skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking about this all day long. I don't understand why it's so hard to understand and I don't mean that is a bad way, just a observational thought.

Being good and giving to others is great. Wanting others to do the same is fine. Expecting them to do it is wrong. Do you get the nuances of each statement?

When you declare that others should live as you would, you are saying 'I know better.' When you expect people to do the same as you would, you judge them based on their actions. You are being selfish by expecting everyone else to live like you and not be their own self. When other people do not do as you like and you try to force them to do something (in this case a steamy news article) you have taken the position as master in the master/slave arrangement.

You might think slavery is bad simply because of the cruelty, I see slavery as the relationship of those in power demanding from others any action they deem fit. Slavery as the coercion of other people by any means, normally a whip, this time with supposed morals. (If other people have to participate in your morals for them to be correct, then they are not morals at all.)

To go further about the selfish part, When other people do the things you want and that makes you feel good, you are being selfish because you are not letting that person do things for themselves. You are making them do things for your own self to feel right. If you were not selfish, the actions of other people would not make a difference.
Well, it is in NYC, so I doubt the more sociable guys will have any trouble finding some extracurricular poontang.
I think the author's message is that, yes, Detroit is definitely hurting, but that isn't an excuse for journalists to be lazy or distort the truth. His "make sure you crop out the office park from the photo" comment is hilarious.

I can think of at least two within a few miles of downtown Miami. And they've been that way for years. Both are government owned properties that they're dragging their feet with, like the prairie in the article.

I haven't lived anywhere else so I don't have any other examples. I guess I'll just have to take the "Miami real estate implosion hurRRrr" everyone is about to reply with.
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FWIW, I had the same issues on my Macbook with Eclipse and switched over to Netbeans. Feels a bit leaner and has a nicer interface (but also has it's share of flaws).

Now that Sun is no longer I sure hope Netbeans doesn't go down the tubes.
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I hope these guys are smart enough to keep their receipts so they can write off all of the pub crawling they need to do to make sure that it's functioning properly. I might write such an app just to treat it as a 30% off sale on lounge liquor under the heading of "market research".
I agree 200%. If anyone thinks that corporate governance has anything of a democracy, they've missed the point.
I actually think that corporations must not be democracies. It's a good thing that they are somewhat authoritarian because modern democracies are not efficient enough and too bureaucratic for many economic activities.
On the other hand some societal issues are too morally essential to be run by authoritarian corporate rulers. That's exactly why I want these people out of politics. Right now they have way to much political clout through lobbying.
Yes, and yes.

If you don't think the ERISA is unconstitutional, then point to the relevant wording that you think gives the Federal Government the right to regulate employment agreements between private individuals.
In the real world, $40 million dollars would typically mean at most a 5x profit valuation, meaning 8 million in profit, and probably $80-$100 million in revenue, and hundreds of employees.

In the valley and California, $40 million often means a talent acquisition with interesting technology, and smart people, but no idea how to monetize it or create a sustainable business.

Hence the "dipshit" label.
The picture loading is annoying too (doesn't load until you scroll down). The boston.com loads normally.
Watch TED videos
Went for a sail. Lots of dynamic problem solving in a very different domain. And fresh air.
Yeah, I have to say, I just got back from watching it and now I'm super pumped to work on my YC app :)
There's a board game called Equate.
The Clean Coder: The Craftsman 62, The Dark Path.
Since the author is new to being a man, here's some advice:

The reason the girl in the computer lab asked you wasn't because she thought you had any exceptional skill, or that none of the women in the lab could help. You were judged the only one supceptible to her charms.

They will either act cute/helpless, sexy/flirty, or they'll issue a challenge ("are you good at this? Do you know how to help with this?").
Cincinnati has had a similar problem with some plots of land on the river, between the stadiums. It laid fallow for longer than I've been alive. Just this year ground was finally broke.
Searching in a project:
There is a builtin command vimgrep to search through external files, there is also a grep plugin that makes it easier and more versatile.

As well, there is ctags, which basically builds up a list of function calls and where they are in a file. Vim understands tag files by default and will use them automatically. You can then toggle between the function declaration and your current line (useful for searching for functions' and what their parameters are).
If you're talking about Flash, note that at the last Google device convention they promised that soon they would have Android JavaScript access to the cameras sans Flash. I'm sure that will carry to ChromeOS and Chrome as well.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2953865/javascript-camera...
Nice piece. Of all of the take away's from this article, I think the author's outlook at the end is what is most important. Being able to learn and grow from an experience is so important, particularly in the tech field. Regardless of the outcome, no time was lost if it's spent increasing your knowledge base. Kudos.
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Apparently discussion on the matter isn't acceptable here. I don't know that I agree with you, but you were polite, and I definitely wouldn't have downvoted you for expressing your views.
So what? The supreme court sometimes doesn't agree with me. And sometimes the supreme court changes its mind. Do you take all the supreme court says for an absolute and intangible truth. The supreme court hears cases because it does think it needs to be consulted and it does think it desserves to keep building common law on the basis of new cases. I made mine above. My case, that is ;-)
Thank you for calling me an asshole for not agreeing with you.

Thank you for calling me an asshole for not subscribing to the same set of morals that you have.

Thank you for calling me an asshole for thinking that drugs and cosmetic surgery do not make the person, the person just is.

Thank you for calling me an asshole.
I totally understand this article. I'll just stand in front of the pantry and snack sometimes, whereas when I was in college there is no way I'd ever do that, and I think it is partially because of my added weight (and the habit of eating to reduce stress or because I'm bored).

I find that eating less than what I typically would have, eating nuts and more protein (not Atkins, but just in general), and running has helped me lose a few pounds. Also, if I start snacking a lot, I sometimes grab a beer. People talk about beer bellies, but I find that I snack less when I'm drinking slowly.
I am soon to be in a similar position, and am asking similar questions.
Just me speculating here, but it makes sense to me that it would be that way. Men who are born men don't really worry about being "convincing," as they've never doubted it. They may worry about appearing homesexual, but that's still different than worrying about appearing female.
It doesn't say day anything about the Federal Gov not being able to either.
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> What I slowly understood while I was talking with Tom Cook was that this was not a discussion on scalability on a macro scale, however it was it was discussion of scalability on a micro-scale. I was not prepared for some of these questions, since some of these questions were Computer Science fundamental. It took me a short while to re-calibrate myself, and try not to sound like I was bullshitting my way through an answer, and began some of my retorts with , “From my experience from C programming…”

I wonder if he could've answered, "Oh my, I spent two weeks preparing like crazy for this, but I was working and reading nonstop on scalability, and focusing more on showing you hands on what I can do on collabedit." Maybe he did, but it sounds like he just tried to play it off when the interview went in another direction - if you research/prepare like a madman, my god, you've got to let the interviewer know how dedicated you are and how much you want it. If the interview goes in a different direction than you planned for, you could still possibly guide it back towards what you're strong in, or at least get a mention in of how dedicated and prepared you are for this, and how much you want it.
If you're hacking on a real project where do you get solid scalability experience? Unless you hit gold and, say, create a social network that explodes like wildfire...

I got the impression the author had a strong practical sysadmin background, was interviewing for a sysadmin position (this wasn't totally clear), and had some technical chops. Interviewing him on CS101 seemed weak.
FWIW, it's the biz-dev cofounder that is asking for 50/50. Joe thinks he should get more than 50.

Also, Joe has been full time on the startup and the biz dev guy is only part time on it.
> the person just is

Exactly. Transsexuals were born with the incorrect genitals. The drugs and cosmetic surgery do not correct their gender--just the physical expression of it.

Referring to them as the incorrect gender is no different than referring to a cisgendered person as the incorrect gender--worse, actually, because transsexuals likely struggle with identity issues and bigotry much more so than cisgendered people, and by referring to a transgendered person by the incorrect gender, you're only making that problem worse.
Spend time with my kids, reading, cleaning. I try to make time to think through code problems on paper and leave the computer untouched which usually is a big help in solving it.
Two words: Stock Market.

The stock market is the absolute perfect application for A.I. There's a giant amount of data, both historical and real-time. There's patterns, predictions, and emotions all balled up into a type of game that humans aren't very good at -- but it would be a perfect game for a smart computer to play.
I would think the inevitable decline that came with a declining population / burst economic bubble would be of more interest to the HN population.

A lot of small-town Japan is suffering extreme Walmart syndrome; an AEON superstore moves in and takes over the whole place, and Japanese businesspeople immediately shut down since they "can't compete".

This feeds back on itself,and the "ghost town syndrome" is the inevitable end result. To repurpose a meme from Slashdot, only old people in Japan would live in those towns.

It's almost tragic how Japanese businesses fail to take advantage of the cost advantages of being outside of Tokyo, but it's a chicken and egg problem. What talented employee in the US is going to enjoy being in a town where the only enjoyment is at the local Walmart?
Pretty impressive. David Pogue has been beating this drum for a while, too; he should get some credit for calling attention to the issue.
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Good for him :)
Why cant I upvote you twice!?!
Partly true, partly false.

One of the first things I do when checking out a company is trying to find out about their staff, etc. While the mission of the company isn't important to the customer, it is to some extent important to a potential employee (if it jives with what they believe). I say have a "careers" or "about" (the company) section. I'll be looking for it in your site.

However, I totally know where the author is coming from. I've seen posts in linkedin, etc. from old bosses and I think, yeah that's nice that you told everyone what you think, but shouldn't you be running a company right now? I see the value add in communicating and using social media, but at some point, say more with less.
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Peru is beautiful, but I'm not a fan of Lima's weather (think seattle). So for travel+fun I'd recommend just landing in Lima and going elsewhere in the mountains. If I did not have to recruit engineers, meet entrepreneurs or do biz dev, I'd def. stay in Cusco for a while.

The food and transportation is very affordable, and really really cheap if you don't go to the touristy restaurants and instead head to el mercado (marketplace). You can get a full meal with soup, drink and dessert for like US$.60-$1

Now, if you want to meet fellow hackers/entrepreneurs and recruit incredible talent, check out http://limavalley.com the startup/tech community in Peru.
Oh man, it's a constant struggle. The implementation is always more complex and seems to take longer than first anticipated.

I would say personal expectations matters a lot. I tend to play out big visions in my mental theater in a very conceptual sense, then get hyped up with excitement and finally get disappointed every time I hit a brick because it feels like taking several steps back.

But again this is about personal expectations/attitude towards these discoveries. Objectively, it is a good thing you have found a flaw/difficulty/problem. They are a natural thing in the development process.

I have learned, through experience, to take it calmer and understand that even simple concepts might hide complicated implementation details and take time to get done properly.
What advantages do you expect those attributes of QNX could bring to RIM and their users? I understand that QNX has more sophisticated real time capabilities than Android's Linux and iOS' Mach/BSD kernel, but what does that make possible/easier for applications and frameworks on top of QNX than on top of those other kernels?

I certainly agree with you that "the OS" doesn't just mean the kernel nor even the basic userland anymore.
Yeah it's a tough one, designing a project for load you may never get is a real waste of development time, so for most people they wouldn't have had to deal with anything at large scale.

It's the same in any field really though, even supermarkets are reluctant to hire people without relevant experience that you can only obtain from working at a supermarket.

Guess it's all about getting a lucky break, impressing someone enough to give you a chance, or getting lucky with your own venture that it eventually gets up to a scale where the same concepts apply.
1. Find something small, even unimportant, to work on. It feels rewarding just to keep moving forward, and that makes it easier to go back to tackling something big.

2. Step away from the keyboard and do something else entirely, even goofing off. Sooner or later, you'll be consumed by a burning desire to move your project forward, and you'll probably benefit from a fresh perspective. (If this lasts more a day or two, see #1).

Above all, remember that guilt, stress, and burnout seldom help you get from A to B. Keep calm and carry on.
Unlikely to work. Companies will just invoke the "false negative better than false positive" heuristic.
> The only commercially viable idea to come out of A.I., that I know of, is the expert system. And that turned out to be a pretty small market.

Oh come on, you're baiting AI people (like me) here. :P

* Spam Filters (Bayesian networks)

* Video Game AI (game trees, fuzzy logic, etc)

* Natural Language Processing (Markov networks)

* Computational Finance (pattern recognition)

The list goes on, but the thing about AI is this: if an algorithm is successful, it quickly becomes a part of the industry or its own field and is forgotten.
You can usually find furnished apartments/room with internet included. In Buenos Aires and in Chile I found mine through craigslist.

Santiago: ~USD$250/mo all inclusive (with flatmates)
Buenos Aires: ~USD$480/mo all inclusive Studio
Whenever there is a 'breakthrough' in AI two years onwards we call it by some different name and AI gets pushed just a little bit further in to the future again.

Plenty of stuff that is 'normal' in machine learning today would have been advanced AI twenty years ago. I don't expect this to change much, until the time that we reach the stage where you can click together a functional agent from a bunch of pre-made units that can go out in to the world and do useful work for you. And quite possibly by that time the definition of AI will have shifted to 'a machine intelligence so advanced that it can solve problems that humand can't solve' or something to that effect.

AI simply is a moving target, nobody (except for Alan Turing maybe) ever sat down and wrote a description of the border between regular programming and artificial intelligence (self improving systems) with enough clarity that we will know when we've crossed. By plenty of standards we crossed it a decade or more ago, by many standards we may never cross it at all.
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It's good that the author prepared him or herself so thoroughly, but in my experience, someone like Tom Cook would not waste time asking a new candidate how to scale Facebook. That's like preparing for your interview with NASA by studying how they built the Space Shuttle. They know you aren't going to have experience there.

What they want are people who understand the fundamentals of how the computer and the OS works, who can diagnose problems correctly, who know modern sysadmin tools. They can teach you the ins and outs of their macro-scale systems on the job.
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Well, the 10th amendment lets any state mandate employment leave if it wants to right?
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From my observations I think it's a much better problem to have than the opposite I've seen in some people where they are constantly bored when not involved in some kind of structured activity or social event.
I personally see being a 'Software Developer' as a far higher position than someone doing 1st line support in I.T.

That "friend who fixes computers at..." may not actually be first line support IT like you're assuming. Even if he is a System Administrator rather than a Software Developer, that doesn't say anything about the level of the position.

A 3rd-level software developer playing with eclipse making minor modifications to existing Java and writing features under close supervision from a senior developer is much less valuable than a 10th-level System Administrator with a proven track record of diagnosing production bugs, managing deployments, tuning applications like Apache, Oracle, MySQL, and building stable, scalable environments for the developers and QA.
Great article. I especially love the Heinlein quotation from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, for hopefully obvious reasons. There is another similar quote from Heinlein's "Have Space Suit Will Travel" (written several years earlier) that is also good programming advice:

"Daddy says that, in a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem."
Because globally it's a very very small number of people who do this, so for this article it barely matters.
You could show ads targeting the playlist. One way you could do it is to sell relevant VCD/DVD, possibly with Amazon Associate. Another way could be to collect & sell playlist data, people love data. If you are keen, I'm starting a small advertising network, maybe we could work together, my contact detail is on my profile page.
There is the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence -- http://singinst.org/

They are tackling the problem of how to make AI "friendly" -- http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intellige...
Boredom. I vaguely remember that.
> It's in Chapter 27 of Stephen Mitchell's translation. It's by far the most prominent recent English Dao.

If we talk about the first sentence in this chapter (http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?l=Daodejing&no=27) I fear I can't agree. Waley's translation reads "Perfect activity leaves no track behind it", which is way too far from "A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving". The Chinese text is straightforward and the context present no difficulties. Word to word meaning is "good, walk, no, tracks" and the actual meaning is about doing things the natural way, avoiding artifices, avoiding to leave "human prints" on the world, a very common rant in Daode Jing.

Agree with the rest of your comment. I'll add the rebellion against Western religion is frightening, because those who spit on Christianism today could be the fanatics of tomorrow.
Some really interesting points on the connections between starting a company and a life together, especially regarding "learning to learn." Suffer through the hard times, adapt, and celebrate the good when it comes.

Unfortunately, in the majority of America and the rest of the world, it is illegal for many entrepreneurs to marry. If "marriage teaches you what real love is all about," one would hope that it's not the only way.
In the American system of government, the constitution isn't interpreted by random individuals voting on how they personally would read the text; it proceeds via caselaw and stare decisis. Since this particular issue was already litigated, ERISA is constitutional; since it was substantially litigated over 70 years ago (I'm not aware of any ERISA-specific controversy that wouldn't also apply to, say, the NLRB or Social Security), it's solidly constitutional.

Among the current Supreme Court, possibly only Thomas thinks otherwise; not even Scalia believes that, say, Social Security is unconstitutional. Of course, if you're a historian you can argue over what a historical court should've ruled, but that's pretty irrelevant to the Constitution as a functioning legal document.
The implication of the original article is also misleading, as several of the most compelling images are of failed General Development Corporation projects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Development_Corporation

Not only do they do represent the previous land bust of 1970's rather than the more recent one, but many of the lots became undevelopable due to the Statewide mandatory Comprehensive Planning for local governments; participation of local governments in the Federal Flood Insurance program; and environmental laws regulating wetlands and protecting endangered species (e.g. gopher tortoises and raptors such as bald eagles).

In the large undeveloped tracts from the 1960's like those depicted, lots were often available for the cost of delinquent property taxes even at the peak of the last bubble due to the lack of development potential.
You should go for it. Check out things like csound [1], puredata [2], chuck [3], and supercollider [4]. "Computer Music" by Charles Dodge is a classic book on computer music [5] (oldie but goodie)

[1] http://www.csounds.com

[2] http://puredata.info

[3] http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu

[4] http://supercollider.sourceforge.net

[5] http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Music-Synthesis-Composition-P...
Or... If you've seen the Google Skymap app, you know that it's possible to determine what part of the sky the phone is pointing at in addition to where the phone is located. That gives you a rectangular cone which contains everything the phone can 'see'. A little geometry and the flightpath data and you can figure out which flights are passing through the cone and how far away they are; the close ones are probably the ones the user is interested in.