skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

You have to be careful with the "deriving no gain" part, though. In game theory, it's valid to punish someone by incurring a loss if they're trying to gain at everyone else's expense. That's used in the Tit-for-Tat strategy in the Prisoner's Dilemma, for example.

Granted, you can say that it's for the sake of future gain, rather than present gain, but there are times when our lack of knowledge about the circumstances can lead us to commit the fundamental attribution error. Are they "stupid" or are there circumstances of which we're unaware? Of course, if you have the misfortune of knowing them for long enough, it's generally not that hard to figure out which is which.

One law I didn't see, though, is that we all do stupid things sometimes.
Sure, the actual experts would be.

I think the parent is referring to the current social norms of what you are allowed/not allowed to say.
Good point. Though even cheap modern cards have a decent amount of horsepower - the main cost-cutting is shared memory, which doesn't play much of a role in mining. I can mine close to 1/10th of a coin (on Slush's pool) overnight on my laptop; multiply that by a few thousand, accounting for only gaming time, and it's a not-insignificant source of income without even getting very large. 1 block / 50 coins are worth a few hundred US$ right now, and it's entirely passive on the receiving end.
Of course there are people calling themselves "wealth psychologists" now.
I've just happily paid for this app (congrats, nice app and makes my daily life easier/better)

I am always amused when people complain about paying $5 for an app like this.

Let's assume for a second that you are an IT/Internet professional, and you are read HN enough that you'd consider downloading an app. Maybe I am the exception, but I perhaps spend 30 mins per day on HN on my iphone. HN for me is great over breakfast, sitting on a train, lying in bed, taking a dump reading. The web experience on the iphone isn't great, and posting is hard, and lots of finger pinching. This makes that better.

Now lets do some rough maths. 30 mins per day, 365 days a year = a lot of hours (182.5 pa)

$5 = what an engineer earning US$100k for (220 days @ 8 hours/day earns in in 5 minutes (pre-tax). I've spent longer than that writing this post.

Obviously HN is international, salaries in some parts of the world are somewhat lower, but for those people in countries where iphones exist, and they own one, $5 is hardly that much.

The guy has even given away the source for free, if you would rather download it, and build it yourself.
Totally agree with just getting to work

But titles are free, so if they make you feel better and make you more productive, might as well give yourself one
You're Using JSON, Why not MessagePack?
As a high school student (well, graduate tomorrow!) who is interested in designing mobile applications, I would really be interested in reading about your experience building this app. Not only the design and code, but the release and launch, if you don't mind.

I just bought the app and it's great! Keep up the good work!

EDIT: Just one little quirk I've noticed. The comment test is really small (I'm visually impaired and already hold the phone a few inches from my face). While I can read it, could you give us an option to increase it at some point in the future?
Officially launch my company's first product and snag a sale to a total stranger.
Let's see if Google updates their documentation page soon to include IE9 in the list :)
> The word you're looking for is "current".

"Actual" is a synonym for "current".
Very cool, thanks for sharing. The potential for this and like-technologies (read: 3d printers) is huge.

This reminded me of a "demotivational poster":

http://i.imgur.com/08cDW.jpg

I know HN comment "etiquette" tends to oppose jokes or material of "lesser" sources (oh my what have our comments become?) but the OP made me think of the possibilities of Open Source CAD building layouts, so in some sense, the ability to someday download a building. :)
While I find Zed's choice a good one -- GitHub (git) repos feeling more accessible, it pains me to think hg doesn't have as great a domination in this space. I feel Zed has a stronger affinity towards Python and the simplicity / extensions of Mercurial, which comes out in his post; it'd be great to have him more involved in that space.

But before we get into some "holy-war discussion" over VCSes, it's clear Zed just wants himself and his committers to get shit done.
Has the percentage of the government's revenue that comes from the rich changed in the period he talks about? That would seem to be the most important statistic, and yet he doesn't include it.
This is entertaining read, but there is some irony there.

Should add one more law. "A stupid person almost always is not aware of his/her stupidity, and often thinks others are stupid."
Not just in game, but out of game detail, too.

There's a player trying to get a sample of saguaro wood so they can measure some of its material properties empirically and add those to the game. And that's just one small part of some very large, recent threads researching real-world stuff to improve the game's model.

Someone actually went through about a couple of hundred random types of stone and wood to find out more information on them and input proper data for them, rather than using the defaults for wood and stone.

That thread is somewhere on the Suggestions forum.
I wouldn't need billions, really. Not even millions. Just some income, I wouldn't mind if it was capital income, if some benevolent gazillionaire would pay me a modest lifetime allowance, or if I inherited some poor but filthy rich relative as long as nobody told me what to work on.

I'd just sit down for probably four hours every day and write code for whatever open source project I'd feel like contributing to the most each time of the year. Sometimes possibly writing my own software, sometimes fixing stuff in other software, or sometimes just redesigning stuff. Minus all effort to convince people to accept my patches. But open source anyway. I think that open source is my best bet of making a difference in the world; I mean such a difference that scales.

I have four hours to spare these days. But those would be the code-writing hours only. I would need the ten other hours, while doing all kinds of everyday stuff, to think about what to write the following day. I can't do that now that I'm working: I merely spend the four hours to unwind from what I did for work, to get back to normal.

On the other hand, if I had lots of money then I'd feel being obliged to put that money into good use. Not just investing it into the most convenient index fund I happened to find: it would be my money and I'd be pretty picky about it. And managing money would take time; I'm afraid it'd take enough time to once again prevent me from just coding whatever I want.
Where is the web’s Loren Brichter?
>I think the suggestion was that a client integrate encryption functionality locally, generating and using a key that exists only on a user's computer (or, alternatively, is backed up with AES (or similar) using a passphrase the service doesn't know). You don't have to have access to the key.

yeah. That's also what I am suggesting. but you don't need the provider's help to do that. it's easy enough to encrypt a davfs mount locally on your own box; the provider just needs to support some standard (like webdav.) Then it's up to the user to figure out what client they trust to encrypt the data before it's uploaded.

My point is that if the providers control the encryption (e.g. by providing a proprietary client that has access to the key) you have a lot less protection than if you do the encryption independent of your provider.
Beyond the Business Model Canvas ~ Innovation Investment Journal
How's the Job Market? Measuring by Recruiting Inquiries
Two Women Keynote Speakers in Twin Cities
I would imagine google has access to a heckuva a lot more data through Analytics than the Buzz widget.
HTML5-Powered Web Applications: 19 Early Adopters
The new home for innotop is http://code.google.com/p/innotop/, and for anyone looking for other amazing FOSS tools for MySQL (especially Percona builds with XtraDB)-
http://www.percona.com/docs/wiki/percona-xtrabackup:start
http://www.maatkit.org/

You can do some amazing things with MySQL, Postgres, and Memcached with some of the maatkit tools.
...maybe it's because we're all sinners and god decided not to take anyone.
I'm not sure I'm too happy about that. Increasing enterprise sales will increase the desire to build malware for the platform.
I'll be that other guy, because I found the visualization interesting. It's a bit off, but it'd still be mind-bending to see:

>... [the equivalent of] 6422 kg on a cable with cross-section of 1 mm2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube#Strength
From a technical point of view, it's pretty hard to catch up with established competitors especially when they are very good. Though they did catch up in some areas, they also omitted many features and spec implementations that their competitors have already done, and giving the excuse that they did it because those specs weren't ready enough.

But if you really want to know why hasn't Microsoft pushed the development of IE more over the years, I'd say it's politics. The Windows OS thrives because of native software, and most of the native software works only on Windows. So from their point of view, it's not a very good idea to help push the web forward to make (web) apps cross-platform.

The reason why they might've changed their mind a bit lately, is because they also have cloud offerings now, and they'd rather have enterprise (mostly) customers continue to use IE instead of moving to a competitor's browser.

But it seems they still don't really want to go fully cross-platform. This is not obvious yet, but I think we'll see it with IE10, where they want to tie the hardware acceleration to the Windows OS. That's why they've started marketing the idea of "native HTML5" lately, which basically means HTML5 that is hardware accelerated through DirectX, which of course works only on Windows. All their competitors have adopted WebGL for 3D content, but they'll probably try to promote their DirectX and Windows-only solution, instead.
Careful; I deliberately oversimplified the claims, because there was some doubt that this patent directly applied to in-app purchasing. All I'm trying to demonstrate is that the applicability of the patent is straightforward. It takes time and expertise to parse and evaluate patent claims; it's probably more specific than "keypad plus purchasing".
So does this mean that Chrome will drop support for JPEG, PNG and GIF? I mean, that was the case with the video tag.
I agree, I'm not really a fan of Libertopia (it requires far more faith in human nature than I have), just making the argument that in that environment we wouldn't see unions as we know them now.
Yes, you can make it work by doing just a little everyday
Apple sneakily patents Google Docs on the sly - I bet Google didn't see that coming.
I think using maths isn't about applying equations that one has learned, or something like that.

Learning maths changes the way one thinks. But the benefit of this is very hard to explain to someone who doesn't know.
Nobody buys Macs to use as servers outside of a very small workgroup-like market, usually for creative houses.

DEFINITELY nobody is picking them up as "mysql and apache servers instead of linux" because OSX is a terrible server OS and not worth the cost.
i cant really take an article serious that compares Apples growth to PC like that. Apple has an almost non existant market share in the enterprise, growing 66% is super easy compared to the PC which is nearly everywhere in enterprises. In total, 4.5% of a lot will probably still be much more than 66% of almost nothing.

Also how serious does Apple take this ? If it would matter to them, why do they discontinue their XServe and other hardcore enterprise machinery ? Id say they dont care too much about the enterprise market and they dont really need to.
Whether it's justified or not, it's about double the current market value for these kinds of apps in the iOS app store ecosystem. So yeah, people will complain, even though it's the amount of money you'd probably easily spend on a cup of coffee.

The reason people are complaining is not that people are not willing or not able to spend $5 on a HN reading app. The problem is that people simply aren't used to it.

$5 is what you pay for a game, for an app that piggybacks on someone else's content you usually either pay nothing or about a buck.

I wonder whether or not the author would make more money from it if the app was $2.50 or $1.

I'll gladly pay the $5 though.
To answer your questions: very high chance of actually receiving, the active ingredient is correct and in the correct concentration (we didn't test the binder/other trace elements), and in a pilot study we saw a LOT of fraudulent charge attempts, but during and after the 3 month period of this study we did not see any fraudulent transactions (we were specifically watching for this as we had seen it in the pilot study).
However, discontinuation of server hardware (Xserve) production probably won't help.
As a defense (because the complaints about price are perceived as some intrinsic abhorrence to shell out money):

The price makes sense if there is some perceived added value that exceeds the price point. I am not afraid to spend money, but it needs to help me. For example, I spent money to buy issh because I found a need for using vnc on my phone.

It's nice to think that people should pay for your development time but that means nothing if you aren't providing any value.

So let's consider what makes HN (which is free in website form) inconvenient on iPhone in the first place:

1) typing very long responses and scrolling back. This is true, writing long responses on the iPhone is a pain because of the keyboard (which your app doesn't seem to solve) and because the iPhone text editor doesnt put scrollbars. That is true, but I genuinely wonder if people try to wrote really long responses on the iPhone, at least long enough to blow away the size of the box.

2) tiny arrows -- personally it's a nonissue for me because I would have to zoom in anyway to read the text. I could see how this is an issue for those who vote before reading the article.

3) Comments that fit the screen width -- I can appreciate the argument, given that you group conversations, but it's sometimes hard to see the full relationship between comments if you hide the sub replies. For example, some people reply to a comment of a comment with a new root comment, and that new comment doesn't make sense until you read the other tree.

I don't mean to be a negative Nancy it's always important to ask about the value add to the potential customers. And this is my opinion. Clearly others find value in your app. That being said, complaining about cost isn't s plea for a free app but rather is a query into how the author perceives the value-add of the application. And just to test, I wrote this on my 3GS
CS majors are going to be bookkeepers, not mathematicians.
Note: a complaint about price isn't a plea to make it free -- I wrote a longer response on another reply. It's opening a conversation about why the app deserves ____'s money
Yeah, I usually use awk or perl for this (depends on my mood). Just find it annoying that the unix program whose stated purpose is to number lines is basically dead to me.
Doesn't look like anything to me. This shows the tax rates: http://www.truthandpolitics.org/top-rates.php. They climbed up for WW1 & WW2, and now are falling back to historical levels.

And here is income distribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Income_Distr...

which again, shows nothing sinister. Where one man made $2 to anothers $1, now that man is making $200 to the others $100.

Also can anyone substantiate the claim that the super rich lend the government money? As far as I knew only the Federal Reserve lent money to the government.
Lots of variables in that statement (the number of people in the "rich" % bracket, do we take into account taxation method or inflation changes to the value of money, etc.)

His point is less about the government taxation, and more the concentration of capital into a very small, very monetarily powerful group of people as a consequence of the tax system.
Patricians want to control the plebs. Yawn. Wake me up when humans are not power hungry.
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Yes, it has, and it has increased. This article is either terribly disingenuous or merely ignorant.
I am more recent in applied math (coming from pure) but my impressions are very similar. For the last few years I keep discovering the same thing over and over again: the level of math in “technology” is abysmal, nobody understands it, nobody needs it. Incidentally, I am writing a blog post about PageRank right now. Short version: mathematically, it’s very unsatisfying.
About bitcoins
There are a lot of news around bitcoin. Someone thinks is a scum, others think that is a good idea. I'm not sure. But it is fun to see what the projects that are created to make use and to mine more bitcoins.
This would probably not be in his best interest.
Why I Love Gema (the perfect language for text manipulation)
Why rechargeable (AA/AAA) batteries not popular?
I have been using these for a while. Good value for money and using these is more environment friendly(supposedly). It is difficult to find these in stores, can order it online only. Is it because of the alkaline battery maker's lobbying/deal with stores? Less profit for stores? Consumers don't care, not worth the hassle?
I don't care what Fossil considers rewriting history. Rewriting history means altering a commit that has taken place in the past, which git can't do.
Definitely. An even more likely scenario for someone as fritter-headed as I can be is that I'll leave it at a coffee shop or hotel, no outside malice required! Definitely a big concern for mobile devices, and I've been thinking lately about how crucial this makes my MBP. It's definitely not as safe as the system at my house.

What I used to do is have everything on my home system, then connect to it through VNC or NX from the road. It's great when there's a fast connection available, but too frequently VNC is unusable due to unreliable internet connections. I'll get this network thing figured out some day.
How a baseball image got photoshopped by robots
A more useful graph of income distribution would be inflation adjusted - this graph might be useful in that regard (shows the larger overall take of total income by the extremely wealthy):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Share_top_1%25.jpg

Regarding the lending question - the wealthy lend through buying government securities, in the same way that any fixed financial instrument works - you give someone X dollars, you expect X+% back.
http://lanekenworthy.net/2008/01/14/taxes-at-the-top/
I'd say every labour saving device invented would qualify as property that can create more time.
What makes the overpricing stigma more rational than the lack of stigma in underpricing? There's a huge gray area here between $45 and the $85 open that speaks to credibility, and I don't think anybody's saying it should have been priced at $90+ just because it popped to $140.
Actually, I think there'd be less bitching about the price if he removed the paragraph.

Many things that are sold can be had for free if you're willing to put in the effort, but it's a poor salesman who starts his pitch by saying "You really don't need to pay me".
Apple Patent Lays Groundwork For Web-Based Digital Books
About risk assessment and Mac viruses
Looking at the top rates, without taking deductions into account, is pretty useless.
Could this be combined with a P2P mesh network like http://www.mondonet.org and also work from mobile phones? They seem to have similar goals.
Compared to the latest browsers from everyone else, yes.

Unfortunately, Microsoft's style seems to be to release browsers that are obsolete before they're even available. IE9 is a nice step ahead, but it leaves out a lot of nice technologies that could have moved the web forward. As Mozilla shifts to faster releases, and Chrome, Safari and webkit in general steam ahead, it's sad to think that we won't see IE 10 for another couple of years at the soonest.

The way IE is developed is a relic of the desktop software era. Mozilla recognized that to keep up with Google, they needed to change how their browser is developed and released - I pray that something vital is changed to make that possible for MS and IE as well.
Interview with Joel Gascoigne - founder of Buffer
IE's worst sins were MS-only extensions for which standards already existed. Goog, on the other hand, at least aims for backwards compatibility and standards compliance (see SPDY and false start SSL handshakes)
Too expensive, performance degrades over time, you have to have a charger for them and when they run out it takes hours before they're recharged, during which you can't use whatever it is that needed batteries.
How many languages is Git actually written in? I had the impression that it was just C. What is each language used for?
> stupid people often destroy what wealth they manage to get.

Usually by giving it to bandits.
Perhaps, (this.lastIndexOf(s, 0) === 0) will work faster for startsWith(s), because it doesn't create new string just for the sole purpose of using it in a single comparison. What if s contains 1M 'a' chars, while this contains 1M 'b' chars? Your function will naturally make a copy of this, while it could only compare the first character in order to determine the result.
The same applies to endWith() - { var pos = this.length - s.length; return (pos >= 0 && this.indexOf(s, pos) == pos); } will probably work faster in most cases.
The reasonable doubt would be easily almost-certainly disproved by an ISP watching both nodes, though - the high-throughput is partially achieved by not delaying data / sending junk data, so it's reasonably certain that a high degree of data transfer between two nodes without any high transfer out of either to unknown nodes represents a direct connection.

If they're both actively sending data out to other nodes, you're more protected, but odds are you won't be giving the network as much bandwidth as your buddy, much less significantly enough to hide your communication in the noise.

If your messages are small, yeah, you're lost in the noise and completely deniable. Which is an interesting advantage.
Perhaps it'll soon be Joe Hewitt.
Also a tendency to use single letter variable names exclusively.
What about branches? Tags? Git's fast-forward?

Some people think of the whole DAG as history.
I would argue it hasn't increased nearly enough in proportion to the benefits rich people get from our now heavily inflationary monetary system. In other words, turning on the printing presses is a boon for the wealthy (cheap money to fuel stock market (mal)investment, govt. spending on things like war, appreciation of assets, etc.), but it's a hidden tax on the poor. Then, the rich whose income has risen over the last several years while all incomes below have flat lined (or even dropped) balk at the prospect of higher taxes while our crippling debt now elicits unthinkable political talk of U.S. govt. default.

Edit: I would appreciate a response rather than a downvote. I don't mind disagreement, but at least give me the chance to address it.
http://bsonspec.org/ is another such alternative.