skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool. Not a big surprise. Take a person who is focused on playing sports, sports, sports, training, sports, and oh yea, training who also is poor, and shove money in their face the thing they will do is buy everything they could.

The problem is that most people didn't get the necessary financial education.

The bigger problem is that I doubt these people are very good at math and financial management so they probably ignored the warnings of "I need x dollars per year to sustain this life style, if I get fired tomorrow due to uncontrollable circumstances I am fucked". In the end lots of money needs investing. This is a problem for the middle class and even bigger for the upper.
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Good luck, that should get you started.
I had the same reaction. While somewhat pessimistic and possibly offensive toward some visitors, it distills the times found around the web in an eloquent, satirical manner.
While I prefer offensive and rotten humor, many would argue this type of remark defies all sorts of social media "how-to"s and guidelines for positive engagement yada yada.
Show HN: Realtime time tracking with Sinatra/Node.js/Redis
I know that there are a lot of time tracking tools out there but I wanted something super minimalist and developer-friendly so I built this:

https://timestreamapp.com

I’m curious what you guys think.
https://github.com/nicolasH/frankensteins/blob/master/___.sh...

You just grepped out each `echo` in the file instead of writing a usage() function? That's brilliant!
Reminds me of:

"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." — Friedrich von Hayek
I think people bash on them because they are so widely used, and they have messed up twice, both times very publicly. I love their service and continue to use it, but I am not impressed with their track record about security issues. Security is probably the biggest reason people will avoid offsite storage of their data.
I have been coded female, male, and androgynous depending on the writing sample. Oh HN, I would be coded as a man. In my fiction writing, I would be coded as a woman. In academic writing, I am coded as a man. In other non-fiction, I might be coded as a woman.

I am just saying that this is unreliable. Further, writing styles are a function of social construction, which break down in situations where this is a sensitive subject.
First thing in my head too
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Another large factor is that, often when athletes realize they need to save/invest money, they get scammed in bad investment deals. A shady businessman will hire a former athlete as a representative to sell risky investments to current athletes, who then lose tons of money even though they were just trying to invest their money for the future.
I agree with you. The problem is that the title of this article and many comments within (including the GP I was responding to), indicate that the casual market (smartphone gaming) will completely eclipse the hardcore market (console gaming).

That's the conclusion I'm arguing against.
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For those who prefer using Ruby, try the ruby bindings:

http://rubygems.org/gems/selenium-webdriver

Now wrap your tests in RSpec and you're good to go.
Wouldn't it be optimal to make the reward inversely proportional to the number of snakes turned in?

That way as the population goes down, snakes become harder to catch, thus more valuable dead than alive. It also makes "farming" a negative pressure, since it decreases the reward per unit.
HA! Most people don't think about the fact that buying McDonalds' food costs money, and so does download an episode of something legally. To them though, food has value, the episode is digital and thus free. Its a weird outlook on things.
You are probably right regarding email clients, I haven't actually used one since I switched to Gmail and Google Apps. I do count services like Gmail as email clients though, but I don't think any of them have S/MIME or PGP/GPG support out the box.

Last time I tried sending a GPG encrypted email through Gmail on windows, there was no simple way of doing it.
So I think the reason that people have a wide variety of interaction styles is that they all have their own niche where they can be useful as tools, and also contribute to the greater good. E.g. society would probably fall apart if no one was willing to be an asshole at least some of the time, even though people who are often assholes tend not to benefit personally from their behavior. (Perhaps this is proof that altruism exists.)

That said, I think you need to figure out what changes you want to make in society, and then be cognizant of how your style of communicating works together with what people are doing in order to choose situationally optimal strategies.
This isn't a language introduction, but after you learn it, I've written a bunch of posts at http://playwithlua.com, all about weekend-sized hacks in Lua.
Nice link.

TL;DR version - Cobras are a problem, pay a bounty for dead cobras, people start farming cobras to get the bounty. Kill of the bounty and at the end of the exercise you have more cobras than before.

If you do systems analysis, you see this as optimizing the wrong variable. What they wanted were "fewer cobras" but they expressed by asking for "cobra corpses."

The conundrum is identical to the logical fallacy of attempting to prove a negative statement. You can't articulate or measure a 'cobra void' so its hard to reward for it or incentivize it.

In such systems you can either adapt the system to be unaffected by the undesirable trait (hard to do with cobras, there is only so much anti-venom to go around) Or to establish negative incentives around the presence of cobras (say fining people where a cobra is found on their property).

The goal of course is understanding what is the desired state of the system and targeting an input that only amplifies that state and not some other state.
If you're a first time founder, just code it yourself. Spend some time learning how to code so you'll know how to sort through good and bad tech folks in the future.
I recommend Stripe as well. I am very happy with the integration process, the simplicity of the API, as well as their exceptional customer service.

There have been times during all random hours of the day and night when I have had a question and they have always gotten back to me promptly.

I triggered an error on their website one day and received an e-mail from them about 10 minutes later telling me a work around to avoid the problem and letting me know that they were in the process of pushing out a fix. A short time later I received another e-mail saying the fix was in place.
Its basically a microscope in a smartphone.

However, I see a few practical problems when these high end phone get distributed in Africa by some aid organization. Because an expensive high end phone is also a good gift. I hope they will maintain statistics of how many of these high end phones actually reach the medical centers. And how many of them remain in the med center after a year. Sometimes its better to just send a microscope that can not be used for anything else but blood samples.
My cats have a pretty good life :)
Is this really why people are returning to java??
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I initially did terribly in school. I often refused to do assignments or did them in a smart-alecky way, acted out violently, and became one of the principal's most frequent visitors.

In second grade, I entered the school's gifted program, and my academics improved greatly. Was it because of the quality of the instruction? No; it primarily consisted of hanging out with a few of the smarter kids in my year, playing computer games, and occasionally learning the names of Roman gods.

Of course, my problems did not disappear either; I still did not fit in with the kids who surrounded me over 90% of the time. It was not until I left my school district for a magnet program that my problems began to disappear and I began to develop ambition (and it still took some time to adjust).

I expect a lot of people will try to interpret these results to say that kids are smart because they went through a gifted program. For me, that's not what happened.3
There's another clause just above that that refers to another document which covers law enforcement.

BTW, DropBox is legally required to comply with a valid subpoena. The data on your computer requires a search warrant.
There would still be legislatures who's job is to propose and write laws, but the voting and passing of those laws could easily be shifted to the people instead of the same people that are writing the laws. This would further balance the power, and prevent the extreme amount of lobbying and special interest groups from controlling our laws.

I don't expect anybody to vote on all laws. It makes more sense for people to vote on the laws that are relevant/important to them. If I don't know anything about a certain issue, I shouldn't be voting on it anyway. This way, people would vote on issues relevant to them, and for people who don't care, then well, they don't care...
As long as it is not pay-pal. The company I work for, which shall remain nameless, had much of its staff "cannibalized" by pay-pal. One manager of mine mentioned to me he turned down an offer from pay-pal because of its total lack of security, he basically felt it would be unethical to work for pay-pal, given the total lack of attention to security of people's bank accounts that it had. So, not sure the answer to this one, but at least, from "inside" knowledge here, do not use pay-pal.
Reminds me of the story of archaeologists paying for bones. Which curiously became smaller and smaller with time.
In these arguments, its never concrete like that, because what people are fretting over is not actually about a particular metric, about revenue, etc. It's personal, and it's cultural. When someone says "casual games will take over console and pc games!" what they mean is "people's first impression of the word 'gaming' will be rewritten to point to a part of games culture that I don't like or participate in, which is troubling to me personally."
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It doesn't just happen to athletes. I saw the same thing happen in the high tech world during the dot-com bubble.
I would not be surprised if the recording costs have dropped precipitously since 2000.
I once had a job where I literally had no assignments to work on for weeks at a time, despite my nagging my manager about wanting something to do. I was all but paid to slack off.

My hypothesis of how this came about is (a) they hired me because there was a certain problem (involving one of those Perl scripts that gives Perl a bad name) they needed to solve; (b) once that problem was solved, they had trouble finding something else for me to do whose benefit outweighed the cost of bringing me up to speed on the codebase; (c) despite this inefficiency, no sensible middle-manager in a bureaucratic company will choose to reduce his or her own headcount.
Why not Scientific Linux? Or Debian? Or Ubuntu?
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I agree with you that learning to work hard is not a worthy goal on its own, but the praise effort vs ability debate isn't about encouraging a child to work hard but simply to praise them on what they have control over (their effort) vs their innate abilities.

That makes a lot more sense, and is actually pretty close to what I was getting at (that what's often considered "natural intelligence" is really the end result of a whole lot of hard work aimed at the process of learning instead of the material being learned, and that it's not productive to pretend that one can't influence it).
The article quotes a statement by the NBA Player's Association to that effect, but does not substantiate it. As far as can be determined by a Google search, no one ever corroborated the claim and since the Player's Association has a vested interest, I wouldn't trust the assertion.
Not a surprise at all. I have read many stories like this and the problem is that many of them come from poverty. They get money and they feel very guilty, so they give money to any friends or family that asks. This is why many have such huge entourages.

One player was paying rent for 15 of his friends. It wasn't some cheap place either, but at high rises in a big city.

He also paid for 20 cell phone bills, on top of buying house for his parents, brothers and sisters. Paying all the bills eating out with his close friends, paying for rides and flights.
How would a non-poisonous snake compete? It will have fewer predator defenses, and hunting for its prey will be very different, possibly harder. Wouldn't the poisonous snake out-compete it, unless it ends up in a different niche?
(And Dweck doesn't suggest praising poor results, as you suggest with your example "Great job, even though you did poorly on that math test you studied really hard!")

Hope this helps clear things up.

That absolutely does, thank you.

I've always bristled at the idea that poor results should be excused and rewarded as long as effort is expended, which is, on second reading, definitely not what she claims.
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Touche...

Deleting my post. Thanks!
Bismuth telluride is a compound of bismuth and tellurium. This would seem pedantic were it not for the fact that tellurium is rare as gold.

There's another tellurium-based pipe dream in the form of cadmium telluride solar cells, which have the lucky coincidence of being highly efficient and very cheap to manufacture. Unfortunately... rare as gold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth%... -- tellurium variously at 0.005, 0.001, and 0.001 ppm, and gold at 0.0011, 0.0031, and 0.004 ppm. So "similarly rare."

Friends don't let friends try to save the world with tellurium.
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He keeps saying that, but he also keeps railing on anyone who suggests that it has anything to do with HTML not being a regular language.
It would be difficult to find the right reduction function. If the reduction is too slow, the snake-breeders become a problem. If the reduction is too fast, there is no effect at all.
Link: https://timestreamapp.com
Do they wish that the Nexus S had an SD Card like I did?
In a well-managed company, you are paid for a business outcome. The amount of sweat you emit to achieve that business outcome has exactly one use for the company: a gauge of how high the bar for outcomes can be raised on you. It is not a gauge of how well you should be compensated. Those gauges aren't even labeled in the same language, and they're kept covered by an oily tarp.

There are any number of things you can do to lock in your current level of compensation while systematically lowering your effort. You can:

* Get faster at producing the outcomes the business is looking for; the easiest way to do this is often to examine your entire work product, spend cycles to isolate the bits that the company is actually valuing, and stop wasting time producing things the company doesn't truly value. A less effective but more time-honored (by geeks) approach to this strategy is "automation".

* Take steps to pivot your role in the company to one that produces outcomes the company values similarly to your current one, but that require less effort on your part.

* Take steps to gradually lower the bar on what's expected of you.

You didn't ask me, but I categorically disagree with the idea that hard work correlates to better pay in a typical company.
Pity there's no mention that RRDTool has been around for decades, pretty much stable. It's worth remembering that old tools aren't necessarily obsolete.
Just to mention another tool: For quick regression testing I found the iMacros for Firefox addon very easy to use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imacros-for-f...

I also like its ability to read CSV files out of the box ("table driven testing").
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I didn't know that a grammar featuring recursion can still be called a "regular" grammar if the language it describes is regular.

However, no regular grammar (not even a recursive regular grammar) can describe a recursive language.
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yes, and browsermob, and alertfox
This is just like the studies of lottery winners.

"Nearly one-third of lottery winners become bankrupt.

“The CFP Board made an offer to the National Association of State and Provincial Lotteries to provide the organization's members with information to distribute to winners. The Investment News article highlighted the lack of financial guidance many winners receive from state lottery agencies; estimates show that nearly one-third of lottery winners become bankrupt.”
Source: Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc
http://www.cfp-board.org/bulletin.html

more studies on lottery winners:
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id...
"... with limited capacity to adjust our behavior on the basis of reasoned morality."

We also have hard-wired general memory and reasoning faculties.

"We are not animals."

We are not base animals, to be sure. Neither are we angels of pure logic.
Safari is not going anywhere and I don't think it's been overlooked in the upcoming OSX release. You will see more and parts of OSX pulled out, stuck in the app store, and their release cycles decoupled form that of the core os.
I completely agree with all the other arguments you make here, which makes me re-evaluate my disagreement on this one. But I think my interpretation still holds up:

In 2010, Ottawa saw 27,446 property crimes, and 14 homicides[1]. In general, about half of murders are committed by a friend or family member[2]. So even if the other 7 murderers _all_ started out doing petty theft, there's still only 1 in 3,920 laptop thieves who's going to kill someone.

Now, as a high-falutin' tech blogger for whom laptops grow on trees, that still may be an unnacceptable risk/reward ratio for you. But if a laptop represented a more substantial investment, its value might begin to approach the value you personally would place on, say, 50 separate scuba dives. Which, at a death rate of 1 per 200,000 dives, is about where the risk evens out.

[1]http://www.ottawapolice.ca//Libraries/Publications/2009_-_20...
[2]http://www.ncjrs.gov/ovc_archives/nvaa/ch16hom.htm
Wasn't really joking or advocating it. Just a thought experiment on the thread we were on. I suppose the answer would have to wait a few hundred years after we initiated the experiment to see where it goes off the rails.

Another variable, you mention, is term of office. If voters only "remember 6 months back" then would having elections every 6 months instead of 2 years help?
http://www.quora.com/How-important-is-accurate-diagnosis-in-...
Ask HN: Recommendations for a San Francisco Bubble Tour
I spent the first great internet bubble in Austin, and I'm living in Seattle for whatever it is we are going through now. I'm planning on spending a few days in San Francisco to see some friends, but while I'm there I'd like to see what life is like for the techies down there. Naturally I'll be staying with someone from AirBNB, but do you have any advice on the relevant coffee shops, restaurants, night clubs, events, etc?
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Change the environment, change the person. It can be done en masse, though it's not as east. The reason the KIPP schools work, even though they take children randomly from extremely substandard environments, is that they completely control most aspects of the students lives. The school itself enforces a discipline that spreads like a contagion through the children from the start. In addition, they keep the kids there from 7 AM till 5-6 PM, before they go home, and for the most part keeps them in summer as well. So you can recreate this effect, but you need complete control from the top down, at least at the start.
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There's really no excuse for not using Time Machine on Mac. I think it's one-click setup (a yes/no dialog comes up the first time you plug in an external hdd to a fresh installation, if memory serves).

If you are afraid you won't be plugging an external hdd in enough, I think it's worth getting a Time Capsule (automatic Time Machine backup over wifi).
This is not going to happen, with current knowledge. Humans still possess creativity, which make them superior.

Machines will be performing more and more of dull work, that's for sure.
Honestly, I think my initial reaction was severely overstated. I know from personal experience that skilled engineers do learn differently than I do. It just continues to surprise me that they do :)

The other edge of the sword, though, is that I do see an ultimate limit to how much you can learn from tuorials, and I know several people who never acquired the skill of finding and learning from first sources, which saddens me.
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You should write a book on this mindset. Hell, i'd pre-order a copy now!
Good article, but have serious reservations as to if he knows the full extent of being a paperboy. That's a surprisingly hard job.
GSD doesn't only detect singletons; it detects four different types of global state, including singletons, hingletons, mingletons and fingletons

uhh, what are hingletons, mingletons and fingletons?
Oh yeah, publicly stating "other" is so much better =|
On the contrary he has called for increasing the capital gains tax precisely because he himself (and obviously others like him) pay such low effective marginal tax rates. He even took the time to calculate that he paid an effective 17% while his receptionist paid 30%, to criticize the effects of Bush-era capital gains tax cuts.

I don't know how much more clear it can be that this is not financial self-interest.
I believe you ll be hugely more motivated if you find yourself without a job for a while. It makes a difference, you are sort of forced to think and act faster (at least, it worked for me)
As someone who went through "gifted" class for a while, I disagree.

Those who are generally considered "gifted" tend to be good at one or a few things. However, each person is likely to be good at a different thing than someone else, so grouping all of these people into the same class can sometimes be pretty pointless.

If you want to maximize the utility of "gifted" students' time in class, you need to give them challenging (but possible) tasks, and then leave them alone.

Put the good teachers in charge of the average-but-gritty[0] students.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit_(personality_trait)