skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instant has been moved into Options in the Beta version. I know I was pretty confused when I couldn't find it.
American parents are not perceived to provide enough financial and emotional support for their children

This reality is unfortunately very true in the US. My mother used to joke about the fact that our 18th birthday would consist of a moving trucks as a present. While it was a tongue in cheek joke there was without a doubt a grain of truth to her attitude. Fortunately for me, my grandparents took me in long before that. They came from a different culture than my mother. I am from the US south and the old southerners have a distinctly different culture than that of the rest of the us. There was a lot more French and Spanish influence in the south and up until my grandparents generation that culture was the norm. Anyways, not to side track too much into the distinct cultures of the US or the loss of those cultures, but my point is my grandparents came from a culture in which it was normal for a child to live and help around the home until the time that they where on stable footing to go out into the world. Usually there was a gift of land or some other property that would help the child start to make their way in the world. All of my grandfathers siblings got a portion of the homestead when they became of age from my Great-Grandfather. That was pretty much the norm in the American south up until around the 1940's. While I did not receive a gift of land, I did receive the gift of time. My grandparents allowed me to live with them and supported me while I pursued ventures to that would help me make it in the world. On the final venture they purchased a computer for me and the rest was history. Had I been forced out at 18 who knows where I would have ended up I certainly know that I would not enjoy the quality of life I do know. For that I am eternally grateful to them. I plan to do the same for my children, I always talk to them about ways to make money and be your own boss. Better yet I serve as an example to them. I plan to make sure that before any one of my kids leaves home that they have a functional and profitable venture to call their own. That is the greatest gift you can ever give to your children, the gift of time to discover one's self.

The thing to remember is that not only is their a cultural element to this but there is also an economic element to this. I have read several studies that state while the American quality of life measured on the indicators of food availability and health care has significantly improved, the real wealth of the average US citizen has declined. So some of this cultural element seems to be born out of necessity.
It is refreshing to read how you don't need your business to become big, but rather want it to sustain your life and give you location independence! I am finishing my degree this year and want to do the same. I wish you the best of luck!
Let me try.

Real human beings are scarred for life by this "game". If that's not a consequence then I don't know what is.
I haven't worked for Microsoft for long, but I don't find this to be true. My team is very cooperative and positive.
We are going to end up with something sooner or later.

The fact is that we want (and can) enter into contracts on the Internet. In order to enforce contracts we must have identities. Since the Government (specifically the judiciary) enforces contracts, this means that we must be entering into these contracts under Government-managed identities.

Currently we acquire and prove this Government-managed identity using an ad-hoc, decentralised, system with much duplication. I can use a passport or my driver's license or my birth certificate or perhaps some utility bills or some combination. This causes various problems, including fraud and waste.

If two parties mutually choose to enter into a contract over the Internet, and this contract is to be enforced by the judiciary, then it would be ideal for them to be able to verify each others' legal entities and authorisation. I think that properly implemented this could eliminate a large amount of online fraud.

Nothing about the principle of such a system inherently creates privacy problems, since when parties enter into a contract they already expect to reveal their identities to each other, and nothing would necessarily be forcing people to reveal their identities in any other situation, just the same as is the case at the moment.T here is a risk of a slippery slope of course; I can't deny that.

There's no reason such a system has to be centralised, though. X.509 certificates would work fine, for example, issued at the same time as a birth certificate, with each local office as a CA.

Unfortunately, the problem is with implementation. I don't think that any government is competent enough to put a system together that does meet privacy requirements, and there are too many self-interested parties who would influence and corrupt the design of such a system.
The thing about schemes like this is that they remain optional until such time as the majority of the population have them, after which it becomes easy to convert the system to a mandatory one since minority groups can easily be sidelined. Or alternatively they become so popular that it becomes difficult to function as a modern citizen without one (I hope this doesn't apply with Facebook accounts in the next few years).
This was posted in the last week: http://www.quietwrite.com
From a package viewpoint, generally you can use the same .net dll built on windows in mono and vice versa.

There are some considerations to make when writing code for both platforms, just to ensure you won't use features not yet implemented in mono.
This sentiment is not new. See "Microsoft at Apogee" by John Walker (founder of Autodesk, and a really brilliant guy): http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/msapogee.html

Note the date: 9 Feb 1997 (!)
Thank you! At last, my search has been fulfilled, and by a human no less. If only I could have searched for "that web app that lets you write stuff" and have retrieved meaningful results. :)
Figures that Sheldon would consider himself a higher level hexagon.

And that he thought Raj should go after a simple line segment.
Why not keep them out there and get a lead sooner, then hope to keep the lead if they do foul out?
You may have a good point in there, but my parser chokes on your assertion that the Zune is innovative.
Maybe this is a sign that I'm a Windows dev, but that app seems pretty cool. The screen is cluttered, but I must admit that I spent about five seconds looking at it, and I felt like I could jump right in and start using it.

I just downloaded the command line and GUI version. Thanks! :-)
I was replying to the comment which argues MS is not dead because he gets a lot of Windows-based hits on his website.

And, to reply to your reply to my reply, I disagree. Microsoft is very much in control. I think Microsoft is the competitor you always have to worry about which makes them a powerful force, which puts them in control.
Steve's story - Google employee #13
Constitution is meaningless these days. "Unconstitutional" is defined by the emotional whims and ideologies of judges.
Those would be sunglasses that filter out green, otherwise known as red sunglasses.
Idea for a small startup: service, which collects predictions from experts and politicians, and have a number showing percent of predictions, which came true.

Anyone knows a service like this?
Great, another channel for identity theft.
This is a little off-topic, but I've heard a lot of bad things about Gerstner as well (read the one star reviews on Amazon for his book). It is pretty well accepted that he saved IBM, or is it controversial amongst people in the know?
.NET compiles everything down to an intermediate language which is then JIT-compiled to assembly - the assembly can either be generic (something that will run across a wide array of Intel 64bit processors, for instance) or it can be something that takes advantage of very specific chip features (like special math instructions or caching features.) Depends on the build instructions you send to the CLR.

I believe the issue with porting is that there's some key components in the .NET framework that rely on the Windows OS kernel behavior and won't play nice with POSIX, but I haven't taken a close enough look under the hood to say that with 100% certainty.
Me neither, on Chrome and Windows 7.
try "cpan Module::Name", which installs the requested module
I wasn't aware the news went anywhere. I got a notification that the incident happened on my iPhone and read about it in the New York Times app on my iPad, and I found the quality of the content to be pretty good. It sounds as though the problem isn't that the news has gone anywhere but rather that the author isn't using an optimal method to find the news.

Of course news is always going to have a bias. The key is that it's less about what you read as much as it is how you read it.
It's interesting to think of this whole situation as an arms race, and I wonder if any of the pirates are active in developing countermeasures to such systems, or even innovating on their own attack methods and equipment. The only photos I've seen are of guys in small wooden boats with AK-47s but one would assume that any technology improvements for the pirates would improve their piracy yields.
Why should innovative engineers who cost a lot to hire have to fight so hard in the first place? If out-of-control critics are creating an innovation-hostile environment, shouldn't their aggressive suppression be a basic problem for management? Something like cleaning the toilets and taking out the trash; constant chores that turn into genuine health-hazards if ignored, but easily handled when reduced to systematic housekeeping.

I'm also wondering how many of the accurate "it'll never work" calls are based on internal realities? As in "this awesome tablet won't fly because there's no way the Windows 7 people are going to allow us to create our own dedicated OS."

Also, about the criticism - what form does it take? Does it sound like people saying "Due to my lack of imagination and generally fearful demeanor, I say it can't be done for this BS reason"? Or does it carry the more savvy and well-informed tone of "Doing that at Microsoft will get you killed, and here's where you'll find the bodies to prove it"?
Hacker news VS Reddit
Some days ago I posted on the about a cool documentary on the Arduino board.

Well, this is the result:

Reddit -
318 points (82% like it) -
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eyj2d/arduino_the_documentary/

Hacker news -
3 points -
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2083349
>Note that if [generic scary three letter agency] wants to spy on you it's already quite easy for them to do so (see FISA, CALEA, NSLs, Sugar Grove, etc).

It's not really about spying.

It's about a government bureaucracy having the power to control your identity.

If Visa cancels my card I can get an AMEX. The CIA has limited reach here.. the alphabet soups can't easily freeze my bank account.

But if the government controls my ID card, they can shut me down utterly and I have no recourse aside from the broken judicial system.

The simple fact of the matter is that corporations such as Visa and HSBC and Equifax are more trustworthy than the government.

Giving the government the ability to authenticate humans online is giving them WAY TOO MUCH UNCHECKED POWER.
I may be a rare case, but I honestly started using git and vim in particular long before the heaps of hype that built up around the tools, before I even started reading HN actually.

I found the tools I went with to be more intuitive and easier to learn than the others. When tools are legitimately pleasurable to use, developers talk about them, and 'hype' builds up.
http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements is pretty close.
Yep, I thought you were agreeing with him, and that MS was still relevant in 2010.

To your second point: I disagree that Microsoft is the competitor you always have to worry about. They were in 2000. They stopped a long time ago. Perhaps you disagree, and that's fine, we'll leave it at that.
Notice that IBM and Apple revenues are higher, because they selling mostly hardware. MSFT selling mostly software with exception of XBox.
This effect is in Chrome for Mac OS only (I assume Chromium as well - haven't used that on the Mac yet). I noticed it a while back in that version... it's subtle. You have to be looking at the tab to notice.

The effect doesn't appear in either Chrome or Chromium for Linux or Windows.
The UI is a little messy but that's a great little app. :)
The pirates get around in basic dinghy's with fairly basic weapons. They're not that sophisticated in their attacks or their defenses (at least not yet).
Yes, when XBox started out they very intentionally decoupled it from the rest of corporate culture. I'm out of touch with the more recent reorganizations so not sure about where Bing and WP7 are these days, but agree that they're showing positive signs as well.
Sweet. That's still on par with Rubygems, cabal, and everything else, though. That wasn't my main point.
It's not about access to information, it's about the control to issue/deny IDs.
Researchers store data in bacteria
agreed. tens of thousands of committed, passionate, and persistent people -- along with multiple billion-dollar businesses that have held up longer than expected -- mean that they'll continue to be a force to be reckoned with.

that said, Paul was completely right: it's been a long time since they've inspired fear.
Sounds like he was in the right place at the right time. I think it would be a mistake to read anything into his story other than "be really lucky".

EDIT: There were lots of people just like him that weren't crazy-successful. It's wonderful that he put himself into a place where he could succeed, but that's only necessary, not sufficient, to realize that success. He deserves credit for buying the ticket and taking the ride, but beyond that it's luck.
I'd say the next step would be some green laser glasses. I don't think there'll be a ban on import of that particular item in Somalia.
I went to home depot yesterday to get everything I need (except the cameras which I got a few days ago), and am going to start building my new standard scanner today... I'm super excited.
It's a proof of concept, but at the same time all redis calls for this service is shielded by strongly-typed web services api (not a free command redis) so the only commands that are executed is what's allowed - the web services api would not be any different than if it was backed by an RDBMS.
Personally, I like Mike Whitney (most recent article http://counterpunch.org/whitney01062011.html) more than Roubini. He's not so famous as Schiller but he's not afraid to connect the dots politically as well and call a wealth-based transfer from poor to rich class warfare when that is what it is.

He called the Great Recession many times from 2006 onwards, just dig through that site for his articles, like this way for instance (https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22by+mike+w...) - really, the guy is super cynical but nothing macroeconomic-wise escapes his beady eye.
For any food establishment. Or you're doing something wrong.
> Normal people don’t study philosophy

Well, I don't want to sound like a douche or anything, but they really do know how to pick their words, don't they? Following the same logic only Plato would qualify as a true philosopher (he's the evil mind behind all this "academia" concept anyway), while Democritus, one of the few philosophers who actually knew what he was saying, would just be seen as an amateur.
We were all in the right place at the right time. There is something to be said for making an effort to put yourself in the "right" place though.
We should also ban dihydrogen oxide, because it is used in toxic industrial activities. It's corrosive like crazy. Hell, it's the primary ingredient in acids. Excessive consumption is known to cause schizophrenia, seizures and death. The list goes on and on...
You should instead read this story as "work really hard, take risks, and luck will find you". Whether that luck is Google or some other pretty successful venture is of course somewhat random - there is no doubt, though, that success - the vague, abstract idea of it - will find you eventually.
Thanks for the updates.

I had an issue with mail forwarding a few weeks ago. Mailed them about it but got no reply (problem was eventually fixed). Still seem to happen occasionally, not very happy with this..
Thanks very much for the well wishes you guys. I am very much looking forward to that sense of relief. In the coming week or two I will probably post a 'Show HN' of my project (wiring diagrams of neuronal connectivity).
he's wrong almost all the time, consistently producing grinding, negative returns. He's only been right a couple times, but when he's right he's really right, making enough money that he doesn't need to make money anymore

AFAIK his hedge fund haven't been right "big" even once so far and clients are only withdrawing money with a loss after few years...
Let her talk.

Listen.

Hug her (if she wants - some people find that digging up these memories causes them to temporarily feel uncomfortable when touched).

Don't tell her that she has to talk about it. Or pressure her into it. Let her know that you're willing to listen, and let her come around to it in her own time.

If she wants to see a professional then support that - but don't feel that everyone necessarily _needs_ to. If she can deal with it herself then that's fine. If not, and she wants help, then that's fine too.

Remember that this is personal, and different for everyone. And only she knows how she's dealing with it.

Things will, most likely, get bad and then get better again. Digging stuff up is painful, and it will make her sensitive, and more likely to be triggered by things. Give her time, and space, and she will probably get past this, and be happier in the long run for it. But you can't rush it, you just have to live through it.

Bear in mind that you will (most likely) get frustrated because you want her to get better and deal with this in the way that you think is healthiest. Try not to take this frustration out on her.

Oh, and take it as a compliment that she trusts you enough to talk to you about it.
There's plenty of right time left. Just gotta figure or make the right place.
This article is propaganda written by a shill.

Based on the author's logic you might as well throw up your hands and stop trying to predict anything.

Roubini didn't get his message from God, he made it based on a public, replicable analysis using standard economic theory from his economic school. Other people from his economic school also made the same predictions that followed logically from their premises and the indicators.

This is like saying when a doctor tells a patient that if he keeps smoking he will get cancer, and the patient gets cancer, he just did it by luck.

It's not by luck. He is not making wild speculations. He's doing it systematically based on logic and facts and a respected system that has a level of credibility behind it.

All the austrians predicted the housing bubble.

This article is a hit piece, pure and simple. It is teaching the reader to be stupid.
awesome and inspiring story. thank you for sharing.
Rachel Botsman the case for collaborative consumption
Tests. Integrated Bug Tracking. There's 2 reasons.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/201/201-h/201-h.htm -- read the book here.. got to love Gutenberg
Dynamic braking illustrated with beautiful slo-mo video
What kind of black magic voodoo is:

behavior: url(PIE.htc);

Javascript-y?
Seth Godin makes a similar point to be unafraid of "claim chowder" - what happens when you make a prediction about the future and you end up being totally and tragically wrong. No one remembers!

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/11/unwarranted-...
Therefore: HN != /r/programming

Any resemblance is superficial. I find value in both, but I am glad they are not the same. If they were the same then I would not frequent both.
The austrians also predicted 20 of the last 3 recessions.
This sounds like a pretty expensive toy to me. It seems like chemical irritants (ex tear gas) would be more effective, and cheaper? I suppose you could get gas masks, but those might be harder to come by than oh, say, a 2x4 to hold in front of your face.
Because sometimes objects are the right answer, and when they are the right answer, you want to be maximally equipped to use them as easy as possible.

Perl doesn't bash you over the head and make you use objects by making "int" an object, but they're there if you need them.

( And if you really need to, you can make int at least look like an object )
I like Bob Schiller very much also. Really down to Earth guy and not extremely opinionated. Mostly his predictions are a range of possibilities, not 100% certain events like it is the case with Roubini.

When asked whether something is (over|under)valued he mostly answers he's not sure. If only others in Economics were as humble...

P.S. and obviously this is not something that will get one any upvotes :)
Reasons To Be Wary Of Facebook’s Valuation
Cool reply!
That's what I was looking for, thanks.
Does RIM Have a Second Act?
Maybe "luck" will find you, but we need to acknowledge the scope and scale of his luck. Being willing to work hard and being good at what you do will probably ensure you a decent job, but I don't think you can generate luck to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Imagine a place where early-stage technology companies can get inexpensive development capital from the pooled investment dollars of individuals who trade their stock directly over the Internet.

(from the document TechnoEquity)
the Austrian school is not scientific, but religious branch of Economics though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School#Criticism_of_th...
I like this because it resonates with Paul Buchheit's earlier blogpost about not letting ego fear rule your life:

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/10/serendipity-finds-y...

Yes, this guy got superbly lucky. He also put himself into a position where it was possible to get superbly lucky, and then capitalized on that luck as well as possible.
What means death of Microsoft?
It means fragmentation on the desktop (similar to what we have on the mobile):

* MacOS X on x86, maybe even desktop version OSX/iOS on ARM?
* Wintel (Windows on x86), WARM (Windows 8 on ARM)
* ChromeOS on x86 and on ARM
* Linux on x86 and ARM (Gnome, KDE, Unity, etc.)

I predict that native desktop software will become more expensive, while generic HTML5 versions will be ad-supported or subscription based. Assuming, that HTML5 family of standards will be fully adopted.

With all these new AppStores and Marketplaces ISVs will be able to save money on marketing and sales, but they will need to spend several times more money on developing for several desktops platforms/CPU architectures.
Does anybody know how to use this with Processing?
Does anyone know how well the averaged forecasts turned out? I didn't see that in the article.
Even though you are right and it is certainly not necessary to use an MVC framework to build a web-app such as this, you'll have to agree that the thoughts behind using such a framework are important (data/code/interface separation). But that doesn't mean MVC is a hammer for any nail.
And browsing by author: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a64

+1 for Gutenberg, best site for brain-food on the net after Wiki P.
Sweet! Then lead with that. I'm not saying that CPAN isn't better than Rubygems somehow, but that "easy installation" isn't a selling point.
Probably a good reason to use Perl too, finding a machine without it is hard. =)
IE 'feature':

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531018%28v=vs.85%2...
+1 Warsaw
Well, there's nothing wrong here (with you). Yes, I didn't earn any karma points, not bad. This is just an observation and I'm pleased by your reply.