skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may not be as bad as some countries where you can just pay the cops but the rich and well connected in America definitely play by a different set of rules, especially with regard to punishment.

Example: a rich old woman in my hometown was drunk in the morning and ran over a guy riding a bicycle and killed him. She ended up getting probation. Not a day in jail. Put a poor minority behind the wheel of that car and they are going to prison for a long time.
But then that's roughly the reason why we drink. So that we don't have to pay attention to anything, so that we can forget things (yes, there's responsible drinking too, but so is there responsible usage of social media). Tim Feriss formulated it nicely as the information addict. Is addiction healthy? No. Are there adicts out there? Yes.
That's one of my racks!

I've always wondered who controlled that camera.

That rack was used for the development of the Rocks Cluster system back in its heyday. Rocks creator, Phil Papadopoulos, is the brother of former Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos.

EDIT: Someone panned the camera to the other side of the room. Pardon the cable spaghetti - that rack is temporary.
This... doesn't make sense at all, and is also simultaneous a True Scotsman fallacy.

For one thing, the vieux riche inspired entire revolutions with their compassionless, ridiculous, indefensible behavior. The wealthy nobility is a primary reason why so many countries are now democratic.

Clearly "being a complete dick" is not the exclusive purview of the nouveau riche. The notion that people who inherit their wealth are less likely to abuse it over people who earn it quickly also doesn't pass a lot of mental muster.

The distinction between "nouveau riche" and "vieux riche" smells like (and is) a classi No True Scotsman.
Do you have the money for the legal counsel required to take it to court? If you do, what about Joe and his new startup, he might just go for the suggested settlement.
Mathematics is not a spectator sport
Guy seems to be naked on the bed watching TV now.

Thankfully the camera's very pixelated.
Sorry, I could only put so much text in the post...

We would chat first, and decide if we would want to team up. That's really about it. Then I'd like to work on one project together and see if it's a good fit, for all. There would for sure be a contract, so the money stuff would have to be worked out before hand.
Genuinely curious, how do you measure innovation?

I had a quick google for some data and the best measure I could find was this[1], which places the US on a similar level to the European/Scandinavian countries with strong economies.

[1] http://www.globalinnovationindex.org/gii/main/fullreport/fil...
Show HN: Hypergenesis - a simple alternative to Boxen to get your Mac setup fast
Rape Case Solved By Anonymous in Less Than 2 Hours Despite "No Evidence"
The Chinese and other regimes have done much scarier things than simple censorship by leveraging the power the Internet gives them:

http://www.ted.com/talks/evgeny_morozov_is_the_internet_what...
>You do have a choice of where you work. "i just want to keep my job" is not a valid excuse for anything.

I'm not sure how valid this is. It might be true in most of the United States, but if you work for $GIANT_JAPANESE_AUTO_COMPANY which produces the second largest number of patents/year in the world after IBM (iirc), you have very few employment options other than said company geographically, and the corporate culture there makes it extremely difficult to change jobs at all.
Keep in mind too that many managers of technical teams are upjumped engineers; this is one of the worst antipatterns I've encountered. Not only does the organization pay the opportunity cost of losing engineering talent to the duties of management; the skills of management are orthogonal to those of engineering.
The answer is yes, and no. Its the talent that costs money, and deservedly so. If you can land that cheaper then go for it. Check out Robert Rodriguez too, he makes movies for 1/3 the typical Hollywood cost...he gives solid advice on learning the craft.
I has always bothered me that Google is branding a bookmark with an icon as an "app". Current app counts: Apple app store ~= 800K, Google Play ~= 900K, Chrome apps = number of URLs on the internet.
>>Vagrant is written in Ruby

Well, so it is. I'll sit down now.

I tried to run gems (and ruby) from the command line, but it was local to the /embedded directory (on Windows) so not part of the path.
This basically just counts syllables and if it has few of them, they are tossed as '8th grade level'.
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=5345

Guy on facebook watching TV
Wow that's the worst situation I've heard of wrt to patent writing, but there are other, more seemingly innocuous ones too.

For instance, many places have departmental quotas on patents filed, and often have patents as a parameter in their quarterly/annual performance criteria.
I have the same issue with 22.0a2 (2013-04-06). Aurora went unresponsive, does not respond to SIGTERM.

It even managed to exhaust all my memory when I wasn't using the computer while the page loaded, when I came back to the computer I couldn't start any new processes - Not even a shell or tty.
>To understand what a line of Forth code does, you need to understand both what each function does, and how it manipulates the stack to accomplish it.

I don't understand this. I don't need to know how add works to know it pops two bytes off the stack and pushes them added together. Likewise for my own functions. I don't need to know how they do it, just what they do.
The USA has mostly evolved (I use that word advisedly) beyond that.

There's certainly all kinds of horrific things about the USA's class system. But the USA has to a large extent depersonalized them: if you as an individual commit physical violence against another individual, you go through our legal system and you get punished.

Where the USA's class system goes wrong is in vaguer systemic issues. Everyone equally has the chance to get an expensive lawyer to argue you down to a lesser sentence, but few can afford the best. Everyone equally has the chance to purchase a house that's not in an ex-radiological waste dump, but that's mighty abstract to the folks in Hunter's Point.

It's pretty brilliant, because you really can't focus on any individual in particular to punish for its sins. Which in the end makes the USA's class system much more fault tolerant, because revolt against it has to take the form of amorphous, unactionable rants about the System.
In the gist, even though the Ember Data README states that it's not production ready, the author complains that it 'should be' or something. We have that standard, it's called '1.0'.
Mo School board starts beard pac
I think the point was that you can't tell if `foo bar` is equivalent to `bar(foo())` or `bar(foo(value_from_stack))` or `bar(foo(val1, val2))` or `foo(); bar()` or what unless you know the stack effect of the words.
Great find! The dummy patient thing is quite creepy. I am kind of waiting for the jump scare all the time.
Decided to test this on my posts.

Posts like this one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5543140) are removed. That is a valuable post. It directly solves a problem, while highlighting a new feature that people not not have been aware of.

I only point this out as in the article linked to by the README says: "Just because a comment is easy to read does not mean it’s inherently worthless, and in some cases these are the most important ones."

Good first shot though. =) I wonder if you could reverse the plugin to help improve my own comments.
You know what, maybe we could put them all on a list. We can name that list after a color. We will all promise not to hire anyone on the list unless they are willing to tell us more names to add to our list. Who cares if we hurt some innocent people along the way or destroy someone's career for an act they committed 20 years ago? At least we will be able to weed out any people with politics we disagree with.

In reality, neither the employees nor the employers deserve the blame. It is misguided laws that allow and even encourage this type of behavior. As the old saying goes, don't hate the player hate the game.
That's good to hear. My friend was recently in India some months ago and when visiting he was delegated a servant which he didn't even ask for or want. The kid was not even allowed to sit on the couches! Sad.
Yes, but I'm highly confident that a significant fraction of users are not using passphra.se or similar.

They're making something up, and humans are extremely bad at generating high entropy that way.
Despite having 'help', it seems that the Indians tend to migrate towards the US, rather than people from the US migrating towards India. See my other comment.
If you want to filter by grade level, why not just use a ready-made javascript script that computes an actual Flesch-Kincaid reading level [1]? This seems like reinventing the wheel, though I understand that can be the point of a weekend project.

[1] = e.g., https://github.com/cgiffard/TextStatistics.js
Because that's not what this discussion/thread is about.
The chapter and verse of the grid utility economics as they are impacted by solar and wind is in http://smallisprofitable.org which was The Economist's Book of the Year 2003. (disclaimer: I helped edit this)
Were you by any chance forced to wear a uniform in high school? I'm wondering if this practice makes people a little more rebellious clothing-wise in university. I'm not sure if it's more prevalent in other countries than the US.
You got rejected by it, incidentally.
Have you tried Meteor? I've been comparing the two.
...or software developers aren't creating new apps that are making them feel slow.
What Wordpress site can accept billions of login attempts per second?
It's the acting talent that costs, if you already know how to do the producing, writing, directing, editing, photography, and music. You could get free talent. People are glad to have something to show they've done something for someone else when they go out on casting calls and seek agents. But if they're not getting money, you better be prepared to at least feed them.
Anyone remember the demo "Excelence by BraadWorsten Brigade" made in excel 2003 that used double buffering for animation? Really neat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H...!

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53021
That obviously depends on where you live.

If you claim more energy is spent on heating overall I'd want a reference on that, since that goes against what I've heard. Especially since houses in cold climates tend to be a lot better insulated than houses in southern climates.
How ironic, because the posting is very relevant by providing a concise summary of the code.
Humans are apes. It happens right here in Silicon Valley too.

Atherton has nice little yellow signs that say 'No Through Traffic'. Why? They don't want the poor people from Redwood City coming through. In fact, one Atherton gentleman went to a RWC City Council meeting complaining about it and asking RWC to put up signs on their side too. The folks at RWC apparently told him to go stuff himself, that those little yellow signs were potentially illegal and if Atherton kept pressing, they would disallow traffic from Atherton through RWC. This was about two years ago.

The rich are different from you and me - they take because they can and because they can then get away with it.

[This is not to say that all rich are evil, nor all poor virtuous. Just that as money accumulates, so does power, and this when left unchecked by self-imposed moral constraints leads down this path.]
"Primer" was made for $7000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)
7 Design Principles, Inspired By Zen Wisdom
Apple Agrees to Pay $53M to Settle iPhone Warranty Lawsuit
Amongst teens I know (relatives, sample size 4) facebook is decidedly not cool. Too many older relatives and ads. Twitter seems to be their refuge from played-out facebook. Hell, facebook even got old to me, enough to delete my account. And I was old when I signed up.
Bitcoin fans put brave face on price fall
It really depends on what your workflow is. If you only ever have a single tmux session, then you could write a quick script that starts a session if it doesn't exist, but if it does, automatically creates a mirrored session and connects to it. In this workflow, you can assume which session you want to group with, but if you work with multiple sessions, then there is no way to automatically do this. E.g., you could run something like:

$ tmux.sh session-name

which would create the session the first time, and create a grouped session, the second time.

Edit:

I've created a little script for this: https://github.com/bsandrow/tmux.sh
Of course it's illegal, and most people couldn't escape consequences. But the upper class can.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy#Chappaquiddick_inci...
The "left" in India in the 1970s was dissolving legitimate governance, declaring martial law, and engaging in mass forced sterilization of undesirables.

If I were to take sides in what's worse... well, I wouldn't. Don't take sides on account of lesser of two evils. Just condemn evil.
Inanity and reading level in english are orthogonal concepts.
I like it. I think I've seen you post it before on here. The idea of being able to zoom into a location and see videos around there is pretty cool, could probably spend a lot of time on it just seeing peoples perspectives of the world in which they live. What in your words is the problem that you are trying to solve?

I think the video could do with more fleshed out. Speaking for myself, it gets a bit boring seeing someone else's mouse cursor for three minutes. Perhaps try talking over it? We would get more interaction that way. A video off the top of my head that I've recently seen is that of Sqwiggle[1]. It opens with the logo and then has a nice talk through.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O57iEHPP6aY
This does not just apply in India. A long time ago, I had a job soliciting donations door to door in the US. We did all we could to avoid the rich neighborhoods and actively sought out the poor minority neighborhoods. People in those neighborhoods with only two dollars would give one to help others. In the rich neighborhoods, they would call the police the moment they saw you. If I ever had to have a heart attack in the street, I would much rather have it in a poor neighborhood, because some kind person would help me.

My theory is that poor people rely on cooperation with others to survive, and this forces them to develop compassion and learn good human relations at a young age. Rich people on the other had don't need others so much, and instead are much likely be in competition with them.

Even in family relations this applies. Siblings in poor families offer much needed support to each other. In rich families siblings seem more likely to be considered as competitors for parental affections at a young age, and competitors for inheritance when older. This mentality of constant competition is poisonous.

Honestly, I think that being rich is a pretty clear path to ultimate unhappiness. Better to be slightly poor in money and rich in the things that actually bring happiness, like family, health, friends, spare time, and a clear conscience.
Whenever I hear stupid questions like "Do immigrant engineers depress engineer wages?", I'm tempted to say that it's as simple as supply and demand. But supply and demand are not simple things.

On the one hand, an increased supply of engineers (or flaxseed) in the form of immigrants (or imports) will obviously decrease the market clearing price, and anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant of economics or engaging in sophistry.

But to the extent that engineers spur technological or industrial advances which benefit the entire ecosystem, the presence of additional engineers in the form of immigrants could actually increase the _demand_ for engineers. A concrete example is the marginal increase in engineering demand caused by an immigrant engineer founding a company.

(You could argue, given the example provided, that another company would have been founded in its absence, or that the company displaced an existing company. However, my intuition is that it's a positive-sum game, and that a successful company would created some marginal demand for engineers.)
Paywall in the way of the content. However you can register for free to view the article (and 7 more.)
It's actually available in mobi (Kindle) and epub on the front page, see the side bar at http://singlepageappbook.com/ or direct links: http://singlepageappbook.com/mixu-single-page-apps.mobi and http://singlepageappbook.com/mixu-single-page-apps.epub
Thanks, that's part of what I'm trying. I've already established which exams will be easiest to revise for; and have decided which exams to 'sacrifice' (in the end, I'm concerned with the overall grade). It's horrible crawling like this; I wish it didn't have to be this way. But right now I'm focusing on managing it in the best possible way.
Yeah. I wonder where that is. At first I thought it was actually in the City of London.
Or maybe they just don't want people using residential streets as highways?

Do you know what "through traffic" means? If those poor people try to stop their cars in Atherton, they aren't "through traffic".
It's not just you, it's common sense for anyone who has developed anything new. Im extremely sensitive to verbal distraction. I have no idea where these geniuses came to the conclusion that replication of the social properties of a train station or walmart somehow facilitates better outcomes. I guess it's because the people calling the shots are removed from in-depth thinking and spend most of their day running their mouth or being bored and wanting to run their mouth.
I'm in the industry too. Your comments are spot on.

At an IEEE talk on this subject not long ago, the presenter said, "We've spent the last 100 years learning how to PREVENT the very type of electrical flow that distributed generation creates."
Do you really fail to appreciate the difference between:

A) Not sharing your family/country resources with strangers (who might well be below your level of economic development).

B) Going over to invade another country/family and take away their resources?
Brought to you by the person whose last submission was titled "Everything sucks and nobody cares".
Nietzsche and The Last Psychiatrist[1] would have a field day with this.

The article tells a story we love to believe: we may be poorer than the people the article talks about, but we are nicer, more empathic, better people. We love to believe it, because it makes us feel good about ourselves and provides a sense of justice: nobody has it all and if someone has more of one thing, he will have less of something else.

We also love to believe it because that way we don't have to consider a far more disturbing possibility: that these people aren't accidentally rich and their moral shortcomings aren't a result of their riches. That they are rich exactly because they are capable of the repugnant behavior described in the article. That our capitalist system is fallacious, can be gamed and is being gamed by these people. The system we are so infatuated with allows people that are undeserving, cheaters, to get the prize.

[1] http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
There is no choice of "no internet" for them.
Oil countries can switch it off and never notice, but China without internet will have to part with half of those sweet sweet (and regime-supporting) growth percents.

That's because business communication will be ruined (or won't develop in the first place) and orders will go somewhere else.

In fact, they will need a commerce pimp - some party with internet (HK?) that makes deals for them and gives them a fraction of money.

So no, they don't actually have the "no internet" option.
What exactly should they do, disallow all apps that don't use a chrome.* API?
A Tribute to Bill Ptacek
Unsurprisingly, such a technique seems likely to be biased against non-native speakers. But it's entirely possible to make insightful points without sophisticated language.
Who Do You Write For?
http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/who-do-you-write-f...
A clearly written, thoughtful comment might demonstrate an eighth grade reading level.

A comment with esoteric vocabulary might be inane.

I question the premise of this project.
Indeed, and selling "personal advertising space" on the sides of libraries, and "putting a price on social status" are perhaps the only way to achieve some measure of equality.

(Almost) everyone craves social status. Let people earn it in healthy ways, by their contributions, not their accumulations; don't envy their Jaguars, be dismissive of them. And don't resent people who contribute because "yeah, they should have, they are rich". Congratulate them for doing good and encourage competition to be the largest philanthropist.
> Even in family relations this applies.

And you are saying this based on what? Common sense?
Well, with modern technology, it's harder for a newly wealthy person to conceal their past. The days of whitewashing personal history are fading.
You realise that a 10 word Diceware passphrase is significantly stronger than a 10 character (alphanumeric + specials) password, right?

95^10 = 5.9873694e+19

7776^10 = 8.0828128e+38
I'm not nearly as interested in the story of eighteen@gmail.com as I would be in the story of john@doe.com. :)
Akka design patterns – Scala actors
The fact that they're not on the offense is not really meaningful. Most of the value of property and contractual rights is prospective. I bet Google has never sued someone for planting a farm on their campus lawn--that doesn't mean they're indifferent to the existence of that property right.

Google acquires a lot of companies for their IP. Not so they can sue people for infringing on it, but so they can use it. The property rights create a legal structure that allows those kinds of transactions to happen. Like with any other property right, that's the value of a patent--giving people a "thing" in which they can transact, which they can book as an asset, etc. Ideally, a lawsuit only happens when things go sideways.
When Digital Dust Is Gathered, Constellation May Be Muddled
FYI, on Android, you can get a list of installed Applications without any permission.
There is a bunch of functionality that you can do with Chrome apps, such as desktray alerts, background music streaming, etc. Most of the "apps" in the store do not do this and are mostly just links to sites, but there are plenty of things you can do with Chrome as an app that go beyond regular browser capabilities.
I don't think "old money" really "drives the country" in the US.

Although that is probably also a bit of an overstatement in Europe as well, this issue is really one of the major historical distinctions between the US and Europe.
Learn quickly. Don't waste your time on 'blub' twice. If you can't live-code in it it's not worth using, let alone making a student use.

Legitimize yourself enough to cover for anything. Take the pressure off. Perhaps find friendly independent consultants at local gatherings and get assistant jobs. A few current references from active professionals in your field is worth more than 3+ year old history anyways. Just remember to follow instructions accurately and you'll be a great assistant at almost anything.

A strong showing now is what matters. Be what you are now. Always be working to improve anyways and don't worry about rebuilding things like they were.
When I don't want to get real work done because i've entered a motivational recession I fire up Max/Msp. A visual programming languge is an extremely fun break/video game I find.
I don't see how they could do that with a regular site, given they would need to access the files on your computer, or cache an insane amount of music. But perhaps that's one of the things their Chrome app does that their regular web destination does not.
Must be a different USA to this one:

http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20101104/NEWS/101109939/107...