skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Experiences.

I want the experience of creating and nurturing something that from nothing can pay my family's bills. I want the experience of working in a close team again. I want the experience of being able to ride market problems.

If things work out? I may want money/freedom/time, but all of that really boils down to experiences as well: the experience of owning a jet, learning to scuba dive, seeing my kids grow up from very close (instead of commuting to a job).

It's all about experiences folks. When you die, it doesn't matter how much you've saved or what you might have been able to do because of your freedom. What matters is your choices and the experiences they provide.
"Towering" implies unweidly or disorganized to me and there are certainly parts of the Java world like that -- to be avoided.

The number of abstractions/libraries seems irrelevant to the discussion if they can indeed be out of your way (you're saying because of all the boilerplate etc. that they aren't, so I guess we're talking about different things). If they're powerful and there's a small surface error for dealing with them then great, that's a high return on investment situation.

Getting to that small surface error takes an IDE sometimes which is unfortunate on some level but I don't find anything fundamentally wrong with it.

Personally, I can't stand even simple programs in Java with a text editor because of the amount of subdirectories you need to suddenly be aware of... org/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah (this is how I learned it originally).
That's quite a sensationalist headline, don't you think?
Freedom. And money, to ensure future freedom.

And as a corollary to "freedom", I get to work on way cooler things than I would likely be working on otherwise.
"...I think the idea is to be mean when mean is deserved, to be nice in other instances, and to try to make sure that you're never mean for stupid reasons."

Well, geez, why didn't he just say that?

Instead of all this arm waving and sweeping e-reform, how about just saying "use common courtesy"? All this excitement will cause high blood pressure!

P.S. You're welcome ;)
Other: to change the world, make it a better place.
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I thought the point of online anonymity was that it allows people to be judged based on what they say and do, not by their name, nationality, certifications, or whatever.

Saying everybody should use their own names means you not only want to judge the opinions and actions of individuals, but you also want to judge them on a personal level, which should be irrelevant to... everything.

Before last year I never used my real name anywhere online, nor did I use a handle which contained any part of said name. I wrote no differently than I do now and still hold the same opinions I did previously. Who I am doesn't matter; it never should, here or anywhere else.
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Techmeme is a dying horse grasping at straws to turn things around. RSSMeme, Readburner, and other aggregators do a far better job getting me the top tech news than Techmeme.
It's interesting that you feel that way. Perhaps it's me, but when I agree with something, I just kind of nod along quietly, and unless I am in some kind of uber-agreement trance do I usually respond.

In fact (and I'll chalk it up to personality flaws) I usually only respond to disagree, or start an argument, or correct a wrong, or basically be objectionable (note, not trolling.)

To answer the original question though, I'm motivated more by starting discussion than karma. I guess that I'm usually expecting to be downmodded when I post (no idea why I feel that way, except that I'm new here,) but if I get good discussion as a response, it's totally worth negative karma.
Freedom, and the hunt.
You know, it's rather ironic that none of the Republicans voted for it. While Bush is sitting there bailing out companies with billions of dollars, the minute Obama gets involved, it's a complete no-no.

What's even more ironic is that $275bn of the $825bn consisted of tax cuts. The Republicans should've been in favor of it.

Idiots.
You know, I was kind of nodding along with your statement until it hit me that our generation's definition of "living within your means" is likely far different from that of our parents'.

My father, if he lost his job, would be fine, probably for a year or better. Perhaps it's our generation, having grown up with credit cards and availability as the norm, but my dad (and definitely his) has always been a 'cash' payment sort of guy.

I remember a discussion I had after starting a new job, after having been laid off from my previous one, in which I made the comment that I'm striving to get to 40% savings. He laughed at me, claiming how impractical it was, and how I couldn't afford to live off only 60% of what I made... but having just done so for awhile, I knew the benefit of having a safety net... and I was just lucky before that I found employment before my savings ran out.
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Not if Sean Connery can help it!

Anyways, interesting point, is it worth fighting for something if the odds are great that you'll fail and get disemboweled? I think some things are.
A little off topic, but I've always felt that physical labour is undervalued in our society. I did some work for a removalist and that was alot harder (and probably more satisfying) than my better-paid office job. My perfect job would involve some blend of physical and knowledge work, but I'm sure the economists would point out the inefficiencies of such a job.
Agreed. When everyone was moving to Firefox because it was 'lighter weight', I stuck with the Mozilla suite because one of the things I liked was searching from the address bar. And this was years ago. It's ironic that the same people criticising the Mozilla browser for being 'clumsier' are now praising Chrome for being more streamlined.
What is hg? Please excuse my naivete if i should know that acronym as well.
This would be more persuasive if "Money" were in the lead in your poll.
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The week is young. It's up over 100,000 now.
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As written, I hear Mary Martin in Peter Pan saying "Clap your hands if you believe in fairies."

Instead, what about this: "You willingly suspend the disbelief being thrown up by one part of your mind so you can get something useful done in a different part."

Formulated that way, it covers fiction too.

See also:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/why-fiction-lies.html

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/a-tale-of-two-tradeoff...
I really want these gals to put together a musical, call it Gold Diggers of 2010 with sad songs about how they can't even get a decent divorce from the bum and such. And a heartwarming story of the one girl with a clear heart whose love inspires solvency in her man.
The actress you're thinking of is probably Rebecca Schaeffer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Schaeffer

I read about her in Gavin de Becker's The Gift of Fear, which incidentally is a pretty good book about such things. (de Becker is apparently the guy you call if you're a Hollywood star who gets a death threat -- protecting famous people is his company's business. And his published opinion is pretty much the same as yours: All famous people will get threats once they become famous enough, and the most famous people you can name have probably got dozens of stalkers of one sort or another.)
Heh, fallacy with that chart is that it's tracking only MRI. There are many Ruby implementations in various stages of progress.
"As a member of the senior management team, participate in the selection and registration of the company’s web site domain names, including any related-but-unused domains that could compromise the integrity of the business (through competition, typosquatting, etc.)."

This makes it sound like they could be having board meetings concerning whether to a register a domain to protect against typo squatting. Also they are asking for someone with exposure with business theory and governance processes. Since they haven't even registered a domain, I'm guessing it's just one or two mba's looking for someone to develop their product.
Sounds fun. How do you learn, and can you recommend a source?
I would add:

7) Practice. This isn't magic. You are trying to get your body & brain to do something. It's not something it just does regularly by itself. Think of it as exercise.
So how is that different from saying "Arrington just speaks at conferences and writes blog posts. Why do people hate him?"
Ask HN: Has anybody observed cheating?
So I'm writing an article for the Chronicle of Higher Education (a journal for educators) about my experiences with people cheating in class.

While I don't want to generalize, I have seen far more incidents of cheating in my engineering classes than I have seen in my physics classes.

For the article, I want to focus about what can be done in the classroom.

I'm curious as to what you all think about this issue and what you have experienced.
I think anybody who is upset that this happened is a fucking idiot, and anybody who was surprised is probably too stupid to spell their own name

You sound like a delightful person to be around.

The gist of your entire tirade is that Michael Arrington doesn't deserve the influence he has because he often gets technical details wrong, ergo he deserves people spitting in his face.

Are you kidding me? It's his blog, he can do whatever the fuck he wants with it. If he doesn't want to cover your company because he judges that you're an asshole, how does that give you the right to assault him?
I said other. Here's my specification.

I make web sites to make things that don't already exist. I make web sites I wished already existed. My main user is always myself.

Startups fascinate me because so little has been done. Each movement innovates very slightly. One person will add one neat feature to a site and then everybody else steals that and creates a lot of repetitive iterations on that theme.

When I work on startups, I kind of reflect that belief. I've had a few ideas - none of them launched until this current one - and with each one I tried to start from nothing and create stuff specifically to meet the content type. I'd call it "working with art" but that sounds really snotty. What it means is that I try to make every page I design something special. I want people to click a link and fall in love with the next page that loads. Splash page, deletion page, everything. I like having a site where each page is specially crafted.

So that's that. I view money as a similar artistic goal of sorts. I think that creating profit should be as unique as a web site. I guess it's a part of my goal, too - I do want to be filthy rich - but more than that, it's part of the process. I'll know I've made something meaningful when it makes me rich.

Glamor? From designing web sites?

I like learning new things as I design. Absolutely. But I get experience for everything. I learned graphic design to make a book cover, and in making a book I learned some things that I used for designing a blog theme, and I learned from that to make the first draft of my site's design.

Freedom's found everywhere. Maybe I'm young or an asshole, but I've never been in a situation where I feel caged. I would go work at the movie theater with ten sheets of paper and write. When I'm in class I take notes on one page and draft layouts on another. And I've always felt free to refuse to do things. One day in my senior year, I walked out of class, quit my job, and rode my bike to the library, because I felt too restricted doing what I'd been doing for a while. I always feel that freedom that comes from my knowing I'm doing what I want to do.

Wow. Long post for a short question, but I guess summarized it's that I make startups because they're there to be made.
Great synopsis. Who grows food anyhow? Most people have lost this skill, and it's pushed over to "specialists (farmers)". Have you ever tried eating money for lunch? It tastes horrible.
I have a theory that there's two types of programmers: The ones who interrupt others, and the ones who get interrupted.

The interrupters have a more social-oriented personality hate working at home.

The ones like me who always seem to be getting interrupted, prefer working at home because we find all our solutions the hard way, Googling and experimenting, and would only ask someone else as a last resort. So we get much more done from home.

Where the discipline comes in is in working a full day, since often you can get done in 3 hours what would take you a full day in the office.
What company doesn't require popularity to make money? That's an exceedingly broad use of "entertainer."
I think it's because he's a very over-the-top writer. It's what makes his rants so funny. And either he's used to writing like that or he can't help himself, because he always does it.
One of my favorite books is Robert Fulghum’s "All I need to know I learned in Kindergarten". One of the chapters tells the story of Steven Brill a man who, after hearing New York Cab Drivers were all dishonest, decided to look into it. He decided to get in a bunch of cabs, pretend to be an out-of-towner and asks to be driven somewhere really close to see if the cab driver would rip him off. This was the result (from the book)...

“One driver out of thirty-seven cheated him. The rest took him directly to his destination and charged him correctly. Several refused to take him when his destination was only a block or two away, even getting out of their cabs to show him how close he already was. The greatest irony is that several drivers warned him that New York City was full of crooks and to be careful.

You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption-of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don’t be misled. They are news because they are exceptions. The evidence suggests that you can trust a lot more people than you think."

That, to me, says it all. When the bad people stop getting attention I’ll worry. Until then I continue to believe the loud mouth trolls are just an exception to the rule.

On the Internet side, I understand why you might think there are more bad people on the Internet but I’d point this out: The Internet is a place where the loudest person in the crowd can push out in front of it. There’s no referee so sometimes it’s the trolls who look like their dominating the conversation. But if you read a site like HN you’ll see there are far more well-intentioned comments than there is trolling. The trolling is just what sticks in your mind.
A wealth tax makes more sense. If you hold on to money longer, you are preventing someone else from spending it.
Fallacy B is pretending that the rate at which the interpreter is patched is some sort of measure of a language's quality, or of its community's health. As if the goal of a language designer wasn't to reach the point where the core was stable. As if running the risk of breaking existing code was a good thing.
I flat out can't get it to work. I can't login to two of my accounts (slide and wordpress) and of the other six I did long into, only 2 would acutally sync. I was given different reasons: image too large in twitter, some code error in Facebook; not integrated with my space; and another I can't remember. So less than 18% synced. The feature I REALLY want to see is the ablility to actually post to all of these for those of us with small businesses who need to be on all of the social networks in order to reach all of our target audience. That's the product I'm looking for.
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Yeah I thought this article was from the Onion.
Are we reading the same site? I have seen lots discussing financial freedom, freedom from wage slavery, freedom to make your own business direction choices, etc.
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Academia is functionally no different than a Mafia protection racket, and about as morally defensible. To use a cliche example Einstein did arguably some of his best work while working as a patent clerk. Simply put if you are conversant with the scientific method and have something you wish to do research on, provided you have access to the tools and materials necessary to perform said research, have at.
I see plenty of people saying they are wage slaves and would like financial freedom. I see no one talking about methods of becoming financially free other than startups.

So, let me rephrase that. I see 0 posts about how to become financially free (excluding startups). That is either because it has been conclusively shown startups are the only viable option, or because people haven't thought about their motivations carefully. I suspect it is the latter.
This comment has absolutely nothing to do with the point of the article -- it's just a snarky attack on the author's sister.
Only up to a point. Sure, if you have discovered the money fountain, take as much as you can. But, otherwise, only pursue money insofar as it helps you become free.
Freedom is power.
Power is happiness.
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Specifically in the classroom? Or just cheating in higher education in general?

I get emails from students asking me to complete their CS assignments with reasonable frequency. Because I'm a prick (and actually worked for my degrees), I'll more often than not determine the school and class and fire off an email to their lecturer or professor.
People.

In the end even if your startup folds, the experience of working with brilliant people trumps everything else.
I would place that under experience, since it is the experience of creating something.
*.pyc generally implies that the interpreter was still in place, rather than generating a native executable file.
Free beer at work.
Happiness is a cute, fuffy bunny.
That's a good one. I'll add it. This post timestamps the addition of the people option.
People I meet
Good point, but you answered your own question: the "walk then rest" algorithm will do it in linear time.
True. There is definitely a startup focus. But that doesn't stop other stuff from appearing - here's three I saved:

Stocks and day trading:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=390765

Avoiding working hard:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=394609

Making money off side projects:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=423204
Hmm, I would put that under people, money, and experience.
Netflix, why aren’t you streaming new movies?
why anyone would start a new program or module to a higher level language in C rather than C++

Linus gives very good reasons for C vs. C++ here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643...

I personally don't have anything against C++, it is a perfect solution for some problems, but sometimes C may be a better choice.
I would put this under cause.
Okay guys, settle down.

--Steve
There's been research on this, e.g. http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~jeffery/alamo/

That's about 10 years old, though, and I don't know what's been done since.
Of course. I once posted something about free software, and got my karma completely destroyed. I won't mention it again.
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To end human cancer: yes.

To bring Photoshop to the browser: no.
Very relevant, I think: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=220878
So, I've been doing a lot of thinking about the crafting market. My family in the Midwest is pretty big into it.

So, I did a little research on the size of the market: $30 billion in 2006. The average annual spend per household: $476
Source: http://www.craftandhobby.org/history/tn-size.php

Film industry: 60 billion
Source: http://mpaa.org/press_releases/mpa%20us%20economic%20impact%...

Video Game Industry: $28-42 billion
Source: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_Nov_9/ai...

There's a lot more startups dedicated to Movies or Video games than there are to crafting and hobbies. And, a lot less competition in the marketplace.
The blackhat seo side of me starts thinking of ideas with this...
Ask HN: Mechanical Turk and beta testing
How many of you have used Mechanical Turk for beta testing?

* Have you guys gotten any real value out of it?

* Do people really come back and tell you what works and what doesn't?

* Has it been effective in fixing bugs or improve funtionality or usability?

* And does the reports help in determining the usability of your app?

Thanks in adv for your input.
The dollar is backed by taxing power of the US government - there are 300 million people who must pay taxes to US gov and the latter only accepts dollars. These 300m people will do anything to stay out of jail so they will trade whatever they have for dollars, thus insuring continuous demand year after year.

Money is not worthless.
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There are two kinds of goods: consumable and capital.

There are two kinds of capital: direct and indirect.

Money is indirect capital, but it is still capital, as long as the financial infrastructure exists.
Ask HN: What do these startups need so much money for?
Every day there is a post about some startup getting funding, and these aren't trivial amounts either, millions of dollars are being passed around.

What could they possibly need /so/ much money for? Is it for hardware, developers, running costs, marketing?

Can someone please enlighten me?
Awesome. The question is, how can we encourage good behavior without creating the very animosity we strive to prevent?
Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery
You are right, I misread the label of the can, when I read 26g of sugars and the 9% of RDA next to it I interpreted it as 9% of the 26g, but it is 26g, 9% of the a 290g RDA.

Your 50% of EPA dose is correct, but still shouldn't be too worrying because there is no evidence presented that the mercury is in an organic form. Just that if it were, it would still be safe.

I'll go back and annotate the previous comment.

Or maybe not, the 'edit' link is gone, perhaps since it has a reply. I'll just have to hope people read far enough to find the correction.

And, just incase I sound as if I like mercury in my Coke, I don't. It seems reasonable to use mercury free alternatives (provided they don't have some other hazard). There was proposed legislation to that effect that didn't make it to law, perhaps it can make it this year. What I oppose here is terrifying the populace with puffed up science-sounding articles to achieve an ulterior motive.
I entirely agree with the author's main point:

there may simply be not enough important things to
do to keep everyone busy

If people only bought what's truly needed then only a tiny fraction of the world population would be employed. I for one am very glad that people keep inventing iPods and other stuff to keep everyone productively occupied.
Are you the ’startup guy’ in your city?
It's something to do.