skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude there's 1 billion people in China, you can't just say, ok lets make everybody middle class. Have you any idea what kind of demographic shift that would imply? Currently around 70% still live in rural areas (figure off top of my head), for good reason, because 1. they would literally not fit into the cities, and 2. you can't just abandon the rural industry.

I would argue that the government has to play a role in controlling population flow and income, its very very scary if you give the same resources to 1 billion people and let them lose, if it works great, but if it fails, well that will be an epic fail.

Already in this economic crisis there is rumors of potential civilian riots due to loss of jobs, we're talking about the maybe less then 50 million (5% of population) rural workers who may lose their jobs due to closing factories. Imagine if the government gave incentives for just 10% more of the rural population to move to the cities - this effect would be multiplied many times.
"I think I've found a niche with a need, and if I can put enough in my pocket that I can buy insured and very low-risk securities to quietly live off a trickle of interest."

Markets are pretty efficient. It's pretty unlikely that you've found a niche where you can make a good living without any work. If you do, it won't be long before someone who wants to work hard comes around and blows your business out of the water. But if you hit it right, you might be able to make a pile of cash before it happens.

It's the startup equivalent of stock market timing, and I imagine you have about as good a chance of success.
Hey, let's compile a Chrome to-do list now that it's out of beta
Protoss voice:

"psi limit exceeded, require more cpu quota"
What if you don't want your every photo sent to evernote?

I guess the eye-fi has no customisation without a PC, so you'd probably need to keep switching SD cards. Ugh.
OP, you mentioned the "Protestant Work Ethic". I'm assuming you mean just the general principle of the North American "doing the best-est one can do" and not that you believe in protestant religion? But if you are protestant/religious, do get in touch, there may be more at risk here than mere loss time or homelessness/starvation/etc.

-best wishes,
I would call it The YMCA Combinator.
Even more useful than that, they get traffic data! I'd imagine traffic data has a heavy influence on page rank...
Sounds like a tautology. Where else would they go but the most prestigious place?

I'd be surprised if they went somewhere sub-par.
Or a summery of your life from your eyes,leaving out the bad parts of course -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364343/plotsummary
You have to understand that, short of winning the lottery, you need to do some work to make money. Since you hate any work, you should work only at something that pays extremely well to justify the hassle. Maybe Wall Street (if it ever recovers) would be an option. Or start an MBA.

Then, once you get the job that pays a lot, save money like crazy for a few years.

You can also start a startup, but the problem there is that there is no guarantee of making any money. You can get rich and quit work, as pg, but otherwise you need to start again. And if you don't like work, this is the worst scenario.
Been meaning to put a home page together.

Here are two empirical reports:
http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/26/18/4917
http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/27/14/3790

And here's a review:
http://www.psych.upenn.edu/stslab/assets/pdf/TS_CONB05.pdf

Happy to answer questions at grob AT mass inst tech
That blog post has some Holy Mother of Accounting issues. We could start with 32k loaned from family NOT being income. The business is funneling money the wrong way, guy! Actual income does not cover your dev expenses! And you need paid marketing!
What would you fellow workers say about you? I have worked with people doing the 4 hour work week and honestly I can't say I was impressed. Kills the morale around the office when you work with loafers...
Should the U.S. roll out nationwide free Wi-Fi? Depends on which administration you ask.
How to Achieve Anything
I have a lot to say about version control, but I won't get into the details here.

However, on the 'switch from CVS to SVN', I'll comment and say that SVN is far superior to CVS.

The whole 'changes committed to the repo up the entire repo version' alone make this worthwhile.

SVN is also less arcane in its usage.

SVN has better tools for, well, everything.

SVN integrates well with all major IDEs (mine being VIM, but also Monodevelop and Eclipse).

The switch from CVS to SVN also made our releases much easier to manage (merging branches is fairly trivial and tagging is a no-brainer).

If you're using CVS in a company, do yourself a favour and switch to SVN. The basic concepts are the same, so re-educating developers takes all of 5 minutes.
Ask HN: Why do we capitalize letters?
can i stop capitalizing?
This is a terrible idea if the security of your site matters, because you're loading Javascript off an untrusted, unsecure source.
Ask HN: Subversion client recommendations for OSX and PC?
I'm looking for svn clients for mac and pc. My 2 criteria are quality and price (read: i'm very cheap). Any recommendations?
Developer Tools for IE8 with IE8 put in IE6/7 rendering mode?
Unless you out-pirate them.
I gave you an example of open innovation with similar foundations. The existence of impractical, exploratory research is a good thing.

I anticipate a counter along the lines of "x company must have gone through y impractical prototypes during..." which I will not disagree with, but secretive is not really in everybody's interest here. It is in the company's interest, which does not justify the closed platform.
Wait, you said you've read The 4 Hour Work Week, WTF else do you need to know? Get some brain supplements and get out on them thar internets!

In all seriousness though, most businesses require a lot more work than a job. If you don't want to work just find a super easy job (government maybe?) and do as little as possible.
I'm surprised... Ideally you like your patent to be broad as possible, but still very much around a particular target.

I'd have thought mixing up you applications/claims like that would have done more harm than good.
And then, I am not saying that Apple should be less secretive -- I am saying that while Apple makes good UIs, Apple gets over-credited in when it comes to innovation. I say this with no motivation other than to add a perspective. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days_%28film%29
You wouldn't get any of the effects of blurred vision, crossed eyes, or some such. Also, eyes are far better cameras than anything you'd fit on a helmet.
Some of these metaphors are already in use for things like Time Machine.
It wasn't yours, and the ones I had in mind (in tone, not verbatim) seem to have been deleted or rephrased enough that I'm no longer reading them that way.

As for your anecdote, sad indeed. I was also thinking of the post about Phil Katz's death on here a few weeks back. It's a horrible way to die.
I agree and disagree. People here will crucify you for what your saying but it sounds like your exactly like me. I'm not even out of school yet and I've been working part time developer during the year and full time during summer/breaks(pay the bills). Anyways I'm already starting to feel bored and distracted.

May I suggest going to school? Getting a phd and then become a professor and sit around most days grading papers and lecturing. Seems like the kind of lifestyle you'd like.
i haven't done it in years, except in formal capacities. fewer keystrokes = more efficiency
Just wondering, does your nickname originate from Stanislaw Lem by any chance?
when you are too old or technically outdated to continue working

I'd be willing to bet that, for the current generation at least, that will never happen. (But I still max out my retirement account, just to be safe. :-)
I have lurked here for a while and have only recently began submitting stories and am starting to participate. My personal opinion is that people who haven't frequented the site enough to obtain the karma required to downvote (such as myself currently) do not understand the culture of the site enough to know what is that should stay vs. go. By reaching a certain level you are proving that you are working effectively on behalf of the community here and that your opinion should be taken more seriously. Just my take on it though.
Seconded. Also, it helps to dynamically load jQuery into the page so you can use its CSS selectors, etc. from the Firebug lite console.

http://www.command-tab.com/2008/03/13/jqueryize-bookmarklet/
You asked why the learning is not taken as an aversion response to lack of reward. My interpretation is because your baseline (square) is zero: that in itself is not aversive; it's just nothing.

I think the new rectangle is evidence of hyperstimulation, where a stronger response is elicited when features are exaggerated. To establish this case, we'd have to test how strongly the rat perceives prototypes of squares vs. rectangles; my guess is square-ness vs. rectangle-ness is easily discernable. That is to say, I am pretty convinced this is just hyperstimulation, in which case a random shape would not do. It would have to resemble a former stimulus X but exhibit features that are even more X-like than the previous Xs. If perception of a rectangle is encoded as "right-angled shapes where height != width" (a plausible encoding, because our shape detectors operate on angles and lines, while curves utilize different detectors), then when height !!!=== width, then you get BAM!

An analogous example in humans? Tomb Raider :-)
We do actually capitalise a lot less than was done in the past. Find some unmodernised English writing from circa 1600, say, and you'll find lots of capitalisation of (non-proper) nouns, for example.

The contemporary convention of capitalising the first letter of a new sentence helps to show more clearly where sentences begin and end. Capitalising proper names helps distinguish particular special (not necessarily animate) individuals from things that merely have some common property. "In the times in which we live, The Times keeps us informed of world events." "The spectator was not actually spectating, but was reading The Spectator."
Is there any "non-adult" application of your technology/process/methods? If so, one strategy may be to show that this will work with many different types of content and not just adult content. That way you go from being a purely adult oriented company to a technology company with multiple markets, one of which happens to be the adult industry.

For example, the ad network Adbrite operates one general purpose ad network under their main brand and another adult version at blacklabelads.com. They have traditional investors, including Sequoia.
Depending on the language, usually...
Google (of course). Then apidock.com (for ruby / rails) pretty much the best doc site for either in my opinion.

For Rails I have found that just browsing the source/comments on github is the best source for figuring out really tricky issues. I stay logged in to IRC but most of the time never feel like bothering anyone. I kind of enjoy figuring things out for myself, even if it's a trivial problem I still get satisfaction from solving things on my own.
I work at BumpTop. BumpTop may have started as a research prototype of course, but it's very much a real product by now, with Windows as the first platform. You can see users' screenshots on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=bumptop) and http://customize.org/bumptop, and sign up to get in line for an invite at http://bumptop.com.
(1.) Google. (2.) Speak to friends and colleagues. (3.) More Google. (4.) Then I crack open the source code (if available). (5.) Then I hit the bookshelf, including Safari Online. (6.) If I still haven't got it, I'll ask in a forum, but at that point it's a toss up whether I'll get an answer or not.
Google then Freenode, pretty much exclusively.

Edit: Also, friends smarter in whatever area it may be, if any are handy.
From what I've been reading recently, the startups the recession will hurt most will be those that have weak plans to monetize. That is encouraging because it will force startups to consider their path to profitability more carefully and hopefully result in companies that are more successful long-term. Which will ultimately benefit everyone else as well.
Windows 7 (build 6956) performance test
Which operating system is best for solid-state drives?
Google does it
Madoff Charged in $50 Billion Fraud at Advisory Firm
Other than pseudo-climatology alarmist bullshit, is your theory founded on anything?
I'm thinking of starting (with mdakin) a help instance akin to the MIT help instance. It would be a live chat system that has a UI designed to not let you use focus. No idle chatter, just crowd sourced Q/A.

The intention is to have a core group of hackers essentially leave it on all the time and answer when available. When it works, it is much faster and often more useful than forums/Google.

If interested in beta-testing before full release, please email. We obviously need a core group of interested parties.

Some more info on it:

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jpd/classes/ics105s03/readings/acker...
The Seven Deadly Sins of Arc
I'm a bit disappointed in you guys. Not one person has read the article and thought of another industry that these ideas could be applied to?
Who said we were lying to ourselves? Of course we'd like to make money, we hate our jobs and the soul crushing banality of the 8-6 workday, but, enjoy eating.

We have no real moral object to porn or the porn industry.

We have a proof of concept, we just can't continue to do our jobs, work on FOSS, and work on this indefinitely.

We need funding to realize our dreams, hence the title. :D.
Also check out a video of BumpTop a few versions ago:
http://bumptop.com/help
We're familiar with the article. We actually have that issue of Wired in our bathroom right now.
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Good days at Bell Labs were when my dad took me to "Take your sons to work day" -- and the Holmdel, NJ building was still in all its glory. Now...it's been sold off and nobody knows what's going to happen to it.
Youngest Twitterer EVAR?
IRC. irc.freenode.net (use http://mibbit.com if you don't have an irc client :)
angband or nethack?
That's true, their entire history encompasses the user experience, dating back to when they first stole the mouse and graphical user interface from Xerox Parc, then claimed ownership over the ideas and sued Microsoft for using them.
This is quite different than the OP's image reconstruction, and it isn't really what one is thinking (i.e. in your head). You need to consciously send motor commands to your vocal chord for the system to pick up your "thoughts." Essentially, you complete the entire speech process (from thoughts to motor signals), but the device completes the final step, rather than your vocal box.
Potentially the educated opinions of almost every significant national science or geological organization in the world? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_c...
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That's a one-off. Startup times are rarely included in benchmarks since they're not representative of true day to day performance - which is the sort of performance most people care about.

An extra couple of seconds for booting up an entire framework you haven't used for a few days is nothing to worry about. If you were doing performance intensive work, it'd already be all cached and ready to go.
A management course I recently took referred to this as the "integrity snowman." Think of three big snow balls labelled "what I think," "what I do," and "what I say" stacked on each other :-)
The challenge is to keep them balanced in a straight line.
Mine is nothing, try the original program from Robert Alsing. He already released the source code and binaries:

http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/11/genetic-programming-mona-l...

From what I have seen, he is doing extra type of mutations that I was too lazy to implement: move polygons in the stack (in addition to changing colors and moving points around).

Also how you do mutations matters: it seems smaller deltas are better, though they shouldn't be too small.
If that's an official sanction, then I'm in Giles Bowkett's camp. That sort of policy leads to groupthink, not honest debate where people feel at ease to express their opinions, however controversial.

I've routinely voted up people I disagree with because I thought this was a place where opinions across the spectrum were to be encouraged. It would be sad to see this is now not the case and that instead you should say whatever's most likely to get you points. Are the people on the leaders board meant to be the most "average" in opinion as judged by HN readers? That sounds downright boring.

Of course, you might just be saying that's how people use downvoting, not how they should use it - which I'd agree with. Even so, a sanction against this practice would be super as it removes one's motivation to actually express one's true opinion (unless burning karma is one's hobby).
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Sure we do. Revising your opinions in a way to get extra karma does take a lot more effort.

If you think you're going to lose a bunch of karma for just expressing your opinion, you'll follow the group opinion and it leads to groupthink.
In general if you take money from an investor they want to know not only what you have been up to but what you hope to accomplish. They could have a different relationship with Bezos but I would doubt it given the way that he manages Amazon.
I'm really surprised with the quality and amount of responses that I receive from StackOverflow questions. Really impressive service!

In addition to that, I sometimes try IRC (Freenode) as well.
facebook built fbconnect. it's okay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Sp...
They have a bug that makes chrome unusable for me, and its still there. You simply cannot save a file from Chrome if a file of the same name already exists. It cannot overwrite. Geez.
Ask YC: How do you get money
Simply put, my business partner and I have developed a prototype of a product. We believe that we have found a niche inside a large market for a product that people would be interested in. However, we don't know how to take the next step. We think that we would be much better positioned with capital to help us hire other developers to help design new products. We have participated and won seed money from a local competition, and have put our own money into the business. However, we are looking to grow quickly, and realize that in order to provide great products for our users we will either need more time or more developers. As of now we have a solid idea, a working prototype, but no revenue. How do we begin the process of attempting to raise capital?
Without being passionate about what you do, you are unlikely to succeed in your aims.

Build a portfolio of passive income assests.

Ideally you should have been doing this while you had those 38hours per week "free", but it is not too late to start.
Ask HN: Anyone feel like joining my social entrepreneurship project?
Like many hackers, I find myself opposed to the economic bailout packages. Not for political reasons but because it seems like bad engineering to introduce policy that creates massive amounts of moral hazard.

So I started a small project intended to help point out the moral hazard to the general public. It's called foreclosenow.org.

It's intended both as a hyperbole and as a real resource to help spread the word on how everyone can best take advantage of the bailout policies.

Shoot me an email if you have any interest in joining the team -- basically becoming a co-editor and finding stories, quotes, information, etc.

I'm also working on a simple jQuery-based "should I foreclose now?" calculator.

There is no limit to the size of the team... the more the merrier. I'm hoping to find a few people who share my view on this who might enjoy posting to the site now and then with relevant news or commentary.
its not entirely obvious and you think its more complicated than it really is.

you might want to try: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28982/simple-explanation-...

or a whole bunch of tech talks:
http://vodpod.com/tag/mapreduce

the first 2 videos should give you a good overview
You can also check out a video of BumpTop on big ass touchscreen here: http://www.vimeo.com/1144121

I'm a founder of BumpTop, we loves hacker news.
You should travel. Very few people regret traveling.

Start somewhere easy like Thailand, spend six weeks crossing India, spend a month or two in Vietnam. Travel light, but take a credit card. You'll be transformed and work will make sense again.
Microsoft Script Editor (if you primarily need JavaScript debugging). Unfortunately, it's bundled with MS Office - go figure. http://www.jonathanboutelle.com/mt/archives/2006/01/howto_de...
This reminds me of something I often forget: if I want something out of the ordinary, it's very unlikely anyone will give it to me unless I ask.
What does this C# code look like in F#?
this is the best post ever. you can move to a non-competitive place. somewhere in the south maybe. you won't have to work long days, or even a lot.

good luck on your "travels".
Yeah, it's called the "don't vote it up" flag.
Scrappy startups dont have offices. They work out of their apartments. I don't think you can do better than that market. Utilities, food, etc. might be cheaper, but that is very, very marginal.
There are some serious weaknesses in it they should address though before adding complex features like multithreading.

For example, while Emacs is a pretty damn powerful OS, it's still lacking a decent text editor.
What makes you think that a physics nobel qualifies Chu to be Energy secretary?

I'm reminded of the book "The Best and the Brightest" - it documents their failure.

In other news, the US energy problems are not technical in nature. Technologists tend to overstate the importance of technology, despite being surrounded by evidence that it isn't all that important.
You can just download the binaries for the client (http://subversion.tigris.org/). If you want menu and icon support when browsing files, there's SCPlugin for the Mac's Finder or TortoiseSVN for Windows. If you want a GUI, note that the Mac's native Xcode environment has Subversion support built-in.
That's not enough for semi-link bait.
I stopped reading right after I read that "MapReduce let's google use the internet to think"
That's why I didn't vote. I felt like the candidates were just campaigning and running commercials to win votes.
For anyone unsure what to read, the article on noise is probably the most interesting -- apparently it may help cognition. The article on primate porn is interesting for a look at social dynamics. The article on your subconscious, day dreaming and the 'default network' is good too.
<strike>Simpsons</strike> Microsoft did it: (pdf) http://research.microsoft.com/users/kenh/papers/TaskGallery....

It even looks almost exactly the same.
I agree, if the people voting the article up are dimwits who vote things up without reading them. You're smart. You wouldn't have voted it up. But clearly a bunch of dimwits did - it's a sign of bad voting rather than bad submission. The voting system is meant to weed out bad submissions.