skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the central argument of the author was that despite the huge dangers involved in climbing a mountain people do it regardless. The author could have stayed at home or gone on a package holiday to some sunny Caribbean island but that would have not been nearly as unique or as personally fulfilling.

I feel that the danger of doing this trip was probably miss represented, overwhelmingly the experience of people who undertake huge journeys tends to be that the majority of people the world over are kind and generous. This is often truest of people who have the least.
I'd suggest not viewing karma as the reward, but rather your influence. Ad-hominem attacks and downvotes are typically a response to cognitive dissonance - your argument or facts forced someone to rethink views they are emotionally attached to, and they don't like it.

You received at least 3 upvotes, and earl received 4. (Actually, most likely you both received a mix of both upvotes and downvotes.) Since I seriously doubt that those are coming from the same people, you influenced 7 people in some way. You made 4 people uncomfortable about their views, but they were unable to rationally respond. That pushes them a little closer to changing their views.

Well done.
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The ability to feel electrical/magnetic fields has been achieved by a couple of people.

http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Magnetic_Implant

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/news/2006/06/71087

Of course it didn't go well in the long term, but it's a very interesting experiment. Here is the article about how it went wrong (contains some graphic imagery):

http://news.bmezine.com/2006/04/01/another-two-months-of-mag...
HN Brag Thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200959
It provides a good introduction to what others have done.
You are correct. Please accept my apologies.
Thorium is promising, but I've heard on a TED talk (can't find the link now, it was a talk with lots of data and projection being presented) that even if we were to build one nuclear power plant each day, it would not be enough to keep up with the increase in energy usage, much less to switch over completely. Do you have any figures or an experimental apparatus to back up what you said?
The telecommunications situation in Canada is terrible.

Typically, in rural areas the way to get broadband goes something like this:

A bunch of people get a deal with a small ISP to finally provide them broadband because Bell says they won't be doing it. Then two weeks after all the gear gets installed and the small ISP starts signing up customers Bell will swoop in with an offer to undercut them and suddenly all the things that made it 'impossible' to get broadband before are mere chalk lines instead of the hurdles they were made out to be before.

In Canada it is illegal (or was, this is 4 years ago, it may have changed) to have a satellite receiver that receives FTA programming and so on.
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Qatar's dictators don't fear Al Jazeera at all.

(I like AJ's role in Egypt, but not the naivete of these comments. Standing up to one dictator doesn't make you a freedom fighter if you're funded by another)
Yes, if you need a job after education.
And now that the big ISPs can force smaller ISPs to pay for overage rates, small ISPs must increase their prices, giving them no competitive edge against brand giants.

The end result: everyone gets overcharged for internet access as these companies try to make up lost sales in phonelines and television by killing everyone on internet.
I'm posting this here because, to me, the restriction makes no sense. Also, it seems to mostly affect publishers in third world countries. I would really love to find out the rationale behind this.
Short Read on Distractions While Working
In India Govt is auctioning street names. You can grab one.
In Life, Like Software, There Are No Silver Bullets
In one of the stackoverflow podcasts Joel did touch on this.

I believe this comment was that a "big-name" school won't get you hired. Conversely not going to a "big-name" school won't get you excluded from hiring.

To paraphrase what I remember him saying...

The only thing a that going to a top school gets you is your resume move to the top of the pile when doing interviews.

Meaning if they are hiring 2 people and the people who have the big name school on their resume do well then the person with out the big name school won't get a crack at the interview.
A Frightening Week
What do you think of mobile game startups?
I have realized using the newest tools myself and an artist could put out 2-4 good/cool games a year for Android and iPhone. I was wondering what HN thought about starting a startup with that fact as the base. Also is YC interested in game companies?
The hidden influence of social networks
That still doesn't sound like a free market to me. Very much capitalist?
As a graduate from a "big name" university I would say I am a little biased but honestly it depends on a few things but ultimately comes down to one principle: You will get out of school what you want.

In that I mean, there are people who go to "big name" schools and make ZERO connections and take off after 4 years wondering why they took on 100k in debt. Then there are people who go to small schools (like my wife) who meet lots of great people in their field who eventually will be a great resource for them (eg, my wife now works at Google). She has zero debt and works beside graduates of top schools from around the country.

Now personally, I think that she is the exception and not the rule. The biggest advantage of going to a big name school is that it lets you get your foot in the door. You never have to "hide" the fact that you went to a small school, and there will inevitably be times that you fill out an application and wish that you could put down Stanford/MIT/Univ. of Michigan

Good luck in your decision. Remember that you will probably adjust your career path during college and that a school that offers an overall brilliant student body and faculty will only help you down the road.
The standard view is that redundant factory workers move into retail or the "knowledge economy" (such as IT workers), but these white collar jobs are going to be just as vulnerable to a combination of technological unemployment and outsourcing. IT has already seen a considerable amount of outsourcing. Ultimately I think the solution is going to be a Citizens Income, but that's an entirely different discussion.
Very interesting. This should be obvious, but I'd just like to remind everyone that given the source, nature, and intended audience of this file, it is fairly likely that it contains novel malware to catch people from other AV companies, and that you should not open, compile, or run anything from it without the full set of malware-safety precautions. Use only a virtual machine with no network connectivity.
The big deal here is that instead of offering competitive plans the big ISPs are _decreasing_ the level of service and _increasing_ the prices of plans.

Also, Bell/Rogers/Telus have the advantage of offering bundles if you use them for cable/satellite+cell phone+Internet, whereas a lot of smaller ISPs would not able to do such things. This screams anti-competition.

FYI, I don't mind paying per usage as long a the rates are reasonable. How about charging us $10-15 for connection fees, and then $0.25/GB of transfer?
I would prefer it too. But it wouldn't automatically validate the medium he's using - and I wouldn't unquestioningly take his words as well. I would take them as the opinions of a smart person.
The problem with the aggregator sites is that they tend to hide links to the original site, email addresses and phone numbers, in order to get you to book a room through their system.
There is also value in not being a complete asshole about it. Especially when you're right.
Why are the comments naive? I don't expect AJ to be critical of Qatar's dictator.

The royal family of Saudi Arabia owns a fair chunk of Fox news. Big companies/wealthy people control much of the news media in the U.S. Likewise for AJ but they appear, at least in some instances, to be better than other news outlets.

It says a lot to me that AJ has been attacked by Rumsfeld, Bush, Mubarak, and others and it's something worth pointing out.
Yes, this is lobbying out of control. It was this kind of thing that caused me to move to the United States... How was I supposed to build a career in high-tech when Canadian high-tech companies were at a terrible disadvantage compared to their U.S. competitors? The country is full of very bright, talented people with initiative and drive, and it's squandered.
Cheers for that. Hadn't seen that before.
"You can hop on a bus to the local elite school and convince a grad student or professor to explain something to you."

Really. You've tried this? Because grad students and professors aren't busy at all...
Sorry this was meant for ask HN but posted from my phone so it went to the wrong place.
Why would I use this over Sizzle in those cases?
http://sizzlejs.com/

e.g. Sizzle('div:first')
I'd hate to stand behind that thing at a traffic light (though I'd love to sit in it ;)), unless they bring down the EGT somehow that's going to be decidedly unsafe.

That's one slick car! But I'd like to see a more consumer oriented prototype aimed at the mainstream market along the same principles.

The Jaguar / Land Rover companies are actually a subsidiary of Tata, an Indian company.
Money can't buy happiness, but it sure can buy a close approximation.

Perhaps when we can no longer fantasize that our approximation isn't really fulfilling our needs, we realize that we've been leaving our needs unattended for too long. And it seems to far to reach back into our lives and fix those things, the easier path may just be "out".
The men in Qatar are most probably migrant workers.

And marked dent you see in the 30 to 34 bracket in western europe in 1950 is not from WW2, but from WW1 (reduced births due to absent men).
Aggregators provide a lot of use.

Gives an instant overview of the hotels prices and ratings. It would take a long time to research just that basic information for say 10 hotels in an area.
I'm not saying that global warming is not manmade, and I have also seen quite a bit of the content of the arguments claiming it comes from emissions, but none of them are able to present anything concrete.

As you pointed out, the optimistic models not winning, and in fact the outlook from mainstream scientists' models get worse every year. The problem is compounding -- that's how the world works in fact.

I'm so concerned because nobody considers what I'm talking about seriously, and almost everyone easily discards what I say as the ravings of some pseudoscientific, ignorant apocalypse nut. But unfortunately for their social standing, and fortunately for people who are interested in facts, I know what I talk about.

Let's think about this carefully. If the models predicting the changes through emissions are so accurate, why does the outlook get so drastically worse every year? It's because the system that you refer to as our climate in reality also includes gravitational and magnetic factors. This introduces huge oscillating systems. If physics today has no confirmed understanding about the role of the gravity on the climate, and how a gravitational field is maintained, how could they rule out factors that would influence gravity? In fact, there isn't a real understanding of gravity in mainstream physics in the first place. But they discard questions about its influence like they know.

It's extremely concerning to me that so-called scientists are more concerned about being accepted by their peers than about getting the information we need to save our own lives.

Go ahead and downvote, but karma on hacker news is the smallest price to pay if I can find even one person who wants to confirm what I'm talking about.
If this was socialism then either the government or the public would own Bell/Rogers/Telus.

This is also not free-market capitalism. I'm not sure what you would call it.
This.

I was in a really good CS program at a top engineering school. I had great teachers, peers and courses. I had 2 years of real client experience when I walked out the door.

That's all well and good. What I learned at school was far more on the social side. I learned how to be a leader. I learned how to be more outgoing. I learned how to be comfortable with a large group of people. I did stupid things. I made life long friends. I made connections that continue to help me.

You have to learn this stuff in a trial by fire. College is good because it a) forces you into those trials by nature of the beast and b) is expected that you screw up a few times in your college years.
+1 to you for that. We tried github for some of our private projects, but soon switched to a linode+redmine+git/hg. Now we are no rails champs; we all are python guys but setting up redmine(with some plugins was a cake walk) same goes for git/hg. We never needed to hire hardcore sysadmins for this stuff.

PS: We love github very much. its made it so easy to collaborate everyone.
I think they're viable in terms of business prospects as long as you can get good games out consistently. I'm currently working at a startup that puts out mobile apps, we're currently moving into the gaming market.

Not sure about any funding, though.
I can see two immediate uses:

- crowd control

Disrupt the ability to organize to some extent.

- poison pill

A way to completely shut down the economy and to deny the enemy access to a critical resource in case of an invasion (far fetched).
Free market capitalism is a subset of capitalism. You can be capitalist without being free market, for example when one company holds a monopoly.
One would think you could put the same amount of cash into just the winners at pretty similar terms. (Apparently, exactly the same terms for series A).

This implies that simply getting a spot at the table for a Y Combinator Series A has become prohibitively difficult, even for the likes of SV Angel.

Am I missing something? How does this work from the investor's side? Or is this just for-profit philanthropy?
Very interesting, thanks !
As a designer I hate 99designs and similar sites. They completely rip off designers. Instead, find a designer you like, or post a job offer, here even, and pay them. If you can, stay away from 99designs.
The big ISPs didn't have to have caps. They did it because the markup is huge. Having no cap was a big reason that people chose smaller ISPs.

Not only have caps been introduced but the wholesale discount is alarmingly small, so small ISPs aren't free to compete on features or price. Small ISPs can't go and find another backbone because they're all owned by this group of companies.

Note that in Quebec the cap is higher (60GB/month instead of 25GB/month). In most of Canada Bell/Rogers/Shaw own the DSL and cable networks. In Quebec, Bell mostly own the DSL lines but Videotron (Quebecor) own the cable network, so it's almost like competition. Also Quebecor has unshakable ties to the provincial government.
> Take the idea in question, and give it some genuine love.

Something like this is often known as the principle of charity[1] or the principle of humanity[2]. There's a ton of interesting philosophical work on such principles (why they might be a good idea, whether they underpin all language use, whether they are part of our default belief-desire model for interacting with other people, etc.).

But the best succinct version I know comes from a friend I went to grad school with: "Don't be an asshole."

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_humanity
For RockMelt (Chromium based), plugins account for 38% of our crashes under Windows and 24% under Mac OS X. Looks like Firefox is similarly afflicted:

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/products/Firefox
If my criticism is too forgiving, he may just brush it off and not take any action regarding it. I feel that he needed more brutal criticism so he might take some time to learn the "good" way to write JavaScript for any of his future projects.
I love how "A bill proposed in the Senate", introduced by Joe Lieberman who personally doesn't get along with Obama became "Obama's Internet 'Kill Switch'". Good job by that editor on the headline.
DST's last stage investments in Facebook, Groupon, etc has influenced the VC world to emulate, and in the same way this 150k blanket Start Fund will probably influence angel investing in the same way. With a bunch of IPOs coming this year and next, what will these VCs and angels do with all the realized gains? DST will have billions to spend. They will look actively and aggressively to spend. As long as there are hits like Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn, etc, that will drive valuations higher and feed the inflation more. I wouldn't say we're in a bubble yet. Maybe the beginning. More like rising inflation for now.
More information and a link to the research paper here:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/01/cella-energy-hydrogen-fuel-...
except its too expensive to make and will not be hitting mass market anytime soon. Nor were the Top Gear presenters allowed to drive it.
This is why I wrote the comment in the manner that I did.

There is an ongoing confusion about what is the free market and what is corporatism/fascism. The free market provides for free competition between individuals where all transactions are voluntary and no force is used to interfere with any interactions between parties. In a corporatist/fascist environment the government uses force to interfere in nearly all aspects of the market. In fascism, corporations end up in bed with the government and the corps use that power to get what they want while the government sells the idea by using propaganda to fool people into thinking that "it's all for your own good".

When the government is in charge of setting rates for internet access this is the farthest thing in the world from a free market. What it is, is soviet style socialist central planning.

But there seems to be a strong desire to blame the free market for all woes, despite the obvious government interference in all aspects of these interactions.

What is free about having the government set the policies for internet charges?

In a free market the government wouldn't be involved at all, and the rates would be determined via competition.

Take a look at markets that are relatively more free, such as the cell phone market and the market for computer chips. Quality and features improve while prices go down over time.

When I admire my HTC Android phone I marvel at the quality and features and the amazing technology. This is the result of healthy competition.

Take a look at markets where the government is involved such as health care. Quality and choice are reduced while prices go through the roof. (and no, that's not going to change with "obamacare")

Please don't confuse markets that are highly regulated and controlled by the government with free markets. They are polar opposites.
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That code won't work in standards-compliant browsers. You should either use .textContent = "..." or .appendChild(document.createTextNode("...")) or .firstChild.wholeText = "..." if there's already a text node child.

The real issue though is that unlike jQuery, ƒu.js won't work in popular versions of IE.
Does Telus ever charge you? I have never been charged for going over, myself.
The Canadian government has a long history of propping up the monopolies operating inside its borders, especially when it has a stake in them. For additional entertainment read up on the LCBO and the Egg Board (no, that's not a joke).
Thank you.

I'm Canadian but I have been out of the country for a longish time now. The whole debate made no sense to me.

Yeah it sucks to be charged per byte, but surely Bell has the right to charge however they like. In the linked article, The Tyee's conspiracy theory that they wanted to force people back to television seemed inane.

But if it's about imposing a user-based rate structure on Bell's competitors that use them as a bandwidth provider, that makes perfect sense.
I'm embarassed to be Canadian.

I'm not opposed to usage based billing - users who use more should pay more, but the rate should be commensurate to actual costs. Regulation is meant to protect the public from potentially unfavorable actions by authorized natural monopolies. Perhaps the ISPs should be selling bandwidth on a market, like with electricity.
This shows the problem with the b's and d's (also the u's):

http://i.min.us/ickmjM.png

its just that they descend below the baseline, which looks a bit odd. The effect only appears at the default text zoom (on FF for Windows).
Tyranny? ;)
it's not a guarantee, but it's very often a correllated indicator.
A conventional further objection to using hydrogen as a fuel for vehicles is its low (relative to gasoline) energy content per gallon.

According to Richard Muller's "Physics for Future Presidents," even in liquid form hydrogen has about 1/3 the energy per volume.

Muller also notes that storing liquid hydrogen requires a much stronger, heavier tank than for gasoline. Maybe these "micro-beads" can contain liquid hydrogen, given the researchers' claim they can use their fuel in an unmodified car. In that case, look for 1/3 the range. If instead their microbeads contain compressed hydrogen gas, Muller estimates a car could go in the neighborhood of 10-50 miles between fill-ups.
The two guys at the table are whispering about him.
I find it hard to believe that there's One Reason the rich and famous commit suicide. I think this essay reveals a fair bit more about the author and his take on richness and famousness than it does about the true motivations of the suicidal.
>The big deal here is that instead of offering competitive plans the big ISPs are _decreasing_ the level of service and _increasing_ the prices of plans.

Are they? I have the fastest plan from Telus and over the years they have upped the speed without upping the price, several times.

>Also, Bell/Rogers/Telus have the advantage of offering bundles if you use them for cable/satellite+cell phone+Internet, whereas a lot of smaller ISPs would not able to do such things. This screams anti-competition.

agreed, to a point. However all of the little guys I am aware of offer some kind of an Internet/phone bundle

There are several wireless Internet providers here in Alberta and I'm watching them with interest. They've built their own network run along natural gas lines or old railway tracks (where it's easy to obtain right of way rights) and are beholden to nobody (other than their backbone providers). If the big three go crazy with fees, I think these tiny wireless providers are poised to jump in and beat them down.
This is called Oligopoly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly in half-assed capitalism. Note that this can be worse than monopoly because few competitors can essentially create informal cartels.
I'll provide one data point of how this affects Canadian internet users.

I currently have no caps with TekSavvy and pay $39 a month. Starting from March 1st, I will pay $31.95/mo with a 25 GB cap. Any gigabyte over the limit will cost about 2 bucks.

Now, you can buy a block at discounted prices. According to TekSavvy, based on my internet usage, I will need to buy at least a 275 GB extra block. Believe it or not, I don't torrent. I simply like to watch NetFlix, HD movies from iTunes, lots of educational videos online, and backup data in the cloud.

That 275 GB block costs $55/mo. So I suddenly go from paying $39 for unlimited data to paying $86.95 per month, and having to be careful about what I download and what not.

Oh, and the first thing I need to do is stop backing up my data, videos, and photos in the cloud. That's pretty much out of the question with the risk of paying $2 per extra GB. I'm buying an additional external hard drive instead.

How is that for innovation?