skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Francis arrived in "America" in 1639, with his son, Caleb.

Francis
Caleb
Abraham
Nathan
Daniel
Isaac
Isaac Jr.
Hanford
George Hanford
Basil
George
me

Which makes me 10 generations removed on my father's side. 44 points plus the bonus.

My mother's side is murkier, but extends back to the mid-1700s, perhaps 7 generations removed. Again 44 points.
Happiness doesn't correlate with material wealth.

We often forget how much we have, how safe our lives are and how little we have to fear. When you hear stories like these, and there are many if you ask old folks that have been through wars famines and worse, you realise that happiness and living a full life is a mental exercise that is not dependant upon material wealth. That's why I wrote the post - I think it's worth saying.

My grandmother was as happy an caring as one could possibly be, and it seems that your experience is the same. And they went through stuff we couldn't even dream of.
I took a 6 week vacation through Col. and Utah, and would love to live in Col. I didn't know Boulder was so tech friendly (I knew it had some good culture). I'm gonna have to look into that.
You're cherry-picking one example. The fact remains that the vast majority of Hispanics do not even complete college, even after the third or fourth generation as Americans. You have to put aside your personal prejudice and look at the bigger picture.
What are you going to do with 50 copies of the 3rd edition when the 4th edition comes out?
previously know as reasonably smart platform.

imho, they need to showcase a "wow" demo app, in the same way django featured ljworld or rails had the web app done in 5 minutes
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Doctor Replica is an ambitious new watch vendor from a team with years of experience in the replica business.Over the years we’ve been involved in various replica watch partnerships and eventually came to find ourselves frustrated with the quality of watches available. As we learned more about the manufacturers and the quality they were capable of, it became more and more frustrating, both as vendors and customers, that virtually no online business was taking advantage of the possibilities.No vendor was selling replica watches that represented the very best quality available.
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/11/03/the-pursuit-of-h...

The pursuit of happiness (Mark Pilgrim)

1. Stop buying stuff you don’t need

2. Pay off all your credit cards

3. Get rid of all the stuff that doesn’t fit in your house/apartment (storage lockers, etc.)

4. Get rid of all the stuff that doesn’t fit on the first floor of your house (attic, garage, etc.)

5. Get rid of all the stuff that doesn’t fit in one room of your house

6. Get rid of all the stuff that doesn’t fit in a suitcase

7. Get rid of all the stuff that doesn’t fit in a backpack

8. Get rid of the backpack
Street Farmer
Links to rectal prolapse, not carpal tunnel.
Neuromancer turns 25: What it got right, what it got wrong
Standard counter-argument: someone's still got to take away the trash.
How to Motivate Employees
You may think that's a long list...but it isn't. If you had all the free time in the world, you'd get bored of it within a few years. Most of the things you mention, are things you do in the background as you live your life. You might as well say "Go to the grocery store", yeah its an activity, but that's not really the point.

The thing I see from your post is that you like to explore...which can be summed up as one thing. You might enjoy doing this for 1-2 hours in your spare time, but you'll get tired of it, if you had nothing but the free time. It's like eating ice cream, if you eat nothing but ice cream, you'd grow to hate it eventually.
Why is being able to go wherever you desire so important to you? And how exactly do you plan to reconcile fundamentally different belief systems (such as, say, modern liberalism and fundamentalist Islam)? By imposing some global beauracratic tyranny, I presume?
impressive user iteraction, and fake queries seem to return good results. i'll use the engine throughout the day and see if the results are good 'nuff.
or use twyt
I'm somewhat amused by all this discussion about brain-enhancing chemicals. It's different, yet it is strangely the same.

As a vitamin junkie, I truly believe that certain "hacks" allow me to do better on interviews: caffeine, ginko, SAMe, glutamine, etc. Maybe by a few percentage points. Nothing to write home about, but worth the investment for the job interview.

But these kids aren't going for job interviews. And they're not talking about run-of-the-mill OTC brain hacking. They're talking about using high-performance brain-targeted stimulants as part of a maximization strategy for some test in school. As if anybody gives a rat's ass about what you made on calculus finals six months from now.

Let's see: brain damage versus 10 points less on a test you're never going to talk about (unless you fail). I think this risk analysis is a no-brainer here, to use a pun.

I'm concerned that what's really going on is that some people are just wired to go screw around with their bodies using chemicals. This whole take-to-maximize-study rationale is just another in a long line of rationales going back many decades. There was drug use to combat the drudgery of life. Drug use to protest the system. Drug use to find inner peace. Drug use for religious exploration. Drug use for sports enhancement. Drug use to prolong life. Now we have drug use for educational enhancement.

I'm not saying this is wrong -- whatever that means. Perhaps there is an evolutionary competitive advantage to hacking your brain with chemicals and, if so, we're seeing a new branch of the human family tree. Or perhaps we're still four hundred years away from true brain hacking and this is just another in a long line of reasons to screw around with reality.

Timothy Leary may be dead, but he's far from gone.
I have had success with my clients using BootCamp, Parallels, and a VMware flavor I can't currently remember the name of. Apple does a fairly decent job of creating a "drivers CD" for Windows to use the MB's hardware.
If you're ever worried, do what I did: Make it a goal to take a picture every day of something you did. Could be as small as yardwork. Just try to make the picture interesting, even if you're not doing anything interesting. If you can't get an interesting picture doing what you're doing, try and carve out 30 minutes to do something fancy.

Lots of it is also a matter of difference of opinion. I used to read some developers' personal blogs and every time they posted a photo, I'd feel some weird envy, even when it was stupid photos. "Oh, man, he and a friend went to buy some milk! I hate that I'm inside living a boring life!" The difference between "Damn it, got to buy some groceries..." and "Voyage to the grocery store!" is more one of perspective than it's one of doing exotic things.
"I must have known you were speaking about the home market because I had just read the linked article."

Yeah it made more sense in that context and it was also what I was thinking about. I admit I didn't think about workplace use. Not sure if most companies choose Windows because that is what most employees are familiar with.
The shortest path would be my maternal grandmother, who came to the United States from Australia after WWII. The longest path (on my maternal grandfather's side) goes back to before the Revolution.
So far I still find grocery stores incredibly exciting. I find it slightly bewildering that people get bored of a store with hundreds of thousands of products.

You may think that's a long list...but it isn't.

Remember when I said hundreds of thousands of things? That still stands. I'm not going to spend the rest of my life cycling through what I just posted; that's just a sampling of the last month of my life. There are hundreds of thousands of things, but it's ridiculous of you to think I'll write all hundreds thousand down in front of you. Sorry. Not a priority.

Or, put another way: So far in my life I've never gotten bored, my parents have never gotten bored, and my grandparents are still traveling the world every week and getting excited, so I'm not worrying too much.
1. New editions are not churned out every six months.
2. In most cases you can get away with not having the latest edition for a class . Schools don't change the syllabus just because a new edition of a text book has just rolled out.
If you're smart you can break even, if not profit by buying textbooks used online, and then selling them again. I made a $300 profit last year on textbooks.

I bought them cheap online, and then sold them to other students less than the price of the campus bookstore, online again, or if the price was right, back to the campus bookstore.
Don't apologize for harshness: Your view's completely valid. I prefer a system that's that locked in, because it means I can figure out the computer's philosophy once and then everything gets easier. (The Mac's incredible dragging and spring-loading systems are the best instance of lack of choice making things supereasy.) But that's a personal choice, and one that definitely turns some people away.
I didn't know OmniTI had an office up here. I definitely have noticed diminishing returns from all the PHP reading; I still find it satisfying, but I'm not sure how long that'll last. Thanks for the 'Extending and Embedding PHP' recommendation. Any other recommendations (especially non-PHP ones) are welcome. 'me' at the first domain in my profile.
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In Germany there used to be multiple copies of textbooks available at the university library. At least at the university I studied at. Since then the universities might have changed a lot, as they started adapting anglo-american structures (BA and MA studies).

I studied in London for a while and overall I enjoyed university life there more. But the libraries were really bad compared to the German ones. In Germany they would also frequently respond to my wishes and buy specific books, and they would order books from other libraries for free. And they did so even when I wasn't a student anymore.
You have to write software to do anything, anywhere. Strictly speaking, with Linux you need to write software just to have a GUI. All of the "trivial things" you can do with your computer are things people wrote software to allow you to do.

OS X is completely Unix-based. All the things you can tweak are things I can tweak, too. I can also treat OS X like Linux if I want to: Getting Gnome or KDE to run on a Mac is really easy. I tried it out by downloading Amarok, which was a huge mistake because the lack of polish in KDE shines through when it's next to Mac stuff.

(I can make an argument about why closed source is a bad thing, but it would be rather lengthy. I'm assuming you'd rather me not derail this thread by providing it?)
I used to have my freshmen composition classes read Bob Black. Was always interesting, but often hard for some students to see the difference between work, the stuff that gets done, and work, the social construct. I think it's good for everyone to think about the ways in which the latter is alienating (in the Marxist sense) and exploitive, even (maybe esp.) if you're not an anarchist.
"There is nothing Gus does that any of us couldn’t do as well — nothing."

Making good jerky is a skill honed with years of practice. I think Gus deserves more credit than this.
Based on my experience in school you're right about the first point (though they are still churned out very frequently) but incorrect about the second point (at least at the school I go to- I suspect it varies from school to school). Professors frequently require the latest edition of a book. Sometimes you can use the old book, but oftentimes it makes it very difficult to do the homework as the chapter/problem numbers get scrambled around in every edition and new problems can be added in the new editions.
And the Fourier-ist counter-counter-argument is everyone takes away the trash sometimes.
prob'ly VMware fusion 2.05 (I don't have my mac with me). Works pretty well as long as you start with 4G physical RAM on the host. Putting Ubuntu desktop or XP in a VM with 1G RAM is pretty slugg-o. The only thing is that right-click with the Apple hockey pucks is hit or miss (mine are a couple years old, I think, maybe they're betternow)
RIP CompuServe, at Least Sort of
And would also get rid of most of the traffic caused by people circling around looking for parking.
Well what I was looking for was for you to say something like: jump out of an airplane, go scuba diving, drive an F1 car. You know a list of different things. You pretty much just said "Go exploring" a dozen times.
Even if you read the license the first time (and I don't), how many more times are you going to read it? So Apple can put in the license whatver they want?

It really isn't about that. I just don't want to tie myself to proprietary software. And something like apt is fundamentally impossible with proprietary software, unless you go the App store route (let Apple control everything).

Both of these are issues of trust. I don't think Apple will fuck me over with their iTunes user agreement. I do think the proprietary developers I purchase from won't stop making their stuff better any time soon. So far, I've never once felt that trust broken. I don't think it ever will break, because for Apple or especially a third-party developer to try and fuck its users over would be suicide. A two-man team can't afford to use their applications capriciously if their lifestyle is funded by app development.

Basically, the second half of your post is just nonsense ("Apple never fucks up etc."), but as I said, the first part was OK.

This is an argument that happens here once a week, and not just with my involvement, so I'll give my typical answer: Some people are the type that notices Apple's design expertise, and they're people who don't need explanations; other people don't care enough about design to ever notice, and that's completely fine too. Fact is, I think that my Macbook Pro with OS X is the best thing I've ever used in my life, and I love everything about it ferociously, but the things that make me fall in love likely aren't things that would interest you at all. Similarly, I don't feel your love for free software whatsoever. It's a difference of mindset that's completely cool.
Okay then, mainly dancing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2tZcGL55to&feature=relat...

The piece at 6:50 is especially awesome.
The main reason I posted the original link was due to the MJ tribute half-way through.

I hasten to point out that he's a breaker that does acrobatics to the music. Acrobatics can be musical and the very best on the scene time their power and flips to work with the music and it is teh AWESOMES.
Jeff Atwood is wrong about performance
The system that exists amounts to rent anyhow. One use and then it's landfill. The problem isn't renting, it's the price.
Yes. But NetHack runs pretty well under DOS, too.
13. My 10(great) grandfather was John Alden and came over on the Mayflower.
I think I did the math right...
Russian spacecraft landed on moon hours before Americans
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Now imagine trash bins that trundle themselves, Roomba style, to the loading lift of a DARPA-challenge AI-drone garbage truck.

The problem nowadays is not really eliminating dull work. We're pretty close to the tech level even where we haven't already reached it. The problem is figuring out an economic system that still feeds, houses and entertains people despite near 100% structural unemployment.
I'd love to see a study that examined six month+ retention on amphetamines. Part of the reason I'd love to see that study is that it would have to examine six month+ retention in a control group, too. I suspect we'd all be pretty disappointed by the results. We all "ha ha" about people cramming for the test and then immediately forgetting it all, but I think that we all know that that is actually the normal thing for most people. Putting numbers to that would probably be pretty sobering.

(We've talked a lot on HN about whether it's worth it to go to college. That wouldn't be a half-bad metric to use as part of that decision; do you actually recall stuff from more than three months ago in school? If not, don't spend money on college. Obviously, this is not necessary to live a good life because most people seem to manage without it.)
Why wouldn't there be a reason to invest under a gold system? Why not the standard reason: a bigger return on investment?

There would be a reason, though less compelling and with higher risk.

The difference of growing wealth really comes down to who is paying interest and who is collecting. Investing gets you some of that interest income to offset inflation.

If there was no throttler such as a fiat currency then everyone would have gold holdings. This means that just holding onto your money is more lucrative than investing in many types of investments.

In fact some people put money in gold for that very reason today. So just keeping your money in gold would be an investment rather than taking risk to invest, especially in a time of recession or depression.

So sure you might have a bigger return on investment on some things but you are not separating or stretching your gold any more than other people can.

Fiat currencies and inflation as well as interest fuel and force investment. I think that can be good, it sure leads to more economics and money movement.

People can still put their money in gold, savings, or other currencies but this is sort of a negative motivator when things like savings accounts or money markets pay less than inflation. It forces you to invest in companies, try businesses etc.
He has resigned now.
What trash?

If everybody just ceased work at once (no cheating, breathing is also work!) then all our problems would be solved within minutes. No more trash either.

I propose the author goes first. We sheeple need a proof of concept.
Another good reason you should get rid of things you don't use: They're flammable.
I don't get any sense of feeling uncomfortable. But then, I was watching Commodore 64 demos for most of my early teens.
Try this.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090601/under-armours-kevin-pla...
To be completely honest, Server Side JS or ServerJS has been growing a huge following of interested parties doing some amazing things with JavaScript (Narwhal http://narwhaljs.org/ , ServerJS https://wiki.mozilla.org/ServerJS , NodeJS http://tinyclouds.org/node/ ). The sheer fact that you openly admit that you haven't even tried the product screams "troll" and the whole "extremely slow" without any base or founding is completely ridiculous. Maybe you should take a look at the product and movement before flaming it.
2 generations in my home country... but now I am an immigrant myself.
+1 on using virtual desktops to position things in 'space'. That is how i work and it is mighty helpful, especially when you have many different simultaneous servers/environments open. also, for what it is worth, i love being able to run the same os and basic configuration on my laptop as on my servers.
Market for a diffbook?
Details on the wireless thing? I assure you, do you not "need" an X client running on the box to make any piece of hardware work. The fact that someone wrote a GUI helper for the task (what task, btw?) hardly sounds like a disadvantage to me.

People here can help you, if you let them. Posting incomplete problem reports like this as evidence for a platform troll is kinda bad form.
Exactly. Born and raised in Texas (still here), I've tasted PLENTY of bad jerky in my time, and we're a state that loves meat.
No, new editions are churned out every 12 months or so; of course it depends on the course. I remember my strategic management book was in its 14th edition, and its first editions was only in the 90s.

And the section numbers, case studies and questions get shuffled around too, so the previous edition is not sufficient.

The market is inefficient because the folks who choose which books to buy - the people who set the course - are not the people who have to pony up the costs. So it's in the interest of the publishers to maximize their gouging of students, and then spending a good fraction of the surplus on "incentives" for course setters to keep them on board and recommending the latest edition. The publisher who gouges the most has the most money to spend capturing these interests, creating a feedback loop, so for any given course vertical, there's a tendency to a monopoly.
Gravity does not make flying require a lot of energy per se. The primary problem is one of impulse not energy. (Force over time is impulse. Force integrated over a distance is energy. If you keep your height, in theory no energy is required.)
I call my solution to this the "Panera model" everyone clears their own tables instead of requiring bus boys. Same thing would happen for other non satisfying jobs.
While I never had to resort to such a bugfix for Firefox, I'd like to point out that with windows/IE you would not even have the option for such a bugfix.
Private pilot and car nut here. I am having a hard time coming up with a scenario where I'd want a flying car (or roadable aircraft).

I hate to be a Debby Downer, but:

Every pound matters in a light airplane. Why would I want to saddle the flying portion of my trip with all the weight from the safety features designed to protect me on the road or meet federal crash standards, etc? All that weight means more drag, which means lower performance (of at least one of the speed, climb, range, runway required, and/or fuel efficiency variety)

Every pound also matters differently when dealing with the road portion of that vehicle's life. How much mass and engineered passive safety features do I need to protect me from yuppies holding a phone in one hand, a latte in the other and driving with their knees? What happens when a minor fender-bender 600 miles from home means I can't fly home?

My plane (a light, slow single engine Cessna 182) can already beat the airline's time door-to-door from my house in Cambridge to most destinations east of the Mississippi and north of Myrtle Beach. (It can't touch them on cost on most routes, but neither will the Transition...)

Is a roadable car going to shave any time off that? To do so, it would have to be faster in flight, take less time to unfold the wings than it does to pack my airplane, or take less time to secure the wings than it does to hop in a rental car which usually meets me right on the ramp.

Need fuel? Call the airport and it'll be fueled and ready for you. Need minor maintenance or even the annual inspection? Pick up the phone, tell them what you need and when you need it. No need to arrange a ride to the airport to drop off and then another to pick-up your roadable aircraft.

Then there's the matter of cost: My airplane cost me well under $70K. All my cars together over a lifetime, including 2 classic Mustangs, haven't cost more than $60K total. Add in a $40K hangar at the airport and my total cost for 5 cars, an airplane, and a hangar is still under what the Transition costs. (Yes, there's new vs used pricing mixed in there. That's an accurate reflection of what the Transition is up against though: the capabilities and market for used and new aircraft and cars.)

I just can't see it happening as a significant economic win. I'm sure the Terrafugia guys can make it happen technically, just as Eclipse did with their "million dollar" jet.
That's actually a pretty good idea. The difference between the newest edition and second newest edition of a book can be up to $100 sometimes. For example the my intro circuits book cost me $100 used (http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Circuits-8th-James-Nilsson/dp...) for the newest edition when I could have gotten the second newest one for $5 (http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Circuits-7th-James-Nilsson/dp...)