skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the fact that a job wouldn't be done in a free market system is not a justification for saying that they don't contribute on net. The free market doesn't lend itself to funding a lot of work that is still worth doing - basic research being an obvious example.
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Indeed,

You would have to give each prediction an "audacity factor", how unlikely it seems.

The system would work in fashion where a 50% accuracy rate and a 30% one would actually be considered the same accuracy. Either you get higher than a 50-60% rate OR you get some of your predictions rated as having a high audacity factor.
What does the US have?
Rich people along the southeastern coast get their beach houses rebuilt every few years courtesy of hurricanes and Federally subsidized flood insurance.
First off "standard physics" is wrong. Newtonian physics if full of holes, but so is QM at the edges. However, in QM you really have to take that approach that energy is only conserved on average otherwise things like quantum tunneling don't work or require time travel etc. From what I can tell, conservation of energy for large system is simply the most probable event, but it’s not the only option.

Secondly the only meaningful way to talk about this stuff is with math or data. When the experimental data fits the calculations you have a working theory, but you can't intuit this stuff. Talking about a "ocean of virtual particles" sounds right but it's not accurate.
Ask HN: Looking for Android News "writers"
We are looking to hire people who are heavily interested in the Android world to post up news articles... these would include updates on news thats already floating around as well as doing exclusive editorials, reviews, how-to's and hopefully breaking news as well.

I'm hoping HN has plenty of people interested in it that we'll find some people here.

Work from home (of course) and only in your spare time on something you are hopefully already interested in.

We can pay per article or work out trades for hardware/software for you to do reviews with.

If interested, please contact me at johng @ droidforums.net
> Do those people benefit in some way from the children that the parents have (pensions, steady supply of labour for the economy, etc)?

I note that we pay for that labor, so you're trying to double count.

Also, if you're going to argue that we should pay because we benefit, you can't complain when I point out that we can get children for a lot less than 18 months of time-off by relatively high-paid people.
If you write stuff for your 'own' audience of the K5 members, which will then write stuff as well for you to comment on and so on it's different than if 90% or more of the submitted articles is about stuff from the outside.

It brings in fresh blood, outside perspective and avoid inbreeding.
The article links to the following article: http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100902/steve-jobs-on-why-facebo...

Here's the relevant quote from that article:

When I asked Jobs about that, he said Apple had indeed held talks with Facebook about a variety of unspecified partnerships related to Ping, but the discussions went nowhere.

The reason, according to Jobs: Facebook wanted "onerous terms that we could not agree to."
I understood that paragraph without problems, and I'm not even a native English speaker.
Indeed 36K seems a little high for all the cheap free apps on the market.

As for using the mobile browser instead of the app. I'm curious why people aren't just making apps that load up their site. They will have a universal platform for app development and get to say, "We now have an app on X that allows you to use our product."
>> the fact that the site was organized around submission of original articles to Kuro5hin
I think the assumption these days is that in any battle between states (somewhere like Kashmir, Korea, the South China Sea – not guerrilla wars) both sides will be able to do a fairly good job of jamming the other’s navigational satellite system. This is probably partly about resisting that.
The Long Now Foundation put up longbets.org to encourage some kind of accountability for predictions.
I've seen such a website somewhere but can't find it. It was in relation to an apple prediction but there were plenty of others there too (inc political).
> How many people here ever click on "new"?

I don't know. But 'rather few' sounds accurate

> How many stories just disappear without hitting the front page?

About 90%. For 90% of that 90% that's fine. The other 10% are a loss.

> How many accounts need to be involved to make a particular story get to the front page?

Currently I'd peg that at somewhere between 4 and 5.

> Memory says that jacquesm mentioned once that he had turned down an offer of money to post certain articles from companies that were looking for good pr.

It wasn't for money it was in return for articles about my stuff.
Assuming you live in a country that has such things, please explain to me how, with easy access to birth control, morning after pills, abortion, and adoption options, is having a kid ever "an accident"? They may not have decided to get pregnant but it was no accident that they decided to keep the child.
If you're not immediately grokking the significance of Mongrel2 (as I did not), be sure to check out the documentation's Introduction:

http://mongrel2.org/doc/tip/docs/manual/book.wiki#x1-40001

The features sound cool and significantly evolved past current webservers. And the documentation is extensive and so far, an enjoyable read - now that's impressive. :)
I guess they don't have a National Health Service there, either...
> I guess you get what you pay for - higher taxes, great welfare state. Seems a fair trade to me.

Actually, the taxes paid per person isn't significantly higher in sweden than the US. The US just delivers fewer services, and no, the military isn't the reason. At the same time, US income is higher.

Sweden can do certain things because it's dominated by Swedes. It does about as well as US states with comparable demographics. Other US states aren't as lucky.
Interesting, but it seems to duplicate Weather Underground's wundermap that's been available for a few years now: http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/

Wundermap also displays data from personal weather stations, storm tracks, sattelite imagery, etc.
Actually, Netflix is supposed to be available in Canada soon.

http://www.netflix.ca/

Mind you there are existing similar services.
That would depend. If you don't need investors you might be better of in a country with lower taxes, less strict laws, etc.

That music start-up might have a chance in China, since they are not going to enforce foreign copyright, especially if they grease the party a bit.
Europeans lie to pollsters
On the consumer side, I'll bet they do consider Outlook to be a dead end. --The money is on Live/Hotmail integration for consumers. For businesses, the money is in Exchange integration, at which point it doesn't matter if you are using the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Outlook.
Those who want can always do so. The thing that's often missed is that there is no choice not to participate. If they don't mind then why are the laws needed?
I think many parents think of schools as a form of outsourcing - sending their kids to school means educating their child is no longer their responsibility. (It's also "free" daycare, as PG mentioned in one of his essays)

My parents sound a lot like yours - learning was a major part of life, and they did many things to support learning more about my interests.

We're the lucky ones. Many parents do not - they assume that their child's education is "taken care of" and abdicate responsibility.
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Look at this though: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/Advice/YourRealTa...
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Ah, I guess that's the part I actually find much better. There's a certain community aspect where people are actually talking to each other, addressing an audience, that leads to much deeper engagement and discussions imo. That's also the feature of good mailing lists, BBSs, and Usenet groups I like best (though there are plenty of bad ones). The link-site thing seems too disjointed, and imo actually leads to more of an echo-chamber effect, because people end up having to pattern-match based on superficial things like headlines. So we get lots of random submissions that seem superficially about hackerdom or startups, but less sustained engagement. I mean, I personally find HN much more echo-chambery than K5 at its peak was. Perhaps personal preference.
I received it about 4 days ago.I already use filters and have not seen much of a benefit for me.
I think reddit is an insular community of jerk types. Prediction: an influx of newbs will be rebuffed.
You know the feeling you get when you spend two hours coding up a fairly clever way to do something and then you find out it would have been a tenth of the work if you had checked the standard library first? Yeah, that is what I'm feeling right now.
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I think I know why things happened the way they did, but I can't in good conscience post them here.
Could you contact the appropriate department at a local college? Professors are usually willing to speak with someone interested in their field.

You could ask the same question through /r/AskScience at reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience - and also check out their panel of scientists for someone who fits - http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/bo0nm/askscience...

Best of luck with your class project!
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I suspect the fact that Ping seems to be engineered to be strictly top-down has more to do with it.
What browser are you using that you still see pop-under ads?
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I've been switching away from WMC, not because I don't like it (it's actually a product MS has done a really good job on), but because it doesn't work as seamlessly with the videos I watch (mkv and iso files). When I was living in the UK and had a DVB tuner, I used it as a PVR and, since I had a smaller TV, the videos I downloaded were avi's and worked fine.

But Microsoft would have to find a way to sell a box that works with the different types of TV reception - satellite, cable, or freeview in the UK, and that wouldn't be easy. (and it would be just as big of a pain in the US where they would be able to sell the most units), so I can understand why they haven't.

Still, it is strange that nobody else has really tried to sell hardware specific to WMC.
Come down to California some time.
I make considerably less than Warren, and virtually none is capitol gains. After home mortgage deduction, charitable deductions, etc. My effective federal tax rate was like 7.2% (If I remember what TurboTax told me correctly). The previous year it was 6.9%. My marginal federal bracket rate is 28% ($82,400-171,850).

Warren really like to talk that crap up about how he pays less taxes than his secretary. To me his secretary just needs a better tax guy.
I'll concede that's true for government agencies where the work could be done more efficiently in the for-profit world (say the USPS), but there are plenty of agencies whose jobs "wouldn't be done at all on the free market" because there is little profit motive, but are essential none the less. Could you imagine regulatory agencies (SEC, EPA) as for-profit entities? Job and Family services?
I've never met a home-schooled kid who wasn't social awkward. I really hate the current education system, but I also recognize that the social skills developed there are almost as important as the formal education kids get.. perhaps even more so.
I don't think you even need to add the "commercial usability" qualifier in there. Any kind of change (be it usability, UI, search, functionality, etc.) will be disliked by some portion of the community. Make the change big enough that you flip the community on its head and you'll dump your ad-clickers overboard.
Timing from GPS signals can be spoofed.

http://www.gpsworld.com/defense/security-surveillance/assess...
> As for poverty in the US, 1 in 8 are in poverty if you use the CIA-polished statistics. I say CIA-polished because the CIA also says the US spends 12.5% of its GDP on healthcare. According to the OECD, it is more like 15.3%. By comparison, France (top healthcare in the world according to the WHO) spends around 9.5% or so.

Note that US GDP is also significantly higher.

Also, healthcare costs are affected by things that healthcare can't actually affect. Consider obesity.

Also, the existence of working govt programs in other countries does not imply that the US govt could do as well with comparable programs. For example, the US govt spends about as much per person as France does. Since the US govt services appear to be significantly worse ....

No, military spending doesn't account for the difference.
I also think it is a fantastic plan.

I like you're first point. If a teacher is resourceful enough, than any topic is worth exploring and there is no limit to the breadth or depth of the exploration. Also, any learning activity can be a valuable experience in developing transferable skills.
It's closer to 1/4 of total spending. Out of $3.552 trillion in total federal spending:

Defense-related expenditures outside of the Department of Defense constitute between $216 billion and $361 billion in additional spending, bringing the total for defense spending to between $880 billion and $1.03 trillion in fiscal year 2010.[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_S...

PS: The range of costs depends on what and when you consider something military spending. Do you count future pensions under current spending or do you count current pensions? etc.
Yelp Strips Business Owners of Elite Status.
Ask HN: Why do you think Node.js is catching on? 
Let's disregard technical merits. Some questions:

1) what are the sticking points?
2) can you see it becoming legit?
3) is the turf war worth fighting in?
4) how might it break into the mainstream?
Thats kind of funny, until you realize he is actually right.

Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris would not have been serial killers if they had not be so mercilessly bullied in school.

Granted most people don't end up as serial killers, but they do end up pretty ruffled and with psychic scars for the rest of their life.

The irony is that if geeks actually did kill more people they would have women falling all over them in prison.
I'd be really interested in seeing the numbers from Buffet's assertion. Could you provide a link please? (Thanks!)
My mom stayed home with us while Dad worked (now that we're all grown she got a new job, the sort that has a commute and is counted in GDP). I think the other homechool families in the area did the same thing.

This being HN, I suppose another option would be for one parent to run some sort of e-business that allows them to have an opposite schedule and take turns working vs being with the kids.
After three years as a business owner (with great reviews), and an Elite member.. Yelp suddenly pulled my wife's Elite status.. vaguely citing a policy that appears not to be written down anywhere. This seems like a bad idea.. Elite folks, and Business Owners are Yelp's biggest assets. What's the upside?
Ask HN: what Chrome extensions do you use?
Just wondering what y'all are using.
It's a ghost town. Obviously they're recommending all the musicians they have, because they have nothing to do with my musical interests. Same with users.

I believe there were at least thousands of users that had already enabled Ping last night. It's true that there aren't a lot of artists yet, but users are joining Ping pretty quickly. More artists will come in time, but they probably couldn't allow a ton of artists to join a secret social network that hadn't been announced yet without it leaking out.
Ah, right, I should have been clearer in my comment. My assertion would be that many are ok with forcing everyone to subsidize other people. Many Americans seem to perceive taxation as inherently immoral (I blame Ayn Rand), that’s not a view you will often hear expressed in Europe.
Recomendation: Come check out Vienna Austria first.

I am a "U.S. Citizen", "born in the USA", whose parents were also "born in the USA". I moved my family to Vienna, Austria 8 years ago. I have for 4 years, owned and operated my own business, a GmbH here.

Vienna. The #1 city in the world 2 years in a row.

http://www.mercer.com/qualityoflivingpr#City_Ranking_Tables

First U.S. City, HONOLULU is at #31 with San Francisco at #32.

Insurance: US versus Austria

Three years ago, my daughter, at the age of 14, was diagnosed with morbid Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, a life threatening condition. She spent 4 weeks in a hospital, with the total out of pocket cost of 280 euro for her meals. 100 % of the hospital costs and medical procedures was covered by insurance which costs my family 2400 euros per year.

In the U.S., in 2003, we paid $15,000 per year for insurance, with a $5500 per person deductible. My wife had her Gaul Bladder removed, and it cost us $11,000 deductible + all of the customary procedures which the insurance companies routinely refuse to pay until you take them to court.

My daughters hospital stay, and continuing medical treatments in the U.S. would certainly have led to a filing for bankruptcy (70 percent of all bankruptcy filings are due to medical bills). Instead, the annual costs of treatments in Austria is 240 euros per year, continuing hospital visits, and Methotrexate Injections.

FYI: Higher education is 100% taxpayer funded in Austria.

As long as a large majority of the U.S. voting public continue to believe that taxes are "theft" rather than paying their "fair share" of the "high financial costs of personal freedom and safety", and continue to refuse to admit that affordable healthcare is a basic human right, staying in Europe is a much better option in my opinion.
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What are some Apps that you know were created in 24 Hours?
That’s not always a bad thing. The profits which Apple harvests from its walled garden have enabled it to provide services and devices that delight its customers, who may be happy to trade a little openness for greater security or ease of use

Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.
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If I was unschooled as a child, I think my every minute would have been playing basketball and Atari.

It would seem to me, that children need a good deal of direction. I was curious as a child, but I don't think I was curious about math, until I learned about it.

And I think this actually gets worse in high school. Where I'd probably do math/programming 24/7 and never read another non-technical book. Or study any history, biology, chemistry, music, etc...

Seems like you need a good balance. The parent needs to be more than simply a resource. The parent needs to be... well a parent. Someone who guides the child to areas that they might be interested in, even if the child doesn't know it. And in some cases pushes the child.
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That only works for a very narrow range of 'passions', namely those that don't require money to fulfil. Larry Ellison is the perfect example. He's passionate about sailing, so he buys the sixth largest yacht in the world and runs an America's Cup team. He's passionate about aviation, so he buys a fleet of fighter jets. He's passionate about medieval Japan, so he builds a piece of it for himself.

Thinking that money is just about money is a middle-class mistake. Money is capital, capital is power. Money is the lever with which you move the world. Money is how things get done.

The usual counterexample is academia, that a tenured academic has the freedom to pursue their discipline. That's not true and it hasn't been true for years. Most academics are under constant pressure to produce research and bring in funding.

You're right to say that you just need to make enough money to pursue your passions, but unless your passions are hopelessly mediocre, 'enough' has a lot of zeroes.
The actual paper is here:

http://www.kotlikoff.net/sites/default/files/Does%20It%20Pay...

and perhaps the most practical bit is here:

The paper provides four main takeaways. First, thanks to the incredible complexity of the U.S. fiscal system, it's essentially impossible for anyone to understand her incentive to work, save, or contribute to retirement acounts absent highly advanced computer technology and software. Second, the U.S. fiscal system provides most households with very strong reasons to limit their labor supply and saving. Third, the system offers very high-income young and middle aged households as well as most older households tremendous opportunities to arbitrage the tax system by contributing to retirement accounts. Fourth, the patterns by age and income of marginal net tax rates on earnings, marginal net tax rates on saving, and tax-arbitrage opportunities can be summarized with one word - bizarre.
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+ youtube app walkthrough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW5hp3aoF9M

+ updated Chrome extension (Chrome updated to 6.0+ today and we use new context menu APIs it now supports): https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/lgffhepmapgeepjn...
I think Apple's store has some great ideas, but I'm not going to pay for a "one time rental" type of service when Netflix is an "all you can eat" type of service.

I realize their "Instant" offering is still not as large as their DVD offering, but it's growing all the time. I currently have over 100 items in my "play it now" queue. I routinely switch items from my DVD queue to the "play it now" queue, so it appears that they are continually adding more content.
It's not a tip. A tip is what you pull your wallet out and count your bills for while giving it to the person. This is a bribe you secretly slip someone because you're circumventing the normal wait every other patron must endure. You're not "following a custom", you're secretly taking advantage of one person's greed and everyone else's patience and trust. If you did this at the DMV your fellow motorists would probably murder you in the streets.

You do this in Mexico to get out of traffic stops. Is it a cultural custom designed to get preferential treatment? Yes. But it's also called bribery.
That's why he has a staff and a cabinet. Also, there are 3 branches of government, not just one. Filled with lots and lots of people. And, many presidents have done just fine up until now. Life's tough. Get over it!
Interesting. You've convinced me to re-visit K5 to see what it's like there now.