skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Noticing all the hidden assumptions - if a woman does amateur porn and puts it up on xtube, she's trying to please her husband - can't be that she's turned on by it.

Somehow, even cuckoldry fantasies are about the male being dominant.

Paul in Last Tango is a brute, but no mention of Jeanne being a status-climbing bitch for abandoning him when she finds out he's poor - she may have pointed it out obliquely, but all judgment-loaded language is pointed firmly toward the y-chromosoned.
If it were true that the only measure of welfare were relative then, since I care about myself somewhat more than other people, it would behoove me to not only eliminate welfare but make the lives of the poor as hard as possible so I could raise my relative status.

Indeed! And so it is for MANY people. In fact this is the Republican platform in the South with respect to poor blacks. This is why "small government" is so popular there. Not because they actually want a small government per se, but they view government as a force that actively attempts to reduce various economic gaps.

Luckily, the scientific studies I've seen show that there are many things (health, marriage, security, etc) that are more important to people's happiness than relative status or wealth.

Everything you've noted is relative. Are you happy that you'll die, most likely, before your 100th birthday? Is the fact that now a deep cut likely won't kill, but cancer likely can supposed to make me happy? How secure are you given the crime rate in your area? Given the divorce rate of something like 50% in the US, are we happy or sad, or 50/50 each way?

In fact there's some great happiness research on the happiness of people after suffering great injuries, like paralysis or losing limbs. After a couple of years, they're not any less happy than people who haven't had such injuries. This is an example of self-relative happiness (versus the societal relative happiness we've been talking about), but demonstrates how happiness has no absolute metric one can use to measure it.
Predominantly PHP and Ruby.
Wait; let me get this straight... The government not taking as much of my own money away from me is welfare?!
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And any country with democratic or people's in it's name, is not democratic or belonging to the people (Democratic Republic of North Korea, of Congo, PRC ... )
Hell no, we won't go... out of our way to collect sales taxes
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Are any of you aware of more information on the "parallel version of Basic" mentioned?
First, start talking to people and showing them your concepts. See Customer Development and start shaping your idea around what people really want and will use. Second, remember that the initial idea you start with will not be the final product. It almost never is. Iterate, improve and continue to develop that seed of an idea or product based on input from the first point I mentioned. Also, good ideas persist in your mind longer. If the same idea keeps coming back to you then start there and push hard on developing it further. Chances are someone else is also working on this idea so chances are you'll find a partner working on something similar and might end up working together. Having a co-founder helps with bouncing ideas back and forth and keeping optimistic when times look bleak.
A great read for this is "Avoid Cognitive Distortions (Hack 58)" in O'Reilly's "Mind Performance Hacks" book: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101534/

There's too much to quote here, but the basic premise is:

Learn to avoid 15 mental mistakes that distort your emotions and further distort your thinking
We've been doing the same thing on Linode, and initially did our development on Rackspace cloud. One important thing to note about Rackspace cloud is that your private network bandwidth is limited to 10mbps when you're on their small Xen instances - this may not be a big deal during development, but after you go live if you have any traction, then with simultaneous backups, sql replication, and any other chatter that might be happening between servers, it can really "slow down", and you might end up having to move to larger instances simply for the port speed, even though your existing server is sufficient in regards to CPU, RAM and disk.

Our testing ended up leading us back to Linode, since with a simple support ticket you can up your private interface to the full 100mbps. So our "combo" ended up being Linode + Amazon S3 (since for many of our items the reduced redundancy storage is sufficient, and is half the price of could files).

It's sure fun though setting up your own small "cloud" system ;)
Maybe I'm over-sensitive
You are. But worse, you didn't watch the video. Why would you try to comment on something you're not going to even try to examine?

As another comment pointed out, the game's just a play (haw) on the Whack-a-Kitty youtube video. The game looks only slightly less adorable. It's also showing how even any game, even those as brutally simple as this, require * ton* of attention to graphics (which I'd hope would be obvious. A proper game requires even more attention to gameplay, but that rant will wait).

If you -honestly- think the concept alone makes light of animal abuse, what do you think about FPS's?
Sodium Sulfur, Sodium Aluminumchloride, Potassium, whatever. This actually seems like an "almost there" technology which would blossom if there was a big demand for it.
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I was equally surprised!
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I didn't dispute that poor people are poor, or that they might be sociologically, mentally or emotionally different from the non-poor. In fact, I strongly believe that these mental differences (mostly in the areas of laziness) are the cause of their poverty.

I simply asserted that they work less, and provided statistics. All you offered in response is data-free assertions that no, they really do work hard in spite of what the official statistics say.

Also, I happen to know mutual aid works because I've seen it work. This is what hard working poor people do in (for example) Peru, Mexico and India. You might not be able to persuade US poor people to do it (after all, why work when you can watch TV and eat chips), but that doesn't mean they can't do it. It simply means they don't want to.

I think this is something I would recommend you learn more about. There are plenty of resources out there, not just studies, but stories told by people both in and recently out of poverty. Here's a glimpse:

Oh wow, a long list of unsupported claims about what it's like to be poor. I guess this means all the statistics I linked to must be incorrect.

I've got an idea. Since BLS surveys comprise the vast majority of government spending (don't bother we me with citations to the CBO showing this is incorrect), maybe we can cure our budget deficit by forgoing the data collection and just asking some random guy on the internet for baseless assertions.

I give up.
Clarity on the Mac App Store, a first impression. Wow.
Those kinds of comments always say more about the commenter than the thing being commented on.
Sounds to me the web search is not yet a solved problem. As the hardware (storage and memory) is getting cheaper and cheaper, and the emerging enabling technologies such as cloud computing, building your own search engine may not sound impossible any longer. Wonder how feasible it is to apply anti-spam algorithms that work well on emails to web pages.
I guess even in the startup communities, making money is paramount to ethics.

Or to answer your question: To make money.
I think there is some assumption that Amazon reviews are representative of a large population of users, so if there are 10 great reviews and 5 good reviews and 1 bad review, it's representative of how a much larger population of users feels.

If you're writing a review commercially, with limited space, it only makes sense to write a review if:
* It is very positive and leads to purchases
* Negative reviews of popular/well known products (or, from big/well known companies -- a negative review of the Apple Cube is quite popular)
* It is part of a review of a class of products (either "top 10 devices of CES" or "all digicams compared")

There is no incentive to publish negative reviews of obscure products
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The point is broader than that. For instance, many people (excepting children) who go on food stamps, disability, or welfare are often people who have paid into the system over the course of their life. In that sense, the social safety net is an example of the government simply giving back their tax money.

So in that same sense, there exist massive programs of subsidization of the middle class and even the wealthy, just as there is of those who take in welfare or unemployment benefits.

Ultimately, the point the article is making is that society is an interlocking set of dependencies, and that demonizing one group for receiving government payouts ignores the complex social dependencies that all economic classes have in some form or another.
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-retina display
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This was a reader question he answered in an interview I saw. He said he's accepted his hair loss ("going Jason Statham") and that existing solutions have too many negative side-effects.
The idea i get is that the log is not a history of your actions, but a description of what that particular revision does. So if i take the diff and apply it to my tree, the log tells me what it will do.
Original article link:
http://www.seancoleman.net/post/2627588699/selling-to-small-...
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Engine-Architecture-Jason-Gregory...

http://www.amazon.com/Game-Coding-Complete-Third-McShaffry/d...

Those two will clean up most of the biggest newbie mistakes, especially the Gregory one.

I also suggest this book for collision detection:

http://www.amazon.com/Real-Time-Collision-Detection-Interact...

However, I haven't found the book that can adequately explain integrating collision into the rest of the game. It's a tricky subject which I'm still learning and might write about someday.
I love that despite all the Firesheep business, about half of the companies on that list don't even own an SSL certificate. :-(
Watch the video. It's based on a Youtube clip of someone gently prodding adorable little kittens back into a box with a very soft mallet. No abuse here, and a valid enough inspiration for a quick game.
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Have you actually read the book? Everything is subjective, but I feel it offers plenty of value, and my life is improved for reading it. Specifically relating to nutrition & weight gain.

I don't really care for or about Tim's marketing methods, but to say it has no substance at all is to miss the point. Same goes for 4HWW.
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That's a good example. Thanks for the feedback. Overall, I wasn't aware that this was a big issue for some people, and now I'll spend more time considering aliases for future projects. Thanks.
Are there people that are on food stamps, disability, or welfare that haven't paid sufficiently into 'the system' to off set the cost of them consuming said services?
I think you have the app creation process in reverse...rather than starting with the domain and brainstorming ideas, you should look for ideas that solve a problem and come up with the domain later. There seem to be lots of reminder services and apps out there, and every bank and credit union already has bill pay. People usually know things are due...the real problem is finding the money to pay bills or the time to complete whatever is due. Maybe you could solve that problem with your app.
I set the 5-second record for vertical leap improvement at my gym, the day they added the trampoline.
So it must not of been that good of an idea.

How did you market it?
My mistake - the actual full time labor force participation rate of the poor is 12%, not 10%.
Just because gov't programs for the middle class cost a lot of money doesn't mean they are delivering actual benefit.

Given the example of medicare vs. insurance tax deductions for employers, I think the economy would be much better off with insurance tax deductions for everyone and no medicare. Or no insurance tax deductions and no medicare. There are plenty of ways to make healthcare cheaper and less bureaucratic.

If the middle class put the squeeze on gov't expenditures that won't mean that middle class benefits will be the first to be cut, they'll likely be last.
Might there be enough people feeling the way she does to warrant browsers providing an option (like setting minimum font size) of specifying what 'type="submit"' fields should display?

Perhaps the woman in question might prefer that they all displayed, "Dominate". [Sorry: it just seems worth the down-votes.]
Downloading it now, although I won't be able to play with it until this evening. From what I can see in the screenshots on your web site, it looks beautiful. I'm especially interested in seeing how well the Lilypond export capability works, as I've experimented with that in the past.
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I hesitate to be this guy, but: If I'm not mistaken, strictly speaking, the mood/mode is imperative, but the tense is present. Imperative is not a tense. In English, there are only two true tenses: past and present.

To disclose fully, I had only a notion of this before resorting to Wikipedia to confirm and provide some clarity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_tense and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_mood
Of course there are, but determining someone's access to basic survival based on how much they had paid into the system would be problematic and Dickensian, to say the least.

And most importantly, societies don't benefit from denying basic survival and dignity to people. Crime rates rise, social stratification increases, the net effect of social problems due to economic entropy of a class of people can be detrimental to the health and well-being of a society as a whole. Especially for the middle class, which lacks the wealth to isolate itself from said social problems the way the upper classes can.
I would be (only a little) surprised if a gov agency didn't grab that ala Bank of America, to use for a counter-information campaign.

But then, the thought probably never occurred to them.
I totally agree. Using buttons with concise messages is best when they're used to access some functionality, but when submitting data the users have been clicking on submit buttons for more than a decade to do so. I'd even go on and say that in a lot of cases when you're submitting data, it's correct to use either simple actions as 'save', 'send', and 'submit' instead of 'Do the chicken dance when you click on this button'

Instead of worrying about submit buttons, which by the way generally exist a lone entities at the end of a form (which makes it's use even more obvious), worry about the actual usability of your forms and the logic behind the error handling.

tl;dr => In more cases than not it's more correct to use 'submit' as button copy than a more verbose counterpart when submitting forms.
This is pretty amazing. I can't wait until these audio APIs are out of beta.
Every company has a vastly different definition of cloud computing. By far the worst I've seen is Microsoft's "Delayed at the Airport" commercial. She remote desktop's into her home computer and watches a video - is this really the Cloud?
What if you are creating an MVP, and can't A/B test because you have nowhere to test? What then?
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As an author of papers that have been rejected, I can say that such feedback is unheard of, and would have been greatly appreciated.

And yes, Jesse is an awesome dude. I worked with him for a few years, and highly recommend the experience.
It's a stupid, highly overrated game for sheeple.
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You can't, you're being asked the impossible.

Think like this, you need to add the compulsory field of PO Number to your invoice table.

It wasn't compulsory before.

How do you not break everything?

It's impossible.

Or, even worse;

Projects can now have multiple categories. You change your code so all old requests still work, but suddenly half your systems give users the flexibility to add multiple categories and half don't.

Why's that worse? Because you suddenly have people creating projects in one system that only allows one category and then logging into another to add the extra categories because IT doesn't actually have to fix it. Total user nightmare.

And to top it all off all, and this is the actual killer, developers are having to use your never quite finished system which throws weird errors that people can't google like 'unable to add project', instead of 'violation of Foreign Key Constraint, FK_Project_User, on table Project' which tells them exactly the error.

Use standard DB access because there's a wealth of help out there, your inhouse system can't compare unless you're a big company.

Basically you've been asked to fix one of the fundamental problems of why enterprise programming is hard.
$59 million in a year is something only the very highest echelon of pro athletes get after taking sponsorships and the like into account. Among American athletes, only three athletes (Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, and Floyd Mayweather Jr.) earned more than $59 million. Among foreign athletes, only Roger Federer earned more.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/specials/fortunate50-2010/i...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/specials/fortunate50-2010/i...
You might not be able to persuade US poor people to do it (after all, why work when you can watch TV and eat chips)

I'm not saying that, you are, and it's pretty insulting the attitude you're taking. I'm saying that I've actually worked on said projects, with varying levels of success. I'm suggesting you work on starting similar projects in the U.S., because it would provide a necessary perspective which you seem to lack.

I give up

I'm suggesting that government statistics only tell part of the story. I'm assuming you've never been poor in the U.S., so I think it would be useful for you to understand things from that perspective. You seem uninterested, however.
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If you click on a link or button called 'Create a User' that that takes yo to a form, it would be almost universally more usable to have the button at the end say 'Save' instead of 'Create this user'. Verbosity is not always a good thing on the web.
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Yeah, I think so. The "cloud" is the part of the network you don't have to care about. She doesn't care whether the video is on her home computer, or MS servers, or her laptop. It pretty much all works the same.
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It's been many years since I recall seeing .net domains as the default destination for a website, but nowadays, they just seem like an extra expense to thwart domain squatters.

What is the state of .net domains in 2011?
What a device! I think the network here may be affected because I've noticed ~NOTHING UNUSUAL WHATSOEVER~ when reading the news here.
I too am looking for the same, please do share as you find helpful resources.
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Here’s what I think DJB is saying: It’s the IP addresses for ns0, ns1, ns2, and it’s published by the .org servers. Why not sign that information, even if the Wikipedia folks haven’t implemented DNSSEC themselves? I don’t think he expects the .org servers to sign information not published by them.
You win the aerique Daily HN award for the best and most concise answer. From now on I will write my commit messages in the present tense.
It's been said many, many times before that a 'retina' display on a future iPad is nowhere on the horizon as it would result in a 2048*1528 resolution device screens for which are not in production yet. This also doesn't count for the substantial increase in battery life and CPU power to keep that display operating at a smooth frame rate.
Oh man I agree with this so much. I actually hate it when other parts of my life intrude on my climbing. I have trouble thinking about vacations unless it's a climbing trip. It's also a very social thing to do. Many(most?) of the climbers at my gym are highly educated and employed in some form of engineering, programming, law work, etc....

Great exercise and addicting in a good way. It's a side benefit that the girls that climb regularly are very fit and attractive.
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Which it already has, by way of computer controlled cars.
Who's to say it's the same size and therefor exactly double the pixels?
That was arrogant, but to make you happy, why don't we just call this game a "highly overrated game for sheeple" too and let it slide?

Are you one of those people who believe GTA makes kids steal cars, or that sonic the hedgehog makes kids run into walls and try to loop around their ceiling?
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I agree -- becoming too attached to existing tools is a major drag industry-wide. Even if it's well-designed in the beginning, which from what I've seen is extremely rare, it tends to devolve into a mess given enough time.

To get maximal value out of the tools, everyone has to be willing to toss them when they start to becoming a big enough impediment. (Deciding on that isn't always easy, of course.)
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I don't think retina has to mean "double the old display". I think it could just mean "high PPI". Also, Apple has surprised us before with new, previously unheard of tech.
Look at the SSL column for *.heroku.com. They are all listed as using AWS for web hosting.
This is pretty comprehensive:

http://www.rayninfo.co.uk/vimtips.html
It would be a PR disaster for Apple to unveil a new iPad so soon after aggressively marking this original over the holiday season. When they dropped the original iPhone price, two months after launch, there was a huge backlash, and that was just over $200.
FWIW Linode has 5 datacenters, and at least 5 address ranges, so there may be more undercounting going on for them.
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From: Kevin Rose <foundation@tinyletter.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM
Subject: [foundation] [rumor] Apple's iPad 2 launching soon!

I have it on good authority that Apple will be announcing the iPad 2 in the next "3-4 weeks", possibly Tuesday February 1st. The iPad 2 will feature a retina display and front/back cameras.

If you're thinking of buying an iPad, hold off for now.

Kevin