skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget to add the $50k per capita share of the national debt, or the more uplifting calculation of $90k per actual tax-paying worker. So that person is working towards $255k of unavoidable debt on $36k a year before they can even start thinking about a house or retirement savings. And lawyers don't really make anything the world wants to buy, in the domestic market they are competing with a glut of other lawyers in similar situations. Nor do they even have the romantic "starving artist" narrative to console themselves with like the MFA grads.

Maybe the boomers will offer good money for healthy organs, or maybe selling a kidney will just get some surplus MREs from WWIII to eat as people huddle around the campfire in the badlands. Ok the last part's a joke, but it's not a brilliant scenario.
Live cells 'printed' using standard inkjet printer
The American government just handing out money to foreigners? Get out of here, you filthy liberal.

Of course, sarcasm on my part, but I'm pretty sure that would be the kind of reaction you'd get. You think of "investment in culture" as a good thing, many others see a liberal conspiracy.
Extracting musical information from sound (Adrian Holovaty  PyCon)
get a free ec2 instance. How I got web in china.
Poor Time Management: Do You Know The Outcome?
Garage motor in Union
> the NSA has been strongly encouraging suite B (EC-based)
> variants of older ciphersuites.

There is so much structure in the arithmetic of elliptic curves that I would expect ECC methods to be cracked before RSA/DSA. I assumed they were talking about ECC when they claimed a new attack.
Introducing Dotsies: The Space-Saving Font
There was a scandal when the NSA's high-volume tap at AT&T came to light. Such a tap at a core router counts as blanket spying. The reaction to it, increased powers and retroactive immunity, speaks volumes.

The very idea that something like “retroactive immunity” can protect someone from the consequences of breaking the law is a bit mind-bending. Whoever comes up with this stuff, it is to protect a culture of unaccountability and disregard for the law.
Yes, Neo4j has a caching algorithm that optimizes traversals.

See http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/stable/configuration-caches.ht..., http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/stable/performance-guide.html
Kevin Rose joins Google
Boston has changed quite a lot in the past couple of years in terms of biker friendliness. The mayor has made it a big deal to put in new bike lanes and the difference is obvious. For example, on Commonwealth Ave there was a difficult spot where the road goes under Mass Ave. Instead of two lanes now there is 1 lane for cars and 1 for bikes. Similar changes have been made in other parts of the city. Much of the city is flat and the distances between neighborhoods is small. Also because there are a lot more bikers on the road now drivers are becoming much more aware of bike traffic. Between your bike, Zipcar and Relay Rides, which is everywhere, you really don't need a car.
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Wow it's a redbox for bikes, neat.

But unfortunately it would be destroyed and/or gross as hell in most cities that I've lived in.

Nothing wrong with owning your own bike, $150 buys a really descent bike these days.
Cable is more convenent if you don't care what you're watching and don't want to be made to choose. It's optimized for passive consumption. Most people want a morphine IV drip, not a wine cellar.
If you like that, feast your eyes on http://bikes.oobrien.com
"The company pool in Dublin seems large enough ... relative to the size of the city" might be true but the city ranks 34th in Europe by population, its just my opinion from my observations but I have been underwhelmed on the opportunities available for IT in Dublin on 2010-2011 when I was looking actively.
I'll second this, and add, I've purchased more books because of seeing and reading them on Safari Books Online then I think I would have otherwise. The wealth of knowledge available with a subscription is amazing.
Adobe roadmap for the Flash runtimes (2012-2014)
I am an American citizen. My race is not white though. I have traveled all over the world, and have visited over 30 countries. There is no country that I am more afraid to enter than the United States of America, my own home country. When arriving in the United States I am rudely interrogated and treated guilty (of what?) until proven innocent. When I arrive in other countries, I'm told "Welcome". It makes me sad.
I would do behavior based marketing that was relevant to individuals and / or segments ... it would be an opt-in but manufacturers would be really interested in providing great offers if they could reach opinion leaders and certain segments to gain incremental business. Would need to be opt in as I say so its not intrusive but really beneficial
Actually I believe you aren't even legally obligated to return them, whether they pay for shipping or not. This is to prevent mail fraud (someone sending something and then invoicing for it).
6 years ago is ancient?
What is surprising about it? Server core is for specific situations.
You underestimate the power of choice paralysis.
This post keys into an idea I had recently to combine Klout with anonymized/aggregated web history data (i.e. from a browser extension) to build a URL quality/trending score. Google could obviously do this with Chrome, but I'd like to see a more open method of distributing this data to allow anyone to build on top of it. In the same vein, I'd like to see an open service that websites could ping when they want a page to be indexed. This would allow for a more open and efficient crawling ecosystem than currently exists. In general, development and ownership of search and social should become more open and distributed just as telephony, electricity, operating systems, and so many more large industries before it.
Some of them are mine and my friends but most of them are just people who had signed up before.

What we are aiming for is a place to sell your stuff. Hassle free and simple.
Most people hate eBay because it's overly complex, restricted and expensive.

I think that's a good idea. Going to stores and selling their products. If I actually sell some items, then I can tell the manager and maybe they can start doing it themselves
Err, if you're referring to social security that's money that they've been paying into as part of their paycheck. But generally that's not the primary source of income AIUI. Most people were counting on their 401Ks which obviously took a hit by varying degrees. So there's a strong financial incentive for them to delay retirement as long as possible.

Medicare may be considered suckling on the govt teat but uh getting old is ridiculously expensive. I expect it would still not be enough depending on age and severity of medical conditions.
Ask HN: Re-entering U.S after post graduate U.S Degree 
Hi, I am a graduate of a top 20 CS Univ in U.S , where I did my post-graduation.Due to an unfortunate sequence of events- culminating from graduating in 2009 ( worst year of the recession )and not finding a job in time,my visa restrictions implied,I had to come back to India. I am looking to re-enter U.S on H1-B this October. Yes,I know that there are lot of Indian post graduate students who shamelessly fudge their resume for fake work experience,and then work at a IT consultancy firm. I'm not one them. When I ultimately had to chose between paying my student loan in INR,and somehow staying in U.S on a loophole,I came back to India. I would consider myself as a decent hacker-who likes algorithm puzzles for a pastime,amateur guitarist,who enjoys coding in C,C++,and does not shy from disassembling on gdb,I would like to know if there is anyone else who had to leave U.S because of visa restrictions (for instance the recession of 2000),and came back to U.S to work.Sharing your experience would mean a great deal to me.I'm sure I'm not alone.
This is the same line of reasoning many people put forward in London as well (and before that Munich when I lived there). The reality is it works well. Yes the occasional bike gets vandalized, but the system provides reliable transportation for thousands of people every day.

It reminds me of the indoor smoking ban. Everywhere I live, people say "yes, that's fine in X, but it will never work here." Then it comes and it works fine.
I recall Eric Schmidt saying they thought about this, but the lawyers told them it would be illegal so they didn't explore it further.
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Thank you. Never thought about that.
Yes, I am doing this on Ubuntu 10.10 (which has gnome2). I will check if this exists on Ubuntu 11.10 and get back to you.
Highly debatable.

For starters, shoe laces need to be tied, and they come undone. To use Velcro straps you simply have to press them firmly into place, and they take quite a lot of force to undo improperly.

The fact of the matter is the primary reason most people, by a huge margin, chose laces over Velcro is aesthetics (which Velcro sorely lacks).
It would be tempting to do the same as a payment processor of some kind, too.
Two different issues

As Ze Frank said:

"The longer they [those with the "good" ideas] wait, the
more they convince themselves of how perfectly that idea
should be executed, and they imagine it on a beatiful
platter with glitter and rose petals."

It's a simple discussion about implementation. Not sure what you're arguing against.
Thinking like this helps me center.

Whenever I find myself down and my productivity low, I stop and think of how insignificant all this is, on a cosmic scale. We're here, and then we're not.

You'd guess that this thinking would make you feel nihilistic: what is the point of what I'm doing? Ironically, I only feel like that when thinking on a human scale, of life, of what I want to accomplish, of how unattainable it all seem in the moment. Then I step back, and I see that we are a spec in time and all this self-doubt and torture is unnecessary. At the end of this game, there are no winners. Enjoying the sport is your personal victory.
So it's only worth it if you make serious money. But just pretty good money is not worth the effort?

We're not talking about a multi-million dollar AAA development cycle. Probably 2 or 3 months of a single developer and maybe a part-time artist. Achieving some profitability for a major app like his wouldn't be difficult.

But no, let's flush some profitability down the toilet because it'll only buy a slightly used last year's Porsche, not next year's all new one.
Men turn dumber around women
You could feed the NSA data on about 80% of the world population?
Temporal Patterns
"In general I found having a car was a pretty key part of living in Boston".
I would agree with that assuming that you live in and/or want to go out of Boston for whatever reason (work, visiting friends, etc.). I live in Beacon Hill without a car but need a cab/zipcar to visit friends in Watertown or go to the Cape for instance.
Yeah, I'm skeptical about the existence of "state run organisations dedicated to helping your business". Not that they can't be useful, but, you'll need to tell me why.
Starting from scratch does not take into account all the growing pains the previous software hat that made it into the quagmire you have learned to hate.
Look at graph databases. These are very different from document stores or KV stores (NoSQL doesn't imply any commonality), though a KV store or something like HadoopFS might be used as a storage layer. They have their own challenges to scale up.
Thanks, he made some strong points. I transcribed the most relevant part:

If you don't want to run out of ideas, the best thing to do is not to execute them
You can tell yourself that you don't have the time or resources to do them right
Then they stay around in your head like brain crack
So no matter how bad it gets, at least you have those "good ides" that you'll get to "later"
Some people get addicted to that brain crack
and the longer they wait, the more they convince themselves of how perfectly that idea should be executed
and they imagine it on a beatiful platter with glitter and rose petals
and everybody is clapping, *for them*
but the bummer is must ideas kinda suck when you do them
and no matter how much you plan, you still have to do something for the first time
and you're almost guaranteed the first time you do something it'll blow
but somebody who does something bad three times still has 3x the experience of that other person who's still dreaming of all the applause.
when I get an idea, even a bad one, I try to get it out in the world asap
cause I certainly do not want to get addicted to brain crack
The specifics of this situation was that my wife was declaring several bags of ketchup-flavoured potato chips, which are quite popular in Canada but virtually unknown in the U.S. My wife said that a lot of people liked them, and his statement was something on the order of "they can't be that good because they're not available in America."

So, yes: he told my wife that he believes that products available in America are superior to products available in Canada; it's not a far stretch to say that he "absolutely didn't want to experience anything Canadian, because everything American is obviously superior." Further, it's also not a big stretch to suggest that this man should be cycled back to the U.S. because he's an absolutely horrendous ambassador for Americans.

Your other statement ("ICE is a minor problem…") is complete nonsense given the discussion at hand. ICE is often the first American face a foreigner sees coming into the U.S. The arrogance (and other negative attributes) displayed by many ICE officers is absolutely a problem for America, because it's a bad impression.

I don't travel much to the U.S. (at most once or twice a year, and sometimes less despite the fact that most of my extended family is in the U.S.), and as an American citizen I can't be refused entry. Inasmuch as that matters, I don't care how asinine these folks are. However, I care deeply when the first view of Official America that a foreigner gets is someone with a bad attitude and distrust and/or dislike for non-Americans. (I also think that any ICE officer who is stationed in a foreign country needs to act like they like that foreign country and skip the whole America First act that I've seen far too often at Toronto Pearson. It's offensive.)

EDIT: I'm rather offended that your immediate assumption is that someone is making something up when they say something. Maybe you haven't experienced it, but the Ugly American Syndrome is alive and well. It bothered me as a U.S. military brat when my father was stationed in both the Netherlands and in Japan, and it bothers me as an adult expat (and now dual citizen). America's a great place and has great people, but if you work for the government and are stationed in a foreign country, you are America to the people you're around. Act like you're representing your country well and don't be an ass.
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I really just do all my work in Dropbox folders anyway. Instant code everywhere. Life's good.
How about: Because I don't subscribe to the philosophy of Diogenes.
There's a standing feature request to make this more apparent: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1017933 - help it out with an upvote. :)
I am wondering if this water circulates within their datacenter going through some cooling system or they have constant stream connected to community water pipe? Can someone explain? e.g. how big might be daily consumption of this facility? is there serious "green" difference of its mostly PR trick?
> I'm completely at a loss to come up with a not that difficult way to block porn on the internet in a way that couldn't be circumvented in less than 15 minutes by your average even half way technical teenager.

The easiest way is a password on a computer. If you aren't around to supervise your kid, they aren't allowed to be on the computer. You could also keep the computer in a public location, like the living room or den, where they will be highly unlikely to surf porn.

And I can't imagine there aren't good firewall programs out there for parents to use. There were at least mediocre ones a decade+ ago when most people were still on dial up.

Open wifi networks are still an issue, like I said. Although I'm not sure how many teenagers would surf for porn in Starbucks. Certainly not enough to warrant the censoring of the entire internet.
I had a similar positive experience with a gift subscription to Make. The site woudn't take my credit card. so I tried again. Then again. Then again the next day, finally success.

Credit card shows 3 charges.... friend gets 3 copies of the magazine.
They took care of it promptly. Sent me a couple make t-shirts.

Loyal O'Reilly cusomer/ oReilly radar reader.

http://radar.oreilly.com/
Assuming you have a home and don't have to contribute.

I don't have much sympathy for the mindset displayed in this article (I've moved 5 times, ~4k miles total, on near minimum wage salaries), but you are making the same kind of assumptions these kids do.

A lot of people have struggling parents who aren't able to provide a free ride. Some people just have shitty parents.

It's easy to assume there is always a place to call home when you have it. Be glad you do.
This article goes along with, "What you could do if you were Apple and had their cash", and other greats like, "What you could do if you were a genie".

Just saying.
It occurs to me that one way to save power would be to specifically design your servers to operate at significantly higher temperature, that way cooling is much cheaper and less power intensive.
>He was working on a scheme to get people to recommend things to their friends in return for discounts on those things."

KILL IT WITH FIRE!
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Cargo pants are baggy and in my experience tend to get caught on furniture.

(Not to mention they make you look like some sort of ex-marine wilderness survival nut or something)
Then you're going to have to figure out how to make your liberal arts a crapload cheaper. "Follow your bliss" and "spend $200,000 on school for vocational training" are two great tastes that go terribly together.
My father used to tell me this "Provide education for free to those who really want it and deserve it. If not provide it only those who can pay for it".

My father was a professor in India, where college education is free. All state funded colleges are free and most of them are easy to get into. But most of the students are not interested in learning, they come to college for time pass. So, free education should be given to only those who deserve.
The article neglects to mention two of the primary reasons why it's good to do business here:

- 12.5% corporate tax rate. Also if you are big enough to afford good tax advice, e.g. Google or Microsoft you can bounce your revenue from Ireland to the Netherlands and into the Caribbean tax-free islands - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...

- Young, native English-speaking workforce. For historical reasons we don't generally speak our native tongue at all. We've a high birth rate, so our population demographic is quite young compared to other developed western nations.

If a multinational (or startup) is looking to expand into the EU, Ireland would be a good bet for a place to open an office for these reasons. The city I live in (Cork) is just an hour flight from London, and it costs €30 ($40) return including taxes and charges on Ryanair. That's cheaper than a train from Cork to Dublin, our two biggest cities. So Europe is highly accessible, and you can freely travel within the EU without customs hassle.
HN: Looking for a design partner for FavGoal.com
Hello HN, I'm looking for a design partner for http://favgoal.com.

I'm looking for good designer who loves soccer and can take ownership of FavGoal's identity.

I'm the sole developer and built the current prototype over a few months. I'm open to going in any direction with it.

There is a monetization plan that I'm willing to share privately.

Have a good one -

. Kevin
. kriggen[at]gmail
How about dog walking? Lawn care? Those are just unskilled examples. There are all kinds of small business that you could do without significant investment, so long as you are willing to grow the business out of your earnings.
'Faster-than-light' particles fade after cross-check
Sorry, I missed what the article was trying to say... am I correct that the TL;DR version is "social search" ?
You can find friends who will help you change for the better. When you do, value them.
> In general, development and ownership of search and social should become more open and distributed just as telephony, electricity, operating systems, and so many more large industries before it.

I am working on an effort to do that called VerticalSet. It is a search engine/platform to let developers change search experience the way they want while giving users best search experience.

http://www.verticalset.com/
My favorite (paraphrased from audio) quote from presentation specific to principle of immediate feedback:

"I can make these changes as I think of them. That is so important to creative process. If there is any delay in that feedback loop between thinking about something and building on it, there is this whole world of ideas that will just never be. These are ideas that we can't think."
I think there will always be room for e-ink. This afternoon, I took an hour off to sit on the balcony and read a bit. It was so bright outside that I was barely able to read anything on the iPad. Switched to the Kindle, worked perfectly well.

I think it's a technology that fills a niche that LCDs or OLEDs won't fill for a very long time, if ever.
Fixing CDN-served static assets in ActionMailer when using hash-based routing
This is kind of an amazing tip. Thanks. I had no idea jgit even existed, let alone could do this.
It's weird how this article treats Git and Github as synonymous.

Github's rails bug really had nothing to do with Git itself.
Cutting a check is pretty difficult when you stop receiving a salary. The logic of the US system is incredible: Pay a few hundred dollars a month while employed for coverage from your employer, or if they lay you off, you have the opportunity of picking up COBRA coverage by paying both the employee and employer portion for over a thousand dollars a month. In what other first world country do the newly unemployed pay 3x the price for healthcare that the gainfully employed do? Once your COBRA benefits expire in 18 months, you can expect to pay even more as now you have to shop on the open market and a lot of insurance carriers just flat out refuse to sell insurance to a single family.
But these offers you mention (FB, Google, etc.) are in Silicon Valley— are salaries in the valley and in NYC comparable?
You fight like a dairy farmer Some Twitter whimsy with Ruby
Rattled by Google’s Motorola buy, Samsung rumored to license BlackBerry 10
Fab & Custora calculate the the lifetime value of an iPad (customer)
I would build the biggest NoSQL datastore in the world. I would use all public data - anything that could be searched and I would invite other companies to put their data on my cloud. THEN we would find a cure for cancer.
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