skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of "enterprise" crap in the Java libraries: extreme verbosity is the most notable problem. Object-orientation is also just the wrong metaphor for many problems. Finally, camelCaps are uglyAsFuckAndNotVeryReadable.

However, the JVM libraries are well-supported and generally can be trusted to work. For a lot of the wheels I'd rather not reimplement, they're quite useful. I don't think that the Clojure of 2020 will be as reliant on Java, but for now, the JVM libraries are very useful.
White socks. I have white socks. There's always socks in the store that are white, or possibly grey in areas covered by shoes.

To notice that my two white socks don't perfectly match, someone would have to come up to me and roll up the legs of my jeans. At this point, I believe they've got me beat on the "social faux pas" scale.

Socks are cheap enough that I throw them out individually if they get holes, or, rarely, if I just don't like how they feel. Most of the time I just get on with it.

I have a much smaller pool of black socks for formal events. Right now I've got "too thin" and "too thick" black socks, but I wear them rarely enough I don't worry about trying to find any that are "just right".

I don't spend much time worrying about socks. I don't spend $10 a year worrying about socks, let alone per month.
Jeff Bezos Works In Kentucky Distribution Center For A Week
Have a talk with the founder. Reading about good management isn't enough.
Prosper,Lending Club and Zopa are not focused on small businesses and startups. That is the market that we want to capture. There is no clear leader in the p2p lending industry, especially when it comes to small business loans.
I agree with your above statements. However, referring to the competition by name isn't always a bad thing. Many companies do it to great success. Direct comparisons are great in advertising and they are trying to draw a direct comparison though potentially failing here. It will be interesting to see how the campaign does.
When you go to the movies and see a PG rating and wonder when pg went into showbiz.
If most politicians who want Americans to become engineers are lawyers then it's because most politicians are lawyers (or something similar). Selection bias. This explanation is simple and non-malicious.
I was interested in the website you used to create the form but I closed out and don't want to falsify your data. Mind sharing the form generator?
It's a very odd ad I think.

If you were to compare Windows vs. Mac OS X on price, Mac OS is cheaper ($129 vs. $199.95 to $319.95). So the ad ends up comparing the hardware, with which Microsoft has not much to do...

Another thing they kind of hint at is that Lauren in the ad looks like she would buy a Mac vs. a PC if they were the same price. So, it's not saying that Windows is better than Mac OS, it's just saying that she can't afford a Mac, thus buys a PC. The fact is you can't buy a PC with Mac OS X, so she has no choice but Windows. (leaving Linux out of the equation here)
Just a hypothetical, which is worse. The greed of a Wall Street Banker, or the power hungriness of a politician. Both, are greedy, but for different things.
I think they are trying to point out that Windows is for everybody and anybody. The "I'm a PC" ads featured a wide range of people. I'm sure they will probably run some ads that talk about how Windows powers big companies too. I think the argument is that you don't need to buy into cult of Apple.
I have a lot of sympathy for China's rulers. They have a tough situation, and any course of action they take will make them look like idiots or bastards. I think they could definitely stand to be more open, and that it's probably just insecurity and FUD that's causing them to go for a censorship-laden, heavy-handed method of social control, but they're doing a decent job.

Maybe I'm biased because I swoon whenever I think of how easily China decided to build a new generation of nuclear power plants, while the Home of the Brave is still too terrified of miniscule or nonexistent risks.
What about non-luxury battery based?
No, the ad was pointing out that you if you're looking for a 17" laptop for under $1000, you can't get a Mac without doubling your budget. How many people out there right now can just throw down an extra $1000 to meet that requirement? Is having a mac that essential?

Her first stop was the Apple store because thats the first stop of a lot of people who are shopping around for laptops. If you're in the same boat as the lady in this ad then she basically saved you a trip. Unless, you want to go and look at all the laptops you can't afford.
"Apples are expensive if the value of your time is zero." --Lance Weatherby
東京　Tokyo, Japan
Buy a house at the beach. Start going to more conferences. Read a few books. Then start working on the next idea.
Rock Band Surpasses $1 Billion in North American Retail Sales
That's one solution, but it always bothers me when I know I am wearing socks that don't match. So, I buy big bags of identical socks every so often. $20 lasts for about two years, and since I only own one type of sock, it's not possible to have non-matching socks.

Personally, I think my idea is a lot better than a "subscription".
Apparantly you don't either. There are plenty of scientific theories that are indisputably resolved and closed to debate.
Those two statements are not mutually exclusive: replacement hiring is still hiring.
Wow, that's actually really impressive.
"Print This Page". Cute. I am so not clicking through half a dozen pages on this slow-loading iPhone.
> Though he argues this data does not yield a statistically significant indication of either direction

Then it is noise and irrelevant.
Another great source of university video lectures (one of the best) is: http://academicearth.org/
Untodos is remarkably charming and friendly. I especially like how it teaches you to use it, sort of like Portal. I've already moved all my todo stuff over to it.

Does it have an API? Being able to use it easily from a cell phone app would make it perfect, and I've been looking for a project to learn the Android SDK.
7 seats? Where are the other 2?
Love it or hate it, Microsoft is biting back
It's doesn't matter. It can run with stackless/within it, and you can use tasklets. This was designed to step around the GIL, not get involved in the coroutine/tasklet/etc rats nest.
Yea I have thought about writing an aggrigator, but video isn't like a webpage, it might be hard to index the videos. After that they all have there own way of embedding. Also they all have there own way of determing if something is good or bad. I don't know seems like things need to converge a bit more. Or someone needs to figure out the backdoor.
Re: "hating the borg having all your data". If the budget has an extra 4-5K in it, the GA can be replaced with its standalone version - Urchin.

http://www.google.com/urchin/index.html
It's also easier to write iPhone apps on a Mac then Windows Mobile, Blackberry and Symbian on Windows. Not enough people mention that.
There's no doubt that Bush was a massive spender - but let's face it, it was nothing compared to what is being projected under Obama - so I think there's a legitimate critique here: http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-de...

The problem with spending big is that most people have no idea what's in the spending bills - witness all the ridiculous things (e.g. AIG bonuses and the questionable outrage that happened under Obama/Geithner).
The gender gap in startups
That's Tesla's ultimate goal. They're still working out the details
These are/can be all business people.

* Visionary/Architect
* Marketer
* Manager
* Lawyer
* Chef

Accountant is something you rent/outsource.
An issue with all these Web sites is that they provide mostly just videos and Web boards. If we want to make a real difference in student's lives and spark a significant improvement in our education systems, the system designer needs to think much more thoroughly about how people learn.

Moreover, designing such a system effectively requires collaboration with experts who have real-world experience improving students' results.

So what's a better alternative?

I've given the topic much thoughts over the years. (I am Com Sci masters grad, but I've taught, created learning media, and written books on the topic of learning and education). A more detailed proposal I created can be found here:

Global Learning Platform
http://nopinsight.wordpress.com/
http://nopinsight.wordpress.com/about/glp-in-more-depth/
Ask HN: Should I block HughesNet satellite provider?
HughesNet is a satellite internet provider so I assume that traffic from their IP addresses is some proxy for their clients. Now these proxies seem to be broken as they don't seem to process relative links in css and javascript files correctly.

Our pages www.example.com include css and js files which are located on other hosts such as, static.example.com. These static css/js files include a relative link to static files ex. url(../i/corner.gif). Everything works correctly, but the ip requests of from HughesNet are requesting 1000s per minute of www.example.com/i/corner.gif
and all other static files that we use. In fact they are requesting things like www.example.com/google_ads.js which are files that are relatively linked from the google ads includes.
Clearly these guys are doing something wrong. As you can imagine they request these at once, so I see things like 100 request in the same second to my web server.

What do you suggest?
One very positive thing about the Internet is that, even if your outlook is not common in your physical community or society in general, you can find virtual communities where you do fit in. This can definitely help avoid that alienated feeling.

One way I can relate to what you're saying is that I am not religious, yet most people I encounter offline, including pretty much all of my family and most of my friends, are. It's nice to find that it's not at all difficult to find people online who share my views on religion.

Yet, I still do have good relationships with friends and family despite differences on religion and other subjects - and I think the key to this is focusing on the common ground we can share and enjoy together instead of on the differences. After all, we're all human beings with different emotional biases and flaws, even those of us who consider ourselves among the more rational. And love and enjoyment of art and music and nature and sex and humor, etc. - all of that is emotional rather than rational. So for all the problems we get from irrationality, we also get the positives.

All the crap out there in the world can be dismaying, but eventually, you know, the sun will burn out and this world will be dead, and even if the human race manages to migrate elsewhere, at some distant time beyond the death of this solar system, the universe will collapse back in on itself (or whatever), so keep things in perspective. Improve what you can improve in life, and enjoy what you can enjoy, and don't get overwhelmed by the lack of perfection in the world, because everything is ultimately temporary.
Regardless of your political leanings, it's naive to believe that these problems today are the result of deregulation. I'd be interested in hearing how one explains away Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the CRA. For that matter, there are those who have been pointing out the bias towards debt versus equity financing because of high corporate taxes (interest rates after all being tax deductible). Sorry buddy, it's rich people who pay most of the taxes anyway.
Agreed with the first-posted comment that the online formatting of this article into multiple pages is very annoying. That said, the article is written by one of the best researchers on the subject, and is chock full of thoughtful discussion of the primary research conducted by others over the last century. It's well worth the annoying read.

"Although intelligence is not correlated with creativity in the upper levels of the intelligence distribution, a certain minimal level of intelligence is required for exceptional creativity (Simonton, 2000). That threshold level is in the gifted range, roughly equivalent to an IQ 120. Creators do not necessarily have genius-grade IQs, but they do have sufficient information processing power to select, develop, elaborate and refine original ideas into creative contributions."
Is the "insecurity" worth the convenience of having a bookmarklet for making wishes?

I think it is. Someone could add a bunch of porn to my Amazon wishlist. But they probably won't.
First Look At The Tesla Model S Electric Car's Giant Touchscreen Dashboard
Page tracking analytic services would not be useful with respect to what this article is about--they do not yield very insightful information to help learn about customers.
Leaving Amazon: What I learned over the last four years
The Quiet Coup: IMF advice on the US economy
LOVE THE FISHER CAR more...Way cooler
I(well really it's make install --prefix=/usr/local/python2.5) do the same thing in /usr/local.

I don't see the need or point for /opt. I guess I'm socially unacceptable?
First of all, I think your thesis is an example of "agent bias". Humans have a tendency to scapegoat, to blame someone for events rather than impersonal forces.

Based on what I have read about monetary crises, financial panics, and recessions (past and present), I find it hard to accept the thesis that if we only had fewer "douchebags" in the world, that we could avoid all problems. Financial flows would still induce bubbles, and bubbles would still play on mob psychology. Devaluing a currency would still push GDP above its natural level, and require a period of readjustment.

Furthermore, the corporate culture of the 2000s and the 1990s was far, far, far more professional and less "douchebaggy" than what I've heard of the 80s. Why, you can get fired for sexual harassment nowadays, which would have been impossible 20 years ago.

Again the system you describe where "douchebags" rule is far different from my experience in the system. You say that non-"douchebags" cannot climb the corporate hierarchy because it is stacked with "douchebags". Your crude term does not describe the majority of the MBAs, CEOs, MDs, associates, CFOs, accountants, lawyers, and others that I had the pleasure to be acquainted with, although there was a minority of people that I certainly would not like to ever see again.

Lastly, I suspect you are getting upvotes merely for using rhetoric that makes teenagers giggle, which I find sad. Such a juvenile word choice lowers your credibility, because it appeals to the inner snickering child, and not the logical mind. An observer is left to conclude that your point could not stand on its own without the use of crude emotional appeals.

I cannot help but think that reddit has arrived.
Upbeat entrepreneurs interact at South by Southwest
It's nice to have choices. It's also nice to have most of those choices sitting on your hard drive unused, rather than being loaded into memory. It looks like that's still what's happening with Linux.

If it's too heavy, there's always TinyOS.
Yep, active, heavy and paying dropbox user, but have never been to the website
I was expecting to hear what he learned from the experience.
No thanks. Apple doesn't need to act like a monopoly any more than it already does (i.e. iPod/iTunes lock-in).

Hopefully people liking iPhones will make Mac market share grow organically, but it would be a mistake to try and force it.
I strongly suggest you replace your screenshots which hotlink to pngs with a lightbox style effect. A shocking percentage of the Internet, especially non-technical users, does not understand how to use the back button. This makes screenshots into a roach motel -- click in, can't click out, bounce.

Incidentally: less talk about features, more talk about benefits. Nobody will use your site to "Keep a personal list of missionary pages you have access to". They will use your site because it makes their lives fuller, because it lets them keep in touch with their family, because it helps them to support their community in fulfilling their duties to God. These things matter to your customers. Implementation details do not matter.

Edit to add: I understand there may be practical and cultural reasons for defaulting pages to private, but you may wish to reconsider whether that is the only mode of interaction which you will support.
Why are criminal masterminds often admired in certain ways? From Donny Ocean to Madoff, people appreciate the ability to "pull it off".

Sorry it's only somewhat related.
Study: Technology can overwhelm even 20-somethings
Exemplification
I'm sorry. Really. I find XCode to be pretty bad overall. Interface Builder is an exercise in pain. And (for the iPhone at least) the simulator is so different from the actual hardware, that if you aren't checking your builds against hardware often, you are going to be spending a lot of time rewriting software.

I can't even give them props for including it, because it really is just a really bad gcc front-end.

Don't get me wrong, I do like the Mac Book I'm using. It's a decent machine. However, XCode shows the big difference between Microsoft and Apple philosophies.

Microsoft is a developer centric company.
Apple is a consumer centric company.
I see.

But if all you want is money, why not go to a bank and ask for a credit line? The one charm and appeal of programs like YC is that it is 'smart' money: advice, network, etc.
Sketerpot has it: the very first thing I always try is a GET to all those Ajax endpoints that the script is POSTing to.
I knew coffee at conferences was expensive, but $60/Gallon? That's $10 for a 20 oz coffee, and they don't even pour it for you!
If you want a netbook, you can't get a Mac. If you want a tablet, you can't get a Mac.

My point is that Apple doesn't try to produce the perfect computer for everyone, and this ad targets a market that wouldn't be seriously considering a Mac anyways.

It's not that Microsoft targeting the affordable market is a bad decision, just that it's kind of unambitious.
We can offer lower interest rates than banks and when you pay back that interest, it's going to lenders who are just regular people. Ideall is not just about getting you the money you need to get your idea off the ground, but also gives your startup an online home when it comes to promoting your idea.
So why am I being downvoted? For complaining that there isn't a way to view a full-length version of the article (which is important for slow mobile devices) and about the entirely useless "print this page" functinality on the site? Fine, I'll keep my thoughts to myself. I'll also come to your house and skin your puppy, because, you know, I'm a genius.
you are correct...the spending is massive...and most of it, so far, to pay back bad investments from the Bush years.
White socks ftw.

I can't believe people have a problem with this. I learned this from my father when I was still a young boy. Buy white socks, stop worrying.
I often find it useful to remind myself that we're doing pretty damn well for a bunch of monkeys.
Why are you asking us?

Contact Hughes network administrator. They probably have a prefetching web caching server, that may be misconfigured or have a bug when interacting with your particular web server with your particular configuration...or your site may have some cache-control data botched. Or a little of both.

You have the offending IP addresses...look them up at ARIN.net, and find out who is responsible for their network. Send them an email with what you've just told us.
Movie about six friends and their sole dream.
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"Isn't the ad just pointing out that you can't really get a sub-$1000 Mac, a market Apple consciously abandoned?"

It doesn't matter if Apple abandoned the market consciously or not for the purposes of the ad. "You can get a sub 1000 $ PC but not a Mac" reinforces the "Macs are expensive" meme and hints at "outrageously expensive". This is good marketing in a recession.
Finally, Skype client for iPhone coming
Google Video as a search engine for videos never gained habitual use. That's a wide open market.
So you can engage in some low rent hijinks.

I can also create an Amazon account in your name and add porn to a wish list and send it to your boss.

Wake me when this thing can purchase items using my Amazon account and send it to another address.
Two can play at that game!

As a startup you should build the smallest test case for your product, test it, and iterate as the data comes in. That means data collection and analysis from day 1.
That's not what Gentoo does. It uses /opt for any closed-source software, while /usr/local is left untouched. I believe Ubuntu doesn't use /usr/local either.

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard) says it's for "Tertiary hierarchy for local data, specific to this host."
++jfarmer, btw you need to write more, I miss it =)
Its certainly not a complete solution and a reactionary one at that. But some free thought on "corporate personhood" is certainly in order. I'm in favor of letting the debate get out of hand for a bit to stretch our minds.
Also if they use evacuated tunnels, the trains could do 4,000 mph.
That would be cool.
Don't forget the Federal Reserve, the most evil of all regulation.

As for the rich, they not only pay most of the taxes (that end up going to services they are least likely to use), but they also buy lots of stuff (increasing jobs needed), invest in companies/municipalities/fed via stocks and bonds, and save (which provides credit for others). So even the rich, just by being rich help others.
> Or am I crazy?
If you're crazy then I'm crazy too because what you have described I have felt in some form or another for a long time. You're definitely not alone and I think you're posing smart questions and yeah if I had some more time I would want to suggest to you that there are ways to channel your gift in an inspired direction.

Look, what I really liked about Ayn Rand is her perspective on selfishness. She basically said Stop listening to altruism b.s. and be relentlessly selfish. If you "get" that then you grant yourself the freedom to architect your own future, your own world. So number one, you're the painter of your life's canvas and you owe it to yourself to satisfy yourself long-term. What should you paint? I say sketch it out at first. You're talking about being frustrated with stupid people: stop focussing on them. Avoid toxic people and spaces - cultivate your selfish world. And don't let anyone tell you that taking care of #1 isn't beautiful. It is. It's the only way I know after reading a ton of philosophy how to be happy. (And please no one should take this to mean screw over other people. It's way more fun to be loving, selectively.)

Be honest and stay rational, righteous friend.
>"I mean seriously, what exactly is the GOP hoping to gain, by making fun of Obama using a teleprompter?"

I wonder if you would have gotten as many upvotes if you had called out Democrats for making fun of the way that Bush speaks, which was surely instrumental in destroying the Republican brand. To many people between the ages of 14 and 30, "Republican" is slang for "idiot", in part because of endless clips of Bush's speech stumbles being played all over the evening news + Jon Stewart.

I agree that politics should be about substance and not style. Isn't this alternative budget proposal a substantial critique?
Eh, sorry. Bad day.