skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as we're fully omniscient,

This is not a requirement. In fact, that's the beauty of what the market does for you. All you need to know is your own utility function (and you are likely not even aware of that, it comes automatically), and the price (i.e., salary and other compensation). Friedrich Hayek won a Nobel Prize for demonstrating how pricing in a market distributes information, communicating the priorities and substitutability for everyone.

there are no costs in making changes

Of course there are costs in making changes. How could there not be? Surely you're not suggesting some magical world where everything is always magically altered to the optimum. Any time anyone is confronted with a choice, part of the decision making process is to consider the costs of changing. If that costs exceeds the benefits from the change, then you won't do it. So I don't see what you're trying to say in this phrase.

we're all perfectly rational

The rationality of actors is, admittedly, a matter of some controversy in modern economics. We know, for example, that people are systematically bad at handling values of extremely large or small scale, like the actual risks from terrorism -- we've badly overreacted to something that overall poses vanishingly small risk.

However, in this particular discussion -- a person's benefits from their employment, fully considering their job satisfaction -- then I don't think that anyone is in a position to debate. There is absolutely no way that anyone can second-guess another person's utility function (that is, their values and preferences, and how much a given thing improves their quality of life). We simply cannot know what is happening in another person's mind. Indeed, we frequently don't truthfully know our own motivations. Yet it's still clear that these preferences do exist, and that we take action on them. When talking about something this micro, we have no choice but to rely on a person's observed behavior. (For much better discussion of this, see Mises' Human Action).

good enough!

Well, yeah.

As an alternative to sarcasm, perhaps you could articulate an alternative explanation to my own. The only other that I can see is a Platonic top-down control, with a group of blessed decision-makers deciding what the relative values of everything ought to be. But there, you've still got the problems of omniscience, as well as forcing all participants to adhere to the same set of values, rather than allowing each of us to make our own choices.
Newtown, PA ProCapital? More info the better.
Whoa you've gotten to the point of having a Real Team http://taketake.com/about ... how can you give it away?... burnout? As others have said here, take a week off. Also, startups can change direction at all times, maybe your initial idea isn't driving you enough. Evolve the idea to get excited about this once again... well I'm just ranting it out, you sure have your reasons. But looking at /about this don't seem like a weekend project to be flipped later at SitePoint or sth. You've built something already! Why not let it live and thrive to see the world.
IFixit spoofs own Apple 'screwgate' revelation with April 1 prank
Redesign Outrage
Eventually, every possible functionality in Ruby gets pared down to a "micro" or "lightweight" library or three.
I'm considering using it for my bootstrapped startup. Anybody know how it compares to ExtJS?
So because there's no history or common idiom referencing women in leadership roles, we should just speak of all hardship as though only men have ever, do ever, and will ever perform in difficult rites of passage? Please. This isn't clumsy, it's forward-thinking, and arguably present-aware.
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So we need to come up with one that looks like a contract, maybe?

If I weren't trying to get away and do WBC differentials...
Enabling AirPlay for iOS 4.3 Apps
We don't do blind, clickbait links like this on HN.
The best ever interview puzzle
haha - it's awesome that you know who they are even though we bleeped out the name.

I figured it might get posted to HN, but I was hoping it would just live on reddit for a while...
Tell HN: my quick April fool's hack to convert any page to grayscale
New Motion Interface for Gmail
Moore Pattern — a kinetic optical-illusion sculpture
Improving SSL certificate security
Contact info Please. Here or in your profile
t's awesome that you know who they are even though we bleeped out the name.

Well, when you have direct quotes from other victims...
Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions?
Every year the Internet goes through this lame ritual of making up stuff and trying to pretend it's real. Very little of it is believable. Even less of it, funny. I can through the submissions today and I see at least half, just by the title, are lame April Fool's submissions.

Can we just skip it?
Hi Israel - yeah, we're going to watch unsubscribe rates and see if 1 a day is too much.. then we might have to change our name to "The Weekly Cramp". ;)
> This iMac will be chained down in our new office

That's when I realized its April 1st
Fool.js: Punk your readers with CSS3 transforms
interested, get in touch, email in my profile.
ClickDummy linkable mockup tool
How did Eddie Stobart become so famous?
Maybe it involves one-time exposure vs long-term repeated exposure from continued presence in the environment? Maybe it factors in biological concentration of radioactive material (especially as it goes up the food chain)? And biological concentration in specific organs of the human body, such as the thyroid?
But of course, if the hosting company had any lawyers, their contract says they're not liable for this.
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We also want to see taketake thrive and we are doing everything we can to see that happen. My co-founder and I simply can't be leading it anymore. We're burned out and skid off our cash runway. We did take a week(s) off. This is not an easy decision.

By getting another team to take over, it's almost as if we were getting one/two other co-founders to come on board. My co-founder and I will take an advisory role and that's why it's fair that the new team gets a majority stake in the company. We would retain 10-15% of common stock each.
Note the beveled edge. Too many people overlook this detail that can make a large difference to comfort in uses that cause contact with the desk edge.
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Safety margins are also a good thing. I'd hope that there's a factor of 10 on most potentially dangerous chemicals.
Brendan Eich Redesigns JavaScript to Look Like jQuery
I accept the absolutely gigantic upside of this object. Good thing, too, since I never had a choice.
Even more meta:

I've taken to including a quote

When you quote by indenting, as you have above, it forces some layout decisions on the browser. Frequently this style results in the page rendering wider than the browser window, so I need to deal with the horizontal scroll bar.

I wish people would always quote with asterisks, or that pg would give us a BLOCKQUOTE mechanism.
Grooveshark is in 3D today: Not for the faint of heart
Having 1000s of employees may be the goal to offset personal liability for health insurance, I know many entrepreneurs who have serious funds yet are working ridiculously hard because a stroke of bad luck for either them or their family means game over.
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Update to you
When I have a meeting I'm nervous about I always repeat in my mind "It's just a conversation". If you don't have trouble talking to normal (smart) people about your project then you shouldn't have any trouble talking to a good angel investor either. It's just a conversation.
Hi Jim - thanks for the comment. What's proven is that hormones affect behavior (to a certain degree). It remains to be seen if there's such a direct link that you can write content around it to describe each day. But we're certainly doing our best! ;)
This article mentions four elements, iodine-131 and 132, tellurium-132 and cesium-134 and 137, and then focuses on the one with the short half life. Isn't cesium dangerous for a lot longer? Or is iodine the problem because it collects easily in the human body?
Rape is a bit different from someone who doesn't work for you having the necessary access to delete all your files.
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Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

Please, please, quit submitting this inane crap to HN!!! If you must share this stuff, there's always /. and Reddit for your convenience.
Node.js: using the same form validation rules on the client and the server
Rise of the superbugs: When drugs don't work
Why I support companies like AppSumo and why you should too
Good thing they don't have shareholders, or otherwise this might become reality. "Good point," they would say.
When I started my first job (40 employees) I saw it well done. There were two layers of management, but at any point you could just chat with the head of the company without any problem.

The same company that was wonderful to work for at 40 people imploded at 150.
My apologies, will get the browser sniffing code fix right away!
TextMate 2 RC1 Released
I found this insightful for anyone who has lots of urgent and important tasks to get done and decisions to make and lots of people to keep happy, yet who also has many other personally conceived projects to pursue that no one else is going to follow up on. There's a real skill to balancing getting everything done you need to, as well as can be done, while still not expending all your efforts and mental energy on established projects and on reacting to external events, and instead reserving some of your time and energy for new projects; or, not letting day-to-day operational competence squeeze out meaningful pursuit of vision.
OK Rich, I know it's just good clean fun (especially today), so I'll see your "We Pay Haiku" and raise you a...

Hacker News Dilemma

You work your butt off on your blog
Providing content that's all the rage,
But no matter how hard you try and try
You can't hit the Hacker News front page.

Then someone takes your picture
Goofing off or rolling joints,
And there your are at Number 1
Voted up with 42 points.
I just tried this and I endorse every aspect of the game. I reached lvl 15 and I had to call my roommate in to help me on one level (yea yea cheating ... :()

I do think they should include more boobie traps though. Most levels I played were easy to solve mechanically. I want to be scared to touch ANY part of the screen.
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They should have thrown in that they are moving all their apps to Ruby on Grails.
It took you that long? C'mon, two-hour status meetings? For 37signals?!
I think you are looking for http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html
http://www.fda.gov/food/dietarysupplements/default.htm

These could fall under a dietary supplement, which would have been the easy route for the drug companies to take. However, if they had done that, they may not have been able to over-charge.

Makes one wonder if the FDA isn't so focused on their 'rules' that they ignore the opportunities around them. They had to have recognized that this 'drug' which has been around for centuries is likely mostly herbal, and therefore fit the FDA regulations for dietary supplements.
The question is: can an Atom do packet filtering over 4x 1 Gbps channels.
Andy Budd on Redesign Outrage
Hi, what elderly browser are you using? Will see if I can fix.
Excellent idea on putting the about page front and center, thank you.
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Kudos...
The Onion Picks Finest Day To Debut iPad App
150, huh?

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

I think people misinterpret the concept of Dunbar's number. It isn't how many people you can keep track of -- it's how large of a team you can hold together, provided you spend massive amounts of your time on team-building. From the article:

>Dunbar has argued that 150 would be the mean group size only for communities with a very high incentive to remain together. For a group of this size to remain cohesive, Dunbar speculated that as much as 42% of the group's time would have to be devoted to social grooming.

Spending 42% of your time on social grooming isn't a very efficient way to run a company, though, especially when you only work 8 of your 16 waking hours (and that's generally considered a good thing).
Oops. I submitted mine then saw this request. In hindsight I see this is a horrible thing to do and is not in line with the seriousness we face in the world today. I will stop writing humorous posts and go back to watching the price of silver and purchase a the fresh water tanks I've been thinking about. Looking for a way to vote down submissions...
I guess limited liquidity is the wrong term, and I meant limited availability -- or maybe restricted/filtered availability. There is tons of funding available should you have an idea good enough and/or the skills to convince others your idea is fundable.
Thanks, we are pretty excited about it! :-) We use WebGL for rendering on the client side. We have a custom 3D engine written just for Tinkercad. Our main UI guy is an ex game graphics/AI programmer http://digestingduck.blogspot.com/. He's done stuff like the Zen Bound iPhone/iPad game and AI for Crysis.

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For sure. I've seen 30 done effectively, and I've seen 49,000 done effectively, relatively speaking. Still, from the CEO's perspective there's something fundamentally different about managing front-line workers and managing managers.
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I memorized pi to a hundred digits out of boredom in middle school, and I naturally did the rhythm thing, mostly with triplets of digits, sometimes otherwise.

The interesting thing is that I can't remember any of it without using the rhythm to help me; for example, if you asked me "what comes next after the digits '197'", I have no way to answer that question without going through the digits until I get to the part that goes "..795 0288; 4-1-9-7-1 693 993..." and then going, aha, here it is. If you started ten digits in, grouped the digits differently, and read them off to me in a different cadence, I wouldn't even recognize it was pi!
This is the best one I've seen so far today.

BTW, Angry Birds RIO is disappointing. I miss the pigs!
oof

This feels less like a prank and more like an insult.

An insult to me, the paying textmate customer.
Seriously. After PGs systems were hacked and all YC applications were deleted last night - this is no time to joke, especially on HN!!!
AwesomeChartJS - Great Looking JS Chart Library Based on HTML 5 Canvas
I seriously can't tell if this is a bad April Fools joke or not.
> Well, n^3 or n^4 might already be considered impractical in many situation and even linear time algorithms might have huge constants that make them impractical.

Ah, so you now you can see how pathetic our understanding of computational complexity is when we consider algorithms that are linear sometimes impractical but we cannot show we can do better than an exponentially worse off bound for SAT instances (Today's best SAT algorithms run in time 2^O(n)).
I don't get it, why cant you name this douchey company?

For the amount of work that went into setting it up, the prank itself was boring, if the 5 minute reel is the funniest part I shudder to think what a yawn the rest was. There was potential for a lot more, could have really made that guy squirm a lot more..
define abuse a priori.

The whole IP system is a patch on top of hack on top of a compromise on top of a insiders club.
Why are private markets (e.g. SecondMarket) booming now?
Ah they almost got me with this, April foools!
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The C++-style casts are pretty nasty, too. Want to un-const something? const_cast it! Want to make that int * a FooObject *? reinterpret_cast it! What could go wrong!

C++ pretends to be a safe language with features like encapsulation. The problem is that it isn't. One bad strcpy later and your "encapsulated" class's data is now "HELLO WORLD\0".

C, on the other hand, makes no effort to pretend that the abstraction being offered is anything other than a big block of RAM and some functions.

(If you want a safe language, use Haskell. Notice how nobody ever needs "unsafeCoerce :: a -> b"?)
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Can you build a successful Mac app if you're not a programmer? Yes you can
I had that exact same thought! Looked really awesome and a great potential for consumer and creator!
I'm planning to do a few now that we start to emerge. Sign up for the mailing list or follow me on twitter, I'll announce the blog posts there.

Basically we have a client side rendering engine combined with a cluster based solid modeling kernel. To get everything interactive we have pretty strict deadlines both for the server processing and for transferring the data to the client. I used to work at Google as systems programmer and even compared to that infrastructure this is pretty interesting and hard stuff.

Edit: I'm @KaiBackman on twitter.
It is ironic that /. is now mentioned ass a place to dump off your non-tech submissions....

Although, /. has always had a heyday with 4/1. I used to get a kick out of it., but now I am just old and boring.
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The mixture between entertainment industry and software development is fast-paced. But our small team entertains many users simultaneously. The work changes frequently. We love to be responsible for the complete system and scale it to the next level. We are 12/12 on the Joel Test [0] :)

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* have very good knowledge of either Python, PHP or JavaScript
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* Active OpenSource contributor

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