skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I find that I have a fairly fixed amount of energy. There are various lifestyle changes that affect this energy, but at the beginning of a day I'm pretty much set in how much work I'll get done that day, whatever it's on.

The biggest efficiency gain for me is eliminating things that have a large cognitive drain but little efficiency, such as face-to-face meetings, phone calls, and generally things that can be automated.

Having the printer closer won't help much.
I rarely read newest. I go to /classic usually.
I thought of a name as a plan + energize, so it is plan - ergize. And it wasn't easy to come with this one - it seems everything is taken :-)
Umm...there's a hell of a lot more than "guy with the vision" necessary for a startup in my opinion. But I guess that's from the perspective of someone who spent days trying to learn contract law for his own startup until realizing it would be better to bring in a qualified lawyer as small equity partner to do it.
I agree that entrepreneurs tend to be a bit self- (or at least startup-) absorbed, but I'd bet most normal people don't mind being called "normal".

In any case, the dichotomy is real, though the "non-normal" side is not restricted to startup founders. I've heard the term "real person" used as a near-synonym for "normal"; a "real person" has a job, probably has a mortgage, and is either married with children or well on the way. In other words, a "real person" is conventional. Unconventional people tend to think of "conventional" as an insult, but it's simply not the case; by definition, most people are conventional, and most of them are perfectly happy that way.
She going to make sure that he's exposed to a world that lies behind that of Playstations and 24h cartoon TV, and that's good.

But I also see the making of self-righteous, arrogant know-it-all. The kind of person that will complain over all non-A grades because his mum told him he's smarter than the teacher. Seriously, he's telling scientists how to do their job. Blind obedience to seniority is a bad idea, but so is that "sigh you got it all wrong, here, now, let me show you"-attitude.
The virtues of the CLR are (rightly) extolled for Windows, then the lack of the CLR on Linux/OS X is cited as one justification for the HLVM. Mono is alive and well on those two platforms (notwithstanding hate from the GNU/Stallman camp).

Not to start another thread, but I agree with his point on WPF being a generation ahead of similar technologies on other platforms. I hope we see work start on that at some point for Mono (running on OpenGL, for example).
I find it curious that you assume it's the child's mother giving him poor guidance in how science works.
A little disappointing with firefox: "Sorry, Anigma requires a WebKit browser such as Safari, Chrome, or Arora"

But, works well with chrome. Suggestions:
1) Showing 573 levels is a bit disconcerting
2) A way to start a new game easily? If I want to show someone in the same browser, its nice to start off at a simpler level. I do like the state preservation even if the browser is closed.
Luck is essentially a common interpretation of the stochastic nature of the world. I agree with the author of the article in that people could increase their luck by exposing themselves to random events. I disagree that counting all pictures rather than stopping when the note is found implies a "lucky" personality-- that is more like a rational/logical personality. Luck would be that in fact, the number of pictures was different than the number in the note, and the person's curiosity helped them discover this fact by continuing to count regardless of having seen the note.

I tried to describe this in one of my blog posts, but I am still missing the second part, if interested, take a look at: http://bit.ly/b0SjZq
CCC Fake Fingerprint
hey guys, here's pitchfork's side of the story, from ryan schreiber [prez/founder]: http://pitchfork.tumblr.com/post/393233651/dear-tumblr-commu...

im not going to personally comment on this one, so here's the gist of ryan's letter: the site had very few, very infrequent posts, and tumblr readily handed it over when we asked about it. nothing dubious, no back-alley handshakes, nothing funky. the original poster is welcome to take it back, we never had any intentions of evicting active residents from their property.

give it a read.

full disclosure: i work @ pitchfork.
Interesting. What's the difference between the default frontpage and /classic?

Update: Thanks to SearchYC.com, I found the answer here --

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024293
yes it does. look at the chart on the right side of the page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_suspects#Detention...

2 days
Google's engineers were likely delighted when Buzz automagically preconfigured their Follow networks.

Blaming this on engineers makes no sense. Engineers include some of the most timid, paranoid, self-conscious, and socially self-protective people I know. The people who saw no problem with the auto-follow feature are the people who thrive on living public lives: the masters of social media whose natural belief in self-promotion as the most essential human attribute and the driver of all progress parallels the engineer's faith in human reason. Just as the engineer is so bemused by unreason as to feel justified in excluding irrational people from all consideration, classifying them as atavistic troglodytes, so the bloggers and twits find it natural to brush aside the shy and the retiring as relics of a benighted age in which human beings' natural inborn desire to expose a carefully groomed self to the gaze of hundreds, thousands, millions, billions of people was tragically stunted by the primitive state of society.

The people who approved this auto-follow functionality knew it would piss some people off, and they knew exactly what kind of people it would piss off. They just thought those people could safely be ignored. They thought "everybody" would embrace this new brave new world where all the accidental and unnecessary barriers to extroversion were being thankfully overthrown by technology. Boy, were they wrong :-D and I'm very glad they were; I'm glad I'm not a freak for wanting a little bit of privacy.

[EDIT, hopefully before somebody complains: I know I'm generalizing. I'm perfectly capable of inserting all the necessary disclaimers, but I left them out for readability. EDIT again: Apparently I wasn't fast enough.]
I agree, with all of that - I just want to emphasize the need to clear up the front page. With all the text the same size I have a really difficult time finding what I need, I had to click on the why page to figure that out (the first line would be better on the front page :
"Step-by-step instructions along with videos and images Cook a meal as if guided by a famous chef personally, get instructions when and what should be done with a recipe plan" - A link to an example page would be great to - or some sort of slideshow.

I had a really difficult time just getting the gist of what you are doing there but was really put off by the large block of over sized text on the front page.
Top 5 Tips for Managing Open Source Developers
Origin of consciousness
"If this were a standard traffic sign misdirecting this many people, it would have been pulled down long ago."

HA don't hold your breath.
The Case For An Older Woman
Can you elaborate on the type of documentation you use false DCMA claims?
I had the same reaction. Instead of a common word misspelled on purpose (e.g., "tumblr"), it looks more like a typo in the product name. Also, at first glance I want to say "plagiarize" because it's the closest real word my brain associates with those letters.

Other issues:
- You have categories with no samples.
- There is no back button support.
- There is no mouse wheel support within scrollable panes.
- In detail view, I couldn't figure out how to get back out to higher level views.
Yeah, it's not clear to me why one shouldn't just use text and let the OS sort this out.
I love OCaml, which this virtual machine says it is based upon, but doesn't it have issues with multi-core processors? That is, doesn't it suffer from a limitation due to its garbage collector?
When Companies Behave Like Incumbent Politicians
Twittle: Nokia OVI Success Story
Each power station usually has multiple units, each unit usually runs at about 2-2.5 GW for a large scale reactor. 400 stations with 2 units apiece would generate 1.75TW assuming about 10% were offlined for maintenance at any one time. Existing nuclear plants already generate a good chunk of power, non-coal sources exist as well.

Currently California's peak energy needs in the summer months tends to be only 50GW or so. That's roughly one sixth of the population of the US. Even if you assume the nation needs 500GW total, that's nowhere near 1.75TW.

In other words, I think your 400 estimate is much too high, where did you get your numbers?

My numbers show about 75 generating stations with 2 reactors each supplying the power needs for the entire US. This assumes no offlining and only 300GW needed but also calculates based on each reactor supplying 2GW when most of the ones we have in the US supply over that.

(Note: Calculated from a US-centric point of view because the parent post was talking about a theoretical stimulus package and so I'm trying to work the numbers on what my particular nation would need to move its entire energy infrastructure to new nuclear plants.)

(Note the second: It's possible my numbers aren't taking into account tranmission losses, would someone who knows more about power infrastructure than me fill me in on this? I got my 50GW peak summer usage number from the California independent system operator, does that number already factor in transmission losses?)
Thanks, I agree, we'll have it fixed by tomorrow.
I think it's more they see that they'll have too. The current FTC/FCC has been sending signals that companies with high market share cannot block whatever they feel like without consequences. Attempting to do this on their own terms preempts being forced to do it in a disadvantageous way.
Canon had something similar to this back in the day on their camcorders and cameras. It was called Eye Control, and the camera would focus on where you looked. They need to re-implement that!
Good suggestions, I hid the 573 and addded a restart game link.

Ran out of time before I could look up the mozilla property names. The source is up here so if if someone has a patch for mozzilla i'll merge it in. http://github.com/icefox/css3anigma
Interesting exercise, but of little use: this is solving (well, trying to) a political problem with more technology. JVM is already on the table, let's use that.
Studying open-source code brings immediate benefits to your own code.
Comments at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129077
> Whether “shipped” here means “sold to end users” or “ordered by retailers” is unclear – but regardless, it’s quite the feat either way.

That's a very important distinction that's left out.
No doubt. I'm just stating that I feel he may very well be over-stating his case. I agree that information like this is vital in making a decision on whether or not I want to do 'business' with Tumblr.
Yes, I once released a P2P product developed solely by me into GPL license. Shortly after that I noticed another guy started another project copying exactly all the source files, and he put a copyright with his name in every single file even when there's no change in the file. Now I was ok if he wanted to fork the project but damn it don't claim credit for work you didn't do. I contacted him to ask him to remove his copyright and he said he's forking the project and there's nothing I can do. I contacted Free Software Foundation and they said there's nothing I can do. That's the way GPL works. I swore then I would never release another GPL project again.
Even after reading the quote at the end from the Facebook rep, I'm not clear what benefit this is to users. I get that it's a way to stroke wireless providers, but that seems to be its only reason for existing. Why would a user care if Facebook has been branded by their mobile provider?
No, We're Not the stupid ones
Women pick on better looking women as much as men drool at them. (And vice versa, sexwise.) So it can still be about her good looks. Especially her good black looks.
I have no idea, but I've just upvoted you back to 1. If someone knows more / better please post here and explain rather than anonymously downvote, which doesn't explain anything to anyone.

[edit: ah, ok, to expand on what 45g said, ocaml is used to build the tools, but anything that targets the HLVM will end up using LLVM for runtime code generation - so it will either compile to assembly, or use a JIT VM. either way, any limitations in ocaml will only affect the tools, not the final compiled program]
FCC Announces "100 Squared" Iniative:100mbps to 100 million homes
Kind of like Java in general, the JVM sits in the middle ground. LLVM is a good starting point for building low level languages (although nothing prevents you from writing high level languages in it, you just have write more). The HLVM is supposed to be a good starting point for building high level languages with things like garbage collection, closures, tail call elimination, etc. The JVM isn't the fastest for low level applications and isn't the easiest for high level functional languages.
I'm curious - even if you have a domain that points to tumblr via A records (as detailed http://www.tumblr.com/docs/custom_domains) then you are still at the mercy of tumblr...aren't you? I suppose that the upside of using your domain is that you can point it elsewhere if something like this happens (assuming that you backed up your content) and any users you have still use the same domain.
So is this article.
Agreed, but if these 2 plants are built with high publicity and everyone sees no problem for several years then the fear of nuclear will decrease. It's been over 30 years since a new reactor was built in the US, the public opinion is mostly that it's extremely dangerous citing a handful of incidents from thousands of reactors because nuclear has been demonized.

What the public doesn't know is that more people die annual from the radioactivity released from [coal] plants than have died from every nuclear plant accident combined. Then there's the massive amounts of smog produced from coal plants that seriously hamper longevity and are directly linked to millions of deaths globally of the elderly and infants, not to mention it likely causes hundreds of thousands of deaths in ordinary healthy people who've contracted a survivable case of pneumonia.

Nuclear power is necessary as a matter of life or death in western countries, and countries around the world.
The mother was mentioned in the letter as taking the child to the museum. Somehow I latched onto that and created the idea that the child was being raised by a single mother (don't know why). It could equally be both parents or just a father 'leading the child astray.' The point I was trying to make was geared towards how the child is getting guidance and what kind as opposed to who was actually giving it.

[edit] Upon further reflection, I may have been projecting my own mother a bit but, the gist of what I was saying doesn't depend on who the parent is (mother/father/both) -- at least I didn't intend it that way, if that's how it comes across.
Because any corporation that claims to be rewarding your loyalty is really just locking you in (or collecting personal data) and once you're locked in know they can charge you more.
Sounds to me like "Tips for working with Hackers" in general.
Hmm...anyway, they claim that the last post was made on November 18, 2009. I don't consider that to be an inactive account...

I don't like what tumblr did here. Now it means, that if I subscribe to them and don't post something for 3 months, they can just take the subdomain from me and give it to someone else.

They probably do have a legal right to that, but still, it's still impolite, if not nasty.
Hmm, I'm surprised that the suspicious vote detector didn't catch this case. I'll have to tighten it up a bit.
“This is not your father’s quark-gluon plasma,” said Barbara V. [...]

Indeed.
After reading that, I don't think it's so bad. The internet needs a giant broom and dustpan. Tumblr has the right to keep their own house clean.
Could you explain why have you decided to manage your own network. If I remember correctly, that wasn't the case in the early days of Weebly.
Yes yes of course! Don't try this unless you can land other stuff. I've been snowboarding for 15 years and still land on my butt most of the time, but I know how to avoid breaking my neck.

The point I was trying to make is that most of the time, what prevents you from doing something is not lack of skill, but lack of confidence / courage.
Adobe & Wired show new user experience for magazines
You hit it right. According to this article: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-10453550-78.html Verizon is having trouble getting voice to work over LTE in their test markets, so they are going to go data only on LTE initially and use CDMA for voice. When I read that, I wondered if the voice problem was a function of something basic in LTE (like latency) or if the voice gear just doesn't play well with LTE yet. If it's the latter, then Skype VoIP applications would help offload voice traffic from CDMA for "power users".
Making portable applications isn't a solved problem. There's Java. It's decent, especially with Clojure and other JVM languages, but I find the idea of a more powerful language (like OCaml) not without merits. Clojure has run into a lot of problems due to the JVM, probably the most famous one being the lack of tail call optimization.
Adobe and Condé Naste demo WIRED on Adobe AIR
Interesting blog post about Adobe and Condé Nast's unveiling of "a new digital magazine experience based on WIRED magazine" that's built using Adobe AIR and could conceivably work on iPads and iPhones.
I think the verdict is still out on if it is saved. Also, if they had done a better job of figuring out the implications of their features, maybe the product would have launched with positive press. At the very least, they could have taken the weekend off and not caused people to worry about their physical safety.
Just to add a note here: I have worked for Pitchfork Media previously. As a client, they were always the most awesome people to work for: Ryan and his team completely get the web and how it works, and don't step on people's toes, rather just carving out their own niche and letting people come to them.

There's zero chance of malice here, just a bit of ruffled feathers.
haha no never
That argument could defend any poor-usability site or mechanism.
Time to find a new hosting solution, IMHO.
Are 20% of TC readers Google employees who read TC in hope of leaving Google to start their own companies?
+1 for the python-style method comment block =]
I don't think it's news until you can get a phone without a voice plan.
How is WPF a generation ahead of what OS X has? I haven't used WPF since 3.5 came out, but it didn't seem to offer anything better than what Cocoa offers. I think it's much better than Qt, but Qt has to make sacrifices to be cross platform, so it's a different kind of framework.
the text in section 4.2 is kind of greyed (hatched) out (and unreadable). very odd. i'm using okular on opensuse / kde - is it odd an acrobat reader too?
This VM is based on LLVM and in particular aimed at parallel programming. As its author said: "HLVM is an experiment to see what a next-generation implementation of a language like OCaml might look like, addressing all of OCaml's major shortcomings (interoperability, parallelism and some performance issues)." [http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2009/09/a94db...]
I think it was a combination of several things that made them consider it inactive:

"the last post that had been made was on November 18, 2009, and said, “This filter is obsolete.” The post before that was from March 21. There had been a total of five posts ever made to the account."

If this is true, this is in fact a good arguments for considering it inactive. Not enough to disable it like they did, but it's more in the gray area than the original post made it sound like.
That may be the goal of some. But as I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I think that's wrong.

The fact is that we're all different, and pretending otherwise doesn't help anything.

The problem is when we assume that differences in a few attributes makes us better or worse than others, or more or less deserving of [respect, entitlements, etc.].

We're all different. There are so many variables that interplay in so many ways, and they are realized in such chaotic circumstances that it's impossible to assess superiority (except maybe in the most pathological cases).
Why did you guys move your servers to the US and do you think it was worth it with the additional cost of dealing with DMCA?
Sure, but that's much less fun. (and this router is currently only $60 shipped from Newegg -- that, plus maybe $10 worth of Radioshack components).
You don't get to take any liquids through, bomb-shaped or not...
I would appreciate if you posted some links on home schooling... things a noob parent needs to know.

The open enrollment (assuming you mean what I inferred) has not worked well in my home town.

About 15 years ago, the city and county schools allowed you to pick your school. There is a fee of around $300 per year to go to a school outside your district. It only took a few years for the schools to polarize along racial lines. When I went to the city high school in the mid-80s, it was a 50/50 split racially and was considered the best school around by far.

My son will start kindergarten this fall. Which school will I send him to? The North-West county school, which is widely understood to have the best teachers, management, and facilities. The children at this school are mostly white from the highest income brackets, and more likely to have a parent that spends more time with their child (income related). I do not like that the school will be off balance in regards to race, but all the schools are off balance now.
Twitter releases their in-house open-source projects
Looks like they use primarily Ruby, Scala, Java, and C.
'I was falsely branded a paedophile'
> had traveled to the Middle East, learning Arabic (Farsi?)

Couldn't that describe anyone that was planning on moving, working, or doing business (as in making deals with companies there while operating in the U.S.) there? Please don't try and make this about the color of his skin.
Understanding Java Weak References
Why do you need HLVM to do this? OCaml already runs on multiple platforms, so all that's needed is some library work. The same is true for Haskell, Standard ML, Lisp, and many other languages. If you want to write languages for multiple platforms HLVM sounds useful. If you want to write portable programs, why not work on improving the libraries available for an existing language?
My fraternity was predominantly white, but not by design. It just worked out that way.

I recall we once pledged a guy named Jose, a very cool guy who happened to be Hispanic. We were really happy to have him. But the local fraternity that specialized in Hispanics continually harassed him until he couldn't see any solution but to drop out of our pledge class.
Probably because the votes weren't all that suspicious: two semi-regular HN readers who upvote a story in quick succession, but certainly not simultaneously - I have no idea how you'd like to "catch" those (or even whether that would be all that desirable).

BTW, have you ever thought about making other people's "saved" views (i.e. their upvotes) public (maybe w/ opt-in)? It would be an awesome data set for collaborative filtering ...