skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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What's veiled about it ?
I think you are being more than a little harsh. The "too much house" that they bought had a payment that was a relatively conservative 22% of their income at the time of the purchase. He did buy a motorcycle, and has sold it and sounds like he has learned from it. I don't get any indication that anyone is "bitching" that the wife must now work, I think what they both saying is "we worked really hard to get to a certain point in life, and getting there allowed us to consider new options. Those options are now gone and that is hard." If 31% of your income dissapears tomorrow, and someone interviews you about it a few months from now, could you be this equanimous? I know that I would struggle.
well, i disagree with some of the points of the article as a netbook owner ($350 1000HE)

the battery life issue is dubious. my netbook with default battery lasts for about 6 hours. its advertised at about 9, but thats at low settings, i need a brighter screen. but the point is, 6 hours is still long, much longer than the reported "at most 2".

talking about how netbooks have problems running a lot of programs or powerful programs is obvious. of course an atom processor and 512 of ram is going to have problems with outlook and eclipse open. netbooks aren't designed to replace full powered computers. they're designed to run simple stuff and web apps. if you need more, don't buy a netbook. don't try and roll your razor scooter down the interstate.

screen res and quality is valid, but you kind of get used to it.
Hoover were found guilty of deliberately copying patented Dyson technology

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1368860/Dyson-cleans-...
Wall Street Journal now the #1 selling US newspaper
Great game. Even if you aren't much of a gamer, give this game a try. Anyone who ever enjoyed building anything (everyone here?) should enjoy the puzzles and anyone with even the smallest bit of design taste (most of us?) should enjoy crazy well polished presentation.
You're right, the author is insanely smart. My only real critique is that he is overly embracing of the sociopath concept, probably because his only personal experience comes from within organizations. If he ran his own business I think he'd be able to see this more objectively. Still, he gets a ton of credit for creating all the insights that he does.
Nor do we need blankets with sleeves, that doesn't mean it's not a good business idea.

Technically dumb is not necessarily economically dumb. I also don't agree with your assertion that it's technically dumb.
Hi! Sorry, it's not ready for release in that way. I don't want criticism of it to affect the other songs/tracks I'm working on.
I am willing to give him some benefit of the doubt because I've had interactions with the author in #clojure on irc in the past and I don't think he's got bad intentions. He just has strong opinions about things.
Don't bother with this. The compatibility tables at quirksmode[1] are superior. They even include IE8 acting in IE7 compatibility mode.

[1] http://www.quirksmode.org/compatibility.html
Scott Wheeler (wheels) talking about DirectedEdge 12:30 PDT/3:30 EDT (ish)
Scott Wheeler (HN user wheels) of DirectedEdge.com is talking tonight at Edinburgh Techmeetup (http://techmeetup.co.uk/blog/). We'll be broadcasting the talk live on ustream at http://ustream.tv/channel/techmeetup

EDIT: The talk is now available at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2352206
Screen res is not an issue for me. I always plug into a desktop monitor when I'm at home or the office (usually with a KVM switch). When I'm on the road, I'll gladly trade off the size and weight for screen size.
And hulu.com still doesn't work in Canada. Grrr.
So wait, if I stick my hand in there, it will hurt it?
A similar video with a OCZ Vertex SSD.

http://vimeo.com/4057677

Executive summary: it doesn't have to be an Intel drive, just stay away from drives based on those old JMicron chipsets.
> a development that could open the floodgates to a wave of new filmmaking talent and a deluge of truly awful home movies

Fixed.
It might be a better vacuum cleaner, but it still sucks.

It's one thing to build the best vacuum cleaner or fan, but they are still vacuum cleaners and fans and to say they are something else is disingenuous.
We use triggers to do cascading deletes in sqlite3 without foreign keys. It's not as concise or declarative as a foreign key constraint, though.
Yay. my sorry grad student salary can't justify $20, but i'll throw down $10...

I've been wanting to try it our for a while.
I have got the date for cyclonic separation back to at least 1934

http://www.buellrefinery.com/

but as it says on Wikipedia Dyson has himself said he didn't invent cyclonic separation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_(company)

"During a visit to a local sawmill, Dyson noticed how the sawdust was removed from the air by large industrial cyclones. He conjectured the same principle might work, on a smaller scale, in a vacuum cleaner."
I'd be interested in hearing other people's strategies.
They don't care; I've asked them about it. The only issue is space and expense.
Sanitation is important. I am happy that there are a variety of different efforts in India to increase awareness of germs and sanitation issues...

But an article about free hand sanitizer being given away at the grocery store (for example) is far less entertaining to Americans (who have a taste for stories about their cultural supremacy) than a story about men having their marriage proposals shot down unless they agree to purchase a toilet.

The story humiliates and emasculates Indian males, and puts the blame for a big public health problem on men, as if they need to be coerced to buy a toilet ... which in India is still more of a luxury good than a sanitation necessity.

Imagine a story about American men being denied marriage unless they purchased a car with front and side airbags, anti-lock brakes, and traction control, the cheapest of which costs $19K. Then the judgmental but bemused tone sounds a bit more annoying to those who don't sense it when it's about brown people... and coincidentally brown people are the ones we drop bombs on.
I would have paid more for it then the ask. I had it preordered though. Maybe I can gift a copy...

I hope they make it an iPhone game. If they would have released it for the iPhone originally it would probably be the most sold game on the system.
I'm cool with that, but if you have strong opinions pro one language and contra another, and lots of experience in one language and almost none in the other (even I can tell that, and I'm pretty much a newbie to both python and clojure) then you shouldn't make comparisons.

It is a disservice to clojure as well, because it makes people think that clojure proponents are thinking about clojure in terms of religious dogma, instead of rationality.
Many of the author's problems can be solved with a minimalistic linux distro and a lightweight window manager.

From my own experience, an MSI wind has great battery life running Arch (around 5 hours, minimum). And xmonad allows one to make good use of the display (no annoying toolbars, ect...)
The phrase you're looking for is "market clearing price" or just "market price".

Those are definitely not the phrases I'm looking for. They don't contain enough information. I hope I can unwrap this without being too confusing.

First, you're preaching to the choir here. I'm pro-market-prices. I don't think there's anything unfair about the practice of price gouging. I support it 100%.

The issue here is you, and the others, aren't playing Gordon Gekko: "Gouging is good". You're playing Margaret "society doesn't exist" Thatcher: "When supply is constrained then prices go up. That's just the market at work. There isn't even such a thing a price gouging. Stop hallucinating."

Do I really need to spell out why and how it's different than a market-fluctuation? I got into it a little bit in a neighboring message, but I didn't go into the manufacturer/retailer dynamic. I think just the fact that it makes so many people irrationally angry is evidence enough that there's something unique about it.

Thought experiment: if gas prices doubled overnight would anyone get upset at gas station owners? Exactly. That's why it's not price gouging.

All I'm doing is defending the concept's existence and saying that because it exists I need a way to refer to it. If "gouging" is too pejorative then give me another word that actually captures all the relevant non-value-judgement-related meaning and is not just a sleight of hand attempt to pretend there's no there there. Because there is.
"chopping the oxygen molecules in half"

The fans in Korea must have really fine blades.
Yes, it's over-hyped as much as the Razor was but these days every kid on our block has a Razor and plays with it and I'm sure the netbook will become just as ubiquitous.

No, it doesn't solve your problem but it's perfectly suitable in others; I have a 1005HA and love it! I use it primarily to write and when bored I can play Diablo II or even World of Warcraft. No, it's not going to play the latest FPS but I didn't buy it for that.
A prototype is prudent deliberate.
The word object wasn't even mentioned in this piece.
There is a huge difference between giving away a year-old product and giving away a brand new, never-been-sold-before one.

Let me explain.

Radiohead took a -huge- risk by releasing an album, out the door, right at the start, with a "pay what you want" pricing model.

2dboy is taking -no- risk by releasing World of Goo with a "pay what you want" pricing model. They are already on the tail end of the demand curve at the $20 price point, they are just using this as a chance to capture more of the market at a smaller price.

Radiohead took a huge swing with their pricing model, 2dboy didn't. It's a completely different situation.
I often find I have an urge to write something a certain way, sometimes one that is different from best practice. I take the time to evaluate the results of what I do. Sometimes I look back at something and go, "I should have stuck to best practice," but increasingly I go, "I realize now the reason why it made sense not to follow best practice."
This title is seriously misleading.

better link from TFA:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091013210441.ht...
The Netflix Prize: Lessons Learned
I agree with the "snake oil salesman" sentiment, while largely good products - I don't think not quite to standard so widely proclaimed by Dyson's marketing dept. and owners value wise..

That said, the Dyson Air Blade (public restroom hand driers) are by far the best I've used.

http://www.dysonairblade.co.uk/

I first saw these at (London) Victoria Station, and see them popping up more and more in the UK..
Many backup systems copy the data automatically each night, but if the data is damaged on the main system and nobody notices right away it can overwrite the backup. Or, in the stress of late-night recovery sessions, someone can copy things in the wrong direction and overwrite the backup. Sometimes the backups are encrypted with a highly secure key, and the key is lost with the original failure, or stored within the encrypted backup like keys locked inside a car.

Because SANs allow multiple machines to write to the same disk, they have byzantine failure modes where data can be overwritten on disk, but cached for long periods of time by the machines that need it so there's no visible problem until after a power failure.

When data is migrated to new database hardware, sometimes the backups haven't actually been tested. Sometimes during the cutover, someone who didn't fully understand the architecture backs up the new (empty) machine on top of the old machine's backups, so there is no backup for a while. All these mistakes can happen pretty easily when sysadmins are woken up in the night to fix a service outage while people are yelling at them. I have made some of these mistakes myself, though so far I've been lucky.

The computer industry has never learned to admit that there is always some level of risk. You won't hear an oil company exec say "Inconceivable!" when an iceberg crashes into a North Sea oil rig, or a refinery catches on fire. Systems fail, and all you can do is try your best to avoid it and move forward after it does happen.
You plat WoW on a netbook? For real? Screenshot! What res and fps?
FogCreek enters repo hosting/code review space with Kiln
Increased readability and code clarity are well worth the price of admission.
I think the OP fails to understand what a netbook is for. It's not your primary PC, it really does do a lousy job for that. And when trying to do so, it is going to have poor battery life, and performance problems executing demanding software.

But as a highly-portable tool for note-taking, i.e, "book" and quick access to webmail and calendar, i.e., "net", it's satisfactory.

Not that it's great, but I don't think the items cited are the faults. My biggest complaint is that note-taking can be tough because of the cramped keyboard.
My netbook has 2GB of RAM. The proc is limiting, and I suspect the network throughput (and associated proc hit) are constraints as well.

I found myself want the small form factor more than the experience. A refurbed MBP was a nice price point, though more expensive, but a much, much better experience for day to day use. But that's just me.
Data on “Facts” and Facts on “Data”
I love this answer. Yes, it is true that you can solve the problem with light weight linux distro, but the mass consumer market has rejected linux on netbooks.
"Protestant Ethic will-to-power".

Was that the wind in the weatherstripping, or Nietzche's ghost howling?
I dont use it as a primary PC. I use it for travel and meetings. Nothing more. I couldn't get used to all of the issues I laid out. It was a very painful experience. The most common apps open on my netbook were Outlook and IE/FF.
The Dow Jones has crossed the 10000 mark
The comments in this thread will revolve around running. Running is the main form of exercise accepted by HN.

Forget playing team sports or weight lifting. Cycling might crack through HN's barriers once someone experiments with pedaling barefoot.
Flash 3D image slider
OK, fair enough. It hasn't been convincingly demonstrated. But maybe you'll agree that it's still a good idea to watch out for the Hawthorne effect when doing human performance research, because it seems like a possible source of error. You wouldn't tell experimenters "there is no Hawthorne effect, so stop worrying about it."
Now that is actually a really good point.
"All of Statistics" by Larry Wasserman is very good. It is traditional, fairly mathematical statistics, but intended for a general audience. (It is particularly popular with computer science people.)
Don't you at least fancy yourself cleverer than the mass consumer?

EDIT: Oh duh, you work for Microsoft!
Concise answer: MTurk was an obvious, yet too simple solution.

Long answer: My imagination was something designed specifically for pushing websites to some degree of success. So without me having to think of all of the different dimensions that bring a site to success (clearly state what it is, beautiful design, something people want, easy to use) -- the site I have in mind would walk you through that process taking your money at iterations of each step. In the end, you should have a site that meets the standards of sites which are already winners with most if not all of the dimensions in question.
So you prefer 1970s unix schtick to 1990s object oriented schtick?

I do. The GP was rude, but has a point.

I spent several years in the OO-agile ecosystem. I'm glad to be out of it. In retrospect, it feels shallow to me; I'm not sure exactly why. Maybe it has something to do with emphasizing half-baked methodological ideas over concrete system-building.

One of the guys who signed the agile manifesto told me that he decided it had taken the "human" side of software development too far. He was joking, but I think he was on to something.
Washington DC area hackers
I just got a job in the DC area for a C#/ASP.NET developer and looking for any hackers in the area. I will be coming up in December/Jan some time. So you guys want to hang out? Build something big? I have a ton of ideas I just haven't put into play yet...
Why the nice name for a supplier who doesn't, you know, supply?

Again with the criticize-without-offering-alternative.

Discount camera stores are infamous for advertising things at great prices to get you in the store but being out of stock. It's a crappy way to do biz and should have a crappy name; "non-gouging" doesn't qualify.

Right, that's called bait and switch. No relation to price gouging.
It's no reason for celebration if your main competitor and #1 drops 17% and you only gain 0.5% compared to a year earlier.

That means your industry is in serious trouble.
I'm interested in using it for software company support. I see it (possibly) replacing blog comments, forums and on-line chat.
It looks slick, but…

1. Create an account (30 secs)
2. Check my email (5 secs)
3. Press a "Click here to activate" button and be redirected (5 secs)
4. Wait for the Flash to load (5 secs)
5. Fill in my email and password (5 secs)

…quite frankly, you'd have lost me at step 1 normally. The only reason I signed up was to see how many steps it took to try it. Conclusion: too many.

The button on the homepage should say something like "Try now", which immediately launches the flash applet and lets me use it. When I want to save my mockup, that's when I want to enter my details.
Readability is a subjective thing.

I find C dead easy to read, that's because I've read lots and lots of it. Any other language is harder for me.

edit: on another note, in a delimited language the indentation can be created fully automatic, in python it can not, placing most of the burden of making sure the indentation is correct on the human.

This lack of 'redundancy' has bitten me several times already.
Former UT Supreme Court Justice & religious leader on religion & civil rights
What someone really needs to apologise for is making the order of "least to most specific term" go from right-to-left in a domain name and left-to-right in the path component of a URL.
In business and technical circles the word 'entrepreneur' means doing something fundamentally new. There is no value judgment implied; entrepreneurs aren't necessarily superior to small-business owners. It's simply a matter of definitions.

Peter F. Drucker has a good explanation of this difference in his classic book "Innovation and Entrepreneurship".
http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060851132/Innovation_...
Biotech Patents: Are they getting the job done?
seems like chromium team removed it intentionally.
Because then the comparison would come out less in favour of clojure ?

Because the author isn't aware of jython ?

It could be anything really, but if you plan on putting down a language I guess you're not going to go out of your way to create a level playingfield.

Let's compare interpreted basic with compiled C for an encore.
I do regular strenuous training, and this makes sense to me. You are weaker immediately after a strenuous workout than immediately before. That's why adequate recovery time is just as important as workout time. It makes sense to me that immediately after the workout, before your body has had a chance to recover, your immune system is weakened and you're more susceptible to illness.

Personally, what keeps me coming back to my workouts is the challenge. I'll take the extra risk of the occasional cold or flu over the risk of dropping my workouts entirely from disinterest.
The cost of filling out my cc or paypal info exceeds my personal cost of spending $20 dollars. I would literately pay $20 just to avoid the hassle.

On a related subject matter, recently I spotted something a bit off on my Verizon bill. I get phone/cable/internet from them on one bill, but I noticed an odd charge. I had to dig through the bill to find the one page that mentioned a charge from payment one on behalf the internet commerce company.

In short, it was definitely a fraudulent charge and apparently they can bill you, via Verizon, TimeWarner, At&t, etc. automatically! It has happened to a lot of people, there is nothing you need to do for them to start billing you.

In fact, you HAVE to preemptively call your ISP to tell them to lock your account so that 3rd parties can't aoutmagically bill you!

However, why can't we have legitimate charges which are this easily billed? Why can't I sign up once for an advertising project or something, and then it divides X amount of dollars every month to websites I visit?

Or something like that. Ideas?
You make it sound like a heavy, cumbersome, iPhone that can't make calls.
Acer 3D laptop review: first look
Why am I posting this on HN? First, because Oaks is a brilliant Professor of Law, and second because I wanted to expose the community to an elegant expression of a different point of view than what they might be used to hearing on the issues of Church and State. I want to hear your thoughts on what Dallin H. Oaks has set forth.
I love that answer even more! :) My profile makes it pretty clear I work for MSFT. I spent 9 of the last 10 years doing LAMP development. My home machine is a MBP 13". So yes, I am more clever than a mass consumer. However, I am not a fan of Linux for desktop. I will take free-bsd based OS X over any linux distro, but that's a personal preference.
I love my netbook for web apps - running FF in fullscreen mode gives you a solid extra inch of screen real estate and when I'm chilling on the couch after work The tiny form factor is actually pretty handy. Plus, the price is such that I don't feel like I need to think twice about taking it with my everywhere on the off chance that it might get dropped/stolen.

It's also the ideal device for streaming Hulu or Netflix before bed.
WoW runs on almost anything... I have a refurb T43 (X300 + 2.0Ghz Pentium M + 512 MB RAM) and with settings dialed down, at 1024x768, I get at least 20 fps - haven't installed fraps here so I don't know the exact fps. RAM gets tight, but XP Pro uses max 160MB right now :)
That would be a much more interesting experiment, and closer to what human athletes do. Any athlete who is serious about training also schedules rest. It's during the rest that you actually get stronger and better conditioned.
Rack Middlewares To Turbocharge Your Ruby Webapps
i agree. i wanted what the netbook was selling. my priorities at the time were for a smaller laptop that is easy to travel with and something that was cheap. i love MBPs, but it didn't meet my price point i didn't care that much about the power.
That's a really thorough answer - wish I could upvote more than once!

I'll put this into practice, and I'm going to start by building the survey you describe. Do you have any pointers as to what questions I should be asking, or know of an example I can learn from?
Word. True. I knew there was something I wasn't thinking of.
That was very interesting, thank you for writing it.

I do hope that you decide to write about how you show yourself of as nonspammy at some point.
I got this with the Steam Indie Pack; it was one of my favorite entries. (If you're looking for games beyond this, let me also recommend Blueberry Garden, Braid, and Everyday Shooter.) I can't support the design trend of simple gameplay with elaborate detail enough. Most game design today strikes me as being ass-backward: Attention is focused on insane playtime and complicated systems, and not on the small details. The result had been a lot of games that look ugly and aren't fun to play without dedicating a lot of time to them.

World of Goo and similar indie games are making gaming mainstream. Anybody can play them and enjoy them. Casual players get the fun distraction, and more hardcore players can appreciate the finer details and the more difficult challenges.