skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They say some things that are factually incorrect...

Then cite the facts, as said before. Denigrating people based on what they "buy" (when your argument hinges on "reading between the lines") is not convincing. You may be right, but at this rate I'll never know, because you have a long way to go between connecting "questionable" to the elaborate intrigue you described before. That is what I don't buy, because I honestly don't see any fact-grounded reason why the simple explanation isn't true, and you haven't offered any.

It'd be a waste of time for both of us to try and shoot holes in each others' speculations, because it just leads to more and more speculation, e.g. if Apple didn't want to permit things like Google Voice even as a web app why did they develop the JavaScript hooks it depends on? There is no response to that sort of question doesn't spawn more questions than it answers.
Weird,

I definitely suck at turn taking, but I love phone calls. I'd much rather talk than email/SMS/IM/whatever. In my mind those have even fewer social cues.
The commentary on "awkward silence" is interesting. Personally, I think it's kind of impossible to have an awkward silence; never do I find silence to be an uncomfortable thing, especially if there's the "comforting" sound of keyboard typing as background noise. "Thinking" noise, as it may be.

Maybe the main differentiating factor between geeks and non-geeks (as the author calls them) is ability to deal with silence. Most geeks I get along with best tend to listen with their eyes and speak with their hands.
python. coming from almost the same background python was easier, ruby was just.. annoying, its all hype and IMO will soon crash.

Also I really like the speed at which you can write up a python script to solve a problem.
This is what I meant. Web apps are becoming important again not because there's no SDK but because the SDK is effectively unusable for some applications.
The terms 'intonation' and 'non-verbal cues' also come to mind. Specifically the lack there'of ;)
I must be a geek, this article is pushing all the right buttons.

A quick summary might be: "When talking, geeks need to understand that the listener doesn't know anything and doesn't want to learn, doesn't care whether what you say makes sense or is accurate, isn't trying to understand, doesn't even want the answer to the question they asked but rather an answer to the question they were thinking of, and is often simply waiting for you to shut up so they can speak. Also, everyone else has a massive inferiority complex so stop suggesting things to improve their lives as they'll take it as a belittling insult and somehow that's now your problem."
Absolutely. I think this is the root of why most people do continue to pay their mortgages. If you can afford the payments and are satisfied with where you live, then there is no reason to abandon your mortgage.

Then there's the other group who (a) can't afford their mortgage anymore or (b) want out. This is the group who should evaluate this as a financial contract and evaluate the risks/benefits of abandoning the mortgage.
Sweet! I've been using some 3rd party apps for the Pre, but they've been kinda hit or miss (mostly miss).
@danudey why would you say that? the report is from Dec 09.
Strange, I had to refresh the page twice to get the effect to work correctly in Chrome. Each time it worked progressively better!
It's not like walking away from a mortgage gets you off scot-free. The entire point of a mortgage is that it's a contract. If walking away from the contract and enduring the penalties associated with doing so is less financial pain than keeping with the contract, then why not?

It's not like these 'underwater' people are going to immediately move to some island in the Caribbean with bags full of money and sit on the beach in the sun living the good life until the end of their days while the poor, sickly bank dies alone and impoverished in a gutter somewhere.
Moreso than an altruistic desire to educate their audience, I think geeks rather desire to preserve the validity of discourse -- i.e. prevent the spread of "false" memes or concepts. It's not a patronizing focus on a peer's education, but rather a way to preserve the truth and correctness of human understanding of the world.
The real issue is that it's not possible in Mobile Safari to bookmark a traditional <a href="javascript:...">Bookmarklet</a> link -- unlike a normal http:// link you can't even copy it -- the only option you get from a hold-tap is "Open".

Try bookmarking the "post to News.YC" bookmarklet from your iPhone -- you can't!
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I completely suck at turn-talking, even when actively trying to anticipate when my 'antagonist' wants to say something. Does anyone have actual tips for improving this?
I agree, although I do find it funny that this comment is self reinforcing.
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http://www.yelp.com/biz/tortilleria-mexicana-los-hermanos-br...

I've been east for about 6 years and this is the closest I've gotten to good Mexican food. It is start up friendly[Read:cheap] and amazing- no burritos though last I checked.
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That and the asynchronous nature of exchange -- i hate blocking on you formulating an answer, and all the rediculous connection setup/teardown required.
I like the idea :)
I'd see if I could come up with a profitable way to offer high frequency historical stock market data to retail/independent crowd.
The majority of voters don't think that copyright reform is big enough issue to change a vote over.

A minority of voters (you and I included) think copyright should be changed. But we're not big enough to make the change happen. You might think this is a bug worth fixing. "can't vote directly" implies that you think more direct democracy would solve the problem, but I claim the cure would be worse than the disease. There are major unsolved problems with allowing small highly interested groups to influence policy too much, since the system can't tell whether they're (we're) right or not.

By contrast, even if censorship were a major issue on the minds of non-free citizens, they would be powerless to change it. Furthermore, censorship is an auto-immune disease: It harms the system's ability to fix itself and permits many more severe problems. Broken copyright isn't the same. (Corporate sponsorship of politicians, however, is an auto-immune disease too, and broken copyright is a symptom.)
In my opinion, you are the prime example of whom this article is discussing.

In my view, the bank will still profit off of your loan. If market value is about equal to what you owe, but it could only be reasonably sold for $20k but you have paid $45k in interest thus far, they still profit $25k from your loan. I have a hard time seeing where the bank could be morally right in damaging your credit for walking away...
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Nothing has been 'taken away' from you. Someone lent you $X to buy something that you thought was worth $X. The value of what you bought has gone down, it's now worth $(X-Y). The bank didn't do this. They lent you $X and you're paying them back for that $X at the interest rate that you both agreed on.

Cars notoriously devalue over time. Are you saying that the bank is stealing money from you because you new car dropped 10% in value the moment that you drove it off the lot, but you are still paying the bank for a loan of 100% of the original value of the car?
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What are your hangups with Django?

I've gone through the same so I'm wondering if we are running in to the same kind of issues.
It is (supposed to be) based on law, which is something that is created in a democracy by the voters. So if we disagree with the law, the law should be changed.
A better quick summary is that there are many socially awkward people who excel in technical fields.

There are likely as many who do just as well and have no shortage of basic social skills. One just doesn't notice the awkward silences so there's nothing to write broad generalizing blog posts about.
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Perhaps it's an anxiety disorder? They would feel anxiety when less than perfect information is communicated?
The Star War intro clone in CSS3/Safari uses 5% CPU on my MBP.

This scroll uses 20+%.
I'm a bit confused. It doesn't seem like this is very "lorem ipsum". Lorem ipsum looks like actual text, whereas, this does not look like actual image content (due to most images not being solid gray). To my mind, a better lorem ipsum image would have a variety of colors, shading, textures (which is probably why Lenna is a popular choice). This way you could see how a variety of image colors work with your design, color scheme, etc.

If this is simply for formatting placeholders while designing web pages, wouldn't <span style="width: xxx; height: yyy; background-color: grey; border: 1px solid black;"></span> be a pretty easy workaround, and a lot easier on the network bandwidth?
Ask HN: Recommend me a CMS/blogging platform
Hello, you wonderful people! I'm in the middle of a massive portfolio redesign. I've completed the design; now I'm looking for an engine that's powerful enough to run it.

I'm wondering if you can recommend me a tool. I've got a few things I need:

* It has to be comfortable with multiple page layouts. I use three for different purposes, and so I need something that can display some pages with one layout, and other pages with another.

* It needs to give me flexibility in how my content is displayed. I've got two major content categories, and each one is shown on the index page in a rather unique fashion. I need something that makes styling output easy, and that's flexible enough to accept multiple content categories.

* It's got to have something more flexible than title-body layout. I need extra categories with which to manipulate things.

None of these three things are unique; however, I need a system that lets me do all of them at once. I know Drupal can do it, but Drupal is heavy. Is there something lighter that does all that? Much thanks for your advice.
Look, you sound like a politician telling other people what they believe. This board is for technical things, so take the side of the technical people or get lost.
I agree with you that a service that lets you add notes to book should be public. I think a service like that has a different nature than Twitalbums.com
Should open-source repositories block nations under U.S. sanctions?
Perhaps you have an inability to notice when a silence has become awkward?
That's cool. I'm interested, but totally unschooled, when it comes to visualisation stuff so I just thought I was missing something that would be obvious to others.

I'm now wondering if this could be applied to choosing colours for auto-generated pie charts, bar charts or map keys and similar.
I'm not sure that the cognitive dissonance is in the ease of committing the tort, rather, I suspect that "intellectual property" doesn't really fit most (non-technical) people's concept of what ought to be tortable. For most non-technical people (my mom, for example), having a thing implies the right to share it. When we treat a song or a piece of software or a movie as a "thing" we feed into this conception. Of course we, as technical people, know that it isn't really a thing. That in fact it's a licensing agreement granting you the limited ability to use information in certain ways. But that idea is complex, and not really well understood by most people (even technical people), and so we abstract it as "a thing" (intellectual property).

So when some poor soul winds up incurring 60k of damages just for clicking a button to trade "free" music of course this comes as a surprise. All of a sudden their mental model of "things" has broken down with no real warning that the level of damage could hit such extremes so quickly or that a harm was even being committed.

If we lived in a just society, the law would be re-evaluated to fit the ideas of right and wrong commonly held by the people (including content creators of course). Instead we will attempt to force a lossy abstraction on everyone and accept the inevitable unjust consequences.
I think I used do more of those. Being at college has exposed me to far more people and social situations than high school and rubbed off many of my sharper social edges.
The rule of law is undermined in our country because the laws themselves are not on trial.
I just use IM for quick arranging or linking stuff around. Can't understand how people can chitchat on IM with each other for hours. You never now if that last message was supposed to be funny or serious or maybe even ironic? Then you don't know if your conversation partner thought your last message was serious, while you meant it to be funny...and it goes on an on and on... just can't do it.

Don't have any problems with normal conversations and phone calls though.
About the "except for" feature:

Is our believe that is easier for a user to choose which users get to see something rather that to choose from say 500 friends which ones do not.

More than publicity, we are trying to start a discussion. It helps us create a better service based on valid arguments.
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Why "advanced persistent threat" is the wrong phrase
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Furthermore, I do it myself to prevent complications down the road. I've found that it's all to easy for one piece of misinformation slipped into a conversation to snowball into something much bigger, and based on a false premise.
I'd say less a "disorder" and more a point of view. The spread of false information hurts everybody.
I love the simplicity of this, a good reminder why Ruby is so awesome.
Agreed. It's been encouraging to hear all the talk about "sustainable aid".

I'll be curious how they solve the corruption problems though. If you have international observers on hand, others will scream "colonialism".

But honestly, after Haiti was ranked as the most corrupt nation on earth in 2006[1], I don't think there's anyway you give long-term aid without intensive supervision.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6120522.stm
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The golden rule of UI: never sacrifice usability. Those fonts might look interesting and add to the overall aesthetic, but the smaller versions are virtually unreadable on my machine.
Incase some don't know, jQTouch.com has this functionality, and many other native-looking iPhone effects.

I realize the purpose of this one is for non-mobile web browsers, but just putting it out there. ;)
Yes, they generally have to register.

We need to just do away with sex offender registries entirely. Not only are they unjust, but they're impractical: they're mostly made up of innocent people who upset their SO's parents as teenagers.
See here -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1077158
hi everyone: this is the author here. i'm pleasantly surprised to see this pop up on HN.

please reply to my comment if you have any suggestions for improving this article. thanks!
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He understands that they got it wrong before, but unfortunately that isn't enough to save them, because the space of possible mistakes is so large, and city governments are predisposed to hit most of them. E.g. the fact that they are pwned by large scale developers means that the next iteration will basically be condo towers turned on their sides: a sea of shorter buildings with just as little real character.

But jealous of our god of dreams,
His common-sense in secret schemes
To rule the heart;
Unable to invent the lyre,
Creates with simulated fire
Official art.
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HL7 is simply used as a data format, like json or XML. Newer versions of HL7 are actually XML-ish in format.

Saying "HL7" on it's own is nowhere near a solution. What I mean is that systems/platforms need to be encouraged (incentivized) to support bidirectional data exchange in any data format or transport mechanism the market will adopt. Like, say, Twitter. An API that would create and read internal data elements on the individual platform. This would allow systems providers to maintain their proprietary advantages but expose their systems to larger integration.

Trust me, the current state of affairs are anti-competition, anti-innovation and down right piss poor for patient medical care.
If the more public option is the default, then you can not claim to be "private by default." Further, if someone else can invite others to see something of mine, then you are removing my control of privacy.

My personal view is that if you put something on the internet, it's not private. My Facebook account and everything I put in it are public - I find it's easier for me to answer the question "Do I want the whole world to know this?" versus understanding the complicated network-visibility rules in Facebook. In other words, I don't fault Facebook or Twitpic for defaulting to public options. But don't claim that you default to private do when you clearly do not.
Django != Python and Rails != Ruby. There are other solutions in either language that might suit your project better.
Don't worry you didn't break anything. Firefox will show scrollbars if you click on the image which will show it at actual size.
There are lots of things where "having" it doesn't imply the right to share it. Two examples: a rental car, a Blockbuster DVD.

I submit that it's not the law that needs to change. Rental-like terms (or per-user licensing) are perfectly reasonable.

The issue is, people don't like per-user licensing.

They have a legitimate response, which is to boycott the industry, and a totally illegitimate response, which is to attempt to coercively redefine the contract using technology.

The illegitimate response is doing a bunch of bad things:

* It's getting people sued for tens of thousands of dollars.

* It's promoting heavy-handed DRM schemes.

* It's dragging ISPs into content-monitoring regimes.

* It's reconfiguring content from license purchase to streaming rentals.

* It's migrating content from open formats (red book audio) to proprietary ones.

* It's distorting the market for lawful online purchase by forcing it to compete with unlawful free clones.
These dudes have been doing something similar: http://voicecentral.riverturn.com/
I mean real physical discomfort that would only go away when they correct less than perfect information.
I think like any good idea, its about execution / I would start with the low hanging fruit and 5-10 websites then re-invest those profits (if any) into other websites....

~ how about getting the database into a "indie -pandora" so each site has it's own station that people can listen to ,,
And perhaps a shorter summary.

People chat for information exchange and entertainment. To geeks, these are the same. To many people, they are not.
I don't get it -- why?
Last week friend of mine said something stupid and I proved him wrong. I wish someone stopped me before we started arguing and reminded me the Carnegie's advice I've read few years back but was ignoring all the time.
I don't understand your point(s) at all.

"...copyright law simply maintains the proper incentives for the system to work."

What? The whole question is whether the system works, you can't just assert that it does.

I cannot get any more out of your post than "I think copyright is good, and China is bad."
It bothers me when people use the word "many" when single digit numbers will do. For example someone might say, "I read many books," when it would be more informative to say, "I read about 5 books a week."
And if you want to go studying Adam Smith for some 'invisible hand', you first need to understand the 'Theory Moral Sentiments'. You are correct in that it's what they value. This is the monetary aspect + other aspects. It's clear to me the reason that people with underwater houses don't default because of the credit history damage, social stigma and other feelings. Plus, they may consider walking away equivalent to selling at the bottom of the market.

The article, overall, adds very little to the discussion because it approaches it from the wrong angle.
I was speaking about my state of mind at the age of 16 and these new cases of teens being prosecuted for their otherwise normal relationships. I'm not saying I would stop trying to get girls (who could stop a teenage boy from chasing girls?) but it would inspire fear in me whenever I was anywhere near an adult or authority figure with my SO.

It also doesn't take a lot for media hype and rumors to appear as facts to a young person and have an effect on their state of mind. I dread a future where young adults feel these cases are uncontroversial.
I don't think this article describes geeks: it describes the borderline autistic behavior of people that fail to evaluate their own peculiarities. I have the impression there's some serious confirmation bias at work if you become convinced this stereotypical behavior is actually typical geek behavior.

I have to admit that I recognize all of the points he makes, but I recognize them because I have become aware of them. Some I had already remedied subconsciously, long before I became aware of them; others required some effort to change. I don't doubt it is exactly the same for other geeks.

One of the main things this brought me is the guideline: don't obsess over perceived differences between you and others, because they are smaller than you think.

For instance, (awkward) silences are normal things that occur in many conversations. After forcing myself to pay attention to people's faces and body language, the first thing that struck me is how little 'regular' people actually seem to be doing that. They look away and fiddle with their papers all the time.
Homeowner's opinions will likely change if they begin to perceive their lenders as taking advantage of that morality.
I'm particularly irritated with the distasteful attitude the author took when he was mad a couple of hacker news readers didn't think it was fair to charge $0.99 for this.
How about allowing named arguments for common sizes, like IAB (http://www.iab.net/iab_products_and_industry_services/1421/1...) or common display sizes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vector_Video_Standards2.sv...)? So you could do, http://dummyimage.com/skyscraper instead of http://dummyimage.com/120x600
No mention of the "geeksnort"?
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Wow, I've never seen so many words on one page before.
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YES. Like XKCD said: "someone is wrong on the internet." (http://xkcd.com/386/)

Geeks are obsessed with correctness. Sometimes this is helpful, sometimes not. Witness Slashdot discussions.
What I see is a button with a grayed out text next to it that says "Off" (or even worse, just "O"). Maybe I'm just damaged from having tried to understand more or less broken GUIs the last twenty years and overthink it :P

Another thing that annoys me with them is that the buttony part doesn't really stand out as a button, I think part of my problem is that I actually interpret the button as the background - and then what I see is an empty space with a button labeled "Off" next to it.
This is absolutely Hacker News. Hackers are all about unjust justice.