skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of my wife's story. Talented as a young child and pushed by korean parents until she burned out by high school. It is not the pushing by itself but the pushing devoid of love - which is a different issue.
Personally, I much prefer taking stock in the early afternoon. That's the time when I tend to be feeling low on energy and motivation, and need an extra bit of inspiration to keep me going. And if I decide/discover that I need to make some change in my life, I can do it that day.

What happens when you start reflecting on the day (or planning the next) late at night? You get excited, or you remember something you forgot to do -- either way, that makes it hard to sleep. And the next day, all the enthusiasm is lost.
I believe there have been psych studies to this effect. Asked whether you'd rather make 110k when everyone else is making 80k, vs. 140k when everyone else is making 200k -- assuming prices remain constant, which is economically dubious, of course, but hey, it's a thought experiment -- and most people choose the former.

Here's another study to that effect: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3315638/Rela...

"But the most the exciting finding was the influence of another factor: how the rival player was doing. Activation was at its highest for those players who got the right answer while their co-player got it wrong. But participants who got more money than their co-players showed much stronger activation in the "reward centre" than when both received the same amount."

This has a lot of interesting implications. For one, the classical homo-economimus model of humans as rational utility maximizers is further called into question. For two, it highlights the hedonic treadmill effect. No matter how much you earn, as long as you're comparing yourself to someone who makes more, you're unlikely to be satisfied.
I would add one:

4. Hard work is more important than being smart.

The reason for this has been discussed a lot, but the jist is that telling kids they are smart causes them to feel like there is something wrong with them when they try new things and fail ("I'm smart, why can't I solve this??!"). Praising hard work has been shown to work better.
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It's speedy. It's empowering. But it's (stil?) a memory hog. My personal issue with it is the memory consumption. Other than that it's an amazing project.
Exactly.. At least the last 3 or 4 White House Press Secretaries made that same salary "joke" upon leaving the position and returning back to their high paying private sector media jobs.
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I posted the article here and I find that many comments are missing the point. Catherine Rampell writes that the exponential growth of the global wealth for the super-rich oligarchy, especially in the last decades made the comparison with them so much more difficult. This all at the backdrop of the devastating recession that thrown many productive people into the object poverty. I might add that the media and the internet is full of the ubiquitous stories about the super-rich so they are at the same time everyone's neighbor and no ones neighbor.
Really? I wished they broke it down further than 1 second intervals... 99% of the websites on this list report 0 as their response time.
Thank you -- I really appreciate that.
The nice thing knowing how to play the violin, viola, or guitar is that you can carry them with you almost anywhere. The nice thing about knowing how to play the piano is there's a piano in every school, church, reception hall, etc.
I had the same reaction, and I know Yoast! Seems out of character.
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Interesting point about piracy. Without a need, there's no reason to innovate.
How do you build a tech startup outside of Silicon Valley? You start one. Just like any other business.
Well for companies that are even slightly web-savvy the logs are very useful because they contain information about who your customers are, when they use your site, how often, what they're searching for, etc, etc - which can have a real commercial value.
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Android's been able to run native code since v1.5. The updates in 2.3 are significant, as you can now use C to hook into Android's APIs, whereas before you were given the screen and told to go wild (for example, the Firefox Mobile port needed its own gui widgets)
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The only problem is that if you look at the fastest response time, it's because it's simply text indicating that they're working on the project. No navigation or anything. The difference in content based on the expectations of what the services provide makes it difficult to grasp what one can get out of this.
That's an interesting sidenote.

I wonder if it's a subtle psychological trick to not associate red with negative connotations (such as "declining profits", "stop", "blood") because the color red is part of the CPC's identity makeup.Or maybe it's just a cultural thing, like how they wear white when someone died and black to celebrate a birth/life (I'm not sure if it is a chinese custom however, but I know it's an asian custom).
The cool thing about this approach is how nicely it works with compound interest.

Live like a college kid for the 5 years after you leave college, and I defy you not to put $10k per year into the market. Fresh out of school with my $32k salary, I'd regularly find month-old paychecks lying around undeposited because I simply didn't need the money to support my cheap apartment, used car, and 10lb sack of potatoes.

With nowhere for your money to go but the market, you quickly discover what 10%/year (or even 5% per year) does to a stack of money. Eventually it's making more on its own than you're putting in. Financial security for life, sorted by age 30.
Sign me up. I'd love to know what the hell A Serious Man was really about.
Ummm...in tic tac toe "somebody's got to win" is not true.
What good is this without including some "how busy is this site?"-metric like requests per second? Or the amount of data served?
> Over 2000 commits

I fail to see how this is a major feature. Maybe it fulfills an enterprise requirement?
This advice applies to organisations as much as it does to people. Companies need to take some time out to think about what worked, what didn't and why not. And they also need to encourage folks to speak up about failures and be prepared to listen to rants, complaints and concerns that employees.

This sounds really easy, but it's amazes me how many companies just don't want to listen to bad news. A surefire way to detect a crappy company is by their reaction when employees complain. The really great companies listen and get the management to act. The mediocre companies suggest that the employee take the initiative and act. The lousy companies just blame the employee.
Agreed, the margin does not grow much bigger the more you make, if you made one graph for income and one for expenses.
ryanwaggoner made the point I thought of when I read your comment, but I want to reinforce it.

For every success there will be 10 (or more) broken children who go through this "method". They will hate their parents. They will have a broken sense of self. They will not be socialized. They will have emotional problems, sometimes serious ones.

How do I know this? I've met the failed ones. I've never met a success from this method, either, and I'm 50.

The people that I've met that were a "success", were both smart, hard working and focused. And, they had one thing which is not praised much anymore: common sense.

I have known more smart people than I can count in my life. A fraction of them had much common sense or "life smarts". Yeah, they could run rings around me with their programming or math or whatever ability, but they often couldn't make a good decision to save their life.

Lastly, I'll say that whatever drive your child has, cultivate it. You cannot create drive, it either is or isn't.
Ya, the page could use with more descriptions. The response time is given in milliseconds and the number beside it (most of which are 0) is the number of incidents in the past hour. An incident is a timeout, error or slowdown.
This is only occasionally important to engineer/programmer types (and that's definitely not who this is geared toward in the author's defense -- it's Harvard Business Review for god's sake). You definitely should be taking stock _sometimes_ of "how things went with your team" or whatever, but it's not even close to how best to use the last 5 minutes of a day.

The best use of the last 5 minutes of my work day, without question, is making a few comments on about half a sheet of paper of what open questions I have for tomorrow and a couple of directions I might head to solve them, along with caveats/gotchas I thought of while working.

This way when I let go of work for the day, I don't think about it anymore unless I really want to and I'm confident that I have enough written down to hit the ground running the next time I want to work.

This frees me up completely to do something _besides_ work.
And thunderstorms just got even more badass.

What are the potential implications from this discovery? Since it is so expensive and difficult to create antimatter on Earth (and it only lasts for less than a second), the obvious question to ask is if we can capture or study the antimatter produced in thunderstorms?

That would be amazing.
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I think the only viable alternative to VWO is Optimizely [http://www.optimizely.com/], which is a YC company. Most of the other options I've researched look like they are too much work, which defeats the point of buying a product instead of doing it in-house. Note: I haven't used either product, only viewed their marketing materials.
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How do we know Agassi is a success? We know he failed at many things for a large part of his personal life. Just because he became #1 at tennis doesn't make him a good person. It does seem like he's found a good place in life, but I don't think anyone here knows what daemons might be present in his mind.

I think we judge success by a shallow metric. Money or fame or success at a single thing in like is not a gage of success. Success is made from many things, not this narrow list.
This article wonders why the rich are getting richer and the answer is compound interest.

Having $1 million in the bank will reliably generate between $25k and $50k per year.

Having $2 million in the bank will reliably generate between $50k and $100k per year.

Having $3 million in the bank will reliably generate between $100k and $150k per year.

So someone with $3 million in savings and still working their 200k job will be making nearly the same amount as their savings is generating. If they keep working and don't spend their principle, they'll have another million in about 5-6 years.

For someone putting 30k away each year in savings, it will take them decades to reach the first $1 million.

This is why the rich get richer. It's not about salary. It's about savings and investment.
This is pure speculation, but I wonder if production cost is the driving factor. Rather, I think it is a question of what a potential buyer is willing to pay. If a person with a Kindle is looking to read, say, Atlas Shrugged ($19 Kindle, $10 Paperback) I don't think they are going to buy the paperback just to save money. They are probably willing to eat the extra $9 for the immediate gratification. Amazon knows that, so they'll charge more.

Also, its interesting to note (from an unscientific random survey) that they are charging less for the Kindle Edition when it comes to bestsellers (which are probably in hardback). I wonder if this is in an effort to hook potential buyers and then increase margins when Kindle owners buy older titles?
I think a vertical line would show the point more clearly. The idea is that there is a lot more change at the top end than the rest, and a vertical line does that.

Resolution does become an issue (I agree that showing the change from 99.5 to 99.9 is good and a linear scale makes seeing those points harder). A way around that is to have the graph scroll left to right -- which should be easy given that it is an interactive JS/flash graph widget.
People only look up when it comes to wealth, everyone who makes less money than you might as well not exist.

I read an article once about what well-off people (net worth in excess of $5 million) consider to be rich. The consensus was about $50 million liquid net worth- Basically the point where you can realistically consider owning private jets and yachts so there isn't any shit to be jealous of your neighbors about anymore (except maybe a bigger yacht).
I think it has to do with a lack of a broader education and spiritualism that most people are devoid of.

Because they don't know any better, money becomes a hammer, and every problem looks like a nail.
It's a shame that GIMP isn't supported by more devs/money. Writing script-fus for GIMP makes it so much more useful for a developer than Photoshop. I've saved myself so much time using python-fu with GIMP to automate opening, manipulating, saving of files.
As it's a continuous integration server, how about Leibniz?
More about his Item 11 on cloning. Writing a case class gives you a "copy" method which is an abstraction of clone where you can write something like

val newFoo = oldFoo.copy(bar = someBar)
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Ths is old-ish news; here's what I wrote about this when it happened:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1994085
As you point out: while it wouldn't be prudent to go into politics for the direct money, the modern reality is that politics is a route to a staggering amount of future money. Not unlike paying vast sums to go to an Ivy League school; not because the education is so much better, but because future opportunities will be.

In that light, I don't see a huge line between his decision to 'cash-out' at this particular point in time and the statement 'because his salary was too low'.
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My point is that deaf people log more than 2 million minutes a month of "video chat" and that number is about to explode as mobile VRS services come online in the next 3 months. (I worked for Sorenson communications recently)
I think that's most of it, but there's also sales commission on huge projects.
I think you are only really "rich" when you are making a decent (e.g. middle/upper middle-class) monthly salary without even (theoretically) setting a foot out of bed, ever.

Given the complete freedom to do a lot of things in your life without ever HAVING to participate in the rat race of daily work has got to be the ultimate freedom and should be the bar for "rich" for me.

Everyone below that is more or less well off.
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its a problem in Canada:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/11/10/too-asian/
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Agree. And the articles refers to other emerging tech entrpreneurship hubs (secondary markets) that make it possible to start a company and take advantage of the established ecosystems.

If you are not in a city where such ecosystem exists, you could probably start building a prototype there but as soon as you need to scale up (financially, hiring, or other) you will probably need to start networking or moving a city that has one.
Using '<-' is the general style of the R community. The accepted (but not universal) practice is to use '<-' for assignment and '=' in argument passing. This is a good idea because '<-' and '=' are not equivalent and '<-' is more likely the operator you want. From the help page [1] The operator ‘<-’ can be used anywhere, whereas the operator ‘=’ is only allowed at the top level (e.g., in the complete expression typed at the command prompt) or as one of the subexpressions in a braced list of expressions. That being said, some R community members still use '=' for assignment, but it's frowned upon. It certainly annoys me when I see it in R code.

Simple example to show when '=' won't work but '<-' will. Pilfered from "R Inferno" [2], which is an excellent reference for R idioms and best practices.

system.time(vec1 <- rnorm(1000))
mean(vec1)
system.time(vec2 = rnorm(1000))
mean(vec2)

And to demonstrate that you need to use '=' for argument passing:

x <- c(3,4,NA)
mean(x)
mean(x, na.rm=TRUE)
mean(x, na.rm<-TRUE)

[1] Type help('=') at an R prompt, or view it online: http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/base/html/ass...

[2] http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf

edit: clarified statement.

edit: added examples.
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It would be interesting to see if the data from the poll match the log data. I'm always curious about the accuracy of self-reporting in polls like this, with the ingoing assumption that people tend to be more estimators of frequency either with an aspirational bias (how often they think they should do something) or just a recent history bias (if I have done something a few times recently, I likely overestimate how often I do it).
Lots of reported conclusions depend on polls like this. Since in this case the real data may be available in the logs of HN, it would be more interesting to me to see the comparison of real v. reported than it is to see the actual answers.
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> "Our findings suggest that socioeconomic disparities in cognitive development start early," says Tucker-Drob. "For children from poorer homes, genetic influences on changes in cognitive ability were close to zero. For children from wealthier homes, genes accounted for about half of the variation in cognitive changes."

Another way to look at it is to say that, in a perfectly nurturing environment, everyone would achieve to the very peak of their genetic potential, and then genes would account for all of the variation in cognitive changes. So what deficits are there in the rich kids' environments that only half, rather than all, of the variation is genetic?
>But everywhere it was tried on a nation wide level it failed, which was my point exactly.

But I don't think it's been conclusively demonstrated to fail on it's own "merit" (so to speak) but rather due to "too many cooks in the kitchen" and/or outside interference. I don't know if this idea could every seriously work or not (I currently lean against), but I do know that people enjoying lots of power and wealth today don't even want to know due to the off chance that it might work.

>discounting a countries with natural wealth like Norway

Why are you discounting natural wealth? The US has natural wealth and a lot of size. We're either comparing it to other countries/regions or we're not.

>I'm claiming the US has more wealth, albeit not equally divided.

I would also question this. It's more or less true as a country but the US has 300 million people and 50 states, many of which being as large as European countries. So a better comparison might be US vs. the Euro zone in which case Europe has more wealth and it is more equally divided.

>there is a good chance you destroy wealth

There is some chance, but I think we're starting to see that it might not be the case and the opposite may even be true.
Technically yes, but not at all in practice. Once you run 3 adjustments you generally want to tweak the first. Without adjustment layers you usually just run a fourth transformation.
Why would users care how many requests there are per second, or how much data is being served?
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Andre Agassi was addicted to meth for Pete's sake. This is a joke of an argument.
Plus selectively painting the mask of an adjustment layer is useful as well
Two factors I can think of:

First, price has less to do with production cost than with the perceived value of the product.
The value of the Kindle version is increased by the utility of the Kindle itself.

Second, the production cost has to be covered (of course) so the cost per unit depends on how many units you sell.
In other words, a popular paperback may well have a much lower production cost per unit than the ebook will ever have.
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Seizure from MMR is due to high fevers, which mumps and measles both have as main symptoms. Given that 90% of people exposed to measles wind up getting it, the complication rate from the MMR diseases is going to be far, far higher than that of the vaccine.

There are decades of research on this.
Response time data is useless without other data:

- Where are the monitors located?

- Where are the sites located?

- How was the site monitored? Did they account for DNS lookup and connection times in this time? 8ms for skysheet.com makes me think no?

- Are error times rolled into these times? Errors typically will respond quickly.

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Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of that. I guess I'm still living back in the days when AMD was announcing their next German fab.
It appears to have an extra break in the metal above the mute switch, just like the recent video.
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Capistrano (via the `cap shell` command) works pretty well for this.

http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/9/21/introducing-the-capist...
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I'll save you reading the article and summarize it in 1 sentence: income distribution is exponential, so rich neighborhoods can have significantly (relatively) richer/poorer residents, while poor neighborhoods all make relatively the same.
It's really so sneaky. Before I started school, I worked full time and I was still living paycheck to paycheck. I started school, with an obviously lower part-time salary, and I'm now comfortable adapted to the new salary (have money to burn and everything).
Yeah, but more notably, they all left after a couple years. I think it's a pretty high stress job, and leaving is probably more about the stress than the salary. It just manifests itself as "I'm not getting paid enough for this shit".
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But it is evolution. isn't it and there be better software for all of us.
The decrease could be caused by aliens or time-traveler coming from the future (or the distant past) ;-)

That could be the starting point for a nice sci-fi series...
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I wonder how that relates to the study that poor kids hear less words than their richer peers (http://www.npr.org/2011/01/10/132740565/closing-the-achievem...).
I currently use Remind: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind

It's not a plug-in, so you can use any text editor (or install a GUI frontend). It has a powerful date scripting language that can be complex, but flexible enough to meet almost any need. Most events can be entered simply on one line of text and it will handle the sorting, so you can organize entries however you want (even including them from other files). Multiple output formats are available. I publish my calendar to my web site in HTML and PDF, while a cronjob emails a text version to me twice a day.

The only downside is that I end up managing the calendar for the whole family. I feel uneasy publishing my calendar to the cloud, but I'm considering using shared Google Calendars so everyone can manage there own schedules.
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