skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got hold of the article rather accidentally and was attracted by it. Somehow, it was then put aside due to some preoccupation but it keeps returning and flashing to me like owl’s-carrying-letters sent in to Harry Potter, demanding my involvement to perhaps save the world. Yes, the world is in big trouble and economists can’t help due to perhaps lack of genes and consequentially severe loss of sights.

“What went wrong with economics” is: Economics lacks at least one fundamental foundation. Installing this fundamental will elevate Economics to another platform.

What is this fundamental? It is something that sciences cling on tightly, but economics does not. So, economics has departed from this fundamental, perhaps unconsciously.

What is it then? It is the Fundamental Axiom or Law of Causality, simply means: Cause gives rise to Effect, In = Out, Debit = Credit, a Source for every Outcome, etc which are common senses or self-evident truths.

Tell us in what way the Economics runs away from this fundamental? If you ask: You win, I win, everyone wins, who then is the loser or provider of wealth? Most of economists will tell you that there is no loser. The Economics textbooks also say so. But it cannot be no loser, as it violates the fundamental Law of Causality. So, we must insist for the presence of loser, as dictated by the Fundamental Law of Causality.

On this insistence, one great researcher by the name of HNM had successfully uncovered the identity of the loser and the mask of wealth after an effort of several decades. Needless to say, he has restored the Fundamental Law of Causality back to the economics and make it a strong and real science. Using his new theory, all events in the past or present could be explained with ease, and that it could predict and even provide future policies and directions for our world.

If you are really interested to find out more, please write to me via my email: chinfuilan@yahoo.com
http://github.com/adlaiff6/lindop clone in python / works in ubuntu on my thinkpad / forks adding more platforms welcome
> C does _not_ suck at networking, concurrency, security, or readability

Yes, it does. You will not find buffer overflows in JavaScript. You will not find threads in haskell. You will not see polling loops or select with switch dispatched networking code in Seaside. Your program will be easier to read in python or JavaScript (depending on your block syntax preference).

You say that C doesn't suck at these things, but it is more realistic to say that it is possible for these things to be done correctly in C. It is more likely that they will be done incorrectly in C than in other languages. Maybe the result will be slower, maybe it won't run on your watch, but correctness is more important than speed. Speed (of instruction) is easy to fix - just wait a year. Better to get your program correct and your algorithms efficient than to waste your time on speed.

> The core C API can be kept in its entirety in a programmer's mind

I'm not sure what that means, and I'm fairly certain that you aren't taking into account the complexities of modern compiler runtimes and CPU instruction reordering. If you think that the assembly output and runtime characteristics of C programs are simple, you haven't looked recently. More practically, I can keep as much of the python "API" in my mind as I generally use. Do you include common libraries in your definition of "API"?

> Given that embedded systems make up something like 98%

Well thats a useless statistic (and I hear that 90% of statistics are made up on the spot). Are you suggesting that 98% of programming jobs are for embedded systems?

> Every year that goes by, C becomes more useful.

That must be why the number of C books decreases every year, and why new app platforms use python and Java. C is a really easy language to port to new hardware. It runs in very constrained environments, like tiny embedded systems. It is a generally useful language to know as a computer science major. It is a common language because worse is better, but when it comes to laying the groundwork for your programming career, better is actually better. Practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

> If you teach people to be comfortable dealing with C, they'll feel like Python is pie

No they won't, they'll think that Python is C with garbage collection and no curly braces. People who learn C first write programs that look like C no matter what language they're using.

I'm not purposely trolling here, it is my opinion that C is a poor language to teach students. If you find Lisp and Smalltalk to be too removed from industry, lets use python.
This is a great quote to send on to a Java refugee hiding out programming Ruby.

They think they've found something that's "Java done right" when they've entered the LISP-zone.
I don't think having children really fits well with the feminist paradigm. While tricky, it's certainly possible to change the world and raise children at the same time, I just get the sense that a personification of the women's movement might say something like "Well you certainly can do that, and more power to you if you can!". It seems like child-rearing is relegated to a hobby that distracts from the real work, like gardening or going to the symphony. I don't think there are many people actively hostile toward mothering, but it just doesn't seem all that valued in society.

For example, suppose an individual took child development and nutrition classes because it would help make them a better parent. Would that garner the same lever of respect as, say, studying for the bar or going to french club.

If parenting isn't valued, but a lot of it still has to go on, the result isn't a happy contented society.
Amazing list you've got so far. If you're taking input, I'd be very interested in seeing Eric Ries there as well.
How do I go about compiling stuff like this? I'm an application newbie: Anything that doesn't launch on doubleclick confuses me. This is the first thing I've seen that seems worth learning the process for.
This is extreme echo-chamber bias. Facebook has gone mainstream and their changes so far have only increased engagement and traffic.

The fact that some early adopters and their little cliques are jumping around from service to service every 6 months in search of the new hotness does not say a whole lot about the future of any of these services.

In my opinion it's going to be hard for any startup to cross the chasm and displace Facebook in the next 10 years. I know that's a bold statement, but look at the people who are using it now. You're not going to suck average people in with some incrementally better service with no critical mass.

Why has Twitter's growth suddenly dropped off compared to Facebook's? Because regular people joined, followed celebrities, found out they had nothing interesting to say, asked "that's it?" and left. Facebook provides value to almost any real person right now. While a federated stream is nice in theory, it doesn't really mean anything to anyone except extroverted geeks and San Francisco hipsters.
Big Brother 11 Chima Quits
Obama's plan is an option right? So as far as the options go, you have the insurance companies and you have the government option. In both cases you'll probably have bureaucrats deciding who gets what. The difference is that the government option will be subsidized by taxes right? Staying even will be less of a concern. So the argument is that as our nation advances further more of our basic needs should be met so that we can free up more time to achieve higher needs like self-actualization. Obama's plan is basically taking us into the next step and making basic health needs less of a concern.

I guess the determinant of whether or not we're actually ready to move into the next stage is whether or not technology has advanced enough to make health care cheap enough to be supported through the government. Of course on the other hand if we don't make this push we may not even have the incentive to make healthcare cheaper. So in other words, we have to create some irritation to make health care less scarce, just as we have to irritate a wound to have it heal faster. Obama's plan may be that irritation. If the plan strains the national budget then we will be more inclined to figure out how to make health care cheaper, and as a result a nonissue. I mean most other first world nations have nationalized health care so it's about time to make that push right? So that basically explains why we should move towards that direction.

So as my response relates to scarcity, the plan allocates resources better by taxing the wealthier americans more. But we can't hope to support this plan by constantly creating better allocations. Obama's plan is assuming that we're at a point where medical care is cheap enough to be supported by allocating a little more from the wealthy.

An insurance company will allocate health care based on profit, the government will (hopefully) allocate it based on need, and that's where we're aiming to go to make it a nonissue for Americans (and everyone in the world ideally).
I'll chip in with the "2 worst things I hate about HN", since I enjoy being contrary.

1) The groupthink that arises in certain political/scientific/social debates. I find that the nontech debates here are more uniform and less varied than they are on sites with similar quality.

2) While the site's filtration is good, the fact that its only two lenses are "news" and "jobs" makes the community less flexible and, frequently, less engaging.

It's still easily a top three social news site, though, so I'll resume my lurking and quit being a pest.
What an insanely long, winding article. Get to the point already!
I know it's been mentioned before, but the leechblock extension for firefox is pretty good for that kind of thing:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476

It lets you specify rules for different groups of sites. I have HN in a group of sites which I can view for 15 minutes every 2 hours. You can add time windows to that, so you can set up things like "15 minutes every 2 hours between 9-5" or "blocked between 9-5, otherwise 15 minutes every 2 hours".

If you're like me notice that every now and then you change your settings to give yourself "just another 5 minutes", there's also the option to have leechblock make you type a 64 character randomly generated string before you can use the settings. That's enough to remind me that I was meant to be doing other things.

The downside is that every now and then it'll kick in while I'm typing something on a webpage and the comment will be lost (like with v1 of this comment for instance). If there's a way to stop that from happening then it's pretty much ideal for what I want.
machine learning repository here:
http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/
Starbucks typically has for-pay wifi. Independent coffee shops offer free wi-fi, at least the ones I've been to do.

The result is always the same: the place is MOBBED with people who park there with their third-quarter projection analysis spreadsheets while customers looking to sit down and eat must get it "to go".

I like coffee shops. Sometimes I like to sit and park and hack. But I can understand the reasons why they implement policies like this. Starbucks just found another solution to the problem, which seems superficially to make them look less like jerks: charge for wi-fi.
Upvoted for the title. The article not so much.
Umm, because that valid URL uses "mailto" protocol, which doesn't support "GET" requests as you described?
No.

He is a gossip columnist. Always has been, ever suince PC Mag in the 80s.

I like his personality though. He put a funny face on what was considered a boring and drab industry back when beige boxes prevailed.
I think it is a one time balloon fee, sometimes hundreds.
So much naval-gazing. Feminism is on Darwin's chopping block. Simple as that. Unfortunately, the cleaver is mighty slow.
For me it's:

1. I don't have to be in a vacuum anymore. If I read something on the internet and form an opinion about it, I can post it here and see what others think. I can also comment on any discussion, and soon enough I'll probably get feedback. I simply don't have that many people in my life with whom I can have this interaction about things I care about.

2. I don't have to be alone. I usually work from home alone for long hours. Some days, being one alt-click away from like minded people keeps me going.
Feminism: a paradigm that advocates equal rights for men and women.

How exactly does having children contradict the above? Which rights should I have lost last month when I gave birth to my baby?
I met my wife in linear algebra.
For me, it's definitely rms.
In furtherance of your point, a friend of mine worked for as a civil engineer involved with traffic planning in a medium city. A relevant tidbit (which I only assume to be true as, while it is perfectly logical, is not something I've ever heard taught, so take with salt) is that the solid white lines approaching an intersection are measured, and designed to act as guide markers for yellow lights, at least as originally timed.

The way it's supposed to work, is that if you're doing the spped limit and the light turns yellow, you should not stop if you are within the solid white lines, but should stop if you are outside of them.

Again, I don't know if this is 100% true, or if it is, whether it applies to all metro areas or just in Memphis, TN.
I click off CNBC when they "interview" corporate executives, who then proceed to flak their own companies with virtually no attention to the questions being asked. Advertising-as-news is worth my time?

I get annoyed at CNBC when they report government statistics as if they were quoting scripture. They ignore the constant upward revisions in last week's unemployment data, which happens every week and makes this week's losses look less bad. And why they don't report reconstructed M3 as many web sites have done lately (hint: it's plunging). While it may sound arcane it's a lot more important than hearing the prewritten patter of the CEO of Amalgamated Cowbells.

Several months ago there were guests on CNBC laughing at Peter Schiff for suggesting an imminent mortgage meltdown. This was soon followed by the mortgage meltdown. I often wonder why CNBC doesn't show that clip (available on YouTube) to those same laughing guests and give them the opportunity to explain what was so funny. (Are Schiff's current predictions worthwhile? I don't know, but I'm not laughing. Nor am I laughing at Abby Cohen's rosy scenarios. Predicting markets is hard. Shooting the messenger is stupid.)

There's a show on CNBC at 5pm Eastern called Fast Money which, 6-12 months ago, was a real hoot. It was sort of a McLaughlin Group for the stock market, with a host and rotating panel of guests each of whom was some sort of money manager or pro trader, with no allegiance to anything except profit. The top two (IMO) were host Dylan Ratigan and panelist Jeff Macke, both of whom were evicted when their contracts were up. Evidently the CNBC execs prefer serving financial pabulum instead of hard reporting replete with finger shaking. One wonders if this is entirely voluntary.

Yes, you can have political differences (e.g., Liesman vs. Santelli). Every viewer is used to (occasionally heated) political argument. But when it comes to the financial equivalent of Woodward and Bernstein, CNBC has taken a pass ... and the audience appears to have noticed.
I love the lack of leftist politics that have taken over reddit.
I'm Canadian, and I don't really care very much what people think of our system here in Canada. In my opinion it is great. I think wait times are overstated, in situations where wait times matter. To espouse some personal stories to compare and contrast here, my girlfriends father had some pretty serious colon cancer, from the time it was found it took around a month to get the surgery he needed(including consults and whatnot) and to start treatment. Cost to him and his family 0$.

My uncle lives in Texas, (I love Texas Btw :P ) and he had some serious issues with his spleen. It took him about a month to get his surgery(including consults), he is fine now but still requires continuing monitoring.Cost to him and his family with his insurance coverage ~40K.

I honestly hope that everyone everywhere(not just in the US) gets free and available healthcare.

While there might be some hybrid model in the middle somewhere that may work. I think dealing with a teired model of healthcare will leave people who can only get the public healthcare the shaft.
My favorite is the absence of circlejerk ;)
What the hell is up with your country, people?

And what the hell is up with your fellow Americans? Why are the very people who suffer so much under the utter crap that passes for a healthcare system so eager to defend it. Seriously, I just don't understand.
This article - and the abstract - are not specific enough. What kind of fat is being used in the study? Does variety of fats make a difference? Do fats in combination with other foods change the outcome?

My own suspicion is that all of those factors matter, and making blanket statements on the basis of this one case is simply bad science.
Free healthcare will never survive...

Except for all the free healthcare in numerous other countries, you mean?
I wonder what that 500,000 lines buys them.
I use this for the same purpose:
http://ask.searchyc.com/
Thanks for the link and wealth of information here. My startup is actually developing products related to standardized tests. This will come in handy. I was completely unaware of Google Insights. It looks very comprehensively and intelligently organized.
Hospitals are only required to treat emergencies. Even if you go in for an emergency without health insurance they will bill you directly for it. If you goto a hospital and get diagnosed with cancer they aren't paying for your treatment or the required drugs. If you're lucky they might pay for the initial tests though which are probably 1/100th of the actual cost of the treatments you'll need.
Jakob Lodwick: Being gawked at
He's not saying that his entire critique was wrong - his attempt to show that healthcare wasn't the reason was "thus wrong". This isn't to say that the authors' attempt to show causation was true either. But, fortunately we do have better critiques here (and critiques where one of the authors of the CEPR attempts to respond to in the second and third links):

(1) http://ipeatunc.blogspot.com/2009/08/entrepreneurship-in-oec...
(2) http://ipeatunc.blogspot.com/2009/08/entrepreneurship-and-he...
(3) http://ipeatunc.blogspot.com/2009/08/entrepreneurship-and-he...

To summarize - Scott Shane of Case Western studies states as follows:

"If you compare health care’s portion of G.D.P., as measured by the World Bank, with the self-employment rate across the 21 O.E.C.D. countries in the C.E.P.R. study, you will find that the correlation is only -0.19, which statistically speaking, cannot be considered different from zero."

"I know that everyone is focused right now on the health care debate, which is great. But we can’t just say that the absence of universal health care influences the size of our small-business sector. It’s certainly possible that national differences in health care affect national differences in self-employment and small-business generation in some way."

"But we have to show some evidence of those effects."
Get a room you two :-p
From everything I've read Feynman was a GREAT storyteller. He was definitely a very good writer.
I went through that jump about a year back, so here are some of the things that I've gleaned:

- You'll be doing a lot of JS. Just use jQuery. It's the most popular of the JS / AJAX frameworks, so even if you decide not to use it later on, it's a good starting point.

- I dig Ruby / Sinatra. Never really got into Rails or Django. You can learn how to use Sinatra + Haml + Sass in a few minutes. I've also learned that, somewhat to my surprise given my previous perception of their fan-bases that I don't really like Python and much prefer Ruby.

- For novelty there's Wt (http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt), haven't brought myself to actually use it for anything though.

- CSS grid layout "frameworks" make things easier. I used (http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/) for our new site, but can't say that I had much love for it -- though still much better than doing all of the layout by hand.
I am also not sure why it matters - we switched 3,000,000+ lines of code from subversion to git, but the effort was not really correlated with LOC. The major overhead of switching from subversion to git is the learning hit on the developers (though it is certainly worth it for many of the reasons described in the OP).
Oh can we rms?
Men are not better than women or the other way around. But we are different, that's just a fact. We have to behave accordingly then, instead of trying to ignore those differences.
The articles posted here are always interesting and of good quality. The comments are well-mannered without a bunch of idiots ruining the posts (most of the time anyway).
I wish git was bit more user-friendly on Windows. With TortioseSVN, using subversion is so smooth and easy I almost forget it's there. I've got a bunch of Git tools installed in Windows, but it's all so horrible. The GUI tools are significantly worse than using Git bash at the command line.

I think, for Git, the GUI I'm looking for probably isn't possible. It's designed with the philosophy of small command line tools combined together -- that's not something you can paint over with pretty UI.
the server was timing out for me, but this coral cache link works: http://tools.ietf.org.nyud.net/html/rfc2324
Have you tried TortoiseGit?
http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/
People play endless games with the word "right" here, to the point that the word is meaningless. Do you have the "right" to be as dedicated to work as a childless 21-year-old whose primary goal in life is to climb a corporate ladder? Then, perhaps, "feminism" says "no children for you!" Or perhaps it demands free child care, then demands that your relationship to the child not suffer when you're not the primary caregiver.

Note how I scarequoted the word "feminism" since it would only be one particular variant of an itself-poorly-defined word. (That variant definitely does exist, though.) Such a variant would argue that you have lost a multitude of such "rights", which you may not agree with.

Nobody (or close enough it doesn't matter) is saying that you've lost anything like "the right to free speech" or any such "natural right" because you have a baby. (I personally would say you have a responsibility to it, but that goes equally for the father too. I say this as a father, but then, "parents have responsibility to their children" shouldn't be too controversial to most people.)
Interesting idea. I use WebKit nightlies, so I modified it to let you pass in the browser name as the first argument:

http://github.com/tlrobinson/Undop/commit/66fe4492b701c33a72...
I think point 2 is a bit off. Normally the items that hit the front page are indeed news, but a largish percentage of the content is not new, just interesting to hackers and accepted because it hasn't been posted to HN in a while.
What an incredibly succinct way to sum up how the decline in quality on social news sites occurs. Thank you, I'll have to remember that phrase.
There's an eclipse plugin, if you use eclipse. But yea the user-friendliness of Git needs work. If you setup some web manag frontend for git it might make some parts of it easier. Using trac+git or redmine+git would allow you to at least visualize the repository.
(This is why I use mercurial.)
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It is relatively easy to measure the outcome of studying for the bar or going to French club. Clear benefits seem like a good explanation for society's willingness to ascribe high value to these activities, compared to activities with less measurable results.
Key counting/tracking
i need a key counting or traking software. i think my gf is up to no good. hopefully free or pirated thanks