skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, in much of the third-world, this is not true. Hand made is cheaper than manufactured . I know it seems ass backwards, but the best examples I know are in Mexico:

1) Guy selling handmade pots (or any handmade product) -- his product is worthless. Imported electronics -- very expensive.

2) It's cheaper to have 30-50 guys using hammers and handsaws on a home construction site, than to pay for power tools.

So to the third-worlders: Hand made is cheaper.
I did, for a year and a half, but wasn't privy to the goings on in many people's homes, so I don't have any first hand evidence one way or the other. And I don't have access to actual numbers about people per household, income levels and so on, so I honestly can't say whether you're simply factually wrong or if there are a lot of people crammed into houses.
You lived in SF for a year and a half and you didn't notice where Mexican people live?
This is like an obese person complaining that the number of options of different foods to eat is making them fat, so we should cut it down to just one type of food. I don't see how having only 3 TV channels is going to allow them to watch less TV. If the ability to make decisions about what media to consume is the problem, well, there are a lot of web sites that try to help with that.
Fabric for remote deployment
Thanks, that was a great article, well worth a read (especially for those inside Europe).
Other than the Mission being the 'traditionally' Mexican area, it's not something I paid a lot of attention to.
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Ok, you're right, it's just conjecture, but that conjecture is based on looking in to a whole bunch of sites using drupal.

Let me go do my homework and get back to you on that to see if it is the same across a larger sample.
Pay more attention next time, then you won't have to ask stupid questions on the internet.
I've had problems using TRAMP with OpenBSD. SSH works and I think FTP does too, but for some reason, TRAMP just hangs. It does seem to connect but then it hangs.

Does TRAMP expect a certain type of shell prompt?
This sounds a bit shady to me. They get 100 startups to pay 5k each, then they choose 2 of those startups to fund 250k and 50k, with 200k going to cover their costs? In the end, you have 98 unhappy startups paying for 2 startups to launch and to pay these people.
Obviously, my "I guess" was tongue in cheek. Volumes upon volumes have been written on it. It should be common sense that you don't fuel your daily existence with ho-hos and mountain dew. Unfortunately, a lot of hackers opt for that -- or worse! some days, I'm guilty of it, but I do burn about 1,800 kCal on the bike daily. Still, burning the calories you eat is only part of the deal.

The whole "organic" thing doesn't strike me as any sort of requirement for being healthy. If you think it helps, good. But having grown up in a Nebraska family where a good wholesome meaty meal that probably came out of a feed lot 20 miles away, I can say I've seen plenty of people grow to be slender, muscular and very healthy without adopting the organic/granola/veg*n mindset. However our species got where we are, everything between our teeth and our colon is configured for a balanced diet of meat, fiber, legumes, grains, and veggies. And that's what I eat.

My great grandfather did the same. He croaked at age 107.
I dont understand why people are taking that post of mine against clojure so seriously, and if they are why they are misinterpreting it.
I never said anything against the language or even the JVM in they-are-very-bad sense.Its just a psychological block that was created when my project crashed In front of my teacher, and I simply blame it on JVM. I know that its wrong, because I never debugged it. I just rewrote the whole thing in Ruby without any investigation. Maybe I was wrong,maybe my code was buggy or my project just didnt deserve and A+ (my teacher never gave me any reason for the minus in my grade). I just needed something to blame my crashed project on. Call it escapism and you are right actually. But still when you put something in your mind, a sheer hate for a thing when you are just 13 or 14 you tend to hate it forever. May be thats the case with me. May be it isnt and I am just too stubborn. Maybe I will just learn clojure after my term paper is submitted and then will write a post. Now what I wanna see is what I write in that post
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What about The Von Neumann Method of Drinking Coffee or the Feynman Principal of Tea? :D
So what is the psychological effect of unreadable contrast between text and background?
You're right.

I think it's just a bit much in such a short time.
You just have to get used to it. I find Squeak to be more powerful than GNU Smalltalk because it has integrated version control and is basically the most self-aware IDE there is. The GUI may look ugly but it's usable and I thought programmers didn't care much for beauty if the functionality was there ;)
Check out the thread currently discussing idea vs. execution. I have no clue what your idea is but I am sure it is just about worthless - as almost all raw ideas are. It sounds like the hard work is in how you will pack it into such a small space.

It will pay you MUCH more to spread your idea to as many people as possible that way you have a chance of connecting with someone else who is excited about the idea also and get the benefit of other peoples thinking
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chan anons could probably refactor this into some foul meme
I've contemplated contemplating it. If you look at suicides many aren't brought on by a specific event or even a long period of obvious depression. They are clearly unplanned and seem to have been executed at the spur of the moment.

Given that it seems clear to me that some overwhelming feeling of dread comes over people in that one instant that has such a profound impact on them that they desperately need to stop it by any means necessary. Faced with that reality you'd be a fool not to wonder if the same thing could happen to you. Since you can't really answer that it makes sense to try to prepare yourself for the eventuality while you're in a rational state of mind.

So in that respect I've thought about it.
Yeah, ideas are mostly worthless.

Tell that to patent holders...like Facebook: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/fetch.jsp?SEARCH_IA=US200808572...
MS is not a problem. I rarely use it now but Google I could not avoid. Gmail, Reader, Calendar, Docs etc etc etc
Lol, I just noticed you also posted something on fabric. If I seen it I would not have submitted another entry.

One quick note. I think it's a good idea to explain that, since from the command line you are basically calling functions inside the fabfile.py, this allows you to define different environments. Something like:

def env1():
env.some_property = 'hehe'

def env2():
env.some_property = 'haha'

def deploy():
put('/%s/file.prop', '/somewhere_in_the_server/')

If you then run 'fab env1 deploy' you will copy the file under 'hehe' to the server. If you use env2 you will copy the other one. You are basically overriding the env variable. You can do the same to configure different paths for different target servers.

Really cool stuff :D
Is there a way that code could be formatted? :)
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It can be both sour grapes and the truth.
If u don't like the Squeak UI then take a look at Pharo: http://www.pharo-project.org/home
The news about Dan has had this question kicking through my head for a day and night, primarily because I've never considered suicide, though I suspect I've been through a depressive bout when my life took an unexpected turn for much worse.

The primary consideration I've identified is that when both my professional personal lives suddenly fell apart, I had a young son to take care of. Hopping in a car and driving across the country wasn't an option, much less something more permanent. I had a serious, nontransferable responsibility that kept me grounded and kept things in perspective.

The destruction of my life was exacerbated by the fact that much of my sense of self, purpose, and self worth was tied up in the company I was working for. My days were there, my evenings often involved colleagues who'd grown into friends and my brain's idle cycles were spent working on making it successful.

I also had a responsibility to my company and the people that I worked with. It was clear to me that leaving -- in any sense -- could result in the majority of the talented technical staff leaving. And after that the company would collapse. The people had families, mortgages, kids in college. Leaving and causing them that unwarranted pain, stress and upheaval wasn't something I wanted on my conscience.

I ended up staying, finishing building and selling the product I'd started, and leaving just as it took off. Last year (several years after I left), it represented 70% of the revenues of the firm. I left with my head held high.

My conclusion is that having these ties to the individuals in the firm and to my kid allowed me to consider my life in a larger matrix: entwined and linked to others. The thought of ripping myself out of that matrix by ending my life was anathema.

I wonder if the focus of the startup world on young, unattached, "unencumbered" founders is a mistake. These people may be most susceptible to not being part of a larger matrix and most at risk because they don't have the perspective that time can provide.

Note that I'm not suggesting that the young/unencumbered/unattached may not be successful, just that they may not be the best equipped to handle some of the rigors of this life.
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Yeah, that was part of why I thought long and hard then slept on it. But the problem is: When's the right time?
This is extremely true, and can't be said loud enough and repeated often enough.

Life experience outside your work is what keeps you sane when the pressures of work mount beyond what a regular person should have to endure.

You need something solid outside your work, both when things are very successful and when they go down the tubes.
this guy must be a glutton for punishment to submit this here. i've lost count of the number of times this subject has come up and been quickly put down. each time, the author comes off looking worse than the last time.
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Lemon and milk?
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It is a free country, but this is a gross idea. Thankfully it seems not to be attracting any entrants. MIT's 100K competition gives almost the same cash outlay for no equity and MUCH better connections and support. According to his model he gets 10% AND $800K in "management fees" if everything was to go as planned (100 entrants per quarter). I hope this is the last we hear of them.
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I never understood business plan competitions. What's next, project plan competitions? Data flow diagram competitions?

This is just a bad idea. The business plan is just one (small) piece of what it takes to compete. What really matters is the business itself, not the plan.

To me, this makes as much sense as cancelling the election and going with the polls, or cancelling the football game and going with the bookies' predictions.
Awesome. I tried finding some numbers myself, but was disappointed in the lack of data. Would be glad to see what you find...
It's fully compliant without the overreaching "desktop" metaphor that's so ingrained in other Smalltalk. GNU Smalltalk has a repl and is able to load files from disk and dump images; very Lispy features that breaks rank with the GUI-nature of most other STs.
Ok, I'm going to be unusually harsh for me, but here goes.

If this is really going to be quarterly, that's just shy of $800K in fees per year and 392 startups pre-paying for "services" and 10% (!!!) of your co. Yeah, no thanks.

Anyone in Boston is better off hitting the crowded myriad of events (Web Inno, Open Coffee, etc.) and spending the rest of their money on lottery tickets. At least with Web Inno and Open Coffee you can meet folks who actually matter in this scene, unlike their list of "advisers".
Or Zurich
Ultimately I decided that leaving it unspoken is worse than a poll that can fade into the ether if you disagree.

Yes. I was startled that just a few days after a poll on HN members feeling depressed with most responses (hundreds) saying that participants often felt depressed

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=849650

there was a thread

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859117

(still on the front page as I type this)

about a young hacker who seemed to have much going for him dying of suicide. The comments in the previous thread nay-saying the idea of taking depression seriously as a life-threatening problem sound especially stark in light of the later thread.

Lifetime incidence of at least one period of depressed mood is fairly high across humankind, but that's over the course of a whole lifetime. It is UNUSUAL for young people to have prolonged (days-long) episodes of depressed mood if they haven't had a parent die or something like that. That's an issue that should be looked into. Untreated depression is a huge cause of mortality among young people. Young people in developed countries don't die of much else besides traffic accidents (and at least some deaths of young people that are reported as traffic accidents may be misreported suicides).

There is also the issue of subsequent degradation of a person's quality of life if depression is not treated when the person is young. Most twenty-somethings are resilient enough to get through quite a few episodes of depression and to stay employed and to stay in romantic relationships, but each depressive episode tends to cost a patient work productivity, intimacy with significant others, and other sources of personal reserves for the next episode. Physicians have taken care in multiple research projects to develop diagnostic screening tools that standardize how much by way of depressive symptoms is enough to be of concern. If you have a concern, get the opinion of someone with clinical experience and see if you can go through life without repeated episodes of feeling worse (and doing worse) than you need to. If a young person is depressed for days at a time a few times a year, that young person has a clinical case of depression and is well advised to seek medical advice about what to do about. Both medicine and cognitive talk therapy can be helpful, often most helpful as a both-and combination.
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Yeah, in London currently, did a double take when I saw the difference between Oyster and standard fare. The standard fare is absurd, whereas oyster puts it on par with NYC (and has the very nice feature of acting as a la carte until you reach a maximum for the day, at which point it effectively becomes a day pass).
What do you do with an office suite?
Choice in office suite (iLife vs. MS Office vs. OOo) seems to be something that comes up pretty often. It's something that confuses me though, as I haven't used a text editor fancier than vim since high school, and what I create boils down to pretty much source code/documentation, email, and forum postings. What do people (especially programmers) do with office suites? Are presentations the big draw? Organizing data in a tabular format? Writing letters to people?
Executing "untrusted" 3rd party JavaScript in the context of the calling page is the whole point of JSONP.

Cool hack, but I don't see where this is useful.
Using "you" is only two extra characters, and not using them devalues anything you say, for some people.
Sensationalist? Yes.

But who would remember the Newport Principle?

Using an Einstein story makes the whole idea more memorable.

Borrowing star power is a tool. Like any tool - it can be used for good or bad. In this case, I think its a good use.
There weren't ulterior motives.

Weren't there? It seems to me there are always ulterior motives. That doesn't mean he was conscious of those motives when he wrote the article, or that they were in any way sinister, but when selling a philosophy is your bread and butter then there is a very strong tendency to turn a blind eye to any realities that don't jive with that philosophy. Even those of us who aren't selling anything do this all the time, so imagine when your livelihood is on the table.
Ditto. Like, immediately and hard.

I had a look at the source in Safari and there's little contentious on there. No JavaScript, Flash, or whatever. The only oddity is some horrifically formatted HTML with the end of tags coming on the next line every time - could merely that be killing FF though?
I think Douglas Adams has more mindshare when it comes to tea :)
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It looks more like a lottery than a "business".
Could either CSSHttpRequest or JSONP be used to determine what URL an iFrame contains? (assuming the user has navigated within the iFrame beyond the initial page defined in the iFrame property)
I use office suites to open what other people send me.
Checks out fine with 3.5.3 on WinXP, but I'd point the finger at that poorly-formatted HTML.
There is a danger associated with such a poll.
This book (http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Practice-Robert-B-Cialdini/d...), written by a psychology professor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini), reports that when a suicide is reported in the news, the number of lethal car accidents increase in the geographic region where the news were reported. Furthermore, if the person who committed the suicide was middle aged, then the people who die in the car accidents are more likely to be middle aged (or something like that).

The theory is that the people who are "on the edge" get the "courage" to execute their plan by hearing about someone who has done this, which is possibly also true about this poll.
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Beautifully put. Having dependents (family/work/etc.) gives one a moral reason to stick around. Eventually, as time goes, (hopefully) one starts looking at brighter aspects of life.
I've never seen anything too disgusting in Noe Valley. The main principle of distribution of filth in San Francisco seems to be this: homeless people are too lazy to climb hills.
Why use two extra characters when you can get away with one?I know this logic does not appeal to many, but must you not judge the post by its content and not by its language?I mean you know when he is saying "u" he means "you" and language is just a tool to make you understand his ideas, and when that is accomplished why bother about the extra two characters.

PS:- Funny thing is according to my above logic I wasted a whole post just to make you understand the not so great value of two extra characters
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... and US coders are wondering why companies are so eagerly offshoring their jobs. No tariffs or import duties on foreign-made software. Unlike produce, code doesn't even spoil in transit! (although there is evidence to believe specifications might)
Because it puts each bird in the most favorable position with regards to the slipstream of the bird in front of it.

That's also why geese will 'rotate the leader'. So everybody gets to rest a bit.

Other birds (such as the Albatros) that fly long distance on their own use the ground effect for much the same reason, to conserve as much energy on long distance flights as possible.
I pity people with memory like this.

Unlike the author, I don't forget the code I wrote yesterday and can still explain and understand it. It takes several months for the meaning of my normal code to slip my mind. Maybe I'm just different ... but I even find that going back and relearning my code easy too.

(Not that I write particularly obtuse code, or never comment upon anything.)
Well, we discovered that there is no immortal here, since nobody attempted multiple times and answered the pool.

Men! Why suicide? It can always get better, is just a matter of try, multiple times, one day you will have success and thinks how dumb you was thinking in take your life.
I think they can do better! They should push it and go where no man has been and load their webos under a second .. (like most of the websites .... grin )
New business plan. Host forums for business plans, charge $5k entry fees. 12 people show up, rent is paid for a year. Host 3-4 a year, buy a yacht.
In my younger, single days I used go out to buy something expensive and complicated. Pouring over the manual and getting into the forums kept my mind turning. By the time I had it figured out I moved onto something else shiny. Or I enjoyed tinkering with it long enough to continue on.

My shopping list includes:
Abit BP6 and x2 celerons
PS2, hacked to all hell
XBox, hacked 3 ways from sunday.
Tivo Gen 1 + Gen 2 hacking.

I don't consider myself clinically depressed but whenever I was in a funk it was followed by a great deal of creative activity.
Does it always have the Aqua buttons or it gets a more native look from the system it's running on?
Boycott these guys. Never ever apply to them, please.

It's a simple rip-off. No serious VC or angel would EVER charge you for pitching, if they're going to rip you off at the entrance you can be sure they'll be ripping you off at the exit too.

Until you have a deal, you pay your way, they pay theirs.
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Would many YC startups be willing to pony up $5k for something like this? Little chance of winning or getting much visibility. Seems like the $$$ could be better spent on development, hosting/colo costs, paying the rent, etc.
translate related words to Swahili and look what sounds nice.
Precede the code with a blank line and then two spaces.

$str = 'Like this.';
echo $str;

http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
So you take option 2 of my trilemma?

That's an excellent answer; if you claimed #1 or #3, I was going to ask how you expect 100/hr out of posting to and commenting on HN (since I can't see that HN demographics would generate many bingo-card customers).
Because, first and foremost, it's aesthetically displeasing. Secondly, cutting out characters provides no gain to anyone, tangible or otherwise, unless you are just that concerned about the tenth of a second it will save you typing. Thirdly, language matters: for instance, inserting the word "fuckery" three or four times into most posts would leave them entirely understandable; that does not mean that people are obligated to support it. Similarly for 1337, which has the benefit of not being actually offensive, but rather making the speaker sound like they're six.

Content is important, of course, but atmosphere matters too (at least to some people).

Edit: For what it's worth, I didn't downvote the comment being discussed.