skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
good point. and I don't disagree with you, but I'd take your argument to the next level about education and say we can educate a heck of a lot more people, more cheaply, and do it on more useful topics, which build more useful, core, long-term, non-profession-specific skills, if we wanted to.

It doesn't necessarily require throwing more money, in aggregate, at the education space. May mean spending less, but smarter. Lots of free ways to learn between the Internet, public libraries, family, neighbors, the physical opportunities of the world around us, and life itself. Helping more people to have better focus and willpower, and better emotional balance, and health, would go a long way to improving a lot of other things with the economy, even if indirectly.

For example, given a choice between having 1 more fellow citizen become a scientist or engineer, or instead having 10 more fellow citizens not steal, hurt people, be lazy, lack the ability to think logically, be swayed by propaganda when voting, lack ability to manage their own money, lack ability to plan for their future and understand consequences of their choices, and understand the impacts of their choices on their children, family, neighbors, future generations, etc -- I'll take the second option, please.

More "higher" education? Good. Much better "lower" education? Ten times as good, I bet.
A college education is one of the few properties that can’t be repossessed in the event of bankruptcy.
So ... you've scheduled in breaks and call them 'procrastination days', because 'break' or 'vacation' or 'sanity holiday' sound wasteful?
Do we really know if this isn't an over-zealous bot that say big names like P. Diddy and Snoop Dogg and decided that it was time to issue a notice?

I still think it's an abuse of the DMCA power to have bots out there mining for things and sending notices without a human ever looking over its shoulder, but there's a difference between negligence and malice.
The Wikipedia page for this is interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_%28video_game%29 Wikipedia traces it back to "Blockade" in 1976.
"What would define a 'bailout' as then?"

It's to "help" someone in a "predicament". The context is that the someone is in trouble and to need the help is pejorative.

But with this definition, TARP was not a 'bailout'.

Help? The "help" is usually much like a gift and not likely to be paid back. The banks had to pay HIGH interest, and did. The US Treasury made out like vulture capital. In the end it was the banks, and their stockholders, who gave 'help' to the US Treasury and the US taxpayers.

Need? At least Goldman Sachs didn't need the money in any sense.

In most respects, the banks didn't really need the money; that's why they were able to pay back the money quickly with interest.

Any need there was was due just to the liquidity issue.

The main reason Paulson acted was to stop international runs on banks and, thus, save the world from something that stood to be worse than the financial collapse that caused the Great Depression.

Pejorative? Whatever the banks did wrong in blowing the housing bubble, the TARP effort was short term and not really the fault of the banks but caused by the Bear Stearns and Lehman problems and, thus, the FEAR (the seed of a bank run -- remember FDR) in the world that might have led to a run.

Recall also the 1987 stock market crash: Greenspan was at a big meeting, left, went to a phone, got the news, called the major NYC banks and told them "The window at the Fed is open". Greenspan was going to provide liquidity and avoid a liquidity problem that could have done serious damage.

My little example on the meaning of a liquidity problem was pitched at the grade school level. You SHOULD be able to understand it. Your reactions are way, WAY off base. If you don't like the ratio of $600 and $10 million, then assume $1 million and $10 million.

Or improve the example to be a college student who just inherited an office building worth $10 million but needs $600 for a DUI case. He's not broke, but he does have a liquidity problem. He can get the $600 but not in just a few minutes to get out of jail.

In finance, 'liquidity' is a crucial topic; you should quit straining to misunderstand it.

If you want a real example, then when my wife died, I faced $6000 in funeral expenses. I didn't have the $6000 in my checking account. But within the next month, I sold some stock, raised the $6000, and paid the bill. So I had a 'liquidity' problem. I could have borrowed money using the stock as collateral. Such a loan would not have been a 'bailout', or 'help' and nothing pejorative.
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I'd be interested to see the analytical results from his research. It should prove to be quite illuminating.
Hm, I have played the guitar for a few years now and I think this is possibly pretty useful. I'm not sure about the whole game design because I haven't tried WildChords but most people get discouraged when they have to learn all these chords just to play one song and learning where your fingers go and being cramped and the whole mechanics of it all really depresses new people, BUT if this game can get people to move forward even when they think they can't do it, it's totally worth it.

Once someone plays a song and realizes hey this doesn't sound half bad it will go a long way, it's just getting people past that first hump. I was taught 'Sweet Home Alabama' as my first song and I played the heck out of it but knowing that I could play a song and I knew the simple chords that made it happen went a long way.

The biggest thing though is really wanting to do it. I know people that took piano lessons for years but quit when they had the chance even though they could play fairly well. If you don't want to really play then it won't stick. For people that really want to play guitar I think this app could be very useful.
Ask HN: Why was this submission flagged?
I'm curious why this would be flagged or killed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3336539

It doesn't talk about politics at all, which is usually my concern when posting.
THANK YOU. I wrote about this in September on my Tumblr, which ironically currently shares the same theme as his/hers: http://benguild.com/post/10435496115/attack-of-the-itunes-ap...
Did AOL or MySpace have close to Facebook's user count?
Going back to the subway metaphor: if you by your NYC metrocard with a credit card, the police can (and do) track you. There have been incidents with people being charged with---and exonerated from---crimes on the basis of their travel logs.

I can't find the citation currently, sorry.
+1, but I strongly disagree with you. I learn that: my friends have dragged themselves out of bed to enjoy some new and fascinating experience; after a long and severe effort, they have succeeded at their dissertation/weight loss/exercise program; that after a lot of duds on OKCupid, they have met somebody amazing; etc. There's plenty of surface-level stuff on FB too, but whenever FB has made me "miserable" it has always been over something important and meaningful.

A lot of things strike me as vastly more surface-level and un-holistic: what kind of car you drive, how big your house is, how rich your neighbors are, how immaculate your lawn is, etc.
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got it working so far .. but it needs some code clean up (tomorrow).
I don’t think they ignore lumps on the basis that you are young because cancers in younger people grow significantly faster.
Interest bearing checking accounts do exist. They're not making much right now, but it's more than zero.

I don't get why you describe credit cards as "faffing around". They're no more hassle than debit cards.
I work with a guy with an MBA in statistics and operations management. I don't know if he's "rockstar" programmer, but he writes his own Perl and shell scripts and SQL queries, I've heard he's pretty skilled in SAS programming, and I've watched him dig into some Javascript to figure out exactly why a particular A/B test was giving funny results.

Never bet against the existence of outliers!
I'm sure that megavideo has a copy but that's completely missing the point.

Why can't they have a video on Youtube that they made and paid for? Why should Universal not be called out for acting like trolls?
controversy aside, what a terrible song. It's like a really poor TV jingle.
No, he is simply an ignorant conservative hack. The boom and bust happened in the subprime loan market. Subprime loans are by definition those which are "sub-prime" (i.e. don't qualify for backing from Federal Agencies). This is why they were aggregated, sliced into parcels and sold on the market as CDOs rather than simply transferred to Fannie Mae.
Be careful with ETags if you're serving content from a web-farm - http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#etags
Let the startup fund be paid for by a tax on patent trolls.
A 35% overdiagnosis rate means that for every 3 correct cancer diagnoses made, about one error occurs. That means if the diagnosis is cancer, about 75% of the time it actually is cancer. If the rate of false negatives is small enough, I think I would bet my life on that.

Edit: Sorry, I just noticed that what I wrote seems to imply I disagree with you when, in fact, I agree with you.
Isn't the DMCA supposed to punish people who file fraudulent takedown notices?
My 35 year old sister found out earlier this year that she has Stage IV breast cancer (spread to one of the lymph nodes and into both of her lungs).

I can't express how fortunate we've been that she has responded extremely well to tamoxifen therapy, which seems to have halted growth (and even resulted in some shrinkage) for almost 11 months now. Hers is apparently not a common result. In spite of the frightening diagnosis, she has stayed very active all these months and has suffered almost no ill effects from the treatment (a few pills each day).

As some people have pointed out, the long term prospects aren't good for advanced stages of breast cancer, but last January, the surgical specialist who examined my sister didn't give her more than a year to live. Thankfully we met a spectacular oncologist who has been as much terrific support network as he has been a doctor.

It's worth reading Stephen Jay Gould's great essay on his fight with cancer: "The Median is not the Message"

http://cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html

He was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma (a cancer of the abdominal lining) and told that the median survival rate for it was 8 months. He researched his cancer and decided he would do whatever was necessary to get on the good side of the median. He was treated with chemo, radiation and surgery, and ended up surviving 20 years (eventually dying from an unrelated metastatic cancer).

I really wish Xeni the best of luck and hope things go well.
Programs doing stuff against the user's will on his/her computer are what generally is classified as malware.
An attack against competition
so whenever your friends succeed in something meaningful, you always feel miserable? You never ever feel good for them? (don't be afraid to say yes, because I'm like that.. wondering if I'm alone..)
I was curious what the penalties are for issuing a false DMCA takedown request. According to this article (http://intellectual-property.lawyers.com/blogs/archives/1036...), the penalty is perjury, which is a felony. Does anyone know who would be responsible for bringing charges? Is it something that Megavideo can do, or would it have to be Google, who i assume would not press charges in order to keep their good relationship with Universal?
Anyone interested in helping with a Berkeley wiki? I'm glad to host an initial version.
Brighthouse Labs had over 3,000 apps for sale at one point. I'm not sure how many are left but Apple has pulled the plug on at least some of them.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=brighthouse+labs+site%3Aitunes...
I see no practical difference between a human issuing illegitmate DMCA takedown notices, or using a bot to do the same. The difference to the affected party is nil. "The bot made me do it" is not a legal defense.
We're floating conspiracy theories without a shred of evidence here now?
I'm not sure the author understands what "main street" is all about. This article seems to attack the very fundamentals of a competitive marketplace; the purpose is to create products that compete in the open market and letting users decide what gives them the most value.
This is the cool stuff.

I could care less about building a RESTful social widget interface. I couldn't care more about building a system to land men 300Kmiles away on a rock with a computer with less horsepower than your digital watch.
It seems much more likely that Universal has something automatically flagging everything with "Kanye West" in the title then that there is some kind of conspiracy.
Does Universal have the ability to automatically remove any videos, unmoderated by Youtube? If so, that's one of the most obvious bad ideas I've ever heard of.
There's a high transaction cost in someone filing a complaint against those, so it doesn't happen. It's quite a shame given that I've seen a few examples of videos taken down by actors with no connection. Eg Zenimax taking down a video related to a tv show.
Here's my idea, up that to $2T by ending our current wars, forget start-ups, and instead invest it all into installing gigabit fiber to every home in the country. This would assure America's competitive infrastructure edge, and create more market opportunity than we can currently fathom.
Very roughly, Universal can get it taken down immediately, but the user has the option to appeal. It's all part of the DMCA "safe harbor" protections for Youtube. If they didn't behave this way, then Universal could hold Youtube liable for hosting the infringing content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA_safe_harbor#Takedown_exam...
Another bug is that this option only exists in the USA. Why?
The only references to ten years were that "Maybe five, eight, even ten years ago, the first bad cell split inside me, secretly." and "Even though I was ten years younger than the time they say you need to start," She went to the doctor soon after noticing the "funny stiffness," not ten years later.
I'm in full agreement about the media commonly distorting... everything in some way, but to say that we wouldn't be in Iraq or Afganistan if it weren't for them? I don't think it was Fox News who broke the story about 'Uranium shipments from Niger', it was the White House. Clearly the media had NO part in constructing CIA intelligence that led us to Iraq, they just repeated what we were told.

Same thing with your China implication, that they wouldn't be where they were without the US media distorting information... that just doesn't make sense to me. Please explain if you can
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This from a woman whose husband signed the DMCA into law.
CaterwaulJS "Nobody in their right mind would use this language"
I always knew that US is more closed state with much more ridiculous laws and braindead people in government than even mother russia is...
Not the only abuse of the system. Interscope issued a takedown notice for UK rapper Skepta because they wanted to buy the beat from him. No actual copyright infringement at all...just blatant abuse of the system.

link: http://www.sohh.com/2011/07/interscope_youtube_shakedown_rap...
Great language nonetheless.

I recommend this read, I found it greatly entertaining and very cool.

http://www.caterwauljs.org/doc/caterwaul-by-example.pdf
Canadian here: Your post is kind of at odds with the final question you posed.

You can have the money AND not sacrifice health outcomes. As you said, Cdn and US governments spend the same amount of money for the same outcomes.
You wrongly assume that all doctors think the same way.
It's not meant for you.
Public stocks and the like are heavily regulated, yes, and they can still drive anyone's bankroll to zero. And via leverage or iteration you can make them as risky and rapid-loss-prone as private investments (or even outright scams). See for example: forex, real-estate, and casino ads in every medium.

So this rule protects fools from losing their money in private investing, but they still have a thousand other ways to lose their money. Meanwhile, this rule also prevents lots of people of moderate means from making wise, moderate investments in areas they know well.

These sorts of from-the-masses, for-the-masses investments wouldn't necessarily follow the valley hit-driven model of "nearly all of the startup returns come from a small number of outliers".

But even if they did, why shouldn't people of all wealth levels be able to take their chances on finding an outlier? The current rule essentially says: the very best investments are only, by legal rule, allowed to the already-wealthy. Everyone else, here, buy a scratch-off.
I just wonder when there will be someone who creates usable interfaces for everyday products like microwaves, dvrs, and thermostats. Well I guess Nest (www.nest.com) actually designed a pretty decent thermostat, is this the next revolution?
A lot of the posts in my stream contain links to images, videos, and articles. In a sense, the 140 characters (minus the 20 required for a url) already are a title for something more time consuming. I'm not sure that hosting self posts would really change that, it just makes it easier. Instead of linking to my blog post, I link to a twitter provided long post.
"Applications shouldn't facilitate law-breaking, which is exactly what this app does. Apple should shut it down immediately," Senator Casey said.

Determining what is and what is not a breach of the law is work for the judicial branch of government. It's not the responsibility of the Congress, and certainly not of Apple.
I've deleted my comments, the discussion would go no where as my point was pretty dumb. What I was trying to say is that assuming what he says his true ("Universal Censors Megaupload") that it's much more likely he has paid for that to happen than it is UMG have decided this video is a big threat to their business and they must sabotage it being "viral". The latter is completely absurd, the former is in my eyes much more likely.

Personally I believe that it's an automated system that it's triggered when a video reaches a specific view threshhold, but he discounted this with his claim it's intentional.
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It's great to hear your story. My sister, at 22, has just started with a similar treatment.
No, far from always, and not miserable exactly. By "miserable", I mean that I ask myself, "Bob drove to Yosemite National Park and hiked Half Dome this weekend, while I hung around my apartment and surfed the net and watched TV. Why didn't I do something like Bob?"
The US seems to be taking the expressway already to becoming more like China in terms of how the government relates to and deals with its citizens. This is just the tip of the iceberg considering a lot of whats gone on in the last decade in this country.
It's enabled by default.
I already quoted you on these points. Direct quotes. That don't change their meanings even in context.

>Can we move to something else, it's not like we are contributing to topic anymore.

Thanks White Knight. You're the champion of usefulness in this thread.
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No. The bots might find the videos, but the DMCA requires a statement made under penalty of perjury to be submitted along with the takedown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA_safe_harbor#Takedown_exam...
The problem with both waterfall and agile is that we are missing the definition of "the Humble process" to develop software.

Unfortunately humility does not sell so well.
Which the pilot and co- don't know to trust as the altimeter and other instruments are giving false readings (listen to that recording, it's all due to the instruments being taped over by ground crew and the pilots missing it on pre-flight checks).

If you've determined that the stall warning is false I imagine it's hard then to back out and stop filtering that noise out; particularly when you're concentrating very hard on something else. Someone mentioned a case where the pilots crashed because they were attending to a landing gear problem and so missed the lack of fuel.

I wonder how men/women differ in these pressure situations too. IME women generally appear to handle multi-tasking and interrupts better than men do.
Melbourne-Perth flights are routinely > 4 hours
Sydney-Perth flights are routinely > 5 hours

Hawaii - LA flight times are routinely > 5 1/2 hours

I was wrong.
what we need is punishment and fines for issuing fake take downs
Very well done. Their signal processing might not be 100%, but it's probably more likely my fault for playing it with my unplugged electric guitar :)

It's fun and seems like a gentle way to get new players to learn. Users can replay levels as many times as they want to.
Orbit.js

I just registered orbitjs.com but would be willing to donate it. I think the name is a good fit for a framework that aims to keep so many objects moving effortlessly around each other. Contact me (@dgeb) if you're interested.
What if you just decided to "not play the game" and pursue a life that was meaningful to you, on your own terms, instead of waiting for somebody else's Facebook post to make feel you "miserable" and inadequate?

Regarding your final point, as it happens, a pretty sizable chunk of Facebook feed items tend to revolve things like the cars people drive, their house, and their farmville "lawn". At least that's how it was when I was using it. The more things change...
One doesn't have to search long to find plenty of examples of how the US government has made a mockery of the 1st Ammendment as well as many other Ammendments in the Constitution. Its nice to think that we have fundamental rights but in practice I really don't find that to be all that true unfortunately.
Indeed, "Apartheid 2.0", not "Berlin Wall 2.0".
Sounds a bit like the guy who had some really good advice to give, but didn't take into account the politics and context of the forum he was posting to, tagged it with a douchey comment at the end, and got downvoted and ignored.
FB, just like Twitter or blogs, is a tool for social broadcasting. It can be abused like anything else.
I agree with the sentiment, but how can you know to trust someone's advice if they're acting in a way that's obviously very socially stupid? (I'm not huge on excessive politeness, but I think it's quite stupid to be aggressive for no reason. What purpose does that serve? Why should I trust the advice of a person that acts that way?)
This is hacker news, some respect for people who find loopholes in a system is due, of course. But basically I think the point is that Apple shouldn't let him do it. The app store is worse for users and developers because of it.

If it was just about science, he could have pulled 27 of the apps a month ago.

I wouldn't say no to a peek at his download stats though. ;)
The most grim part of the article is the quote issued by the RIAA: "Apparently the RIAA is none too happy about the dajaz1.com site being given back [...] 'If the site continues to operate in an illegal manner,' the RIAA said in a statement, 'we will consider all our legal options to prevent further damage to the music community.'"

What a disgusting comment. The RIAA is a business that co-opts the "music community" as though it represented the interests of all music ever recorded to MP3. How is the music blog it took down not part of the music community?
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Apparently the user did appeal, and the content went back up, and right back down again. Someone at YouTube didn't quite understand how the DMCA works when they coded their systems. Once the counter-notice occurs, the work stays up until a court order; the person claiming infringement can't just have it taken down again.
While this is obviously spam, it'd be interesting to know the results of this from an A/B testing perspective.
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