skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a college grad, my opinion might not be considered all that informed (and maybe that's fair), but honestly, "everybody gets college" seems like a shit goal to me.

Not only do most professions not need a liberal arts education, many people just aren't interested in it (very, very few people really need it, though the people that do, in my opinion, include anyone who intends to get into any kind of politics or social science).

It's long been my opinion that technical schools are horribly under-utilized, at least in the US (which is the basis for all my comments, as I'm woefully unequipped to comment on anything else). I also believe that apprenticeships are perhaps the best possible method of practical education there has ever been, and that this is an area presenting a massive business potential that's being significantly underutilized.

Why not be a plumber? It's a dirty job -- many are -- but not only does somebody have to do it, a lot of people have to do it, or a lot of people without dirty jobs are going to get dirty and not know how to deal with it.

This is a vital profession that doesn't require expensive education. There are many like it. We should encourage consideration of options like this for everyone.
Do you really think normal users view source?

Even the more technical users I work with, that can do basic HTML, don't look at the source of other pages. In fact, I think with the tools built into the browser becoming so good, they actually look at the final markup if anything.

It may also be the case for me, but I wonder if you're more upset about the prevalence of JS in the modern web.

There's certainly bad uses of JS, but then when I see something like Gmail I personally am glad it evolved like it did.

No, it's not as simple as it was 15+ years ago when I first got on the web, but it's so dynamic and interesting ...
Yes, that sounds like a good idea. Also, can't houses be built 'bug-tight', so that the bugs can't get in?
I just have one big problem with the "service fee" thing. The law (in the West) is (mostly) a set of contracts between the government and individuals. Taxes are one of the main obligations of the individuals, and they're part of this contract.

There are of course other sides to the contract. Where I'm from one of the other sides is inflation-adjusted pensions. I work just like everybody else did, future and past. Yet I do not have the right to inflation adjusted pensions anymore.

Now that contract, when I read it at age 20, really did not seem to leave any leeway to cancel them, but of course the state is sovereign. No matter how (legally) solid a promise or contract, the state is under no obligation to execute it (not even for people who are current pensioners, and have very little power in the current system. The ones that trusted the government to hold up it's end of the bargain got screwed. Some got screwed, aged 70 or so, and became homeless. I knew one of those).

That event has opened my eyes. What I'm paying taxes for, ~40% goes to paying pension, both of which are getting canceled. Another 50%+ goes to national health insurance and unemployment insurance (I'm in Europe), and in Brussels it is obvious that this part of the system is collapsing, but is also begin used as "bread and circuses" for most of the inner-city population, leading to fast growth. People blame immigration for this, and while that's a significant chunk, the root of the problem is that low-paying jobs are a lot worse than unemployment to any rational person. They're much more likely to demand overtime and extra work than high-paying ones, and the commute costs money, and the whole thing is just so much more stressful than actually doing something.

So there's 2 factors here that I find most offensive about taxes. First, I'm being held to tax law, but the government is not being held to it's promises (like my pension). Second, the government has created a feedback loop that uses my taxes and makes people dependent, brought the whole thing close to the breaking point, and expects me to pay for it.

Screw them. This is not rational on any level. Sorry. I do not volunteer my time on one-sided contracts, where the other side has zero intention to fulfill it's end of the bargain. Whatever I can do to lower my taxes, I do. And I don't consider it morally dubious even. Whatever one can do to make this bread-circus system collapse faster should be done, for the longer it takes the bigger the suffering will be.
I'd submit this again. This is too cool.
I feel communities would greatly benefit from more fundraisers for this very reason. The middle-man will always take a cut, but most of your donations should be deductible. At least this way, you're funneling part of Uncle Sam's cut to where it's truly needed.

We can deal with Uncle Sam's cut and how it's spent with the ballot box.

I would caution, however, too many people vote candidates into office on only one or two of their pet issues. I understand no one will find a candidate they agree with 100%, but there's a lot more to a person than just taxes, just guns or just environment etc... This has to change.

People need to look at what they're really getting themselves into by voting for the right people after thinking very carefully and objectively. And of course on more than one or two issues.
The headline was "Men's Biceps Predict Their Political Ideologies" you can't rule out political idealogical in a study about political Ideology. There is a spectrum of belief within political parties which explains why the association remained.
Lubuntu. Just windows and a panel, no clever.
>So really, that's what you're paying for with these online code schools, someone to show you the way.

No, just a way not the way. The confusion you point out even makes light of it: there are many ways.
Show HN: Melodic Morse, a ringtone generator and cw training aid.
It's not a decline in overall quality, just a decrease in signal to noise ratio. Which is a consequence not of user growth but of the startup culture becoming more mainstream and less nerdy.

Still my favorite site and primary source (directly or indirectly) of new knowledge.
Huh? Much everything the government does to markets is incentive based regulation. The whole tax-code might be considered such.
You shouldn't have left Facebook.
Tesla never had dealerships, but GM and all the others did. These laws do exist, as you say, to prevent the manufacturer from cutting out the dealer after benefiting from the service the dealer provides to its customers, but Tesla never had any dealerships they could unfairly circumvent.
It is a common rhetorical technique, equivalent to ad hominem in that it attacks the message rather than the argument (I guess that would be ad messaginem :-) The general form is <fact>:<error claim>:<ad hominem> but to detect such you might need to extract a list of claims in the source article compare them to find the singular intersection with the comment, and then the ad hominem insult as well. Multi-fact/claim messages would get by of course.
This is yet another great piece of advice. The community here is great!

In line with what you are saying, I have been attending the local Drupal user's group for the past few months and I plan on presenting my capstone project at our next meetup. I will get a business card and present myself in a more professional manner.

It is an exciting time for me, I am building my career and in the process learning a lot more about myself personally and professionally. I'll keep your email address handy.
I wrote a static site generator at the beginning of this year:)

https://github.com/jimktrains/gus
Remember that a good portion of college debt is held by people who thought they wanted to go to college, went in, accrued debt and then decided to do something different. Its good to have people in power say, 'do what is right for you.'
I wonder, do corporations see themselves as essentially other countries? And if they do, does that maybe explain the urge to minimize as much as possible, even down to zero, the payment of taxes to an enemy/competitor?
It isn't. Everything described in the article is consistent with graphene supercapacitors, although the article gives no technical details about what she actually did.
Does anyone else feel kind of confused and guilty when they read this? It just seems so condescending to me.

I like eating and sleeping. I pay a lot of attention to these things. If you're eating well and sleeping well, your life is probably going pretty good. Sure, I'm going to die, that's why food and sleep matter even more. This planet would be a pretty happy place if everyone was eating and sleeping as much as they needed.

Second, what the heck. Too lazy to work on perfecting myself? I thought spiritual enlightenment was about having a smaller ego, not a bigger one. I'm going to feel more motivated if I focus on how awesome I'll be if I do the inner work? You can't do this stuff for very long because you want to get something out of it, you only do it in the long term because circumstances push you into it and you have no choice.

Third, details vs. essentials. Details are bad now? You won't get far with only one or the other. Yes, essentials are important, but so are details. In startup terms, a great idea is essential, but you're dead without a great execution.

Anyway, "laziness" is such a crap word in a spiritual context. As if enlightenment was an achievement, when the point of just about every religion is being, not doing.

Eat. Sleep. Give yourself a break when you hit a wall; perhaps you ought to re-evaluate your priorities. Do a thorough and meticulous job on all of your little projects. Pay attention to what you're doing, and you'll come out of it all the wiser. Lack of progress in any one area is not laziness, it's a signal that you need to try a different course of action.
What's the shrewdest, smartest maneuver you've ever seen in business?
Go back to Reddit
Let me add a c. then : "Re-negotiate the contract to more favorable terms at the ballot box". And this is the only truly effective mode of meaningful change in a Democracy. I just wish people would stop voting one or two issues which invariably lead to disappointment on many others.
what about ruby or django? How good are the opportunities? I'm an asp.net developer and I'm wanting to branch out a bit. Not sure which platform to start with. I tried PHP a bit but it seems very unorganized and incapable of doing large scale web applications.
Somewhat related, it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that browsers treat assets with different URL casing as different assets for purposes of caching. Three image elements that reference Foo.jpg, foo,jpg, and foo.JPG all require a separate request and space in the cache, even if the web server you're using is case-insensitive and all three URLs resolve to the same image.
Point taken, thanks. I'm familiar with Eclipse for Android, but considering I'll likely be abandoning it for that purpose given the new platform, I'm hoping to pick up emacs not just for Clojure but for a general non-nano CLI text editing default.
Pretty neat :) It works really fast as well
Can you really defend US Federal taxes in 2013 when most of the money goes to fund dishonest wars and various social ponzi schemes?

Your point is valid in an idealized world where taxation is fair and spending transparent. But in today's world progressive taxation is simply a tool to extort complacency from the masses and allow the powerful to start costly wars using terms like "evil" and "evildoers" rather than having to make a rational cost/benefit analysis.
I'm not disputing whether or not their business is doing well, just whether or not I think they will go out of business anytime soon, which is what "walking dead" means to me. To that effect, I have pointed out that they have a long history, have "died" several times, and have proven resilient even when various people imagine them "dead" or anything like that.

It appears that EA is looking only at quarterly revenue and not taking anything else into account. It's exactly what I would expect of them. It's one of the many reasons I mistrust them. People play games to have fun. Dealing with assholes is not fun. If I played EA games, I'd have to deal with EA. So the only winning move is not to play.
> There are often moderately stupid comments far down the page in any given thread, but they're comparatively harmless, like someone walking down the street mumbling to himself.

I see that you deem these comments to be comparatively harmless, but nevertheless to combat this one relatively simple idea is to implement a 'Request deletion' feature, sitting alongside the 'flag' link on comment headers, that would notify the user that the comment they've made isn't very useful/substantive/thoughtful, and if they delete it (as other users have requested) they can re-earn any karma points they may have lost (as an incentive to encourage them to go on with the comment deletion).

I think something like this would be very appropriate for a lot of occasions, it's something between a 'downvote' and 'flag' in intensity -- a downvote is too soft; 'flag' is too strong. I think it would send a good hint to have one reconsider what they've said, and have a lasting effect on the kinds of comments they make down the line.

> I've been collecting a corpus of them for a while; it may soon be big enough to be useful.

If you end up doing this I hope you only take into account the first few critical upvotes that send a particular bad comment to the top of the page. Because, I think 'upvoting' is a very passive, sometimes thoughtless action to a lot of people: if a comment is at the top, they'll read it first, and if it has non-zero substance to it (i.e. it attacks the article on a minor nitpick (which is your definition of a 'stupid comment' in this context, I think)) they may very well upvote it making the cycle complete.
Straw men belong on a field where the dictator would have sent the dissidents to farm by force.

"Stealing" is "stealing". "Taxes" are not "stealing". "Taxes" are what is used to pay for the services used by and benefit the people. Money collected under whatever other label you give that is not used for these purposes is "stealing".
Idea: Manage your own Resumes via SaaS
Anyone interested in an Arduino MEGA 2560 and NooElec R820T?
A few months ago I bought an Arduino MEGA 2560 and NooElec SDR to be used in a High Altitude Balloon. The project never got off the ground and it's been sitting in my drawer collecting dust.

I'd like to see someone put it to good use. Anyone interested in it?
Not to burst your bubble but most of the taxes you pay go to fund the Iraq and Afghanistan war, and various handouts to select industries.

Virtually none of the tax money goes to help the downtrodden or to build necessary infrastructure.

As a property owner you are getting big tax breaks and so your support has been bought.
I use Arch for years and can't say it's as good as it used to be. But I still use it since alternatives have bigger issues. and actually I would say there is no "good" distro yet. In my opinion, "good software" is the one that provides well modularized abstractions that connect to life easily and inexpensively, and can be reused by other software fully or partially.

We need an OS with declarative system directories, commands and configuration files based on a minimalist, human-friendly vocabulary and with good hardware support. It's 2013 and Linux is supposed to achieve some good abstraction levels that let people save time instead of reading fucking manuals. We should encourage good abstractions that document itself and communicates with the users. Linux systems don't talk English and they don't connect to real world easily.

Maintaining personal computers should not be expensive. If we're passionate about programming and systems, our goal should be to create good abstractions that connect to life.
Well, yes, but read that page. I mean a vaguely reasonable fraction, not 1/299792458 per second (plus if you're going to be pedantic, second still isn't defined in terms of c).
- personal betterment -> college is no longer necessary
- academic career and scientific research -> applies only to the best of the best.
- as a professional investment -> the return on investment has to be considered. Is degree X for University of Y increase individual's earnings potential sufficiently to justify investing 4 years and $50-200K? For significant chunk of people, certainly not all, the answer is no. If you're not getting a degree that is in demand, attending an elite university, chances are investment in college does not make commercial sense, and as Bloomberg states, may be better of learning a trade.

Food for thought: If 3 high school graduates pooled their financial resources they would be investing into private college education, they'd have ~$360K seed money (from tuition), and 4 years living expenses to come up with a viable business. I bet they'd learn a ton as well. Better yet, if they had first learned a trade and worked a couple of years, they may actually build some useful things instead of yet another social network.
And just to prove your point, I'll nitpick a little. Creation is hard, but criticism can still have value.
Well put, but the top income tax rate in the US is now nearly 40%. Plus there's 12.4% for Social Security (employer+employee but it is economically all your salary) and state income taxes. And if you invest anything after that, there's capital gains and dividend taxes.
CentOS 5: Pure hell.
CentOS 6: meh.
Pick a region, talk to the customers. See if they want online booking. See if they want to pay with PayPal. See if they want to buy products from you. Simply, try and find out how software can remove steps to purchase. It's fairly easy to do so. I did it with a simple iOS app. People just wanted to book the exterminator through their iPhone. Sales up 20%.
When you work for the accounts department of a security conscious company, which is chock-a-block full of smart computer-competent people, it should be pretty darn hard to smuggle out email. Especially 100,000 emails.
I used Ubuntu for years, but the constant barrage of updates (every six months outside of an LTS release!) and the fact something /always/ broke when moving to a new release (usually video) eventually got annoying enough that I switched back to Debian. For me, Debian's slower release cycle is a plus in itself.
Check out cloudpress: https://github.com/cloudpress/cloudpress
When Gauss was a teenager, he put forward the theory for least squares. He also published the 17-gon creation proof before he was 20.
> It also doesn't support fglrx drivers, because the X version they use is too high.

Friends don't let friends use fglrx. The open source drivers work fine. If I can run Gnome-Shell while playing StarCraft 2, Left4dead 2 beta and team fortress on open source AMD drivers with acceptable performance then so can you.
My original reply was to the assertion that taxes are theft, which it patently isn't. I agree a lot of it is going to means to dubious ends and that can only change during elections.

> Spending must be transparent. No argument here.
> Wars of aggression (already illegal) must stop.
> War on drugs, and other likewise stupid expenditures must stop
(slow, but getting there)

These will only change when politicians start representing the people that voted them into office. Remember that: Only the people that voted them into office. Not those who hold the majority sentiment. The two groups aren't necessarily the same.
Jokester comments (I leave quite a few because I enjoy being a smart-arse) are hit and miss on HN. You can't overplay the joke and you can't use memes. That rules out a lot of easy jokes, so in practice the effective humour is a bit better than the stuff you find on Reddit.
Thanks a bunch! And yes, it works realtime... Can't wait to setup a polished stats page... But it's already 4AM right now over here ;-)
Proposed AngularJS WebPage structure
Why are iPad games so ugly?
This may be a stupid question, since I don't know much about game creation or iOS (or anything at all, really), but why are iPad games so ugly?

Is it just something simple like the graphics card? Or is it something else, like the language doesn't present itself well? Or is it something entirely different, like the return on time invested isn't high enough?

Or am I just not looking at the right games?

I NEED ANSWERS!!!

Thanks, I'll hang up and listen.
If someone in England buys a product, in England, from someone in England, and uses English money, and that product is an ad and that ad is shown to people in England, then it seems reasonable that English taxes should be paid, even if the company uses a bizarre scheme to hand off the very last part of the chain to complete the deal in Ireland.

Google is welcome to move their office to Ireland if Google wants to use the Irish tax scheme.
So the last time it happened was in 1795? That's encouraging.
I actually used to think a bit like how you do.

But humans form groups. That's what we do. And this group is pretty easy to join. You don't need a particular skin colour or religion. Just rock up and rock on.
It's an impressive feat of scaling by the engineers at Intel et al. :)
Semiconductor industry
Any one knows if Y combinator supports semiconductor startups? Any examples in the past?
Multiply upvotes by log(karma) or similar? Perhaps log(karma/time) in the spirit of the reddit upvote algo?

I'd be curious on others' thoughts on schemes like this.
This has one of the usual dangers of trying to do a visualization of a monad, which is that it strongly implies that there is a one-to-one relationship between what you put in and what comes out, which is basically saying that the bind function of the monadic interface implementation will only call the function it receives once. This is not true; it may be called zero times (Nothing, empty list), once (Just something, a list of one element), or many times (once for each element in the list for the list monad, for instance), which is a critical element to understanding the monad interface. So, you know, be aware of that I guess.
It looks pretty nice! I would suggest that you get rid of the list numbering. It adds little value to the front page (knowing the exact rank of a post isn't very useful) and makes the points a little more confusing.
There absolutely are moral limits on taxation. Otherwise we are all just slaves to the state.

"Property is the fruit of labor...property is desirable...is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built." -- Abraham Lincoln
Sorry to piggy back on this thread, but can anyone give me an estimate of how much a freelance gig can earn per project? Also, do you take on more than one project at a time, usually?
Wish I knew about these guys a year ago, when I got rid of most of my books to make room for a nursery.

My book search solution is to upload a list of ISBNs to google books and do "search within my library". It doesn't have full coverage, but is better than nothing.
I'm curious as to what software they're using. Might be interesting to look at the code for that.
From my perspective I was giving a counterexample to challenge the claim that all theft is unlawful.

You're saying that if legal money collection benefits society it is "tax", but if it does not benefit society it is "stealing"? Sure, if you split the words that denote legal money collection into these two forms, then tax is not theft. I simply define tax as legal money collection.

I'm not anti-tax, btw, but neither do I subscribe to the view that just because a government passes a particular money collection law that it's a just law.
I think the parent was referring to effective tax rate. Tax rates are applied in graded steps, so you will only pay 40% on income over a certain amount.