skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also an endless number of people trying to kill you. Not to mention that - while Genghis Khan's religion isn't known - it was probably either Shamanism or Tengriism, and he was "interested in learning philosophical and moral lessons from other religions. To do so, he consulted Buddhist monks, Muslims, Christian missionaries, and the Taoist monk Qiu Chuji."[1] So you're operating under an "idealized" view of his life. And that's without even getting into the misogyny that your opinion reveals.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan#Religion
Well I would like to have my phone number online on as few services as possible.
In particular if I have no chance to change anything about it
Probably a better headline is something like "People moderately surprised at something that sorta makes sense after a reminder".
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Many, many people use tax-deductable donations to do just this. Soo...this is already done. To make it done more, there should be non-profits. Non-profit insurance organizations, non-profit post, mail, private schools. Seriously, just encourage more people to donate, rather than be taxed. Of course, this won't solve the government's problem, because the government is intentionally expansionary.
Personally, I really like Austrians.

Mises.org is a good place to start in that regard.
I'm pretty sure I said no when that happened, and I can't find a setting anywhere, yet that page definitely has numbers that weren't put on Facebook by the owner. I wonder if the HTC Facebook integration (I have a Droid Incredible, and I knew that there was phonebook integration in the other direction--friends show up in my phonebook if their number is on facebook even if I've never directly added them). It's possible that they either automatically did the sync or asked in a not very clear way when I first set up my phone and was dying to click through all the prompts so I could use it.
I'm not sure if you're saying that this shows the problem to be solved, or that it shows just how unsolved the problem is...
Show close window warning when closing the last window - STILL Not FIXED
VAT is a sales tax, so it is not charged on exports outside the EU. It might technically be a rebate but it is not a subsidy.

Not sure about the extent of real subsidies.
I think part of the winning formula in this case was that it's relevant to HN - (HN readers are the demo for DomainPolish). I wrote the article because I thought it was a cool service, I never expected anyone to read it.

I wrote the whole post in 15 minutes, it was a stream of thought that turned out to be relavent to the community.
Environment plays a huge role in the development and maintenance of IQ. And socioeconomic status (SES) can greatly affect the conduciveness of a child's environment to fostering IQ development. Accordingly, since more and more children are being born into low-SES households, it isn't surprising to see average IQ scores in decline.

Consider the following tidbit from the most recent national census: 50% of all babies born in the country right now are born into low-SES households (as defined as households dependent on governmental assistance, like food stamps). Forty-one percent of all babies born in the country are born to unmarried mothers (single-mother households being highly correlated with low SES).

The conclusion isn't that our generations are getting dumber, per se; it's that our generations are being born into poorer and poorer households. And the deck is pretty significantly stacked against someone born into a low-SES household.

Now, there's debate about causality in all of this, i.e., whether the existing population is actually getting poorer, or whether the poor are simply outbreeding the well-off. Based on census data, it seems to be a little of column A, and perhaps a bit more of column B. Either way, the younger generations are starting off on worse footing. And that leads to lower IQ scores and decreased future prospects.
There are a couple of reasons why other startups are not using asp.net.

1) The opensource community for .net is quite limited compared to other languages/frameworks

2) Some people have an aversion for anything from MS (this affects hiring)

3) You are locked on the Windows platform (anyone still considering Mono?)

4) Costs, the Windows platform and the .net eco system are built around licensed components.

Performance or productivity are rarely an issue. If you don't see yourself in the concerns mentioned above, go for it!
There is a Firefox extension that allows you to edit any text field with any text editor. I forget the name, but a quick Google search should reveal something.
Thanks for talking about AppHarbor in your blog post. I'm developing an MVC 3 site and planned on deploying it on AppHarbor and was always curious how well it worked.
Learn to code yourself.

If you are in high school you are between the ages of 14 and 18.

If you follow the Malcolm Gladwell theory of 10,000 hours/10 years of practice makes you an expert, then by the time you are 24-28 you will be an expert at hacking and the world will be your oyster, for reals.

Along the way you will learning by doing and building startups.

Don't waste the money to outsource.

Follow: http://krainboltgreene.heroku.com/log/2

Build the Selfey prototype yourself, this will do two things:
1) you won't have to pay a developer to do it for you and all the tools are free.
2) good developers will see your effort and will more likely be attracted to your project.

Do it and don't look back.
The Great Stagnation - http://www.amazon.com/Great-Stagnation-Low-Hanging-Eventuall...

We've picked all the low hanging fruit - in technology and resources.

Our cars haven't really change much in 100 years. Same basic engine, just added computers (we did that in the _1970'_).

We're only incrementally improving technology (cars with navigation).

Our current innovations (Twitter, FB, Google) don't produce many jobs and in fact reduce number of jobs. People will spend the night on FB vs going out to dinner, a movie, etc. You don't need to go out to cure boredom/socialize.

Also, Social websites don't produce much commercial activity (compared to say the automakers building Detroit into a first tier city in the last century).

We're patenting one click check outs, but we haven't found a good (economical at scale) replacement for the major components of our economy - e.g. the internal combustion engine and fossil fuels.

The US has has an abundance of cheap land an resources PLUS the country was lucky enough to grow up in the industrial revolution when technical innovation was relatively easy and world changing (compared to now where it's much more incremental).

We're going to stagnate until someone (US,Chinese,Indian,other) makes some big leaps in alternative energy and other advanced technology.

Web apps aren't going fix our economic problems (however useful they are).
Maybe not their hammers but I can see a real craftsman fussing over his lathe and chisels to make sure the edges are sharp and even. Tools do matter and they shouldn't frustrate you.

I don't want to get caught up in the analogy though, your larger point definitely stands. If .NET allows you to focus on the important stuff and is productive then it's a great tool.

A useful tool needs to do one thing: get the job done. If it gets the job done without pissing me off then I consider it a good tool. Not pissing me off is a vastly important quality for me, probably for most others.
Too subtle, I guess.
"I find the CLI to be faster, easier to understand, easier to integrate, more scalable, more portable, more sustainable, more consistent, and many, many times more flexible ... that’s a bold series of claims"

besides "easier to understand" (which depends on an individual's experience and knowledge) I thought those were pretty much acknowledged / obvious. Not bold at all.

no?
Blood Soaked Eyes - Photoshop Tutorial
Dear Google: The future of the living room is integrated
I used WordPress for my local startup
http://wiki.opennicproject.org/ClosestT2Servers won't log your requests
Are You Guilty If Pirates Use Your Internet? Lawyer Says No
The problem was that all cabling had to be done underground at our place, and phone lines were the only thing we had in abundance. Coax, fibre, anything else basically meant busting up a path to the road in a major urban area. Plus it was the middle of winter which makes road work even harder.

Not every internet provider realised this immediately. We started down the path to better internet a lot of times with companies that said "no problem, we can get a wire to your building just fine" -- and then backed down weeks later when they saw our situation.

After one or two of these delays, we applied the shotgun approach, asking every single internet provider to give us an estimate all at once, to make the delays concurrent rather than successive. Every last one came back negative, or just stopped returning our calls(!). So Potato was my response to our complete lack of options.

The multiple IPs thing was an issue for some sites, but it turned out to work fine in general. If there was a site that really had a problem with it, it was also typically a low volume site, and didn't need heavy load balancing. So we had one of our proxies set up to not be balanced and just pick a single working link, and used that for those sites.
Reading this comment, I thought that the 2,000 to 5,000 year claim was complete rubbish. Turns out that it's not, which is a bit surprising - it's supported solely by computer models at this point, not genetic evidence, and is probably contradicted by groups that were not interbreeding at the right times, but still.

http://tedlab.mit.edu/~dr/Papers/Rohde-MRCA-two.pdf
Since when are submissions requiring me to register or sign in ok on HN? Flagged.

If you wanted to make some point by posting this link you should have written your thoughts down somewhere and linked to that instead.
This is actually a pretty well accepted theory that's been around for a while.
> 10.3-inch screen is too big to hold securely in one hand while using the other hand to input "gestures"

I disagree, must have bigger/stronger hands? 7" is too small to be usable and too big to be handy and is utterly worthless (to me).
I suppose this is what Apple had in mind with their object-oriented, drag-and-drop philosophy for the Mac: a GUI which would allow people to pipe things visually with as much ease as possible, reaching a compromise between the UNIX philosophy and their notion of software design as making things "magic."

Right now, the most impressive achievements (IMO, and YMMV) in that arena come from the Plan 9 community, which is still a far cry from lay person's usage (partly because the Plan 9 community seems to pride itself—as a rule—for being a research OS community rather than the next blockbuster OS).
> Is it the cost? Performance issues? Frustrating development environment? Lack of a Hacker community? They didn't learn it in their CS courses? All of the above?

I think you nailed it. But it's probably not that big a deal. In some cases it will help you find engineers and in others it will hinder. Overall, you will be less likely to attract HN types, which is not the end of the world.

I like some of the other comments about how it is overwhelmingly more important to "build something that people want" or "find customers".
I've done a startup that didn't go anywhere in .NET (Approver.com) and a startup that's getting traction in PHP with an MVC framework (CodeLesson).

I used to be a master of the universe with .NET (spoke at conferences and wrote a few books on web development with .NET). The fact that my prior startup used .NET didn't have any bearing on the fact that it flopped.

However, I went with PHP this time around because I knew I would have an easier time hiring people who know PHP, and this is proving to be the case.

In my .NET-based startup I did use MySQL instead of SQL Server as the data store, which helped us a lot this time around. Remember that the list price of SQL Server standard edition is $6,000 per CPU. This can be a pretty steep hit to a bootstrapping startup, discounts and programs like BizSpark notwithstanding.
Amazon Kindle Ebooks Store Coming Soon in Dick Smith, Big W and Woolworths 
Kindle being a most awaited today have been clarifying to arrive in short time for the future. The latest as recent sources have found that Dick Smith has advertised that the Amazon Kindle is going to hit the market in the category to Dick Smith and Big W stores in Australia - and also to Woolworth’s supermarkets.
i didn't get any audio, it just sat there, what am i missing? firefox 5.0.1 on a mac.
I like.
It appears Google released a command line tool that integrates with its services: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/
Why? The submitter's description was much better at letting me know something about the subject of the link.

The author chose that title for her audience. We are not her audience. We do not know she is a school teacher. To us, "Give 100 Percent" conveys something entirely different than to her audience.
Shared Decision-Making Is Better Than Solo
you've just shown the fail that is GUI.
alt tab and copy paste seriously?

command line mail clients dont need any of that. you edit it in vim and send it from vim. or you edit it from your email client THROUGH wim and send it also directly.

No utterly long key combo. No app switching. No delay. No complexity. No cut-and-paste.

That is the actual point.
Consider SVG, in particular RaphealJS
It's only available if you sinced your phonebook with Facebook, there's no automatic sync (yet).
I think https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Integrated_de... are making programmers dumber
I have my number in Facebook, but my friends dont see it (I checked) so this happens only for people who actively published their phone number, or a 'friend' did it for them.
supress emacs and itll feel right

Sent from my VIM.
Facebook only has phone numbers posted by my friends themselves and my Windows Phone syncs my Facebook contacts. Bi-directional sync of your phone's contacts back to Facebook appears to be an iOS/Android only thing.
I understand this point of view, but at the end of the day, government policy needs to be based on what's going to work out the best for the public. It perhaps goes without saying that there are more than two approaches, but yours is one that I think we can rule out logically.

Psychologically, does it work? In general, if you tell a 22-year-old that in 40-something years he's going to really need some of the money he's making now (even if he feels like he's barely paying his bills), that he absolutely must set aside enough (and invest it wisely, assuming he has the wisdom to do so), will he manage to do it?

From what I understand of human psychology, the answer isn't "yes" nearly enough to make your solution palatable.

It sets up a good learning experience for him when he finally gets to retirement age and finds himself as a greeter in Walmart, but it's way, way too late at that point.

No one wore seatbelts before they were legally required (and still many don't, and many still die because of that dumb decision). People don't, as a rule, have a good grasp of the distant future and/or events that seem unlikely. How many people are still starting smoking, even though it says "cigarettes kill" in big black letters on that first pack they buy?

There are plenty of problems with the US social security system, but removing the safety net entirely to teach a lesson to people who fail to adequately prepare for their old age doesn't feel like a sound approach to me.
This is the beginning of the end of the dollar as the worlds reserve currency, its bad for the rest of the world and only good for the US, its imbalanced.

I am not so sure most Americans are ready for what the world will be like when it happens, because unless the need for a regular deficit is reduced and reliance for imported oil curbed, it will be very painful indeed.
How do I know if I'm improving the map?
I don't think anyone wants a monopolist (a part from the monopolist itself). The most dangerous in the mobile space able to gain (regain?) a monopoly is Apple.

Google seams far less dangerous to me, just build on android (the open source project) and google monopoly can (thoretically) be broken... am I too naive?
[T]here are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
Programming Praxis[1] is a site that has been constantly updated with these kind of exercises.

[1] - http://programmingpraxis.com/
The problem is that DSL around here is PPP over Ethernet, rather than just plain Ethernet. So there's no MII, no ARP, no regular ethernet link bonding. It's hard to escape PPPoE for DSL around here due to phone company politics.

The type of bonding I talked about in the article was all PPP link bonding, which apparently still has a lot of issues to work out in Linux. Our two-line bond was pretty unreliable, and our attempts at a three-line bond ended up with a lot of return packets going nowhere. Didn't matter which lines we picked, either.
whats wrong with Mono? Its a very good platform and has survived the Novell buyout shenanigans.
Home Security Systems Basics
The newly unveiled DIY home security systems make much sense especially in those trying times when burglars are raiding homes. Their advantage is that you don’t have to spend extra coins hiring an electrician to do the job for you; you can easily manage to figure it out by yourself. Due to the wide variety of both wireless and wired alarm systems on the market, you are certain to find one that fits your expectations.
As someone with a severe visual impairment, I use the command line as much as possible. It's easier to see and there is less I need to see. If I can type a command instead of having to hunt for a button, it means I can work that much faster and anything I'm looking at will be text, uncluttered, and high contrast.

From the command line, I can navigate the filesystem, install software, search, edit text, download files, play music, and send email all without even looking at the monitor. Once you're comfortable with it, you can just close your eyes and let your brain and your fingers do all of the work.
So what do we do with people at the end of their working years, who, through bad luck or bad design, ended up with nothing. Do we stand by and let them suffer and die?
Financial consultant here. I use Haskell for this kind of thing.

In the event that I need a visual prototype to work with, together with a client or business partner, I don't think it's all that horrible to prototype something in Excel, and later port it to Haskell if necessary. But that's of course because I already, at some point, reinvented the wheel to make this possible. So now I'm mostly just reusing code which I already have available.
Are you Facebook friends with your wife's younger sister's dumb drunk friends? If not, then they won't get suggestions on their photo uploads.
Besides using yank/paste keyboard shortcuts, you can always use screen or tmux copy mode. If you need the output of a command sent to the clipboard, there's several ways, xclip is one of them.
It's in the README on the linked github page:
Press S to start and stop the visualisation
Press A to toggle the audio controls

Agreed, though, it's not clear what to do once you're on the demo page.

I was hoping it would just connect to whatever audio I have going (pandora, say). But I realize it's an early demo.
So you want to be a douchebaguette?
They are insecure, fearful people who respond to the crazy message that's being sold.

I wonder if the powers that be have been purposefully trying to jam media with lots of spurious messages about, "The Truth Behind The Lies," most of which are structurally similar to actual such messages, but otherwise are just junk.

you get these large flocks of people attracted to the personality of the leadership of their church, but there's no doctrinal basis.

Really, this sort of thing isn't that unusual. In places in the US like Cincinnati, with large populations having immigrated generations ago from Ireland, Germany, and Eastern Europe, you have large numbers of people who call themselves "Cultural Catholics." Do they agree with all of the doctrine of the Catholic Church? Heck, a quite a number of them disagree with most of it. Attendance at mass is really just one way they identify their group.

Given that much of the motivation for religious practice is really group affiliation, it's no wonder there's a lot of it organized around personalities.
Incidentally, effect check is quite cool. It's a weak suggestion, but I'd look at bringing the "live demo" call to action to a more prominent homepage location. I had to search around a bit to find out what exactly was going on and how it worked, and once I did it was easy to use and kind of cool.
Fine is never enough.
There's a lot more details about Storm on the actual announcement: http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/08/storm-is-coming-more-...

If you have any questions about Storm, feel free to ask me here or on the Google group (http://groups.google.com/group/storm-user).
The only transformation comparable to the present phenomenon would be the migration from rural (farming) to urban factory settings that accumulated full force about a century ago. And it was a period that was marked with great tribulations and social and culture shattering apart -- immigrant labor, worker rights, great depression, altering of government social contract (i.e., New Deal), etc.…

The current technology revolution is even more overarching -- yes, there are new jobs being created, but at a fraction of the existing job base. This is not just a "claim" -- it's verifiable fact that can be easily concluded by perusing corporate employment ranks (GM used to employ nearly 1M workers -- contrast that to a modern internet company or even modern corporation which have been diminishing in employment ranks since the 90s). Review the government Labor department jobs reports -- most of the jobs created (outside of health care) are the kinds of jobs easily replaced by robotics / automation. The only damper that prevents a greater rate of transformation is the inexhaustible supply of cheap labor -- the presence of a humans willing to work at fraction of another, a seemingly bottomless pool. Might not be relevant for skilled jobs (though it is, at a lesser degree -- non immigrant visa workers supplanting American programmers for instance -- note that I am not making a case against immigration, just that immigration does have an economic effect on native workers).

See [Robotic Nation](http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm) for a good summation of this -- yes, productivity and efficiency rise at an aggregate level, but the benefits do not accrue equally to all.
Lewrockwell.com is a correlary to Mises.org.
The focus there is on non-technical commentary, where LvMI is more scholarly.

There are thousands of media files, audio, video, and e-book, on every imaginable topic.
My first recommendation would be to read the best intro to "intuitive economics" ever: Henry Hazlitt's "ECONOMICS IN ONE LESSON"
Here's an introduction to it
http://mises.org/daily/3000
The true shame is not loosing some arbitrary rating from some arbitrary organization, but that this action still matters even after said organization was shown, conclusively, to behave in a completely arbitrary and ultimately self-serving way.