skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While true, the fact is that our habitats are social systems which encourage or discourage interaction, in different ways.

For example, in my years living in several cooperative houses in Austin (http://iccaustin.coop/) I noticed an interesting difference between the houses which were (subjectively) socially successful or unsuccessful: those which, by nature of their architecture, required one to pass through the common areas in order to reach one's room were much more successful than those whose common areas could be easily circumnavigated.

The theory being that random occasional traffic through a place naturally results in random encounters, and the building up of those encounters into more meaningful bonds is simply a matter of time and coincidence. For example, an existing discussion in the living room can attract passer-bys where that discussion becomes the germ of new friendships.

If one never has the occasion of coinciding with the others, even if they would get along swimmingly, they likely never would know it. Likewise, polite neighbors may find they have many more commonalities than they know, if only they had the opportunity to discover them.
Where Are We Now? Five Point Summary [of the financial situation]
I would not want my application to be able to tell if I am logged in or out at the openid provider.

I like the way things work with openid. It's simple, elegant and it works beautifully. I don't want facebook connect/ MS passport like session management. That is exactly what the draw of openid is for me.

I will not leave a comment on your site because you require me to tell facebook, an app provider I don't trust that much, to know how and what I did on your site.
It's amazing what credibility/track record can do. Even in the recession time they still can raise $50 million more than planned. I think, this is a great proof of "investors invest in people"
I have Mac OS X, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu Linux running on my unibody 13" MacBook. There are a couple of things to watch out for. You can only have three partitions, because the GPT / MBR synching only supports four and one is used as an EFI partition. Windows has to be the last partition or it won't boot. The Bootcamp software will only create split your partition into two (three, with the EFI partition) - just use disk utility or the diskutil command line tool to do the partitioning. Make a backup first.
It's a lot faster on x86. Give it a shot.
A venture capital fund claiming a 7-10 year time horizon on investments? I'm torn between "About time" and "Yeah right".
This is complete opposite of what I saw in Germany in Wolfsburg where VW plants are located. We were practically the only ones not driving VW there with exception of few Audis.

I think in car industry there are more benefits for using your own product than just being your own tester. It's also advertising (even such VW hater as me could not shake off a feeling that it has to be a good car after seeing a whole city is FULL of them) and increased product volume.
Thanks. I was considering 4 partitions. One for each OS and a small FAT partition to share among all (damn licensing on NTFS and windows incompatibility with EXT anything.
what i'do is the following: run bootcamp assistant and create an extra partition. (make it big enough for the 2 OS's).

then run the linux installer, split up the free partition, in any way you like). Install linux on it. Then run de windows installer using the leftover partition.

i also suggest to install rEfit so that you can fix your guid partition table to be able to select each OS at startup.
Interesting article. Largely bullshit, I suspect, but an interesting read nonetheless.

That being said, I found the article obnoxious. The authors are hoping that, by presenting their claims as "politically incorrect truths," anyone skeptical of their conclusions for methodological reasons (lack of evidence, begging the question, fundamental attribution error, bias blind spot, cum hoc ergo propter hoc, selection bias, etc.) will simply be dismissed as not being able to deal with their edgy, courageously neutral, politically incorrect "truths."
The half a Billion Dollar flying palace
I almost always don't read anything from TechCrunch, Coding Horror, SlideShare and anything that is hard-linked to Scribd (although I don't think that has happened since the [scribd] link started that I can remember).

On the other side, there are a few blogs that I am not subscribed to that will be almost a guaranteed click on HN if I notice it.

I picked the second option on the poll, because there is too much going on in my decision in clicking a link: what is currently happening in the news/tech world, whether I feel like reading a technical or mainstream article, etc. etc. for the domain to be the sole reason.
Wired story from May 2008:

Teen Decomposes Plastic Bag in Three Months
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/teen-decomposes/
No, it doesn't apply to digital goods in general, it only applies to digital goods which have artificial scarcity due to their method of distribution.
Wow! Fabulous link. Thank you. It just so happens that I am in Montreal at this very moment. I came here for the weekend to get away from Chicago. I am thinking seriously about moving out of the United States to either Montreal or Paris. I have decided to start taking French lessons at Alliance Francaise de Chicago (http://af-chicago.org/) this summer, and I have "acquired" MP3 albums of French lessons from the Interwebs. I will try the methods suggested in the article and in the comments here. Thanks again.
To some degree, I blame religion for this. Not the organized, dogmatic kind but the pervasive moral one, which whispers that it is not "right" to want more from life then your peers and your ancestors.

Also I think this is the same wider sentiment which applies not only to extending life span but to any kind of enhancement. At least in my culture, talking to a doctor about yourself without having any illness will get you a long stare.
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Your not the only one. Is there something wrong with the font? Because I went to the site and tried, but just won't read it past a couple of slides, its ugly as hell. My vision isn't the best in the world, but a bigger question is "How can we address this and eventually get this font ugliness to end (by and large, I expect it to always happen to a small degree).
>> " just do the math using 10 to 25 cent CPMs and you’ll quickly see why."

If you're only getting 10-25c CPM, you're pretty much at the lowest bound. To get a good CPM you have to spend time and effort on monetization, or happen to be in a good niche.
Give a try on CurdBee (http://curdbee.com) for invoicing and billing. It would fit perfectly for your startup if you are looking for a smart and low cost solution (you can start using it for Free!)
Not all parents are created equal. The problem with giving parents educational responsibility is that it may disadvantage those who are outcasts in the society. Poor parents who are uninvolved with the political process would in turn disenfranchise their children. There should be some basic level of knowledge which everyone has in academic and social topics.
Yes, but I think this is what is called quadratic convergence if the exponent is 2, as it is here. See for ex.
http://sepwww.stanford.edu/public/docs/sep97/paul1/paper_htm...
So far the best source I found for learning kanji is http://smart.fm/. Fits very well with my way of learning, and is also great for vocabulary.
I tried the same, but it was actually a pain.

I use virtualbox now, no need to reboot.
Also try sun virtualbox (free) - best VM I've tried.
Personally, I am very happy with VMWare Fusion on my Macbook Pro. I can comfortably run OS X and other platforms running simultaneously, in my case: Ubuntu, Debian and Windows XP.

4 GB of RAM isn't strictly necessary but makes things more comfortable. I fully agree with jballanc about Spaces and full screen mode - that is really nice!

Consider also that VMWare has good support for virtual networking. For instance, you can have your Debian server running in one virtual machine serving desktop clients running in their own virtual machines. Testing client/server stuff that way has saved me lots of time.
this is in the css3 spec and is already implemented by ie and webkit.

http://webkit.org/blog/124/downloadable-fonts/
http://www.css3.info/preview/web-fonts-with-font-face/
In my opinion and personal experience, I would recommend using Parallels rather than VMWare for running VMs. There is also VirtualBox if you prefer using something open-source.

Here is a link to an exhaustive benchmarking test for Parallels vs VMWare. Good luck.

http://bit.ly/4DZtVg
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For interesting reasons I shan't go into I do most of my web browsing from a laptop running Windows, "protected" by Norton's anti-virus (etc).

This URL gave me a "DON'T GO THERE" message from Norton.

So I connected to a sensible machine with PuTTY, used curl to pull the page, extracted the actual data, and got this:

Holy crap. That is about the only response I have to this Airbus A380 being
developed for Saudi prince al-Waleed bin Talal. Of course, the prince has
not officially announced that this will indeed be his new home on the road,
but enough news has been pieced together to link him to the purchase.

Not only is this the first Airbus A380 sold to a private owner, it is the
most expensive private plane ever put together. For comparison - one of the
most popular large private planes in the world is the Boeing Business Jet,
which starts at "just" $42 Million.

Seriously, someone obviously sat down with some crayons, and decided to
design the most insane, over-the-top plane they could. This thing has it
all - starting with the special cylindrical elevator that comes out of the
bottom of the plane. His Chauffeurs can then drive his Rolls Royce up the
ramp on the rear, and park it in his on-board garage.

Relaxation comes from a steam room, Turkish bath, concert hall (with a baby
grand piano) or in one of the five private quarters, complete with king size
beds. Less fortunate guests will have to spend the night in one of the 20
"normal" first class sleeper suites.

When his Royal Highness needs to get some work done, he can take the elevator
up to his boardroom and play with the touch screen TV's or the holographic
projection system.

And finally in the lineup of ludicrous additions - get this - the well being
room has a floor made from a giant screen, showing what the plane is flying
over.

Total price? About $488 Million Dollars.

Gallery: Super Airbus A380

Out of interest, the actual text is less than 1/3 the size of the page fetch.
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Golly, a transhumanist interested in social justice issues!

If you're a humanist, you ought to be a transhumanist. Eliezer argues convincingly on this point. What is so hard about noting that if you are a transhumanist, you ought to be a humanist?
Am I the only one that thinks executives should focus on making their company more efficient? Making calls from the back of a car is fine with me. Leave the test drives to people that know what to look for, media people, car enthusiasts, passionate buyers.
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Issue/Bug Tracking: Lighthouse
SVN hosting: Beanstalk
Backups: Amazon S3
Site Monitoring: Pingdom

All of which I'd recommend - Saasu especially if you're based in Australia.
I have lived for a year in Kyoto around the poverty level they were talking about (2 millions and an half yens/year) and I was definitely not hurting for money....

Now it's true that with such a salary I don't think it would be easy to follow the traditional japanese lifestyle of supporting a house-wife plus family but anyway since salaries over there are partly determined by age + the employee's family situation...
There's no limit to URL length here, and it helps to see where an URL points -- so please don't use URL shorteners.

(Here's the target link: http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.25/25.04/VMBench... )
Sometimes stuff gets buried.. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=402205
That seems a huge number to me

Well, this is common in economies where the fallout from the end of "job for life" is being artificially contained, either by rigid tradition or by government legislation. In France, for example, once you have a permanent job, you're set for life, but the flipside is these jobs are hard to come by (it's a big risk for a company to hire someone it can never fire) so people who haven't got one and do want to work (rather than live on the dole) have no choice but temping and short-term contracts.

In the UK and US economies, it's easier to get fired, but it's also easier to get hired, so this phenomenon is less pronounced. People temp and contract here as a lifestyle choice, not because that's all on offer.
Web Design Trend Hunting - The Messy Desk: Examples & Best Practices
and on Windows.
My apologies, it was my first comment here at HN and I was not sure if posting long-urls was appropriate. I will remember next time, thanks.
The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed Is Good (To a point)
My observation is that richer kids do find jobs more easily because they and their parents usually have plenty of connections. They usually do this so they would have more money to party :-).

Also regulation in many places in Europe effectively limits teenage employment - until I turned 18 I had to either get something like 9 documents or work for money paid under the table for someone I knew before.

Please remember that Europe is far from homogeneous, so observations may vary wildly. :-)
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the well being room has a floor made from a giant screen

If the Russians built that plane, they'd just have a reinforced glass deck...
Despite its name, VirtualPC on the PPC chip was actually an emulator, not virtualization. I've tried and had success with all of the following on Intel Macs:

QEMU - http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/

VirtualBox - http://www.virtualbox.org/

Parallels - http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/

VMWare Fusion - https://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/

Windows support ranges from good (QEMU, VirtualBox) to great (VMWare Fusion, Parallels). My personal pick is VMWare because of its excellent support for non-Windows OSes. I've managed to get Ubuntu, FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, Haiku, and Plan9 working with it. Under Windows, I've been able to use a USB MobileConnect dongle and VPN, and if you happen to be running OS X Server you can even virtualize other OS X Server instances (Edit: I should mention that Parallels also has support for this).
It's 5:30am on the East Coast and I've just been up all night, watching with rapt attention Twitter feeds since 11pm. The media's been inexplicably out of it (see #CNNfail, but CNN isn't the only one), but Twitter's been amazing to watch. There's been a revolution -- who knows if it'll go anywhere, much less be successful -- organizing in front of me. Users in Tehran debating whether meetups are traps (the 12:30pm "Mousavi gathering" ended up being surrounded by special police, with Mousavi nowhere in sight), and coordinating news and rallies. Local students have been sharing paths around tear gas in and out of dorms; what doors to avoid due to waiting unmarked vans on the other side. How to avoid secret police going door-to-door collecting satellite dishes and modems; cell phone service status throughout the city. It's amazing.

Edit: There's one picture that sums it up: http://twitpic.com/7c85l At least she's facing people, not tanks. Hopefully she's still around...
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What Gordon Gekko actually said:

The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.
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Ask HN: Is there a SICP of biology?
More specifically: Is there a book on biology that requires little or no prior knowledge, emphasizes principles at the expense of real-world practicality, and requires considerable intellectual effort in exchange for a genuine, satisfying foray into the field?
They are making a sequel.
The bug in the money-system's kernel.
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ocd goes far beyond compulsive checking or cleaning, it includes thoughts of self harm, violence, insanity... basicually any thoughts that one becomes obsessed with and then engages in a series of activities to attempt to alleviate the discomfort associated with the thoughts, (these actions are the compulsive acts).

It can't be cured either but the sufferer can engage in excercises such as Cognitive Behavourial Therapy - these may reproduce well on a pda device or iphone. Taking a photo of oneself would seem to be a new compulsive act, everything I have read suggests not engaging the thought.
What are the three big national dailies?
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/06/laura...

http://garysick.tumblr.com/post/123070238/irans-political-co...

http://hashtags.org/tag/iranelection/messages

Please don't turn this into a meta discussion about whether or not this is hacker news.
A good piece. I have a serious question for people smarter than me about the following:

--

"Then there was the 1997 East Asian crisis, during the depths of which Paul Krugman wrote in a Fortune cover essay, "Never in the course of economic events—not even in the early years of the Depression—has so large a part of the world economy experienced so devastating a fall from grace." He went on to argue that if Asian countries did not adopt his radical strategy—currency controls—"we could be looking at the kind of slump that 60 years ago devastated societies, destabilized governments, and eventually led to war." Only one Asian country instituted currency controls, and partial ones at that. All rebounded within two years."

--

How'd Krugman ever get accepted as an economist? He seems to be a massive doomcrier who is consistently wrong, and uses a lot of anecdotes and very few hard numbers. Which works great for Gladwell, but not so good for economics (heck, I dropped economics as my major because I didn't want to deal with econometrics - but I still have a healthy respect for it).

There's some tremendously intelligent economists that I disagree with their overall message, but very much respect their contributions. If you take the time to read and decipher Marx, Gramasci, and Keynes, they said some really brilliant things. Very, very smart people.

But Krugman? The guy seems totally bankrupt. And I've tried to read his stuff, and I keep seeing anecdotes, doomcrying, and him just being provably wrong often without being verifiably correct ever. Can someone point me to some smart reading material of his, not babysitter scrip anecdote nonsense? I'd like to learn from the guy if he has made some good contributions, or get to the bottom of why he gets respect if not. Always been curious about this one.
They're both bad choices for reading online.
When I started out in a systems biology lab with a physics and CS background but no biology, they gave me this book:

Molecular Biology of the Cell
http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Cell-Alberts-Al/dp/0...

The description of the DNA --> RNA --> protein pipeline was really satisfying to someone with my background, full of codes, error-correction algorithms, and rate-limiting steps. I think of it as the Numerical Recipes of biology.
there is a selection effect going on in the higher levels of economic analysis whereby those who tell politicians the narratives they need to justify power grabbing are the ones promoted into the public sphere. most economists will decry such shameless behavior (but who is to say how much of this is jealousy). the other economists you mention are guilty of the same thing. Keynes in particular just bases entire chapters of his General Theory on trivially fallacious theses. Marx isn't even wrong, he's just exploring a world that isn't related to reality (there is no working model of the labor theory of value that makes predictions).
In Scandinavia, the typical length of a VC fund is actually 10 years with a standard option to extend for 2 years. First half (5 years) for new investments, second half for followups and then 2 years for padding (option to be exercised at the management company's discretion, not the LPs). I would assume a similar setup is common overseas.

So if you're part of an investment out of a young fund then you typically have at least a 7 years time horizon. Obviously things have to go well in the meantime or they won't sustain you for that long. But the difference between a Marc Andreesen VC and any other VC is def not the length of the fund.
Global warming the threat
Global Warming is actually a big difficulty we have to deal with nowadays, because it has the probable to change our lives forever
I agree re:scribd.

For Windows users, it's trading one bloated reader for another.
For OS X and Linux users, it's trading a reasonable decent reader (Preview.app and Evince/etc. respectively) for a bloated reader...

If scribd had a download link, though, I might not mind it as much... Bonus points if they registered a cookie on my machine that, when seen, automatically sent me the downloaded file for the link I clicked on.

I do read TechCrunch though.
> there is a selection effect going on in the higher levels of economic analysis whereby those who tell politicians the narratives they need to justify power grabbing are the ones promoted into the public sphere.

That makes sense, good point nazgulnarsil. Thanks.

> Keynes in particular just bases entire chapters of his General Theory on trivially fallacious theses. Marx isn't even wrong, he's just exploring a world that isn't related to reality

Definitely true - but both of them made observations that were true and correct, which lends a bit of credibility to their work. Keynes for instance, "workers resist a reduction in monetary wages, [but] it is not their practice to withdraw their labor whenever there is a rise in the price of wage goods" (General Theory, p9). Which is true and correct - laborers don't notice gradual inflation, so governments can use it to lower wages and increase tax revenues under a progressive tax system (wages gradually rise, tax brackets remain fixed, therefore a greater percentage of GDP goes to tax revenues without an official tax increase).

These aren't good reasons to do what he advocates, but Keynes at least has some correct observations. Really insightful ones actually, if you listen to people who violently disagree with Keynesian economics, many of them have the utmost respect for him. (Friedman is the first one to come to mind, who always spoke well of Keynes).

But bringing it back around - Krugman... I haven't seen anything intelligent from him, ever. Not a single observation of the way the world works or implication that seems correct. He seems like a two-bit fearmonger, and he doesn't back off when he's proven wrong. I'd like to be wrong though, if there's any admirers of him that have links to good work by him. It doesn't have to be popular economics either - a link to a good academic paper would work too, if there is one. I really cling to a hope that it's not possible for an economist to get mainstream recognition just by partisan sucking up - I really hope so, as economics has such huge implications for society.