skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In his excellent (if a trifle dry) A History of News, one of Mitchell Stephens' insights to offer is that normal professional journalists (as opposed to that much rarer breed, investigative journalists) always "know" what the story they're going to write is going to be before they even talk to a single source. How do they do this? Stephens says that there are probably fewer than 200 stories that can be written, period, that anybody who reads or watches the news ever wants to hear. He calls these recurring news story outlines the ur-stories, meaning the primal or elemental news stories from which all later news stories are descended. So the reporter shows up at the scene of a news story with an outline of a story in their head, learned in journalism school, and all they need is three one-sentence quotes for color, and the correct spelling of each person's name. If it's an in-depth report, they go to their editor or publisher's rolodex and pull out the names of two "experts" who can be counted on to have opposing views on the subject and call each expert for another single-sentence quote. This is journalism as it is genuinely practiced."

http://is.gd/XtZZcx
I think it's very important to instill saving behaviors early on in your adult life.

Why early in your adult life? People should begin saving as children.

My parents were sensible. I got my first bank account at the age of five, I think. They paid me some small amount of pocket money (two dollars a week?), and encouraged me to save it up to buy things I wanted, and to worship the magic of compound interest (it helps that interest rates were actually decent in those days). I enjoyed watching the amount in my bank account go up much more than I enjoyed actually buying things with it, so I got into good saving habits.

I can't fathom the idea of an adult (or at least, an adult with a job) not having a mere two grand in their savings account, and certainly not of having negative net wealth (ie credit card debt).

Parents! Teach your children about money early!
Thanks, I'll do it, then. The site is http://www.socialtrade.com.br. Its a website for Brazilian traders. I do intend to rewrite the frontpage with more content; its pretty poor right now. I'm also aware that it would be interesting to have a blog, which would also be good for SEO purposes).
Thankfully, Reocities exists. http://www.reocities.com/

Digital preservation does indeed more funding/attention though. One example I've always found fascinating is the inadvertent digital preservation through piracy. There's plenty of garage bands, old games whose studios have closed, and more obscure movies that are now widely available thanks to people sharing and downloading. A lot of this stuff wouldn't really even be commercially or legally viable to sell, but piracy has made it widely available. </tangent>
Other than occasional issues with OpenID not working right for me I don't have any problems with it. I find it perfectly usable.
Ya, personally I dont feel good about the NDA either. I can understand how it comes off but I think developers should also put themselves in our shoes. I only send it when its someone Im dealing with online or someone that I dont have a personal connection with. I have pitched to a few developers in Chicago based off personal connections because there is no need to worry. Unfortunately it seems as HN is against this but I still have not heard a good enough argument to prove me otherwise. Its unfortunate that developers are judgmental when asked to sign an NDA, however I can see how it can come across. Im def thinking outside the box but at the same time, taking precautionary measures to ensure sustaining our intangible value.
"Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"

The technical issues are what make your question go from whimsical to silly. The article describes just how difficult it is to create neutrino's going in the direction you want them to go in the first place, then interacting with them once they exist and are headed in the right direction.

For any sort of communication to occur using neutrinos you would need to reliably be able to modulate them at the source end and de-modulate them at the destination.

There was a "paper" (and I put that in quotes because it wasn't even a modest piece of reasoning) that proposed neutrinos as the medium by which extra-sensory perception (ESP) was created. Neutrinos passing through the brain of subject A being modulated by their thoughts and then detected in the brain of subject B. At least with this setup at Fermilab you could set up an experiment to test that hypothesis by having your subjects sit in the beamline. (something the paper did not provide was any way to experimentally testing their theories).
It seems that this might maker code easier to write (the first time around) at the expense of making it more difficult to read. That's totally counter to the prevailing wisdom.

I'd also be curious to know what metadata the functions could be tagged with to make them sufficiently easy to find. The module and project that a function or type belongs to provides a lot of contextual information about it; coming up with metadata which captures that information without simply duplicating it (and therefore reinventing modules under another guise) sounds fairly non-trivial.
My first thought after reading the beginnings of his bulleted list: PHP? Haha. Still reading. It feels almost surreal to be reading the brain dump // stream of consciousness of someone who's created something so great. He talks just like you or I. Very fascinating.
He's not going to pay $24k. Either he has insurance to cover most of it or he'll just not pay it. Bill collectors can't harass you for medical debts.

Hospitals have to treat you regardless of your ability to pay.

The whole situation is far from optimal though.
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| Plain and simple, would you want to create a startup and someone make tshirts and make money off your brand or logo?

On second thought, actually this is not a bad idea. If you are a startup and you want to make cool T-shirts or posters about your company, Tagxedo would be a great option. It would be a form of marketing. Anyone interested please contact me. Examples of company logos as Tagxedoes (all from Daily Tagxedo):

LinkedIn http://daily.tagxedo.com/may-20-linkedin-rockets-skyward-in-...

Skype http://daily.tagxedo.com/may-11-microsoft-buys-skype-for-85b

Intel http://daily.tagxedo.com/may-5-intel-unveils-impressive-3d-t...

Color http://daily.tagxedo.com/march-25-prelaunched-social-app-col...

Of course I can't arbitrarily "profit" off brands - I do need to honor various rights.
120k is middle class and considered underachieving? She needs a dose of reality.
The article in question, A Declaration of Cyber-War:

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/04/stuxnet-2...

And its HN submission (1 comment):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2284385
Isn't a lot of this the whole Lisp thing again? (The human-readable serialization format for Lisp is, as I understand it, damn close to being an ASCII serialization of the AST for Lisp, hence...)
The possibility to install an add-on is an option to get the classic GUI back - one that doesn't add to the download size of the program and more importantly, that doesn't create noise in the code base. Maintaining one small feature seems easy but they accumulate.
She's out of touch.

The problem that I've found is that most people live way beyond their means when they are selecting housing. This means that if you want to live with people like yourself, you have to too. If you spend what you should on housing, you end up "in a bad neighborhood".

So I feel like your wife has fallen victim to this problem. To live with the people she wants to associate with, she has to spend a lot more of your money.
> I highly doubt it. Can you quote me some example of these really excellent insights which came from people with irrelevant background?

You might be interested in Paul Feyerabend's 'Against Method,' it is a similar topic to this and a pleasant read.

> I still don't get it. deductive processes aren't something unique to philosophy. I studied Mathematical logic and induction more extensively than a philosophy major. The point you are making it is somehow philosohpy helps understand comp. sci. better. I fail to see how.

Philosophy (particularly analytic philosophy), has a specific method breaking down problems that you don't really see elsewhere. That doesn't mean it is necessarily 'better' than another course of study... it is just a tool that I find to be useful and relatively unique to me. It seems pretty obvious to me that you can't get by at CS without acquiring knowledge of CS. The point is that the diverse background is better than being one dimensional. Note that philosophy helps my programming, not necessarily my comp sci.

> I don't have a fair survey at hand. From personal experience, good programmers have excellent communication skills.

It could just as easily be generalized that good programmers are smart, and smart people are good at communicating.
What do you mean unusable? Plenty of people use it every day just fine.
The way I see it, the difference between the main method taught in the hard sciences (the empirical or scientific method) and between critical thinking as taught in the humanities is that the latter does not frown upon "intuitive" knowledge the way the first one does.

In the empirical method, you are encouraged to put on a blindfold and pretend to be perfectly unbiased when making a decision. That works very well for things about which you can actually pretend to be unbiased. Less so for things where you have to make conclusions based on your life experience.

Critical thinking (as opposed to the scientific method) becomes important when doing things like hiring people. I cannot afford to go outside, put on a mask, randomly sample people, spend a few years with each, write down the results, and generate a correctly averaged profile of my perfect employee. On the other hand, I do have an intuitive "feeling" for what type of people I am compatible with, what type of person is most likely to be smart and productive, and I have to make decisions based on this. At the same time I have to take into account my own biases.

Critical thinking as taught in the humanities is about balancing biases, while the empirical method as taught in the hard sciences is about attempting to remove bias altogether. The latter is superior but very expensive.
That's a really depressingly accurate way of putting it.
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"I'm talking about 'I cannot afford food' or 'I cannot afford transportation to a job interview' type of emergency. That's a real emergency, in my opinion."

I think we're in strong agreement. I was thinking of your two examples as being subcomponents of the base emergency "We're living beyond our means." Once you are in an emergency situation, your safety systems are compromised and additional emergencies become much more likely.
credit cards are useful tools. i use mine and just pay it down monthly. if you have any plans on obtaining a loan/mortgage at any point in time, the easiest way to establish yourself with good credit is through actually using a credit card.
Check out

http://scalien.com

or

http://github.com/scalien/scaliendb

for a replicated, scalable (sharding) database built around strong replication (Paxos). Google's latest database called Megastore is also using Paxos and they seem to be moving away from eventual consistency.
I think what Mr. Graham is saying is not only natural, but inspiring. Firstly success and opportunity generates itself, and the best way to generate that is to look for patterns. So if people like us are successful, then in looking for more success, we should look for people like us. Secondly, the fact that 'naughtiness' is one way to look outside of the status quo, doesn't diminish all the other ways of looking for solutions. Mr. Graham celebrates 'naughtiness', other 'like us' traits could include tenacity, perseverance, team oriented, data driven, and humility. So this is not about following the rules versus not following the rules, it's about being able to distinguish between necessary, even essential rules and problematic rules. Today Mr. Graham exhorts us to celebrate naughtiness in our quests, tomorrow we can celebrate mischievousness. There's plenty of time, and plenty of traits to success.
I think his point is about transfer.

The typical argument about the value of humanities is that it teaches "critical thinking." This argument has to be made because a humanities education does not teach many skills which are directly useful in a job. For example, not many people are going to get a job where they are asked to write a critical analysis of a book. So, the argument is that the critical thinking skills required to do that analysis will transfer to tasks that are part of a job. I don't disagree with this argument. That is, the critical thinking skills will transfer, even if the specific skills will not.

irahul's point is that a CS education requires developing critical thinking skill as well. And if we're going to argue that the critical thinking skills required to write an English essay will transfer, then we must also argue that the critical thinking skills required to design a compiler will also transfer.

By the way, what you said is condescending, and I don't know how it could not be.
Multiple reasons:

1. Goodwill with developers might be worth more than $40m in the long run. I think the argument about users is fallacious: users will find something else (because there aren't any rivals to Twitter itself) and quickly forget. Developers don't forget as quickly.

2. Maybe they actually liked the software and wanted to distribute it

3. Maybe it was a talent acquisition

Anyone who has a business built on an API to another service is completely at the whims of that service, and pretending that you form some form of "threat" to the host is a dangerous move. I would hazard that the only company that has ever grown large enough to strong arm the host was Zynga with Facebook (see Zynga/Facebook Credits).
For some reason the animation is extremelly slow and laggy on my netbook.
The space in the middle would be ideal for the tabs.
You're suggesting that 50% of the US population is deep in debt and lives as frugally as possible to resolve that issue? I don't think so.
See? That's how well these companies did with their marketing. It was such a successful campaign that you, who I'll presume is an intelligent human being, see it as silly legal issue. Frankly speaking? No. There really isn't another way for businesses to handle it. You're talking about legal issues, and the way to resolve legal issues is through legal means.

It seems silly now, but to many of these companies, it's the way for them to be unique, to stand out among the crowd. Because they came up with the word 'realtor' and 'entreprenur' to describe themselves, not to describe others. And, rightly or wrongly in this case, the government said that the words they use to describe themselves was so unique that it was worth it to legally make it theirs.

(And all the past successes of these names being turned into generic terms (Kleenex, Xerox, Aspirin) is the other reason why these companies are fighting tooth and nail to make sure it doesn't happen to them. The government has basically stated that it's a use it or lose it situation. And they are determined not to lose it. Whether or not that's a good thing....)
But this is the only way to make progress. There will always be users who oppose changes and maintaining old features cost. Microsoft manages this very well (you can basically make Windows 7 look like 95 if you want) but at a great price. They spend many resources maintaining this compatibility and if they didn't they would have been able to make new software much faster.
Medical payments are the most easy to renegotiate. As long as you are paying something continually, almost all hospitals are very understanding.

Don't beggar yourself to pay medical bills in the amount they originally ask on the timescales they originally ask.
Yea I understand where your coming from with the Tagxedo (which is really cool, minus the copyright issues that could arise), but putting it on Zazzle would be debatable. Not my debate.

Regardless, if its not made for profit, after one sale its profit. I mean its really cool and I'm not one to care about all the legal crap, but someone does at times.

As far as your break even it doesn't matter if its not your brand your working on. I can spend months designing something a court wont care if its not mine in the first place.

I wouldn't really worry about it.

I really think its cool, but I was just stating some matters.
You can actually change to other styles (sweetshirt, baby apparel, etc). Not sure V-neck is an option though.
Thank you for the warning. I know it's brutal, and it's far from a guarantee. However, if all else fails, I'll just come back to this... or so I keep telling myself :)

I'm telling myself not to be nervous about all the brilliant people, but to try and learn from them along the way.
I've never tried Second Life, but I'd be very surprised if they're not representing shapes internally as some kind of 3D mesh: it's an important technique for getting decent performance on modern graphics cards. If they are doing that, then that's sufficient for them to be able to do automatic LOD calculations too.
First they take away the status bar with the lock icon, now they take away the address bar. How the hell am I going to educate my users to make sure they're visiting the correct secure site and not some attack site?

It's as if the UI designers saw a sketch on a cocktail napkin once that really impressed them and now they expect us to use a cocktail napkin for a browser. As if it's all just about inconsequential web surfing and party drinks.

No, no need to care about security or strong site authentication. UI designers have completely failed us in that respect, too, with click-through certificate warnings. This just formalizes it I guess.
Like Netflix for voting - Turbovote
In other words, he did some kind of internal hacking to install his code - illegally bypassing the code review process.
Do not value yourself based on that. This is a race you cannot win. If you win the race against the Jones, are you going to start competing against the Jobs or Gates?

It is very easy to criticize, if she is still believes you are an underachiever(you are not) Do what Fraajad says, let her find out how easy(or difficult) it is to succeed.
Yes, the UK does have something like FDIC. It's called FSCS http://www.fscs.org.uk. Moreover quite a few EU countries have something similar too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deposit_insurance
I think its a great option if the company approves of it.
Defaulting to google generates millions, but it's there in the first place because it's useful.
The Next Generation Language Translator?
My absolute favorite example of a reporter willfully twisting words is the following.

A reporter was trying to interview my mother about my sister. My mother said, "It's not that we don't think you're important but ...". This wound up in print as, "It's...that we dont think you're important."

Remember, it is the job of the media to get a compelling story out there. They don't care about the truth. They don't care about informing people. They want to create interesting stories that suck people in, and punish people who fail to give them access to information that they wanted (whether or not they had any right to pry).

When we see subjects that we understand misreported in the media, we invariably cringe. When you see subjects you don't know anything about reported in the media, your default assumption should be that if you knew the subject better, you would cringe, and the only reason you're not cringing is that you don't know better.
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This mirrors the story of McChrystal's treatment by Rolling Stone (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-runaway-genera...). In both cases reporters pull specialists who are unaware and unprepared for the perils of such interviews to uncharted territory and then benefit from the results. I bet they can't pull such a fast one to one who's seasoned, e.g. Lady Gaga.
XBOX might be a counterpoint, since it reportedly was a loss-leader in the beginning

FWIW, all consoles are loss-leaders in the beginning, and you make the money back in game license fees and relying on components becoming cheaper over time.

The only console maker that has bucked this trend is Nintendo with the DS and Wii; they always sold for a profit. That's why Nintendo doesn't care that the attach rate (number of games bought for the platform) is through the floor, because Nintendo already made their money.

I also agree that you can't beat Android in the race to the bottom.
Facebook Tests User Page Recommendations
The site is fine, its the content thats been sucking lately, fortunately, theres this convenient and usable "flag" link, i think I'll use it.
We actually have a show like that in Germany... It's mostly the same basics over and over again (cut the cigaretes, no Pay TV, Why do you have 4 Cell phone contracts, ...). It could very well be scripted though. Maybe I'll remember the name over the next hour or so :)
The article didn't say, but I would imagine the actual records would receive the vitals directly from the machine, rather than going through a nurse (it also may be a work in progress as an office moves to electronic records and streamlining vitals). The nurse reads the number off the indicator for the benefit of the patient, not the records.

I agree, as the article reads, it would just be silly to add the additional cost with no change other than needing a machine to read the numbers.
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Well, he's definitely the root cause I'd wager.

Perhaps not a bad CEO, but the wrong CEO for this company right now. He'd probably do better at a place like GE.
Why signal your intelligence with a degree that you worked hard for but has no intrinsic value?

I think your understanding of my position is colored by your assumptions about value. If you mean "no intrinsic value" as 'employability' or 'earning potential,' I would say that I value other things more than either of those. To answer the question, though, I wasn't trying to signal my intelligence when I chose my degree. I was trying to learn. I was exploring fields that I found interesting. I chose Comp Lit specifically because it offered me the broadest set of opportunities for learning. (I minored in Linguistics, and would have probably double majored if I thought I could afford to spend another six months in school.)

As for skill, I think you misrepresent what the Sokal hoax was about, and what it proved.

I actually did start school as a CS major, and I found it interesting and still do, but the CS curriculum was prohibitively restrictive and exclusive to other fields, and I wanted to explore more. If any of the 'hard' fields had given me more cross-disciplinary opportunities, I probably would have chosen one of them.
agreed, Microsoft needs to capture the consumer market and rebrand. Someone needs to start a subsidiary of MS and start from the ground up again.
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Appreciate. I agree that anytime I sell something I need to face the legal ramification, no matter how small the profit (or the nature of the profit). Any time a person uses someone else's property, even if it is fair use, there is the chance that it'll get messy. In fact the US copyright law almost answers the question of fair use by saying "it depends".

So I understood what you said and thanks for your feedback.
The issue is not whether the monopoly is good or bad, but rather that its existence creates what is essentially a monoculture. I'd rank that as more of a concern, especially when we're talking about consumer devices.