skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not just about money, though. There is a psychological element to it.

A 1% pay cut would have no appreciable impact on my standard of living, but it would communicate that my company was not interested in keeping me around, and I would probably respond accordingly. That is a hair trigger sensitivity to 1%, where I know I make something like 50% less than the market wage I'd get in California or (certain jobs in) Tokyo. But I mentally file that differential away as fair, where the pay cut would be taking something I've already "earned".

Similarly, I think a lot of people are more concerned with the notion that they're being scapegoated or screwed by the government than they are actually concerned by a rigorous accounting of what they are paying in taxes. (A huge number of very intelligent people do not understand progressive taxation, at all. They think if you cross into the next bracket you suddenly owe thousands more if you cross the threshhold. They think they pay marginal taxes over $1 on their last $1 of income. etc, etc)

You can hear some of that frustration in the recent discussion of "going Galt". Is it rational? Eh, its real. Governments should understand how it affects them prior to getting bright ideas about covering shortfalls by increasing taxes.

(Speaking of which: the people who are most likely to interpret the tax code accurately and objectively are professional tax advisers. You know who uses professional tax advisers? Well, almost everybody these days, but in particular people who stand to save a lot of money on taxes if they get good advice. That would include pretty much anyone who can afford to move for tax advantages. Another thing to consider, oh bright policymakers. Rich people have a lot of options for structuring their financial affairs such that their total tax burden is minimized. Heck, I know I have a lot of options, and I'm nowhere close to rich.)
this seems more like eye-candy / reading output from top / reading output from procfs ... rather than 'advanced features'
Yep, inflation.
Ok, this was sort of amusing, but do we really need to post some petty little pissing match on HN one sentence fragment at a time? Something more substantive and less personal would be more appropriate.
We have this at our office. It works reasonably well. A picture of the wall in use (from a party): http://www.flickr.com/photos/ojbyrne/3221346015/

As Louise's comment suggests, it's a little more difficult to erase.
""I'm hoping for Karmic that screen-profiles is used ubiquitously on the server [and] that it becomes as important to the Ubuntu server as Gnome/KDE are to Ubuntu/Kubuntu," he said during the presentation."

I believe this is targeted at system administrators, and not the average desktop user.

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Edit: as a regular user of Screen, I cannot pass up an opportunity to promote it. It is most definitely one of the most amazing pieces of software I've ever used, CLI or not. The ability to run multiple terminals inside a persistent session is enormously useful.

I not only use it for software development (where split-screening the Screen session gives me the best development environment I've ever used) but also for running all kind of other applications. I use rTorrent (http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/), Irssi (http://irssi.org/), ncmpc++ (http://unkart.ovh.org/ncmpcpp/) with MPD, and CenterIM (http://www.centerim.org/), all in a Screen session on my always-on desktop, which lets me turn off my laptop whenever I want without closing any of those applications.
Unbelievable. What kind of idiot makes a soft porn presentation in an age when nude calendars are banned from auto shops. I grew up when off color stories were ok with professionals so long as ladies werent present. It was ok to call women 'honey' and make suggestive remarks. I was glad to see that go, along with racist jokes.

Women belong in every enterprise. If the screening process is passing women by because they are not technical ninjas or dont want to work 80 hour weeks or dont do so well in alpha male interviews, the group is going to suffer because it is going to miss out on a diversity of skills and viewpoints.
Facebook also causes anxiety. Now that older people are joining, its getting more complicated. My aunt just added me... I like my aunt, but do I really want her up-to-date on my day to day life? That said, I don't want to deny her... This is becoming a more pressing problem every day, as friends' parents add me, etc.
I made a computer program or computer game for almost every project they'd let me make one for. I also started a video game development club!
Hans Reiser ended up a murderer too. Be careful not to follow his path too closely :)
Just to put my advice in perspective: I'm an Indian who will possibly be attending (a pretty good) public university this year. I'm the typical HN/reddit geek: started programming when I was 9, know around 9 programming languages, quite some bit of theory, etc. etc. In school in India, I was bored all the time, got mediocre grades, and had donkeys for teachers. Here's what I feel you should do:

1. Challenge yourself

So, you've got to choose from these kinds of activities:

A: Activities that you enjoy doing
B: Activities that *might* impress (say) the college admissions staff

I mostly did stuff exclusive to type A; bad idea. Of course, never do anything that comes only within B. Find what comes under the union of the two.

You're in America: you don't hunt for opportunities, you are flooded with them. Someone on this thread recommended "taking every AP exam available". Sure, do that: it's really important. But that's not ambitious at all: AP exams cover only about 10% of what Indian entrance examinations do, and you get to use "calculators" and "appendices" (more like textbooks). Do something real, like aspire to be an IMO/IOI/IPhO/IChO/ISEF medalist (if you don't know what those are, shame on you).

2. Manage your time

I was absolutely dismal at this. But I've started doing it for a month and it really does wonders: I have stopped procrastinating and started to feel less stressed out. I'd recommend you watch the late Randy Pausch's other lecture (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTugjssqOT0) or read Getting Things Done. Most of HN can give better advice.

3. Skip school (a lot)

It took me a lot of effort to get my parents to allow me to do this. Alas, it was too late then. Usually, teachers do more harm than good. Read the right books instead of attending their classes.
I was worried for a brief moment, when I saw my personal site (domain: my username + dot com) show up in the list. I thought: that couldn't be in their list of sites to check for via the visited-link-css-pseudoclass trick, could it? It is! And 99,999 other sites:

http://startpanic.com/db/db_en.txt

As mentioned, this isn't new.
It stores the screen profiles in /usr/share/screen-profiles/profiles, and in your user directory theres a .screen-profiles directory which holds a symbolic link to the profile you have selected.
I'd thought that was what was meant originally.

But --- so websites can not only move focus around but also the (mouse) cursor?
Well, the headline is a bit misleading then.

I doubt that sysadmins will ever be considered "the masses".
Large universities (and often small private universities with an interest in being linked with the surrounding community) are more likely to have structured programs available. Smaller state schools less so. Even universities which do have such programs will often not spread them evenly to all disciplines. I'm also coming from a biochemistry background, and because biochemistry tends to be labor intensive I know programs are much more likely to exist in this area than, say, computer science or math.

Obviously, if an organized program exists, take it! My point was that the absence of such a program does not preclude you from taking an individual initiative to do something creative.
I had this exact same experience. You're basically fucked. The whole world is like that and it takes effort and balls to get anything interesting to happen. My advice: ignore school completely, and work on learning the skills you want to learn, and learn them really well and inside out. Also learn business skills, because somebody like you is going to need to operate independently. My advice would be to get a self-sustaining business off the ground as quickly as possible. Learn some scripting languages, work your ass off, and it's OK to flunk out of school. If your parents aren't cool with that, too fucking bad. Here's how you win that fight: set up a self-sustaining business on the Web before you flunk out of school. All you have to do is get the timing right. As long as you're already making enough money to get your own apartment by the time your school flunks you, it won't matter.
First let me say, I know exactly how you feel and that you're 100% right. Don't think for a second that there's anything wrong with you. I'm a 4th year in college right now and it'll take me 5 to graduate. I've always been in the top half of my classes and wondered why we had to learn so much useless crap. I talked to my 8th grade humanities teacher about this and he told me that "The system's not perfect. Work through the system first, then change it after you're out of it if it bothers you that much." I'm not suggesting you try to reform the education system, but this was some good advice for me, and I hope it helps you.

Coincidentally, my girlfriend is just graduating college from learning to a be a grade school teacher. She's taught me something very important over the last year or so: that school is not really about learning the subjects your teachers are trying to teach you, it's about you developing as a person. Maybe it would help if you thought of high school as a social learning environment rather than an academic one. Let me also say that in no way do I mean that just because you're in 10th grade does that mean that you're not mature or intelligent. Everyone can improve themselves in many ways, not just academically, and that's what I suggest you focus on in school.

You're going to have boring tasks to do when you have a job, or when you live on your own, so it's best to learn how to get through them now and appreciate the genuinely interesting subjects while you can. I have had about a 50/50 split with good/bad professors in college and I'm assuming that this carries over into the professional world. You'll probably have some co-workers who are like you, and care about doing well, and some that just do it for the money.

You're way ahead of me as far as figuring these things out; I didn't start programming until the middle of my 3rd year in college. I also didn't read PG's high school essay until very recently, and I wish I had read it when I was your age. At the last career fair I went to, all three of the recuiters I talked to told me they wanted candidates with programming experience outside of class. You're well ahead of the curve and it sounds like you've got a good head on your shoulders. Try not to get discouraged and remember there are lots of people out there that feel the same way you do.

I hope this gives you some perspective and encouragement. I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors.
The real cost is putting the money in the hands of government. Successful entrepeneurs are the engine of the economy. Government is by far the worst investor. They get around 50 cents on the dollar when they spend your tax dollars. As a charity, they are even worse, giving out 40 cents on the dollar. It's far better for Bill Gates to decide where to invest and donate than Nancy Pelosi.
See also the advice on Cool Tools:

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000679.php

I'm thinking of just using melamine on a wall. I might consider upgrading to Ceramisteel when I win the lottery, though. That stuff sounds amazing.
Taxing the rich always has costs, like reduced entrepreneurship and hours of work, but those costs may be worth paying to achieve greater equality.

At what point is it worth taxing Henry Ford so much that we are all equally riding donkeys?
if bored, try this on your dry-erase boards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_tYPY0vVBA
I was going to suggest a GED and early admission into college and such here (as others have, and that's a potential path I wish I knew about when I was your age), but there's another good option here.

Continue to slog through school (and that was no fun in my era, and has likely only become more of a slog) and get into every AP and into every local college class you can, and look to get an LLC and start up your own business and your own products. See if you're ready to operate a small business or a startup entirely on your own, or if you prefer to follow a, um, more traditional educational and career and corporate path.

If you work through the LLC and the AP and the college classes and particularly work with the local school authorities around this, you might be able to achieve a "reduced sentence" for your time in high school, too. Stranger things have happened.
Yes, it is a bit misleading. I think that by "the masses", the author is referring to the masses of sysadmins who are not aware of Screen's capabilities.
Let me get this article and idea straight, incase I missed something...

Plagiarism is a problem for copyright holders since they want to ensure that they don't get plagiarized. HOWEVER it is a very expensive task and does not bear as much fruit as it might.

Automation of this will bring many many financial benefits to the copyright holders by reducing costs and increasing detection rates.

And all this work is to be done for a measly 500 euro??? I remember reading a job posting of a guy wanting someone to write a windows-like OS for $500, which is compatible with all windows apps but is more stable/secure/bug free.

Good luck getting competitors!
From Wikipedia: W Edwards Deming received a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wyoming at Laramie (1921), an M.S. from the University of Colorado (1925), and a Ph.D. from Yale University (1928). Both graduate degrees were in mathematics and physics.

Of course, I am a University of Wyoming BSEE graduate, so I'd know the first :-)
Oh also: have sex with as many high school girls as you can. It's great, and it's only legal while you're still in high school too. School will give you a very few things worth learning and a very large number of high school girls you can meet. It's very clear what school is for. If school was for learning, it would give you a few girls to meet and a ton of things to learn. QED. Recognize that school is a terrible place to learn but an excellent place to get laid, and react appropriately. It's especially important for you to socialize when you're at school because it's pretty obvious that in your free time you would rather learn than socialize. You can't stop school from wasting your time, but you do get to choose whether it eats time out of your learning budget or your socializing budget.
This stuff is never very smooth and never looks very clean.

I would recommend calling a glazier and mounting a sheet of tempered glass on the wall with small stainless standoffs. See http://picasaweb.google.com/spolsky/FogCreekSNewOffice#52853... for a picture. Looks great, not expensive, and cleans easily without ever leaving permanent smudges
Having Your Cake and Eating It Too
You get different implied meanings by stressing different words in the famous (Buffalo)+ sentences, too.
Sorry I misunderstood a bit, you are not required to give up your software, just the results it seems.
JSConf2009 Wrapup
You have a point but I'm kind of interested to learn what happened here..
O'Reilly has come up with some decent books recently, including The Productive Programmer and Beautiful Architecture. They don't seems to have got much attention.
I'm not so sure about the plot in the article. It looks a bit like the "Two-Handed Regression" method mentioned in ["The Management Myth"][1]:

"The huntsman achieved some celebrity for having invented a new mathematical technique dubbed “the Two-Handed Regression.” When the data on the correlation between two variables revealed only a shapeless cloud—even though we knew damn well there had to be a correlation—he would simply place a pair of meaty hands on the offending bits of the cloud and reveal the straight line hiding from conventional mathematics."

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581487
Customer Development is a Sequence of Prototypes
I'd love to read this article if it would just LOAD :/
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AP-style news can be dull, but I wish more bloggers would use a bit of the inverted pyramid [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid ] when writing. I wouldn't have clicked if I didn't want to see what the author had to say. But if I can't tell what the point of the post is about after three paragraphs, I leave.
My question is, where can I get the uncensored version of this book mentioned by Paul Graham?
Let me be the first to say "thank you", Apple, for protecting me from exactly the sort of shenanigans this app offers up as "features".
Two wheels good
Well, if you'd like to apply actual numbers to the discussion, take a look here:

http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/math.htm

He comes up with an expected upper bound of 29% participation in the technical workforce by women given current best measurements of sex differences.
"For a non-profit organization of its size, the federal government is surprisingly efficient. Most federal employees work in big box-like office buildings, not in $300 million monuments to an architect's ego." [http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/]

(Just an interesting tid-bit. I mostly agree with your comment. Though I doubt all charity are as efficient as the Melinda-and-Bill-Gates-type.)
leg length is really not that important. The most important thing for a runner is weight. The lighter you are, generally the faster you can run.

Sammy Wanjiru, the guy who won the olympic marathon, is 5'4" and 112 lbs!

When you have longer legs it also takes you more energy to move them. Running long distances is all about running as efficiently as possible.

Weight also matters in sprinting. If you looked at the NFL combine results, for the 40 yard dash times, the most factor tends to be weight- the lighter you are, the faster your times are.

This is why it's such an anomaly to find someone that's really big that can run extremely fast. (BC's BJ Raji for example).

It's been estimated that for every lb you use lose, you can lose about 2 lbs on your mile time. Want to improve your mile time by 20 seconds? Lose 10 lbs!
Agreed and edited - the author's original headline was a little over the top.
I like this idea except for the part about investigative teams being more activist. I think that having a political agenda, even a completely overt one, undermines the credibility of such a team.
Google: What we talk about when we talk about cloud computing
It started with a presentation that a Rails contributor gave that included pictures of half naked women. I can't remember the guy's name, but there was something posted on here about it yesterday. There was some sort of uproar with a bunch of people calling it all sorts of things from unprofessional to sexist. DHH then made a comment to the effect that not only is being outside the social norm acceptable but it should be encouraged. I believe his Twitter comment was posted on here as well.

Here is one of the submissions from yesterday about this that adds some context: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=583025. I can't find the original submission that that one is in response to. Following a flame war on HN is way too complicated.
I don't agree. I think this app is really cool and demonstrates a good understanding of common use cases. I'd certainly like to tweet within an app without having to quit it and relaunch my twitter client.

My iPhone's not been jailbroken since pre-app store, though. Not sure I want to bother with all the jailbreaking hassle anymore.
That assumption doesn't follow, at least not directly. Sure, the extra compensation for a highly taxed high-income employee could come from paying a low-income employee less, but it could also come from charging more money for the product or cutting expenses elsewhere (maybe by firing a few other high-income employees).

I think the implication is that companies will naturally equalize after-(state)-tax incomes for high earners so that they don't go to competitors in other states with less-fair taxes.

(And yes, the company may not operate as efficiently after reallocating funds to compensate for state taxes. I think this reinforces the article's point about cities being "near the peaks of their revenue hills".)
I never comment on HN. I just observe. But what you just wrote above deserves a response, and much more to come.

First off, on what planet do you think it's alright to hurt someone physically for anything they say? You'd actually punch someone in the face who's arguing with your stupid comments?

Second, if you get raped and do nothing about it that's your fault? I think Andrea Dworkin just ate her fist. One of the most vile offensive acts a person can do to a weaker person and you say it's the victim's fault? That they're somehow complicit?

Third, battered women deserve their beatings? Didn't you say that you wrote your stupid poorly written blog post in response to the whole Porno Ruby Conference Offending Women news lately? How in the _hell_ can you even pretend to claim you give a rat's ass about women if you think any of the above?

Alright, I gotta stop before I step into territory where I get banned from HN. However, I have one statement I'd like to see you fumble a reply to:

I can fully understand your hatred of geek arrogance, since I can't stand it myself, but even at my most obnoxious I never said that rape, beatings, torture, and abuse of the weak were defensible.

Every person who has been abused never deserved the _level_ of abuse they received. Whether it's children, or women, or just someone who's different, the abuser is always more powerful and enjoys hurting people weaker than them. Because of this, they take any tiny little offense and turn it into a reason to nearly kill another human being. Even if the victim changes every single thing about themselves to please the abuser, it's not enough.

The abuse continues, not because of the victim, but because it satisfies the abuser.
don't knock it til you try it... the twitter community begs to differ

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=qtweeter
A better idea is to use 4'x8' white melamine coated masonite. Glue or screw it to the walls. It also works great as a table top with fine tip dry erase markers.