skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To anyone who is thinking about doing this, I highly recommend it.

When I was younger, my family sold most of what we owned, rented out our house, and moved onto our sailboat. We sailed from Seattle to San Diego, then down the West Coast of Mexico, and up into the Sea of Cortez. We were only planning on being gone one year, but since it was such an amazing experience, we decided to extend our trip for a second year.

On the second year, we sailed from the Sea of Cortez farther down Mexico, then down to El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, through the Panama Canal, over to Colombia, up to Honduras, Belize, Mexico again, then Florida. This second year was certainly more rushed since we visited so many countries, but we need to get back stateside for me to finish school and go to college.

Many people believe it is unsafe and expensive to do such an extended trip. But if you are friendly to the local people and accept their culture, they are often welcoming and friendly. Never once were we approached by pirates (although the Mexican navy did stop us 100+ miles off the coast before leaving Mexico to enter El Sal, boarded our boat with AK47s and searched for drugs. Obvi nothing was there and they left). In fact, many welcomed us because we helping to boost their economy, and would improve their image as a "tourist" town.

As for expenses, living on a boat is extremely cheap if you are mechanically inclined. Granted, the boat is a big investment, but other than that there aren't too many expenses. We used solar panels for electricity, a mini-desalinazation machine for drinking water, and often fished off the side, catching fresh tuna. The only expenses were diesel fuel and food (which is cheap in 3rd world countries!). Occasionally we docked, but that was also cheap (we stayed at a high-end resort in MX, including 3 pools and a personal zoo with tigers, and we paid $20/ day). Also, since our home was being rented, that provided some monthly income with no work.

The one danger, and it is very serious, is when people have a lack of offshore sailing and boat handling experience. When (not if) you encounter bad weather you've gotta know how to properly manage the boat, be it at anchor or in the middle of the ocean. I've seen boats slam into rocks during storms in port, and heard captain's calling for help because they're boat is sinking far from shore. However, with some training near shore and a few trips to sea with experienced sailors, most anyone can learn what is necessary to take on an extended sailing voyage.

Also, for all you who need a constant internet connection, rig up an amplified wireless router. We bought an industrial antenna, mounted it halfway up the mast, and rigged up a signal amplifier. In our home harbor, this lead to an increase from 3 wifi networks to over 35 wifi networks! Usually had about a dozen free networks from local businesses.

When we returned home to Seattle, we simply moved back into our original home, met up with old friends, and had some great tales to tell.
That's what I thought until someone pointed out the prisoner's dilemma aspect of the situation. Using OpenTable makes a restaurant more profitable in isolation, but when everyone's using OpenTable, they're all worse off than they would be if no one was using it. This assumes that OpenTable doesn't significantly increase the number of restaurant-goers overall, which I think is accurate.
Bacchus/FLT (alias of the person maintaining that site) hasn't touched anything there in lord knows how long. For those still interested in more accurate information, check out http://codebase64.org/ and for those who wish to speak to the majority of what is currently left of the "C64 Scene", head over to http://csdb.c64.org/ or drop by in #c-64 on IRCnet.
I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't get any science out of this. If you're going to send cheese to space, you should hire some food writers to eat it, compare it to non-space cheese, see if there were any salutary effects, etc.
Buy it, read with a critical eye. Its not hard to look past the bollocks but there are good/interesting things to pick up
There are some great cats like Gunboats or Chris White's Atlantics, but they cost a lot. Can't really compare catamaran's comfort to monohull, since effectively you have 2.5-3 times the living space in a cat.
<Academics have long said that people gambling on poker machines can't make rational buying decisions>

While probably true, its just another example of the nanny nation making it easy to have no responsibility. I like to think this wouldn't get ten feet in the states, but I'm not so sure.
I host all of my projects on GitHub, so I just use their built in Issues system. For something a little more heavyweight, Lighthouse is a good option, too.
We need to define a time associated with the word "mentor" or "mentorship". I'm sure most people that ask someone to mentor them don't expect a Mr. Miyagi style time investment. You'd be surprised how far the occasional IM chat or email will go.
Do you feel a tinge of jealousy when you see 'normal' people simply use Gmail?
I didn't get it either, but someone explained in it the youtube comments:

The cheese shop proprietor symbolizes﻿NASA.
"You do have some cheese, do you?"
"Certainly, sir, it's a cheese shop."
I agree that silence is probably better than any sort of music for programming. Unfortunately, that's not the choice programmers often have to deal with. Usually, its a choice between music and the usual office distractions (other people's conversations, the noise of people moving around, etc.) In those cases any sort of music to block out background noise is a godsend. Having headphones on also signals to visitors that one is busy and that interruptions should be only for important things.
"Much cheaper than a sailboat."

You'd be surprised. Where I'm currently at (Montreal) there's a lot of 40-year old ~21 foot sailboats going for $3-4k. Me and a buddy planned to buy something this summer, but he spent his share of the money on travel. I was too lazy to learn to sail and don't like carpentry and other crap that goes into maintaining a boat, so I decided not to get a boat by myself.

Even when you factor in repairs, harbor fees and the possibility of having to write the boat off after 1-2 years because it's spending all its time in the water (most of the boats we looked at were dry docked for most of their existence), it's still cheaper than rent.

About touring bikes, it really doesn't matter what you tour on. I've known people who've toured on Wal-Mart bikes (not a good idea), 70s 5-speed bikes, track bikes (also not a good idea), double-stack welded tallbikes, etc. There was even a guy riding a BMX backwards across the USA for charity.

I have a bunch of friends that swear by the LHT, but I like to tour on late 80s-early 90s rigid-fork steel mountain bikes (all the rigid-fork mountain bikes made today are suspension-corrected, which makes them useless for just about anything). On mountain bikes the rear rack sits lower and handling gets smoother as the rear is loaded, which isn't always the case with road-type frames. This means you can go with rear panniers only, which is great because front panniers really mess up handling. As a plus 26" wheels and tires can be found almost anywhere, and are usually stronger than 700s.
Getting into YC and being successful in SV are orthogonal.
It's not just ballast, or ebay fodder. I see two symbolic meanings of the cheese related to SpaceX's asprirations:
Cheese is food, which symbolizes the ISS resupply mission. And the cheese wheel symbolizes the moon, where they also want to go.
My question is how many of those cited benefits are actually benefits. For example, it may be very convenient for you to scoot across your cube to ask questions of your co-worker, but is it convenient for him or her? Are you making sure that you're not interrupting anything important (and remembering that asking for interruption is an interruption in itself)? Overhearing and acting on conversations might be nice, but it might be equally troublesome, especially where one might be seen as meddling.

I'm not minimizing the importance of communication, but I'm wondering whether the benefits you've cited are actually worth the costs to yourself and others.
Did anyone with a mac NOT know that you could re-map keys from the keyboard syspref?
I really like your analysis. I just had the realization that Tim Ferris is basically Oprah for men.
Google has time machines. Only explanation for this.
Maybe not a new currency. But Paypal truly has showed weakness when bending over for a government without any juristic evidence. I mean, Paypal as the #1 international internet pay-service (as I see them) is basically compromising their entire credibility over one political case. One can only wonder how much pressure the Government had put on them. So while a totally new currency maybe would be taking it a bit too far - a 100% independent online pay-service/transaction-service, explicitly stating their i political independence would be up for a timely launch now. Kind of like a Swiss bank - but for online cash-flow.
Does it still exhibit that ridiculous "protection" where it requires you to press it for half a second or so before it activates? It drives me mad, I have to press it two or three times before I remember where I'm typing and hold it down for the ages it requires.
That must be a US thing. Never heard "Legos" before.
Only for searching. This feeling is mitigated a bit by the recent improvements in nnir IMAP search in the development version of Gnus, but it's still not as nice as Gmail search.

On the other hand, I use Gmail to archive some mailing lists (precisely because the search is so good -- almost always better than whatever archiving system the list maintainers are using), and my god is it slow! Slow to switch folders, slow to search.... So in that regard, I don't understand how people use Gmail as their primary MUA.

On occasion I hear a story about how someone complains that Gmail is slow, often in a public place like Twitter, and then some magical Gmail fairy moves their records to a less-contended shard/tablet/whatever, which improves things. Maybe I'm just unlucky.
The Top Five Open Source Projects of 2010
No, because it is solving a different problem. Quicksort cannot sort linked-lists, not even in C++. I think most implementations of std::list<>::sort (in C++) use some variant of mergesort.

And it is not true that in-place modification is not possible in Haskell. It is just not considered elegant, but it can be encapsulated in a perfectly Haskell-y way. (Hint: ST monad.)

Also I did not claim that my linked code is more elegant than some other code. Where did I make that claim? So I don't have to defend the claim I did not make, right?
http://help.posterous.com/how-are-site-and-post-views-calcul...
Ah, forgot to mention - on Mac and Linux it's easy, on Windows there's Ctrl2Cap from Sysinternals that'll make the Caps Lock also act as Ctrl
There are many things that trigger a "view" for a post and a site: viewing the blog triggers a view for all posts visible on that page. In addition, a view will be triggered by the blog post page itself, bots and crawlers, and http://posterous.com/explore.

View counts are updated every five minutes.

Google Analytics is better at measuring visitors and filtering out impressions triggered by search engine bots, crawlers, or indexers.

See this page for how to set up Google Analytics on your Posterous site: http://help.posterous.com/how-to-add-google-analytics-to-you...
However, remember that going from an LLC to anything else is very expensive. This varies state to state, in the USA. We formed an LLC in Virginia. Our lawyer warned us that if we ever wanted to go to Wall Street and become public, then a standard C form corp was far more appropriate. And you can not easily transition from LLC to C form corp. Our lawyer told us that the IRS would treat is as liquidation sale and tax everything we had - in other words, it would never make rational sense to do this. It would be as if our LLC went broke and was liquidated and then was bought by the new C form corp.

When we closed down that LLC, there was intellectual property we had to entangle, so that it could go back to belonging to various individuals, all of whom were continuing with their careers. This was messy. We had a highly customized partnership agreement for our LLC. That is the great thing about LLCs - that they allow such flexibility (this, too, varies state by state in the USA. Virginia allows a great deal of flexibility). My advice is, if you form an LLC with other people, put in a clause about shutting down. Essentially, negotiate a pre-nup. Divorce goes easier when everyone knows ahead of time exactly how it will be conducted.
Optimization: don't find the guy who thinks he is the smartest person in the room.
Am I old fashioned in that I think it's disrespectful to call a president that?
Every time you code and listen to music, should you be paying the musician for the performance? I say yes.
How do you do it on Linux?
Unfortunately, courts do not decide on the intent of legislation. Courts decide on the language of the legislation and the facts of the case. The fact that this legislation has such broad language is something to be feared, regardless of its intent.

Perhaps an analogy is in order. The intent of intellectual property legislation (specifically, patent law) was to promote innovation. However, the outcome of the legislation has been almost exactly the opposite when such legislation has been applied to computer and information technologies. How can you say that the same thing will not happen with this legislation? As the aphorism goes, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
RC Tron Light Cycle drives on walls and ceilings
Not just aged, but space-aged!
Please add (1992) to title (that's the year it is from). Things haven't changed that much since, but ... it's good to put things in context.
My question was basically "why did they put the cheese on there if it costs them much more (in fuel costs) to get it to space?" Why not just save the extra weight?
I don't understand the down-votes. Am I offending someone's vision of Tim Ferris's 4 hour work week?
Initial Thoughts on Android 2.3 from a Game Developer's Perspective
Just an idea, why not integrate with 8tracks.com. I think it would be cool to see what mixes others listen to.
s/Goggle/Google/

I wouldn't want my browser to block anything by default. There are plugins for this, if you want it.
I don't think they're orthogonal; they're probably positively correlated.
If you use ubuntu, it's an option in the "Keyboard" preferences pane.

There are several other ways, but the one I've found most reliable is xmodmap:

https://github.com/jemfinch/config/blob/master/.xmodmap (first three lines)

Put that in ~/.xmodmap and run "xmodmap ~/.xmodmap" from your .xsession or similar.
I still wonder if passing on Rahul's startup was a mistake.
The people on HN think that the world revolves around start-ups and Paul Graham's philosophies. It doesn't. There are a lot more ways of making money in this world.
How would you improve the language? Nobody here is sticking up for the language as it stands. Don't be boring! Improve the language!
No; I'll definitely try that tomorrow. Thank you.
Never noticed that before, but yeah, it still does.
MantisBT is an easy to install one. It integrates with SVN, Git, DokuWiki and many more.

http://www.mantisbt.org/

I like that I can hook it up to my Github projects. Here's the how-to: http://leetcode.net/blog/2009/01/integrating-git-svn-with-ma...
The creativity part, the few eureka I had were when pausing long enough far from the screen, be it for a pee, a cigarette, or a bike ride. Same for my colleagues.
There are lots of opportunities for non-tech people to be entrepreneurial online. The internet's made it much easier to sell products and services at virtually no cost, it doesn't matter if your a designer or a drop-shipper, the tech is mostly prebuilt and out there for you to just use.

As tech entrepreneurs we should be figuring out what's stopping non-tech entrepreneurs starting their own business in their area of expertise/passion and figuring out how to build the tech that will enable them to do so !
yah, a friend of mine claims that he listens to 'death metal' while coding - I don't believe that.Personally I go for 'Raag Deshkar' - Indian Classical Music. it's just amazing for productivity and if you want to feel like it's morning. (There are particular time every 'raag' should be played
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Corrected, though I'm not completely happy with it:

http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/11/full-stack.html
...that the author uses.

This is much less interesting than some general survey analysis on the state of open source software for the year.
I believe <i>somebody</i> just blew up one or two of their "top people". The article seems to indicate the scientist who was killed was in charge of the Stuxnet recovery.

Also, I'd bet fixing the whole plant's industrial control systems isn't as simple as restoring from a backup. I imagine there can be a lot of complexities such as the backup systems being infected, having to write custom tools to detect and prevent future infections, etc.

Also, I'm curious, what are people's thoughts on the worm's authors? Is it generally accepted to be Israeli-made, or are there some doubts about that? I remembered reading something about a reference to Israeli in the code from some anti-virus folks, not sure if that is actually true though. And I don't personally think that the CIA / U.S. military is innovative or clever enough to pull this off, but obviously that's just my opinion. Are there any other candidates?
I've been trying to find out music like this on shoutcast! If you know of any streams that play this type of music, do share.
On Windows it's simpler than that.

Just import this registry settings file if you want Caps to behave as Ctrl:
http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/windows/docs/ntemacs/contri...

Or this one if you want to switch Caps and Ctrl (although I never miss CapsLock personally):
http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/windows/docs/ntemacs/contri...
Short-termism.

I wasn't suggesting that as a "species" they could flourish and continue to do so (though that's possible) but that just as one can profit by driving a company into the ground (remember naked short selling) one can profit by destabilising a whole economy and destroying entire industries. Generally speaking if you've made billions of dollars you don't care that you can't earn any more the same way.

Indeed if I can destroy US car manufacture and have stakes in Japanese car manufacture then it's a plus for me.

If you make money destroying society then you switch to selling anti-depressants, DIY divorce kits, handguns, etc. and make more money. It's the capitalist way. Ain't it fine.
Bills are not written by people on discussion boards. They are written by lobbyists, and then adopted by legislators who rarely even read the bills on which they vote.
Ask HN:  Is school essentially slavery?
Why does society tolerate this form of slavery?

Shouldn't students just learn on their own -- especially those who will pursue entrepreneurship?
Sorry, but too much time has passed since the submission for HN's interface to let me edit the title any more.
i.e. speculative conjecture, and a generalisation based on cultural assumptions: I can quite easily believe Teheran lacks the technical knowhow to defend themselves.

(plus Teheran is a city and a region, not a nation state - it would have made more sense to talk about Iran)

EDIT; I surrender, I saw the Fox logo, it's now very clear -> 'fair and balanced' ;)
In Ubuntu (I think it works in Gnome in general):

System Menu -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layouts -> Options -> Ctrl Key Position -> Make Caps Lock an additional Ctrl
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Thanks for the compliments.

Today it's primarily my wife (support & some marketing) and me (development & marketing) running the business and we have two home-based support reps. Our main product is a cattle software program that lets ranchers keep track of their cattle including information such as breeding, calving, purchases & sales, medical treatments, pedigree/lineage, etc. Once they have recorded this information, it helps them make management decisions so they can be more profitable. Our website is at http://www.CattleMax.com.
They're just counting views in a particularly unrealistic but technically not incorrect way.

Seems to be pretty much par for the course, like when twitter announces a billion new users, most of which are probably bots and/or quora.
What he means, is don't hire mobile engineers that have worked at big telco provider (samsung,motorola, or carriers). It is well known that these companies just don't have good talent.

If your main reason for not hiring someone is "They worked for Nokia," then I'm not quite sure what to say, besides that it doesn't seem to be a very good reason not to hire someone.

Of course, I've never worked for any of the aforementioned companies. That being said, I know some very smart people who have (and continue to do so). People who I'd be happy to work with, if the chance ever came up at the right time.
Always a problem for fast typists… Is there anyway to disable the stupid feature?
That link doesn't work btw.
Also, I recommend ditching Caps Lock altogether, not just switching.
Wow, and included motorcyclists with bombs. Move over James Bond. This is 2010.
You really can't control that.

They offer a little bit of control to you in Webmaster's Tool (you need to sign up and validate that you are site owner of course).

Personally, I've seen that if you change the code semantically then sitelinks change too (to an extent - too much change usually makes them disappear for a while).

Example:
If You change

<ul>
<li><a>Logs</a></li>
<li><a>Extras</a></li>
<ul>

to:

<ul>
<li><a>Logs</a>
<ul>
<li><a>Extras</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<ul>

I hope you get the idea.

I am talking form personal experience so might not be 'very accurate' but seems to be that ways.
No, Allen can file an amended complaint that satisfies the court.
Bernie Sanders' Filibuster
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Few, but you won't be sued unless you are making serious money in the first place.
Sure, the harbor's cheap ($200/month) say but what about the Yacht itself? Probably costs more to rent than the apartment!!!! No?
Yes. I mean, I think the guy is an arrogant, unethical bastard, but IF you can just get past that and keep an open mind I think he does have a few interesting points on productivity, priorities, questioning what you really want, etc. There's actually a lot of stuff in the book that I agree with, but there's a lot that really irks me, too.
Yeah, I suspect finding the right environment is the important thing. In Padova, a friend and I found a really great bar where they do salsa, which was full of people having a good time rather than people showing just how awesome their talents were.
Is it bad if the guy legitimately invented things, patented them, and they are infringed?
Um, the Commerce Clause didn't unilaterally impose ObamaCare on the country. It simply (arguably) authorized Congress to pass legislation regulating health care. What we're arguing about is whether Congress should exercise its power under the Commerce Clause to give the executive branch more power over the Internet. The language of the statute determines how much, and what kinds, of power the executive branch would get.
Then you could work at home, no? For me development is teamwork, and we do it in a war room, wich like extreme cubicle. It works very well, just isolate with headphones and heavily use chat, even for people at your desk. Ask the team to receive calls outside and to talk softly to each other.