skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's pretty simple really: we adapt. We're amazingly flexible creatures and have a knack for adjusting to our conditions, whatever they may be; for 'better' or 'worse'.

We actively re-adjust our perspective of the world to balance ourselves. If you grew up under impoverished conditions, that would be your default line, and if you then became 'rich' afterwards, you would probably be happy for an amount of time proportional to the amount of time you spent miserable. But if growing up under 'well-off' conditions, that will be your default line, and objectively speaking, you'd need a lot more to be happy/thankful than the person who started off in a lower position than you, just because you adapted to your living conditions that well. That being said, tradition/values/morals/etc are all a part of our environments just as much as our pay checks.

This strong ability to adapt to our environments is what helped us survive so well; unfortunately, it's also the same trait that makes us treat bills like they were saber-tooth tigers.

EDIT: To clarify, I dislike 'first-world problem' rants as much as anybody else, but the problem isn't the people writing them. The problem is right there in the name of it: the "first-world".
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He could have made test accounts with appropriate privacy settings. He could have just told the security team, "Your server does not validate permissions when posting to walls, so if you change this specific HTML form value to anyone else's profile ID, it will post to their wall."
Which study on technical people having facts to support their biases are you referencing? :)
A very specific message board, it seems like. /r/netsec is having no trouble understanding it.

Which leads me to believe most people commenting are not doing so with an actual understanding of the situation, and are instead viewing this solely as Big Bad Facebook vs innocent hacker.
Until the next lead paint or tainted milk scandal, when Chinese vaporizers will have a massive stigma.
I've been using the following in some form for over 3 decades!
(now in zsh)

alias .=cd

In /bin/sh "." sources a script. While this can be common in a script, one rarely does this interactively so I usurped . for the most common operation!

alias ,=pushd
alias ,,=popd
alias ,.=dirs

Think of cd as a goto, pushd as a call, popd as a return and dirs as a stack trace!

..() { cd ../$* }
cdpath=(. .. ~/src ~)

Use of cdpath can be confusing so it is best to show part of $PWD in the prompt:

PS1="%* %5. %h%(#.#.:) "

This ends the prompt with a # if you are running as superuser.

These aliases/functions are enabled in .zshrc (only if run interactively -- that is, they are included below the following test):

if [[ ! -o interactive ]] ; then return; fi

The "benefit" of Jeroen's mark/unmark is that these paths persist (and can be used from any window running a shell. I have not found much need for that + I can have different $dirs in different windows. Also, given that my shell windows (under screen) persist for a very long time, I don't need symlink's persistence!

Alternatively I define "." to be a function that does arg specific operation (cd if a dir, acroread if .pdf, vi if text etc.).
No, this story demonstrates that an "excessive" inheritance is a burden to a certain set of heirs. It tells us nothing about the effect of "excessive" inheritances on other heirs.

Let's not take sample sizes of one and use them to justify assertions about large groups, shall we?
Forex is an extremely risky niche, try stocks or something that isn't zero sum.
If you're investigating Facebook exploits it's one of the first things you'd have to learn about.
Most neighborhoods I've lived in my life, people drink too much. Every six months or so, there is a DUI arrest where a cop has actually followed the idiot all the way home at (and I've seen people get into/out of the car so drunk they go to the bathroom on the side of their car).

I don't care if people smoke pot in their apartments. But once it's legal, it's not going to stop there and I am not sure what can be done about respecting others, if anything, since that is probably a core problem of personality far beyond pot smoking.

I worry if everyone is going to be walking around everywhere smoking it because they don't think anyone is going to stop them. I personally don't care for it and I suspect my right to not be bothered by it is not going to be respected in the least.

If there is a solution to making others respect smoking only in their homes, I'd love to hear it.
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You can save a ton of your living expense by taking advantage of the Metro-North commuter railroad which runs all the way up into the Hudson Valley, into Dutchess county where it's far cheaper to live. At the expense of an hour's commute each way to the city. Google Beacon, NY which has a train station about an hour from the city by train if you're interrested in saving money this way.
The same thing crossed my mind as I read the various Kepler stories in the press right now. Apparently that technology isn't ready for prime time. Remember that these components must tolerate very high vibration and temperature extremes to qualify for spacecraft use. Most permanent magnets lose their field if raised above a certain temperature (Curie temperature) and many of them aren't very tolerant of vibration.

In any case, for various reasons, frictionless bearings aren't ready for spacecraft use.
Books and musical instruments are two things that are dearly loved. Can't even lend them to others while we are travelling because no one takes as good care of them as we ourselves do. Sigh.
The article is a lot more readable if you remove print=true from the query string. If you want to avoid the paginated mess, setting font-family to Georgia and width to 60% makes it pretty easy on the eyes as well.
Reading about it on wikipedia, it seems analog computers have been almost completely forgotten in the digital age.

Musicians are still using them. Modular synthesizers are the bomb.
As far as I am aware, Colorado has not changed the law on anything commercial, so there is no commercial growers license yet. I think they are intending to though from what I have read.

edit - on the other hand, after reading zevyoura's post, evidently I may be talking rubbish.
I chose the term "emotional age" carefully for that reason.

That said, if we were talking about hiring a node.js dev, and comparing a 22 year old vs. a 57 year old, would "I fail to see how this has anything to do with his age. There are great developers at all stages of life." be applicable as well? Or would it reasonable to make some generalizations while appreciating exceptions?
Why not stay in HK and keep more money?
This is definitely one of the coolest "Show HN"-style projects I've seen in a while. Great work!
How they talk when they think nobody can hear them
Could it have something to do with the new "You.FM" feature they're doing with personalized stations?
I'm extremely curious about what "basic maintenance" the Lun receives currently, and why. Anyone care to speculate?
Someone needs a lesson in the difference between correlation and causation.
Wow, that's amazing. Thanks for sharing.
I want to start off by saying that I am a recent college grad and our expectations of living conditions might be slightly different, but Ill add what I can. But I am a native New Jersyian so I have some idea of what I'm talking about :)

3. This is definitely not the case, especially if you have no family to support. Most of my friends who have started work in NYC earn anywhere from 75-100k and they live comfortably in Brooklyn. They probably will not accruing much savings, but making 130-150k living in Brooklyn is very, very affordable.

4. You will not pay 2k a month in rent. If you live in Brooklyn it will be max 1500 and in NJ it will probably be closer to 1k. You would only be paying ~2k if you want to live in Manhattan itself. 40% is probably about right for taxes maybe a little high.

That's all I can really add for now, but hope that help! And if you have any follow up questions feel free to comment below
Flagging isn't the only thing that knocks stories off the front page. Another one is the flamewar detector; if the story has a particularly bad thread, the thread can kill it.

Another thing that might be hurting stories are voting rings. HN does (apparently) a lot of things (that we don't know about) to police voting on the site. Voting rings and collusion are a huge problem; the incentive to spam things onto HN is very high.

Flags aren't as powerful as you think they are. I flag lots of things but rarely notice an impact if the story already has traction.
1 - I wouldn't say it because you're a non native English speaker/first timer to USA [non native English speakers are one of the most common things around here]. I would say it because things are not going well in NYC at all.

2 - That's fine, but don't get frustrated if you get something between 75K - 100K.

3 - Check Brooklyn and Queens, maybe Harlem. Commute is not a problem here.

4 - 25% to 27%.

5 - It really depends on your company.
Don't forget the Fall and Winter's depression and loneliness. But don't worry, wait for the Summer [Oh yeah the Summer - Hellyeah!].

6 - I'm not sure.
I found this part pretty funny:

>> These articles [about developer shortages] are greatly amusing to me, partly because I have this romantic notion of characterizing my fruitless search for a $1.50 car as a “car shortage” and being called for comment by NYT reporters.

If anything, we have a shortage of bankers and traders on Wall Street. If we just allowed more immigration, their salaries would come down to maybe only six or seven digits... ;)
I saw his cell number posted in here. There is no reason for that. I expected better out of this community.
If you're already having a great discussion, why are you getting upset about the thread's position on the front page? The discussion you want is happening.
In my opinion basic income is one of very few potentially workable fixes for the socioeconomic mess we've created, and in a few hundred years people will refuse to believe anyone ever argued against it.
> Correct me if I am wrong, but don't most systems use six?

Kepler was equipped with four -- three in use, one spare. The idea is that you need one reaction wheel per dimension.

> It is a whole lot easier to use three pairs of wheels.

All that six wheels would provide is three spare wheels, one per dimension.

> Pairs can be spun up from a dead stop and in the event of reduced power can be used to turn in either direction by braking action alone.

That's not how reaction wheels are normally used. Two counter-rotating wheels cancel each other out, producing zero net rotational force on the spacecraft.

> Or does "a reaction wheel" imply two counter-rotating flywheels by definition?

No, just one. If you have two, and if they counter-rotate, they cancel each other out.

> For an alternative, I've heard some good things about laser ablative thrusters. Still fairly young, but they are powered by electricity and have no moving parts.

Not nearly enough momentum to rotate a large spacecraft.
It's effectively the same problem as smoking cigarettes and "respecting others."

The gentlemen who live next door to me love to chain-smoke on their balcony. It annoys me but I have no legal recourse. I can only ask them nicely to please not smoke when I have washing on my balcony, or I'm sitting out there enjoying the sunshine, or I have the door open to air out my apartment.

Replace cigarettes with marijuana, heroin, alcohol, cocaine, loud music or any other substance people use for enjoyment and it's the same story. You're 100% right in saying it's a problem of people respecting others.
There's an excellent overview of Colorado's system in this Fresh Air interview: http://www.npr.org/2012/11/13/164981433/legalizing-and-regul...

Colorado has the most strictly regulated system anywhere, including the ability to trace all retail sales back to the plant they were grown on, 24 hour video surveillance of all legal growers, and background checks that should eliminate most of the criminal element in the trade (which is a huge problem in California).
Last-Modified doesn't even have to be a valid date string:

http://www.nikcub.com/posts/persistant-and-unblockable-cooki...

As an update to that post from 2011, I never did get the browsers to update their parsers.

This E-Tag bug has been known for over a decade. As part of my post I tried to find the earliest written record of it and found a post in 2003:

http://www.arctic.org/~dean/tracking-without-cookies.html

It seems to get 'rediscovered' at least a couple of times a year.
Laminated rolls of carbon fiber spinning at high RPM on magnetic bearings have been the state of the hype for terrestrial flywheel power applications for the last 13 years: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.05/flywheel.html

Magnetic bearings have been used in fans, and I'm familiar with a bearing-analogous application in Inductrack maglev trains as well.

Has this type of tech penetrated into aerospace?
I think it's pretty safe to assume Valleywag is banned; it was in the original banned site list, and I haven't seen a story from them here in ages. Good riddance.

Here's my suggestion: if you find a particularly interesting story on Valleywag, first consider that it may not be interesting. After all, it's captured the attention of Valleywag. But if you can't shake the feeling that there's something really worth talking about that simply has the misfortune of being oozed out of Valleywag's kontent cloaca, try writing a short blog post of your own, linking to the Valleywag story.

Your blog certainly won't be banned here. I know that sounds like linkjacking, but it's actually a good thing in this case. I don't pretend to understand Brannigan's Law; I only enforce it.
No, quite the opposite - she feels that the world/everyone around her said that she needs to make the most of her talents by working hard and then getting the most high-paying job. This is a fairly common feeling among "high-achievers", and sooner or later they all have an epiphany that what the world thinks is good for them is not necessarily what makes them happy. That epiphany is itself a fairly standard cultural trope which crops up (in other guises) in many a superhero movie.
Staten Island Ferry is free now. Best way to see the Statue of Liberty up closish.
One on of my issues with FB is that its not easy to report a problem or get any kind of support (although its a free service). In one day, I lost over 100 facebook friends with no explanation. Its obviously a little humiliating to have everyone think you defriended them. I hadn't seen the issue before, nor could I report it anywhere..
The solution is the same as alcohol: ban smoking in public, then ticket violators. This kind of relatively minor negative effect is a silly objection to a proposal with so many potential positives.

Also, if you've ever visited Venice Beach or San Francisco, you'll know this is not a problem that's solved by prohibition.
Why do the wheels need to be in constant motion? Is there a constant external torque acting on the spacecraft?
Lucky you. Don't have books or musical instruments? Those two are the biggest blockers for me. Furniture and kitchen stuff is easy to give away and buy again.

Edit: Things could be worse though. I play guitar, not drums. :)
Seriously get over it. You are the one that has the problem here. The wish to become a better individual and not what everyone else thinks you should be is not a crime. Your response doesn't belong on this site. Grow up.
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Insurance.

If you buy a house in a district, you may or may not buy an insurance against neighbour's misbehaviour. But the first condition of the insurance is that you respect your neighbours yourself according some existing arrangements (specified in your insurance). Now if anyone is too loud when not appropriate, or drunk as hell, or peeing on your lawn, the insurance company will:

1. Pay you a compensation.

2. Make investigation.

3. Penalize the neighbour by raising his insurance fees (or via his insurer as they'd have some mutual agreements) or demanding a compensation from him. If he does not pay, his insurance is simply cancelled without cops and jails.

4. For ugly cases when neighbour is misbehaving too much (killing pets, breaking windows etc.), insurance company may have also agreements with water supplier's, wifi supplier's etc insurance companies that supplier cuts water/wifi/etc until the guy pays a compensation. Again, without cops, laws, police.

And if the guy goes to journalists and alternative insurer to whom he'll prove he wasn't that bad, just someone is exaggerating, then that insurer will make a good PR case and steal customers from abusive insurers. Or highlight the whole neighbourhood as a weird place to be or something.

The main point is, it's all done without guns and jails. This way every party has voice and can communicate their position any time they want to anyone. And insurers would have to strike a good balance between protecting customers and pissing them off. Like any non-monopoly business is doing already anywhere in the world.

So in one district it could be 100% okay to smoke and get drunk, while in another people would prefer less loud activities. The idea of a regional law just does allow this to happen.
You write extraordinarily well for a 13 year old. Keep working on that. It's going to be way more important than you might think it will be, today.

As the parent of a 12 year old and a 14 year old, lemme ask you: what got you starting coding? What keeps you interested? My older kid hacks Minecraft a little, but I'm still having trouble coming up with interesting projects for him to work on.
My cell number is all over online. It took me all of about 5 min to find yours. Posting personal info here doesn't add to the conversation or help improve the situation. You are just inviting people to harass him.
This is one reason the wife and I will not have a child.

The cost is over a $1,000,000 (with a Dr. Evil pinky). If you look at the costs online, then you will see something between $200K to $400K depending on how good of parent are you. However, this doesn't bring in the opportunity cost of investing. If you just take the 18 year time span, then the first year is insanely expensive. Now, imagine it expanding 30, 40, 50 years out.
In colorado with Amendment 64 there is a distinction between Hemp and marijuana. So one can safetly grow hemp for use in papers or bracelets or whatever else you want. It isn't regulated like Marijuana will be.

For those who are unaware, it is possible to grow hemp that does not contain the THC that gives people a high which is found in marijuana. Though I suspect most people here already know that.
I am frustrated with HN these days too, although I can't seem to break the habit.

But for sites which rely on community moderation like this, the articles that rise to the top are by definition the right articles. We have a different set of people now, that's all. I will say that my tastes, and that of the HN community, have diverged.

Personally I'd rather avoid a judgment mindset, where we debate about whether articles 'deserve' to be on the front page or not. HN isn't some star chamber where you get to say what is and isn't worthy of appreciation by the hacker community, whatever that is.

Mostly, it's just an algorithm. And it's designed to encourage variety, not uniformity - this is why most can upvote, but only a few can downvote.

Lastly - I don't know how you can legitimately accuse her of self-absorption. This article is about a difficult personal decision, so no kidding, it's about her thoughts and feelings. This isn't the totality of everything she's ever done in her life (a life which, by her account, was more about achievement than reflection).

And even if she was a little self-absorbed (unlike everyone else in their twenties), so what? Do you want a gold star for putting her in her place? Criticism is good, but real criticism has analysis. Not just labelling.
Doesn't this argument apply just as much to smoking cigarettes? They're banned from pretty much anywhere they might disturb you, transport, restaurants, bars etc. It seems the balance is pretty good between allowing you to smoke and preventing it from disturbing people that don't want to smell it.
This looks more like a misunderstanding than somebody being purposefully ignored. Probably the language barrier played a role and the guy at facebook didn't understand what he was trying to say.
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And the gun type Little Boy bomb was never tested. They used it in the field, over Hiroshima, and it worked.
Born Rich

The film was described as "a documentary on children of the insanely rich, directed by one of their own, Johnson & Johnson Inc. heir Jamie Johnson." It consists primarily of Johnson interviewing his friends and peers about the experience of living life free of financial constraints. These interviews are offset by Johnson's exploration of his own experience and family.
By the end of the film, Luke Weil became unhappy with his portrayal and sued unsuccessfully.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/174635
It's important to point out that 92k units is the amount needed to accommodate future growth. The creation of those units is entirely dependent on local politics, which is even more polarized here than in NYC.
A spacecraft in space has three rotational degrees of freedom (translation is a different deal), therefore you only need three wheels to be able to point the spacecraft in any direction that you want. Any more than three is just a spare.
That depends on the level of poverty. There's poverty and there's poverty.

There's poverty where you grow up on one box of macaroni and cheese per day and your parents are never home but you have a roof over your head and at least free school lunches. You're not actually dying or being exploited into human impotence. You just lack avenues to grow into a full and complete person who can escape poverty.

And then there's poverty once that same child grows up and the welfare system has been dismantled and there's no more public housing, so he/she is working two or three jobs just to afford a roof over their head, real food of any kind is unheard-of, and you'd kill for a good night's sleep or just one Sabbath meal -- if you had the energy to kill.

The latter kind, you can solve just by giving people money. At the very least, it raises them up to the former kind, and from there, all you might need to really improve their life might be a decent library or a community center or a good source of stable jobs.

There's no excuse for not contributing.
I think it boils down to simple statistics. Those kids and those happy hobos may be in the minority.
That was a great video, thank you! Knowing basic gear mechanics helps a lot in understanding how cars function.

This 1937 video about differentials is also enlightening:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI

Why is it that old tutorial videos are so thorough and informative?
technologists don't rule the world; they're the primary instruments by which others rule.

Well, yes, of course. But there's no alternative.
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I am of the opinion that "dropping" is an exaggeration of what a gun type uranium bomb entails. Less "drop" and more "shoot with conventional explosives down a big pipe we picked up from Home Depot."

Simple either way should be the take away. The hard part is getting the uranium. That is really hard.
Private R&D for an ekranoplan-size aircraft might be difficult, but if it could work just as well for smaller aircraft, this might be an option to consider.

Does anyone know if the ground effect is affected by wingspan?
I remember this story being told to me by a former Hanford engineer in the 80's. Not sure if it was even public knowledge back then.
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