skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However you want to characterize it, the thing that those who want to raise taxes need to understand is that there is a global economy, and if you punish success, you'll get less of it.

Washington benefited from this arrangement and the town of Vancouver wouldnt' be near as big as it is now if it weren't for the tax delta. And it wouldn't be bringing in as much taxes for Washington as it is.

At the same time, Oregon and Portland benefit as well, by having inexpensive housing nearby to supply workers and to facilitate faster growth than would be achievable if every business had to pay their employees more because all their employees were suffering from a state income tax.
In NYC it will appear as a stalled airplane between clouds.
The boxes stack very nicely, in my case I am in a lower cost part of the country, so under $1K per month rent costs... I think I could store $6K of nickels in a very easy way, perhaps 2 boxes high in a 5x6 grid, under a queen size bed.
"he's missing the point"

This is what gets me about a lot of people who argue against anything related to increases in taxes despite the practicality of it. They refuse to look at it in an objective light and take up ideological arguments. Really? A 4% increase on 2% of the population is going to destroy the country? You don't even care about it. It's against your "principles" despite the fact that we're hurting and that makes it wrong.
you can get vnc over html5, thought it may not be as fast as you'd like.
Beauties Embrace
Used limonade in a few projects recently that required me to code in PHP. It's easy to get rolling with and free of outside dependencies.
Civil War on Drugs
Personally I like buttons w/ a magnifying glass icon. The problem I have is with search fields that have no button and assume users know to hit <enter>. Responding to the return keypress is a good usability practice, but there should also be a button to click. A good example is stackoverflow.com. I've entered a search term and, by reflex, clicked the Ask Question button because it's in the vicinity.
HDHomeRun does want a dual-core box...
Just a note, at current prices a kilo of gold (about the volume of a hardback book) is $40,000 . I would think that having enough gold to fit in a single layer under any mattress would mean that retirement is imminent.
Equality of Mathematicians
No don't do it. PhD's suck.

-Dr. Moriarty
And Alabama plus the border or Arkansaw, whats up with that!? California and the Northwest didn't really surprise me since there's a lot of people and not being in tech makes things hard out there.
I tried this, but it was too much hassle to learn :/
You keep making the claim that WA state spending has been irresponsible an out of control, yet you have yet to offer any substantiation of this claim, despite being asked to by multiple posters.

I am disinclined to believe something malicious without evidence.

Your use of the word "socialist" as an excuse to make ad hominem, unsubstantiated attacks against a fellow user is also not appreciated. You are in attack dog mode and discouraging honest discussion about an important and contentious issue.
+1 for tmux. I switched from screen, and have been very happy with it.
Wealth = function (numeracy, memory recall)
I tried to change the Nibbles snakes to lizards by changing variables with "snake" in them to "lizard"...that didn't work right away either.
Slick has no bearing, what you should be focusing on is usability. Craiglist is the antithesis of "slick" but what it is, is usable. Shoot for usable first and then slick second. As well, never compromise usable for "slick", if you can accomplish both great if not always chose the former over the latter. Once you have usable mastered then you can target slick to areas that you want to draw attention to, like your revenue generation items on the page. Do so in a subtle manner, the flashing banner ads of the 90's where the slick of the time and many are still recovering from those grievous usability errors.
I go to heatsync all the time, I love that place. The only reason I go there, however, and one of the only reasons I even know it exists is because of my exposure to technology. Getting more stuff out there and in the hands of kids (and here is the important part: telling them that they can use it however they want to) is what I would love to see.

One very important thing that happened to me during my schooling was an amazing teacher that I had for an off-campus computer course that I took. I'm sure that this could have gotten her in a lot of trouble (which is a problem, in my eyes) but when she would leave after class, she would leave the computer lab unlocked for us. This meant that my friend Aaron and I could stay there as late as we wanted working on side projects and seeing what we could make our linux machines do.

It was so important for me because it wasn't a class, there was no point to it, it was just 50 very nice workstations and a sortof agreement that if I didn't permanently damage anything, I could use it for whatever it was that I wanted.

Now, how does this relate to my wanting to "rethink libraries"? Well, first of all, I want this type of resource (meaning resources to learn with) available to more than just children, but also I want this type of resource to be available with the understanding that you aren't going to get in trouble if you use it for something other than what is in the book.

Think about novels: nobody tells you what they mean, or what you're supposed to think of them. That is why the library model (as opposed to the lit class model) works so well. You can go there on your own time, read whatever you want, and think whatever you want about it. I think that offering people the same experience for more than just books is beneficial.

What I do not understand is that people seem to be against this sort of thing. Why? I'm not saying to do away with books at all (although I did say "ditch the dead trees", which was a bit over-zealous), I'm saying to rethink libraries so that they include more tools for learning.
Don't disclaim that, proclaim it! Clearly it adds credibility. Thanks for the info. I'd consider working on VLC.
Seven Weird Habits That Will Change Your Life
The error that no big-government types ever seem willing to address is that the money they take out of the economy, they take out right at the point where it would do the most good for people. Where it would be going to expand businesses and create jobs and eliminate poverty, or allow families to buy a new car, or pay for college, it goes into government which spends it, inefficiently, on programs that are claimed to solve the problems that are caused by taking the money out in the first place. (And programs which are inevitably operated to perpetuate themselves more than to help people.)

India reduced regulations on businesses dramatically in 1980 and has managed to double the standard of living for over a billion people. The poor in india are a lot less poor now, and there's lots of comparatively rich people in india now who have surplus income to give to their extended families, which is a second bonus for the poor.

If governments would just let people be, poverty would be eliminated. In fact, poverty is the pinnacle achievement of government.

Why? Because if you have masses of poor people, you can manipulate them easier, because they are dependent on you. This is how the soviet union survived for 70 years, and it is what big government types are trying to do to the US now.
Absolutely right. I think people miss the point that no matter what wealthy people do--whether spending, saving or investing--that money is active in the economy.

The other thing missing from this guy's write up is that the human mind is at the center of all value creation. It's as if he thinks money is what creates opportunity and if you just distribute it right--good things will happen. Not true.

The cause of our economic plight is a lack of great minds being applied constructively. One of the reasons that's not happening right now, beyond just poor education, is several decades of messed up interest rates sending the wrong economic signals.
The original sources were pretty much apples-to-apples comparisons. They weren't fast, by any means, but the Flash and HTML really both did the same thing: clear the screen, draw the circle, move the circle. No dirty regions, just pure pixel pushing. Very inefficient, but generally equally inefficient.

Now to make HTML look better (er, rather make Flash look worse), Gruber keeps linking to the optimized versions of the HTML app.

I'm no HTML-hater. I love the tech, and have even done HTML canvas-related work-for-hire. (And plenty of Flash stuff for-hire, as well.) But I also love being informed, and Gruber is only giving half the story here.

Will someone optimize that Flash piece already so I don't have to? I don't have a phone to run it on, anyway.

Edit: and I didn't even care for the original article whose headline boldly proclaimed that Flash was faster than HTML on mobile, not qualifying which mobile devices, nor the nature of the test.
TubeMote API: Make a remote control app for your website in less than 5 minutes.
We launched just over a month ago and we are now releasing the API. What do you think?

http://tubemote.com/#api
Ask HN: Whats the best way to find office space in NYC?
Any NYC startups looking to subletting some of their space?
"It's not just being able to fire/reward teachers (depending on quality)."

Consider it a necessary, but not sufficient, start. Right now, getting rid of a teacher that is committing actual crimes is a challenge in many places, getting rid of a teacher who merely objectively doesn't teach to any standard you care to name is a challenge everywhere. You can play with all the other knobs on the system you like, but until you change this you've already lost.

I would argue that exactly because of this fact, the blundering around the rest of the system has done is the expected result. No matter what the system does, this means the problem just gets worse every year as more dead wood is accumulated. Therefore, the system never gets any feedback about the value of what the changes were. When everything uniformly produces the same negative result, you can't get any information from the results. (At least human systems are less prone than individual humans to learned helplessness and things are still being tried.) Until you fix this problem, the question of what changes actually work can not even be properly asked, in a way that can actually obtain useful and actionable answers.

(I have simplified this for internet-debate purposes; in fact some schools sometimes manage to improve, there's always variations, etc. But I don't think I need to go too far in defending the premise that the system as a whole has been sinking for decades now.)
Daggy, eh? I'm always learning new words from you Aussies... this one, I think I like! :D
I think we'd benefit more from taking a critical look at the ideas of John Dewey that pervade virtually all of education. Unions are definitely a blight on education, but a screwed up epistemology is much more fundamental.

Details on Dewey's approach, which is pretty much gospel in American education, can be found at http://dewey.pragmatism.org/creed.htm

Thinking is not a social function; communicating is. If you wonder why politicians spend less time thinking and more time following polls--look no further. If you wonder why our country fails to enlist math and science--here's your answer.
Cool, thanks! Too bad there's not a Windows version, though.
Firefox seems to have survived this — with targeted buzz on big launch days.
I think you misunderstand those who argue against increases in taxes. The argument is not "principles" but practicality of it. It is never %4 on %2. For instance the "bush tax cuts" would have cut the taxes of the poorest brackets in half, but the democrats wouldn't allow that. That there was %7 on %90 or so.

High taxes are why we're hurting in the first place. It is government that has so damaged our economy. Take the housing bubble, for instance. Ideologues want to pretend that "banks" caused it, but the reality is it was clinton and bush.

During the clinton era, they decided that "lending money only to people who can pay it back is racist" and changed bank regulations to make the "american dream" available to "all". Then under bush, the interest rate-- controlled by the government via the federal reserve-- was lowered below inflation, which means you could borrow money and earn a zero-risk return on it higher than the cost of borrowing. The primary mechanism for this was the housing market.

Thus, housing bubble. Leftists like Krugman praised it claiming that the housing bubble was just what the economy needed. Meanwhile, practical people who understand economics warned against it.

Now, after half a decade of listening to political types claim there was no housing bubble, or that the bankers caused it, you're now claiming we need to raise taxes because its "practical".

I'd like to see you explain how it is practical.

One things for sure, it won't help the economy.
What I did: downloaded the Stanford courses on iPhone development, spent two weeks working (really, playing) my ass off. Spent the next four weeks making my first app (http://colorstreamapp.com/). Was excited to make millions on release!!!

Made nothing. Worked harder, made some. Worked more, made more. Now it's a decent income stream and I've gone from a nobody to a less-nobody.

Age is less of a barrier every year. Get started ASAP. As pg often says, if you're so passionate about something, why aren't you working on it RIGHT NOW?

Good luck!
The fact that spending went up by 50% over the course of a decade is not automatically indicative of fiscal irresponsibility. Inflation alone accounts for more than half of that increase. The remainder can be explained by many factors -- but the onus is on you to prove that the spending was irresponsible.

Also, someone with a full understanding of the situation would know that the per-capita state tax rate in Washington has barely changed since 1999 (here's one source: http://dor.wa.gov/content/getaformorpublication/publicationb...). The state did not, as you assert, start "raising taxes to keep spending at bubble levels". Perhaps you have a detailed knowledge of the history of taxation in Washington state, but your comment leaves little indication that this is true.
Where are the goods? I seriously doubt it makes a difference, but would be willing to be proven wrong with data.

For reference:

amazon: go button
facebook, twitter, ning: "search" in box, magnifying glass button
ebay, zappos: search button
reddit: no button at all. This one's a bad idea unless you only have power users (even then, my browser has hiccoughed on <enter> form submission more than a few times)
They also don't use what they can't fathom. A plethora of options can make it difficult for a new user to find the features they want.

Yes they do ignore the unwanted features, but they also ignore features they would use if they knew about them. In that respect the notion of bloatedness is even amplified because a larger portion of the software is provided but idle.
It's actually bracketed: 7-8 is ideal. Anything less or more is bad for you (usual disclaimers, etc.):

http://longevity.about.com/od/sleephealthandaging/a/sleep_du...
I don't understand why mahmoudimus's comment (my sibling) was killed. I've been considering trying to re-map my muscle memory to use ^C or ^[ instead of escape in vi, largely because my capslock key is an extra control.

Considering how much the position and size of escape varies among keyboards, it might be better to avoid it altogether.
I've been contributing to a Roth and 401k since I graduated from college. I'm invested in mostly index funds and bonds, along with one or two emerging markets mutual funds. I figure that if the stock market totally tanks and never recovers in 40 years, then I'll have much bigger problems than an unperforming retirement account.

The rest of my savings goes to an online savings account.
Interesting. My first thought on finishing your post was "How rude; you've tainted us all with the knowledge of a that patent." Evidence of manners in the making I suppose; adaptation of custom in the face of seemingly immovable, shared burdens.
So you wanna be a writer: What Anthony Bourdain can tell you
While it has taken a great deal of flak for breaking somewhat with traditional library organization and architecture, I think Seattle's library is nearly what he is calling for: a geographic place focused to a large extent on services and not simple booklending.

TED Talk on the Seattle Central Library design process: http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_prince_ramus_on_seattle_s_li...

Architectural diagrams (and some wild hyperbolic language) at: http://www.archdaily.com/11651/seattle-central-library-oma-l...
You don't get the full Django on App Engine. You cannot use Django's ORM but instead use App Engine's.

You also cannot just use any of the pluggable Django apps especially those with model changes.
Note: "So you wanna be a writer" is based off this HN link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1709693 .
Your unsubstantiated attacks against me are not appreciated.

Others have provided links showing the states spending going up by %50, over a period where the GDP didn't go up by %50, the population didn't go up by %50. I saw no reason to provide the links that others had already provided, yet you dishonestly characterize me as having failed to provide substantiation for facts that aren't even in dispute.

I call that attack dog mode.

Socialism is a real thing, and if we're to have an honest discussion about anything, we must be allowed to speak of them honestly.

You don't get to rule out whole swaths of reality from discussion because a particular ideology has had a checkered history... especially when people are advocating that ideology.
Slick was perhaps the wrong word. I think that it is agreed that the use of ajax (in the right way) makes app more usable slick. I think facebook is a good example of this. Their ajax implementations make for a more usable UI.

I think that on that note the simple mobile implementation again refering to facebook can be done in a simplistic manner but with good usability.After-all it is agreed that simple is good. This it can be done very quickly. It's also a good way to test the "useability" of a concept.

Since we are low on resource and un-funded would it be a bad decision for us to tackle the mobile app in this way, quickly. Start testing the useabilty of our app with a handful of users while we move on to a more advance slick as i put it ajax'd version for more advance browser clients
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Don't forget everything they do teach: being wholly subjugated to the control of a superior (where else do you need to ask before going to the bathroom?), unquestioning obedience, working hard without a hint of interest, etc.
I use backtick(`) as the meta key and that works till I'm 2 levels nested. I can do `+p or ``+p to go to the next screen window at the 1st or 2nd level this way. However, 3rd level doesn't work, unless I set a different meta key on the 3rd machine. Having some shortcut to select the current nesting level would be awesome :)
Some good analogies with the main business of hacker news

I thought so too, and as a result wrote a post about my own "business," so to speak, in the form of writing: http://jseliger.com/2010/09/20/so-you-wanna-be-a-writer-what...
Try searching for "coworking." I live in LA, but here's a few links that Google helped me find:

http://wiki.coworking.info/CoworkingNewYorkCity
http://nwc.co/
http://blog.coworking.info/2007/10/28/coobric-new-york-cowor...
http://www.meetup.com/coworking-nyc/

Good luck!
In the context of the conversation it was pretty clear that many of the early customers already had some kind of relationship with them.

She'd already said how they had signed up early stage web startups at PG's suggestion, which implied a relationship there, and she'd said how many of the investors had ideas on how to use the product.

I see this as normal business. For example, in enterprise software it is not abnormal at all for customers to invest in a startup vendor company so they have some say in the business and some way of guaranteeing they remain around.
This is weird because there already is a lot of politics in mathematics so making it explicit and letting outsiders know who the super stars are is not going to change much within the community so I don't understand the opposition.
Are you confusing cause and effect? Perhaps the CEO is an investor precisely because Eventbrite is a paying customer?
I'll gladly concede that getting rid of incompetent teachers (or otherwise having some ability with which to help those who want to improve improve), or at least securing the ability to do so, is an extremely necessary start.

Particularly with teachers who are committing actual crimes, though in fairness, I think that difficulty is overstated (point of note: I'm in the midwest, where the unions are not as strong, so that colours my perceptions a bit).

That said, though, I don't think we have any way of determing who is/isn't a good teacher if we haven't yet determined what good teaching looks like (in turn, we can't determine that until we figure out what we actually want out of school).

As a teacher, I've been on all sides of this; while working in a large public school, I've had lots of freedom and leeway (so long as I could justify it to my administrators, who were either down with it or completely and totally indifferent).

I've also worked in a small school where the "system" I was expected to carry out was complete and utter rubbish ("Students should not write at all until at least their junior year. They should spend the time prior to this diagramming sentences and memorizing the parts of speech, so that they understand what good sentences look like. They may only begin writing AFTER they have mastered identifying these patterns.")

When you couple that with an authoritarian administration, I was a "bad teacher" in the latter system, and had I not resigned I'd have likely been the first to go when budget cuts rolled around the summer after I left (as it was, my successor was let go instead).

I agree that incompentent teachers are a problem, but there's more to it than just that. Frankly, so many things have been screwy for so long (William Pinar, out of the U of British Columbia, places it at about 4 decades) that I'm amazed that anything gets done.
The most successful schools in the world are in Finland, Americans need to look at their model, put aside our prejudices, and adopt it's best practices.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120425355065601997.html
This is an area of deliberate misinformation that trips people up. "Inflation" is growth in the money supply. This is why you hear people say things like "washington is cranking up the printing presses" when they talk about inflation.

Whenever you hear someone talk about consumer prices, the CPI, and refer to it as "inflation" you're literally hearing political propaganda being created or repeated.

This is a form of orwellian newspeak that is so common that people will argue about it, because they are certain that inflation is a measure of price increases.

The reason for the newspeak is that it is very easy for government to change the basket of goods, and even to simply exclude important consumer prices from the Index, to make inflation appear less than it is.

You wouldn't claim that nobody uses energy, right? We all use electric power and gasoline in our cars, but these are regularly excluded from CPI because they are quick to reflect the effects of inflation... that is the rise in prices that comes from growth in the money supply.

I know this is tangental to the point you were making, but this misunderstanding of what inflation is causes people to not understand much of the economics in their day to day lives.

The person you were responding to is correct that energy and home costs are generally diminished in CPI to try and make "inflation" look low, and GDP look comparatively better.