skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact, all were rhetorical questions.

There is nothing wrong with having a high paid job, you will be supporting more economic activtiy that provides more job opportunities than somebody with a lesser pay. In fact the best thing you can do is to maintain your ability to keep that high paying job or keep getting a higher pay, so that you can cause more economic activity here, where you live.

And the chosen few are not always a chosen few, they might have been the most hardworking and ingenious few. And quite often its those few who build places like University of Chicafo (Rockfeller), build 3000 libraries (Carnegie), build Stanfords, Yales, Harvards which create more people like you. Even if I want, I would not be able to help as many people to that an extent because I am not rich.

The problem is there are not enough rich people, to create enough economic activity to provide enough jobs. A 20,000 sqft house will employ more people in its construction than a 2000 sqft house. 1000 caddillacs will provide more work than 1000 Neons. Its not that the rich are more important than the poor. The truth is that the rich need the poor to get richer, the poor need the rich to get richer.

Have you considered, you are in a minority in your town, because you may be in the minority who may have decided to work harder and study more than others in your town?

I think thats one area that one can help to change the tides, work with and convince youngsters to take on the tough subjects, the ones that can sustain high paying jobs.
On the basis of the number of years spent?
Also, Rdio
So... we ruined this planet by making it less habitable, and we'd ruin Mars by making it more habitable?

I take it we're supposed to leave the entirety of the universe exactly as it happened to be before we realized that we're capable of rearranging very tiny little bits of it?
Yes but also this.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/12/apples-reported-lala-...
easier collaboration with others that you need privacy on. A backup of your repos(though you should have backups on this too). a canonical version of your repository with read access for your team but commit access for only a select few.

I am sure there are more scenarios but this is just what I could think of in a min.
What about using unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ instead of lsyncd? It seems like it would be more resilient. It does look like unison would require a cron job or human trigger where lsyncd is triggered by a file/directory change. On the plus side, it seems like unison would work better in an offline mode.
no reason their stock won’t hit $100 billion in total valuation over the next couple of years.

That's got to be a joke.
I do not think they are doing anything special. They just are using everything they can buy (at the right price, and in the right quantities), to make lots of small improvements, one at a time. Some ways to get better products are:

- Software optimizations mean less power usage.
- Moore's law means fewer chips, means more room for batteries.
(example: AFAIK, the iPad does not have RAM outside of the CPU)
- Better batteries lead to higher power budgets.
- Cooler operation makes denser packaging possible (I bet those new
iPods will feel really heavy in the hand)
- Non-replaceable batteries allow denser packaging.
- Custom chips for e.g. audio or video decoding may use less power than
doing the same on the CPU.

They also are doing quite a bit to make their stuff look smaller than it is. The iPad, for instance, is about twice as deep in the center than at its edges. A custom-designed battery that is not a rectangular slab makes maximum use of that extra 'hidden' space.

What makes them hard to beat at this game is a) they are really good at it and b) they ship stuff in sufficient numbers to make the added costs of custom designs bearable. For example, that built-in mains adapter in the new Apple TV means that the device itself must be tested several times. It is way easier to buy an external adapter that already has passed those tests.
All you say is true, but at least 1/4 of the country does take everything he says extremely seriously. If you want a citation, check the numbers on people who think Obama's a muslim or not a US citizen. I think we can all agree that the guy's a clown but he's definitely influential and relevant.
Any files not moved elsewhere within X seconds can be handled by a cleanup daemon.
And costs a LOT more money. $1/song instead of $3/mo.
No, because I feel a kinship with other Canadians, which I think is a fairly common Canadian trait(once again, I don't want to sterotype here, maybe I have a unique set of a friends and associates). I'm from Newfoundland, Canada and I feel a kinship with other Newfoundlanders as well.

I can't speak to where you are from or what value set you have, but I feel it is important to support my country at all times, not just during the Olympics. I appreciate seeing other Canadians succeed and feel that it is good for Canada as a whole for them to do so.

Edit: Because I can't respond to the comment below, Im just going to follow up with the fact that if thats how you feel then you obviously don't have the same value set, or even understand what I am talking about. Which is totally fine, but I would guess that you don't care about someone you don't know succeeding or not, whether it has merit or not(which is also totally fine, just not how I feel).
Open sourcing the client could mean I run it off my own server, sitting in my apartment, for free. Granted, mostly geeks would be doing that, but I get the impression that many of Dropbox's user base _are_ geeks.

Like someone else said: it's not just whether or not it would HURT Dropbox (though, as I've said, I'd argue it could), but whether or not open-sourcing their clients would actually HELP them. I doubt it would.
These labels are one bereft of meaning because socialists arevcosntantly attempting to coopt them. They havev even cooped the republican party.

Libertarian means you do not believe in the initiation of force. This is incompatible with socialism which, it's core, requires the use of force to make people live a certain way.

The term libertarian has clear meaning, and all of the others will, so long as we do not tolerate their misuse and call it out when they are misused.
Jon Skeet on writing the perfect question
I use iTunes for playing music when I'm using my Apple computers. I suppose, I neither like it nor dislike it. It sits there playing music. It's not something I consciouslly "use" all that much.
It varies by what particular kind of anarchist you're talking about, but the kind of property that's most consistently objected to is a government-enforced notion of "possessions on paper", with a lot more acceptance of things that look more like personal possessions. Say, the difference between living in a house, and owning 10,000 acres of development land in suburban San Diego. The first seems vaguely like a natural sense of possession, in that you live in a place, and you don't want people intruding into your bedroom and such. But owning huge tracts of land as an absentee landlord is more of a purely government-guaranteed notion of property, pretty disconnected from any natural sense of personal possession.

Put differently, property as a way of formalizing personal possession relationships is less objectionable to most anarchists (though many are skeptical of actually formalizing it) than property as a way of creating new kinds of ownership. You can see ownership of your house as just a formal ratification of "I live in this house", but ownership of 10,000 acres of land you've never visited is a pure creation of property-deed databases, and is hard to imagine existing without them.

(Whether that's good or bad, or what to do about it, is another story. I consider myself sympathetic to anarchist critiques and ideals, but putting forth workable concrete proposals is hard.)
Wow, mid-level developers pull $150k?

Everything I had read previously stated that Google salaries were nothing special compared to industry averages, and it was the perks and culture that differentiated them

But there's no way $150k is average for a mid-range developer.
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Not sure I understand. The one they launched today is not their first. It's an updated version that is a quarter of the size, has HDMI and is less than half the price of the old one at 99USD...
You are talking about atoms. But software is made of bits. Could it be that the ideas that work well for atoms fall down in a Universe of bits?
"Facebook is quietly telling people, never in writing, that there’s no reason their stock won’t hit $100 billion in total valuation over the next couple of years. No guarantees, yadda yadda, but hey if you get 1/10 of 1%, that’s $100 million in stock."

Am I missing something, or is expecting "1/10 of 1%" equity insane? I've never heard of a mid-level developer getting that at a company of Facebook's size.
I'm definitely not like that.

I'm more interested in seeing people succeed based on merit -- not based on where they are from or any other irrelevant factor.
I think it's hard to make generalizations about tenured vs. non-tenured. Some of the worst experiences I have heard about have been with tenured faculty, usually based on neglect. Many tenure track faculty need to graduate students in order to fulfil some sort of criterion for tenure-ability. If that is strong requirement in the department/university, the tenure-track people may be incentivized to treat the students well, unlike tenured people.

That being said, I always tell other students to remember that their interests are most often orthogonal to that of their advisors and that ultimately they are their only advocates. Also, choosing an advisor needs to be assessed on a case by case basis.
Sure there are ways to Apple amass a large user base with Ping, but I think it is hard to fight with the extensible, and relatively open, Facebook that can be accessed from any browser, I see no point for someone that does not use iTunes Store, an iOS device or iTunes installing iTunes only to use Ping.

I think that initially Apple does want to use it to profit more with areas that they already are strong and also gather some experience running a social network, and them expanding it, maybe with user media sharing and an API. I think games and apps will be a next focus areas for Ping.
The only way to have "common" ownership is for the thugs who decide they represent the people to steal the property, generally at gunpoint.

Libertarianism predates the 1840s. I've been hearing this argument for the past 20 years, and it is nonsense. Socialists seem to recognize no property rings even in the terms they use, but that is just dishonesty at some point.
Very impressive quality too. Better than TV.
Because the US is willing to accept a non-reciprocal arrangement. Protectionism works pretty well when the other party represents a huge market and where ideology and special interests prevent them from responding in kind.
Whereas the alternative, conservatism promulgated by Republicans, implies the increased scope, reach and size of government (armies + war), inevitably followed by an increase in deficits (which "don't matter", but the redirected resources, even if only measured in terms of people employed, do make a difference in productive, rather than destructive, output).
Are cars the next hacking frontier?
Existing association may not matter, though. Consider that iTunes began as an MP3 player app. Full stop. That's all it was. At some point they added support for loading your songs onto portable MP3 players, but I don't remember if that was in 1.0 (this was pre-iPod).

Then they added a store, which wasn't a huge leap, but there's a difference between listening to music and shopping for music, even though one can drive the other.

Then they added movie and TV purchases. Not a huge leap from buying music, but nothing at all to do with managing your MP3s.

Then they added syncing your iPhone, which has a multitude of features entirely unrelated anything anyone did in iTunes before. But, hey, you need to sync your music, too.

THEN, App syncing and purchase.

I'm sure I'm missing a feature or two in the chronology, but you get the point.

iTunes has a rich history of having seemingly unrelated shit jammed into it. Sometimes there are alternatives for what iTunes can offer (Netflix Watch Instantly, Amazon MP3 Store) and sometimes you're locked in (iOS device sync).

But either way, Apple seems to get away with it. The trojan horsiness of iTunes gives them leverage to accomplish things that would be much, much harder for other companies.

We'll see if that holds for Ping. I wouldn't bet against it, even if I wouldn't put much money on outrageous success, either.

Hopefully iTunes 10 will at least be more performant. All this cruft has come with a cost.
EDIT: I think I spoke very poorly when I said "I can't disagree with the first two points enough". It's not that there isn't a great deal of truth to the OP's claim that not focusing on your research can lead to failure. It's that I feel very strongly about the danger of taking this advice too far (which, in my short experience, happens more often in grad school) and focusing on hitting all the career-ladder rungs rather than focusing on getting the training you need to make worthwhile contribution to your field.
This is incompatible with socialism which, it's core, requires the use of force to make people live a certain way.

You can't really slip that in like everyone agrees it's a fact. Where does it say that Socialism requires force? The last few anarchists I spoke to describe capitalism as requiring force, because you need to enforce the notion of the ownership of things.

For example, what force is required to copy a movie? The force is all on the side of lawyers and policemen arresting people to compel them to treat a very, very long number as property.
Music player with web-interface as remote control
Rhythmbox in addition to a plugin I wrote (http://code.google.com/p/rhythmote/). Ideal for using any web enabled device as remote control for your music.

It is free for Linux users since you can install the plugin directly to rhythmbox.

For Windows or Mac users there's RuckusDJ (http://www.ruckusdj.com), A virtual machine pre-configured to have everything working out of the box
Reddit Gold was an immense success, allowing them to spin up a number of virtual servers.

Speaking as one, I noticed the slowness and time-out problems basically went away as soon as they spun up those servers.

Whatever the financial relationship with Conde Nast, Reddit Gold is definitely a success.
P!=NP proof author claims revised proof "okayed" by some experts.
minus #extended at the end :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1653240
Yay! More bloat!
I agree with this:

"Many barriers are in our heads and only in our heads. Don’t let your constraints stop you. Embrace them. You don’t need to be a genius, or own lots of money, or be networked with key people, or be skillful, funny, or good-looking to meet your goals. The ones who were remarkable in life were those who understood their limitations and bent them to their advantage."

I do believe, it is the sustained attempts at overcoming constraints and often overcoming them, that makes a person or company awesome.
Non-hierarchies are unstable because there are super-linear cumulative rewards to climbing towards the top of the pyramid, even if it's only a local pyramid, and even if that means the sum output of all the people put together is reduced because they are formed into a hierarchy.

But it's also more complicated. There are significant rewards for specialization, and leadership is also a specialization. A group, even a hierarchy, with a good distribution of specializations, will beat the loose affiliation of individualists any day of the week.
You usually find yourself in these types of situations when choosing an advisor.

No doubt, but as you note, your mentor will impact you for years and perhaps your entire career. If the right one doesn't come along, better to wait. Many schools also won't tell you that you've been admitted to the program and the mentor they've assigned isn't set in stone. Ideally, use the time during visits and interviews to identify the best mentors in the program. A good mentor will get you through the program. A bad mentor will actively sabotage your progress. To me, it's most the important decision you'll make, especially if as you note, the funding is tied to the mentor.

I eventually took matters into my own hands and helped two professors I liked write an NSF grant on my topic and got funding for two students for 3 years, and they basically let me do whatever I want.

Take note: If there's one way to punch your own ticket, it's this approach. Acquire your own funding and you're pretty free to do what you want. In that regard, grants may be more powerful than even publications.
In the first instance though the events you list are not unrelated to the profession - they are linked and reasonably so. If someone stands up in the pulpet on Sunday and tells me about the evils of drink and adultery and then promptly disappears to get wasted and have sex with a married woman then that absolutely should impact his moral authority.

Some positions come with expectations that are entirely reasonable - medicine, most religious posts, teaching and so on.

The point is that minor, cosmetic and irrelevant indiscretions will come to be accepted, not just any behaviour.
Since Capitalism ultimately depends on the social relationship between owners and workers, where owners purchase the output of worker's activity for less than they sell it to an outside party that desires that output, accumulating and reinvesting the difference ( i.e. Capital ) I think that is a much more important attribute to focus on than the means Capitalist organizations use to determine prices. ( Markets vs State Planning ). The argument you are repeating is a distraction from this central fact.

From the point of view of the 95% who have no Capital, the 95% who only have their ability to exchange labor for currency, life is fundamentally the same. >40 hours a week traded to somebody else for the currency I need to pay for food, shelter, and entertainment. The value I create in that 40 hours is always greater than I was paid, and the difference is always accumulated by a better connected and more socially powerful minority. Markets and State Planning are superfluous details in this equation.
You make some good points. However:

> No nation has an inherent advantage over any other in producing a particular good or service.

Which is why we drink so much Norwegian wine here in Italy lately.

I think your claim is overly broad.
As a patent lawyer I feel that have to chime in here. I have read the discussions thus far and I think most people are missing one important issue. Determining whether a patent is expired is not actually that easy. The patent office and various databases that list patents do not say whether a patent is expired or not.

The 20 years from filing rule for patent term seems deceptively easy. But there are many caveats. First, the rule is relatively new and there are still many patents out there that are subject to a different older rule. Second, there are various ways that the term of a patent can be modified, such as term extensions and terminal disclaimers.

So, if you want to absolutely certain whether a patent is expired or not you must either hire a patent attorney or spend a lot of time trying to learn patent law and patent practice by yourself.

As a patent attorney I should not complain, I suppose, but I think the law referenced in the article makes sense. False patent markings do discourage competition, and it is not actually that easy for the ordinary potential competitor to determine if a patent is valid or not. Although, the penalty of 500 per item may be a bit excessive.
All physical property is the same, you exchange labor for it.

This distinction, and the claim that government is hat creates the property seems to come from not thinking e notion of personal property thru.

Basically, at some point, you're advocating taking property away from people ewho have up earned it by creating it or by trading their labor for it.

You need a gang, a mafia, or a government to do that, especially when it's 10,0000 acres somewhere that a collective, or corporation, has put together.

The only difference between a collective owning property and a corporation is that a corporation is allowed to make agreements amongst the members for how the corporation is run.

The existence of a government is not necessary for the existence of corporations.

These are not made up properties created by government, but collections of property made up of possibly thousands of individual explicit agreements between people.

To end that have to stick your nose in as third party and break those agreements that people voluntarily entered into before came around.
> Libertarianism predates the 1840s.

> The use of the word 'libertarian' to describe a set of political positions can be tracked to the French cognate, "Libertaire", which was coined in 1857 by French anarchist communist Joseph Déjacque who used the term to distinguish his libertarian communist approach from the mutualism advocated by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Etymology

> The only way to have "common" ownership is for the thugs who decide they represent the people to steal the property, generally at gunpoint.

What do you think about cooperatives? Who's the man with the gun there?
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

That aside, I'm looking forward to see how this work out. Given that a lot of people could mistake RWW for Facebook login[1], maybe being stuck inside iTunes could be an advantage. In a sense of "Open iTunes, click this, here's your profile!"

[1]: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_yo...
really? I've never had any performance issues with iTunes on any of my boxes. Last one was a i7 quad Shuttle SFF, and my year old 17-inch MBP now.
I agree completely. In my department the younger professors seem more focused on research and mentoring grad students while the tenured professors (with some exceptions) are more interested in teaching and administration.
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I don't know the psychology behind this, but it seems to me...

I've certainly changed over my 43 years. But I think that's only to a certain depth. I think that through my life (since I was a teen, at least) I've had a pretty consist underlying philosophy. What has changed is through a process of learning better ways to implement that philosophy. So to the degree that the outward projection reveals that core philosophy, I think that an ongoing record is fair.

That said, I share the same dismay that I have to entirely avoid some behaviors for fear of "leakage". And I'm not necessarily talking about drunken Mario playing, but even simple conversations. There are certain topics that I feel I need to avoid publicly because my opinions might either disappoint or somehow bother others.
Why? If Facebook finds a monetization engine for its huge userbase, $100B isn't out of the question. They're already making $1B/yr from ads.
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Hey - I agree, the circle jerk is not helpful. But also understand that many of these companies have been started by people who have indeed built scalable businesses, sold, and started again. Rypple, Dayforce, Swix and others, for example. I don't agree that the problems need "long-term thinking". They need more people to go out and kick ass. In particular, by learning how to SELL AND MARKET. The point of the post is to suggest that Canadian culture (and yes, it is a stereotype) was not particularly supportive of this capacity. Now, with a bottom-up sale over the web Canadians have a more natural route to sell and market.
I meant in the average case.