skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad to hear.

Dag, n Poop that has stuck to the wool on a sheep's behind
Daggy, adj Out of style

I assume the former helped create the latter; both have application for Ugg Boots.
Since you seem to compare terminal vim vs gedit: How do you run gedit in a terminal?

I gvim you could have used the mouse too.
How HTML5 Web Workers improve web browsing
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1671651
Does tmux support tab/windows re-ordering like browser do with tabs? I miss it in screen.
AMD unleashes new Phenom II and Athlon II CPUs
i was more interested in the .cat tld
Why No Second Internet Bubble?
They ignore the possibility of hint text that says "search" and with that the go button works as well and is fewer characters.
Screen has some support for that. Try "C-a :number NN"
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This is a dark pattern.

It plays with color spectrum, pitting red against violet. Not fair. Roy G. Biv?

Now, there are some messed up things like the south -- it appears severe on state borders, thought the black line probably compounds it.

There is something very interesting and valuable here, yet it doesn't feel honest.

--

EDIT: Reviewing the color spectrum red and violet are next to each other. It felt more severe than it was. Perhaps because violet is compressed into 3 percentage points (purple, violet and dark purple), while there is red, orange, orange-yellow, yellow and cream for the "good-ish", all strong and not neutral.
You could have made the same arguments about Mint and Intuit. If it's so easy, why haven't they done it already?

For Intuit, this is close to the textbook example of the innovators dilemma. Intuit cannot do this easily because it will cannibalize their existing business. How would they introduce it?

They can't just add the features to their existing product, because the market for this product is different (business owners, not accountants).

They can't sell it as a separate add on, because that makes InDinero seem really good value for money.

They can't sell it for the same price or less than InDinero because it will eat profits from their existing products.
What those PHP guys are unable to understand, is that all the coolness and beauty of Sinatra comes from the lack of () {} $ and other meaningless (it this context) symbols and words, like function and echo.

i think "those php guys" are well aware that their language is not ruby and care more about getting work done than whether they have to type dollar signs and brackets.
I think parents should be free to choose what they think is best for their children and not be forced to support what some people think is best for everyone. The parents are the ones who must live with the consequences and collectivism simply enables people who get control to use children for their own political purposes or serve whatever abstractions they happened to be enamored with.

Filtering the concerns and wisdom of parents through multiple political layers serves the layers and not the parents.
"... fantastic read... ..."

If you liked this try AB interviewing Ian Rankin, "Criminal masterminds" ~ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/oct/15/crime.ianrankin
Guys: you could write your next software for people like this gentleman, or you could write it for a 50 year old woman who pays money for software and services. Choose wisely.
This is the worse advice I've ever read. It goes against everything I've heard & known from experience.

"Doubt and hold back yourself" is perhaps the worst advice of it all, the right advice should be "Trust in your gut feeling, and everything will follow."

Bad advice does more harm than many other forms of abuse combined, so if you don't want to suffer - don't read this article.

An example of good advice would be: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/let31.asp
Users Can Now Edit Google Docs In Microsoft Office
I appreciate your honesty and feedback. However, every article offers thorough and detailed reasoning of why something is suggested as a best practice. The reasoning is key.

It's also important to remember that just because it's a best practice does not mean it will apply for every design in every case, which is why testing should be done on your own with your own site if you feel the need.

We believe that picking ideas apart through and through with the use of experience, logic and intuition with brilliant design thinkers is the only way to arrive at something substantial and meaningful.

Simply accepting something because it has been tested or researched is not good enough, and does not engage the mind. Independently thinking about an idea with other independent thinkers is the only true way to arrive at something meaningful. While this is probably quite difficult, we are up to the challenge.
I want to work on a web application (FREE/PAID)
Looking to add some web-app examples to my portfolio/resume and would rather contribute to a project then make my own.
I would be suited for a PHP project but have a great understanding of most internet technologies.
If no one here needs any help, does anyone know of any sites where people post their repositories that I can contribute to.
Thanks in advance, Thomas
I'm not sure how you can claim that the US economy is strong. Seems like all I've been hearing for the last year or so is about how weak it is.

Also, I'd love to see a study that compares the economic effects of unilateral taxes vs. progressive taxes. Given that $X needs to be procured, what is the most cost-effective progression?
I think its a little hypocritical that her youth seems to be the primary reason she's notable, but can also be used to defend her actions when she screws up.
You can also use the mouse with vim.

set mouse=a and the behaviour is the same, tripple click hilights a line and you can drag your mouse around to highlight a contiguous group of lines.

regarding the system clipboard, yeah thats messy, but you can easily map a key to toggle the paste mode (set pastetoggle=<f11>) or get the content from the the clipboard via some keybinding (shift-F7) map <S-F7> :r!xclip -o<CR>
I've got pUniverse and StarmapPro that I like. I just downloaded Planets, but haven't given it a try yet.
UBC grad course in Cloud Computing reading list [pdfs]
Real news for Android: FrostWire alpha goes open
I'm pretty sure not playing is a guaranteed win ;)
Hmm, when it comes to scams or overcharging you, Thailand is not much better than Vietnam. I remember asking 5 taxis in a row in Bangkok in some places before I could get a taxi that would agree to use the meter instead of ripping me off with foreigner prices.
I remapped it to control and then got some use out of the caps lock light: http://dustin.github.com/2009/02/09/caps-lock.html
Typically you would not be selling the convertible note: that second clause is for the case where you sell the company without taking additional outside investment, in which case the convertible note owner participates in that sale as if they had an equity interest.

Angel investments are generally illiquid, modulo "you invested in Facebook or some other company which is so hot there is a secondary market and a term sheet practically causes fusion of surrounding hydrogen atoms."
> The economy is strong because people are successful, and they are successful because previously there hasn't been a heavy burden of taxation.

[citation needed]

Seriously, where do you get this delusion? Do you mean those low-tax post-war years when the annual growth rate was around 5% and the top marginal tax rate was between 87 and 70%? If you are going to make claims that low taxation and regulation have been a comparative advantage for the US then be prepared to back it up with reputable comparative studies.

If the proof can be found just by looking at tax levels and comparative standards of living then please explain why Norway is kicking our ass.
"Inflation" is growth in the money supply.

Or at least, that's how Austrians would like to redefine it.
Link: http://tubemote.com/#api
Google Apps Is Making Microsoft Poorer, Adding 1 Million Users Per Month
Actually that would be a "flat" tax. A regressive tax is where the rich pay less than the poor. Eliminating the lower and middle classes will only destroy Washington's startups. You don't see Steve Balmer working 80 hours out of his basement to create the next social app.
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I'm talking about taxes on the top earners, not 'middle class' taxes. It's "practical" in the sense that it would help reduce the deficit which a certain group of people seem to be so outraged at. Of course, we can cut benefits, which I'm assuming is your preferred mechanism for balancing the budget. The problem is that cutting benefits seems to negatively affect a higher percentage of the population who are not top earners vs. scraping some bucks from the top of the incomprehensibly rich. Whether or not private enterprise is actually more "efficient" at spending money is something I would also like to see proven.
That's all well and good, but we'd still prefer some more data backing up your claims. The claims made in your article on how people read text were refuted by a paper linked here on HN. That alone makes your future articles and the claims made in them somewhat questionable.
A fairly financially sound hacker! Nice work! I have some what similar portfolio like yrs, I take on a bit more risk. I also have one small portion to kiva.org .. I have my own property, so that's taken care too. You could look at real estate too.
This is a dark pattern.

That was my thought as well. Plus, Red is used for the 5.0-5.9% range. Red is symbolic of danger, and 5.0-5.9% unemployment isn't great but it's not at the "red alert" level.

I would really like to see this map on a global scale.
It's no surprise that Bezos is fighting this initiative. He moved to Washington to start Amazon.com specifically because they had no state income tax. (He was choosing between Washington and one another no-income-tax state that I can't remember.)
That's funny. I suddenly had greater admiration for Steve Jobs, which is pretty rare for me, as I generally dislike Apple's products and branding. I appreciate that he stuck to his guns while still responding civilly.
Very cool, but as someone unfamiliar with scala (and familiar with java) I would really have liked to see java code for those 6 class files. Obviously they would have to have been approximations, but seeing the 6 raw java source files vs. the 1 scala (and the same .class outputs) I feel would have made a very nice comparison. It also would do away with any ambiguity in the verbal description of the congruencies between the two.
If you can watch TV, you can watch these MIT classes on computer programming. Classics, you'll fall in love.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...
Photographer copies site design, but makes a dumb mistake in the process.
You're confusing Steve and I. While we're largely in agreement as to the current state of Diaspora, we are in fact not the same person.
Oracle Announces MySQL 5.5 Release Candidate
I don't even see how it's possible to claim that 'schools suck' unless you define a) what the purpose of school is and b) what a 'good' education is.

Until you have a clear definition, you can't 'reform' or 'fix' anything because you have no goal.

I, of course, have very strong opinions about this, but these questions are rarely brought up in the debate about the education system.
Pity the Poor Couple Who Make $450,000 Per Year
ELive : the first online video-augmented/syncrhonization service for everyone 
Hi HN !
My name is MK and before talking about the service itself, let me give you the background :

Back in the day when Klaz, a Starcraft audio-commentator on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/user/KlazartSC) was still active, with some friends we realized that commentating was just way too complicated (downloading/recording/synchronizing/uploading and if you want to do it with friends over ventrilo it's a nightmare). If it was made simple then we would probably have korean matches commentated in a billion languages and analysis/strategy video podcasts all over the place.

We decided to do something about it.
Two years later it's finally ready.

What it does is basically that you can pick any YouTube video and cast over it instantly. You can draw, put pictures and write over the video and add links to wikipedia or whatever you want. People can watch you doing all of this live, or just wait till you're finished and then watch your vod. Absolutely no software install or download or upload required. Oh yeah and you can do it together with friends too.

Time passed by and nowadays SC2 will probably get the most use out of it but after launching our private-Beta, we've noticed many people are using eLive for many other reasons than just casting a Starcraft match : working with friends over the web, singing karaoke, making video game reviews, doing interactive audio/video podcasts, doing translation... wow, people are just so creative !

Here some videos if you wish to learn more about us :
http://www.elive.pro/main/vfaq

And if you want to test it yourself, just apply for a BETA key and we'll be happy to send you one when we have free slots :)

PS : this is the TechCrunch FRANCE article talking about eLive :
http://fr.techcrunch.com/2010/08/31/avec-gamersband-et-elive-pimentez-vos-parties-de-jeux-video-invitations-beta-inside/
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I think it's quite alright to put aside around 10-20% for raining days in a investment acct/fund/etf. If you need it any time, you could cash out.
I assume you're joking? If not, let me know.

Here's what myself and most people see: http://cl.ly/2SzP

Interestingly, if you search for "cussbird" it will correct you to "cursebird": http://cl.ly/2TPX

I'm not logged in, and people in the U.S. see the same results.
The purpose of low end schools is to pay teachers more than they would earn (for less work) in another job and to provide daycare for kids so their parents can work.

The purpose of high end schools is to prepare kids for Ivy league colleges where they will learn to work on wall street (about half of Harvard grads) where they'll exploit regulatory failures/oversights for profit.

edit: corrected the percentage of harvard grads that go to wall street.
The little research I did suggests a 4-6% unemployment rate is healthy, so it seems a neutral color would be preferable.

Per your mention, red is definitely a warning affordance.

Now the places lower than 5%, I want to know why. There's something either insulating them or the coasts are the other extreme.

Also, I want to see this as the US pulls out of it. Will the coasts recover first and trickle back in? Or, will the healthy parts of the US grow outward?
Dun flag me unless you've done the maths first. if u place yr bets on just leading 2 sports teams using Martingale system, u will do pretty ok.
I'm not sold on placeholder text for search fields. You want users to find and use the search as quickly as possible. In an area of constant noise, negative space is king. Which of the search fields do you find quickest: http://cl.ly/06279e6c96b89ebceaf2

I'm not sure either way when it comes to form fields. Placeholder text has a stronger argument there because more explanation and less attention-grabbing is necessary.
Interesting. The only thing I'd offer as a counter-argument is that if the public education monopoly were broken then chances are there'd be a lot of different philosophies guiding the emerging schools.

Any top-down system suffers the weakness that a choice made from on high might not be the best for everyone, or that competing approaches might never be explored.
"How rude; you've tainted us all with the knowledge of a that patent."

What is required to prove willful patent infringement? Is "Defendant's web history shows (s)he accessed a web page on which someone claimed the patent existed" sufficient?

EDIT: "Defendant", not "plaintiff".
Finance is not the unalloyed evil you're making it out to be.
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If anyone is interested in starting a school please contact me.
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I am surprised, in a good way, of the message that an educator is striking about America's education system. Educators usually have been blind to their own problems. Never is the discussion about whether or not every student needs a college education.

It seems that society expects college to be the ultimate endgame, but I have found that people from non-college backgrounds know more about a subject than their degree counterparts. I hired an electrical engineer straight out of school that barely knew how to solder, while a technician paid almost a third less than him could put together an entire PCB prototype. Similarly, I have found the best programmers do not have degrees, but their degree wielding counterparts less than interested at finding new solutions, always going by the book to solve a problem.
A Perk of Our Evolution: Pleasure in Pain of Chilies
The "what you've learned" at the end of this chapter made me chuckle :) It says you learnt about `loop`, `intersection`, `set-difference` and `remove-duplicates`.

(PS: It'll be nice if HN formats back-ticks as code.)
IIRC, it's closer to 10-15% of harvard grads go into finance. If you expand that to include 'business', 'management', and 'consulting' it's something more like 30-40%. Still no where near what you claim.
$125K/year may be "rich" in Kansas, but is lower middle class in California. Try breaking the data out on a state-by-state level and the pattern becomes blindingly obvious: those at the top of the per-state income scale vote Republican, regardless of which state they are in. (And the reason Dems picked up all those Wall St. contributions was because Wall St. is not stupid and knew which way the wind was blowing; bankers knew it was better to try to buy a bit of leniency than annoy the people who would be writing the new financial regulations)

The authors of the book Red State, Blue State have all the data you need to answer this question, and they helpfully blog various tidbits and state breakdowns on various issues like this.
The problem is not the progressive tax system. How progressive it should be is a legitimate matter to be debated.

The problem is that and middle class pay far too little in taxes, to the point where they happily allow elected officials to overspend. This is entirely rational from their perspective, since the most outrageous spending will only result in a few more dollars of taxes owed over the course of a year. It's known as a collective action problem in economics.

For example, the Iraq war should have cost the typical middle class taxpayer at least $500 in 2001, $500 again in 2002, and so on.

Instead, Bush gave a tax rebate intended to make a large swath of the population ignore the massive cost of the war.

Why shouldn't the average American pay just over $1 per day for a war? Why shouldn't he/she pay just over $1 per day for healthcare? As it stands, both of these were free so why should anyone really give them too much thought?

Bottom line: If the public actually had to pay for the grand schemes, there would be significant pressure not to waste money and taxes for everyone would be far lower than they are today.

To argue against this you either misunderstand my point and thing I'm advocating raising taxes or you think that the public being blind to spending is a good thing.
Several Hundred Thousand Germans Opt Out of Google Street View
Here's the mandatory "if you're using GNU Screen check out tmux" comment.

Really though, check it out. The main thing I like better in tmux is that it does both horizontal and vertical split terminal windows in a way that seems much more intuitive to me than screen.
I didn't interpret "exploiting regulatory failures" to be a metonym for all of finance.
No, not everyone does things that makes them famous. To be productive does not require one to either get payed or be famous, one can be quite productive and still not get payed enough and at the same time remain nearly anonymous.

Still, people like to do stuff they are passionate about?

The only thing that kills passion is struggling to survive. Scarcity eliminates options, reduces freedom, and it forces people to go into a survival mode, leaning powerlessness. Nothing good can come from this. People who struggle to survive will not have the time or energy to look for better employment or to build their own business.

To have a purpose without resources does not realize much. And if all your time is wasted to survive nothing gets done. People often confuse scarcity with necessity? Something might be very necessary but without sufficient resources innovation is impossible. Necessity is the father of invention and abundance is her mother?

History shows that shared abundance gives peace, freedom, and individual autonomy
Abundance with purpose gave us enlightenment, abundance with necessity gave us innovation.
when I paste code in to a Vim document, the indentation gets all screwed up.

Try
:set paste
:set nopaste
:set invpaste
:help paste
The war is just another form of elitist corporate welfare. Bush sent a bunch of poor uneducated minority kids to war and used them to fight over a country so the corporations can export our jobs to.

Don't kid yourself, the rich love socialism, but only for themselves, not for anyone else.
The CRA required the same lending standards for good credit risks in minority neighborhoods, not lower standards. And it didn't even apply to the shady mortgage banks who fueled the housing bubble. They were eager to write loans to anyone who could fog a mirror, because they knew they could get a bent rating and dump even the stupidest loan on Wall St.
I'm not ready for collaboration beyond working with chefs yet, but I'll shoot you an email, love to hear any ideas.
"Raising taxes on the top 2% of households, as Mr. Obama proposes, would bring in $34 billion next year: enough to cover nine days’ worth of the deficit,"

http://www.economist.com/node/17043472?story_id=17043472

This conversation is a waste of time and is pure political rhetoric for election season. $34 billion is insignificant and simply a means to incite class warfare.
keep gold bars in a vault overseas - You're at risk if diplomatic relations between your country and the other country go south between now and retirement.

bury cash or gold in the yard - laughable at best

buy woodland or farmland and trust that local property rights will be maintained - a government that you fear will seize your IRA or 401k will likely also seize your land. See Cuba and the Bacardi company.

open bank accounts overseas - Overseas bank accounts are not safe from an overzealous US government. As of 2009, you have to report all those Swiss bank accounts.
"... would rather contribute to a project then make my own. I would be suited for a PHP project but have a great understanding of most internet technologies. ..."

try github ~ http://github.com/search?type=Everything&language=php...
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> so it's becoming more practical to switch to an innocent until proven guilty model.

As far as I know, they haven't done it. They have published the guidelines (so developers can self-police as they know now Apple means business) and probably lightened the review (for the reasons you've outlined), but it's not like the AppStore has become a Market-lookalike where an upload gets online within the hour and without any review.
i suggest you go to ignite. http://ignite.oreilly.com/

i saw a pitch recently, and the guy did the first half in style of ignite presentation. it was solid.
I still like ihackernews.com on my android.
Inflation is typically defined as a rise in the general price of goods and services. Growth in the money supply is one possible cause for inflation. If you wish to use an alternate definition, go ahead.

As for your claim that CPI excludes energy and housing, you are simply wrong.

http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpifaq.htm#Question_1