skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"The basis of their diet, therefore, is white bread and margarine, corned beef, sugared tea and potatoes -- an appalling diet. Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw? Yes, it would, but the point is that no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing. The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots. And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn't.… When you are unemployed … you don't want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit "tasty." There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you."

So, calories, or not enough of them. Cooked food has more net calories than uncooked food. It's probably the same reason that, nowadays, poor people like to watch TV: it shuts your brain (20-30% of your metabolism) down harder than falling asleep. It's a decision that doesn't make any sense until you think of it calorically.
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Mike Konczal:

Here’s the normal story. Picture you are in a room with 10 people. Each of them has a slice of cake. How much you are willing to pay for a slice of the cake is the ‘marginal utility’ of having it, and the more cake you have the less any more cake is worth to you. You’d be willing to pay a $1 for the first slice of cake, but you’d only be will to pay 90 cents for the second slice. You’d only be willing to pay 10 cents for the 9th slice, and a penny for the 10th slice. Eating the 10th slice of cake in that room would probably make you sick, hence you want it a lot less than the first slice, which is delicious. That’s declining marginal utility.

Now picture you are in a room with 10 people screaming. You hate it when people scream, and you can pay a person to get them to stop screaming. Would you pay in a similar way to the cake example? Would you pay a $1 to get the first person to stop screaming, and a penny for the 10th person to stop screaming?

No. Getting one person to stop screaming would make very little difference in how much you dislike being in the room. Modern psychology tells us you might not even notice it. You’d probably only pay a penny to get that first guy to stop screaming. However getting the second guy to stop screaming might be worth 10 cents. And the last guy, the difference between some screaming and no screaming, might be worth the full dollar to you. The more quiet it got, the more a marginal difference in how quiet it is would be worth to you. There’s increasing returns to this good; the 10th guy not screaming is worth more than the first guy not screaming, which is the exact opposite dynamic of the 10th cake being less delicious than the first.

-- http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/persistence-of-pov...
> "That's not true. Unless this is genuinely valuable to enough businesses, it won't be sustainable."

I agree it's unsustainable, but this seems to miss the point: while the business model of the idea in question does not revolve around win-lose deals and trademark infringement, something ethically questionable has happened here.

This is reminiscent of the AirBNB brouhaha - while the service itself may be valuable, the means by which the company chose to market and launch itself was sketchy to the extreme. If AirBnb's core offering was not compelling, spamming people on Craigslist would've been unsustainable, as it would be here - but the fact that the product doesn't suck is not justification for questionable behavior such as this.

Some material harm (thankfully it would seem, not much) has come to at least one business involved, and had it continued in that format (i.e., vague text that doesn't seek to distance Loopt from these unaffiliated merchants) it would certainly have caused more damage.
This was a great speech, well done. This part especially stood out for me:

> Now in real life, what is magic in our world? It’s kinda the oppo­site. It’s about imag­in­ing some­thing which is not yet exist, and believ­ing in it so much that you will it into exis­tence with a lot, lot, lot of hard work. So much work that peo­ple often think you are crazy.

I get the "you're crazy" vibe on HN occasionally, and this is close to what I've been doing for going on 4 years now: gathering so much energy around myself -- in the form of work and effort and resources -- that the things that I began imagining even longer ago start becoming real.

I have a list of 22 different projects, spanning 50 years of time, ranging from pretty straightforward to preposterous. So far I've pulled off the first two of them, and my now-business-partner has just pulled off another on his own. We're picking up speed!

Thanks for getting out there and motivating kids. That's a great thing to do. :-)
You know what would be useful? A sort of Turnitin for legal documents, where you could upload your employment contract or whatever and then it would search an annotated corpus for any pattern matches. It might hone in on one of these dodgy 'one-liner' loopholes buried in an otherwise generic looking wall of smallprint, and tell you what sort of trick they're trying to pull.
Kava.

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No.

This isn't a question of intelligence. It's a question of how people with different levels of wealth/status have different priorities. I've experienced it in periods of my own life, depending on how financially secure I've felt - and so far as I can tell, my intelligence hasn't changed. Abraham Maslow discussed the psychology behind this half a century ago. (1)

Of course there are many other issues affecting the poor, which this article doesn't address and which you completely ignore. The fact is that it's simply more expensive to be poor. Not having a car can mean you might have to sacrifice an entire day of work just to take your child to the doctor by bus (and this isn't an abstract hypothetical - I've treated these families). When you don't have extra money you sacrifice income to late fees, pay higher interest rates, are unable to benefit for long-term or bulk discounts. And don't even get me started on predatory services like check cashing or rent to own companies.

Bottom line, it's cheap to be rich, and expensive to be poor. And when every day is a struggle you see the world differently than a high paid yuppy with a secure tech job in an otherwise miserable economy (that's not a personal jab, I put myself in this category as well).

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
That will be taken down in no time. It's illegal as per eBay policies.
Why is that ironic? You're getting downvoted for being elitist, which is the mentality that makes so many kids feel like outsiders in high school.
ii is great, with a single line of bash I had each line piped to festival - audio based IRC!
How do you know they're pretending? Why can they not "like computers" in a different way than you do?
We have some colocation clients who have a full cab of all XServes and Mac Pros (with OSX Server installed). One time, I asked what they run with all of that. They said "Ooh, we needed it to run Tomcat". Uhh....

I don't really understand the point of OSX Server beyond possibly render farms (for music / movies)
Perhaps in an objective world that's true, but in reality people remember the bad more than the good unless they're talking about their own personal history.

To see where this can lead us:

People remember sociopaths as serial killers, and snakes in suits and not the merely maladjusted people they bump into everyday.
Does anyone else think worrying about getting used to life with the internet is like worrying about not spending enough time in caves any more?
I read until the author expressed a preference for granular ACLs rather than a less complex security model.

Security starts with an aversion towards complexity. No point in reading the rest of the article.
Do you feel it's evil for a company giving away, say, a car as a prize to disclose the brand of the car?
I'm envisioning small businesses group buying legal services to sue for trademark infringement.
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Agree. Dow chemical had a program where they would employ people from welfare families. They had to explain to them telephones, teach them about being on time, teach them to file (sometimes the alphabet as well), etc. Most came in for a week and left. Working was such a foreign concept to them, their families, and community that it did not make any sense to them. It is similar to the fish in water analogy or a reverse of 'if you want to be self-made rich hang out with self-made rich people'
my life looks a lot like this, not sure if I like it though
>"Silicon Valley companies attract employees by giving them options which vest over time."

Just another of example of how this story is being spun in the tech media. Skype is not a Silicon Valley company in any meaningful sense. Most of their development team is in Estonia and their headquarters is in Luxemburg.

[http://jobs.skype.com/lifeatskype.html]
Who didn't even finish his own experiment. He ejected after 9 months when shit got real.

The poor don't have an eject button. This is the whole fucking problem.
Media hysteria over data loss has hidden costs
Ask HN: Convince a programmer to switch over to Mac (from Linux)
Macs seem to have become extremely popular for developers who don't even necessarily develop for Mac, and I'm wondering why. Comparably spec'd notebooks are up to $1000 less than a Macbook. Where's the added value?

I'm in the market for a new laptop, and haven't found any compelling reasons for switching over as a backend web developer. I'm really curious about what I'm missing as a non-Mac developer. Is it just a status purchase?
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an awful book. First off, it's boring and damn near unreadable (it was one of the only assigned books I never made it through in college). But in a larger sense, the slaves are "heroic" and "emotionally nuanced" only in the sense that HBS makes them fulfill a racial type: sympathetic, penitent, long-suffering Christians. They're treated more as people than as property, but more as caricatures than as people.

The interesting contradiction of UTC, to me, is that it had this enormous significance to history despite being terribly written. As a modern reader, I couldn't get any emotion about the book other than it being terrible. James Baldwin trashes the book brutally but fairly in his great essay "Everybody's Protest Novel": http://www.uhu.es/antonia.dominguez/semnorteamericana/protes...
Any idea if this will be ported into the typically gimped UIWebView?
Listen to this guy. If you let the job push you around you are the problem: you must engage with others in your tribe and interest them in the tools and techniques that you wish to use and learn. Even if the company is change adverse over time they will listen to the value you bring.

That said, picking a company should have very little to do with their technology stack and everything to do with the people that you work with. Find out about them: (a) do you respect them? (b) are they intelligent? (c) are they open-minded? (d) are they engaged in learning new things?
Here is an interview with Marko and Peter that provides a good overview on "Applying Graph Analysis and Manipulation to Data Stores" (http://www.odbms.org/blog/2011/06/applying-graph-analysis-an...).
Publishing results in:
- Loopt getting subscribers to its list. That seems like a benefit to me.
- Merchant getting perceived as a discount brand. For many merchants, that's a negative.
- Merchant having to deal with customer inquiries about a deal they know nothing about. That's a negative.

It should also be noted that Loopt picked really high profile businesses like Bi-Rite and Ritual Coffee. These places usually have lines and don't have much need to run large discounts.

If Loopt had picked obscure businesses, it would make it easier to claim they weren't trying to benefit from the business's good name.
Spotify is only available in seven countries. I have access to neither :|
Maybe I misunderstood the article - I thought that Loopt was saying, "Get $15 worth of stuff for $10 at BusinessCo!" without actually getting BusinessCo to agree to this - in which case the analogy would be like offering to give away a brand new Nissan without actually having a Nissan, or even a car.
New to the BC currency, thanks for the resource.

Full list/info here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade
In theory, sure. But in practice, true DC doesn't exist. All signals will have some components at frequencies other than DC and quite often in electronics design these components are the most important to consider, especially if your planning for your product to pass FCC part 15.
These aren't the same thing. When "Bob's Plumbing and Heat" run a promotion and say "Win a Toyota Camry!", no reasonable person would presume that Toyota endorses or is otherwise affiliated with Bob.

Now let's look at what the Loopt UI looked like:

1 - It's presented in a way that's extremely similar to what all of the other group-buying websites look like. Which is to say, a reasonable person can easily confuse this for a deal from an affiliate (Groupon-style)

2 - The bullet points do not do anything to dissuade this. In fact, nowhere on Mr. Agrawal's screenshot does the website mention that the merchant must approve the deal.

3 - In fact, there is nothing on the page that would indicate to a user that this isn't the standard group-buying affiliate-deal we're all used to seeing. There's not even messaging in the vein of "Tell Bi-Rite you want to see this deal!" that might defuse confusion.

So it really comes down to reasonable interpretations. When a reasonable internet user, who has heard of Groupon, LivingSocial, et al, sees this Loopt UI - would it be reasonable for him/her to perceive a affiliation or endorsement for Loopt from the merchant?

Personally, I'm leaning towards "probably". Had the user base of HN not been tipped to the business model prior to seeing the feature, I would expect much confusion even from our seasoned web-guru user base.
Who knows your password?
You don't think that instability contributed to the ending of feudalism?
The point is that solving one problem feels attainable, but having dozens of problems just makes you feel hopeless and resigned.
LulzSec: 50 Days of Lulz statement
I share your disgust. Personally, I have a real problem with academics or journalists who go on a junket to a third world country and act like the people around them are animals in some zoo.

Look at any western family for a similar period of time and no doubt you will spot all sorts of bizarre dysfunctions or irrational behavior, regardless of wealth.

People are people.
It's been speculated, perhaps determined, that kava can challenge the liver. (I'm recalling particularly a flurry of press, oh, 5 - 10 years ago.) If the grandparent poster is recovering from inflammation (and a possible infection?), they should exercise due caution with respect to use of kava.
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1:03:30 is great: Jobs about mobile devices: "if you do email, you need a keyboard". Guess the iPhone wasn't on his list of future plans yet.
"Consequently, this means that you will receive no value in respect of any of the shares underlying your Options."

I don't really see how that's ambiguous... I mean, I think Skype and their investors have behaved like total assholes, but the guy did sign a contract which explicitly told him what would happen.
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You should also check the clocks on all the machines involved. Kerberos is quite finicky when the time between machines starts drifting.
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Is that in any way material?
why do you need to invoke calories? cooked food is tastier than raw food (okay, that could be an evolutionary bribe to cook your food, but i doubt it given the time scales involved). likewise, tv is a cheap form of entertainment, and requires very little energy to watch (energy that might not be left, after a hard day, for more involved pursuits).
Running long distances and surfing are each a thousand times better than alcohol, addicting, and will change your life for the better instead of for the worse.
I'm curious about this as well. I wonder how effective it would be at building a strong home cheaply.
Loopt getting subscribers to its list. That seems like a benefit to me.

But not a net benefit. Unless this is sustainable, it will have been a very expensive way to collect email addresses.
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Your parentheses seem to imply that the OpenBSD team only started PF, and then let go of development, which isn't the case at all. The OpenBSD team is still the lead developer of PF, and FreeBSD sources changes from "The Source". To the best of my knowledge, there are no notable PF forks around from which the OpenBSD team can, or ever have sourced changes from, but I'd be happy to learn otherwise if you have any accounts to share.
The torrent appears to contain hacked personal data from:

* EA (Battlefield Heroes)
* Hackforums.net
* Nato-bookshop.org
* Misc other forums

The first of these purports to be 200K+ users.
I'm well aware of the Priceline model. I've booked hundreds of room nights using Priceline -- in fact, I'm staying at a hotel I Pricelined right now.

The difference between Priceline and what you're doing is that Priceline has already established relationships with hotels. They have the ability to fill demand that meets certain criteria.

You don't have the ability to fill demand for the product you're advertising. Now, if Loopt were willing to pay the difference out of its own pockets (as some daily deal vendors do), that's another story.

Even then, you've got a trademark infringement issue.
"Children previously from lower-income families had only a 1% chance of having an income that ranks in the top 5%"

That phrase is almost devoid of content. In the extreme, both that statistic and

"Children previously from lower-income families had a
90% chance of having an income that ranks in the top
25%"

could be true. I would be surprised if that was the case, but I couldn't find the data to proof that in that link you posted, either. What I would like to see is the distribution of upward/downward mobility.
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And, there were other witnesses without video equipment who were not arrested. Why weren't the police afraid of them?
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I had a very visceral reaction to reading that YC had dirty money from spammers, but to be fair there's a much longer list of startups they've funded who are not airbnb-type scum (at least that we know of).
It was shut down by the hosting company for nothing illegal. It was just one of those - we had something very specific in our terms which you didn't read - type of things.

Nothing like gambling or illegal or porn or anything. Just a minor technicality.

I find it interesting that you would attack me or to be precise assume that I'm supporting Bob Parsons' ethical or moral fiber.

All I'm saying is -> Good strategy is good strategy.

It seems to you like a platitude. It seems to this billionaire like reality.

Perhaps you should try it before you write it off.

Besides, the stuff he writes aren't fortune cooke type generalisms. When you most want to quit is usually when you are closest to success - that's a remarkably accurate statement.

Look back at your own life and if you've mastered any skills you'll see the truth in it.

Seriously, try to imagine what you would think of the points if they were written by someone who fell into your 'good person' bucket and think about whether they hold true or not.
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Also of note, AOL and AT&T data. AT&T's rar is 329.9 MB.
Quitting or rebranding is the question I find myself asking.
Tell me. Is defending your betters on a internet form likely to make you more rich? Are you making a good choice by wasting time on hacker news? or one that is likely to leave you in your current financial position?

From your comment history, I'd guess you are no more wealthy than I am, and much like me, you are not significantly more wealthy than your parents. Of course, this is just a guess based on little information, but the self-made rich people I know? they do rather than talking about doing.

It's actually fairly rare for people to change from their parent's class. Heck, most of the 'super rich' success stories are people who come from rich parents becoming super rich; I mean, I don't want to disparage Bill Gates achievements; but you need to recognize that he started with parents who could afford to send him to Harvard.

I mean, I think most people agree that a conscientious and hard working person can better their economic situation, but I don't think it's as cut and dried as you seem to think it is. First, going from middle class to upper class requires very different skills than going from abject poverty to the low end of working class and from there to middle class.

It's interesting, 'cause I've lived most of my life as an upper middle class person, but for the last few years I've been living on a working-class salary, as I'm trying to get my business of the ground. It's very different, and I can see how someone who wasn't particularly punctual about, saying, paying bills or tickets on time (something that doesn't matter at all as a sysadmin with a six figure salary) could easily get over their head on a working-class salary. Really, I'd be having a very hard time of it if I didn't have the business with it's reasonably large cashflow to give me a 'bonus' when I get into a really tight spot.
That quote is from a letter from Skype's lawyer sent after the fact — that is not the contract language Lee agreed to.
Glad to know it's on your radar :-) I sympathize with the 37signals attitude to piling on features but this is really more sanding off a speed bump.
oooh man. I had the pancreas thing blow up on me once. They told me to stop drinking. Which obviously...I didn't do. If you aren't into pot or anything, it's not much fun.

What I blame it on, though, was living in South American and drinking a lot of really cheap local wisky. After my Kermit the Frog - green week from hell barfing, I stopped drinking hard booze; stopped everything for about 3 weeks, then slowly started with beer again. And now, I only drink beer. It hasn't come back for the last 4 years. I try to keep it to 6-9 beers a night (4-6 for the first year afterwards). I can't guarantee the same results for you.

On a short term basis I'd recommend taking one Xanax, one Vicodin and 1-2 beers, as that won't cause another pancreatitis attack and it pretty well mimics the effect of a twelve pack. If you're one of the 19-drinks-a-night crowd though, I'd suggest treatment because nothing is going to fix it without almost killing you.

Party on, amigo.