skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While parents do, of course, have a huge impact on their children, I think it's overly simplistic to lay the ultimate responsibility at their feet. As raganwald points out (in the other direction), when there are feedback loops at play, the system can re-enforce other traits than you might hope for. Parents with no education in nutrition or no real supermarkets in their neighborhood can't be expected to feed their children well. A father in prison will have highly limited influence on his children. A teenage girl with limited access to contraceptives or abortion (or sex education) may end up a mother well before she's financially, emotionally, or intellectually prepared to perform that job well. Low-income, blue-collar communities may have perverse incentives to tie their children to their existing social and economic status, and resent and resist "modern society" in it's various guises.

Which is to say, I don't think you can approach this from a purely reductionist viewpoint. Yes, a given institution is limited to a degree by its inputs, but it's also the case that each component has the potential to make improvements, even if marginal.
Thanks. I found this helpful.
Oh noes, please not yet another kind of client/server based remote control.

What would be REALLY cool is to make an app which does this using the standard Bluetooth HID profiles, so no setup is needed clientside.
I suppose that you were thinking of the disappointment of rejection, while I was thinking of the disappointment of not getting the chance to participate in something you care about.
The U.S. is the most technologically productive society in the history of the world, and we have had patents since our founding.

"Post hoc, meet Propter hoc. I'm sure you two will have a lot to talk about."
Do you guys really only have one engineer working for you out of a team of thirty people?
Uh... this makes me wonder if I'm underpaid. I have 13 years of professional development experience (first half C++, second half C#, first half startups, second half financial software), BSCS from a well known technical university.

I make $130k. Granted, I work in Boston, which is not as expensive as SF, but it ain't cheap either.

Am I underpaid?
What this person is trying to get away from requires not using the internet in any way.
>Do rich bankers benefit more than the working class from higher inflation? Certainly not.

Yes, they do, because they are the first to get to spend the inflated money.

If you go back to a point in time when the royal mint could produce an inflated currency by diluting the metal content in coins, then they were the beneficiary of the inflated money by getting to spend it at the current price levels. By the time that money filters through the system to the poor, the prices have risen and the currency is worth less.

The same happens now when the central bank provides newly-minted funds to banks. The banks get first use of the money and get to use it at current price levels, before the flow-on effect of the increased supply takes hold.

In a hyperinflationary environment, here's how a million bucks in new money plays out:
In week one, it buys you a new house
In week two, it buys you a new car
In week three, it buys you a new friday
In week four, it buys you a restaurant meal
In week five, it buys you a newspaper

That is a necessarily exaggerated example, but the beneficiaries of newly inflated money are those that first get to use it. And that is the banks. This is all entirely by design; the true purpose of having a central bank and a fiat currency.
For a long list of reasons, both philosophical and practical, I strongly dislike the adoption of community code of conducts.

One reason that's not been mentioned elsewhere is that they make an act wrong because it offends a magical set of rules, rather than the act being wrong in its own right. Lawyers would recognise this as the difference between malum in se vs malum prohibitum. I don't speak for anyone else, but this is not a subtle difference for me.

The latter seems entirely at odds with a distributed and obstensibly non-hierarchical open source project.
From Yonkers to Far Rockaway it's about 23 miles. From Mission Hills to Mission Viejo it's about 65 miles. LA is just a lot more spread out than NYC is, which makes public transit, especially such based on fixed infrastructure, that much more difficult.
Who said that I didn't like Meritocracy? I said that when we use the word, we should all be on the same page as to what it actually means.
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This is the line that does it:

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The density of LA is still far too low for a NY style subway to be cost effective. Metro Rail is in some ways pseudo-inter-city-commuter-rail, similar to BART and the DC "Metro". Its also interesting due to its diverse type of trackae (heavy and light rail).
Reading his service-by-service comments paints a much less favorable picture of his Google "divorce":

Search: Push (possible win with DuckDuckGo booleans, possible loss with Craigslist search)

Mail: Push (mainly using own server, Yahoo vs Gmail not an issue).

Maps: Acceptable, but significant loss. ("Mapquest is ok. Yahoo! Maps are my go-to" and "Yahoo! Maps UI isn't very good, but the maps are quite usable").

Music and Videos: Loss. Spotify covers music, Vimeo and DuckDuckGo search covers some (most?) videos, but the overall process described is pretty painful. Many alternative video sites are likely tracking him as well (despite attempted countermeasures).

Images: Push. Happy using private Flickr and Shutterfly, no noted advantages.

Social Networking: Push. Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter (occasional) cover most things. No indication of whether or not he reasonably matched his 3000 Google+ relationships.

GPS: Not used.

Google Translation: Loss. "Babelfish is ok. Others do well, too. None are as good as I would like."

Apps: Not used / push.

So... depending on whether you break out Music and Videos and whether you count Apps, that's three clear losses out of 7-9 services, with no obvious win (other than the divorce itself). To me that doesn't look very good.
I consider the latter to be part of the former.

Rejection is painful because of the "simulation heuristic" -- imagining yourself enjoying working at the place / going on dates with the person.

The simulation heuristic works the other way too. You can easily imagine being disappointed by the new restaurant. You know what? Let's just go to Shmookey's, we always go to Shmookey's on Thursday and get the steak.

edit: actually, no, simulation heuristic isn't quite right. Sunk cost fallacy? Someone help me out here.
That really is one of the great ironies of the English language. And this is not well known - I didn't know this until a few years ago (maybe on HN?).

I guess the reality is that "meritocracy" is a goal that in practice is hard to achieve. But does that make it the wrong goal? What are better alternatives? How can we fix it? I think it is very, very hard to actually improve on this but I would love to hear suggestions.
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There is no such thing as "natural rights." Rights are utilitarian, or otherwise based on the morality of the society (relative, not absolute). Property is certainly spun from whole cloth. Animals after all do not have property rights, merely possession.

As for copyright being recent: there have been protections against copying creative works pretty much as long as it's been possible to copy creative works. In Britain, within 50 years or so of printing presses proliferating in the country, printing became the subject of government-granted monopolies (only those with a charter could print). Copyright was introduced in surprisingly recognizable form with the Statute of Anne in 1710.
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Which makes the whole "copyright" argument in this case even more specious, IMAO. You're broadcasting your content, for free, into the air, for anyone who cares to listen. What gives the broadcaster the right to dictate where someone has to be physically located in order to receive the broadcast?
I'd replace gmail and gchat with fastmail.fm (owned by Opera, although if Facebook ever buys Opera...). You can run XMPP through fastmail's servers, which lets you IM all of your gchat friends (for now at least). As has been pointed out elsewhere, GChat's OTR is not the OTR protocol, so I wouldn't count on it giving you any extra privacy.

And it should go without saying that you get your own domain name for the accounts so that you can switch providers easily.
Ask HN: Why the Google Hate?
So I recently graduated from college and joined Google in NYC. I considered going the startup route, but instead chose to apply to big companies based on my short-term financial goals and the rationale that once I paid off my (small) student loan debt, I can go on and join or start a startup without sacrificing financial stability in the short term. Besides, the work lines up wonderfully with my studies and skillset.

Since I've joined, I've noticed people seem to have a particular... attitude towards Google employees. Many of my friends went to work at startups, and they've become somewhat chilly. I've learned to avoid bringing up my employer's name at certain meetups because I've noticed people being visibly turned off by me when I mention it.

What I'd like to know is: why? As someone with little experience in this market, I'm a little uncertain as to what might cause such a reaction.
He just likes getting shit for free.
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Do these people stand out by building better products that they can show to you, or do they just use trendy technologies to build products of the same quality as anyone else?
When you say things like "$200 a box" that are clearly exaggerations, readers of your comment are unable to tell whether your other statements are similarly exaggerated -- in this case, your claim that most of the original Netscape code was actually discovered to be non-cruft.

I know Joel Spolsky famously wrote about the Netscape rewrite, but a solid citation would be really helpful here.
I got sick of seeing everything Google all the time, so for a change of scenery I went everything Microsoft. I even switched from Dropbox to SkyDrive because of it's tight integration with the new Microsoft Office web suite, OneNote and outlook.com.

Admittedly, I'm only changing one taskmaster for another, but overall the change has been good, like an upgrade.
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Vacation autoresponder and automatic forwarding are godsends for that. Gmail also has the sense to not autorespond to mailing lists.
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Really? Blows their minds? I mean I understand the need for some hyperbole in titles to garner attention but I doubt scientists though their discovery would induce some paradigm shift in their respected fields!
Did you even read the post, his point was that modern tools and frameworks make it easy today to do what once had to be done at a lower level.
in related news, "Report: Unemployment High Because People Keep Blowing Their Job Interviews" http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-unemployment-high-be...
If only people agreed on what natural rights were, we wouldn't have any disputes. I know people that think that if you leave a house sitting empty, they have a natural right to move in and begin living there. It'rs real easy to invoke natural rights when you end up as the beneficiary.

As for recently, since the creation of the cosntitution creators have been granted copyrights 'for limited times'; No matter how much you hate the fact that Disney is still claiming copyright on materials almost a century old, retransmission of TV happens over such a short timeframe that it surely falls within a reasonable definition of 'limited times.'
generally an honest and upstanding ad network

Unless you happen to be a small guy and fall on the wrong side of their political beliefs:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5438797
Hiring practices aren't a constant. They may have changed their practices for the worse.
Next step: all cars are driven automatically and completely synchronized within the city. The capacity gains we could achieve would be astronomical, while parking would become a thing of the past (just treat them like taxis).

I'm very excited about what cities will look like in the future!
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> (I remember their logo being red, forgot the name)

Wuala? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuala
I would change this "MailTheHouse.com will find your representative, print and then mail your letter for you so contacting your rep is as easy as sending an e-mail" into series of 2-3 bullet points. Emphasize the "finds your representative point"-- I doubt many people know who their reps are so this value prop. will be especially interesting.

Also, consider just collecting the email to reduce sign-up friction (or make it very clear that the first/last names are optional).

Very cool idea by the way-- is this to be a social for-profit? A non-profit? How do you plan on making money? Just curious.
Its hyperbole. Game of Thrones is an HBO show and is not free, or broadcast outside private cable. The point is, if it doesn't matter, then people are just going to do whatever. The "over the air" stuff is ostensibly free, but if "the powers" are going to dick around with "free" like this even though its perfectly clear to everyman its silly, then why take any of it seriously?

That's what I mean when I say people will lose respect. If free was free and pay was pay and it was clear what was what, people might get behind it. This nonsense is just going to make people bittorrent and push meaningful solutions that much further down the road.
It's not like Dropbox is remotely on the same page with pricing vs others. Really they are a rip off, even before Amazon.

Their client was just the best (well still is)
And yet getting across town is still a pain and a half.
Just because people hold money in bank does not mean that the banks will lend people money. In fact, after being bailed out with TARP, many banks did not turn around and increase the amount of lending that they were doing. However, most of them did pay back their lender (the Fed).

As with anything, too much of any extreme is bad. Too much inflation or too much deflation. But with fiat currency, it's natural to expect steady inflation over time -- especially if it's not tied to a commodity (e.g. after we got off the gold standard). That's because there's value in lending money to some enterprise, and that's the time value of money. Organizations with good credit (e.g. banks) issue and lend money to organizations with worse credit. So they will expect a return in the enterprise, and overall if they guess right, the enterprise will have returned principal + interest to the lender. If they don't then the money disappears from the system, but in most booming economic times, more money is created, and eventually more money is printed to provide more base money in order to pay back all that interest.

So it's like an elastic money supply that's being prodded by lenders / banks looking for a return.
Is this fixed in later versions of Android?
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Yes, except the 40 kWh customers are essentially getting a rebate ("20 extra kWh" for free). The 60 kWh-ers may reasonably ask why they don't should not deserve a similar rebate (eg., free upgrade to 80 kWh), especially considering they paid more for the product than the 40 kWh-ers.

Note that I'm agreeing that it's nothing to get angry about (and we don't know whether this is something that can be "unlocked"), but I disagree that it's some kind quirky human, irrational response. On the contrary, it's completely rational; it's rational to recognize when something is distributed inequally in a way that favours some people out of sheer luck.
Young's little ditty had a profound influence on me; I'm still a prick, but a considerably less smug prick.
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Than again, I think one of the biggest costs for NYC public transportation is land costs. in LA, those would be a lot less.
This makes me want to read Ready Player One all over again and make a retro game, fun post, thanks!
Java as a plugin in the browser yes, I've been bit by that earlier this year (thank you MS Security Essentials!)

However Java on your system like the .net framework is no less secure than any other runtime. You are running an executable you are at that executable's mercy
Aka, the <fuckyou> tag, which is the standard for declaring that the designer cares more about how it looks on their own machine than letting readers consume the content
You young 'uns. Do you not remember S.O.A.R.?

SOAR had its beginnings in 1993 when someone collected all the recipes she found on Usenet and mailing lists while at UCB.

In 1995 she put the archive on the web as "SOAR" .. the "Searchable Online Archive of Recipies".

In 2001, that moved from (IIRC) a subdomain of UCB and became "Recipe Source" and can still be found at http://www.recipesource.com/

It's very old now, and majorly lacking in features. But then I've never found a recipe site that gave me everything I needed.
Because it is completely unrealistic and total rubbish. That's why you have a hard time believing it.

Of course, all those who insist that inflation is a superior state can't explain the economic effects of everyone deciding to purchase today before the prices go up, leading to much weaker demand and production in the future.

Bringing forward spending excessively is just as problematic as send it backward into the future.
If you are interested in transit visualization and user experience, you might like Ljuba Miljkovic's "Transporter: A Real-Time Public Transit App Designed for Bay Area Riders"

http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/files/student_projects/Trans...
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You have to wonder why they are using magnetic strips -- in an era with tons of computing power, video would make more sense. Especially with a $400mm investment!

Not only could a human agent watch the street from a command post, but computers could make decisions based on what people are currently doing in their cars down the street.
H1-B is a lottery. It is not guaranteed at all. There is a set number of visas issued each year. Google "H1-B lottery". Check out the latest Bloomberg article on it. Last year, on the fifth day when they received a specific number of applications, they closed of any new applications and did a lottery on who will get the visas.

I'm graduating in May - I cannot self employ myself :). I already accepted a job offer with a startup, and they will be applying for H1-B for me in two consecutive years. If I don't get it, I'll have to leave. Otherwise, I get H1-B for a max of 5 or 6 years I think
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There was a lot of exciting VR news out of GDC 2013 if you were paying attention and knew where to look, especially this:

http://www.roadtovr.com/2013/03/30/gdc-2013-oculus-rift-raze...
I agree it would be nice if this was open sourced, but I think the biggest barrier most cities would face stopping them from implementing a similar system would be the colossal hardware costs, not the software.
Gold is a good investment to mitigate against "tail risk" -- and so is BitCoin (although now because it is growing, it's good for taking an extreme log position is / hoarding).

So you'll see it spike in value right before panics, and slowly lose value after things stabilize.

Of course, gold or any commodity is a worse investment than a stock market index over time.
That is neither dishonest nor down standing, that is them annoyingly not doing business with someone.
I suspect you could also factor in the variance between data samples. If a pixel is occasionally lighter in shade, you can assume that the lighter samples are due to cloud cover.

One possible naive approach could be to simply dispose of the lightest 90% of samples and average the remainder. You could reduce noise by blurring the pixels before applying statistical sampling.
The bigger issue that I see in today's college crowd is just a lack of vision for their future. This isn't about man or woman. I don't mean someone should know in glorious detail what they want to be doing in 10, 20, 30 years, but there should at least broad strokes that represent some kind of plan.

How about a simple question for a man or a woman - Do you want to have a family one day? If so, have you thought about how your current choices will affect your ability to have kids or even raise kids? Along the lines of the article - How serious are you with wanting to be married or have a long term relationship? I find it faulty logic to believe that someone can meet their life partner at college but it certainly doesn't hurt to be aware of the possibility.

I find such inquiries are given the bare minimum in thought. I am sorry to say that no one can have it all. It is not a gender thing. Everything in life has trade-offs.
Hey @joshmattvander, I started Mojo in 2009, (http://staging.mojo.co). I agree with many of the points you make in your post. I am now working with groceries self-checkout space but dating remain something that I am now very passionate to solve. Perhaps we could share some insight, shoot me an email my_username@gmail.com.
I can't wait until Dropbox runs one of the largest deployments of Openstack Swift in the world. I'm sure they get very generous price discounts from AWS, but running it in house must make sense at this point.
NYC public transit was largely built (by private companies) a long time ago, when land was cheaper. Even the newer parts largely re-use existing ROW.

LA land how is more expensive than NYC land was then, even relative to inflation.
Rate of change, probably.
Thanks! I guess there was a recent change in how new users are created here?

It use to be how I described above.
The lack of patching a hole for 3 years by Apple.
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I've found it's the exact opposite. If you're fine with a low-level coding job and are a competent coder, you'll have no problem getting a job in any major city in the US. The demand way exceeds the supply. However, despite there being far fewer good coders (let's say the top 1% of coders), good coders all want to work for the same thirty or so late-stage startups in the Bay Area (or Google). Those companies want exceptional coders (let's say the top 0.1% of coders), so good coders tend to have trouble finding jobs.
> If that doesn't make sense, think of it like this. Inflation is similar to nuclear fusion and deflation is like nuclear fission.

Ohhh, now I get it.
>Hitler and Stalin were not good leaders. Sure, you can force people to do things if your commands are backed up by the promise of torture and death, but that's not leadership by any stretch of the imagination.

Hitler and Stalin weren't born with the ability to have anyone tortured or killed. They didn't inherit generals and secret police under their command. These power structures they built themselves over the course of their respective political careers. Their ability to rally people to their respective causes was formidable.

For another example of belligerence and downright nastiness as a leadership quality: look no further than the military. Drill Instructors are legendary for the intimidating and degrading treatment of their subordinates and yet I find it very hard to argue with the results. By and large, they're able to produce unshakably loyal soldiers.
I couldn't tell if he was serious either -- this is an incredibly boring manifesto. He definitely was ahead of the game on a bunch of things, so I hope he takes some more time to think deeply about what he wants to accomplish.