skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue in favor of lower taxation on producers (lower taxation on everything, with a Federal government at least 1/4 smaller by focusing strictly on key priorities). I'd argue for a government matching the Bill Clinton era size, adjusted appropriately for 13 years, and the taxes to go with it.

My point was emphasis on production is extremely lacking in the US today. Presidents pay lip service to it (and absolutely nothing else), meanwhile China is beating our pants off by actually focusing on it. My other point was, production is more important than consumption (because the one must come before the other, not to say you don't need consumption of course).

You turn on the TV and every talking head says the same thing: consumption is 2/3 of the economy. So in their world we need more consumer spending - more people buying junk they don't need from China so China can get richer while we get poorer. When you put that into a logical context, it's comically absurd. Where do those talking heads think the money to consume comes from? 100% of it comes from production or credit, with the ability to spend being a left-over fractional fruit of production (aka the profit from producing something).
Watch vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple, ca. 1980 [video]
Right. Because the steamboat ferries, railroads, interstate highway system, and the internet were created by the free market...
Science is notoriously bad at fixing its own problems. The meme plays well on HN because most people here believe in building solutions for themselves.

We were scientists. We didn't want to deal with stupid shit. So we built something for ourselves. This is my cofounder crowdfunding her own project: https://www.microryza.com/projects/repurposing-potential-ant...
An important variable not considered by this solution is who the author of a comment is.
Interesting, thank you for sharing.

I think it's a major problem that there is no external accountability. The grants are scored by peer professors, based on publications (which again requires approval by peers). This creates a bunch of problems 1) it's very easy for entire field or subfield to go down the wrong track, and have no way of getting out of that track because the professors controlling grants and publications are the ones doing the bad research. 2) there is a bias towards publishing research that shows some new finding, rather than research that shows that they could not re-produce some previous science. The entire idea of basing science off of peer review is erroneous IMO, science should advance via replication.

In my ideal world, research would be funded in three, independent streams:
1) Prize based. The government would allocate a yearly budget of some very large amount of money - say $30 billion. It would create competitions and prizes in all sorts of fields. Example contests might include: self-driving car race, robot soccer olympics, longest battery life for $x of total materials used for making the battery, most yield of a plant strain per acre, etc. Teams would receive money for their research in return for placing or winning the contests. Research teams would also get money for achieving objective milestones:

2) Commission based. The government needs some new technology, maybe an upgrade of stealth tech for their fighter planes, so it pays a research institute to develop that tech. Unlink grant based funding, the commission is granted by the outsiders who need the tech, not by professors in the field giving to it to fellow professors.

3) Open Ended Institutional Funding. A certain number of reputable institutions should simply be given permanent annual funding. No grant process, no paperwork, no bureaucracy. The researchers would be overseen by an executive director, and the executive director would be overseen by a board of directors. The board of directors would consist of outside experts with a proven track record. For example, the board of a computer science research university would have people like Google's Urs Hölzle or Guido or Trevor Blackwell. The researchers would not have to apply for grants. They would just have to convince the board of directors that they were generally working on projects that had potential benefit to humanity, or else they would get fired. Every institution would be actually independent, governed by the personal judgement of that institutions board of directors.
For firefox users, dotjs(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/dotjs/) does roughly the same thing but with custom js support as well.
Apologies if this is a silly question, but why is console.clear() needed for this to work?

EDIT: Oh, I get it, it must be housekeeping to clear the log messages generated by the profiler.
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It does, but you usually don't want to profile other dev's pages; here is another solution that doesn't make profiling unusable:

chrome.inspector.detector = function(){ return {open:false}}

But a more aggresive solution is this one:

console = undefined;
var iframe = document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("iframe"));
iframe.style.display = "none";
window._console = iframe.contentWindow.console

And you can use `_console` instead of `console`
Windows keyboards don't usually have a 'meta' key. I suppose you should consider changing the shortcut.
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I always use probabilistic logic for real-world questions. Certainty is just too rare.

I understand and agree with your analysis except for one point: as I understand it, the exact text of the joke has not been published, sadly preventing post mortem evaluation.
so now Google Reader is like the banks/aig/car makers? too big to fail?
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Oh, that's interesting. All the content is on *.betterinternet.me, though. I feel an extension keeps the content on the owner's site, while simultaneously allowing the custom design that one wants.

Perhaps this model can provide further customization options, though.
Social networks are not much about features, or minor things like slangs..
they are about friends, and people using it..

i start to use it in 2004.. i guess facebook was not even dreaming to born..
i guess i've stop to use it in 2008.. too many people.. to many noise.. and stop for the same reason that now i dont use facebook anymore..

is interesting with few early adopters friends.. (they have a high intelectual standard in median) .. but then.. everybody start to use it and say every #$% they are doing..

theres nothing magical about who get the top on the list.. they were there, in the right time.. and got the right sort of luck :)
You'll have to be more specific for how you would define "embrace, extend, and extinguish", then, because it's difficult to parse from your comments anything more than that a feature has to have consequences in a market place for it to fit the "embrace, extend, extinguish" mold (it also doesn't help that the author also offered nothing to back up the comparison other than the fact that NewsGator no longer offers a feed reader).

ActiveX is actually a pretty bad example, as it was outside of web standards and only has impact because of the close ties to the OS and the advantage Microsoft therefore got there. It is therefore a pretty good example of some of Microsoft's lower level anticompetitive acts, but it's a poor example of "embrace, extend, and extinguish" (even if only for the fact that NPAPI was itself essentially being made up as Netscape went along at the time).

No, the canonical examples of the phrase, coming from US v Microsoft itself, refers to Microsoft's attempts to make Sun and Netscape irrelevant when it came to Java and the web, respectively. The plan was to embrace the standards of each, bringing support in as core OS features, and then literally extending the standards with new APIs, tags, etc to add features that developers would want. This would put pressure on those companies that in time they might not be able to keep up with (or they would spend all their time reimplementing Microsoft's features and lose their images as the trailblazers) because the formerly-standardized content they used to be able to consume with their programs would become unreadable and/or unrunnable without the extensions. What's worse, Microsoft often designed APIs that were closely aligned with Windows APIs, specifically to make it easy to implement there, and difficult to implement efficiently elsewhere.

In other words, they broke the standards in a way that if you didn't implement the extensions, you couldn't consume the content that was supposedly compliant with that standard. You aren't adding a feature that users want and so other clients need to compete, you're adding features to the content standard so that other clients cannot function without them, and you're doing it while pretending loudly that your extension is just part of the standard.

So, no, a service that makes the client better and that users soon demand does not fit the bill (and, again, we're talking about an API specifically existing for making it easier to interoperate on those features). Yes, it had a market impact in that many users wanted support in any feed reader, and, now going away, there will be a loss of functionality if someone doesn't reimplement it. That's often the way with features. But it's a poor analog for the actions of monopolists past.
Where are you getting your data? I just moved from Chicago last year and my friends in Lincoln Park were paying around $1600 for a 2BR at Clark/Fullerton. Trulia suggests that this is not uncommon: http://www.trulia.com/for_rent/Chicago,IL/16_zm/41.920751,41...

Also, the average for places like Lincoln Park is skewed up by all the high-end housing in the area. Places like Andersonville and Edgewater are even cheaper, and very safe and family-friendly: http://www.trulia.com/rental/3102177710-5406-N-Kenmore-Ave-2...

Heck, last year I was paying $1450/month for a 1BR in a full-service high-rise in Streeterville with a 28th-floor view. My wife paid just around $1100 a month for a huge 1BR in Streeterville a couple of years ago. If you've got a roommate, it's totally possible to live in River North on a teacher's starting salary.
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I can't speak for anyone else, but I've been consistently more happy with the comment rankings on HN as opposed to Reddit. This could be something to do with voting behavior, but I think it's at least partly thanks to HN's ranking algorithm as opposed to Reddit's.
By "middle school" do you mean the US 6th-8th grade (more or less)? Because in "middle school" I wanted to become a cartoonist, not the computer programmer than I ended up being. I personally think that specializing in middle school is way too early.
Wikipedia does not always have the answers :)

Sorry, I fully intended to publish a description, but it turns out at least two of them are the subject of pending patent apps that haven't been published yet, so I can't.

In any case, do note there are a wide variety of wilson variants or alternatives that may be applicable to various situations (agresti-coull, etc), as well as jeffrey's prior bayesian intervals.

http://stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~tcai/paper/Binomial-Annals.pd... is a reasonable comparison of the current common methods.

Anyway, I deleted the original comment since it doesn't add anything now.
I like that it immediately shows changes as I type. I could use this for web development, by loading up an unstyled HTML template and applying CSS from here.
It's fairly easy to collect (like gas taxes) since you're dealing with a set of vendors and not the whole population.
Sometimes I have a feeling that the US government is so good at being politically correct that the only thing they care is being politically correct.
I see that you've invented Greasemonkey. Unfortunately, it has already been around for the last 8 years. What's more, Chrome actually has native support for Greasemonkey scripts – no plugin needed.

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/02/40000-more-extensions.html

EDIT: My comment has been misunderstood by some, so let me try to be clearer: I like your plugin, I just wanted to let you know a plugin with similar functionality has been around for a long time, in case you were planning on spending a lot of time on it.
Siri means Crab in portuguese.. actually a sort of Crab..
The "Mr Krabs" from Sponge Bob its even named "Siriguejo" :)
But what if he starts using setInterval? A more global solution is to: Open the "sources" panel, click on "Event Listener Breakpoints", then click "set Timer" and just delete the lines where it is calling the detector function.
Why not just NNTP?
NB: That is an outdated spec. The spec that is actively being developed is here:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/SimplePush
Walmart and K-Mart are "fixing" this with free payroll check cashing and rechargeable debit cards. One uses MasterCard and the other uses American Express.
Oh, no I haven't. Looks like they beat me to it in terms of features and sharing.

It seems like they could make it easier to use, though. You have to go to their custom styles page and add CSS without seeing its effects directly. Their userstyles.org website also needs some help (perhaps someone should make a stylish style for userstyles.org itself). Nevertheless, the sharing features are quite nice. I wanted to add such sharing capability myself.
Only if you take an extremely tautalogical definition of "worth" of limited usefulness. If you strengthen it even a little bit further, towards a definition that takes into account a degree of repeatability, then a single transaction is not sufficient to establish worth.

That also accords better with general English usage, where what something is worth and what a particular person paid are not considered generally equivalent. There exist phenomena such as "overpaying" and "getting a great deal", where payment in a particular instance diverges (in either direction) from this more robust notion of "worth". Indeed, if that were not the case, arbitrage would be impossible.
It may not be clear, but the main use case for this app is not to harm someone, but to aid in development.

Perhaps you're making a game and want to pause it or show wireframes when toggling the inspector.

Or perhaps you're a designer and you want to show a grid layout whenever you're inspecting elements.
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On a note related to pollen allergies, I have been suffering with pollen allergies as long as I have known. I have taken claritin/zyrtec/flonase etc only when it became very difficult to function. I have been looking for a natural cure for last 10 years. Where I currently live in US, pollen count is really high. As a kid I have lived in a poor country which wasn't hygienic, I dont think it contributed in any manner with the current allergies.

Finally this year I managed to find almost natural cure (hopefully permanent). I have been taking Apple Cider Vinegar (popular brand) with local honey for more than two months. Apparently, it seems to have changed my body's pH which helps ensure there is no auto-immune reaction to allergies. I can now go outdoors even during high pollen season. Additionally I have also given up Dairy, not sure if it contributed to the cure.

More here:
http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/allergies.html#APPLECIDER
It may not be clear, but the main use case for this app is not to harm someone, but to aid in development.
Perhaps you're making a game and want to pause it or show wireframes when toggling the inspector.
Or perhaps you're a designer and you want to show a grid layout whenever you're inspecting elements.
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I am (or was, a couple of years ago) fluent in Javascript/AJAX and PHP so I could definitely hack something together with that, but Django sounds like a cool technology to learn as well.
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Wow, this is an interesting article and I agree with much of it. I've had my PhD for about 2 years now (neurobiology) and I agree that academia is eating..itself. The inefficiency, politics, hostility are some of the things, but much like any other governmental thing, it's just run poorly...and that trickles down to the PIs, students, departments etc.
[edit] this got really long, I'm going to create a blog post on this instead and host it at another time [/edit]

Here is an example:I applied to a training grant (t32) that will pay my salary and help me through my PhD. It was not funded initially because my PI's funding was running out in a year. <angry bold>I was applying for funds to continue my education so my PI wouldn't have to pay me (so we could use that money for my research), but they wouldn't fund me because my PI was running out of funds...to fund me. </>

I resubmitted the exact same grant, with zero changes, but I included a letter staying that I'd be covered if my PI ran out of money. Then I got funded. Total time? 1 Year! It took a year for a paragraph to propagate through the granting agency, as I had to resubmit the grant again and wait 6 months to get a vague answer (priority score).

This is one of many examples I have that are consistent with the OPs article, the system is broken.
And this is a wide spread problem that is going to require all of science to really make a change happen. I'm intending on doing so with my startup (just applied to YC) to bring transparency, efficiency, and opportunity to scientists. My goal is to bring the semantic web to academic science to start linking data sets between fields. Positive, negative and pilot data all available in one spot so I can run meta analysis on these data and create preliminary data for a grant or future studies. (there is more to it, but this isn't the place to plug my site)

What I'm most concerned about isn't the technology, it's the people using the technology. I recently got this comment, "Wow, that is a brilliant idea....but good luck getting scientists to use it." The dinosaurs are scared of change, and their fear(ignorance?) is by far the hardest thing I'm going up against. It's also one of the biggest problems we are going to have in science.

Still gotta try though:)
From personal experience, I would say optimizing for higher IQ at the cost of lower EQ to the extent that homeschooling makes possible is a very poor tradeoff - and it is also an extremely easy one to make.

> The oldest is 15, enjoys poetry, plays basketball competitively, likes to tinker with computers, reads history, does math, etc.

FWIW, that sounds like me at 15 and I regret having been homeschooled.
Neither am I. Could it be because I don't have any sites blocked?

It's either that, or a bug... And I can't really know which.
You are assuming that people are rational. Yes, a rational person purchasing an item is evidence that the item is worth the price that was paid for it. No, a person purchasing an item is not evidence that the item is worth the price that was paid for it.
I can't wait to write a grant application targeting the average Internet user rather than experts in my field. That will surely be a productive use of my time, and will undoubtedly result in a more fair distribution of money.

Honestly, I'm not trying to be an asshole and I commend you for your spirit, but I just can't see how you and others think crowdsourcing science funding is a good idea. Science has problems, but Microryza solves none of them and introduces myriad new issues (well, it would introduce new issues if it was successful, but I find that to be a dubious proposition).
I don't think a time limit would mitigate the problem? — People won't return to vote, once the time limit has expired. They'll just forget about it. And new visitors (that arrives after the time limit has expired) will do as usual: read the topmost comments and upvote them.

If this is a big problem: I've heard people mention it, and I think I've encountered it sometimes. But I guess it is a rather serious problem, because people are so terribly lazy. I mean, they are short of time and have to prioritize.
same with .buy, .book, ,auto and many others
It's becoming increasing clear that on HN you're a second class citizen if you don't use Chrome on a Mac and develop on RoR.
At this point I wish the Federal Government would pass a straight 5% sales tax for goods crossing state lines. Vendor pays the Fed quarterly with report of zip codes bought from. Fed pays the origin state and the destination state 2% each and keeps 1%. Fed tell states no other taxing of items bought online.
Perhaps you're making a javascript game and want to pause it or show wireframes when toggling the inspector. Things like that...
If it's any consolation, the company was acquired for "only" $20M, so founders probably won't make "never work again" money after all the investors, debts, and taxes are paid.
I can relate a story of a coworker of mine who recently moved back to Germany with his two kids after living the US for many years.

They looked at some houses and ended up touring the local school and talking to the principal. The conversation went something like this:

Coworker: You ave a nice school.
Principal: Thanks.
Coworker: Do you have space for my kids?
Principal: ?
Coworker: Do you have space for my kids?
Principal: What do you mean with "space"?
Coworker: Do you have space for my kids?
Principal: Your kids are required to go to school. We will have space.

The question of space/waitinglists/applications/etc did not occur to the principal.
Oh, god, the color scheme...
Yes, but you are almost guaranteed lower votes and lack of confidence if you tie voting and comment viewing into the same function, such that you have to scroll past comments to get to low confidence ones that need more voting in order to establish reasonable intervals.

For example: You would be better off also randomly displaying a comment that requires more voting to establish good confidence bounds on the first page to each user somewhere.

This enables you to get better results quicker over the entire group, and gives you better results than taking into account how many people read but didn't vote.
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Great idea!

I'm reminded of http://www.allmyfaves.com/ (although you've obviously improved on their concept dramatically). If you're looking for a way to monetize your project, I believe they do pretty well just off of affiliate links (for the ecommerce sites).
Ask HN: How did Face.com not get sued by Facebook?
I understand Facebook has a trademark on the word "face". So how did face.com manage to avoid getting a cease and desist.

And if I were to create a new startup simply called "Face" would I be able to operate without troubles?
We openly tell researchers that crowdfunding isn't for everyone, at least not yet.

If it isn't valuable for you, that doesn't mean it can't be valuable for anyone else. Just don't do it and wait around for others to validate it.

I don't believe you're being an asshole. You're just picking up the mantle that being a scientist automagically entitles you to know what's best for other scientists.
Or perhaps you want to make it so that when someone tries to inspect a DOM element, the element turns into a youtube video of Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up." --Just sayin...
https://github.com/guilt/nicedongle

Everyone is welcome to Fork this repo without getting offended.
Yes, event.altKey would seem a better choice as it maps to Alt on Windows and Option on the Mac. Not sure about Chromebooks (which don't even have any modifier keys other than Shift) or Linux though. Or mobile browsers.
I would love to see a more in depth article about what kind of programming you need to do for a system controlling a rocket.

I remember reading that they cannot use exceptions and have to handle every possible scenario. Part of me wonders how much of the source code is just error handling.
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