skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Too many scientists. Federal funding (and funding of other nations seeking to improve prestige) has inflated a science bubble. naturally, the number of mediocre scientists has increased like crazy. The low reputation of scientists is well deserved. In fact, I believe it should be even lower. Having many non-science friends, they are very surprised when I inform them that there actually is a ton of fraud and misconduct in science.

Other side effects: Being a scientist is awful. Right now, I've got a PhD, I get paid $20/hour for 40 hours of work a week (I actually put around 70 hours of work in the lab). I don't have health insurance (the irony, I'm being paid by the DOE) and this job actually pays better than the last. I don't have time to date. I want to start a company but I can't because I don't have the finances to do simple experiments at home. My life is basically being deferred.
Your assumption is that an increased labor force will result in an increase in productivity.
i have a friend who worked there. he said they had a foot high stack of letters from apartments threatening to sue them because they refused to delete reviews.
That is $50 with a very expensive monthly plan. I was talking about prices for unlocked phones on a pay as go plan.
Our brains are always multi-tasking and sometimes you have to let your fingers switch tasks to keep up with its progress.
built by a couple of guys I know: http://www.coderloop.com/
At my age I don't have the agility to fuck around too much anymore. I can spend a full day on HN.
Apparently the back-door into Harvard is having the regular requisite fabulous GPA bla bla bla and having worked at McDonalds. Something about its symbol as a lower-class experience marker.
These claims are false. We can get savings on a small number of "low-hanging fruit" problems, which are easy to approximate on practical instances - bin packing with many small items, scheduling with many short jobs, 2D Euclidean Hamiltonian cycles. What about, for example, the learning applications that Fortnow mentions? Try your C-PLEX on the problem "find the minimal size circuit that explains this big set of observations". You will not get anywhere. There are many other examples.

It makes sense for the industry to concentrate on making a buck out of the easy instances, and leaving the hard stuff to the academics. However, that is different from claiming that hard instances don't exist.
The table indicates that Google's share growth (+7.0%) has come at the expense of RIM (-4.6%) Microsoft (-1.3%) and Palm (-1.1%). Apple's share continued to grow (+0.2%). The breakdown is similar for all of comScore's figures for the last six months.
The quotes on recorded music in the article are further examples of people lying to themselves about what they do. They're another example of, as the article quotes, "Evidence that doesn’t fit my beliefs is wrong."
Troll Management: Handling Conspiracy Theorists on a Forum (2009)
It is calculated based on train schedules from what I can tell. I just got off the train and there is an outage between Almere and Lelystad (in the middle of the map) because of maintenance, but I can see active trains on the map. The entire service is run by buses this weekend.
Hey, I really tried, but I didn't know any better back then.
Can you post some cases or background regarding piercing the corporate veil for an LLC based on "transacting business on behalf of the company in a role that does not legally exist"? Who is to say what does or doesn't exit? Based on this logic, a large LLC or LLP would be required to have its whole hierarchy listed in the operating agreement.
HackerNews exceeds Slashdot in unique visitors
It's indeed precalculated. Right now the official site of the train service lists blocking construction work on some routes, no train is riding there. On the map though they are still on schedule. Nevertheless a nice piece of work, but not really "live".
> The railway company is kinda behind on how the world (of data) works, and they have for a long time considered this kind of information as exclusive information that nobody else should be able to access. Despite being government owned..

The same thing happened in Belgium. A student made a mobile website for accessing rail times, was ignored by the rail company for 18 months, then got threatened into shutting down when the rail company finally made their own application (which naturally doesn't work as well). Luckily a few government ministers made the rail company see the light, despite their protestations.
This is a long time coming. Project Skyway has the coolest selection process ever for an accelerator plus they don't require a technical co-founder because they are providing every single team 2 full-time developers.
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I think this reflects an attitude of the world that I disagree with. Youth does not imply ignorance; they can be naturally coupled together, but the automatic assumption from older managers and developers that "He's young, he doesn't know what he's doing" needs to die a horrible death in a house fire.

I'm sorry, you may disagree and that's your prerogative but I've worked with some incredibly intelligent, skilled, and forward thinking individuals who some "curmudgeons" might think are just inexperienced buffoons who defied the status quo and in a few cases have actually managed to save their department thousands of dollars.

Youth is vitality, youth is energy, youth is a fresh perspective.

Sometimes that birdcage NEEDS to be rattled.

It's like Wayne Gretzky said, "I missed 100% of the shots I didn't take"

Exactly, Wayne.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
I don't think I understand... Do the full-time developers that are provided become partners?
Yes, the 10th Amendment makes explicit the fact that all rights not mentioned in the Constitution are inherent rights of the States and the People. This was implicit before the Bill of Rights, but it lead to a lot of confusion. At the time, most governments had all rights implicitly with a sovereign, and the people only had the rights that were explicitly granted to them. Our founders intended to flip that relationship, but since many people didn't get it, they had to add the Bill of Rights. Unfortunately many people still don't get it, despite what the 10th Amendment says.
Tor really isn't a safe way for dissidents to interact online and pass information. Pretty much all the exit nodes are monitored by governments and intelligence agencies. Press about Tor, social media, and other online tools was a big trend in the world of 2007-2008 elections, and now with all the political unrest in North Africa and other Arab countries. But this press has been generally with little actual content or value. Just rehashing the same idea of "yay savvy internetz politicking" and how hip it awesome it must all be next to pictures of lean, good-looking youth carrying signs with pithy, web 2.0 inspired quotes at rallies.

No actual analysis of how effective Tor is, how easy it is to sniff on, other better alternatives, or anything other than the same empty congratulatory articles and events.

Pretty dissappointing.
It's really more like 7 lines, with the bulk of the program logic in a single massive line that includes 3 comma-separated expressions and 6 conditional operators. It's called three lines because it's been mercilessly stripped to 79-character line widths.

That does however mean that it's a 237 character maze generator, which is still pretty cool.
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I would never want an engineer as a president for fear that they would try to engineer our lives.

And pushing to strengthen those fields. That can be really bad. When I read the literature, my default attitude to when I read an article published by a chinese research lab is, "it's probably fraud, if you're dying to believe the result, try at least a simple experiment to make sure it's real first". I am not the only one. China may have a "good reputation" on the face of things, but theirs is not the sort of reputation I would want to have among the people in the know.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8448731.stm

a top-down approach to acting on fraud, in my opinion, just results in people trying to figure out how to game the system to not get caught. To fix fraud, you have to improve the culture, and remove the incentives to fraud. That's really hard when you have people competing for a small number of tenured positions which attract increasing amounts of funding.
I like these posts a few times a year, but do we really need a post like this every couple days? We get it, articles that make the front page of HN get some page views. How is this any different than the other twenty virtually identical posts that have been on the front page in the last month?
Moot On The Origin Of 4Chan And The Evolution of Memes
I'm not sure it's important to predict now whether iOS or Android is going to be bigger or more profitable to developers. They're both going to be enormous and they're both going to be around for a long time, just like the Window-Mac horse race from the 1980s to now. There's a lot of money to be made on either - or both. Going back to the Windows-Mac comparison, though, think of all the horses that aren't still in the race from the 1980s: CP/M, Amiga, OS/2, etc. That's the question for the mobile marketplace. What is going to be the mobile equivalent of those? WebOS? Symbian? Windows 7?
For the PowerPoint avoidant:

http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http%3A%2F%2Fenergyfromthor...

P.S. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/google-docs-p...
what if you wanted to listen to mozart himself or have an original renoir? my point is you couldn't buy a copy
But Android has the same range, from the $99 Archos 28 to the $800 Xoom. Plus the off-brand stuff like $99 7" tablets at CVS.
That's correct. California requires "foreign" corporations (any business entity incorporated in another jurisdiction) "doing business" in Califoria to register as a foreign corporation (or LLC) in California. This "franchise tax" is similar to the "franchise tax" paid by domestic corporations (incorporated in California), and is the greater of net income from California activities (all activities, for California-based companies) or $800.

The franchise tax for foreign corporations is heavily dependent on having a physical nexus to California, such as offices, employees, or equipment located within California borders. For example, registering as a Nevada company but headquartering in Santa Monica would result in the imposition of a franchise tax. While this situation is quite common, it usually has the nasty side effect of subjecting the business to nasty tax penalties for not paying franchise taxes they thought did not apply.

The franchise tax is waived for domestic S-Corporations in their first year of existence, unless they are profitable. LLCs are required to pay the franchise tax whether or not they dissolve in the first year unless they were never a going concern (i.o.w., they never actually did any business).
It seems that all dissolution forms have this requirement:

"Before the Certificate can be filed, all applicable Annual Franchise Tax Reports must be filed. Please contact the Franchise Tax Section prior to submitting the document for filing to determine the Annual Reports due. Please make your check payable to “Delaware Secretary of State”"
Interestingly, the slowest-performing add-on they show is the well-respected and popular Firebug, which adds 75% to the start-up time. I expected to see some low-quality add-on at the top.

I don't think they're going to drop a banhammer on slow add-ons with Firebug at the top of the list.

More listed here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/performance/
Anyone else beat it? I'm still not sure what exactly happened in that last level..
haha. bashing the swedes for their neutrality. classic
This smells strongly of 1999. What equity stake do the ancillary developers get? Sorry, but all this news of late of tons of startup accelerators and incubators popping up everywhere is a little unnerving. What is the rational of all these? Did all the RoR startups that will shake up the world have so much trouble finding funding that they need a new one every week?
Uhm, where exactly do you place Bloomberg in your future?
Self Control has a timer.
Will be added in a few days! So large of an idea backlog...
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I knew it! :-). Run it with ExtJS and you'll start to go crazy.
Can't. It boils down to Python vs. Ruby.
Those two really do it for me.
they managed to forget a verb on the very first opening phrase.

And interviewing moot.

Tech crunch on a new low.
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What your lawyer meant was that its very easy to "pierce the veil" of the business entity (your LLC) to go after the owner when the business is owned and operated by a single person. In such instances, it is very difficult to show that the business has a separate identity from the owner. This is especially true for consulting, where the consultant is the business.

On the other hand, it is very difficult to pierce the veil of a business entity with more than one owner (unless the second owner is a spouse or family member of the first).
I love how detailed their website is. They know exactly what they're looking for, who's companies they can make a difference with, and they're upfront about it. I'm really interested to see who comes out of this Accelerator since they're so focused.
Completely off topic

Can someone point me in the general direction of whomever started this "Why X is X" headline meme, so I can hop in my 80's plutonium powered Eurocar and beat the shit out of them?

It's lazy, it's trite, and it's poor form in writing.
Hardly any Android phones don't come with the Market--in fact, the only ones I've heard of that don't are China Telecom's oPhone ecosystem. Plenty of Android tablets don't have the Market.
Apparently we have someone who believes that 2k projectors are good enough or has never experienced cheap theater operators who turn down the brightness on the projector bulbs to make them last longer / save money.

48 fps might be a fine thing, but there are other factors to enjoyment that should be looked at.
Look for sublets on Craigslist. You won't find a place to rent for that short of a duration, but you can find someone who is going on vacation for awhile and has a furnished apartment that they are willing to rent out.

This is what I did when I was in the city for an internship last summer and again when I moved to the city in January.
Bing Maps makes napkin-sketch style maps as well, if you have Silverlight installed.

Say what you like about Bing in general, but Bing Maps is pretty cool.
Beginner's Explanation of P and NP
Hopefully they'll start with FF4 itself - IME it's a lot slower at eg switching heavy-content tabs. I conjecture it's trading CPU for memory usage, I'd prefer the reverse.

It's also very slow at shutdown and startup. With my profile (including cache) encrypted, restarting the browser takes over 10 minutes. I see the CPU pegged and the Firefox process reading through the entire cache as it shuts down, and again on startup - CPU limited by lsass, the process in Windows that runs EFS operations in user mode, but single threaded.
If you didn't want to eat more than a quarter of it in the first place, maybe you don't care if the other guy has 3/4. Eating 3/4 of a whole cake isn't really fun by the end of it - ever read Matilda when you were young?
Stock is treated as taxable compensation once/as it vests, whether or not the entity is incorporated. Even worse, because the entity is not incorporated, the IRS could treat the stock as a partnership interest. Partnership tax accounting is a goddamn nightmare.

You could find yourself on the hook for thousands of back taxes plus fines if your "virtual corporation" is successful. And that doesn't even include potential state tax liabilities or self-employment taxes.
I use Self Control from time to time, too, but I wonder if you've experienced the same problem that I have: namely, that some sites which you haven't blacklisted stop functioning, too. For example, often when I block HN, reddit, and MacRumors, and then visit apple.com, none of the images on apple.com will load. Random other sites that apparently have nothing to do with my block list are often blocked altogether.

Last time I had this problem, I took a look at my Mac's firewall rules, using ipfw, and discovered that several of the IP addresses used in the block list belonged to popular CDNs (e.g., Akamai). This could explain why static assets (like images) on unblocked sites don't load, but I haven't gotten to the bottom of the other issues.

I think, in my case, anyway, a simple /etc/hosts solution would probably work better than Self Control. Anyone know of one, something more elegant than hacking the file by hand?
Top Gear responds to Tesla
I've seen a few folks implement the following system (with varying degrees of success):

- Start a Virtual Machine

- Migrate all your IM, Email, Twitter, Facebook, RSS, HN, etc. to the VM

- When you want to focus/work, shut down the VM

I do something similar with an iPad. I don't check email, Twitter, RSS, or read web pages on my laptop anymore. I've migrated all that to the iPad.
There were few web applications back in 1996. I can only think of two major ones: Lotus had a webmail product called cc:Mail and eBay just started offering online auctions.

Back then, you wouldn't use PHP, CSS, Javascript, XMLHttpRequest or Flash. They didn't exist or hadn't matured yet.

Most likely, you would've used a Java based solution, such as NeXT WebObjects. That's what e-commerce businesses did back then. However, you wouldn't have developed the product on your own. You would've needed a team and plenty of funding, in part because WebObjects came with a $50,000 price tag.

I encourage you to read this WebObjects advertorial from april 1997, courtesy of the Wayback Machine. It's a good illustration of what was considered modern web development:

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/19970412201603/http://www.n...
Alt text on http://xkcd.com/862/ :

"After years of trying various methods, I broke this habit by pitting my impatience against my laziness. I decoupled the action and the neurological reward by setting up a simple 30-second delay I had to wait through, in which I couldn't do anything else, before any new page or chat client would load (and only allowed one to run at once). The urge to check all those sites magically vanished--and my 'productive' computer use was unaffected."

Implemented in node.js: https://gist.github.com/845591 (by kuroikaze85)
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I know how it feel. We all at some point loose control while browsing.
It often start with a good intention: "let't have a quick look at the HN homepage" and several hours later you're still here reading news, success story.
This is even more frustracting at the end of the day as you lookback and notice nothing in your priority have move in the rigth direction.
I'm now more productive since i'm applying the GTD method it help me keeps control. I suggest you to read "making it all work".
Bad news: there aren't any landmark cases. The area is so new that most states haven't even had this issue come up in court yet.

However, I can tell you that the general consensus is that LLCs borrow from corporate law where piercing the veil is concerned.

Veil-piercing isn't about "transacting business on behalf of the company in a role that doesn't legally exist." That's an indemnity issue (the LLC is trying to shuffle blame from itself to an employee).
Veil-piercing is about going after the owners of a company on the grounds that the company is really just an extension of the owners' will and bank accounts.

Key factors for veil-piercing (for an LLC):
- Owners use the LLC funds for personal expenses without reimbursing the LLC.
- Zero/below-market loans from the LLC to the owners.
- LLC business decisions made to benefit the owners rather than the business.
- Undercapitalization (LLC not have enough money to pay its bills/expenses/liabilities without the owners covering some of these expenses).

There are more, but those are the big ones. The piggy-bank, low-interest-loan, and undercapitalization factors are usually the most important.
Firebug is well worth it, in my opinion. I installed FF4 recently and was happy to notice that Firebug was a lot faster. Unfortunately, either FF4 or Firebug is leaking memory like crazy. I'm talking 800MB in 20 minutes with only two tabs open debugging a simple local application. I had to go back to FF3.6. Hopefully they'll fix that soon.
You're struggling with some kind of internal conflict about how to use your time. Sometimes you can power through that sort of thing by just telling yourself you HAVE to get going, or with technical measures like Leechblock. But those approaches are unsustainable, because they don't address the fundamental conflict. How do you feel when you're browsing frivolous material? How do you feel when you consider starting to work? How do you feel just before the urge to take a break arises? Get clear on these questions, and you will be clearer about the way forward.
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This post may not be very different from the other similar posts, but I personally do enjoy reading about new useful projects and the impact of hitting the frontpage of HN, which is why I submitted it.
The disparaging use of the term fanboy is disappointing from someone who I respect like Fred.

Can't we just prefer one good product to another equally good product without being reduced to "fanboys"?
""The freshman aren't really using facebook [to find parties] anymore.""

I built this app to learn Google App Engine http://hello-1-world.appspot.com/about and it will be good for people to find hot spots where people at. But I've been unable to find an initial user who would seed the network. The fact that it has no branding and there is no activity and the purpose is not clear are facts against it.
why does 'spam "by moultano"' show up as a top search term?
I think part of the reason he doesn't do that is so he can pop in his two cents when he has time. Consistently blogging well is such an underrated and difficult job. Agreed though - his stuff is quite awesome and at the very least stirs a great discussion from which a lot can be learned.
Many of the best entry-level jobs in finance go to top engineering graduates.
"Seven Dwarf Mine Station" ?
http://www.mindfulbrowsing.com
This actually works very well. I don't have an ipad yet, but I do the same thing with my iPhone. In addition to that I also have leechblock(found it in lifehacker) that blocks 3hrs block of time with breaks in between. 8-11, 1-4, 6:30-10:30 and midnight-4am. This way I can't "accidentally" browse HN or other news site during my supposedly productive hours. If I really need a fix, I just browse in my iPhone and away from my computer. It's easier to stop browsing on my iPhone than on my computer.
I cheat a lot but it still helps - when I notice the timer isn't set, I set the time and stretch, this evens-out the times I just unthinkingly reset the timer.

I don't believe there is such a thing as generic willpower. A person has far more ability to do something when are reminded to do it.

And I've experimented with timers in the computer and I've found they don't work as well. The egg-timer gives me a full "UI" without consuming desktop space - I can stretch early and reset the timer easily without, say, returning to the machine itself. There's no conflict with system sounds, etc.. A thing outside the computer is more suited to getting me ... outside the computer.

And egg timers/kitchen timers are pretty cheap - if it doesn't work, you use it to time your eggs...
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Here are some steps I've taken - built http://rssafter5.appspot.com, and set up my email to oly download once every 4 hours, http://kburke.org/kevin/escaping-from-your-email/