skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the debt can only grow and grow and grow. Why? Because the government is not creating the money but borrowing it from the private banks..(the Federal Reserve is everything BUT 'federal') and the government needs to pay interest. That way, there's never enough money in existence to EVER pay of the debt, because the "debt" amount of money only exists.. not "debt + interest".

So, the interest monster will just get more hungry every year, month, day and second..

I was down voted for posting the following, but it truly hits the essence of the problem:

Watch this, it's awesome:

The Secret of Oz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qIhDdST27g

Quotes:

"What can government do? The sad answer is -- under the current monetary system -- nothing. It's not going to get better until the root of the problem is understood and addressed. There isn't enough stimulus money in the entire world to get us out of this hole.

"Why? Debt. The national debt is just like our consumer debt -- it's the interest that's killing us.

"Though most people don't realize it the government can't just issue it's own money anymore. It used to be that way. The King could just issue stuff called money. Abraham Lincoln did it to win the Civil War.

"No, today, in our crazy money system, the government has to borrow our money into existence and then pay interest on it. That's why they call it the National Debt. All our money is created out of debt. Politicians who focus on reducing the National Debt as an answer probably don't know what the National Debt really is. To reduce the National Debt would be to reduce our money -- and there's already too little of that.

"No, you have to go deeper. You have to get at the root of this problem or we're never going to fix this. The solution isn't new or radical. America used to do it. Politicians used to fight with big bankers over it. It's all in our history -- now sadly -- in the distant past.

"But why can't we just do it again? Why can't we just issue our own money, debt free? That, my friends, is the answer. Talk about reform! That's the only reform that will make a huge difference to everyone's life -- even worldwide.

"The solution is the secret that's been hidden from us for just over 100 years -- ever since the time when author L. Frank Baum wrote "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
Bureaucrats can bring it back. They (and among others, arbitration committee) can access deleted articles, deletion logs etc. as they please. Undelete has its own process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Undeletion (for articles which were deleted without contest)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review (for contested deletes)

In fi.wikipedia (I am an arbcom member there) both delete and undelete are decided by a 2/3 majority vote.
I initially offloaded all the image saving to Facebook, but (private) photo sharing would be a good idea, yeah. I'll see what I can do, thanks for the kind words :)
Ahhh.. Reminds me of the Starwars subtitles translated back from Chinese into English..
> I don't want the t-shirt with he witty slogan or amusing image that Amazon or Walmart are selling by the thousands, I want to be the only guy in my city wearing that gag.

Yes, you, me and 100 other hipsters.

So one can build a niche business about it.

Or then you have a player emerge like Threadless --in which point the designs again sell by the thousands.

> I'm also never going to buy coffee beans from Walmart, I'm going to buy them from one of my local roasters, who can often tell me the names of the farmers who produced it as well as the level of roast used and the reasoning behind choosing that roast level for this particular bean.

Ugh, hipster alert.
My 2 cents...

I'd put the "Login with facebook to post pictures to Facebook!" box under or next to the picture.

Also keeping it hidden and making it appear after the laser has been placed, might also be a good idea.
It is hard to give credit to the US adminstration, considering they had been supporting him for 30 years.
No ads! Haha. Not in it for the money ;)

A list of friends would be cool, but it's hard to get them via the Facebook api (Just getting a full size facebook image is hard: http://kilianvalkhof.com/2011/javascript/full-size-profile-p... )
I made many mistakes, the common pattern in all mistakes was WISHFUL THINKING. I think a really good businessman operates without ANY wishful thinking. I came to the conclusion that a good business plan (which by the way should be typed up and hung on the wall so that it is explicit) contains no more than one "wishful" part. VC money might allow for more, I don't know.

Anyways, for me it was:

* not doing customer development at the very beginning

* concentrating on technology instead of customers

* not taking into account market forces

* not taking into account my economic environment (Eastern Europe != California), reading too many SV blogs

* not starting the company when I was younger (started at 27, should have started at 25)

I think not concentrating on customers is a common mistake, which could be avoided if for example the book "Four steps to Epiphany" would come up more often, and people would read it before spending 6 months writing code =)

http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...

EDIT:

I actually think reading lists like this is not that helpful, at least it wasn't for me. A technical person doens't even know what customer development is. What's technology, it's different in different contexts. What are market forces in your segment, you probably don't even know when you're starting out.

I would recommend to talk to a friend who has started a business and has experienced the realities. I have been on the advice-giving end of such a conversation a couple of days ago, and it was shocking to see my mistakes (mostly wishful thinking and lack of ecomomic realities) repeated in my good friends line of thinking. I spent a whole night (8 hours) telling him my insights, it was pretty shocking for him, several times he walked out and then came back, but I was only telling him what I learned the last 2 years. In the end it was a good deal for him.
If she has respiratory problems and/or allergies, flowers might not be the best move. If you buy her chocolates instead, do your best to not make her feel damned if she eats them and damned if she doesn't. (My ex had a talent for making me feel like if I didn't eat the chocolates, I was rejecting him. If I did, well, "it was no wonder I was a fat cow". This did not go over well and made me not fond of Valentine's.)
I love it. Could we have the ability to pick where the eyes are if the app doesn't find them automagically?
that makes them more valuable to Microsoft ... because Microsoft would pay them handsomely to do so

So why did Nokia not get a better deal from Microsoft? The drop in Nokia's shares wasn't because they went for WP7, it's because they didn't get any kind of exclusivity deal.
Good timing, just in time for valentines.
Neat iPad keyboard for Windows
I hope so! Thanks for promoting it on twitter by the way :)
I heard that a lot, but - I'm not sure that I agree. There are other manufacturers of WP7 handsets already. Nokia needs to set itself apart, and I have troubles understanding how.

WP7 phones have rather tight hardware requirements [1] that to a degree influence the general handset. I fail yet to see how Nokia can top that (Maybe coming up with a better Camera/Zeiss optic. Maybe putting quite a lot more power in the handset - but the first option would be more for a niche imo and the second would cut into margins if you want to be competitive).

Sure, it's all just speculation until we see their first devices. But at this point I remain unconvinced that Nokia can differ enough to dominate the WP7 platform.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone_7#Hardware
Regarding this as pruning knowledge is rather exaggerated. First wikipedia deletions are not deletions, they are just hidden from most users but can be viewed or restored. Second this is not primary knowledge it is a very short and incomplete summary of the primary sources.
I'm using it on my Pioneer Dreambook 7", it works pretty well. PS - you should also try a Dreambook - it's a great tablet!
Thanks for posting here and addressing the topic.
1. Not building for myself.

2. Not addressing a universal consumer market.

3. Extrapolating too far and pivoting unnecessarily.

4. Not focusing on the bare minimum of features.

5. Not keeping things simple.

6. Not having a big "Fordian" vision (read Ford's autobiography).

7. Not getting prospective customers to cover development cost.

8. Focusing too much on "talking about culture" rather than culture itself which is values plus action.

9. Not pushing employees enough.

10. Not insisting on timeliness (being "before time" not "on time") or outcomes enough.

11. Worrying.

12. Not working a fixed 8 hours a day (max 40 hours per week).

13. Not exercising consistently.

Needless to say in spite of these, the outcome so far has been good, but if I were to advise someone, I would mention the above.
I personally use and like linode but this is for a friend who has no experience with linux. He develops on WAMP and till date has been using shared hosting. Linode library has good documentation but I doubt Linode is for someone like him.

What he needs is better performance than shared hosting( specifically in terms of handling high traffic) and ease of use.

Ideally, a preconfigured VPS with a control panel.
> Socializing, a family, learning macrame - all of those things do not add to being the ultimate hacker.

When you build stuff for the outside world to use (software, architecture etc.) then knowledge of the "outside world" is of extreme importance. You being the "ultimate hacker" or the greatest architect since Phidias has no importance whatsoever.
The Snickers Trick - could you use this in your startup?
Flippant - A Ruby DSL for making DSLs
Let's admit it.

Once Django is Py3K-ready, all other projects will follow suit.
There was a restaurant in South Africa, or so. And it only gained so much attention, because Jimbo was involved.
> it implies an unbounded amount of money funneled into research

Er, no; it's complaining about a 20% cut in research. How does that imply unbounded money?

> the amount of money it would take to bankrupt the supporting country

The budget that's just been hacked at -- the DOE's science funding, which according to the article provides most of the US's funding for basic scientific research -- is about $5B. The US federal budget is somewhere north of $3T. It is not the science spending that is going to "bankrupt the supporting country".

> There isn't a government expenditure that can't be supported the exact same way and with virtually the same arguments

That would be fair comment if the proposal were a blanket 20% cut across all government spending. But of course it isn't. The proposed cuts are in fact about $100B, or about 3% of the federal budget. So the question isn't "should basic scientific research be exempt from cutbacks when the country's finances are in trouble?" but "should basic science suffer 7x greater cutbacks than government spending as a whole?".

(Actually, I bet these cutbacks aren't the whole story and there are other reductions going on that aren't covered by this list. So, who knows?, maybe the proposed cuts to basic science are only, say, at a 3x greater rate than the overall government spending reduction. That doesn't change the point I'm making.)
Agreed. I love choice, but fragmentation is definitely an issue.

On a sidenote: This "there are two, now with WP7 there are three contesters" is (by accident? intentionally?) completely ignoring HP/Web OS. So maybe we're talking "4 ecosystems" now, supporting your point even further.
notes at the end :
"""
[3] This begs the question of why he said this. The reason he gave at the time was that most of his time was being taken up dealing with multi-language integration issues. However, this was belied by the following fact: shortly before the review, I met with the integration engineer and offered to help him with any Lisp-related issues he was encountering. He replied that there weren't any that I could help with. So while there were issues that arose from the fact that Lisp had to interoperate with C, I do not believe that a good-faith effort was made to address those issues.

Postscript: Many of the multi-language integration headaches were caused by the interprocess communication system that allowed Lisp and C to communicate. The IPC relied on a central server (written in C) which crashed regularly. Getting rid of Lisp did in fact alleviate those problems (because the unreliable IPC was no longer necessary). It is nonetheless supremely ironic that the demise of Lisp at JPL was ultimately due in no small measure to the unreliability of a C program.
"""
There are lots of differences between hardware and software, so I don't think it is hypocritical to complain about the hardware manufactures doing this.
I wrote a blog post about the whole Yegge thing.

http://hackership.com/how-i-helped-make-steve-yegge-notable-...
Ask HN: Please Review FavoriteThing.Me
Hey HN,

My friends (wesleyzhao, ajaymehta) and I are HN regulars and college students trying to hone our web development and entrepreneurial skills. Combined we have released 7 fully featured web apps over the past 30 days, but we haven't gotten as much traction as we have hoped.

We saw an opportunity to create a site similar to threewords.me and formspring.me and decided to give it a shot.
You can see the result of about 40 hours of coding at:

http://www.favoritething.me.

As an example, my personal page is:

http://www.favoritething.me/dan

It's basically a site that allows you to tell your friends what your favorite thing is about them. We're hoping that the Valentines Day spirit attracts more visitors on launch day. We still have homework to finish for class today so....

What do you think?
The Strategy Not Taken: Broken Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
> It is no statistical accident that rampant wiki deletionism is even more intense in ..."strict" countries such as Germany.

Any sources?
I think the command & control aspect of the Industrial age happened because of the need for and the benefits of economies of scale. There was a need to marshal together huge pools of capital, equipment, management structures, assembly lines, etc. With 3D printing and additive manufacturing, there is the hope of bringing peer-to-peer production that has successfully been implemented in software, information, culture & other intangibles, to the tangible physical realm. This is the direction we should be heading to, not the other way around of trying to apply Industrial age property laws and scarcity paradigms to the abundant fractal scalability of peer-to-peer production.
>Since the internet seems to care more about keeping these articles than I care about deleting them, I'll stop.

That's how these things work Chris.

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -John Gilmore 1993
Not according to a story that was on HN a few weeks back (unless I'm mis-remembering). I'll dig around and see if I can find it.

They certainly lose money on each xbox but its possible that they make it back on the sale of games.
If the issue is with maintenance and proper curation of content then that is what should be discussed.

I'd far prefer in the case that an article is not well maintained that it be flagged for deletion in X months due to absence of proper care. If there is a strong community presence the article can be resurrected and recovered and Wikipedia ultimately improved and only otherwise the article deleted.

I've seen deletionism creep into articles that were very well written, very well cited and overall a great source of information. I hope you are either generalizing or I'm misunderstanding your point as otherwise this does anything but justify deletionism.
still waiting for this
http://blogs.skype.com/linux/2009/11/skype_open_source.html
The man with a plastic heart
It is neither. It is another language which can be interpreted from JS through a library.

The difference in the semantics of «==» is an example. Also, it does not have things that JS has, and has other things JS doesn't.
And that is why marketeers are the scum of the earth.

And why your company cannot afford to not have them.
How to Generate Constant Traffic
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19588335
"AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: Single dose oxycodone is an effective analgesic in acute postoperative pain at doses over 5 mg; oxycodone is two to three times stronger than codeine. Efficacy increases when combined with paracetamol. Oxycodone 10 mg plus paracetamol 650 mg provides good analgesia to half of those treated, comparable to commonly used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, with the benefit of longer duration of action."

"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20393966
AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: Single dose codeine 60 mg provides good analgesia to few individuals, and does not compare favourably with commonly used alternatives such as paracetamol, NSAIDs and their combinations with codeine, especially after dental surgery; the large difference between dental and other surgery was unexpected. Higher doses were not evaluated."
Where did I "pretend that we're all equal and everybody is the best?" Please don't set up a straw man. And my argument was not that there aren't "plenty" of people working those kinds of hours. I am simply not convinced that working 80 per week = excellence.

You're equating hours put in with working harder and smarter. If someone plays the drums for 80 hours a week but has no natural sense of rhythm, they'll never excel as a drummer. If you want to make Gladwell's "Law of the Few" argument, then make it (or cite it) and leave off the false analogies.
Not making sure my and my co-founders ambition and goals was aligned.
Looks like I mis-remembered:

http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Microsoft-Q1-2011-...

Q1 2011 Income by Division

• Windows & Windows Live: $3.32 billion, up 124 percent from $1.5 billion a year earlier (20 percent growth when adding deferral).

• Server & Tools: $1.63 billion, up 32 percent from $1.24 billion a year earlier.
Business: $3.39 billion, up 20 percent from $2.83 billion a year earlier.

• Online Services Business: Loss of $560 million, up 17 percent from $477 million loss a year earlier.

• Entertainment & Devices: $382 million, up 47 percent from $260 million a year earlier.

although, this comment by puts it in perspective:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1842290

"In 2009 it finally posted it's first profit - $165 million,
though it's probably worth noting that as a percentage of
the $6 billion it had lost to that point this is basically nothing."
s/Bit/But
old comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=709452
Reasons to Decrease Your Website Bounce Rate
IcedRobot – An OpenJDK-based Fork of Android
Great! You've understood the key concepts.
Did it appeal to you?

Is enough to give it a try? For your person
* Not Launching Early. It's wishful thinking that your initial product is perfect. I read somewhere that if you're not embarrassed by your initial product, then you waited too long to launch.

Note I'm not talking about a "marketing launch", but a launch where your product gets in front of early adopters.
Using safari 5 it says "INSUFFICIENT TECHNOLOGY. USE ANOTHER BROWSER" but didn't tell me which browsers are supported, which was confusing, what tech is safari missing?
Zed, there's also a site called Deletionpedia which supposedly contains all pages that have been removed from the English-language WP, usually because of notability. Their content might be a good starting point for your notnotable.com project.
On this occasion this book makes a lot of sense http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_%28book%29

What you provided above is its excellent summery! :)
How Your Username May Betray You
I would suggest allowing different colors for the laser.
A 30-Course Meal with Nathan Myhrvold
That was just an example, the Russian magazine isn't the only source talking about the language in question. I mentioned it because he complained about that source and then just started ignoring it when people translated the thing.
يوم الغضب في البحرين
The drag and drop api and the filereader api (nightlies are supported). I'll update the message with supported browsers, and I'll be implementing an old-style file uploader soon to support Safari and Opera.
Similar story and lessons as above here..

One more important tip that I'd like to add:

After all those years of stress, I had basically retrained my body to be chronically hyperventilating, something I didn't directly noticed when I was trying to recover.

Basically everyone has this idea of hyperventilation with someone holding a paper/plastic bag and gasping for air.. but it doesn't have to be that way.

You can be hyperventilating all the time, feel tired as h#ll, dizzy, stressed, anxiety etc.. without really noticing that you're breathing too fast because of a retrained/'stuck' breathing center!

Really, I was breathing like 20-25 times a minute in rest ..crazy, it's like riding a bicycle at >20 KM/h all day long!

It's very easy to check your breathing though. E.g. via the 'Control Pause' test from the Buteyko Method:

http://knol.google.com/k/buteyko-control-pause-cp#

It takes determination and time to learn how to breath properly again and unwind all that stored stress.

Currently back to breathing 6-14 times/min. at rest and already feeling sooo much better, happier, more energetic, sleep is much much better etc.

Proper breathing is wayyyyyy underrated. Every GP seems to follow the "you're stressed out? psychosomatic complaints? here have some $neurotransmitter_modifying_medicine" route without looking at the _real_ cause(s).

I can't think (memory still goes and comes..it sucks) of the famous ancient Greek who said it, but paraphrased:

"You cannot fix/heal anything if you don't know the underlying cause."

The rest is just the suppression of symptoms..
Sounds like JPL is a lot more sophisticated than NASA in this regard. This is weird, since NASA flys a lot more manned missions.
> He is unable to even cook rice, let alone pay the electrical bill or rent. So he ends up in the street, sometimes with his employment intact.

Lol, what? I can't tell if you're serious. Just because men depend on women for budgeting and house chores doesn't mean that they have to be homeless after a separation.
Clickable: http://www.favoritething.me
Also: http://www.favoritething.me/dan
Have you ever worked with someone who is more than one standard deviation smarter than you are? I highly recommend the experience. I have watched people go from novice to better than I am in just a few years, and I have rather a lot more than 10,000 hours in my field. Hell, I have at least that much in my sub-specialization.

Mentoring people, especially if you can mentor people who end up learning faster than you did, who end up becoming better than you are is extremely rewarding, I think, and humbling.

I mean, experience is important, but intelligence can act as a multiplier on experience. It's like anything else; Everyone, if they start lifting weights, will get stronger. But, some people will get stronger faster, even if they lift the same weight the same number of times.
He also apparently thinks that once a dedicated article gets deleted, all mention of that particular subject should be removed (as is evidenced by the fact that he went on a removal spree and removed most mentions of Nemerle from other Wikipedia articles as soon as wiki:Nemerle was deleted - he didn't just delete links pointing to wiki:Nemerle but the actual mention of it). That is not a WP policy.
The equivalent for Ruby 1.9 is here:

http://isitruby19.com

And there's a version that shows rails3 compatibility amongst other things here:

http://railsplugins.org
I find all this discussion about the rules slightly amusing, as it is Zen. The rules are there to instruct the apprentice, to guide adept, but there are no rules for a master. shu ha ri.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuhari

I do not claim to be a master