skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Go to Japan. Get in a Japanese taxi. You will see someone who takes the utmost pride in their appearance, their interaction with the customer, the state of the car, the ride, etc etc.

No, what you will see is someone who faces extreme social and economic pressure to conform to the image of taking the utmost pride in his appearance, his car's cleanliness, good customer service, etc. I have almost no doubts that he never wanted to be a taxi-driver when he was growing up.

It's not for nothing that Japan is one of the world's capitals of clinical depression: the nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
The worst part of multiple google accounts is a bug (feature?) in the account switcher widget. The flow is a two page thing where you first pick the account you want to switch to and then enter your password on the next page. For some reason they decided to add a feature where if you type the wrong password into the second page, they check it against the rest of your accounts, and switch you to any one that matches.

Even more annoying, the form has no username field (since you already picked it on the first page), which causes my password manager to pick the most recently used one and log me back in as the account I was trying to switch away from!
Here's an example of non-alignment of founders, and ownership that did not have vesting periods...with a consequence that departing partner-founders had to deal with a major fraction of the entity owned by non-participants.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6342520
>>This is the laziest of criticisms. Don't like someone's argument? Don't even bother reading through, let's check who sponsored the study, or maybe the author is a hypocrite, or at least cheats on his wife, and anyway, it's racist.

I read the FT article when it appeared. What seemed remarkable was that, even though it took Piketty years to compile and work with the data, it took the FT editor weeks to come up with a rebuttal [1]. That by itself should tell you something.

[1]Unless he read the original French version from last year, but that's doubtful because the book became popular (and therefore dangerous to the upper class) only after being translated to English.
But you can't just compare Japanese taxi drivers to say NYC taxi drivers. Not without justifying the comparison. Now I have never taken a taxi in either city, so I can't even compare the experience myself, but, what does it take to be a taxi driver in NYC vs Japan? What do the companies that hire said taxi drivers pay in comparison to purchasing power? What is the difference in the city layouts that the drivers are working in, not just the physical roads, but congestion, road work, etc?

Let's also consider that Japan has for all intents and purposes, no immigration, while the US has massive amounts of immigration. This lack of immigration, combined with normal customs surrounding Japanese culture, eg: work ethic, honor, etc, all contribute to the experience.
I totally binged on the DAS screencasts. Then when I had trouble implementing anything, I'd go re-watch the relevant vids.

The reason I mention experience is because Ruby itself has a lot of convention that you only get really fluent with through repeated exposure. Just now I went and browsed to a random Active Record source file and had no trouble figuring out what was going on just looking at the source.

A year ago I would have been lost like you. But now I can take individual pieces of a big codebase and grok them without having to understand the rest of it. You only get that fluency through experience.
It is okay to spy if you are the ones doing the spying. This has always been the case - shock that some foreign power is spying, expelling those spies from our nation, waiting for our ahem diplomatic staff to be expelled from their nation.
Oh it's undoubtedly in the US's interests to do so. So is our proliferation and maintenance of military presence throughout the globe.

Obvious moral issues with both though. ;)
Didn't this also happen in the mid-to-late '90s, with the first dot-com boom? I mean, I don't think that the proportion of CS majors dropped precipitously after the crash, but the rise certainly seems to correlate with demand for programmers.

It makes a whole lot of sense, really, except that if you started your degree in 1998, you were going to graduate right into a crash.
Those settings exist as I described on my Surface Pro 2 and my Dell Inspiron. The former uses a factory install of 8.1, the latter using a raw install from disc. I would say that the issue lies with your Lenovo's setup.

However the search should definitely include old style control panel options as well as the new. Again, it does for both my Surface and my Dell (it's a lot slower on the Dell since it doesn't have a SSD, but instantaneous on the Surface).
Heart disease: treatment using vegetables over drugs
Perhaps something that groups (or even just a weighted score) people and comments by voting habits. If I consistently vote up memes and receive votes from other meme voters, then show me more of that kind of content and give my posts more visibility to that crowd. But if I regularly downvote memes then sink those posts from me, and sink my posts from them.

I imagine tuning such a system would be very difficult though, and you don't want users stuck in a bucket that they don't feel fits them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7788204
Good.

The sooner we can get rid of the diamond lobby the sooner we can use diamond for actually useful applications.
The article wastes a lot of time on "stay curious" (not very useful advice either!) and skips over the most important tidbit:

> [My girlfriend] made me accountable.

Accountability is absolutely the key difference between "going through the motions" and "making progress". It is the way you put "deliberate" into your 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. It's the thing that tells you if you're actually making any progress toward your goal.
"[...] I don't think that the proportion of CS majors dropped precipitously after the crash..."

MIT's EECS enrollment more than halved, after being 40% of the undergraduate body for more than 2 decades.
About the only thing that's mature and could scale-up quickly enough is nuclear, and even that will take new-generation plants and new fuel cycles to escape the cost, safety, and waste problems of current nuclear plants. And we are starting with an inventory of nuclear plants that need to be replaced even before new nuclear capacity can displace oil. I'm certainly not trying to minimize the problem of switching away from oil.
What do they say?
What do they do?
What do other people say about them?

That will usually weed out most of the procrastinators, wannabes, "difficult" people etc...

A bit of interpersonal chemistry going, some complimentary skills (you're looking for compatibility, after all), and some level of emotional investment on the problem being solved, wouldn't hurt either.
Unfortunately I'm unable to find the reference. It's probably a different word, but the idea is the similar, and I specifically recall it referencing Reddit and other communities with a similar "small group" branching model. Warrens came to mind because of rabbit warrens, but that's probably not quite it.
I bet there will be farms and domesticated animals soon, because after all "who wants to hunt and forage all day?". Go to any small tribe. Follow a hunting party. You will see someone who takes the utmost pride in their hunting skill, their ability to track animals, the sharpness of their spear, etc etc. It is an experience, to say the least. I believe there is value in that... both to the community and to the individual.

It's called progress. If you want to do these things you absolutely can. People today hunt for sport, should we destroy all farms because hunting is "an honest day's work"? No. If people in the future want to drive taxis for enjoyment, great. But that doesn't mean that we should try to halt progress, so taxi drivers feel better about the objective usefulness of their work.
Mid-career median at Google is $141,000.
I recommend reading what Tyler Cowen has to say on the FT piece:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/05/wha...
The Benefits of Buffalo, NY for startups
Yep, or have another profile setup in Chrome that makes this super handy.
You don't need to be an expert in order to criticize a piece of software, but yes, it's nothing worth bragging about.
Google Docs is a neat tool and I love their mobile apps, but if you're interested in checking out alternatives, I can recommend Office Online . It's pretty neat. And free.

https://office.com/start/default.aspx
Aren't we already? Only utility i know is cutting glass.
Do Google employees actually use any of this stuff? The workflows are terrible, I can't imagine they aren't bothered by these same problems.
Chrome has a concept of multiple users in it's preferences. When you turn it on then you can pick an icon per account and it shows up on the top right of the browser window. To switch to a different user click on that and switch to a different user. Each user can sign into a different google account.

Each user has it's own cookies, chrome extensions etc. Keeps work and personal accounts very separate.
Who do I trust more with my data? Google or Microsoft?

Hmm..
Georgia Tech considers "computational thinking" to be an important component of a liberal arts education, so much so that it used to require all majors to take the same intro CS class that CS majors took. It was a legit intro CS course taught using SICP with Scheme.

As far as I can tell, all majors still must take an intro CS course, but the school now offers a wider variety of intro CS courses, because many people studying things like international affairs and even many engineers didn't want/need or couldn't handle the rigor/difficulty. So it seems at least some universities have indeed shifted to meet the need (and a long time ago at that).
I had a friend who would "test" girlfriends by taking them camping for a few days.

Camping or other intense travel that raises the level of discomfort (no running water/flush toilets/electricity/internet/air conditioning etc.) reveals someone's true nature very quickly. You'll see whether they get cranky or stay optimistic, whether they're disorganized or not, whether they carry more or less of their fair share of the load, whether they get on your nerves, etc.
I think I'd rather just use etherpad+LaTeX.

Google's ecosystem needs work, true. But I don't think I'd ever willingly get back into bed with Microsoft.
Defcon itself did that -- last year!
If they 're not scarce they 're not going to be very valuable as status symbols. It seems like de Beers will take the market to its grave with them.
What are you showing us here? Your home page says nothing and the "About" and "How" pages are very confusing.

Can you tell us what it does in a single sentence? "Let's improve ratings" reveals nothing. And no, you aren't getting my email.
It is a courtesy to explain downvoting when there is no controversy evident in the post.

Let me explain my post: There are myriad open fonts available on the web, and webfonts is a known, stable feature of web browsers. There is no reason to use proprietary fonts on a tech website of such a caliber.
This guy still apparently didn't learn his lesson.

"...he would set a point of no return and learn more about trail conditions. “And probably take another trail.”"

BUZZ, wrong answer. Trail conditions change. People make mistakes. People break their legs. Freak weather rolls in.

The right answer is to always be prepared to hunker down for a couple days. And grow some situational awareness -- it's never ok to let anyone in the group be wet and cold in the wilderness. By the time somebody's sock is frozen to their boot all the alarm bells should be ringing in your head and you're lighting a fire and setting up camp.

“But what I didn’t realize was the danger of hypothermia.”

That's unforgivable. What other danger rates mentioning? Even in summer people die of hypothermia all the time. In bitter cold, in deep snow, and it never crossed your mind?
Interesting post and HN comment thread, I'll have to read it in full (or at least the good parts). Anyway, here's a loosely related post that may be of interest, from my blog:

Unix one-liner to kill a hanging Firefox process:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2008/09/unix-one-liner-to-kill-han...

It had an interesting thread of comments in which both others and I participated, and at least I learnt some things.
You can't do a "Show HN" for a landing page.
Why should it? Most software engineers don't have significant equity i.e. equity that creates a cash flow equal to 100% of their salary annually. I only make this comparison since 141k is median at Google and you are saying lots of software engineers make 300k.
I don't see why people think AngularJS is so complex? Documentation sucks (or sucked) but if you use it, it comes pretty naturally.
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Key takeaway: Ensure your cofounders are competent through third-party verification if you can't do it yourself.

I know of company cofounded by a skilled business guy and a technical guy. That's a fairly typical split, except the technical guy is absolutely useless. He hasn't learned anything new since his internship days, and insisted his code was perfect despite obvious security flaws.

The business guy just took the technical guy at his word without checking to see if his skills really were at that level. What followed was a tremendous waste of investor money as the technical guy insisted on doing everything his way and creating massive loads of technical debt.

Had the business guy had an independent party verify the technical guy's skills, he'd have saved himself $X00,000 in opportunity costs and years of his life.
because they like their jobs? because they're afraid of retribution?
It tells me nothing. Finding mistakes is always easier than writing the book containing them.

And the list of those supposed mistakes is public[1], behind only a registration wall. Piketty either made them, or not. They either substantially change the results, or not. You don't need to make guesses based on timing.

Perhaps Chris Giles is motivated by pleasing his "wealthy businessmen" audience. Perhaps he spent sleepless nights pouring over the text to find something, anything. Maybe he even cheats on his wife.

But so what?

[1] http://blogs.ft.com/money-supply/2014/05/23/data-problems-wi...
Seems like a silly idea. Why not send some NSA or CIA people to DEFCON, find the Chinese nationals in question, and then pwn their devices with one of what I'm sure must be many 0days that NSA have in their pockets?
Not always practical. I've almost completed a 7-year project and now find myself in the unusual position of being a technical founder in search of a non-technical co-founder. I could go out alone for sure and yet know that I'm just not good at carving out a market for my product, no matter how good I know it to be.

My challenge isn't knowing what to look for (if I have a skill it's reading people) - it's finding someone suitable.
Diamonds are also useful for cutting stones. Granted this was never much of a problem because one only needs to sprinkle the saw blade with tiny diamond fragments. Your local hardware store should have a shelf of diamond cutting blades.
> Fashions change, yet people believe that diamonds have permanent value ('is forever'). In contrast to bullion, this is relatively recent development with little ties to traditional banking practices

No, actually diamonds (and other gems) have had artistic/cultural/symbolic value for as long as civilizations have existed. I.e. the "crown jewels", the "hope diamond" and more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diamonds

They simply do wonders with light and are aesthetically pleasing when well cut. Not to mention they are incredibly hard to destroy.
A few thoughts:

- good point about the selection bias of graduation speakers and now they probably downplay the role of luck

- what makes people even think they know what their dream job is? After working for an interesting company for a few years their perception might change dramatically

- is it the job that is the dream, or is it the fame, esteem and wealth? Jobs like being an author or a musician or an artist are probably less pleasant than working in a nice office with a team you like

- most of your heroes... Did they learn to be great in their field by studying it in college?

- on the other hand, advice to follow your dream might be good as long as you give yourself a healthy dose of optionality/convexity

- my advice to people would be don't settle for a job that bores or distresses you, but prepare to be surprised just how fulfilling certain jobs can be
The audacity is impressive if nothing else. Here's a car-crash of an article from 3dPrint about filament switching.

"MakerBot’s Unknown Invention is Uncovered: A 3D printer that switches build materials midprint"

http://3dprint.com/3187/makerbot-3d-printer-invention/

If I didn't know better I'd take it as satire.
This firmware is probably no better or worse than what you'd usually find on a consumer grade router from BestBuy. The difference is that this one controls AC power!

Hey manufactures: If you think there's nothing more to the Internet of Things than adding a relay and a power socket to the same insecure schlock you've been pushing for years, you're about to create a very interesting(1) near-future for us all.

(1) In the Chinese curse sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_tim...
Understanding Async
It's important to explain why (or when) TCO is important. You could read a dozen articles like this that explain what a tail call is in simple terms and still not know.

The core demographic that cares about TCO is implementers of languages like Scheme, because if you have TCO:

* Loops can be written as recursive functions. In Scheme, you don't write loops, you write functions that re-invoke themselves at the end. This is efficient with TCO and impractical without (because the stack grows with every iteration).

* You can implement continuations. Imagine if every function took an argument "next", and instead of returning it called "next()". Without TCO, the stack would grow and grow, while with TCO, the old stack frame is torn down when you call "next()".
The Liechtenstein national anthem is the same tune as the British
I have a story in the making that I hope will have a happy ending.

I started a company with two of my good friends whom I also happen to be living with at the moment. We're profitable and growing, but that doesn't mean we don't have problems. I am the technical co-founder while the other two handle operations and the business development side. However, they seem to be just going with the flow while I on the other hand am pouring my blood, sweat, and tears into this company. And I feel my work isn't being respected because they have unrealistic demands and sometimes complain about things not working or things not being done while they on the other hand aren't making any effort to see how they can help. It's easy for them to just delegate their tasks to our assistants but for my work, it isn't so easy. They should be hustling and trying to grow the company with their free time, but they aren't. My resentment has been growing against them and lately it's been putting a strain on our relationship. I think us starting out as friends has made us avoid talking about the deep issues that underly this predicament. In the end, I can't do this without them and they can't do it without me. How can I approach this situation? The obvious answer is to sit down, talk, and make my issues be known but before I do that, I need some good advice.

I also want to mention our equity is split three ways evenly with no vesting.
The ability to think independently is the key. A cofounder who is constantly looking to you for the next step will bring you down. Look for people who have proven track record of motivating themselves and executing their own ideas. This does not necessarily need to be in the form of a startup.

Of course there are other things like chemistry and skill, but independent thinking is absolutely critical.
in your second example you just described most async javascript, through it tends to be called "callback"
It never was.

Despite what various pundits keep claiming over and over again, iOS never had a majority share of the smartphone market.
However many arguments there are for the value of standards bodies, this is an impressive example of what happens when stewardship of a technology is in the hands of a company with a monetary incentivize to keep quality high and get changes agreed-upon quickly.
This seems like a simple solution to problem I don't know I have.

I wonder how easy/difficult it would be to implement this in other editors..
> Why tolerate that, and the people making zero-days? They should be treated like bioterrorists making enhanced ebola virus.

That is the silliest thing I've heard on hackernews in a while. Criminalizing disclosure of security flaws would make everything MUCH less secure. Security flaws would still be found by unscrupulous individuals, it's just that the users and creators of the flawed software wouldn't know about them.
I use different browsers for each google account. It's a real pain in my ass.
Great story.

The advice about Slow is Fast in such situations is spot on.

Reminds me of a Unix incident at an automobile component manufacturer's plant. They had a multi-user Unix box supplied by the company I worked for at the time - a large Unix hardware and software vendor. A colleague and I had gone there for some system maintenance. In order to do something, my colleague, before I could stop him, gave the command "init 0" on the root console. ("init 0" shuts the system down without confirmation, for those who don't know, if run as superuser.) Within seconds the phone in the computer room was ringing madly, with calls from different intercoms on the shop floor, inventory store, etc. He had to apologize to many of them before they calmed down ...
> I have yet to regret trusting people to keep documents as private as I request.

Keeping shared content private is always to a large extend a matter of social trust. No technological solution can fully enforce permissions that you have chosen. Even if you require Google login and explicitly specify a group of people that can access a document, an allowed person can still copy-paste the content and share it with a larger group, or simply tell others about the content.
Ok, so you are saying that the price of the other publishers went down, and apparently dropped enough to offset the fact that they're, well, smaller publishers, and therefore a smaller part of the book market.

I don't think that's true. I have never heard that the smaller publishers kept dropping their prices.
my impression is that, regardless of outlook, economists have overwhelmingly praised the book as extremely thoroughly researched, setting a new bar for evidence presentation in economics literature.
"Hey guys, Felix from Microsoft here."

Maybe you should have disclosed that you work for MS in your comment?
Ask HN: $500k cash – what to do with it?
I'm 30, married and planning to start a family next year. I want to work hard now in exchange for better financial stability later. However, I rather spend my time on learning how to use money to make money, than taking on a job. Although if I have to, I can make a decent salary. I have ~$300k in mortgage, no other debt, monthly expense is ~$5000 (includes mortgage, tax, utilities, food, entertainment, etc). Assume I am the sole bread winner. No other assets. Able and willing to take a reasonable amount of risk. Parents can take care of themselves financially, only dependent is spouse and future kids. Thanks!