skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not surprising. Many of these players come from a lower class background where financial literacy is not taught to them. They likely got through school with the minimum of effort, protected by coaches, teachers, and administrators because they "were good ball players". If they went to college, it was on a basketball scholarship where their preferential treatment would continue.

In short, they've never had to think about anything besides basketball. They go from rags to riches without anyone telling them the obvious: it won't last. Their heroes spend big money on flashy cars and houses, and when you're staring at a seven figure cheque that might seem like a good idea.

They likely grew up in a household where their parents lived paycheque to paycheque, and simply being able to provide for yourself and afford luxuries was considered being smart with your money. They probably thought of their houses and cars as investments, because thinking of them as million dollar wasteful extravagances is depressing. They wouldn't have made the connection that an investment is not something that's expensive, it's something that makes you money.

The average NBA player is raised to play basketball, and that's it. They end up being very good at basketball, and little else. If they are amongst the small cadre who think about life after basketball, then they likely won't be broke. It doesn't even take any special knowledge to be able to live well off $100M in career earnings. They just need to go to a financial adviser and have someone else look after their money. But they don't.
Looks like there's some cool technology here, but I'm not sure why it has to spin up a new server.
I can see this being useful if you do want to pair-code though I still see pair coding as clunky, especially since only one person will be editing the file at a time anyway.
I have seen this article referenced rather often, and I really have a problem with it. Despite being called "Singleton Considered Stupid," much of the article is not about singletons at all, and he barely addresses why singletons are bad. The actual arguments, buried 3/4 of the way into the article, boil down to a) resource/memory management problems, and b) that in the future, you might possibly need more than one object of anything you decide to make a singleton. (He mentions multithreading too, but that is just silly; e.g. even if I had multiple Log objects, there would need to be synchronization at some point if I'm outputting to the same stream). He writes numerous times that it's bad OOP, or "OOP made easy," because it is too much like procedural programming, but only mentions the factory-method pattern as an alternative at the very end of the article, and doesn't actually say WHY it's better. The necessity for, or at least temptation of global state is not even mentioned.
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It would be just as esy to just throw out the data you collect from that user agent
Understandable. I don't have anything nice to say about software patents either.
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that I don't understand either. You can do the same thing on your own machine, just add a user and tmux there, where you have the current code base up and running.
The full title includes twitter, but I think its pretty misleading as I highly doubt that graph includes desktop or mobile application usage.
> 5 years from now, it won't be a windows world. Consumers will be spending most of their time using iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile devices.

That sounds about right, except what is Windows Mobile doing there? It's a pretty tight race for third place, and I wouldn't bet on Microsoft there.
Maybe it isn't common knowledge, but I remember people making those claims from the start; that Wii is about as powerful as two GameCubes lashed together.
That's cool. This video is pretty neat too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl6lZbyLkzs
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More on said problems:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo8v7juSgRw#t=54m55s

"The machine is a beautiful, wonderful piece of hardware. The orbiter system, the most complex system ever built by man to fly has never [...] had a failure that would have prevented that machine from landing safely."
"Most NBA players are scouted from very early on (AAU), then to college for 1 year, then to NBA." This is completely untrue. Players that go to the NBA one year out of college are the exception and not the rule.
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You're addressing something different. I interpret the grandparent as "this study tells us what was intuitively obvious" which is hindsight bias.
Thanks for the heads up. I'm over in Spring Hill. I've been here for almost 6 years and never had the chance to get over to the coast and see a launch. Now that the shuttle program has come to an end, I'm really disappointed I never made the time.
Who would you bet on? The only other players are RIM/Blackberry and WebOS and I am not too sure how well they will hold up.
> Led Zeppelin doesn't tour anymore. They should
> still be making money from their copyrighted material.

Why? What's wrong with a hard 20-year cut-off? It's not like they would lose copyright on newly created merchandise, just on their older recordings. If they really wanted to, they could compensate for the lack of copyright on the older recordings by re-recording.

> Obviously, though, very little of what we're talking
> about in this discussion is 70 years old

The Birthday Song is a good example of something that doesn't need to be under copyright anymore.
I wondered what had happened to it! Thank you a lot for your input.

I am - of course in a business sense - very interested in raising my market value to my current (and future employers), and am always looking for ways to enhance it.
Maybe I'm missing it, but where is the article? All I see is a slide show about 15 athletes that have gone broke. Google didn't return anything recent. Can somebody reply with the link?
It operates on JVM bytecode, not on java source code.
I did something similar, in Oracle and PostgreSQL, for a governmental entity. Its main purpose was to perform data fusion, where a set of not so dissimilar records represented the same person in several heterogeneous data sources. It was fun, because the concepts involved, but not so much because the syntactic sugar of the sql involved.

It's great to now have this in python.
This is pretty neat. Maybe I'm just bad at CTRL+F but what tool(s) were used to produce this?

EDIT: I assume it was http://code.google.com/p/codeswarm/
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The GitHub integration is a nice touch!
I'm talking about mathematical truths for which establishing non-existence follows directly from proving a positive assertion, not that white ravens don't exist.
Cobras .. Coming soon to a bitcoin analogy near you.
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I don't think their English would need to be on an A level, but at least enough to communicate their idea across to the panel. It really depends on how much of an issue it is- if they can't even begin to communicate without stuttering, then I don't think it'll work out very well.
#1 may be satisfied by third parties, if the iCade is a sign of things to come: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWKcnwlKzko
contribute to an open source project that does something you like, but not quite good enough.
You could do the same thing with mongodb and 'capped collections' although aging the data like rrd would require mongodb to have a callback for when the capped collection is full.
Some projects are self-contained, and for those you don't need any supporting infrastructure outside the runtime of your language. But once you start dealing with _systems_ where it's very particular about the specific version/configuration of the database or message queueing system, it's much less error-prone to have that automated. For that you need control of a whole machine, virtual or not.

I wrote a blog post about a similar approach applied to local VMs: http://technomancy.us/150
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I've been waiting for this for a long time. I think that the tactile feedback is the main thing holding back touchscreen keyboards from competing with hardware keyboards, for instance. Having this in a tablet would, I expect, make it much easier to type blind if I wanted, or to find buttons when I'm distracted with something else.
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Some brief thoughts from a researcher turned programmer.

1) At first glance, I'm having trouble discerning what this might be used for or who its targeted to. Every discipline has different terminology, so I imagine what might work for Chemists might not work for Engineers. In our lab, we didn't have very many chemicals, but we had certain instruments setup with finite lifetime values.

2) Also at first glance, I thought this was a lab notebook replacement or supplement. Now that would have been awesome. Going back over my _many_ pages of notes over the years was a pain in the ass, especially when it came down to writing proposals and papers. I'm sure there is a huge opportunity in digitizing this to make lab notes searchable, reference-able, more organized, and even more secure.

3) To reach students, I would suggest to hitting up large conferences. If you're based in SF you're in luck because most of the big conferences my colleagues and I attended were in SF, NY, or Boston.
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You've mirrored my thoughts, and quite succinctly. However, I feel that it's not the media that is the seed of the manipulation but other geeks (through their blogs or comments on news.yc). Remember, the media lurks on sites like news.yc, picking up and amplifying trends for mass-market consumption. It's what makes News.YC so special, if not a little dangerous.
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What if it's not manipulation? What if it's passive "infection" with a meme?

People are much less in control of what they think, than they think. So to speak.
I read this article before it was cool to hate on Adbusters.
Thanks for the advice. I just now made a forrst, since they let you in if you have an active github.

Best of luck to you as well!
"but I don't see how an architecture that deviates significantly from the x86 norm could gain traction in this Windows world."

One possible way is that Linux quickly adapts to support it and gains a significant, un-ignorable performance advantage on the server side, forcing MS to step up and quickly support it as well. Basically, similar to happened with the transition to 64bit, must moreso.
Thread safety is the same whether you use a static instance or plain static methods. In fact with all static members you don't have to worry about synchronizing initialization of the singleton object which is often done wrong.

The only reason to use a singleton over static members is that it feels like OO. I suppose it also makes it easier to replace the singleton with a 'multiton' at some point in the future which somewhat justifies it.
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hmm... Interesting. Well we basically helps groups manage their orders and inventories, in decentralized settings like research labs. We started targeting life-science researchers, given our background, but we have seen some interesting uptake in unexpected verticals.

For example, the Traffic Directorate for the City of London is using Quartzy for managing their assets. So we decided to go with more general copy but it is important to be on message and we will tweak it to be more clear about who could benefit.
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"I submit that if you can't make a claim that something is hard to maintain, unreliable, hard to understand, incorrect, fragile, etc... then it is not bad design."

That's not really true either - it just means that the claimant probably lacks the experience to recognize whether or not it's bad design. Even people who are right for the wrong reasons can still be right.
Re: point #2: An electronic lab notebook system (that researchers will actually use) is, literally, the holy grail of laboratory informatics. This particular grail sits at the end of a road littered with the corpses of dozens of failed attempts; all either too complex, too simple, too hard to use, not generic enough, too generic, etc. etc. etc.

Someday, somebody'll figure out how to do it, and when they do, it'll be amazing... but I'm not placing any bets on when it might happen.
I completely disagree. Luck is important, but something that nobody, with any credible certainty, can put a meaningful number on. Just machine-gunning web apps and smartphone applications into the market until one gets enough traction to earn $1000 is a way to almost guarantee that none ever will.

I would argue that for almost any entrepreneurial venture in the software space, odds calculations, and attempting to put forth something with any semblance of prediction beyond a few weeks post-launch is a waste of time.
All I know is that I was so deathly bored in school that I stopped showing up. It got so bad that they threatened to expel me despite my protestations that I was maintaining high grades without even showing up to class, and getting scholarships.

Would I have excelled in a "gifted" program? Probably, provided the material wasn't so trivial, dull, and repetitive. Would everyone benefit from a significantly increased difficulty? I'm not so sure.

Holding students to a high standard, and taking time to engage with them such that you earn their respect will of course raise student performance. However, applying the word "gifted" en masse simply dilutes the earlier meaning of the word.
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For large data, I think it's much more convenient. On similar note : http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/09/09/us-safrica-pigeon-...
Maybe I'm being a hypersensitive brit, but "Fuzzy Wuzzy" is as a pretty offensive term in the UK.

See top entry: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fuzzy+wuzzy

Not to take anything away from the tech - that looks awesome and I can already think of a few uses for it.
Just to be clear, Quartzy is free for scientists to use. We want to close the gap between suppliers/manufacturers and scientists. So we are making money by hosting catalogs, running deals etc. Basically charging suppliers who have deep pockets instead of the scientists who are always strapped for resources.
Conferences (with swag, e.g. your coffee sleeves), mailing lists, Facebook. We all know how many hours per week grad students spend on Facebook... :-D
Yup. We feel the same way. Electronic Lab Notebooks are a daunting undertaking and we decided to tackle a problem that we knew we could make a dent in the first pass.
Hey Coryl,
I'm trying to build a product very similar to yours. Any chance I could send you an email to discuss further?
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Many interesting designs over the years appear and then faded. If they don't get distribution, nothing will happen.

As consumers are often saying today. "I don't want a tablet, I want an iPad"
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Definitely the way to go, especially given that Quartzy (or something like it) is essentially a necessary precondition for a useful electronic laboratory notebook system, so if you did decide to someday go there, you'd have some of the plumbing done already.
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There is a good reason for the thread per connection architecture and there is a good reason for the polling style arch. The latter being better for static content.
Are you asking what, as a player, I want in a game? Or what, as a dev, I'd want in an engine?
(that civilians know about :))
My wife is a lab manager and says "this won't work because my lab won't take the time to walk to a computer and enter information when they want to use a chemical."
So is the message you get if you try authenticating with GitHub without being in the private alpha.
Isn't it closer to 4 billion? Probably more, that we don't know about yet?

Edit: Sorry, 6 billion. Didn't mean to make you think 2 bil. people died.
When the British first started sending criminals to Australia, only 40% survived the journey. Measures such as 'increased standards' or paying more did nothing to increase this statistic.

Eventually the decided to pay per prisoner delivered alive and well, instead of paying in advance. Survival rate increased to over 98%

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/the-power-of-incenti...
I think we agree, but to elaborate; The point I'm making is that this shouldn't be the case (and needn't be a joke). I've raised funds from "friendly" sources a few times. In each case it's been made clear that the investor should be doing so doing so to make money. If they lose their money it's because they invested poorly, and it was their decision. They are asked to weigh up their other investment options such as the stockmarket and property and make a call.

If friends and family want to 'help out' then investing is probably not the vehicle. They should lend money. There's will be less upside for them but the debt will stand if the venture fails.
Any suggestions? I can't find any Python projects that look cool.
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Tim,

Almost all computers back then clocked off of a color burst.
Apple 2 for example.

Why?

Those crystals were super cheap compared to others.
Actually, the router/NAS and set-top-box are two separate devices.

And unfortunately the browser is crap. :-(
Both Verbling and Quartzy got TC coverage today, both are YC S11 startups I think, so I wonder why Quartzy got so much more attention than Verbling did.
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The same comment I leave every time this subject comes up again somewhere: it's already been built, it already has lots of users, it's already secure and anonymous: http://www.i2p2.de/
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This seems obvious to me. Why is it up for debate?
Quartzy should look into helping labs sell used lab equipment. It's hard to find a lab that doesn't have some good, functioning lab equipment that is no longer being used. They could set up an exchange that allows the trade or sale of equipment to other labs.
I asked the same thing on the blog but I thought I'd ask here as well.

Is there a better way to move a document to another collection with out inserting into the new collection and then deleting?

I am guessing it wouldn't be a straight move, youd actually have something like this in your document {collection_from: users, timestamp: now(), data: $moved_collection_data}
I understand that, but 'proving a negative' is philosophical shorthand for the latter rather than the former. You are just going to have to put up with the slight vagueness of the term.
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Ask HN: How to make sense of death in Rangers game?
So I just heard about a man dying while trying to catch a baseball in the Rangers game
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/baseball_fan_dies_after_falling_tBxB3Mtt970HuMkLKvVPlI

How does one make sense of these random nonsensical tragedies that happen in life?
I may be wrong, but I recall that the first Arcade Fire LP (Funeral) was recorded very cheaply. It's a very unique sounding record, in a good way.
My guess is as bad as yours, but it seems to me like they intend to make the change mostly invisible to the software layer.
> 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.

You're assuming that he's going to pay significant capital gains. He's not because he lives so cheap that he doesn't sell all that much. In other words, the capital gains rate is largely irrelevant to him.

While he lives cheap, he does like to win and increase the value of Berkshire. The capital gains tax rate does have an effect on the folks selling companies to Berkshire....

Buffet also advocates increasing the estate tax, which is a two-fer. Berkshire makes a lot of money selling insurance to help people with the estate tax. Berkshire also picks up companies because the inheritors can't pay said tax.

Meanwhile, he's arranged things so the bulk of his estate will never be taxed.
With AMD's support for GPUs under open-source? Their lack of support in the past (to the point of not even properly documenting their hardware) is not very encouraging.
The existing codebase, and the fact that I'm charging by the hour on a project who's budget is 3x initial estimates.

The site was, and still is, stuck at Rails 2.1.1. And, at the time, I was not using RVM or Bundler. Meanwhile, I was putting out fires on a daily base on a live system.

With Cucumber, I was unable to run even a simple feature against the codebase. I'd get an exception, fix it somehow, then get another. After 20 minutes of that, I started looking for other options.

And on top of that, I did not know the codebase: brand new project.

The quickest path to stable ground was Selenium IDE. Just hit the record button and start writing integration tests. I quickly gained enough confidence to change the underlying code. And I was working within a budget of only a couple thousand dollars a month.

What I've grown to love about Selenium, as opposed to Cucumber, is its complete separation from the site it's testing. An integration testing framework can take a long time to master; I'd rather 1) minimize that time, 2) learn a tool that can be applied to as wide a variety of projects as possible.
You're quite right, thanks
Guess there's not enough brits here for that to matter. It'd be a tad different if it started with an N.
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Hi
I have about 5 seperate websites owned by 5 people on different domains. I wanted to set up an adserver and establish a network of blogs. Has anyone done this before? If so any advice/pitfalls... I should know about. I was thinking about using OpenX and using the wordpress plugin to distribute the ads over the sites (they are all wordpress sites).

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> Do Something You Hate If You Have To, Otherwise You'll Starve;

You make a great point here... as I lift the pistol to my mouth.

The illusion of desperate survival is so pervasive it spans all class lines. Most people would consider trading modern convenience for a little labor or discomfort(say, washing dishes manually, or lawn care) to be a fate equal to desperate poverty.

This entitlement is truly fear, and it motivates otherwise capable entrepreneurs into a life of bland wage slavery. When starvation is invoked as a warning here, it is truthfully in regard to modern privilege. A warning that the service and maintenance of modern life will fall on the misguided consumer. If they should choose to be self sufficient on small income, they will have to learn how. A fate apparently worse than starvation. Fear motivates this attitude.
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What are the growth expectations for social networks?
This can't possibly be true. It may be true for home users and hobbyists, but people running business applications need screen real estate and a keyboard on which you can touch type. That's the Achilles heel of mobile, and it's not going away.
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