skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would have been far more useful to give 100 common commands individually and point out whether they're compatible with movements, etc. Also, reading the post before hitting "publish" might have helped weed out the dozens of typographical errors.

On a similar note, I'm at a point now in my Vim usage where I know all (or most) of the commands given in the post, but would like to learn more without paging through :help. I feel like coming up with some kind of tiered Vim tutorial structure; there are "cheatsheets" missing between the common ones and the "time to read :help" step.
OpenTable Files for IPO
Financial Times Accuses Blackstone of Login Abuse
Some support please! I can't get the bookmarklet to work (it just loads the text of the url) and I MUST HAVE A CORNIFY BOOMARKLET! Thanks.
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I don't think it's the fault of the Auto Worker that they learned how to bargain.

Indeed. It is the fault of the United States for legalizing (through exception in the RICO Act) corrupt organization of labor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union#Criticism

unions are regarded as a form of legalized conspiracy and extortion. American racketeering statutes still include an exemption for union activity.
20 cool sites for Typographic Inspiration - Part 1
Don't miss Elisabeth Cashdan's paper on "Women's mating strategies", Evolutionary Anthropology, 1997.

http://www.anthro.utah.edu/PDFs/ec_evolanth.pdf
Companies doing risky stuff shouldn't be too surprised when they suddenly run out of good luck.

On the other hand, if I were running a company and I knew that my buddies in Washington would end up bailing me out with other people's money because I'm "too big to fail", I would be a fool not to take as much risk as I can. With state capitalism, you can have your cake and eat it.
I rarely comment on here, but this article is crap in so many ways. DEVONThink is not even close to what he makes it out to be. It's a research tool-- an incredibly valuable one that does /way/ more than he gives credit for. Using these apps as a filesystem replacement is of course stupid-- that doesn't mean there aren't a staggering number of reasons why someone might choose to use one of the apps he mentions.

This is a "look at me" article that doesn't amount to much more than a lot of whining IMHO. Waste of time.
Steps I would like to see first:

1. Roads
2. Bridges wide enough for a Humvee so I
don't have to run into your mud walls.
Those must take forever to build; my bad.
3. No more mud walls.
4. Police force that isn't completely corrupt.
No "Police Chief", we will not *bribe you* to
wake up at 6 AM to do your job, regardless of
how inconvenient it is for you. Oh, and stop
STEALING SHIT FROM PEOPLE. I always hoped for
an excuse to shoot these guys...

I've met quite a few smart, motivated Afghanis. Far more motivated than any American I've ever met, so I am certainly rooting for them.
Biohacking and programming DNA
Incomes of the richest Americans more than doubled in the past eight years.

Are every one of today's richest Americans the same individuals who were the richest Americans eight years ago? http://allfinancialmatters.com/2007/03/12/who-was-or-is-the-...

the people in the bottom 20% 10 years ago are in most cases not the same people that are in the bottom 20% today. This is the same misconception inherent in the argument that "minimum wage workers" have not gotten a raise in [X] number of years. It is highly unusual that people making minimum wage at one point in time are the same people that are making minimum wage many years later. The same is true for net worth, which almost as a rule takes time to acquire. Many of the people in the bottom 20% 10 years ago were just starting out or fairly young, and now, 10 years later, are much higher in the percentile rankings. I know it is true for me - I had negative net worth 10 years ago. So it is completely rational to expect that to some extent the lower tiers don’t grow as much as the upper tiers - you’re not taking the age/time factor into consideration.

I would be interested to see the same numbers broken down by age group - for example, how is the net worth of people in the bottom 20% and top 20% changing just for people in the 40-45 age group.

http://www.urban.org/Publications/406722.html

The [U.S. Department of Treasury (1992)] study uses income tax return data between 1979 and 1988, tracking the adjusted gross income of a group of households that paid income taxes in all ten years examined. The study finds that 86 percent of individuals who were in the bottom quintile in 1979 had moved up by 1988. An individual in the bottom quintile in 1979, in fact, was more likely in 1988 to be found in the top quintile than in the bottom one. [...]

Cox and Alm (1996) [...] use the PSID to examine individual incomes between 1975 and 1991 for individuals who were age 16 or over in 1975. 17 They find that only 5.1 percent of individuals in the lowest quintile in 1975 remain in that quintile in 1991, while 29 percent of such individuals are in the highest quintile in 1991.
pg, please re-visit the decision to have the post's text in gray-on-gray. It's awful for long initial posts like this one. No doubt I'm not the only one that selects the text to get it the slightly better yellow-on-black. It makes me less likely to bother reading the text through no fault of the writer.
I don't think the author's claim that the filesystem works is entirely valid. For a lot of user data, having to pick a single folder in to which a file should go is a poor fit at best. At worst, the filesystem confuses users to the point that they actually don't know where things are going.

I haven't used an "everything bucket", but it actually sounds like a very good idea. I want a program to let me throw whatever is on my mind in to a single place, attempt to make some sense out of it and let me find it later without having to do much manual organization.

The article suggests these programs are poorly implemented. Even if that's the case, Good and Wrong is a start.
Looking around on Edward Tufte's site, I was a bit surprised to find pixel fonts with hideous kerning on his front page:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/index

(I'm talking about the captions on the smaller images below the motion blur dog; they basically read as "16 new pr ints by ed ward t ufte", etc.)

I'm not suggesting Tufte is a bad designer for having a couple of ugly captions, or anything like that (presumably he has someone else doing the actual Photoshop work for stuff like this). Rather my point is simply that when the expectations are very high -- he has a NYT quote on that same page calling him "the Leonardo da Vinci of data" -- this kind of tiny detail leaps out because poor typography is an example of how design mistakes can make it more difficult to convey information.
Maybe we could do an experiment with randomly upvoted/downvoted new posts and see how much more likely the posts are to be upvoted/downvoted?
Also, reading the post before hitting "publish" might have helped weed out the dozens of typographical errors.

It's not my post, so I don't have control over that - I came across it while cleaning up my older bookmarks and thought I'd share it.
It's regulating itself like a poorly built skyscraper that is being regulated by gravity: collapsing. We have rules about how to build skyscrapers to keep people from getting hurt. Why not the economy? Take what works, throw out what hurts.

There has to be an incentive for people to make money, but it should be ok if it's required to be within a set of guidelines. Unfettered capitalism builds an unstable system. Unstable is bad (again, think skyscraper).

Certainly, economists must have a set of rules or principles that apply here. It would be some equation with a bunch of variable coefficients. Under some values of those coefficients, the equation would have an approximate solution that is unstable, like an exponential term with an exponent that can swing from being positive to negative and back. The job of "regulations" would be to limit these coefficients.

They must have that sort of thing, right? I mean, what the fuck do they do all day?
Japan tried Keynesian policies. The result was the infamous lost decade: http://www.heritage.org/research/economy/bg2222.cfm
Meta: I wish I could upmod the comments/discussion instead of the article itself.
> Three things: cache religiously, index well, and refactor your database queries.

In other words: database, database, database.

I can only confirm this, scaling app servers in virtually any language is trivial compared to scaling databases.
I wish my peers were like your brother.
What if the standards suck? Sorry but Javascript doesn't cut it for a lot of things (video for one).

Web standards unfortunately move at an insanely slow pace. So sometimes you have to go beyond them.
Since it appeared before "Little Brother", maybe Doctorow was inspired by this extension instead of the other way around ;).
Senate approves bill to delay digital TV
Yep, you would think so.

But the economy is mind-bogglingly complex and nuanced, full of billions of actors who act rationally and irrationally. Lately we have computer systems thrown into the mix that move billions of dollars around without a human decision involved.

The one thing economists can say is that people usually act in their own best interests. If there is a loophole to be found, people will find it. However smart the person coming up with the rules might be, those billions of people, due to the powers of chaos and sheer numbers, will always be smarter. You can't engineer billions of people like you would a skyscraper.

The logical conclusion here is to that simple systems that are easy to understand (and likewise easy to understand how to game) are better than complex systems that still get gamed but nobody can easily figure out why.

However there is a second camp that says that the economy is like a big science experiment: pull a rope here and see what happens over there. Sure -- things might not work as expected, but somebody has to be in charge and that's how science experiments work. After all, as you pointed out, just how difficult can it be? What do those guys do all day?

The problem is that the social engineering camp always seems to have the same problem as the laissez-faire camp -- there have been panics (recessions) for as far back as we have records. So policy doesn't seem to matter that much (or if it does, we haven't hit the magic combination yet). In fact, because of the points in the first two paragraphs here, there's good evidence that the more we muck around with the economy, the worse we actually make it. There is a large and growing faction of economists that believe that the actions of the Federal Reserve (and to some extent Hoover and FDR) made the panic of 1929 into a full-blown depression -- turned something that would have taken a year or three to recover from and turned it into the biggest panic the country has ever seen.

So no, economics are chaotic, not Newtonian. the laws that apply are myriad, complex, and currently non-understandable -- and they apply at the individual rather than system level. That's why economics are so much fun (or suck so much, depending on your viewpoint.)

Hey -- if it were easy, everybody would be doing it.
I don't think it's harder to manage remote people. In fact a random Jim Collins (ugh) quote applies - "If you have to actively manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake" - people who have a history of working remotely are much more likely to be self-driven and disciplined.
Earn More Dollars in Losing Economy
Change your business or go out of business
DuckDuckGo is top result for "new search engine"
Well the obvious next step is a logarithmic scale for comment values.
Email to make address book obsolete
What hurt online advertisers in 2008
But the whole premise is that once a comment gets a negative score people don't read it anymore. 2 or 3 people could easily do that.

Also, 10 people on a site that gets in the area of 200,000 uniques isn't that significant.
I'm all for diversity, let's hope this duck doesn't go the way of the dodo!

If anybody out there wants to pit their might against google then I wish them good luck, as long as you find that your relevance for 'new search engine' on your competitors website is of major importance I think you have a ways to go.

Coincidentially duckduckgo gives 'cuil' as the first result for 'new search engine', I'm not sure how to interpret that :)
Prostitutes, pimps & pols
Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget.
Hello all,

Message from someone fed up of seeing the same things every day. Wants to live a little.

I've recently been a victim of the redundancies here in the UK, I was previously at Blyk (about.blyk.com), as an everything guy. I worked on PR projects, assisted in developing the mobile content portal proposition, managed the online channel, mobile design and production. They liked my mind, and applied it to lots.

I'm pretty fed up of the UK and am endeared by the states and the start-up scene.

I can find flights for £350 from Heathrow to SFO, which leaves accommodation to be found. I'm on an incredibly tight budget.

So I'd be incredibly appreciative if anybody:

- Knows of a reasonably priced room going, or has a spare room

- Knows of an available position (I can imagine they are few and far between)

- Will trade work for board

About me: I'm 19, left school at 17. Joined Blyk, there for nearly 2 years. Worked 3 roles in Marketing and Creative. I'm a normal kinda guy. British. Dashing. Charming. Modest. Have been living in central London for the last 2 years. Versatile, hungry for knowledge.

I just need to get out there and then make the next steps. When do I want to leave? As soon as Monday.

I truly appreciate any help or comments, I'll be refreshing every 10-20 seconds!

Many thanks,

Geoff Wright
In the past couple of years their site format changed and they began to look more like a break.com.
You don't have to specify the types of variables. They get inferred automatically. You only have to ensure that each variable has one definite type, i.e. it doesn't change its type throughout the program.
the kind of abstraction we're talking about

You know, I wonder to what extent it's more the peripheral hassles than the actual abstractions. There's no way in hell I'd be a programmer if it meant working with punch cards; it'd be above my irritation threshold. There might be a lot of people out there who would enjoy programming, but installing and configuring a compiler and editor, for instance, are simply too frustrating/boring to them.

There weren't many photographers when you had to develop your own film. (I think I'm paraphrasing a Steve Yegge essay... I'd look it up if I weren't on my iPhone at a volleyball tournament :p )

where did you get that phraseology? Sounds like NLP.

That and general semantics I believe. I haven't read much of the primary works in either (yet), but picked up some of the concepts/terms from Robert Anton Wilson.
Year 2038 Problem : Unix Millenium Bug
Since I've begun using a tiling window manager(wmii, in my case), I find it incredibly annoying when programs try to manage their own windows. I find this is often to make up for the deficiencies of most window managers. I want one way to manage windows for all my applications. I still use tabs in firefox though :P
which follows along with pg's observation nicely: don't implement controls until they're necessary.
Email campaign case studies (one good, one bad)
few things wrong with that: a) HN presorts comments more or less by karma rating, you pretty much know where everything will wind up before voting. b) it also changes the color when you start getting negative points.

So sure you may not know that something is at 1 or 500 points, but you you sure can guess
that'll work well until there is some bug and the thing accidentally searches for kiddie porn.
Sony Ericsson K310 K510 Not Charging Problem
k310, k310 charging problem, k310 not charging, k510, k510 charging problem, k510 not charging, sony ericsson
Who owns the code? Beware copyright pitfalls
Google Chrome Not Cool Enough For Google Docs, Facebook (If You’re Browsing Incognito)
World March for Peace and Nonviolence
People count money differently in different parts of the world [video]
To hell with both of them. Javafx, to be open sourced...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=javafx+open+source&...
Yes it can be done. We have a setup like this, but we try to spend 2-3 days in the office a week and a minimum of one (Thursday) for everyone.

The key thing has to be communication and the ability to maintain motivation. We use Google Apps Premier to handle most of the comms, motivation is maintained through electric shocks... ok, maybe it's more regular meet ups and social events as well as making sure everyone has and gives feedback on everything.

There's a golden rule of recruiting that becomes even more important for telecommuters: Don't hire pricks. It doesn't matter if they're rock starts in their given field or if they're able to do something you otherwise can't. Don't hire 'em - they'll cause more problems than they solve.
Kurt Freund ... replied: “Who am I to study women, when I am a man?”

What a lame quote from a "researcher." Are astronomers stars? Are geologists dirt? Are we to take this stuff seriously?
Eiffel goodies for Pascal programmers
When you have only 16KB of memory, you can't afford to waste any of it on fluffy stuff
Beautiful augmented reality video using FLARToolKit from the Spark Project 
Imagine how many crazy iPhone applications would be possible to do with that.We will have to wait until Adobe ports Flash to iPhone...
Not technical? Flash is a piece of junk that leaks memory, crashes and causes your cpu to spike (less battery life). How is this a good thing on a iPhone?
MYOB Indonesia Community - Tampilan 'Anyar' MYOB (?)
Note: I'm not ruling any other cities out either. NYC, Boston etc : )
Why? Is there some sort of law for that?
I was the only guy working from home during the last 3 years on my former job. Last time I checed their house of cards is still up.
You cannot steal anything with Bittorrent. Stealing necessarily involves the previous owner being a previous owner, but Bittorrent and other copying methods don't remove the item from the owner.

Refusing to let someone get their files from a computer is more like stealing (though since the computer itself is rightfully owned by the new owners of ebaumsworld, it's certainly arguable that it's just rude, not stealing). A file is part of the computer it's on.
The group is indeed its own worst enemy

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460624
audio available?
Danger: Helvetica
A Nobel Economist weighs in on Obama's plan
Unless you have a green card, if you say that at the border (that you are coming to the US to look for work), you'll be deemed inadmissible.

It will also be illegal for you to be self-employed, work without authorization, "trade work for board", or start a startup, once you are here.

Basically, you'll probably need to find a company that can sponsor H1B (but I'm not sure if that can happen for people who didn't finish college)
Microsoft Songsmith a Youtube Hit Machine
My impression is that Flash is pretty good (technically) on Windows, it's a CPU hog on Macs, and somewhat crashy on Linux. Still, it could be worse. Think RealVideo.

But that's kind of beside the point. I'm guessing that Apple's real objection to Flash on the iPhone is that they don't want Adobe to be in charge of something that important. Apple likes to be in control of their own destiny, and they're one of the few companies with the clout to get away with something like that.

iPhone is a whole new platform, in a sense. If Apple keeps Flash off of it for long enough, the developer community might make do with alternatives -- javascript, quicktime, etc -- so that Adobe's stranglehold on web media doesn't carry over to the newly burgeoning iPhone world.

I'm guessing Adobe is all too aware of this possibility, which is why they're lobbying so hard to get in there and assert their dominance.
Check out the book "Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It" about the "Results-Only Work Environment". It's mostly a case study of how Best Buy implemented a workplace culture that made office hours optional.

Maybe also the books of Ricardo Semler, a business owner who did similar things.
That's a pretty fun backstory, actually.
Errr, I was referring to the post author, not to you. I didn't really assume you'd written it; most folks don't submit their own stuff.
The one thing economists can say is that people usually act in their own best interests.

Actually, it appears that things are too complex for even this to be true. They may try, but it's entirely conceivable that they don't understand what is in their best interest and what endangers their future.

I think I prefer to think of what I am pondering as Economic engineering rather than social engineering. It seems like a very faith-based discipline, rather than one that formulates hypotheses based on evidence:

There is a large and growing faction of economists that believe that the actions of the Federal Reserve (and to some extent Hoover and FDR) made the panic of 1929 into a full-blown depression

But there is also emerging talk that Jimmy Carter prevented a global disaster like the one we are facing now. Neither claim is falsifiable, so not worth much mental energy to consider. Faith-based.

I think that is why I was so impressed with Greenspan's testimony before Congress where he basically said he felt like the underlying principles on which he based his understanding of the economy were incorrect (he specifically mentioned the one you did about acting in our best interest). Here was a guy in the field who was actually looking at evidence, and trying to learn. I don't know if he's correct or not, I'm no economist. I'm griping about the methods, not the principles themselves.

Anyway, thanks for reading my rant.
It's also mentioned in the article.
Unless you are a consultancy at heart, doing consulting work is less about evolving a new business model and more about temporary survival.
A sandbox for collecting search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns.
DNA not the whole story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
Finish school, if you're hard up go to continental europe where there are free schools. Work on the side.

What's your plan? How far do you think you will come without a school education and no concrete skills like programming?
I am...humbled by your energy.

But you have to get the legal issues out first. You can't work without authorization in the U.S., period.

SFO is an expensive place to live without a position or freelance clients.

But you will learn.
I like how the conclusion to that (These are the people America should be looking up to), along with several other comments of his, fit in nicely with the start-up scene. As another comment says, he says some things here that get used by 37signals for their sales pitch.
I can confirm this. Halfway through reading his post, I noticed that you had more points than him, stopped to read yours, then read his with skepticism. Possibly it's because you do make a legitimate point, but I'd suspect that your score disrupted the flow of my reading.
Its looking like my immediate travel plans will become "Will travel once have legal issues ironed out". I'll start sorting this lot out asap.

Thanks for points!

Derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr for Geoff.
A lovely theory that keeps getting roughed up by the facts. People in a relationship are much too interested in signaling to honestly answer that question.
Thanks, that's exactly what I was trying to say.

And I believe over the long-term, proper education (from an early age) is the only thing that will fix this kind of problem. Buy what you need, not what you want. (OK, buy what you want too, but it should be like a 20:1 ratio!)
It looks like the library exists on different platforms like Java,Android,Flash,C#:
http://nyatla.jp/nyartoolkit/wiki/index.php
It would be nice if it was ported for iPhone development