skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The New Deal had absolutely nothing to do with the late Victorian period (or the 19th century.) The New Deal was a reaction to the Great Depression.

There was indeed great wealth concentration in the 19th century, but there was also a massive amount of wealth creation that benefited more than just the very wealthy.

The Federal Reserve had little to do with the concentration of wealth. The Federal Reserve was the culmination of decades of lobbying to bring back a central bank the U.S.
Enjoy Task Management By Spending Less Time Doing It
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You can replace the built-in apps with different ones but this can go only go so far as to change the icons you tap on dashboard. The lack of unified way for apps to interact with each other is seriously crippling the platform's capabilities.

As I use both an iPad and Android phone on daily basis, I'm find this especially lacking in tablet setting. An app wants to open a web page in standalone browser? They will always do that in Safari. Sending an email? Only through the default app. About the only 3rd party application that I can consistently use from more than one place is probably Read It Later (called Pocket now) - and that's only because apps' developers took time specifically to integrate with it.

And that's basically how it works on iOS now: for application X to interact with Y, it must specifically account for Y. Any similar replacement app Y' or Y'' will not be supported unless handled separately. It's easy to see how this model doesn't scale to diversity.
You can check with Chrome, Ctrl+Shift+I, then Audits and reload/Run.

A few years ago they started promoting best practices [0] and after following it + checking with Audit/pagespeed I got performance increases. Now it seems they abandoned their own best practices. Running an audit on a google page results in a lot of red/orange bullets.

[0] https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/rule...
The key is to combine "minimalistic living" with life hacks. Reduce your life down to the essentials, then use life hacks to go even further.

For example: you probably won't get away without paying your bills so a "life hack" that automates that process will take another load of your shoulders.'

On the other hand, a "life hack" for storing "all your stuff" might not be as good as simply "get rid of all your crap"

Also good point about life design, there's not much point in "saving x minutes" or earning "x dollars" if you don't do anything useful and worthwhile with it

All in all the most important thing is to have a process, call it kaizen, constant improvement, or whatever. Try different things, measure / see what works, learn from the mistakes, rinse - repeat
"Syncing all your crap with all your other crap"

What an awesome quote ;-)
Modern pesticides are not particularly toxic, but they are also not completely safe. They often break down into things like estrogen, so we know low doses are not going to kill you but they are still biologically active. Which set's up a cost benefit analysis of tiny positive vs significant cost.

Modern farming is more harmful to the area being farmed, but takes significantly less land to produce the same food which in theory means you can let more land go fallow (wild). As to profit margins farming in the US is only profitable though subsidy's so that's just a question of government incentives.

PS: Not that I actually shop for organic food, but it's not completely irrational behavior to do so.
I think that would be inconsistent. All existing @<whatever> fragments are evaluated at compile-time. Your @+, @|, @&, @^ feel more appropriate as proper functions (the compiler could still know of them, so it could optimize calls away)

Also: dictionary merge/intersect/difference aren't easily defined. For example, what should

@&( @{ @"a":@"aye", @"b":@"bee" }, @{ @"a":@"ai ai", @"Bee":@"bee" })

return?
I did NOT get that. All I got was a direct link to the book.

You people are stuck on the wrong side of an A/B experiment. Tough luck~
Nice article on the behind the scenes of the London Games in Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/06/international-olym...

As Livingstone prepared to sign, he paused for a moment. Then he looked up at the I.O.C.’s executive director, Gilbert Felli, who was standing by his side, and said, “My lawyers advised me not to sign this contract. But I don’t suppose I’ve got any choice, have I?”

“No,” Felli answered, “you haven’t, really.”
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Yes, it'd be nice if that search went straight to the function in question -- however, it'd make the docs a lot more broken up and IMHO harder to use if each module had 15 sub-pages for the individual functions. Harder to scan or Ctrl-F on the page, for one thing.
I am not ignoring this. I'm getting around to answering you. Perhaps out of band ..
Y-axis need to start at zero when the data being presented is a bar graph and the bar is filled in. If it is a scatter plot with points being plotted, then it's generally not misleading to shift the axis.
I now expect him to commute to work on a horse. Wearing a suit of armor.
I've come to the conclusion that the hardest part of "lifehacking" is what I might call the Principle of Moderate Change.

Essentially, small changes can't be pushed by will alone, because they're easy to make but hard to maintain. They just don't make enough of a difference. If you try to get up 5 minutes earlier every morning, you're not going to become a "morning person". You're going to start making exceptions because there just isn't a real difference between waking up at 7:25 vs. 7:30. Likewise, people who try to "cut back" on cigarettes fail. After a month, they're back to their old rate. Small changes get wiped out if there isn't some long-term, glacial force (not conscious will) pushing them.

From a static perspective, you need enough magnitude in the change to escape the "drainage region" of whatever local optimum you're at, and move into another region. If we take the more featured dynamic perspective wherein those optima might be moving, we see that gradual life changes are happening all the time, but that will power alone is not causing them: the glacial shift in these local optima is what does this.

On the other hand, extreme changes are usually rejected, both by the individual (who never gains confidence in his ability to see the change through) and by people that one intends to influence. The only time people accept these kinds of changes is when there's a sense either of desperation or extreme opportunity, and those are rare circumstances.

So it seems that the most effective way to consciously manage one's life is to make meaningful changes of middling size-- not so small that they get rubbed out by the long-term glacial changes, but not so large that it's impossible to really believe that they will work. I think this is appropriate to self-management and leadership: getting the size of the change right.

The problem with lifehacking is that the appropriate moderate and large changes vary from one person to another, which means that a one-size-fits-all approach won't work. Getting up at 6:00 am will make some people a lot more productive, and others far less. The larger the change, the more individualized this question of appropriateness gets. So "lifehacking" usually focuses on relatively small changes but promises a larger impact. It's not surprising that most of these hacks fail to deliver and end up costing more energy (through constant change and the continual depletion inflicted by unnecessary self-control) than they add in productivity.
Using your PaaS as an Integration Backbone through FoxWeave
I think 'hosting providers' are a throwback to the late 90's and the last decade. These days anyone who needs more than a service like wordpress (and there are many, many people who are happy to use hosted blogging etc servies) is likely to have their own server instance. Are there really that many people who have access to 'only' PHP, but not whatever framework they would like? (from django to rails).
How many times will he gets Knighted? IPod is his sword,Ipad his shield,Mac his armour :-)
My own usage barely strays from the default apps that Apple includes. If anything, I'd argue that Apple has done a great job with updating and keeping those relevant to what I need from my phone.
Must say, hadn't noticed the heavy UI, but now that I think about it, a bit ridiculous that Gmail still has a loading bar.

Can't comment on Google Plus, I kept my account for about 2 days. Not terrible or anything, the value proposition just wasn't there for me.
You can solve this in a simple way: Spend a fixed percentage of your time on fixing your tools, the rest on the actual work. The fixed portion should not exceed 20% or so.

Like that you stay productive and you incrementally improve your work environment.

Obsessing over your work environment is just as counterproductive as obsessing over the work itself. A healthy balance is the main ingredient to increasing productivity in the longer term.
The rabbit hole is in that automation, though.
Talks Between Apple and Samsung Chief Executives Yield Little Progress
When Rich Hickey announced ClojureScript he said "Why are we doing this? Because Clojure rocks, and JavaScript reaches." The simplest reason is because JS is the Language of the Web.

It's worth wondering why this is, and I don't really have an answer. In JS's infancy, Java was meant to be the Language of the Web and JS was its asthmatic younger brother. There are probably purely aesthetic problems which led to Java being overtaken by Flash, but I don't know. I sometimes like to say that Java looked consistent in every browser -- but consistently ugly. But Java is not necessarily fun to develop in either, and getting people to install Java always seemed like it was more pain than getting them to install the Flash plugin.

You can treat it as a black box, of course: even to this day, for lots of people, Java on the web just plain doesn't work. But I think you're asking why it doesn't work, and that's much more subtle. You know who would be an interesting person to ask? An advertiser. You see flash ads, you see JS ads, you see flat image ads -- but you never see Java ads.

In any case, I think JS won because it gave immediate gratification: you took the image that you had already placed on the page and, onmouseover, you replaced it with an animated GIF which you'd already loaded and cached. It was event-driven design with a GUI language that you already needed to know when you were making a web app in the first place -- you didn't have to learn AWT and Swing and such before you could make and place a drop-down menu; you just placed a SELECT with OPTIONs, the same as for a form.

When CSS replaced FONT tags and ECMA partly solved the problem of Microsoft trying to kill Javascript in favor of JScript, it became clear to me that JS was indeed the Language of the Web, and that HTML and CSS were just very smart declarative domain-specific languages for its GUIs. If you want a single lesson, there it is: make sure your language allows for declarative programming, and make sure your GUI language is declarative and event-driven.

Its other strengths would not necessarily have been strengths elsewhere. It's an asynchronous language with no race conditions. That's perfect for a responsive GUI, but it's probably wrong for anything which needs lots of processing power. It's got light objects and first-class functions, which is beautiful when you want to package data and write jQuery, but the cool stuff you can do with the Haskell type checker is pretty much not allowed by this model.

But those are the reasons why you might still prefer JS, even when other middle languages exist.
The CC command line tool is a total piece of crap but it has all functionalities

So theoretically it could work, but you would waste some time

Not to mention people related to CC are usually rude, ignorant, afraid to be made redundant so they rely on blackmail and threats to keep their position (yes, I'm generalizing)
Funny -- I've used Python and its online docs for many years and never used their search, I always use Google. :-) Google search with site:docs.python.org does a somewhat better job: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=string...
They wouldn't be buying the bitcoins, they would be mining the bitcoins -- and newly mined bitcoins don't have any history showing who paid for the GPUs which found them.
"Though it did't help that the genre's are great fits for the tracks I listened to, that does tend to happen with amateur music."

You mean are not? :)
It's interesting how many preconceptions we have - I mean, selecting 'ambient' I were prepared for getting fuzzy, 'not-exactly-what-i-call-ambient' stuff. Where in different kind of service (say, internet radio) I really want to get almost exactly what I mean by 'ambient'. Just part of a deal using such a service. Amazing how all this adds to perception of the service and its usability (and success or failure).

(If I ever write a book that will be about 'contexts'.) :)
As an addendum to your points, I do not have a Facebook account, and since deleting mine I've not even wanted one. Google, Amazon, Dropbox, and a few other services are compelling enough that unless they make serious errors, I will continue using their product. Facebook just had to change their privacy policy before I was finally annoyed enough to give them the boot.
"Nice girls" sticks out like a sore thumb, as if it had been thrown in to replace "hot chicks" so no one would be offended.

Oh, look! That's exactly what happened.
I agree: inappropriate.

And before we get into any sort of argument of misogyny and what is or is not acceptable, I'd point out that there's good advice here: Anything taking away from your point is doing you a disservice. Stick to discussing good design choices, or the message will get lost in the din.
It's going to be interesting in the long term how the battle between consistency and flexibility/innovation plays out.

In general people seem to be happier using the software that they know everyone else is using even if they hate it (case in point, pretty much every version of Windows).

On the other hand when a "killer app" comes along that is a big enough step forward to make everybody pay attention, this is more likely to happen on the most "open" platform.

Apple has done well so far because a significant enough of these "killer apps" have been developed by them in house.

Take web browsers for instance, even though HN will argue the merits of various browsers endlessly from an end user point of view they are usually all so similar as to make no difference.

However with iphone you are essentially locked to safari (or other browsers which are essentially safari skins).

What would happen if a third party developed a completely new browser that revolutionized mobile browsing?

If that were not available on iPhone due to apple's policies then what would happen to their market share?
It used to be that I would try to avoid getting registered with most stuff on the web, because I'm paranoid that way. But now, if I like an app and do want to register, there is no sign-up button!

OP: Saw some pretty decent music there, but I assure you, not everyone is comfortable using only facebook to sign up on various web services. Especially here on HN, I imagine.
Actually, I do not think so. Apple would have nothing to gain from integrating own Apps further and/or producing more of them.

However, they have something to gain if the mail app is not good enough for powerusers and all of them buy Sparrow instead. That saves them a whole lot of developer/maintenance time and gets them 30% of every e.g. Sparrow sold. While that may not be Apples main incentive, it is definitely something I think.
Other than stating that you're smarter, could you point to a factual error in my numbers?
If I were Heinz, why would I want this product? I'd rather people throw away the ketchup bottle with some of the ketchup still in it since that leads to higher sales for me. They're still paying me to throw that ketchup away.
Best critique of QR codes I've heard is that they solve a marketer's problem, not a consumer's.
Honestly, you're giving the entire institution of education waaaayyy too much credit. I think they're just trying to teach children with as little expense possible, in a way that panders to the lowest common denominator and what you see in public education today is the end result. Homework is just a happy byproduct of a poorly structured industry :p They can't be evil geniuses and inept at the same time can they? At least that's how I view it.

I think educational institutions attempt to shape young people in a way they imagine makes them contributing members of society.

At least, that was the starting point. What it has boiled down to (getting back to pandering to the lowest common denominator, the bad system structure in it's entirety and desire to spend the least amount of money + the fact that it's flipping hard to get kids to do what you want, ask a parent) is that they are now basically just hoping young people don't get into trouble. Just get through to college without ruining your life or the life of someone else, and hey.. maybe you'll even learn something.

This type of system doesn't breed the next Steve Jobs, but it probably does get a few extra kids of the street and maybe impart some knowledge.
Or the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Congressional Silver Medal... etc.
How easy would it be for apple to allow apps to register themselves with the ability to open certain files/handle certain situations and then present that in the system menu for those who want to tinker with that?

default web browser >
default music >
etc.
I was just stating what happened. Sure, I don't have a problem stating why I bought it at on IPO day at 100 p/e. I bought a small stake in my retirement fund because I believe Facebook will achieve beyond 10x their current earnings in the long run and I don't think anyone can predict the best time to buy this stock with the hype around it. I plan on checking the stock price once a year not once an hour.
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Tanzania is actually part of Eastern Africa and not Southern Africa. But you are right, Southern Africa constitutes a group of a countries while South Africa is a single country.
He's nervous even in this interview.
The only default app I have "replaced" is the calculator app. I use calctimate. http://www.skypaw.com/apps/calctimate/ However, that app isn't important and never is triggered to launch by other apps (like mail or safari). Plus, I only use it maybe once a month.

Also, you can set default clients if you jailbreak. However, I just think everything is so much smoother and faster when you use the default apps Apple provides.
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The point of the article was not to waste time/energy doing that, I thought.
Mark Zuckerberg sells 30.2 million shares of $FB common stock at $37.58
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pretty cool i would like to see this put into use for a webgl sands game
Do you think NASDAQ shut their computers down? Were automated traders crippling the system? Perhaps something else?
"that lives on the web"

What does that even mean?
Quick explanation of vectors
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This post really resonates with me. I've felt the same way about a career as an engineer and have left many jobs in the past because of hitting a ceiling in terms of technical growth and ability to learn new things. I really started gravitating towards startups and consulting instead of big companies because of this desire.

But today, I have two small children and simply can't put in the same amount of time towards work as I was able to before. That makes the corporate environments more attractive, but I find it really comes at odds with my hacker mentality of wanting to learn and grow.

Recently I've come across a few roles within certain large companies where you can continue to learn and grow, but maintain a more sustainable pace than in startups or consulting. These types of roles seem to help strike that balance between getting a sustainable pace for someone with a family while not stagnating technically in a typical corporate job. There aren't a ton of these roles and they can be pretty competitive to get into, but I think they're a good choice to explore.
I use all the default iOS and Mac apps (except for Safari - I prefer Chrome).

I've found that Apple eventually incorporates the best features of these alternative apps into their core apps anyhow.
> Oh, and as a SSL-only site, it of course defeats entirely all my local web caching.

The assets cache just fine, SSL or not.
> I will say that "3% of $100M (and no other outcomes)" would be an extremely pessimistic assessment of a startup, a so-called "risky double."

It's a way to get people to think of expected value. I Could have instead said "$3M expected value". Would you say it's pessimistic to assume that's what a startup will eventually bring in (as cash) to shareholders?

I think it might even be optimistic. There are thousands of 3-people startups that fold giving out $0.
I find that once you realize there's a problem that can be solved it's often the case that a solution is available if you look for it. My bank for instance makes it easy to set up automatic payment of most of my bills. Yet if I never realize that this is an annoyance that could be solved I wouldn't have gone looking for that "feature".
I'm not in control of my email inbox; the thing fills up faster than I can deal with it. From a GTD lifehacking perspective this is bad. From a normal human perspective this is bad; I don't like to feel that I am perpetually disappointing people by not responding to them quickly.

I could put a lot of time and effort into getting it under control and keeping it under control. In fact I've tried a few times, although it always reverted back to out of control as soon as I got busy again.

Re-read that last sentence--I let it go "as soon as I got busy again." It took me a while but I realized that this is actually my own healthy attitude about email...it's not what keeps me busy. My real work is what keeps me busy, or my family, or my friends. Email is what I fit in around the real stuff I do.

I've accepted that email management means simply choosing who to disappoint on a daily and sometimes hourly basis. In a way it's flattering that all these people want my attention and efforts. But it's not sustainable. So I've consciously tried to shift my mental energy from trying to "fix" my email, to simply trying to make the best decisions about who to disappoint as I go along with my real work.
I have only watched one or two Charlie Rose videos, but I agree that Terry Gross is the best interviewer I have ever heard. By far. Hmm actually I think Adam Carolla is not bad either.