skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Story:

At one point, I realized I was fighting a lot of battles over principles that were taking time away from me that could've been used on objectively much better pursuits.

Despite realizing this, I had a hard time cutting it out.

So, I put a post it note on the wall in front of my desk, with big letters - "WIN"

Anyone who came across it misunderstood. They thought it was something competitive. Nuh-uh, just the opposite. Whenever I saw the note, I was forced to ask myself, "Well, what is winning? Is it winning an argument? Or is it spending my time building the best life possible for myself?"

So I got a particularly unjust parking ticket, total BS, for like $60 in Los Angeles. And I'm getting pictures, and all gearing up for a fight, and then I think - "What the fuck am I doing? I could make a couple hundred dollars in the time it takes me to fight this BS." And so I gritted my teeth, paid it, and went and made a couple hundred dollars instead, doing enjoyable work for good people, and then I had more money and less stress.

Yeah, the jerks get $60 of revenue they don't deserve, but my goal isn't to make them lose, it's for me to win. Spending three hours fighting California for $60 is not winning. I understand principles, I'll never let a betrayal or extortion attempt work, but making a fuss over $5 when presumably you could freelance yourself at $35+ per hour is... well, what is winning? Everyone answers the question differently. But it's worth some serious reflection on when there's actions that advance every conscious life goal you have more than whatever the petty nonsense du jour is.
Poker nights. Winters are loooong down there.
Link to the creator's page, with said map: http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/
I have to regularly practice a certain amount of emotional detachment from this kind of thing. I am surprised and grateful that human civilization mostly continues to function.
I don't really find this to be effective advice, for everyone at least. I could believe that some people can have multiple major projects going on at once, but I think for many, trying to split attention between projects will hurt both. That's been the case for me at least.

I'm not talking about some consulting gig or school paper or something. These things you can juggle. But if you are pouring your heart into a start-up, that leaves little time to build a side project.

I agree with the sentiment that one should think through good ideas and tinker with them though, particularly before changing course. I have what I think is a great business idea most weeks, and they do tend to already be done, harder than I think to build, or not as valuable as I had originally thought, ginned up on coffee some excited morning or beer some fun night.
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Third option: put it out into the world for others to do something with it.

I've had enough big ideas to know they won't be the last. It's better for me to finish what I've started. But if an idea really is a big one, it's beneficial to me for it to be executed upon regardless of whether I'm the one to implement it or not.

So I'll write a blog entry with the full details, and try to spread it around some, and hope that either someone will take it and run with it, or when someone's later searching, they'll find my thoughts and incorporate them into their own plan.
No high frequency trader wants to provide liquidity by filling an order that would otherwise go unfilled. Their goal is to find orders that would otherwise be filled within milliseconds, take on a completely superfluous middleman role, and steal most of the spread from the real buyer and seller.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/151173-hft-the-high-frequenc...
My high school carpool was in a Ford Fiesta. The driver couldn't parallel park to save his life. But four of us could pick it up and nudge it over.
Even your chihuahua can tweet
Perhaps the most unusual twitter client yet.
I dunno if it's just me or where they not clear as to what they meant by complex systems. Where they talking about just complicated things or more like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_systems. I know it's not a really important point of the article but I can see how this type of stuff would make no sense to everyone but people who have knowledge of what complex systems are. Basically I can see how the management of these companies didn't want to interfere with what they didn't understand but seemed to work. But now it's easy to say that stuff was all crap and cause us billions. I hope that some of the science these guys were working on can be salvaged (the good parts at least).
The decision to massively dump positions was a human one. This is just another example of what happens when you get a bunch of independent agents with imperfect information scared -- they cut their losses. In a market, this triggers a spiral effect of lowering prices, encouraging more people to cut their losses. Wether this is automated or manual, this is not a new thing.
Probably because it's so improbable. It essentially assumes that we'll hit the limits of technological innovation without discovering that any of our current ideas about physics and the nature of the universe are completely wrong.

Long before we could ever make such a device I suspect we'll discover something along the lines of zero-point energy being real harvestable, that the universe is not in fact material and local, etc. I'm sure there are thousands more possibilities. And any one of them being true would make this device completely obsolete way before our technology advances to a point where we can create it.
I'm new to the site (never heard of it before), and I just did exactly that. Ran across a song that's sorta cool... and... no clue how to purchase. ohh well.
Original: http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/

Close-up of NYC area: http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/nyc/

This was probably carved out by hand. However, this would be an interesting problem to solve using integer programming, a technique that has been used to model the related problem of gerrymandering.
Some of the "nerdy guys" actually did screw up. They deserve some of the blame. Hopefully in the future quants will be more careful about checking the assumption of their models, especially if it may have repercussions on their reputations and careers. That doesn't mean you don't also blame the others that were involved. There is more than enough blame to go around.
Tell HN: Mobile job board - Taphire.com
I am working on launching a mobile development job board targeting iPhone, Android, Palm and other smartphone related jobs.

I don't want to charge a lot of money, as I am doing this after my own frustration of finding a nice job board that is targeted towards these developers.

The site is called TapHire and you can signup for beta preview at taphire.com (which is scheduled to launch within 2 days).. first few weeks all job postings will be free. After that the job posting would be $30 for 30 days.
Indeed,

I would recommend Game Theory Evolving by Herb Ginitis. Human beings have a strong, repeat strong bias toward retaliating to maintain fairness. Varies culturally to only a small extent.

Anything that raises the possibility that you'll just be taking off with their money is going to create a strong reaction.

The mistake was taking pre-orders. Never take pre-orders if you're to delay shipping. You'll piss Max (and me, and everyone) off.

I am not twenty-something, btw
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This is certainly true for apps that take advantage of the hardware. The thing is, a lot of apps out there just encapsulate web functionality inside an app so for those not so much.
Is it really? Don't you get sick of being "always on" sometimes?

Perhaps the averse reactions here have something to do with too many of us living in densely populated/over-populated or even over-stimulated environments; the short-attention-span generation?
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I've been searching far and wide.
I'm working with a mongoDB and Ruby app right now, we may write one in the process
Yeah, I really don't think there's a problem with the actual content. Their announcement was just very poorly worded. You'd think that, being a Y Combinator company, they would have access to resources that would help avoid such customer relations blunders.

Actually if you read the site, I don't think they ever advertise that any of the analytics will be free: "After a night's data is collected, it is automatically uploaded to our servers, analyzed, and made available on the WakeMate Analytics platform."

So although the data is analyzed, but that sentence only says that the data itself is made available.

However, the picture below those words shows your "sleep score" and a graph, which I presume is part of the basic analysis package.

See: http://www.wakemate.com/tour/
Where was your computer built?
Regular people are incentivized to pay as much in interest on their homes through tax deductions. With the tax deductions, paying an interest-only mortgage become MUCH less expensive than rent, so "buying" a house and planning to flip it after the interest-only period is up was an economically sound decision (and a lot of people still stand to gain.) This did drive up the price of housing as more people were entering home ownership.
Brilliant. Even in the senate, you can argue that low-population states like Wyoming shouldn't get 2 seats, or that Wyoming needs 2 seats to maintain control of its interests. Periodically redrawing state boundaries sidesteps this whole debate/dilemma.

Can this idea be further generalized? Minorities can be oppressed or powerful; strive to so intertwine motivations that minorities are eliminated.

But with some caveats. http://akkartik.name/blog/2010-01-23-21-24-35-soc
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stopacta.org,.com and .net are all registered. It'd be great if there could be a way to directly call politicians to complain from the website. GizmoCalls is an in-browser VOIP client, wikipedia says they've recently been acquired by Google. Google has a HUGE interest in stopping this treaty. Maybe they could donate calls from the US to US politicians to complain about the treaty? It'd certainly be great for marketing. Anybody know how one'd go about contacting google to ask about that? Anybody know of any other in-browser VOIP clients that would be willing to donate phone time to call politicians to stop this?
I talked to the guy who did the interview a month ago and told him about the problem and advised him to change it to why.usesthis.com and his last words were "you know, i think i might do that. :)" So.
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Rich hickey heard you

http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2010-01-22.html#15:01
Giving their existing users some direction would have been nice, but what a differentiation they've pulled off in a crowded market music streamers. I used the site a bit last year and wandered away. I use it most of the day Friday while at work, it was the first time I'd been back in months.

Basically, I think they may lose some of their current hardcore users, but they'll pick up a whole slew of new ones.
what's happening with HN?
I don't get it , don't most high frequency trading shops not hold overnight positions?
Before it was a place to interact with music lovers and music artists that you may have never met before (that is pretty much gone now).

Before it was a game, you start off with hearts and get more as you level up and listen to music, that is still there but because interaction is gone supporting artists with the game seems nonexistent and competing is nonexistent. (Not everyone played the game.)

Now (as you said) you have pretty pictures and a radio instead of basically an iphone/ipod with a bunch of contacts and connections to artists.
Money does not matter to me, but nobody fucks over Max. I'll chase it down till I get my money back. To quote Arnold: nobody gives me a raw deal.

Except they still do. They wind up stealing your time; the most valuable commodity we all have.
Brain-reboot time
You also missed the "one full year of crunch time" part. It wasn't all gun and fames.
Well, remember that in the United State it would not be a "self-executing" treaty. Sure, the Senate might ratify it, but without enabling legislation from both houses that also passes muster with the Supremes it's just a piece of paper.
Part of Coronado.
Role Models
Deliberate action, yes. But still motivated by trademark. They simply chose the path of least resistance.

The faux-pas was actually made by Harman's PR person. If he had shut up everything would have gone smoothly.
yes, I posted that one earlier today.

Quite the inspiration all these designs doing the 'impossible' (according to some).

It's always nice to see people pursue presumed dead ends then turn up finding gold.
It looks like Washington State and Alaska are merged. That makes little sense politically or organizationally. Where's Hawaii fit into this? Assuming 50 reapportioned states that's 6 million per state, and Hawaii only has 1.3 million people.

Rio Grande State should go north with the Rio Grande and not include Arizona. That is, it should be El Paso/Las Cruces/Albuquerque/Santa Fe and up into southern Colorado. As it is, it looks like ABQ would be a border city, and that makes little sense.
For some reason I find it hilarious that on the new map Staten Island is part of Jersey..
Would using webpages via https also be compromised? Do these botnets also use keylogging?
Is locked in data really a bad thing?

We all have to make money somehow. I'd rather website owners had real incentive to please their users, and being able to make money is a good incentive.

I don't see how free data can really be relevant on the web. If facebook want to do something to drive users away, or ristrict users freedom, that's up to them. If they do it enough, someone else will setup a rival website that pleases users better. How does free data fit into this? I don't think it does. Most website is simple enough that you don't need free data. Any one of us could clone facebook's massive social network if we had enough time and determination.
Letting users own their data is certainly a nice thing to do, and I'm sure we'd be lost without our own data, but I think it makes less sense on the web.

As I've said before, I don't use X because its data is free, I use it because it's free, and there are people behind it who care.

I think that's all that matters really.
While this treaty has the potential to be very bad, all that we hold dear about "the free world" encompasses more than copyrighted content.
> If Apple can prevent another computer maker from selling unauthorized Mac OS X machines, then Microsoft should be able to stop another accessory vendor from selling unauthorized Xbox 360 plugins loaded with video-game cheats.

Makes sense to me...

EDIT: Clarification.
The 'do both' is not meant to last forever, just long enough to be able to decide whether your new idea really has as many 'legs' as you think it does or whether it is just folly.

You have to come to some kind of closure with stuff like this otherwise it will nag you forever.

So, after a couple of weeks/months of trying to shoot holes in it there is more than a small chance that the answer is 'it sucks'. If not then you have to decide which one of your 'children' you want to keep.

At that junction you have several options:

- sell your current project and use the proceeds to
fund the next

- spin off the other one to a bunch of people that
you trust

- kill it anyway, because your 'old' project has in
the meantime gotten significantly more traction.

You basically buy yourself time and and gain more knowledge to make a much more informed decision.
Ok, why the poison? Maybe the owner simply wanted to do something cool. It's a better life for the domain to be used for the movie, more people will enjoy it and you get some toys and some bragging rights. It's an URL, not a wife. You can give it up simply if you want to be nice. You don't _have_ to, of course, and that's important, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't if you feel like it.
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The state of Willamette would be the place to live. Nice weather, mountains, desert, ocean ... Linus.
Ask HN: Help a YC startup improve your mobile media experience
Hi there,

We are a mobile video startup funded by YCombinator (W2010). We are working on improving how people share their media on the go. The following 1-page survey helps us understand your needs and it should take less than 3 minutes to complete. We respect your privacy and promise we would only use the gathered information for internal use.

If there are any other things you want us to fix regarding how you acquire and share you online media, we would love to hear from you as well.

You can reach us at mobilevideostartup@gmail.com. Any comments and suggestions are very welcome.

Thank you very much.

Thomas

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG0xdFRCLVhKSzYxSHRmV2xxS1Z3alE6MA
Entrepreneurs patent modernized implementation of old sport
my post-it says "what are you optimizing?"

Righteousness, while a virtue in Confucianism, is seen as performing an act of self-interest in Taoism.
Yes. They are required to sign up and provide all the info.
People realize that the negotiations of the United States Constitutional Convention were secret, right? There’s a difference between a ‘secret treaty’ and a treaty merely negotiated in secret.
That just depressed me. No way I think I could match that energy level!

He's right about the hallway test : I never liked working in teams where people didn't greet each other in the morning, where they never said hello in the hallway.
63% of Internet readers will like this
After reading the posts on HN a while, I've came across a lot of articles, that where about the ineffectiveness of interactions between people (e.g. 'the 10 startup-mistakes to avoid'). Just because more people working on something or investing more money on an issue, doesn't make their aim more intelligent. Neither their way of approaching it.

Considering a society, we allready have an entity that has to be maneuvered in the least stupid way possible. Adding new entities to that process doen't help if it creates new layers of hierachy. It's a matter o preferences I think: Is it for the 'greater good' (thing at the top of hierarchy) or is the greater good to serve the smallest entity (i.e. a human being).

Equating corporations with humans could deprive humans of their liberties, since corporations can speak, cry and lie louder. If the law is there to protect our liberties, I don't see how this aim is archieved more effectively by putting additional entities/hierarchies (i.e. corporations) in between.
Maybe one of the really pissed off people who pre-ordered the WakeMate could take one of these and create their own WakeMate like application.
Lua has a simple API for debugging built in. Because of this, there are several free and a few commercial Lua debuggers available.
Satellite TV? Tivo? Hell most internet connections are this. A bit of an over-generalization.
I see, I apologize for calling it link-jacking. Yeah they're within their rights.

I still prefer to see the original link here, though.
They probably don't have the same retail price at launch. Do they also go to shows at a local clubs and complain that their stage show isn't as good as the Rolling Stones?
I hope it's a joke. I actually did this some 12 years ago. We only had email access at my high school, and I used to browse ftp sites by email. With emails being sent only twice a day. I leaned pretty quickly that all the good stuff is in /pub... saved me a full day of browsing.
MTVs Jersey Shore As An Example Of Game Theory
The fact that copyright terms are getting extended is the least of what's worrying here.
Similar to a prisoners dilema. They're all better off if they stick together and no individual gets greedy.
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ironic nitpick: It's 'SOL', not 'Sol'.
PayPal really needs to establish some sort of transparent, independent, review board for these things.
Found one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXLewW_aeuo
"Quick Time required."

Oh well, I guess I miss out.
Actually it makes perfect sense. Most Linux systems are a collection of GNU tools on top of the Linux kernel. This "bunch of crap" forms the basis of a lot of internet infrastructure you take for granted. Also, saying the GNU compilers have a short lifespan is, well... Perhaps they do, in geological terms. Seriously, GCC existed since like ever.

My personal setup could be called Gnome/Xorg/GNU/Linux, but if people complain about GNU/Linux I guess my letter soup won't fly. Debian is packaging something that is called GNU/kFreeBSD, a GNU userland on top of a FreeBSD kernel. Nexenta could be called GNU/OpenSolaris (in fact, there are lots of GNU tools in OpenSolaris right now).

Operating systems, from kernel to shell, are usually conceptually very simple, with tons of hard work on top of simple concepts. This simplicity, specially in the case of Unix, allowed it to be continuously reinvented for 40 years in a way it's still a modern OS. I really wish we had HAL/OS (maybe Microsoft can expand the Milo and Kate demo into one) and full-blown human-level AI agents, but the world didn't take any turn into that direction. Unix, in its many incarnations, is still the OS to imitate. And the GNU tools, be it on top of a BSD/Mach kernel (as in OSX) or the Linux kernel is more or less what comes to mind when someone says "Unix".

That is quite an impressive accomplishment.
As a Brooklynite, the idea of being affiliated with Long Island rather than Manhattan fills me with horror.
Are simplicity and symmetry any more Japanese than they are, say, Greek or Swedish? I think you need to go deeper than that to identify something uniquely Japanese.

I read the two interviews linked by domgblackwell, and it's hard to tell. In the first interview, from 2001, the only design principle he cites is the principle of least surprise. In the 2003 interview, he says he didn't think of that, it was just an observation other people made about Ruby. He talks about the folly of pursuing perfection, "harmonious" rather than orthogonal features, and how the programmer feels when using the language, comfort, joy, etc. That actually sounds pretty Japanese, but the fact that he had a much better articulated design philosophy in 2003 than in 2001 makes me think we will never know what implicit design philosophy guided his creation of Ruby. His purported design philosophy is at least partly a retrospectively constructed just-so story he invented to explain how he was able to come up with Ruby. It makes sense that a Japanese creator, upon discovering that he had created something beautiful, would use familiar concepts to try to explain how he did it.
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> This is exactly how we ended up with things like ActiveX and Flash in the first place.

No, and I really don't see the resemblance. We ended up with ActiveX, Flash and Java (you forgot about it) in the first place, because there was no other way to get around the browser's limitations.

In fact it's quite the opposite ... wasn't XmlHttpRequest implemented first as an ActiveX object in IExplorer 5? Or do you think some standards body magically came up with it and everyone was happy?

H264 is the current standard for video, with lots of tools and lots of momentum ... in order to replace it you'll have to put a whole lot more on the table than ideology.
When I have a tight deadline, blocking Google Reader, HN and Slashdot increases my productivity by a couple orders of magnitude.
Yep, using webpages via https would be compromised. The bots hook various DLL to get the content before encryption when it's sent and after decryption when it's received.

They don't seem to use keylogging. They only capture HTML form information.
Well... It's not for me. I can't recommend it.
This "controversy" will inevitably drive more new users to the site.