skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you weren't worried about a bubble, you ought to be now.
You learned to feel that you were entitled to be understood. Do you think Shakespeare sat around and whined that nobody understood him. Great minds do not let anything get in their way. You speak to your mediocrity.
thanks for posting this for no reason
First off, I didn't say anything about someone living on Mars, as in, moving there permanently. That may or may not happen -- in the long run, probable. I just bet that SpaceX is probably the lead contender for who's going to put the first human footprint on Mars. It will likely be their tech, anyway.

Secondly, I'm pretty sure there are people who would love to live on Mars. At least give it a shot. Yes, in purely practical terms, it has a lot of downsides. But so does Antarctica, and many people have travelled there and some people actually live there at least some duration.

Third, there's good reason to believe, based on past experience with similar efforts, that the net economic effect for folks back on Earth is going to be positive, due to the side effects and fallout from R&D breakthroughs and engineering optimizations. That's what happened with the US-Soviet space race and the Apollo program. Also, since we're talking about SpaceX, which is a private company, it's possible that some, though almost certainly not all, of their funding comes from non-government sources, including non-US sources. It will probably be a mix. Mr. Musk personally put in a lot of his own money, which he made privately, to bootstrap it.

Fifth, one argument for establishing a permanent human presence on Mars is so that humanity has at least one outpost off Earth. So that if some disaster happens with Earth, not all of our eggs were in one basket. Paying even $100m to buy that seems like a pretty cheap form of insurance. Much much greater sums get spent on say NFL football merchandise, or pop music albums, each year. And certainly a couple orders of magnitude more have been spent on US military operations in the last decade, most of which could be argued were unnecessary.

Ninthly, because I cannot count: there are likely many economic benefits to you, the US and the planet to both setting foot on Mars and creating a sustained outpost there, in terms of the follow-on effects of inspiration and imagination and ambition, especially in children and upcoming generations. Surely if we could tip even 1m more children world-wide over into eventually becoming engineers, scientists and inventors, rather than lawyers, accountants, brokers or rap stars, the whole of humanity would be better off, on the net.

Eleventhly, I have no eleventhly. :)
Yes I've discovered two fingers=right-click so now it's not so bad although I really miss middle clicking links to open them in a new tab instead of command+T or right-click (Apple Magic Mouse) then select open in a new tab.

It's like I tell people new to Linux that it's not Windows don't expect it to be like that so I should be telling myself Apple isn't like Linux even though they appear similar.

The applications seem to be made with single clicking in mind which would make sense considering Apple's fondness for single button mouses/mice and trackpads.

Overall the experience so far has been enjoyable, it's nice to learn new things.
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Exactly - at least for me. Emotion has to enter into it because it's about whether you're ready to move on when the money makes it a fairly close decision like this.
Just wanted to chime in and say that, as a job-seeker myself, I'm absolutely with you. Not getting a job sucks, but I can deal with that. Complete silence in the face of effort, however, is just offensive. Doubly so in the form of broken engagements and lead-ons that were never intended to be followed up on.
Hmm, I might support your last idea. Especially if it was complimented with an effort to make adoption of children to suitable couples easier/cheaper.
Why wouldn't you want to know?
Link?

The lowest I've seen is $299 for a refurbished iPad 1 a while back when Apple was trying to clear them out.
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Did God deal well with them for not following the command of Pharaoh or for lying? It's unclear. The case you are building is not rock solid :)
Besides the things I read in the compilation on this page, I bought the Repligo PDF Reader and it's a delight to use.
You mean the fuel taxes that everyone pays, which is routinely raided for things like LRT railways virtually no-one uses, and giveaways to Warren Buffett's freight railroad company?

Here in PA they took $40 million from the fuel tax fund and gave it to the railway companies to modify all the underpasses, so they could stack containers 2-high all the way without the top one getting stuck. And that is just one state, and one example.

If anything, fuel taxes and road maintenance are one thing the govt (sort of) gets right, in that it is a tax on usage of something and automatically scales up or down depending on how much you use the resource. If only they would stop stealing from the funds for non-highway purposes...
Reminds me of the audio equivalent of the argument put forth in Wolfram's NKS.
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Which is why it's important that they have this policy:

> If you go to the police, before they come to you, and tell them that you have been working with the yakuza, the police will exempt you from the ordinance and help you sever relations.

i.e. whistleblower protection writ large, at the company level.
The peer to peer rentals race is heating up.
I was not aware that present-day Hong Kong, and pre-1913 America, were uncilivized. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
Cool!

It would be great if your stack trace cleaned up code made it back into Clojure.
Hey guys, do someone has found any application to add Undo capabilities to text editing? It's making me crazy, when sometimes I press the wrong zone and a whole email/sms/note gets messed up.
Thank you so much for posting that. I stopped reading at that point and went to the comments specifically looking to see if that upset anyone else.

The size of the economic pie is not fixed. If a person works hard and builds a chair out of a lump of wood, the pie just grew. And if you build a factory that builds those chairs, and you get rich, the pie grew that much more. You stole nothing, and you created much. You could just sit on your butt and do nothing (or collect welfare?).

The fallacy that the rich steal every dollar from those below them is so often used to support socialist style wealth redistribution. It drives me batty.
>(And yes, tax revenue per capita is the correct thing to compare with benefits received.)

I'm more inclined towards Yglesias' counter argument in the second link, in that the US has plenty of room to raise taxation but that's a reasonably persuasive argument. As a Canadian, I still think Americans whine about their taxation rates a bit too much, but I suppose we have a better end of the deal.

>Actually, they didn't - conservatives were driven out of the South after reconstruction by an alliance of southern democrats (who were populists) and progressives

>The vast majority of the opposition came from Southern Dems.

Now you're mixing terms.

1) No one can speak for Progressives in the 1910s. For one, I am simply not informed enough but… I doubt anyone had a racially enlightened point of view at the time. More recent scientific developments have discredited the racial theories of the time and so everyone changed their mind.

2) You're being disingenuous. Being a Democrat does not mean you're progressive; look at the modern day Blue Dog Democrats. If they opposed civil rights, they were certainly not progressives.

In fact, the geographic distribution you're describing matches a certain recent election map… http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/president/

>Feel free to explain why poor white and asian kids should give up slots to middle class blacks.

I'm arguing for wealth redistribution. I haven't got a well-formed opinion on affirmative action; you'll have to take that up with someone else.
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URL: http://mixcastr.com/

The end of the weekend is here, and my project (roughly 15 hours) is done.

It's called Mixcastr, and it uses the Sound Cloud API to serve songs from their platform, based on user queries. So yeah, it's really just a glorified search interface - but I had fun making it. Hopefully next weekend I'll expand on its functionality/utility.

Breakdown:

Sinatra, Twitter Bootstrap, SoundCloud JavaScript SDK, and Heroku, Polymorphs, CloudMade
so, drinking nescafe gold decaffeinated is a safe choice of coffee, right?
because im drinking it for the taste only, without sugar but with milk...

coffee was definitely not helping with my ADD / ADHD...
im on ritalin / concerta 54mg for 2 weeks now, stopping for the weekend and it works great so far with a slight sleeplessness and a little loss of apetite which i perceive as normal apetite actually, since im over weight. i have more inclination for riding the bike too.

IF u have

- focus problems

- sleeping issues at home or at work

- lots of great projects which u haven't finished for months or years

- fluctuating work / sex performance

- alcoholic or drug abusing parents / grand parents

i would highly recommend to learn a bit about ADHD via Dr. Edward Hallowell's "Delivered from Distraction" book ( http://www.drhallowell.com/books/delivered-from-distraction-... ), because you have a high chance to seriously suppress these problems with some medications OR simply life style changes.

in my case i have pretty high sensitivity to sugar and certain carbs. i feel so sleepy after eating rice or drinking a liter of even no-added-sugar fruit juices, as if my head wants to fall off. my mother is diabetic, btw.
This was fun to play with for a while:

http://pastebin.com/TyHy7cGf
Anti-Aging Product Reviews
Economy by Hackers: Open-source economics - Yochai Benkler
Clickable link: http://mixcastr.com/
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Complete silence after wasting a day interviewing.
aha, got it.
Onion Software Testing will make you cry
Is Facebook still cool?
Why not use a lotery? I don't see why any public district shouldn't be available to any state resident. What would be the rationale for any preference to residents or district workers?

Any other policy serves only to preserve the inequality of the education offered between districts.
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He certainly sounds unorthodox - serving puree of pig hearts casseroled in wine to his baby.
I think the same thing happened to me. I had been using a tiling WM for a while before Natty came out, but I decided to give Unity a try and I generally found I could make it work pretty acceptably with just a bit of messing around, more nicely than GNOME 2 actually. I still switched back, but not for several weeks.
Hong Kong still has property taxes, payroll taxes, corporate income taxes and gambling taxes among a few others.

Pre-1913 America had a radically different view on what kinds of services the government should provide. Most of the US budget is split between Social Security, Medicare/aid and the Military.
Possibility to write using vertical layout is a pleasant surprise.
Npm gets experimental Windows supports
That's all? At Princeton I'm pretty sure it was closer to 50%.
In my moms school district it's even worse. If a person from a district attends school in a district that isn't in their district, the school they attend receives no funding for that particular person. Generally schools are funded to a degree by attendance, and kids from other districts are excluded... so that's why the districts are so particular about where the kid comes from.
> Except that things aren't that straight forward.

Such as?

Re Babies:

There examples of both tax being charged and bonus being paid for having children depending on what is needed by the society. China has the One Child Policy, a successful attempt to reduce their burgeoning population. Australia has a Baby Bonus which pays parents of middle income or less families when they have a baby.

Babies are an interesting one as depending on the population growth they are either a public service or public menace.
Sound advice, but I guess this is more for sticking with a craft and getting better at it.

Hmm, as a programmer who works for a salary, I think it is a very important skill to know when to quit the circumstances which are stopping you from being happy with your daily work.

You can be extremely spirited and self-motivated, but many things will gnaw away at your core. A micromanaging boss who thinks programming is easy (because he did it a decade ago), an office environment where you are regularly entangled in poisonous politics, or people who plain demotivate you.

When it is time to go, it is time to go. :)
My experience: I went from 22% bodyfat to 12% in 4-5 months of archevore. I didn't do the diet to lose weight; that was just a nice side benefit (and the most noticeable/measurable effect). My exercise was consistently low over this period.
Vs tech-centric folks, the "average" user seems to move ever so slowly towards the tech centric, meaning (non-data supported), average users being more aware of just how much non-privacy they have with FB, LinkedIn (their weird opt-in media campaign for using ones profile pictures).

I have more faith that more connectivity will accelerate this process.
I attended my first lean startup circle lunch last Wednesday in Palo Alto. It's definitely getting easier to meet people interesting people now than 10 years ago.

The trick is to be genuinely interested in what other people are doing. If you go to any event trying to sell [yourself|your product] you'll look like a jerk.
More telling how many elite programmers have gone to Facebook, and support these policies by proxy of employment and/or silence.
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The Elite Programming Language Fallacy
> Too often, I find meeting people is easy. What's HARD is disconnecting, focusing, staying in, and working through the difficult obstacles to creating something valuable.

From my network marketing days, one phrase sticks out: "Never confuse productivity with activity".

I find your statement very interesting. I am convinced that people often focus on what is hard for them/what the lack/what they want more of. For example, my relatively poor artist friends who bounce from job to job (so much that being fired/quitting means nothing) and perpetually have no money but have lots of friends. Contrast that with my relatively successful developer friends who are so busy with projects that they have no time for friends. One more example - the most connected woman I know - very successful founder/CEO - her biggest accomplishment of the past 5 years is completing a 5k run. Because it is challenging for her physically.

Have you considered working in an environment where there is energy but you have no connections? Like a university library/cafeteria/commons (library access might be restricted - but sometimes if you pay, sometimes you can get a card as a resident) or a coffee shop in an area where they don't speak your native tongue primarily (Chinatown) or a random hotel lobby with a 3G/4G access point?
It goes to show that what scares high achieving people the most is the risk that they may no longer continue to be high achieving. This happened a lot at Stanford too. Smart people are scared of uncertainty in their career because they feel they have more to lose.
> Cures exist for mental illness; mostly by nutrition, therapy, hard work and strong social ties.

[Citations to peer-reviewed, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies needed]
It's interesting how anonymous users just now were engaging in fun ways just by dragging -- moving the squares on top of each other, or in a line, or back in order -- without being explicitly told what to do.

Of note, node.js and Socket.IO make this kind of demo quite easy to do, if you want to do it with open technologies
I don't regret going to management consulting after college. In my opinion, it's the best possible career choice for people who don't know what they want to do.

In my time in consulting, I was exposed to people in every corporate function possible, and had the chance to see what their jobs were like. I worked for tech companies, PE firms, corporations, and government-regulated entities. I spent 6 months in growth equity and got to learn what the buy-side is like.

If I had known then what I know now, then I would have told my 21 year old self to go work at FB or Amazon or some small startup.

But the value proposition for the firm I went to was unequivocal. We will pay you a lot. The opportunities you have when you leave will pay you even more. You'll get to work with other extremely smart people. You will see a ton of industries. You will be able to go to whatever b-school you want when you're ready to apply. And if you get good at your job after a couple years, your hours will go down substantially.
I don't think I'm in the minority, but I'll come out and say it. I hate the concept of 'meeting new people'. Not saying that I hate people or socializing, I just hate the whole song and dance of exchanging pleasantries, feigning interest, and proffering bits of information about myself, etc.

It's one of those things where you have to go out and press flesh with 100 or 200 people to find one person you REALLY click with. It's overwhelming to me and I'm usually drained after chatting up 10 or 15 people.

On the other hand, I have had pretty good luck dropping in on local and regional forums, chatting about topical stuff, building a rapport with people, and then meeting them in person.
Oooh, precious little snowflakes are having their "creativity" snuffed out, how terrible. Must do something.

Not. I'm sick of morons, or conmen, with stupid "pedagogical" theories to sell to the unwary. The little snowflakes need to learn stuff, and they need to learn the same stuff as their peers. Or do we want each little precious snowflake speaking his own Wittgensteinian private language?

If the snowflakes have any worthwhile creativity, it will do fine on top a normal education. Stop whining.

(If you have anything that works better than what has been figured out before the 19th century, I'm sure people will be lining up to get their kids into your school.)
This is not really that much surprising.
Taking a look at the comments from someone with years of Ivy business school placement experience ( http://poetsandquants.com/2011/06/23/handicapping-your-shot-... ) all that diversity, creativity and a personality talk seems just a fluffy facade.
In fact most likely the only troubling aspect for Yale is that they couldn't rise the number above 25%.
What is awesome about it?
Why wouldn't they sell it for, say $1M?

Everyone would benefit: current domain owner and Nissan Motors.
'Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.' — Albert Einstein. i want to share this http://creatingminds.org/quotes/resistance.htm
> On the other hand, I have had pretty good luck dropping in on local and regional forums, chatting about topical stuff, building a rapport with people, and then meeting them in person.

The three C's: Conversation-friendliness, Community, Continuity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2800649
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Hyperbole, perhaps. Ridiculous, no.
Nice... unlike the Mac OS X app on HN earlier, this doesn't scroll the preview to the top when the markdown is changed.
how did they have so much money to fight the cases against nissan? Their website seems like it was stuck in 1998. Why didn't they try to sell it to nissan motors for like a mill or something?
Simple. It was a mistake because it looks like the kid would accept the offer if it was larger. Go to an IP lawyer and watch dollar signs pop out of their eyes. In a case like this, they'll assist with negotiating a fair price on contingency. If the kid really doesn't want to sell, he can go to EFF or get a lawyer to do this pro-bono. They love this sort of David vs Goliath stuff.
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Honestly, should the consulting thing confuse or worry anyone?

First, my understanding is that the term "consultant" has become so broad that it basically just means "contractor" for intellectual jobs; it covers coding, management, business strategy, and a million other things.

Second, even if we stick to a slightly more narrow definition, consulting essentially boils down to smart people going around to existing businesses and telling them how to do their jobs better (hopefully). (Presumably, these businesses don't need the smart people most of the time, which is why they don't have them as employees.) At least superficially, this seems like an appropriate use of smart people: target them at the problems where they are needed, which are dispersed across many businesses.

Now, if finance and consulting are actually sectors that aren't contributing to society (a net drain), then there's a real problem. But if so, the fact that so many smart people are going into them to make money is just the symptom, not the problem,
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There was a while ago the "1 second film" idea. I really liked that one and contributed as well. By donating money you received credit as a producer on IMDb. Unfortunately after the listing of producers went up into the thousands, IMDb stopped that game and the project died away. Might be interesting for you to read up on how they did it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1_Second_Film
I agree about the short shrift Sublime Text 2 was given on 5by5. I'd expect that those hosts who are happy with BBEdit or whatever will sing their editor's praises, but it was more annoying that Marco's investigation of TextMate alternatives was effectively to try BBEdit for a few days and then go back to TM1.
haha. I don't think it's that high. But I do think it's higher than 25%.