skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting point, though it seems to entirely correct to me - even if I had complete understanding of all physics laws and could predict results of any experiments I can imagine - they would not mean the reality does not exist separately from me. If I could cause any experiment produce any result - including same experiments producing different results in the same circumstances - then I would have a good claim on controlling the "reality". How to determine if I caused the result and not just predicted it is an interesting topic, which probably requires some careful design, but since we know about existence of no-deterministic processes, this should not be too hard to do I suppose.

In other words, what is described here is a sufficient, but not necessary condition for existence of the reality. Though thinking more about it, it's not sufficient either. We know people that are not able to predict or control their own thoughts and actions. They are usually considered "mentally ill", but that's beside the point - it is so only because such mode of existence is very inconvenient for the person and hinders his interactions with the society. But if there was not reality except for the said person's mind, this person still could make wrong predictions about what is going to happen. If fact, one does not have to be particularly crazy for it - many people, just this season, claim with complete belief and certainty, that they will do certain things very soon over which they have full and complete control - such as start exercising, eat healthily, cease smoking, improve their behavior in some other way, etc. Many of them will discover, some time later, that it did not happen. Does it mean something other than their own will made it so? No, I think it does not - it just means they were fallible.

So it looks like the experimenter being wrong is not either necessary not sufficient condition for the existence of the reality independent from the said experimenter. (Note of course I don't claim it does not exist - I just say the proof offered in this paragraph does not prove what it intends to prove).
Thank you for sharing this, I'm the programming son of an engineer and grew up watching Apollo 13 and Sneakers. :)
To me it seems inherently impossible to "see" a system objectively when you're part of it, as that would seem to create a paradox. I may be wrong but it sounds great IMHO.

However, I do think there is a reality that is not dependant on interpretation or observation to exist; I just can't experience it without filter. But there is something there, and it's consistent, I can communicate about it with others etc... that's imperfect, it's often silly, but that's fine; I cannot dismiss my small, subjective truth just because it's not as good as some kind of objective knowledge of reality that doesn't even exist, and probably can't exist (I mean that knowledge of reality, not reality itself).

Truth is the thing we must never cease reaching towards, even though we will never reach it, or even come closer to it. Just because it's there :)
The transition from cable to internet for TV consumption probably has a while to play out yet. I'm sure HBO are exploring many scenarios for the future.
I feel uneasy about this - pushing affiliate links to HN? Oh well, if the crowd likes it, you win :-(
After reading a couple paragraphs, I came here to see this specific comment. The extremely generic title was another clue to the substance of the content. Thanks for the time saved.
It used to be that a new version of the Windows operating system was enough to get people excited about buying a new computer, giving sales a nice pop.

Vague statements like above make me wish papers like NYT published detailed sources. My entire family has been on Windows for around 15 years and not once do I remember getting excited about the upgrade...and yet, we've done the upgrade. My family could be atypical but that is why I wish I had the source behind the article lead.
As some of the other commenters have said, some of the language here is a little strong, but it does do a good job covering the nature of grad school - people do seem to think that it's like undergrad (likely because many of them know what that's like). It's not, it's really more like an entry-level professional position (where you have to pay a huge chunk of your salary back to your employer for professional training); it's highly entrepreneurial and self-directed, so yes, you can take off holidays, and you can have a life, but you're still responsible for finishing your research before your funding runs out, and that may well involve a fair number of nights and weekends. You do need some smarts to pull it off, but mostly you just have to love it enough to forgo higher income in industry while you do it (at least in CS). Here's to grad school!
Half Price Books is a used bookseller. The difference between a used book seller and a parallel importation scheme is that the used book seller doesn't attempt to subvert the publisher's overseas price breaks to stock their warehouse.
Work remotely. If your (or anyone else reading this') skillset includes the sysadmin end of the spectrum, reply with contact details and I just might have something for you - immediately.
That was a subtle joke about how HN is already reddit.
>What I'm really postulating that the only way to improve the educational outcomes of students that come from families who don't emphasize education is to surround them with students who come from families that do emphasize education.

I think this works to some degree, but could depend on ratio. One can't ship underperformers into PaloAlto High or Cupertino and overwhelm the student body --it's not as if the influence is one-way.

>Yes, this is certainly possible, and is the most common argument utilized by the rich parents when faced with charges of racism towards poor blacks and Latinos.

I think looking at homogenous societies (or even states) and looking at achievers vs performers attitudes in those societies. How do parents there deal with these issues? If this argument is used, and those societies are homogenous, then it can't be racist but classist (or even pedagogical).
I am not smart enough to understand the point you're trying to make here. The point Graham made upthread was very simple.
Yes. As an example, Jobs putting actual typefaces into the original Mac. Anyone used to the existing computing paradigm back then would have asked, "Why would a user want that?" Another infamous example is the marketeers at CompuServe thinking the CB Simulator was a bad idea -- and today we have something like it, called Twitter.
The ancient scepticists tackled that problem by simply not asserting that there are no truths that can be known, they suspended judgement in the matter (which they did with literally everything, they must have been infuriating to debate with).
Seems to be the same in the Android/Cyanogen camp. There are one or two usable sounds by default and lots of crap that I'd like to never hear again in any situation.

But hey - it's not the same situation we had with feature-phones. You couldn't have a custom ringtone on those. Nowadays you can just use whatever music you already have imported.
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Umm... the monthly savings don't accumulate. It's just taking the current savings / the outgoing.

Having your monthly income is pointless in this calculator.
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I think folks are too quick to point to the iPad (& misc. tablets) as the cause of Win8's apparent downfall. PC vendors bungled this one on their own.

It's a shitty economy and Microsoft & Friends are offering tired form factors, severe usability regressions, bad word of mouth, a bifurcation of Windows into two conceptually incompatible product lines, a meaningless brand, useless marketing, and poor developer incentives to migrate to the App Store model.

Then consider how 'Microsoft Surface' is muddying every message with mixed reviews, poor availability, atrocious marketing, OEM alienation, and incoherent product segmentation.

Windows 8 was a flop on its own terms, and Microsoft doesn't have the luxury of working in a vacuum anymore.
That post is part of a sequence called "Map and Territory" [1] in which Eliezer explains that your beliefs are a map, which may or may not correspond to reality, the territory which the map is supposed the represent.

In this post, Eliezer is mocking philosophical arguments about the meaning of "truth", to illustrate that truth isn't that complicated: a belief is true if and only if it corresponds to reality. Eliezer has recently written a much clearer version of this viewpoint [2], in which he again uses the idea of walking off a cliff to illustrate the difference between strong beliefs and true beliefs.

[1] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Map_and_Territory_(sequence)

[2] http://lesswrong.com/lw/eqn/the_useful_idea_of_truth/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

I think this is a very useful principle to ponder. In this situation we should strive to ask appropriate question, but not expect others to succeed in this.
Check out their website as well (which is buried in the project's readme): http://owfgoss.org/
I ran a quick litmus test. I used 6k in and 6k out with 120k in savings. The calculator told me I could afford to run a business for 20 months... /boggle
The majority of Wiley's revenue comes from western markets where their products sell at "full price". How would Wiley be able to offshore their publishing to exploit a ruling that first sale doesn't exist control over import? Most of their titles would already have been "imported"; Wiley couldn't prevent their resale within the US.
This comes up every time we post a collection from Referly to HN, regardless of it being very relevant to the community here. I think it bears pointing out that every content site makes money from getting traffic on HN - for us we make money if people purchase products but don't have any ads. For Techcrunch, CNET etc. they primarily make money from ads. Furthermore, most writers don't ever see the proceeds of these ads (they do far better as full time writers). In our case we pass through revenue to our contributors directly (in this case Kevin is a cofounder of Referly so his earnings go to the company).

If the argument is that the content is somehow altered because of affiliate links, to guarantee some better payout or something - pretty much ANY movie is covered by affiliate programs these days and payouts are all about the same (even on the front page this article only stands to make ~$10 in commissions). As always, the content has to stand on its own, and we hope that Referly could be a new format for product/list blogging.
Equalize.js now equalizes height or width of child elements
Very few unions have a mandatory favored nations policy. If you were significantly better at dock workering, such that a company sought you out, they can easily pay you more. That being said, many union labor positions don't have a wild variety of skillsets. They often do need protection.
Ok, I've been working on an architecture pattern that is very similar to this idea and it's basically inspired by Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture and Screaming Architecture posts. I call it the Obvious Architecture.

What the OP writes about is a good first step and frankly, is very close to right, but why stop there? Why not ditch ActiveRecord models all together and totally decouple persistance from the "app"? Honestly, the coupling of your models and logic to a database is really where most of this trouble starts.

In the Obvious architecture the app is separate from the delivery mechanism (rails/sinatra/whatever) and also from the external persistance mechanisms like databases, queues, caching, and so on. You can mix and match both delivery mechanism and persistance methods. So, you could write a CLI app against the filesystem and then make a rails web app with a mysql persistance mechanism without changing your "app" at all.

The whole thing is built from day one to be TDD and in a recent app I wrote, it has some 78 rspec tests that run in 0.03 seconds.

I'm in the process of documenting and open sourcing the whole thing. There is a project generator gem available now called 'obvious' and you can read more at http://obvious.retromocha.com/

When I have better documentation and examples available, I plan on posting to HN, but all questions are welcome.
Do you think hyper-specialization could enable this?
But what would be the business model for such a desktop app?
1) Is there a real picture of this thing?

2) Is it legal?

2a) Or will the real-estate lobby go Uber at it?
Maybe I'm giving them too much credit, but I'm assuming they made the business calculations and the partnerships with the cable companies was much more profitable than splitting off and doing HBO GO on their own, at least in the regions that they are tied to. (Cable cutters are still a small portion of the population)
Compare Windows 8 to OS X, Ubuntu, and Windows 7. Where would you say it ranks?
Lists are discouraged on HN anyway, iirc. That list just didn't seem so impressive to me, so I suspected it was less made out of passion and more out of "let's see if we can get on HN for fun and profit".

Anyway, as I said, if the crowd votes it up, you win. My complaining is irrelevant.
I took the time to read your cite, and I can't see how the EFF's argument in favor of parallel importation isn't a public policy no-op. EFF argues that by restricting parallel import, US customers are forced to pay more than overseas customers. You don't say? Offering price breaks to students in Thailand who can't possibly afford to pay what US customers routinely pay for books means US people pay more than Thai people for books?
Better than all of them.
You'd be quitting your job so you would lose the 6k in.
I suspect if Netflix had the money to make it worth HBO's splitting from cable companies it would have happened when they were looking for content channels. I'm not sure if this is in Amazon's core business either.
Calculate how many apocalypes you've survived by entering your birthday.
Once a year there is an email that goes out saying "the law for X has changed, and so we require you to acknowledge you know this and sign Y". Basically updates to the employee handbook.
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One thing these calculators seem to be missing is side-money: like, let's say I'm earning some recurring income outside of my job (from a website or app or something), and quitting my job wouldn't mean losing that income. It'd be nice if they had an input box for that kind of income too.
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Not only was it perfectly possible, microkernels have been sold commercially for decades and are extremely popular in hard real time environments where you want to be able to pre-empt a driver as though it is just another user process (which they are!).
Finally, a shell that has the past trail off below (revchron/blog-style) rather than up above (typewriter/terminal-style)!
Ask HN: You've been programming. What surprised you?
When you look back at the time when you started programming and look at where you are now, what surprised you the most?

Is there something that turned out to be the opposite of what you originally thought it would be?
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> Inflation is stealing

This cannot be overstated. All other points the monetary scientists try to make are simply distractions from this core point.

Inflating the money supply is the literal theft from everyone holding that money.
what kind of service are you talking about exactly?
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> I don't think the fundamental problem with them — performance is horrible — had been made obvious yet.

Microkernels can be just as fast as macrokernels and other than raw throughput can give latency guarantees that a macrokernel can't.

Message passing overhead can be minimized (by using the paging mechanism for passing messages between tasks on the same node).
Haha okay, I told him he needs to make the list better
FSFE Fellowship interview with Anna Morris
https://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=652

Anna Morris is co-founder or FLOSSIE conference for women in Free Software, Manchester Fellowship Group Deputy Coordinator, and Co-Director of Ethical Pets Ltd. She is currently writing a book on video editing with Free Software, and volunteering with Document Freedom Day 2013 in her spare time.

She talks about running her e-commerce business with Free Software:
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Quite a bit of it pokes fun at General AI researchers from the '80s, actually.
There are a lot of government supported efforts to research (especially finding and cracking) steganography. You can even look up articles in Chinese on the topic
that doesn't make sense.
In principle, but that's not really what I meant. I'm wondering how unlikely it is for Saturn to have a rotational speed that makes the hexagon possible.
I played with it @ http://webshell.io/prototype/Njc5Z/7

It seems to work. This uses a REST service I recently wrote in node.js + mongodb.

Edit:

14 people click the link and hit Run, but no one changes the text? Come on. I wrote a second little app to track this at http://webshell.io/prototype/Njc5Z/8 just keep clicking Run to see it update, as people run the original app and hopefully enter their name or something.
That's as ridiculous a statement as expecting someone to make $5+ million after 30 years. I didn't say it will go up forever. This growth won't keep going for more that 5-10 years, after which it will go down to the 5% range. I have software engineer friends who started 8 years ago at 60k and now make around 180-200k as principal engineers, roughly a 15% increase YoY, after which salary stays stagnant unless if you get an MBA and move into management roles.
But contracts itself are bound by city, state, and federal law, including civil, labor, IP, patent, etc...

Or you might get a bad lawyer or a favorable judge.
> Micro kernels are very hard to debug.

Absolute nonsense. Micro kernels are much easier to debug than macro-kernels.

The reasons are obvious to anybody that has spent more than an afternoon working with both, a microkernel is so small that the chances that your problem is in the kernel are minute compared to having your problem in user space. That means that all your luxury debug tools are available to debug the vast majority of your problems.

After the initial write the kernel code of a microkernel system is hardly ever touched. A good microkernel will limit itself to do the most limited subset that will still allow the system to function and will move everything else to regular processes.
I find his views far more compelling than Kurzweil's. I do not know how accurate his description of Google Translate is, but if accurate it is depressing.
So what's the point of writing how much you're making?
Note that Yahoo has good relationships with the government. I would definitely recommend gmail instead
Concerning 2/2a: Many places in the US enforce a minimum square footage for real/permanent homes, some places 1500-ft^2 for new construction (appalling, I know). I imagine this might be useful/legal for people wanting to drop a temp shelter to occupy while building on-site (often with time limits imposed -- one county I personally inquired with was 6 or 12 months). For really remote or lax places, a wink and a nod to your county inspector/engineer might result in near-indefinite time for your construction project, but in very few places this will be a legal permanent, full-time residence.
I find it hard to imagine someone in the hacker news crowd rating 8 over 7 on developer hardware. From my limited experience, the only major improvement I noticed was the improved task manager (which is really nifty). What other substantial improvements over 7 do you think Win8 provides?
US northeast and San Francisco areas
I think there are some studies on the effect of surveillance on human behavior. I've searched on google scholar, there are quite a few articles.

Here's an excerpt from one article, to give you a feel of such research: "in relation to the telephone, one feels ‘a subject’ and thus able to control the situation whereas, in relation to the camera, one is always ‘an object’. The object of a camera is in the situation of being a potential victim, without the opportunity to influence his or her own destiny. The object is forced to trust in someone else. This is why surveillance raises contradictions: to be placed in the position of a victim does not increase the feeling of being ‘in control’, but rather the feeling of being ‘under control’. However, while feelings of being under control may not be pleasant, they might still ensure one’s feelings of safety.", from ‘The gaze without eyes’: video-surveillance and the changing nature of urban space, Hille Koskela, 2000. http://old.geog.psu.edu/courses/geog497b/Readings/Koskela.pd...

I think there might be some empirical research as well.
The difference is that reddit crams everyone into a category, where Pinterest uses a follow model to curate your stream.

Imagine if the reddit homepage filled up with posts only from categories you explicitly followed and you might get something similar. There's still the problem of hundreds of people trying to have a discussion in one place, though.

Facebook connect is for simplicity during signup, and so you can post shared things to your Facebook timeline.
Indeed, the early days of 'living online' offered a respite from peer pressure. The rise of 'social' and arrival of everyone means conformist pressures are back, and maybe stronger than ever... the high school that you can never leave.
I'd add Numb3rs to this list.
In my experience: worse than OS X and Windows 7. On par with "Unity/Ubuntu". (and that should not be misconstrued as praise of either Unity or Windows 8).
The fact that you recognized 21 is a win in itself! One of my favorites!
Programming for all, part 1: An introduction to writing for computers
You are correct to describe Apple retail as a shopping "escape".

There are interesting window displays, inviting and modern interiors, generally unobnoxious staff, and screechingly fast unlocked and unfiltered wi-fi. That's enough to be the best thing in any mall for most people, and enough to thoroughly trash any competing American electronics experience.

That you can trial, buy, return, swap, service, and get help with anything in the Apple universe is almost besides the point.
I appreciate the technical rigor required to make this kind of service stable and safe, but I am worried about the usefulness of the product / who would use it. Building APIs into my own abstractions in a real web application basically means I'll never use this myself. A more casual developer may use this to build simple mashups, or maybe hack out something for a hackathon, but beyond that why would I go through the trouble of figuring out how to integrate webshell with my own codebase? NinetyNine already mentioned this, but now I'm adding a new single point of failure and another web request, so I'm not quite sure how big the benefit is exactly.

Maybe it'll turn out that there's a huge need for some intermediate between IFTTT and vanilla API use, but I'm having a hard time seeing when.