he would continue to achieve many things for the rest of his life.

I don't see why people who achieve success early in life shouldn't go on and achieve even further success later in life, unless there is some fixed amount of success each of us gets.