skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A similar HN post, which may be of interest: "What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2012?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4802849

I find this overextension of copyright laws maddeningly frustrating. My previous comment (unfortunately) still stands:

Also still under copyright:

"I Have a Dream" until 2038[1]. This is particularly frustrating because the copyright holders include the estate of the person who delivered the speech, but not the estate of the two other people who wrote it (and likely most of it) - not to mention the fact that, by any web-era definition, it was a public performance and also a 'general publication'.

"Happy Birthday" (certainly in the EU until 2016, and potentially in the US too until 2030, though this is disputed[2]).

There is also one movie - whose name escapes me now - which entered the public domain and was then put back under copyright protection subsequently.

In the case of "I Have a Dream", think of the societal cost of raising two generations of students without a complete copy of the speech in their textbooks (as is generally the case).

Alternatively, think of how a 2012 version of "I Have a Dream" would happen today. If hundreds of cell phone recordings of the speech were distributed halfway around the world within mere minutes after the speech, of what relevance would copyright protection be?

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream#Copyright_disput....

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You
This is unscientific, anecdotal and subjective, but personally I have found I become loyal to indies and companies once I feel they aren't just trying to squeeze money out of me at every opportunity. I am only a casual gamer, but Kairosoft are one company that offer a very straight-forward proposition with all their games, and I have become a fan of theirs because of it. Their proposition seems to respect all parties; you can download a limited free trial with ads to see if you like the game, and if you do you can go buy a full unlocked version for $5 with no ads. I have bought several of their games now because I really appreciate this simple and honest model. There are no 'gems' or 'coins' to buy, you don't need to 'unlock' items, everything is included in the game it is down to skill to get items and progress. Their games all follow a similar mechanic, but they are all fun and individual enough that I am left happy not feeling like I have been gamed psychologically. I am also not anti in-app purchase, however I will only consider it where it is something significant like unlocking a full version or getting rid of ads, if I am asked to buy a virtual 'chest of gems' or whatever I will uninstall the game in seconds and add that company to the 'never download anything' list. EA, Gameloft, King, Imangi, Zynga and more are all on that list when it comes to games specifically. My advice, which as I repeat is completely anecdotal and subjective, would be to make the best damn game or app you can, release a limited trial so users can see if it works, and then price the full version at something you are happy with and do a full version or an in-app purchase to unlock it. I feel if you are proud of your work, you respect your customers, you will build a fanbase and word of mouth will kick in.
A good undergrad minor will certainly give you the more readily transferable skills: a grounding in econometric/statistical techniques you might actually use, a style of reasoning that covers things like optimal pricing and game theory and an overview of what the main economic debates of the twentieth century were and their policy implications. But if you like a challenge the PhD is generally regarded as an order of magnitude harder than undergrad economics, more so than in other social sciences.
Found some data on the US Census website:

Table H-1. Income Limits for Each Fifth and Top 5 Percent of
All Households: 1967 to 2011

Year	Lowest	Second	Third	Fourth	Top 5 percent
2011	20,262	38,520	62,434	101,582 186,000
1967 (adj)	19,931	38,866	55,164	78,663	126,232
1967	3,000	5,850	8,303	11,840	19,000
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Table H-2. Share of Aggregate Income Received by Each Fifth and
Top 5 Percent of Households, All Races: 1967 to 2011

Year	Lowest	Second	Third	Fourth	Highest	Top 5 percent
2011	3.2	8.4	14.3	23.0	51.1	22.3
1967	4.0	10.8	17.3	24.2	43.6	17.2
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Table H-3. Mean Household Income Received by Each Fifth and
Top 5 Percent, All Races: 1967 to 2011

Year	Lowest Second Third Fourth Highest Top 5 percent
2011	11,239 29,204 49,842 80,080 178,020 311,444
1967 (adj) 10,630 29,452 47,018 65,787 118,393 186,758
1967	1,600 4,433 7,077 9,902 17,820 28,110
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Table H-6. Regions--All Races by Median and Mean Income: 1975 to 2011

Median income	Mean income
Current $ 2011 $ Current $ 2011 $
2011	50,054	50,054 69,677 69,677
1975	11,800	44,851 13,779 52,373
---------------------------------------------------------------------

This data indicates to me that the bottom 3/5ths of income earners earn about what they did 45 years ago if adjusted for inflation, while the top income earners have increased. The fact that the top 20% have increased their earnings drastically does not necessarily mean to me that there's a problem.

It simply means if you can break out of the slump and make your way into the top 20% of income earners that you will be more rewarded than you were 45 years ago.
>>This rings some alarm bells as some of the larger SV companies have found themselves on the business end of a law suit for this.

Any citations for this?
When left alone, I sleep from 4am to 10am.

I am not sick, I don't have any syndrome.

I have no trouble keeping my commitments, even if they entail being somewhere at 7am or partaking in the standardized work day. Getting up "early" and forcing my self to sleep before it's time is not optimal for my functioning, however. I fail to see how doing something sub-optimal is supposed to be a sign of heroism.

Joe Conway asserts that nobody functions well within the Standardized Sleep Cycle, which is simply wrong factually but more importantly if he actually believes this nonsense it's mind-bendingly malicious of him to advocate something that has no upside just because it's more macho.

To the douchebag author: Having a different sleep rhythm does not mean someone is a sissy. It doesn't mean they're lazy or unable to keep appointments. Your whole post is a huge straw man argument, and it's unpleasant to read due to you being so full of yourself.

Let me close this comment in my time-honored tradition of pissing off both sides equally: I think those fuzzy syndromes and disorders are bullshit. Humans are diverse, we're not as standardized as evolutionary psychologists would have everyone believe. Stop trying to be "normal", stop trying to make others "normal". Being "not normal" is not by itself a disorder or acronym-worthy.

Having a different default circadian rhythm does not mean you're sick. Nor does calling people sissies make you more manly, but that's for a different discussion.
There are plenty of compact cameras with APS-C CMOS sensors these days.
What Makes People Overshare?
> but my generation is kickass

Every generation thinks that. It's nothing new really.
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I am pretty sure I have some version of DSPS, or maybe I am just a night owl. I've tried for years to fix it, going to bed hours earlier, locking my smartphone in a drawer, setting 12 alarms 2 minutes apart, taking pills. Nothing worked. Exercise helped a little, in that I was tired earlier in the day, but I am still useless until 10:00.

So you know what I did? I stopped trying to fix it. I realized that I might never be one of those people who get to work at 8am and I shifted my schedule. I am much happier now. This was the tone of the original article, and I take offense to this article telling me I am lazy.
Exactly. Machines should do all the "hard work" that I do not want to do at any given time, allowing me to spend my life cruising. We don't innovate to continue "working hard", we do so to make life easier in some way.
I did some reading into this last year while I was stuck in bed sick and what I came across was it was to do more with light pressure than a frost line. The frostline has more to do with where water is likely to form than how a come to exist.

Light has trouble pushing heavy materials outwards, so theres a denser percentage of them in close to a star, the lighter the material the more it gets pushed out, high percentage of hydrocarbons in outer planets. Like a giant centrifuge. So our system should be fairly standard unless the rules of physics are different elsewhere.

That doesn't exclude random formations as you are dealing with super heated eddies, explosions etc... during formation. Or even stars pulling there planets in. Both our planet set up, and hot Jupiters are to be expected because its a giant chaotic exploding mess.
My only issue with this article is that the sepia filters ended up selling for "only" around $750 million, or so I recently learned on Hacker News.

It's not about the esoteric medical conditions that each of us might have, if we look hard enough and go the right doctors. It's about our responsibility to fulfill the obligations we have taken upon ourselves.
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I'm the 4am-12pm sorta sleeper variety, but it does, you know, make sense to conduct society's business during daylight hours.
Seems to me that thinking foodtrucks are only run by immigrants would make you the racist. He never said anything about the background of the owners and operators.

Thanks for playing the blind accusation game though. You get an A for effort.
My 2c as somebody outside of the game development scene:

- it seems weird to spend time developing a "social backend" when you could have bootstraped using OpenFeint or Game Center and saved development time which seemed to be an issue for you

- it also seems to be a huge lack of focus to first try developing 3 games instead of 1, then start a PC game and before that one is even released, restart yet another one with a different strategy.
Unfortunately I am :-) Thank you for the reply.
Actually you should not fear rational people: if your content is good enough they will upgrade!
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Well, in my opinion, it's pretty crippling in 'polite society' not to be a morning person.

I've lost jobs over it, relationships, all sorts of fairly major personal issues.

My point is that there are solutions that enable people to fix this problem, if they are so inclined. This sort of excoriating article disregards the real pain people experience, and the other sort of article disregards the real issues that 'just never do anything in the morning and don't try to adapt' causes.
And a great replacement for gross _MM_swapImgRestore JS that people were getting from Dreamweaver.
Suppose I gave you J(log y)

I would say, "Thank you".
Well, on the other hand, there are loads of products named after pop culture references.
Actually, I think this post, which is also causing me to take an HN break, is not very surprising from that perspective. It highlights one of the worst tendencies of HN I've been worried about a while.

HN is actually quite good on technical issues. People disagree, but it's rarely completely idiotic. There is smart stuff, and information is exchanged, and the overall level of debate is good.

But on philosophical issues, it's frankly not very good. There is a lot of knee-jerk bigotry. I mean this post leads by calling people "sissies", a clearly homophobic term. It also has a complete disinterest in science, and is longer on trolling and provocation than reason or intelligence. It worked. Got to #1 on HN!

Simple sound-bites, strong opinions, and posts that I can only really describe as in the "lifehacking" genre on the one hand, or the "political/social provocation" genre on the other hand, are what's the worst about HN. These are usually embarrassing at best. And in the best case they get flagged off the front page. The moderators are also clearly worried, because provocative titles often get changed, which sometimes leads to the posts fizzling without being flagged. Reduces damage, at least.

Anyway, as you say, time for a break. I'm sick of Joe Conway and his ilk of arrogant, ignorant assholes. Before chiding other people for being lazy, maybe these ignorant fucks should get off their asses and visit a library. They aren't stupid, but they're ignorant. Science and intelligence is about more than blogging whatever comes to the top of your head after 10 minutes of thought. You need to read. You need to think a bit about whether the first reaction that comes to mind is correct: is this really the position you want to write a manifesto about? Do you have data to support your contention that an alleged condition is imagined and actually the people are just lazy losers, and "suck it up" is a good prescription? Or are you just expressing a reactionary, right-wing political view borne more out of politics and prejudice than rationality and evidence?
Indianapolis too
I'm shallow as fuck.

I'm upset that Aero is gone and the simple blue border is in.
If you're an independent software developer, how does the App Store do anything other than help you? Yes, you still have to build a standout piece of software and somehow let people know about it, but you no longer have to worry about payment processing or downloads — and if you're lucky, Apple might give you an extra bit of marketing push.

The only thing I see changing is that there are now too many apps in the App Store to rely on in-store marketing alone. But I fail to see how the situation is any worse than it was for a lone programmer working on a text editor or RSS reader in the 90s or 00s. Assuming you find a similar unfulfilled niche, write excellent software, and talk about it on relevant forums/mailing lists/whatever, isn't it likely that you'll be a whole lot more successful than you could have hoped for a decade ago?

This is why I'm surprised when people say "don't play the App Store lottery". I understand where they're coming from, but isn't that tantamount to saying "don't be an independent software developer"? Or am I missing something?
Looking up "cotton pickin" in Google ngram viewer, it appears to be mostly a product of the 1960s-1970s ruralsploitation fad: The Beverly Hillbillies, Hee Haw and Foghorn Leghorn.

It's probably just an intentionally quaint pseudo-folk saying invented by someone in Burbank.
As David from 27b/6 is wont to say: (In Australia) "... practically every living creature can kill you in under three minutes. Our primary spoken language is screaming".
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M9: http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/33903254.

> shooting workflow

Can you elaborate? I'm curious about this. thanks!

p.s. this is beautiful: http://www.flickr.com/photos/potatolicious/5807542886/in/set...
'Create a Social Backend'. Wait, ANOTHER one?

On Apple products, we already have Facebook and the Game Center, you can advertise that feature all you want, but you're not going to sell me on signing up for another stupid network that no one I know will be on to socialize with in the first place.
LEO is a weird place to colonize. There aren't any resources there. The moon is also pretty tough, being no atmosphere and Carbon in ppb quantities. Mars is a good candidate, though.

I imagine that if there were another planet in the solar system capable of supporting native life with just 18th-century technology, we would already have sent people there, even if it were a multi-year trip. Which would provide big economic drivers for interplanetary transport.
Exactly. Just like concessions at fairs or festivals are handled. Either there needs to be private space to park the trucks or a way to bid for the space. Using public space for commerce free of charge basically means the owner getting an insane discount on some of the most valuable real estate in the world.
Don't you mean body bgcolor=silver?
If you take this tree [1] as canon, English and Czech are fifth cousins, once-removed. If you compared me to my fifth cousin, I probably would look nothing like him, but I might carry similar traits or certainly similar ancestry.

Although the article doesn't convey it very well (and I am skeptical of the finding itself anyway), I believe what they are trying to say is that these words all 'have not changed' in that they all have derived from the same eventual ancestor. That is, the word's pronunciation may have morphed, but the words were never abandoned in favor of new ones.
An example here would be the English 'four' vs. the Spanish 'cuatro'. If you believe in the reconstruction of the proto-language Proto-Indo-European (and Wiktionary [2]) then these both derive from the word * kʷetwóres[3].

The Spanish one is a bit easier to understand.

* kʷetwóres (PIE) -> quattuor (Latin) -> cuatro (Spanish)

Nothing too shocking there, I hope. Latin dropped the "es" off of the end and changed the first vowel a bit, then Spanish simplified the "uo" diphthong into "o" (perhaps through Vulgar Latin? [4]), and reversed or->ro, and of course changed spelling because it's a different language.

English, however, took a little bit odder of a path. Somewhere before Proto-Germanic, * kʷetwóres->* petwṓr, which was an irregular change (perhaps to mimic five, which was * pénkʷe->* pémpe [5][6]). Then, a very regular rule, called Grimm's Law [7], kicked in in the first millennium BC, which shifted p sounds toward ɸ sounds ("For English-speakers, it is easiest to think of the sound as an f-sound made only with the lips, instead of the upper teeth and lower lip."[8]). So * petwṓr->* fedwōr (Note the t got vocalized into a d as well) in Proto-Germanic. West Germanic then lost the hard d in the middle, to make * fewōr, which became Old English fēower, into Middle English fower, into Modern English four. So:

* kʷetwóres->* petwṓr->* fedwōr->* fewōr->fēower->fower->four

Both of these are sets of incremental changes from a common ancestor. Individually, the small changes make some sense (I hope), but once you get several thousand years away from the root, words like "cuatro" and "four" seem like they are completely unrelated by sound, even though they're very related by ancestry.

I'm no historical linguist, but hopefully that helps explain why these things sound nothing alike. :)

[1]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/IndoEurop...

[2]http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/k...

[3] The * indicates that the word is a reconstruction, not actually something attested to in found writings.

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgar_Latin#Monophthongization

[5] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Proto-Germanic/fedw%C...

[6] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Proto-Germanic/fimf

[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law (Yes, one of the Brothers Grimm!)

[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_bilabial_fricative
Well, I think I'm going to be disrespectful and uneducated for a minute.

Listen, don't throw me inside your "generation" when you mean "lazy american SF hipster startup guys".

I live in Brazil, my life is like this: I sleep @ 11pm and wakeup @ 4am... I take 4 hours trips to work because I don't have a car. When I get to work, I have to lead a team. I go to gym, 3 times a week. I hold a bachelor in CS. I maintain good/famous projects in Github. I study regularly(currently trying to learn some erlang). I speak two languages well, my mother language and english.

I came from a fucking poor family where you wouldn't even UNDERSTAND of what's like to live there. I'm 24 and I don't have a fucking driver's license.

I earn 50% of a american shitty developer and I lead a team. Cars are at least 4x more expensive here than your country that have been winning the world by making wars and slaving people in a smart way that human rights doesn't really consider it slavery.

So, fuck you and "YOUR" generation. Stop making HN SHIT just publishing fucking damn articles and shitty blog posts. Stop fighting against the other retarded people that just wanted to make excuses.

There's actually people here like me that are desperate for doing something interesting for the humanity. So, shut the fuck up.

Thanks.
They agreed to attend meetings when they accepted the job offer. If you aren't capable of doing what is deemed necessary for your job (whether its actually necessary or not is a separate question) then maybe you are in the wrong job.
One of my favorite images is of a bald eagle perched on top of one of those very tall highway lighting standards.

"Zooming with your feet" isn't typically an option with wildlife, or with sailboats out in the bay, fighter jets taking off, football players approaching the goal line at the other end of the stadium, or about a billion other subjects.

I sometimes wonder how many of the equipment fetishists actually take pictures of real-world subjects.
Watched some of the videos (bought the second package)/read a chapter or two and wow. So much stuff in here that's been a pain to figure out via scattered posts and confusing docs. Go pick this up if you want to learn Meteor.
Now don't ruin the rah-rah, US Nr. 1 appeal (or: US isn't Nr. 1 because now people are sissies)
Because otherwise, Fitzgerald wouldn't have or have had any incentive to invest in creative work?
Simple minded programmers are banned from using goto. The reason is a lot of Basic programs from 1970 that lead to the term 'spaghetti code'.

If you are an expert programmer, you can use it in some parts where efficiency is important. Finite State Machine implementations are a common use.
It's not really a rant about sleep habits. It's a rant about excuses and not meeting commitments.
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my bad. indeed i see your point now.

since there's no extra suggestion in your post, i wrongly made that assumption.

But nobody is talking about just having an alias. the idea of anonymity is to have an effective alias. be it writing a fake name to using Tor. Whatever is necessary to make it happen. in the past, pen-named authors also had to take extra precautions to take the manuscripts to the publisher. it wasn't a sure deal back then, it's not now.
What makes you qualified to pass judgement?

For reference, according to http://www.end-your-sleep-deprivation.com/delayed-sleep-phas... these are the official criteria for diagnosing Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome:

1. Patient has chronic difficulty falling asleep at desired time to meet their daily schedules - work, school, etc. Typically patient reports inability to sleep before 2 to 6 am.

2. The patient reports having dealt with these symptoms for at least six months, mostly for multiple years.

3 When not required to maintain their schedule--i.e. weekends, holidays, etc.--patient sleeps without difficulty, and will awaken spontaneously after a sleep period of normal length.
drcross is a hack. (Source: I'm a space fairy)

If you're going to throw broad statements around some examples would really help lend you credibility.
Right, and you shouldn't feel guilty for choosing a job that suits you better.
And back. https://twitter.com/newrelicstatus/status/331878843583430658