skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hehe, not from where you're standing. But from where I'm standing 49 is way too young and a tragedy.

I've got a weird idea of death, perhaps. I don't like it when it happens, but I don't see it as a tragedy.

Personally my favorite book by him is The long dark teatime of the soul.

Yes! Very much. It was unexpectedly clever.

Why, you thought it was worth writing, I might as well read it

Sometimes I worry that I put too much effort into posting on HN. I enjoy writing, and I try to make it relevant to the conversation, but I've been frequently scolded for it here, which I think is a shame.
I use Wesabe instead of Mint. Now I'm even happier I do.
Thunderbird Ups the Email Ante
"""Anyway, when it comes to Twisted vs. Tornado for a Python web framework, I use Django. Why? Because it works, and my time is valuable."""

Who is the idiot here? I don't think the author understands the real power of async frameworks.

You can't use Django for anything that requires a massive amount of longer running connections. This is an area where frameworks like Twisted or Tornado shine. Comparing the two is silly.
For students, Windows 7 will equal Snow Leopard's price
Reading this I could not help but think - 50 Cent DID NOT write this...
IIRC a snail's pace is roughly 0.00015 m/s
wow!! what a story. I can see why it got flagged for not being tech startup oriented, whatever. But wow, I would have upvoted it anyway.
if by PITA you mean versatile, and useful for many dishes then yes! I use it on a daily basis (i work for a consulting company that does .NET development, PHP, Java, cold fusion, and ROR) .NET is still my preference out of all those technologies. Before I did any of those I created a platform for building and managing virtual servers (was about 90% managed .NET code) It has done nothing but make my life easier.
When you post online, you're saying something with your name. It's tied to you and who you are as a figure online.

I've had things I posted on HN come back to bite me in the ass, not in large ways but in ways that indicate people are willing to read through a person's posts to find more about them. That's why I no longer list any personal details in my profile. It's a shame, because I don't get the lengthy email discussions that used to follow threads, but I don't want any ties between this and anything else I've done.

I've felt before like deleting this account and its posts along with it; I regret that there's no option for me to do so.
On 49:
http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/simplified
HN would make a terrific startup challenge. It's already got a potential revenue model that would work: Charge for admission. It works for similar sites, and I think it would help a lot for this one.
Bowline is used for mooring boats. One of the characteristics is that it's easy to untie.
The article focuses on science journalists, not on scientists themselves. I wonder how this affects scientific debate. Scientific articles as a rule will say that something previously done was wrong, so given the asymmetry of risks it seems that in situations with large economic interest the scientists themselves would be open to lawsuits. I could see the fossil fuel lobby suing James Hansen, for example.
> this was a channeling of the behavior of their worst clients

Right. Next time someone calls me out for being a jerk, I'll just point out that someone in no way related to them once acted like a jerk to me.

> towards a company that is insulting to their industry.

Like that time Bobby Flay went off on some poor Taco Bell cashier for insulting his industry by offering cheap, fast, convenient food. Wait, I'm not sure that happened. Maybe I was thinking of how he's used teaching, media savvy, and his own personal enthusiasm to help the mass market understand the value of his (and others') high quality work.
Ok, I'm not sure why my post was modded down, it obviously shouldn't have been.

The market _should not_ be liquid. Liquidity is great, but you haven't provided any reason it's better that the market be liquid. Your first example (loaning you money) is credit markets, not stock. And credit markets become looser if stock markets become stricter, since stock is better collateral for loans, so here your example supports my scheme.

Credit hiccups would not go away in my scheme, but day to day sensitivity to credit markets would be reduced if executives were incentivized to look after long term stability of companies instead of quarterly profits. Do you believe Ford or Standard Oil, in their heyday, would have been crippled by being unable to get loans from WallStreet? If a company fails for inability to get a loan, they have been painting themselves into the corner with bad decisions for years.

Finally, why shouldn't the stock market be glacially slow? Stock prices could change just as quickly as they do now, since buy orders could be entered and removed instantly, just as now. The only thing this would prevent is people flipping stock as short term investments, and so stock _would not_ fluctuate as much, since there would be so many less trades overall. Short term investments are always (no exceptions) an attempt to game the system or trade on inside information, and there is certainly no way to profit in the short term except by fomenting, using inside information or trading far quicker than the average investor so you can respond to news more quickly. All of these activities hurt the efficiency of the market, so the market becomes more stable and prices more accurately signal company health than they do currently. When you have a stable market, price ratio's can increase since risk is reduced, and that is good for everyone when it is sustained.
Most lottery winners piss away their winnings and end up where they started.

It's kind of surprising how many people are absolute idiots at managing their money. My girlfriend's parents are broke again after blowing over $100,000 in a year on leather couches. Their manufactured home is still not paid off.
That is exactly what bad governments do. And it is exactly why the developing world is poor, because of bad governance. Not because of some other inherent quality of the climate, geography or people, but simply because of crap like this.
Stuff like this is sadly in no way unique to India.
I can't read this article because teddziuba.com is blocked at work for some weird reason. Probably the same reason why uncov got blocked awhile back.

Without reading the article I can tell you I probably wouldn't say that the author is an idiot. However, I would probably say he is an opinionated asshole. Inflammatory titles are just used to get people to read his stuff.
Where does it end? It doesn’t. Why should it? Life is good, health is good, beauty and happiness and fun and laughter and challenge and learning are good. This does not change for arbitrarily large amounts of life and beauty. If there were an upper bound, it would be a special case, and that would be inelegant.

I love Eliezer's writing. What I meant, though, was that while I wish Adams hadn't died, he died with a lifetime's work fulfilled. The only deaths I really find tragic are the ones that stop something big from progressing, something that required one man or woman to push it forward.
Dumb question here, how do I get at the smart readings? How will I know if it's warning me? I'd like to know for Ubuntu and for Windows XP.
QƏRİB ŞƏHƏRİN HÖNKÜRTLƏRİ
Whoever wrote this its good, I mean talk about not judging a book by the cover...
Basically, if Ted writes something, you can bet that he's calling someone an idiot or worse. It's boring after a while.
Sorry to hear that - I suppose mileage varies. My friend has a real fear of flying, and Xanax makes him not care at all (or about anything else, really - it's a good thing his wife was around to keep in line).

On the flip side, I sat next to a woman who had taken two Xanax and drank two screwdrivers during a three hour flight, and still gripped my hand (a complete stranger) during landing.
Do you have citation for that?
It's not a backup because if you delete a file from the "main" filesystem, it is immediately deleted from the "backup" as well.
literally changes

What would a nonliteral change be?
Similar to the Facebook example, I've seen people use YouTube to drive viral traffic. It helps if your video is related to a popular news story or meme. Put a link in the description and overlay it on the video. One tip is to leave 30 seconds of just the url at the end of the video so the related clips don't pop up right away.
What are the logistics if everyone in the world was an entrepreneur? ~5-6bn small businesses?
Got a Bachelor's in Computer Science and a Master's in Philosophy here.

If you're seriously into philosophy, do have in mind that casual evening readings will probably not match a year or two of intense study. On the one hand, I think one has to live for a while in academia to get a decent understanding of philosophy. It took me about a year of full-time study for philosophy to really "click". On the other hand, shallow study will not be enough to get somewhat sick of the subject and start avoiding it, which I jokingly consider to be one of the best things about my philosophy education.

Full time study is a fairly big investment in terms of time though, and keep in mind that you will probably want to get back to hacking afterwards.
Shitting on things other people built is in such poor taste, imo. People built and released code that at least some other people are sure to find worthwhile. He's saying his time is valuable, yet he's using it to talk down the efforts of developers that released their code to the world?

Whatever.

Wake me up when Ted contributes something to the world other than sophomoric rants.
Even though that particular story is true, don't link to mediatakout as a source. That site has made an art form of lying. Always check somewhere else first.
Do they profit? Or is Zuckerberg still buying his ramen with VC money?
wow...

The test was run on two VMs on the Rackspace cloud using the public IP addresses.
The questions you mentioned are scientific rather than philosophical. I'd say the discerning feature of most philosophical questions is that no empirical evidence can give a conclusive answer to them. So, no, exposure to science will give you some prejudice (in both a good and bad way) at the beginning of a philosophical argument, but after that, you will mostly be relying on logic.
So they would fall into the "it's not canon and I haven't read it" camp? I don't get why the author of the note changes the range of responses.
Childish, to be sure, but I'd still fund a company that believes "blood alone moves the wheels of history."
I thought It was funny with uncov while Pressflip was in development and was trashing everyone elses startup. Less funny on El'Reg after leaving PressFlip(which appears to not be doing so great)
Posterous Finally Adds Themes to Make Your Blog Look Less Boring
Entrepreneurs and Risk
It happens - my aunt broke her tailbone after slipping on acorns. I don't blame the city one bit. Oak trees are beautiful trees for forests and parks, but they are very messy for public walkways. They drop small branches constantly as well as piles of acorns that attract squirrels and mice.
The Plot Thickens: Skype Founders And Joost Sue Former Chairman And CEO
ACM offers Win 7 Professional (RTM) no more. It was pulled this week after a huge growth spike of people joining and going after several Win 7 licences.
It started off by making fun of people who post things on blogs... in a blog post. I stopped reading after that.
great concise summary at the top of the article- More writers should do this!
The article is from 2000 - it has absolutely not relevance to today's situation.
The question of whether hardware components are easier to build and more reliable with two states instead of ten is more subtle than it appears. In the early days the appropriate princples for building hardware were in flux requiring co-desigh of software (number base) and hardward. I'm particularly remembering the decatron: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekatron. The comparison is between doing binary with triodes and doing decimal with triodes, dekatrons and anything else you might invent. Is binary really better or have you merely failed to invent a suitable tube?
The essay's author is bemoaning the fact that 99.9% of the people in online discussion groups are all kvetching and no action. It may not bother you that "everyone's a critic", but it seems to me that any attempt to label this essay a failure only serves to reinforce the point he's trying to make.
I like to use movie phrases or song lyrics to generate random-looking passwords:
agnblb8daw = "ain't got nothin' but love babe, 8 days a week"

Of course, when I really need security, I just use Picard's password:
1734-6732-1476-CHARLIE-327-897 7-7643- TANGO-732-VICTOR-731-1788-8732 -4767-8976- 4376 Lock!
It's called Raptorex, which makes it the coolest-named dinosaur to date.
Google praises Microsoft's HTML 5 contribution
Of course they are lower than average quality impressions. Proportional representation of clicks isn't necessary with that kind of volume.
Finally, why shouldn't the stock market be glacially slow?

If Alice wants to buy and Bob wants to sell, and they've agreed on a price, what right do you have to demand they wait?

If I want to buy GOOG with a stop-loss under last week's low, you have no right (legal OR moral) to prevent me from doing that. You may call that an "undesirable short-term trade", but I'm not gaming the system, I'm limiting my losses.

If you get your way and trading becomes severely restricted, just watch how fast capital moves offshore to more user-friendly exchanges. That would not be good for the USA.
The conclusion is pretty good, in terms of strategy.
While finding Ted's writing to be entertaining is a matter of taste, his point stands.

To paraphrase: Twisted, while not being the nicest code in the world, works well. Tornado tries to do the same and may be marginally better. That time may have been better spent getting more visitors.
forced to perform a task for someone else even if that task is admirable

Whilst this point is made very frequently there is a MUCH more important use for it. If words unable to be read by OCR are figured out by crowd sourcing then those can later be used as a test image - right?

So it's not just benefiting something unknown; it's benefitting us as reCaptcha users :)
A Kevlar killer comes to market
Shannon is only a little-known character if one has been stranded on a desert island for the last 70 years, without any contact with the rest of the world...
Pentagon Wants ‘Space Junk’ Cleaner
Google's Mark Pilgrim on HTML 5
While I think you're basically correct in the context of a fundraiser (Occam's Razor suggest the more likely explanation is that most people don't donate to most causes and you weren't special enough to get around that), I still think Eliezer has a point in general.

I've observed this in online debating in general as well, to put it in a larger context. If I write something even modestly controversial, and get five replies, I guarantee each of those five replies will be nothing but sheer negativity and disagreement. Agreement is indicated by... simply ignoring the agreeable point. It produces a harshly confrontational environment. I have no idea how to address that, though; we eschew people simply posting "I agree!" for a reason, after all. "Voting up" isn't supposed to mean "I agree" either, though we all know that it sort of does in practice no matter how much we may protest to the contrary (or even sometimes stretch ourselves and upvote a good argument for something we disagree with; I've done it, but I'll be honest, it's an exception, not a rule).

Note that this message is not an exception, except perhaps inasmuch as I "throw you a bone" in the first paragraph. I don't know what to do about it, but I'd be interested in ideas.
Five ways that Apps.gov is a trendsetter
Original article on WHATWG blog: http://blog.whatwg.org/this-week-in-html5-episode-35
Because a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Never underestimate the risk of losing it all because of a failure to diversify.
Anyone here has a few suggestions on groups who do Computational Neuro-Science/ Cognitive Neuroscience and use Machine Learning extensively in it?
I dont mind flying at all - but sometimes the claustrophobia hits me and I immediately have a sudden vision of wrenching open the door and falling thousands of feet.

It passes in a few seconds but it's pretty scary!
I'm currently attending two universities in Canada (four courses at one, and two at the other), and both of them offer Windows 7 Professional for free, right now, as part of the Microsoft Academic Alliance.

Free is much better than $30.
I'm in the same boat. The deadline is everything. I structure my life around my deadlines, and the closer I get to the deadline, the more everything else ends up playing second fiddle to it.

I'm an illustrator, though, not a programmer. But it's nice to be able to tell new clients that I haven't missed a deadline in 15 years. No illness or injury or real-life event can change that.

I used to feel guilty for sometimes waiting till the last minute to finish a job, until I watched a documentary about Frank Frazetta. He would get a new painting project and wait till the night before the deadline before even starting on it.

He'd stay up all night and get it done on time, then go back to what he was doing--which was usually baseball or (as he got older) golf. :)
That's what RAID5 does. It protects from single drive failure by placing an "error-correcting code" on an alternate disk. Unless you're talking about error-correcting codes on a single disk, eg. within the filesystem. But this doesn't solve the same problem as RAID is intended to solve.
My Arc REPL online uses Arc on the backend, see http://dabuttonfactory.com:8080 (the code is linked there), but it's just a tiny project.

But yes, there are not so many projects using it to my Arc-forum-user knowledge too.
Hmm, it's in my Debian but I might have installed it.

Though, browser support is no reason not to include a tiny command-line client.
And the thesis can be found here: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11173
That reminds me of the story a couple months ago in Britain [1]:

"One passenger then identified himself as a qualified aircraft engineer and offered to try to remedy the fault.
He was successful, and the plane landed in Glasgow only 35 minutes late...It was reassuring to know the person who had fixed it was still on the aeroplane."

Normally I'd be very worried that my plane was fixed by someone that didn't actually work for that company, but the fact that he trusted his own life to his fix would go a long way to reassuring me.

[1]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1198058/Is-engineer-...
What to do if your system is frozen
Evidence Points To Conscious 'Metacognition' In Some Nonhuman Animals
It's a Cult of Personality. Benign, sure, and helpful even, but that's what you have to do to get your message across: repeat it, over and over, from a million slightly different angles.

Only nerds -- and people with no persuasive skills (or influence) -- think that saying something "the right way," once, is productive.
Where can I download the software? I like it a lot. Maybe YCombinator should sell it ;-)
9/11 hoax fools all of Germany
Technically that's RAID 4, 5 distributes the parity across all disks.
Fair enough, but EW (http://popwatch.ew.com/2007/06/27/50-cent-lip-syn/) and Stereo Gum (http://stereogum.com/archives/video/formula-50-goes-ashlee-s...) both cited them in this case, so I figured I would post the source, not other blogs' reposting...
People are funny. If a friend gave me a large sum of money, I'd always feel indebted to them, and probably vice versa.

I'd like to think that this wouldn't change our relationship, but you never know.
You don't need evidence of a cartel, monopoly, or cheating to decide that society/economy may be better off if the rules were changed. I have no evidence that things would be better if the rules were changed but some people that know better than me see value in taking a closer look to see if this might be the case.
Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence
Only if you CHOOSE to ACCEPT outside investors, and CHOOSE a board that doesn't have the same vision for the company as you do. I'm no lawyer, but I'm guessing if you own your own business, your fiduciary responsibility is to yourself.
Cool. I guess given that people carry 8-16oz bottles of water makes this feasible (lots of advertising surface area for a small amount of water). Better example, I can't give away dirt with advertising on it. There you probably cross the line between cost of production+distribution versus advertising revenue (note, these examples are heavy on the distribution side to attempnt to mimic the apparently free cost of content generation).
That doesn't do much good if news.yc.com is never updated.
Yawn. So much philosophizing, people.

Everyone on this thread is just screaming their own point of view so they can feel validated.

Quit arguing on HN, and go DO something.
Burning man had opensource mobile network of 1000 handsets
http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.1.tar, it includes news.arc, the code running HN/NewMogul/etc and a "how-to-run-news" text file.

You need MzScheme 4 to run Arc.

See also http://arclanguage.org/install (installation instructions, but a bit out-of-date, it's for Arc 3.0) and http://arclanguage.org/item?id=10254 (Arc 3.1 announcement).
"man smartctl" is the place to start.

I don't know how to do it on Windows. There's probably a GUI. Although it seems that smartmontools has Windows support.
Sadly that applies to a lot of the general population, I would say it even apply to several people having a degree or working in fields related to computer science.
No, not always.

It becomes a business when

1) you charge interest

2) you have some terms and conditions or attach some "strings"

3) you require collateral

4) you make your friend sign papers, and you leave "legal" options open

When I loan a friend, all I say is "dude, this is just to help you, I know you are going through tough times. No way this is to insult or patronize you. you can return the money when you can, even if it takes you 5-10 years"

That is trust and friendship, one friend helping the other, nothing more nothing less and definitely not a business.
Jajah Lets You Make Phone Calls Directly From Twitter
Researchers using parallel processing could save thousands by using an Xbox
I was half expecting a kanye meme here..

"Yo Fiddy, I'm really happy for you, I'll let you finish, but Jay-Z had some of the best financial advice of all time!"
Because, as I said last time, what Hacker News needs most of all is a bigger sense of entitlement among its users.
I agree with your general point about bootstrappability, but the X-price is a faulty analogy - it was indeed bootstraped: http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_diamandis_on_our_next_giant_l... around 9:15 in.

Diamandis used a small initial grant from the Ansari family and leveraged it via insurance.
Parity is a very weak ECC, basically. A more complex one of the sort used in outer-space networking can detect and rescue large swathes of destruction, or even tolerate it and prioritize relocation of the most damaged data. It doesn't protect against outright drive failure, but straight-up mirroring will do that. This is of course at the cost of tunable space wastage.
I got problems with the word 'self-help'. Since you usually receive such 'self-help' knowledge through books, movies etc. which is like regular help. If you however figure out to do something yourself, without that book or movie, THEN its self-help. Please let use the language we a all agreed upon.