skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the Twilight Zone movie back in the 80's, the kid who can wish anything he wants and it comes true, and he wishes all these strangers to be his "family" and traps them in the house with them.

I'd love to hear about one of these emails reading "Hi employee, person who is totally dependent on my whim and fancy for sustinence and shelter, I've been thinking a lot about what me and my 2 friends stand for, and even though I'm not totally sure, and can't necessarily articulate it, its extremely important to me, and from now on its pretty damn important that you start standing for it too. You are an extension of me. That's why your office looks like my old apartment. Your identity has been subsumed, and to prove it I'd like to point out that your livelihood is now in a great part dependent on your allegiance to my completely undefined and arbitrary value system. So we're in this together. I am writing you to tell you everything will be fine, as long you don't. fuck. this. up. Thanks! I'll be back in touch with more specifics, or not, in the meantime just act natural."
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And yet avgas is still responsible for nearly half of lead emissions in the US now. That seems significant.
> are not flattering.
> across as mean and callous

I think you're being too generous. Multiple executives from non-cooperating firms warned Steve Jobs in e-mails that the non-poaching agreements he was asking for were illegal.

Non-poaching, non-solicitation and their cousins are awful for the employee, the industry and future employers. People are not commodities to contract over, and the egregiously pompous executive negotiations will earn fierce punishment from a jury or judge if this doesn't settle.
Amazon EC2 has dedicated instances which run on single-tenant hardware.
SpaceX claims that Falcon-9 first stage has a pretty good mass ratio - meaning that the fuel weights many times more than the tanks and engines (and everything else).

However, even if we assume 30 as the ratio of loaded vs. dry mass, which is better, for example, than Titan II first stage, which has pretty good mass ratio, we need to add the mass of landing legs - something unique for the Falcon. Suppose legs halve the mass ratio, making it 15.

9 engines are capable of lifting the dry first stage, the fuel in it, and the second stage plus payload. That means 9 engines can lift much more than 15 times the dry mass of the first stage. Dividing the thrust by 9 makes the thrust much more than necessary to support the dry stage.

In other words, even the thrust of a single Merlin engine is more than enough to brake the dry weight of the first stage. That means when first stage lands the engine is throttled - spending less mass of fuel per second than it does when Falcon lifts off. The better mass ratio of the first stage, the smaller flow of fuel is needed to decelerate it - so less fuel is needed to brake. It's not enough to count seconds of thrust - how big the thrust is should also be taken into account.
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> This is why Google and Apple don't allow plugins. This is why mobile is important. It's the last place users can be held down and forced to view advertisements against their wishes.

It's clear why Google is incentivized to force users to view advertisements, but why Apple? AFAICT they don't profit from banner ads on others' sites (IIRC there are no iAds for Safari)
That is vs 30-40% of the general population.

There's nothing unexpected here. Youths mostly go to jail for violence. The more fights you get into, the more likely you are to be injured. I'd imagine that there's a far larger percentage of number of jailed youths with knife scars than those in school. That doesn't mean knife scars cause people to end up in prison.
Piketty starts off by saying that inequality isn't necessarily bad by itself, but asks whether it is useful for society - which I think you'll agree is the right way to approach it.

The negatives are of course more associated with what happens to the poor than the rich. If you are born poor, CAN you rise to be a hedge fund manager (no matter how talented you are)? Will low-pay and long-hours spark political or social instability which is not worth the cost? What does society lose/gain from one level of inequality as opposed to a different level?

Its a complex issue though and you'd really have to read the book to understand how Piketty approaches this.
I like it... I've done Saturday interviews. As well as interviews on a private plane, in Aspen, at bar in palm springs, at a starbucks next to OAK, and in a founder's backyard. So Saturday isn't too bad...
Yes, even in non-equal societies people benefit greatly from innovation.But if innovation is not dependent on extreme capitalism , why attribute it to capitalism in this discussion ?
Congratulations - once you are accepted the rest is easy - after the decision that is.

It's time for some deep thinking - each case is very personal and you need to decide what's important to you and determine what you will get from going to a great school.

For me I saw Positives:
- Learning: although in theory I could learn as much from books or by just doing it, I was going to be in a learning environment where I would have great teachers and peers - and the focus was learning. I learned a huge amount, and I recommend over-loading, getting beyond the business school and picking your subjects by professor as well as by what you want to learn.
- Rubber stamping: My background before MBA school was hard to describe to people, but having an MBA from X made it easy to describe what I was and what I could do.
- Opportunity: It certainly opens doors that sometimes I didn't even know existed, in my case PE and McKinsey, and in other peoples' cases start-ups and so on. The net present value of your future income certainly rises, but you'll also take more control of your future.
- USA: If you are from offshore then you get the right to work in the USA after you finish. It's not that simple but the USA is where a vast amount of business gets done and so you get to deal with big numbers.
- Change: It's a definitive move (and market signal) that you want to change what you do, either to switch careers or to upgrade the path that you are on.
- People: You get to meet and hang out with a group of highly vetted amazing people for two years, and longer.
- Fun. This was the deciding factor for me. It was a legitimate two years away from work and doing stuff that was enjoyable.

and Negatives:

Cash flow: You simultaneously stop working and start spending a large amount of money, and that's going to set you back for a few years. But I focussed on net present value and it all worked out alright. For some the payoff may be negative, but with an MBA you should forever be able to find decent paying work.
Options: Going to school means you can't do something else in that time. While most things can be put off for a couple of years, if your mate Bill has invited you to join him at his start-up called Micro-soft* then maybe you should do that instead.
USA: If you are not from the USA then the food, politics, police and poverty may be difficult to live with. It all depends on where you are coming from, and which school you are going too. Some schools are in or near upsettingly poor and violent areas. Meanwhile that right to work post degree isn't necessarily a right to stay and do a start-up - so watch out.

Overall if you can get into a top school it's generally a sign that you don't really need to go. If you do go, I generally recommend you should, then embrace it by experimenting with subjects and activities, treating it as a collaborative rather than competitive situation and making sure you are having fun.

(*Steve Ballmer didn't do the second year of his Stanford MBA for this reason)
They seriously need an English-speaking editor, if the product is even real.
The Red Hook WiFi network that survived Hurricane Sandy in the NYT article was built for this project: http://jrbaldwin.com/tidepoolswifi/
> Until we crack compact, high yield fusion, I doubt we will make much progress in realizing our space-faring dreams.

What about regular, fission nuclear power?
I think Interview "Off-Hours" might make more sense. That is, interviewing after 5pm. I've stayed longer to help interview a perspective candidate. But if I was asked to come in on a Saturday just to meet a candidate, that's a whole different beast.
How to keep work and data organized to improve efficiency.
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I'm sure that it'd be way easier to conceal half a dozen sachets of this stuff than a six pack of beer.
The book is 5 years old, it won't properly account for the incredible improvements made since then.

What I'm interested in is avoiding wasting money on nuclear power.
From the site: "Anou means a well of water in Tashelheet, the language spoken in the Ait Bouguemez valley of Morocco."

It's also a play on words w/ French (widely-spoken in Morocco) -- "À nous" (pronounced the same) means "to us".
I believe one argument might go like this:

It's because the engine of all wealth in capitalism is investment. Currency gets less valuable over time. Like sharks, concentrators of wealth need to keep moving. One of the most effective ways to do that is to invest in enterprise, which is competitive, and thus generates innovation.
Sometimes I feel shitty about the fact that I don't work at a glamourous, name-brand company.

Thanks for making me feel better :). I should read these reviews for more companies.
Leading up to that time we had corn coming out of our ears and elevators were quite literally leaving it out to rot. The energy was already spent, ethanol was just a plan to recapture it. It wasn't completely misguided.
And how is that relevant to the OP? The OP made no counterclaim.
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I admire accomplishments of capitalism - like material progress enhancing lifestyles of everyone, or lifting millions out of poverty.

But that was not the main thrust of my comment, which talked mainly about "injustices" caused by unchecked inheritance. If you want an example of the benefits allocated to wealthy, here is one - opportunities. I believe billionaire kids have a lot more opportunities in life compared to middle class kids, let alone poor ones.

Edit: tptacek, since I cannot reply to you, I will reply here - one example of what poor people won't have access to "tomorrow" compared to rich people : ability to be rich. And I already explained the advantages of being rich over being poor are already (food/health/shelter/education/...). And yes, your questions certainly helped clarify my thoughts, so thanks :)
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Mine was 4 nights per week for 2.5 years. Not all programs are during the day and force you to give up working. However, working and going to school left me time for nothing else. I had to reintroduce myself to my old friends after graduation.
"To discourage hanky-panky, there are no curtains, and no overnight stays; cleaners refresh the rooms at the end of every booking"

Though, uh, as Ian Malcom put it in Jurassic Park: "Life finds a way"
I remember an app demo in my last hackathon: when reading the Bible in hebrew, English translation appeared on Glass.

Your idea isn't hard to work on, but I don't have a glass to do it.
> if a program compiles one can know that it will never crash

that is not true, you need much stronger guarantees than just typechecking gives you. you also have a large wodge of native code for the runtime that is not written in the strongly typed language.
The technologies you mentioned are not ready for prime time. A strong political push for nuclear power now will simply result in more of what you consider obsolete designs.

Meanwhile, renewable energy, already quite cheap, will continue to improve by leaps and bounds. Wasting a ton of money on nuclear now would slow the pace of this progress.

But since renewables are getting cheaper every year, market forces will probably make the proper choice anyways, unless lobbying gets out of hand.
It is relevant to the discussion as an example.
That's all well and good. Learnings don't matter one bit when it comes to what an HR department or venture capitalist will look for on a resume or pedigree in a slide deck respectively, or the social network of having been present at said institution. Pedigree might be for suckers as PG put it, but it's still a signal of being selected and completing an expensive hazing ritual. So it will continue to function for people that value expense and exclusivity.
How can I accept money in US if I am based outside?
So I have this website which is actually attracting a fair amount of traffic. Based on customer interest, I can turn it into a $2000 a month side project. But I am based in India, and don't have any experience with payment gateways.

1. How can I accept money in the US? My customers are mostly teachers in US. Any gateways I should look into?

2. Can I use Paypal?

3. How can I take payments of a dollar each from each customer? What would be the cheapest service that can help with this? (Due to minimum payment in payment gateways)

Please let me know anything I should know. Thanks!
Mildly off topic but Bill Bryson is interesting on how we ended up getting lead in petrol in the first place http://enconv.org/docs/index-26824.html?page=11

Except: "So in 1923 three of America’s largest corporations, General Motors, Du Pont, and Standard Oil of New Jersey, formed a joint enterprise called the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation (later shortened to simply Ethyl Corporation) with a view to making as much tetraethyl lead as the world was willing to buy, and that proved to be a very great deal. They called their additive “ethyl” because it sounded friendlier and less toxic than “lead” and introduced it for public consumption (in more ways than most people realized) on February 1, 1923.

Almost at once production workers began to exhibit the staggered gait and confused faculties that mark the recently poisoned. Also almost at once, the Ethyl Corporation embarked on a policy of calm but unyielding denial that would serve it well for decades. As Sharon Bertsch McGrayne notes in her absorbing history of industrial chemistry, Prometheans in the Lab , when employees at one plant developed irreversible delusions, a spokesman blandly informed reporters: “These men probably went insane because they worked too hard.” Altogether at least fifteen workers died in the early days of production of leaded gasoline, and untold numbers of others became ill, often violently so; the exact numbers are unknown because the company nearly always managed to hush up news of embarrassing leakages, spills, and poisonings. At times, however, suppressing the news became impossible, most notably in 1924 when in a matter of days five production workers died and thirty-five more were turned into permanent staggering wrecks at a single ill-ventilated facility. ..."
I feel like this conversation is sidestepping the fact that "cheap online education" is synonymous with "we'll take a bunch of your money under unique loan conditions and operate as a paper mill".

Not to say anything else about the political economy, I'm a believer in capitalism as the 'least bad system', but in the education sector, those 'cheap online schools' are actually a point in favor of the exploitation narrative.
Of course you can learn online. So what? Here;s why you need to saddle yourself with $125,000 additional debt-- even though it might become useless soon.

Let me explain how companies hire. If you want a job done, there are two things you can look for in an applicant.

COMPETENCE. You verify the ability to do work. You can do this by (a) asking the person to perform tasks, (b) reviewing examples of their current or past work or (c) conducting an interview that is so highly detailed that it shows that they understand the work

Verifying competence takes a fair amount of time, so you can only do it for a few people, unless you want to spend all your time doing it.

CREDENTIALS. Ask the person to submit pieces of paper that indicate ability to do work. This includes (1) years of experience in the industry (2) employment with a company who does the work, (3) references or recommendations from people who do the work and (4) a college degree.

Credentials don't guarantee that the person has any competence (even if they aren't lying, they could have been a complete screwup). But they take very little time to process-- any job-tracking application (Taleo) can automate the work.

Guess which method most companies use.

A friend who is a criminal defense attorney has a saying that applies. "It's nice that you're innocent. But how can you prove it?"

I'm confident that you can learn everything an MBA knows, and learn it better than most MBAs do, and understand more. (I have.)

Very few employers will take the time to verify that you do. If YOU don't have the credential, they'll give the job to someone who does.

NOTE: All the preceding assumes you want to be hired for jobs that require an MBA in the posting. If that's not the case, it's an entirely different issue, but one nobody can answer.
First, you just moved the goalposts. Education, parenting, nutrition, housing: you said the rich have all of that, and the poor none. Did I misread you? Did I effectively rebut you and change your mind, simply by asking questions? That seems unlikely.

Second, in this new argument, you refer to "opportunity". Opportunity for what? Wealth? If capitalism is generating competition which in turn generates innovation which in turn drives down prices which in turn raises everyone's quality of life, how much does the opportunity for wealth matter? What is the thing rich people have "today" that poor people won't eventually have comparable access to "tomorrow" as a side effect of capitalism? I'm sure there's something; what is it?

Incidentally: I sound like I'm an advocate for wealth inequality, but I'm not, nor am I a concern troll. I believe the argument were having here is positive, not normative; we don't even agree on the facts. We should get the "is" down before the "ought".
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ZqXlHl65g
Yeah except that is 1 datapoint cherry picked vs. the wealth of evidence across national borders that leaded petrol was to blame.
Sadly, for me, my work day starts with a crazy hectic 90 minute commute to work. By the time I reach the office, there isn't time for anything else but to get started on work.
> One requires you to enter the locations you think you'd like and then helps you decide.

That's because after accounting for the number of places and the parameters, doing this efficiently is almost impossible (kinda like NP).
"there is the obvious aspect of lying to your current employer as to where you are really going"

Why is it any of your employer's business where you're going? You presumably have some number of vacation days that you're entitled to as part of your compensation package, so use them. If your company insists on having an accounting of what you do during your free time, they're behaving like unreasonable jerks, so don't feel guilty about lying to them.

"Everyone wins!"

I'm sure that not all companies have dysfunctional cultures that include routinely working on weekends. (Apparently the place where you work now doesn't, since you're free on weekends.) By demanding that they interview you on Saturday, you're asking all the employees who would be interviewing you (which, as you noted, might be the entire company) to make the sacrifice of coming in to the office on Saturday for your convenience. This makes you look like a high-maintenance prima donna, and also gives the company an incentive to ignore you and choose a candidate who is available during the week.
I'd like to do this. If anyone has the connections and would like to help out, email me karan@goel.im
I wouldn't dismiss this critique too quickly...

It does indeed appear (I have not read the book, and I plan to) that the crux of his thesis is that capital can grow at 4-5% over the long run, whereas economic growth only grows at ~3%, and thus concentration of capital always runs away from normal economic growth.

... and this idea ... that you can regularly achieve even 4% annual return over the very long term ... has gotten a lot of people in trouble. Not just in the recent unpleasantness, but historically over many different economic cycles. Regardless of how receptive I may be to this book, or these ides, I am deeply skeptical of this assumption.
The "paper mill" refers to credentials, which refers to the wealth-enhancing effect of education. But this subthread stipulates that the rich will keep getting richer.

Are the non-rich getting drastically worse access to teaching and learning resources? If you had to plot a line representing this (admittedly abstract) concept starting in 1950 and running to 2020, what would that line look like? It needs to capture the Internet, Wikipedia, the digitization of books, citeseer and scholar.google.com, open source software, Khan Academy, MIT OpenCourseware, and Coursera.
While I've been generally convined Freakonomics is to be considered suspect on this, the argument you present in the last paragraph doesn't counter it: the Freakonomics point was that absent abortion, people were forced into having children earlier when they were not ready to support them fiscally or emotively due to their situation, whereas with control of their fertility they can choose when they are best prepared and most desired them.
RD-180 was designed in 1990-s, after break-up of USSR, and you can't just saw in half RD-170 to get RD-180. "Refurbished" usually applies to something used for some time already - not to the rocket engines, certainly not to RD-180 and NK-33, which apart from being fire-tested weren't used in flight.
It's my (laptop) desktop. Which is sort of funny, because it's got weak graphics support (e.g. accelerated gfx). Despite that here's why I keep it:

It's a model of development beauty. From a single codebase, it supports 58 tier one and two architectures.

It "feels" incredibly solid, by design and construction.

It's sort of a side project, but the defacto standard source-based package management (pkgsrc) is the nicest I've used. It's interesting, because one might think "what's to get excited about with package management?". Nothing, if things are going well. Minimal dependency-hell problems, no issues with base-system versus pkgsrc versus "hand-built" installations. No problems rolling your own packages to add to pkgsrc for your own custom packages. And all driven by simple Makefiles.

The kernel and userland are also built with Makefiles, and lend themselves to exploration. Especially some of the userland tools when you consider what they're tasked to do: run portably across multiple architectures. Bootstrap systems. Cross-building. It's interesting, and there's lots to learn and take advantage of.

Even though it's solid and there's lots of "tried and true" methods in there, there's lots of interesting new work going on. When the project was fiddling with SMP, it tried interesting things[0]. It's doing interesting things now with virtualization, with Xen (dom0 and domU), RUMP[1], which is interesting for running kernel components in userspace, but even moreso because it's not tied to NetBSD [1][2]...

I could go on and on. Couple more points though: it's mostly BSD licensed, which makes for corporate friendly code. Secondly, the features here come with a super-friendly knowledgeable community as a bonus.

Try it for 4 weeks. You'll like it.

[0]http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD#Features (see symmetric multiprocessing)

[1]http://wiki.netbsd.org/rumpkernel/

[2]http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anykernel
Yes, I have needed something like this for years. Using your car isn't optimal, and for a lot of people, it isn't even an option. $10-20 per hour is a really great option for this.