skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really enjoy the quote from Warren Buffet, who felt the perfect amount to leave children is "enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing."
this superficial cynicism really depresses me

I know so many kids toiling away thinking that "there's only the ladder", that the idea that there's happiness outside of money is some sort of opiate to weed out the less driven. ask people who went to prep schools man, ask rich people themselves. money doesn't make people happy.
last i'd heard they were still trying to get more silicon valley bigwigs funding it. ball was treating them as a sufficiently "real" customer that it was talking to subcontractors about the mission, but i hadn't heard about any big checks for hardware being cut.
Apparentl xlearing yo cahs awn dandroit do.3 dant defeat das casche. Sew glaugle!
Many of you may have already done this. But I never got around to it (Win7 isn't my primary dev box). It only took me 3 minutes and it probably ROI'd the first day.
I'm reminded of some dialogue from Ally McBeal (yeah, I know it's not Shakespeare, but it sounded profound).

Georgia Thomas: Ally, what makes your problems so much bigger than everybody else's?

Ally McBeal: They're mine.

Everybody thinks this way - a little thing that happens to me is a big deal ... because it's mine.
> I certainly wouldn't call owning a chair being owned by your belongings. :P

You could give up the bed (get a futon on the floor) and keep the chair. :P
Gotcha. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the pot scene is diverse and thriving despite this. Certainly not a "government growers only selling shitty government cheese^W^W ditch weed" situation.
Because they operate outside of the users privacy controls in the browser. You are accessing the users data without permission, a violation of Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

That is a simple summary, you can find more in the complain.

I just uploaded a copy of it here:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx25s45t4-d_bDBDRjFDOUlFOUU/...

KissMetrics settled and paid $500,000. They also let users opt out and were better about disclosing the practice on their website.
Presumably this number is an average across many different geographical areas. So I am curious about how this number was influenced by purchasing power and other factors.

That is, $75K gets you and your family a lot more space in a exurb or rural area compared to an expensive city like NY or SF. Does this matter? Or does a family spending most of their $75K income renting a 500 sf apartment in NY experience the same level of happiness as an equivalent family in a remote suburb with much more living space.

(Obviously, you could ask a similar question about other factors that change dramatically with geography - e.g. public/private school quality, cost of food, cost of leisure activities, access to culture, public services, etc)
> Has this type of tech penetrated into aerospace?

i worked with a spacecraft launched in 2003 that was definitely not using reactions wheels like that. (and saw a failure.)
Regarding your question around becoming a Legal Permanent Resident (LPR, that is, a green card holder): The L1B non-managerial category usually processes slower than L1A (senior managers and executives). This is most often because L1B holders fall under the EB2 (employer-based, 2nd priority) permanent residency category. If your employer's immigration lawyer has the experience to do so and sees that you meet the definition, see if you can get classified as a "functional manager" (meaning that you are primarily responsible for a critical part of the business), which would put you in the L1A visa category and give you a much easier path to EB1 LPR status. Note that L1 visas, whether A or B, have a general cap of 5 or 7 years before the holder must leave the United States.

Your employer applies for LPR on your behalf. When using employment- or investment-based visas, you will quickly find that all paperwork has to be done by your employer or corporation and you're just along for the ride.
I'm not sure if legal commercial selling is up and running there yet or not. It kind of thought it was. Legal non -medical weed won't be available until next March or so in Washington (end of November until non-medical growing can start, plus a few months for those non-medical plants to mature.)
Now, this is a real hn comment. Coming out from the shadows to provide further information on a topic that most of us don't know much about at all!
33:19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude
of his bones with strong pain: 33:20 So that his life abhorreth bread,
and his soul dainty meat.

33:21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his
bones that were not seen stick out.

33:22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the
destroyers.

33:23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a
thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness: 33:24 Then he is gracious
unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have
found a ransom.

33:25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to
the days of his youth: 33:26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be
favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will
render unto man his righteousness.

33:27 He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and
perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; 33:28 He will
deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the
light.

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The powerful Venkatesh Rao recently wrote a column on related themes.

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/07/31/the-quality-of-life/

> When you actually meet people living in tough conditions, you realize that they don’t exactly make up dreams for their lives in some UN-approved sequence; water first, food next, healthcare third, money fourth, philosophy when I am rich, alcohol and marijuana never.

It's better than this, go and read it.
Show HN: Tripinium - Gateway to travel planning information
To further the point, $370k is like ~5pc of 8-9 million. Which is to say that if you are <working> for wages, even at 370k your not that well off. If you had $9mm in the bank/investment portofolio, you wouldn't be "working", you'd be counting your passive investment income of ~$370k.
> Kepler was equipped with four -- three in use, one spare. The idea is that you need one reaction wheel per dimension.

are you sure? i thought it was four (in a tetrahedral arrangement), but they were all constantly in use, and one failure could be tolerated.
Google search for "binary" (easter egg)
Pretending isn't nearly bad as we think
Basic income is an awesome concept. I have argued for it before with people and I often get the reply that if it was implemented then nobody would bother working. I generally then ask why any of the rich bother working on that basis, given the fact they don't have to. This question makes some people angry.
For those who didn't catch it, the search returns "About 0b111001101100101000001000000 results (0.18 seconds)".
FWIW my preferred language of representation is sparse activity of neurons over time :)
It only implies that if you think people are reasonably capable of predicting how happy a given amount of wealth will make them in the future. There is plenty of evidence to suggest this isn't the case.
Define "poor".

When giving money to the poor in a highly oppressed area of the world (like Kenya) I would think that this is a great idea assuming that most people are inherently good and that their poorness-situation is due to a lack of opportunity rather than a lack of will power.

When giving money to the poor methamphetamine-addict who is incessantly harassing every passer-by for some bus money (found in the downtown areas of many prosperous and free cities throughout North America) then no I would say that is a horrible waste of capital. Due to their having a lack of will power to "succeed" rather than a lack of opportunity.
It's great to see some innovation and progress in the field of humanitarian aid. The idea of just handing over money with no strings attached is so counterintuitive, but in the end it's the most harmless types of humanitarian aid there is. Improving poor peoples lifestyle, especially giving them hope for the future and a happy family life, is the most effective way to prevent terrorism. Happy people aren't terrorists.

Disclaimer; I'm a blue eyed guy born and raised in norway. So excuse me for having a naive view on this topic.
I'm 19 now, however my dad got me really interested in math when I was around that age. (Cs-ey math). He had this book on fortran which he told me to read before falling asleep as a way to get me to sleep by my bedtime.

It was a pretty profound book, and he used to always explain everything to me in terms of patterns and sequences, and could see if I could guess what lay ahead (in terms of a specific pattern or sequence). It was quite exciting when I got the answers right.

I would guess that a similar approach would work now, perhaps with a more modern language?

Also, kids (at least I know I used to) love stories on web security (admittedly the gritty details can be boring to them) however, with your expertise I'm sure you could find some way of conveying the excitement of beating the system without actually going into the details.

EDIT: To answer your question particularly about projects, I think that they will grow into coding from the more math-like perspective that I described. When they figure out algorithms and want to actually see them fleshed out in real results, they'll automatically take to coding things. After that, the world is their oyster.
most intelligent human brains have been programmed by their parents and education systems for more than 10 to 20 years. Even if we have an as powerful ANN, it still take years to train it into something intelligent. Computational way might be well ahead of that. Thus we still haven't taught ourselves how to program our own brain.
I don't think incognito modes were ever designed for that kind of privacy.
>That single word "orphan" is the most important part of this article.

Are you sure you are not conflating the concepts "orphan" and "adopted"?
i said that many times , agreed
It would be great to get some feedback from HN on this project. The main hypothesis is that a quickstart guide to travel planning information greatly simplifies the effort that goes into travel planning. Of course, it hasnt yet been validated. Any feedback, good or bad, is useful.
> For an alternative, I've heard some good things about laser ablative thrusters.

kepler also had thrusters, for desaturing the reaction wheels. took at least half an hour or something every few days, i think.

thrusters spew stuff into the local environment, cloudying it up (relatively speaking). so it might not have been a solution for kepler, even if you could pack on the necessary reaction mass.
The fact that Yelp allegedly sells their services by promising to manipulate Yelp results is beyond despicable, if true. However, the lawsuit has its dangers too - as making Yelp liable for reviews should be possible only if it is proven beyond reasonable doubt that indeed review manipulation is a common practice at Yelp and not just a lie by a rogue salesman. I'd be very interested in a discovery process that would allow to decide this question one way or another, but I understand so far there's no hard evidence for it. So I also understand EFF's side when they say absent such proof it is very bad idea to make Yelp liable - and would have very bad implications on other sites, including this very forum.
Also consider that you'll be required to pay income tax even after renouncing your U.S. citizenship, should you ever wish to leave for greener pastures.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-15/us-ca...
I put z and fasd through their paces, and out of the box z works very intuitively. I like it. fasd takes a little more to get used to, but I'm going to put it through a full try out. Let's see if the additional features make it worth the while. In either case, thanks all for a great thread.
I'm saying if you want to find the government assassinations, here is where you'd look. Again, I'm not saying that these were assassinations (other than the ones which are commonly considered as such). But they're deaths in office.

Actually, I was a bit surprised that there were as few assassinations as there have been (what with some 500+ high national political figures at any one time). The Democrat/Republican balance is also interesting.

"Accidents do happen [but] plane crashes can be awfully convenient," doesn't leave me any room to debate this topic with you.

Believe it or not, I can accept issues as unresolved, though with shadings of possibility or probability one way or the other. When I say "I'm not convinced one way or the other", I mean just that. I've also not really put much time into looking at any of these incidents.

I do leave the possibility open in the case of Wellstone and Carnahan. The circumstances of Litton's death (how often to airplane crankshafts break spontaneously?) are interesting. Ryan and Jonestown: pretty clearly a cult.

There's also the case that there can be actions involving some elements of a government in opposition to others. As Kenneth Arrow observed, firms aren't single points, they're structures with internal complexity. As are governments. Operation Northwoods and The Business Plot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot) are both indications that plots have been hatched in the US. It can happen here, and very nearly has.

The circumstances surrounding both the Wellstone and Carnahan deaths were extremely politically charged. In Wellstone's case, former vice president Walter Mondale stood in as a candidate 11 days prior to the election. In Carnahan's, his name remained on the ballot and his wife served. There's relatively little dispute over the official investigation of the Wellstone incident, and some history of concerns with the principle pilot. As you may recall, Carnahan's opponent was John Ashcroft who went on to serve at Attorney General in the 2nd Bush Administration. In both cases (as now), control of the Senate was in play.
You should speak to a US tax adviser in Hong Kong ASAP.

You will be taxed on your world-wide income.

You will need to report all your assets - every single account number, name/identifier, and the maximum balance during the year to both the Treasury and the IRS.

You will also need to report every financial account such as PayPal, spread-betting, online gambling, stock trading a/c, fx trading a/c etc. to both the Treasury and the IRS.

You need to compute all interest, dividends and capital gains for the calendar year (HK tax year runs to April) in order to pay tax due to the IRS even though there is no tax in HK.

Some of your assets and accounts may have to be shut down as US persons/taxpayers may be forbidden from operating those accounts e.g. spread-betting.

Depending on your personal situation and net worth, the above may or may not influence your decision to relocate.

Good luck either way!
You might also enjoy reading about this experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC_Computer
And his father also died from "consumption" or "getting too fucked up too often" disease.

I've had some exposure to the "very wealthy" and they're just as fucked up at a rate as someone you might find in the trailer park tradition. It's often a factor of luck.
Read Washington State's laws concerning pot. Then read their laws concerning booze.

Then rest easy.
Nice. Had to try these too:
hex: https://www.google.com/search?q=hexadecimal
octal: https://www.google.com/search?q=octal
If I had heros, Camus would be one of my few heros. The idea that life is not just meaningless, but rather absurd is quite a relief. What I like about him is that in his writings, he does not offer any solace. He does not promise that we will magically become satisfied with life and existence, rather he writes about the confusion between living and suicide, and interestingly, he argues that both choices are equally absurd. He does argue for morality. The reader is thrown into that dizzying choice where no option is preferential, so the choice to live is rather arbitrary. The realization that life is absurd freezes you for a moment. Though, since life is rather meaningless, I feel it also unchains a person from all those pressures and norms set by society, religion and family. The thought represents true freedom.

Camus also seems to be one of the philosophers who actually looked cool.
http://code.google.com/p/go-tool/wiki/GettingStarted Works on all OSes.
Blissful ignorance. Next time guy like this will either do a lot of damage or sell the exploit to those who will pay.

Every security report should be taken seriously regardless it comes from a well known expert or just a guy from Palestine.
Meta Augmented Reality Glasses
Are you suggesting that "might be unsafe" is all the reason needed to legally withhold the right of a person to do something to his/her own body?
Truth in 24 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFwoxM1MiBw)
Great engineering, great strategy (underdog must take risks to beat the well-equipped adversary)
I had asked the very same question about two years ago.

I would say that the list is probably still pretty good:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2698026
I'm sure if a starving child in Africa read your post they would be angry that someone went out of their way to get angry over another person making very personal decision. There are greater things in life to angry over than another person making a decision which they believe will make them happier.

Just because you can't seem to fathom how someone might leave behind a cushy job does not give you the right to be judgemental. World is a suckier place when people can't seem to see the world without their tunnel vision.
Aye. I think we don't disagree.
Try again.

From the description:

This policy enforcement capability is useful for a variety of reasons, including for example to disable noise and/or light emanating from wireless devices (such as at a movie theater), for preventing wireless devices from communicating with other wireless devices (such as in academic settings), and for forcing certain electronic devices to enter “sleep mode” when entering a sensitive area.
It's funny, people always say "money can't buy happiness" and yet when it comes to talk about "rich people with problems" nobody seems to believe it.

Despite the ordinary prejudice against the wealthy that has developed over the past few years it is still a universal truth that life is a difficult thing, and figuring out how to lead a rewarding and fulfilling life even more so.
> Give me (Patrick McKenzie -- patio11) your email and get the rest of it, totally free. (This advice has lead to 20%~100% increases in sales at 3 companies, and normally I charge five figures for it.)

That sounds both scientific and like a great deal, the very definition of legit. I'm signing up.
He thinks that white middle-class kids are targeted, and that the purpose of legalization is to stop that.

In reality, it is overwhelming minorities that are targetted. Legalization would stop that.
It feels like throwing away knowledge.
Also this :

Additionally, the wireless transmission of sensitive information to a remote source is one example of a threat to security.
This kind of aid is based on the assumption that it creates economic growth which can solve those problems.
The only time I use PNG is if I'm aiming for pixel-crisp, anything else is JPEG where fitting. I LIKE my PNGs to be pixel-crisp, and the only way to substitute that I could think of is put PNGs in /lossless and /lossy folders individually.

Maybe a quick JS speed test and if possible switch all your lossy to lossless? Would look weird on load without a splash screen though.
This is exactly why making decisions like she did is so difficult. Because people judge you and are angry at you just because you are different and you don't want what they want.

I am sure that you had some big difficulties in your life and you achieved your goal anyway - it must have been very hard and I admire you for that. But you should try to understand her - her problems are very different than yours but I can imagine that those might be even harder to deal with.
Kepler is millions of miles away from Earth, even with a Saturn V and an Apollo spacecraft we couldn't fix the thing and come back.

Also, it was never economical to fix Hubble with the Shuttle. It was just fortuitous that the Shuttle program was desperate for things to do and ended up subsidizing the launch costs for the Hubble servicing missions. In terms of the ultimate bottom line the US spent nearly $8 billion to fix a $2.5 billion telescope. Granted, I think that even that expenditure was worthwhile but from a strict cost accounting it would have made more sense to simply build and launch additional telescopes.
It's really lame to claim that etag is checksum. That clearly tells that the author doesn't have a clue what it's all about. Btw. Who said that there would be any cache stored when you browse in private mode. Etag didn't even work. Panopticlick is much more advanced than this lameness. It usually works, unless you use something like anonymity hardened virtual machine, which of course isn't unique.
What I've heard is that their system has gotten progressively better over time while their publishing had gotten worse.

People in academia can get ResearchCyc and see just what its capabilities are these days; it's basically the same as full Cyc. OpenCyc is a shadow of the real thing, supposedly.
If that was always the case, leasing agencies wouldnt be able to make profit, so you might just have stumpled on some really good offers which popup from time to time. In general, leasing costs hould be equal to or more than the deprecation in value of the car itself.
You know you can point all that out without having to come across as rude, right?

You are right, of course -- ETag tracking is both not that exciting, and not new, but I think that some here would've have come across it.

Also, I know that older versions of Firefox and Chrome _did_ cache things, even in Private Browsing mode, but I think that that cache only existed for that session.