skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Philip Greenspun suggests something similar:

http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/

He also adds another clever idea:

"Can we tweak the $N bonus idea at all? What if a kid becomes a repulsive yuppie despite the lack of financial necessity? Won't his siblings become envious when Chad, Jr. gets a $3 million check from Chad, Sr. to supplement his $1 million/year earnings at J.P. Morgan? Perhaps there should be a sliding scale for the bonus where the first $100,000/year is muliplied by 4, the next $100,000 by 3, the next $100,000 by 2, and the rest of the kid's income is not subject to a parental bonus. Or there could be a lifetime cap of $10-20 million per kid (no Gulfstream for Johnny :-( )."
My prior would be p=0.167 (cite: Wikipedia, "one out of every six serial killers is a woman").
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No offense taken at all. Different strokes for different folks.
Ditto. Was out of work for a little under 2 weeks.
easier said than done :)

I believe if they were going to do something controversial (eg, close down / remove big features) they'd let us know in advance.

They need me far more than I need them.
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Ask them to move you to a different server:

12:24:03 up 80 days, 11:29, 5 users, load average: 2.58, 2.16, 2.35

Which is a little on the high end of what I usually see. More importantly, when there has been a problem they've identified it and dealt with it.
Pixar wouldn't exist without any of the core three (John, Ed, Steve).

Without John, Pixar wouldn't have the creative drive and the "story driven" culture that sets it apart from every other studio on the planet.

Without Ed, it wouldn't have the brains, the technology (and these days) a great day to day manager.

Without Steve, Pixar may have just been a dead startup. He had the product sense, the business sense, and the deep pockets to help Pixar succeed. These days, Ed fills that role in many ways.
I'm gen-Y but my sister who's 4 years older is gen-x?

They keep having kids at younger and younger ages....
That is an interesting article. Supposedly I'm at the leading edge of the millenials, having been born in late 1982. But not a single person I know resembles these characters portrayed as hipsters.

On the other hand, I know quite a few civic-minded and tech-savvy peers who do give a damn.
Currently, just clicking on a username and then clicking on the comments link in the user profile gives me a pretty good sense of what that user is like.

My highest rated comment so far occurred yesterday, when I got 30 points for saying something reasonably good early on in a popular post. I think other people agreed with what I said, and so (appropriately) just upvoted the comment rather than repeating it.

If your proposed feature just ended up displaying lots of comments like these, it might not be that great.

A somewhat related idea might be to let longstanding/high karma users add a 'top N favorite comments' list to their profile. When you looked at a user's profile, you could click through to see their favorites, and the comments by them favorited by others. (Users could add their own comments to their favorites list, if they wanted to.)

I can think of several users right now whose favorites would be interesting to me.
I still use it. Once you've optimized your code you get very fast results, and it's possible to iterate extremely quickly.

It's not good for everything, but what it's good for, it's great at.
It might make sense to be open with the client about your motives and try to get them to help you determine what type of information related to the relationship they are comfortable with you sharing with potential investors. You run the risk that they tell you not to disclose anything at all, but knowing that upfront is probably better than disclosing too much without their knowledge/approval.
I have a feeling that most of the real engineering that happens today (including wireless as you said) are actually depending quite a lot on the generation before Gen-Y. Gen-Y can't take credit for much of anything really. The only exception is some of the "Web 2.0" stuff.
Actually, my idea was to promise the pay increases. This assumes that knowing you're going to get them won't affect the joy of getting them very much. But that could be wrong.

Also, the idea is not to prompt working harder because people actually think they're getting raises, but to make people you've already hired happier, on the assumption that happier people produce more/better.
Python is easy to learn, even if you don't have previous experience. Check out some tutorials (note - I recommend learning Python 2.6, forget about Python3 for now):

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/
http://docs.python.org/using/
http://python.org/doc/
http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html

After learning the basics, take a deeper look into Django:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/
http://www.djangobook.com/

You should be able to build an app like newsYC in a week or so.
The thing about web hosting is that it's undervalued by people due to price competition. A lot of people think it's reasonable to pay $5 for a hosting account and they expect everything to work perfectly and get support if they can't figure something out. Well if they spend one hour of staff time a year helping you then the profit margin is essentially shot. That's why most cheapo shared hosts just offer crap service. It's not worth it to even try.

That's why the momentum is definitely the direction of hosted services for most things people need rather than direct web hosting. If you want to host your own website you should either A) pay a few hundred a month for a managed host, or B) learn to be your own sysadmin (which frankly is not nearly as hard as it used to be).
Kids, here's my first law : "Anything that can be automatized will be automatized".

Let's apply it : can war be automatized ? The answer is a resounding yes! So war will be automatized, whatever the consequences.
Didn't know you were also in Cambridge, I'm just a stones throw (45mins) away...

There seems to be a reasonable startup scene there, do you go to any meetups? know of any?
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Ah, but would that rule be unilaterally established? Because then it would break itself.
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where? i can't seem to find it
The fact that the order is switched implies that this isn't an equivalence relation. The word "is" has many English interpretations and doesn't adequately describe what's going on. Logical implication is probably a lot closer here. I might rewrite it as "In Lisp, code -> data. In Haskell, data -> code." This is more about the converse of a statement than the symmetric property of an operator. A statement and its converse do exhibit some symmetry.

To understand what this means on the Haskell side, you need to learn about lazy evaluation and thunks.
Glad to help.

Thanks!
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Actually, my idea was to promise the pay increases.

OK. I stand corrected.

What do you do if, halfway through the year, the corporate board tells you to cut spending? Do you keep your promise to the employees, and risk offending the board? I've had similar continuous-pay-increase ideas, myself, but I'm not sure about promising them up front.

I like the idea of paying partly in equity, by the way. That way the employees are actually part of the company (co-owners), and they can genuinely feel they are building something that is theirs. Maybe the equity payments could be increased over time.
And the contention is that we can observe this because certain high-precision experiments might be picking up anomalies on the scale of a Planck length, whereas we shouldn't theoretically be able to detect anything so small. Therefore, what we're detecting must be an enlarged projection of what's actually there.
I know what lazy evaluation and thunks are. I work with them every day (in Lisp, as a matter of fact). The problem with your statement is it isn't true. One might call it a sloppy overgeneralization, but even the thing it's sloppily overgeneralizing isn't true (as I explained: Lisp programmers use functions to represent data structures all the time).
I'm personally not much of an MS Application fan. I like things that are simple, clean, and fast. Like chrome or this website. I always find MS stuff rather larger than it should be and a little bulky.
Well, give them some time. They're not all even born yet, from what I hear.
How about the following regulation:

No restrictions on what funds can do, no government bailouts, but full disclosure so that clients may impose their own restrictions.
I'd say yes. The HTML is identical right down to the missing XML declaration.
The only good thing about this blog entry was a certain comment:

Plus, we also demand human sacrifices.
The design of good persistent (i.e. 'functional') data structures remains an art. But you do not have to rely on the designers of your language.

Hey, you can even simulate Haskell's lazyness to implement some Persistent Data Structures efficiently in Java.
Now that I am learning PHP to do it you tell me...
I could include multiple statements and allow returns like this:

["function", "byId", ["id"], [["return" ["call", "document", "getElementById", ["id"]]]]]

(basically lisp syntax substituting JS array notation.) My point is that JSON is capable of being terse, and XML is not. XML attributes are unordered, so you have to use child nodes, which have to be named. The best you could do is:

<func><sig name="byId"><arg name="id"/></sig><body><return><call object="document" method="getElementById"><args><variable name="id"></args></call></return></body></func>

Which is significantly longer than a positional JSON serialization. XML is also harder to implement a parser for, and existing libraries tend to be difficult to use (python etree and ruby's implementations are a much better direction). Now, someone else's raw XML is often easy to understand, whereas my array based JSON format would clearly require domain knowledge. Because of this, I prefer JSON for small network requests that are consumed by scripting languages.

For larger, disk files, the overhead of XML is marginalized, and the extra formatting might help in hand editing and error correction.

As for Greenspunning, I think its a perspective issue. The example was one of code serialization, so the lisp syntax is particularly well suited to the problem. Programmers also have the domain knowledge, so the less verbose format is still easy to understand.
Yes, BUT, _that's within Gnome_. Gnome is a unified desktop environment of sorts. If you go outside of that (or KDE, XFCE, etc.), things are more ad-hoc. Some things use GTK, some use Qt, some old stuff uses Athena widgets, etc.
"it" didn't magically hold together. that was the work of the editors! if you read the site with showdead turned on in your profile, you'll see that a record number of users and submissions are getting killed.

just to be clear, that's not me screaming censorship. it's rare for me to see a dead comment or submission that i wouldn't have killed myself, if i had the power to do it.
One of the wildest books I read, maybe ten years ago, is The Holographic Universe.

http://www.amazon.com/Holographic-Universe-Michael-Talbot/dp...

It's a quick, interesting read, but also gets unscientific, to me, in second half.
Have you had experience with RoR? it seems like people are really touting it.

How would you compare that with python and django?

"You should be able to build an app like newsYC in a week or so." -- WOW is it that simple?

thanks again for your help
Last I heard, a single box.
Tactical decisions recur, strategic decisions are one of a kind because, as Heraclitus observed: you cannot step into the same river twice. EDIT: Although experience may allow you to recognize earlier situations the are isomorphic ("history doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme" Mark Twain).

One of the key principles I took away from a "Decision Analysis" class was "good decision, bad outcome." I try to separate my analysis of the process from the results.
I read so much stuff I got my sites mixed up. It wasn't here on HN. There were 2 stories I read in the last week that kind of tied together. The first one(can't remember where) was describing a hypothetical way to use the Casimir effect to propel something through space. There was a more detailed story in New Scientist that talks about using metamaterials and the Casimir effect to induce levitation at extremely small scales. The link I made in my mind was between those two stories and a third, which was about artificial gecko feet. The gecko has an extremely powerful grip because its feet have tiny hairs that extend down to the level where they are able to interact with the van der waals force of molecules on something they are touching.
I think the stray thought I had was a) we can build metamaterials(think invisibility), b) we can build artifical materials that mimic and work like gecko's feet, c) if you can actually induce the casimir effect and generate propulsion-ish forces then:
Make millions of the little microscopic propulsion thingies, attached to structures like the gecko's, scale that up so you have trillions of little propulsors, and you might have some new fangled kind of engine.
I'm a web designer, not a physicist. But it sounds cool. =)
And I completely forgot the link, sorry. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12429-three-ways-to-le...
I'd like to see increased moderation to balance the new users.
I liked the post quite a bit. He not only describes a psychological type that is indeed common among programmers, he also gives reasons for why they are that way and advice about how to interact with them effectively. Plus it was short.
yeah lets work on something that matters like mailing in twitter posts...
And this is why it's best to have both design and engineering skills when bootstrapping a startup. You don't have to treat yourself like a tiny god.

But seriously, I'd like to see more being done to help people cultivate both. It's massively valuable to be able to both care about users and code the thing. What Steve Jobs does on a larger scale by being a dictatorial designer can easily be replicated at the individual stage when you are both designer and implementer.
Agreed. Frankly I think the man's contributed more than his fair share as is. He doesn't owe anybody anything. My guess to his sharing his medical status is more to protect the share value for the other people on his team, whose incomes may depend on it.

I hope the best for him.
no word on how many paid accounts. Seems expensive for what it is.
never noticed that kink
I hope not. Reader and Gmail are two that I cant live without. They are so well designed and super powerful.
The deal was done in 2005. Anyone know how long a non-compete type agreement in an acquisition usually is?
its suggested purely bots or "rss readers" for me. They really need to make a clear clarification between bots and users.

I don't like following bots, and I don't like following users like Barack Obama or Lance Armstrong - because its single direction communication. I follow users that follow me, and we have a twitter relationship. Rather than me standing on the side of the field watching some celebrity.
well you know why that is. A) everybody young seems whiny and entitled to people slightly older, when they first enter the workforce B) generational differences were incredibly important forty years ago and bullshit artists can still build whole careers pontificating about them
oh, and it'd also be fascinating for it to tell me how many users it's recommending me to.
Hey pclark, Feedscrub co-founder here. We're still waiting to see what our conversion numbers will look like. I imagine it'll take users a few days to train the filter and see how it works with their feeds. We're thrilled to have so many new trial users already!
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When a phone call comes in, your application delegate gets a notification that you're about to quit; you can save whatever you want at that point, and of course, should, so when you restart the app, it goes back to exactly where you left off.
Yeah, it starts out ok, but then just desolves into a bunch of random ideas and the author saying "See that could be due to a holograhpic universe"

I was expecting a lot more science. Would've been a much better book.

Not to mention if you look up some of the quacks he lists out you'll find most are just charlatans.
how much do accounts cost?

Couldn't find the pricing page on their website...
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hey jason - havent replied to your email yet but.. you guys going to ATL Tweetup tonight? I think it's in highlands. there's a page on facebook
Threading is a great idea because you can easily follow a discussion, and it takes up much less space than quoting. The disadvantage is that often there is a lot of scrolling to be done when you're not interested in a particular subtopic.

I've been experimenting with a tree-like layout which doesn't have that problem (although it may have other problems). It's no where near completion, but here's an example with data pulled from a reddit thread:

http://api.webnodes.org/

Source: http://code.google.com/p/webnodes/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle

And printer friendly while I'm at it: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world...
I agree with some of his points, but he ignores the economics of starting something when he says that "all the cool kids will have moved on to building sea floor geo-thermal something-or-others".

No teenage coolness will ever overcome the fact that starting industrial ventures requires lots of capital whereas computer programming (hacking as it's called here) does not. Powerful tools combined with low capital requirements is always going to attract a lot of experimentation.
Should doctors be required by law to consult computers for tests/diagnosis/medication?
If you think this is a bad idea, just check out TLC's Mystery Diagnosis. It must be the most frustrating show on television.

BTW, it should also be a crime for a doctor to ignore a computer recommendation without getting permission to do so through official channels.
Ahahaha. Touche.
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$5/mo for unlimited feeds for a limited time.

Trial accounts limited to 3 feeds to help scale for the launch. Very soon we'll be releasing a way for users to earn more free feeds.
I go to a fair amount .. there are lots - Are you on twitter? Big community around here.

Drop me an email - I love meeting interesting people :)

Here's a few handy links:
www.refreshcambridge.org # great web community with monthly meetups
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1493387/
"pierrefar" is another great Hacker News user thats in Cambridge FYI.
The theory seems to suggest that the universe's 'resolution' will be coarser closer to its center. That's vaguely like the physics of Vernor Vinge's 'Fire Upon The Deep'/'Deepness in the Sky' universe -- where you have to move away from the galactic centers to achieve faster computation and FTL travel.
A single box can range from an old 286 to something that powers plenty of fish.
NYTimes style bubble charts with Python and Nodebox
SearchYC.com can do some sorting of user's comments.

e.g. http://searchyc.com/user/Alex3917
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I wasn't doubting the accuracy of the article in claiming the statement was on the reprap site. I was doubting the accuracy of the statement.

I don't believe we're unable to manufacture 40% of our proteins.
Sorry, no RoR experience.
It doesn't matter that much if you chose Ruby/Rails or Python/Django at the beginning, mainly if you don't have any previous experience. Maybe try both and see what are you most comfortable in.

Yeah, it's quite easy. For a toy project like this clone you're planning, you wouldn't even need a database.
"It filters out the posts that are least interesting to you and leaves only the stuff that is relevant."

How well does this service work in practice? I imagine telling spam and non-spam emails apart is far easier then "predicting" which blog post I will like.
While I'm all in favor of multiple consultations (either by human or computer), I have to say there seems to be too much bureaucracy. I would like to know what percentage of doctors actually feel like most of their time is being spent evaluating patients, and not safeguarding themselves in case of malpractice lawsuits.
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Technically, you might want to say "robots will lower the threshold to attack". Like a cruise missile, they make it so you can act without launching an entire war.

And like other precise munitions, they are tools. There is nothing different about a robot.

People get a bit too excited about robots because of Sci-Fi. But they are just machines.
I'm writing a PHP interpeter in Java to render COBOL, which'll execute on COBOL on COGS.
okay...would you mind if I keep you up to date as per how it goes?

if you dont mind and would be okay helping out a newbie in his first project than follow me on twitter and I will keep you posted. twitter name:arongrinshtein

Same for you pclark

Thanks guys! You are champs!
Both sides using nukes still means people die and war is not a game. Just because people use robots doesn't mean the targets will be robots.
Already making money - gotta love it. I wonder if there's room in the widget to fit a small box for search.
How is it a false statement to say that Lisp allows code to be treated as data by virtue of its simple syntax, and that Haskell treats data as code because of its default to lazy evaluation implemented with thunks? That's all I'm saying. I thought this way of looking at it was an interesting contrast. I find the data structure-function half of the point less interesting.
Same pitch I heard for Kongregate, so it seems like a good one.
Besides the excellent moderation, another huge contributor is that instead of being a generic medium for posting articles and discussion, like slashdot, HN is founded on pg, in a sense. His ethos is the site's ethos.
...and there has been a slight uptick in comments that are insulting or inane.

Is there a way to measure this? I know someone mentioned a filter for Youtube comments before...
Hi Maro, I invite you to try it out yourself. I've released 500 "hackernews" invites so everyone can give it a try.

You're right, it's a lot easier to filter out spam emails with the word "V1AGRA" than it is to filter out news posts. You'll want to take some time to train the filter properly before you unsubscribe from your junk feed.
Touché. That'll teach me to only read the first few definitions (http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?q=cohort)

I see it now, all the way down at number 5! Everything they said about my generation was true. :)

Here's an amusing coincidence. I was a student at JJ Hill Elementary school in St. Paul, MN in the late 80s. This was the gifted/talented magnet back then, I don't know if it still is. I see you're affiliated with Minnesota's gifted/talented educational program. Can I somehow blame you for my inability to read all the way to the fifth definition? :)
The architect in the article Gary Chang has also written a book on his reconfigurable apartment:

http://www.mccmcreations.com/books/architecture/my%2032m%20a...
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Is Kongregate as focused on the widget aspect? I've always just gone straight to the site.