skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it's worth pondering what this does to the economy at large. What happens when we start to perceive value more in fluffy stuff like experiences than physical goods? It would certainly affect the job market and the opportunity cloud for startups.

A narrow consideration, but not surprising for a Hacker News comment. I think the bigger picture is that this is a major transition in economies, and it is very good for people.

Imagine a toy model economy where all the people have suddenly shifted to only wanting goods - let's say they are Pogs. They don't want any services. As it happens, there is an absolutely ginormous Pog-making machine which can meet the entire economy's demand for Pogs. And extremely efficiently, too, so that basically all it needs is some paper to run. What's going to happen in this economy?

What will happen is that all the ordinary people will slowly transfer their capital and savings to the owner of the Pog machine in exchange for the Pogs they so crave, and the owner will make out like a bandit, since he only needs to pay the paper mill occasionally. (Nor will the owner be spreading the wealth - like everyone else, he lusts for Pogs.) In the extreme, everyone is a bankrupt peon with no job and the owner owns next to everything.

You might think of this model as a little intuition-pump for 'what if robots ran all the machines in a manufacturing economy?' Fortunately, we aren't in such a manufacturing economy, but shifting to a service economy where the machines haven't taken the only jobs available, and so the robots and machines are on net very good for us - their manufactured wealth gets shared.
"figure out who hopes to make money from a scam, and things get a lot clearer."

So let's get this straight. Your theory is that a 95% scientific consensus exists because they're all trying to make money off a scam? What's the scam, you get a PhD, postdoc, do 4 years of research at poverty-level wages and you get a 40k grant? Wow, that's effective.

Wouldn't they just work in finance or technology if they wanted money? Or, if they know climate science, they could probably just call the coal industry and build graphs saying the opposite for 10X what they're making right now.

So the reality's actually the exact opposite of your statement.
IGroups: Apple's New iPhone Social App in Development - Patently Apple
The concept of "crown copyright" in the UK is stifling to innovation, backward, and shows no respect for those who pay tax.

We should ask our local MPs to do as the US have done, where government created IP is public domain.
Perhaps it's because I was just reading some very lyrical poetry to my daughter, but up until the "Other things I like:..." bit, the first two paragraphs read like a lovely poem dedicated to tea :)

But maybe that was your intent? shrug
Thanks for the Japanese layout tip. I've always thought the Kinesis looked neat, but not enough to order one without trying it. I also worry about using something that is so different that I forget how to type on a "normal" keyboard, though I don't have much trouble switching between dvorak and qwerty so my concern is likely unfounded.
Single malt whisky, usually Laphroaig. Neat with a few drops of distilled water. In a proper glass that enhances the aroma and flavour, not a "rocks glass":

http://www.amazon.com/The-Glencairn-Scotch-Whisky-Glass/dp/B...
I guess you are using the regular search, that one shows the top 40 results from youtube. I'm not able to build in filters since it could be used for other things like checking out bbc news reports.

If you want the MTV functionality: press 'Generate your own MTV, click here!' below the search bar, enter Pixeis, select Where is my mind and there you go! http://listandplay.com/#Search~Similar~Pixies%20%7C%20Where%...
The Old Ballgame - "building a team around unimpressive veterans"
LaCroix flavored water is my daily standby. No calories, caffeine, or artificial sweeteners.

Usually a large (3 shot) iced Americano (unsweetened, black) a day... smooth, delicious, and energizing.

Intensely hoppy beers without much malt are the call of the evening, or maybe a decent gin with the aforementioned LaCroix as a mixer.
Thanks Jonathan. This is an excellent project. Funky UI, but excellent nevertheless.
Is this surprising? Do you think Steve Jobs or his family use Microsoft products in their house? Who cares.
"The things you own end up owning you." ~ Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls
it comes down to friend-or-foe, apparently. In one research I read about in the book "how we make mistakes", the split-second judgment upon seeing a photo of a political candidate for the first time was the best indicator of voting behaviour.
So much armchair quarterbacking, very little PhD in climatology. Reading the deniers’ comments I wonder if they tell their doctor how their endocrine system is powered by crystal energy and argue with the pilot about Bernoulli’s “so-called” Principle.

Science has come to a conclusion. Do you listen or merely justify your previously held belief?
Ask yourself: what happens if you refuse to pay the subsidies?

Laws are enforced with violence. Don't kid yourself on that.
Oh no.. Same as in same model. It could be a problem specific to that particular chipset. You can report a nm-applet specific bug with apport-bug. This helps a lot with triaging and collects hardware info and meaningful (hopefully) logs automagically.
Silicon Valley companies fighting for talent
Touching love story unfortunately without happy ending
Katie Kirkpatrick, 21, held off cancer to celebrate the happiest day of her life. Katie had chased cancer, once only to have it return-to clog her lungs and grab hold of her heart.
Chatroulette impact on everything?
this totally reminds me of chatroulette (next or f9) and thats not the only site to copy it. anyways to come to my point - has chatroulette found any investors after all?
I was working on this for a while: yayforgo.com.

I got a new job and just couldn't focus on it. Bummer!

Anyone want the source code?
So take a ship.

You can learn Assembly on the way, if you must.
On the plus side, you're only 28. Nothing to stop you from engaging in those experiences in a few years, rather than just yet.

I was in nearly the same boat as you - debts (not student loans, misspent youth instead) and have nearly eliminated my debts and am about to move on to that phase of my life, with more expanded financial freedom. I just turned 31 and I feel like I have many opportunities still to enjoy things just as much as I would have in my twenties.
I'm not sure about your 'desktop' distinction, as many laptop keyboards (the MacBook Pro and many Windows laptops for that matter) have bigger keys than, say, a Model M-type standalone keyboard.
Always the same place with some exceptions. I like familiar environment that makes me feel comfortable.

I'll add one more thing - the dining place is not the closest to my house and I'm walking to it every day. I make sure to walk instead of driving, no matter what the weather is outside. Now my body is addicted to these daily walks and demands them. I recommend this to everyone who can't or won't work out - at least find a place to walk to every day - the further the better.
How is this pot meet kettle? It's the job of the Joint Chiefs and the military to have blood on its hands.
Mixed? I'm not sure what you're talking about.

But the guy above was talking about drinking single malt scotch on the rocks. It's not the temperature.

Single malt is enjoyed because of its taste and character, but if it gets mixed with enough water, from melting ice for example, it breaks and loses its appealing qualities.

Single Malt + Water = Former Delicious Whiskey. But in an emergency, you can use ice to make some awful blended whiskey potable.
Guilty as charged: I'm a go player.

Not currently active, unless you count the occasional game against Many Faces Of Go (igowin) on the iPad.
70-year-olds smarter than they used to be
I agree it's quite good, you just have to mind the sludge at the bottom. I also really like Cafe Sua Da, which can be found in Vietnamese restaurants, which is coffee with sweetened condensed milk poured over ice.
The combustion engine isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Vast areas of the earth have people who need to drive but no serious and reliable electrical distribution infrastructure. The sheer inherent reliability of petrol as a fuel - you can carry it, store it, put it in a bucket, leave it sealed up for a year, bake it (be careful doing this one!), freeze it and still rely on it - means we'll still be making combustion engines for a long time to come. Granted, people in advanced countries who will rarely travel outside the electrical distribution network can switch to electric cars, but even there, petrol engines will stick around as emergency vehicles.
I would recommend nodejs or the twisted framework for python if you don't want to go the C route
The main reason I am stuck with windows is because I have to reboot to play my new "windows only" games (wine cannot handle it) and, I have hardware with "windows only" drivers and I use as a freelancer CS5, gimp scribus and inkcsape just are not there as far as innovation and then people keep sending me M$ word docs and openoffice just cannot format these files 100%, in business this needs to work seamlessly.

I prefer a linux desktop but the rest of the world keeps making it "windows only."
Whatever the reason, we would like to honor these companies -- our "anti-portfolio" -- whose phenomenal success inspires us in our ongoing endeavors to build growing businesses. Or, to put it another way: if we had invested in any of these companies, we might not still be working.
Tutorial: How to use Git in a team development environment
What It Takes to Be a Winner? Embracing Failure
Have you tried the 18yo sherry cask Macallan? I bet it's better than JW Gold :)
Hmm... I always hated spending money on things that don't last. Food is the best example- I eat it today, and a week from now I'm 10 dollars poorer with 'nothing' to show for it. Travel poses similar issues.

Though, that is largely tied to a childhood of being super tight on funds. Buy candy, enjoy for 10 minutes, or buy LEGO/game/card, enjoy for months or years.
Two major problems come to mind.

1) Breaks password managers and broswers' save password function. Many users are helpless without these.

2) You know how your browser helpfully remembers and fills in your name and address across different websites? Yeah, now it'll fill in your username and password too, making it accessible via javascript to any site that wants it. Since the password isn't in a password field, the browser doesn't know to restrict it to the original site.

For an example of using javascript to get this kind of information, see Jeremiah Grossman's blog: http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-know-who-your...
Alright, cool :)

Try this: http://www.forpeatsake.com/Ardbeg/Ardbeg+Airigh+Nam+Beist/1
The problem is that they really, really hate hippies. And hippies are all about global warming, they'll even go one step further and lecture you with a bunch of crap about "gaia" or something.

So in order for these people to be good, upstanding Americans, they must be 100% diametrically opposed to the hippies, even if the hippie is saying "the sky is blue".

Personally, I'm ok with dropping the gaia and taking the science.
I get a window.alert that says the player can't be found - maybe in that case you should assume Flash is blocked/missing and remove the DIV for a few seconds so repeated clicking has an effect.
If you've only tried "fine oak" Macallan, you should try the sherry cask versions too.
Those kids have the good life they have because of Microsoft, and Apple is their direct competitor. This doesn't surprise me a bit.

Would I do that personally? Probably not. Especially if I don't work for the company any more.
> I eat it today, and a week from now I'm 10 dollars poorer with 'nothing' to show for it.

worse, a few years from now, you still have something to show for it and have to start spending money on bigger pants.
Lots of water and on occasion red bull.
> "I bought this guitar, so after work I must practice"

You may view that as being trapped by your possessions, but if I buy a guitar it is because I want to learn guitar.
Based on the same async IO fundamentals:

Orbited is a complete solution based on Twisted. It handles the most difficult part - crossbrowser portability already - http://orbited.org/
and 915 days ago ...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=170154
Hi, I made a similar service www.randomremind.me, but it is not so serious as yours. I use it for rotting goals in my to-do list.

Also I tested your app a bit and it tells me to 'choose a password that's at least 5 characters' even when I am putting in 5-character password. But otherwise seems OK. Good luck.
It's not funny enough to be comedy. Dry satire, perhaps?
For the story behind one of the monuments:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasenovac

http://www.france24.com/en/20100725-israels-peres-visits-cro...
When I go down to Miami, I often forget and ask for sweet tea, and get unsweet with sugar packets. It's not the same!

Also, how do you get it with no ice? Most of the sweet tea I get here is brewed very fresh, and without the ice it would be hot.
YC would be nice, but it certainly isn't the end of the world. Keep hacking, keep working, etc.

Too many startups equate being rejected from YC with failure. That's stupid.
I've traveled enough to know I'm not a huge fan of it. It is a hassle.

That said, I think I'd enjoy living in a unique place 3-5 months out of each year.
Not worrying about whether or not you get accepted.
I played around with this in the 1.2 days but was turned off by the dialplan syntax, which at that time was pretty close to BASIC's GOTO LINE 20.

I'm assuming that things have improved since then.

Anyone using this in production care to comment on the successes/failures it allowed them to make?
(Transport for London) disabled open journey planning API after supplier releases own commercial app.
I've worked under too many decision makers who think that placing a Like button on something is a pivotal business model move, or adding a share button will magically make content go 'viral' -- these concepts are best understood by those who practice them, not by those who create a blog or Facebook account as a point of presence.
This is why I'm awfully proud of our senior class gift in high school. Random, I know.

Most high school classes give something like a couch, or a sign, or a statue, or something else that they can engrave their class name on. We, however, gave the long time crossing guard an all expense paid vacation to Hawaii. I will always remember the look on her face when it was presented, and I can imagine it being a fantastic break for a lady who made very little money and somehow always looked happy.

We bought ourselves an experience.
would be interesting to know what pg would say ?
I always keep my water bottle with me, and refill it as soon as it's empty. I completely stopped drinking soda (except for social purposes) about 5 years ago for health reasons.
Perhaps use a psd to html shop?
TFL are subject to the Freedom of Information Act. The blog poster should be able to get answers, documentation etc. through that.

If he really wants to scare the crap out of them he should also issue a subject access request for all data mentioning him, including emails and files. This type of thing sends a government funded agency into a complete tailspin.
> No, Linux is not dead, and you make the numbers totally up(1% market share)

How is the 1% number totally made up?
Give More, Be Happier, Increase Team Performance
Anybody else get confused by the title because of the British English practice of using the plural verb forms for (certain) collective nouns?
Too bad he never finished his 4-part write up. The linked article was pretty interesting to read. In one of his later postings he mentioned APE (AJAX Push Engine) - anyone taken a look at that?
To support iPhones and iPods, you'll very likely need to join the MFi program.

Why not use GPS? The main problem to solve would be creating a database of the location of each store in the mall.

Did you find that there isn't enough GPS coverage in malls?
I'm continuing my everyday routine of hacking away. Trying to out it out of my mind, honestly. If I get in, I get in. If I don't, then I don't. Won't stop my determination to build my product and company.
This makes me think of personal assistants. Has anyone tried Timothy Ferris' "life outsourcing" with a virtual personal assistant? Is it all it's cracked up to be?
Not the only one. I teeter somewhere inbetween.

Most places in the USA are unremarkable; as my mother would say when my father talks about visiting a new state park, "seen one tree, seen 'em all". Cities nationwide are relatively the same beyond superficial differences. I spent a week in Rhode Island a year ago, and today I couldn't tell you any way it was meaningfully different from the Silicon Valley besides 'it had old buildings'.

On the other hand, visiting Japan as a teenager was really cool.
I'm not sure I get it. From the perspective of the investors, the 300 million sale seems better. Are they not trying to maximize the return on their money?
Or ssh key, a-la git (hub) commits.
I think what you say is wrong. I am reasonably confident that in any middling govt job, eg school teacher, in which advancement relies on lip service for the status quo, you would be sure to see 95% support for same.

"Trying to make money off a scam" is way too strong. "Trying to keep their heads down and fit in" maybe. I can see that happening, sure. BTW I am neither for nor against global warming†, just wanted to disagree with your thesis.

† I really just don't know what to think.
Scientists may not care much about money... But they care a great deal about peer recognition, status, buying expensive hardware to do simulations, having a lot of grad students, etc.

All of those would disappear if convincing evidence against climate change were found. I once heard a top scientist in solar science complain that his field had been corrupted that way.

I agree that Science is our best hope for understanding climate, but let's not idealize it.
Coffee, milk oolong tea, and water. Mostly water.
If you have a significant asset in the software, I'd advise using a broker, who will probably have a specialised client list. There's a full list of brokers here - http://www.flipfilter.com/blog/2010/10/01/how-to-find-websit...
I thought this was going to be about social services like welfare and food stamps, and how people don't understand the reality of those services unless they've been in a position to really need them. That could be a great article.
I've not used co-routines in Python, but on those occasions when I have used them they have been ideal.

Co-routines are a tool, and like any other, using in the wrong way, for the wrong thing, or badly, makes more problems than it solves. When used carefully and appropriately, the code is cleaner, clearer, and simply better.

I've used co-routines many times in the past 30 years, and they have been utterly indispensible.

Often instead of co-routines you can use generators in the same context. Worth considering. See here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1742593
There has been quite a bit of research concerning money, materialism and happiness. This paper makes a good overview of current research on the subject and links to other papers : http://bss.sfsu.edu/rhowell/Pubs%20-%20PDF/Howell_Hill_JPP_0...

It's a really interesting topic. There is a diminishing return effect : when you are poor more money does make you more happy but after a certain point (where basic needs are satisfied) there is a drop off in the benefits of added money.

From research it appears that materialism have a negative effect on happiness. This meta-analysis confirms it by looking at the existing studies on the subject : http://lilt.ilstu.edu/staylor/csdcb/articles/volume6/wright%...

The first cited paper suggests that spending money on experiences will yield a greater happiness than spending money on stuff.
To sum up what you so far have responded: For data distribution it seems, OpenMP and MPI are still the best implementation if you expect to have a constant runtime for each of these tasks. On the other hand, for task distribution (say, ms > 10 or 100, and variable runtimes), any of the higher languages (e.g., Python, Erlang, Clojure) are acceptable abstractions to ease their development.

There seems to be no language that truly would facilitate distributed computations (multicore & multiprocessor) significantly, however (maybe Haskell?). Is that really it, there is no language that is specifically apt for the new multi-core/-processor machines popping up everywhere that will make programming life easier for those architectures, especially when I want to do some algorithmic speed-ups? I am a bit disappointed, in a way.
The "learn to play go" series of five books by Janice Kim is the best.
Lately I've been making a big smoothie 2-3 times a week in the blender and just keeping it in the fridge.

yoghurt/milk/2 apples/2 oranges/2 bananas/cinnamon and vanilla extract.

The trick is that the bananas and oranges cancel out as base and acid while the apples are neutral. So you can substitute pineapple for the oranges or grapes for the apples for example. But I always keep that base and acid balance.

That and I love Simon Levelt Smokey Earl Grey.
That, and I've also definitely been guilty of ignoring new articles on the matter. I am already convinced climate change is happening, so why should I bother reading the 26th article on whether it's happening or not?

I'm sure the same thing happens with people who are not convinced.
yeah I know, nukes aren't really dangerous are they?

Just to be clear, the parent argument is that people have been saying that our activities are dangerous for a while, but nothing really bad has happened yet. That's like saying no one has detonated a nuke yet so we shouldn't worry about nuclear proliferation.
Nothing more than techno-celebrity gossip. Why is this on HN?
Yes the Seagate 3TB that was also just released has a lot of heat problems. If you are looking for 3TB go for the WD
In addition to all of the UX issues that have been brought up here, there's also the problem of spaces in a user name. Sure, an algorithm could be written where the last broken up block of a string split by spaces in considered the password ... but then what about passwords with spaces in them?
I wonder occasionally about playing go on a graph that isn't just a square grid. It seems like hexagonal go wouldn't be too big a stretch, whereas to make a decent hexagonal chess game you have to change lots and lots of things.

How about playing on a Penrose tessellation generated within some bounds, like a square or circle.

Come to think of it, I wonder what Conway's Life would look like if it were shoehorned onto such a graph. I'm not sure how one would define the neighborhood, but sounds interesting to explore.
The Art of Social Change
Sub-3-hour weekend project: How much wine do I need?