skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the comment I've laughed hardest at out of every comment I've read on YC.

"Constipating" xD So awesomely descriptive. I'll be chuckling about this for quite a while (earning crazy-looks from random passers-by)!
Yeah, looks like the geoip is happening every request.
Making money has nothing to do with whether or not it is mind pollution. They are two separate arguments.

It is undeniable that advertising makes money for everyone involved; the question is whether or not it is damaging to the mental state of the average person. (my two yen based on my experiences says "Yes"; take it for what it is worth).

If it is damaging I don't personally consider it immoral to remove the advertising.

Whether or not it is profitable is meaningless to the question of whether or not it is right.
I really feel like The Dude made this site.
from http://archimedesmodel.com/applications-and-value.html page:

The Model addresses the full range of variables and outcomes that
are important in making healthcare decisions:
o Populations
o Clinical physiology, biomarkers, signs and symptoms, clinical outcomes
o Prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up care
o Physician and patient behaviors, performance, and compliance
o Protocols, guidelines, practice variations
o Delivery systems, logistics and utilization
o Quality of life
o Financial costs

It's an extremely interesting effort to model the impact of different organizational practices and interventions on hypothetical populations. They have good calibration with clinical trials which should allow them to tune new screening and treatment models in silico instead of having to run 5-10 years of testing. It's similar to techniques used to maintain Moore's Law in chip design, where a chip's performance, behavior, and operating characteristics are simulated prior to fabrication.
That's part of why I liked bit about WalMart in the comment. They do the same thing, but on a larger, more secretive, more spastic way. They literally create and destroy entire business categories with a single shift in focus.
True.

I live in Lebanon, and we have no such filter. It is the most liberal of Arab nations(some even say it isn't an Arab nation). Nudity in media is frowned upon, but we have a crazy night life that even I think is extreme sometimes. Go figure...

Anyway, for the people it matters to, they quickly learn how to avoid such filters. Otherwise, you can get whatever you want from the bittorrent trackers which aren't banned.
just think about it for a moment... This women, in the vast mojority, will marry with the most succesful men they find... Most of them with education and a Degree... As the new chineses society, educated in general, they will have one or two kids... but the natality will go down... and all the young men that don't find a girl, either become depressed, and a social problem, or move away... Any way, all this men, that can't find a women to copulate, and can't have kids, eventually will get older, and the state will need to give them social security and health care... this is boyes are going to be a huge problem in the chinese society... Both as a social problem when they become men within their 20-30 years, and when they reach the jubilation age...
Beautiful. The site really made me feel like this is something I need.

I’m also confused about whether it's `Manpack` or `ManPack`; I see both. I recommend you stick to one.
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Referring to the downmoding, or the comment type? I was referring to the downmoding of snide / valueless, not the frequency of comments that fit those criteria.

Bad comments are refreshingly rare, in my experience. It's part of why I really like YC.
Ask HN: recordable video chat API services?
I've been trying to find a service that will allow me to host flash-based video chat sessions, and record both sides of the resulting chat.

I've been looking at justin.tv, ustream (watershed), and stickam (streamapi), but as far as I can tell they're more 'broadcast' based and only record one side of the conversation (the broadcaster) - though i'd love to be proved wrong about this if someone knows better.

I've also been toying with the idea of building it myself with Red5 but would rather pay someone else to provide it if possible.

Does anyone have any idea if such a service exists?
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What is ridiculous is that the original comment was only about the web page's gratuitous inaccessibility.

So all the other considerations down-voters are making to disapprove his frustration by pro-actively down-voting his comment can only be emotional distress caused by attachment to either Apple's propaganda or wet dreams with Steve Jobs (more likely, imho).
I agree that they should not seem like a Hanes shop unless the goal is to get acquired by Hanes. If that were the case, I would instead focus on selling gillette manpacks and getting acquired by Proctor & Gamble (they have more money).
Anti-social music ‘increases aggression in youngsters’
They do it with youtube, the big banding ads near the top of the main page usually. Could easily do the same thing with news, they do have an image to preserve though that anything coming off the google.com domain be highly targeted.
Does anybody actually believe that people will continue to use ChatRoulette? It seems like a novelty that will soon be forgotten.
Well _this_ is going to be interesting!

I look forward to seeing how Tufte designs for an audience (the American people) more used to USA Today infographics.
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How often do you need to buy new underwear? The last time I did so was sometime in the mid 1990s. They don't look as good as they used to but they still do the job. When it becomes a necessity to do so, most underwear can be bought pretty cheaply locally without paying for shipping costs. This seems rather fussy to me.
They "got away" with bricking devices which were modified, which explicitly voids all warranties. I'd be willing to bet the hacks also violated TOS agreements.

While it's an ass-move to pull, and I seriously disagree with them doing it, it's fully within their rights. If you change your hardware / software, and don't expect things to possibly fail when you apply an update that doesn't expect modified hardware / software, you are an absolute moron.
"I think this is a first step, its like saying out loud that we need to take visual communication more seriously. "

I'm inclined to believe this will only be applied to those topics the administration wants to sell to the public. I don't expect to ever see it applied to, for example, where tax dollars go.
OT: I fit the profile of your target audience. So, if you don't mind, please post your slides after your talk. Thanks.
I'm getting the same errors. Site doesn't load at all for me.
Seems like the site can't keep up with the HN traffic. Hope the guys are able to fix it(I've no idea who they are)!
Actually, we've found success in converting restaurants away from Flash by touting the SEO benefits of pure HTML. Once client of ours ( http://www.bluefinatlanta.com/ ) had their site entirely in Flash (not even a PDF menu!), but showed up nowhere for "sushi bars atlanta". We redid the entire site (with a HTML food menu, thankyouverymuch) and now they're number 2. They're getting a ton more traffic (which they can also now track more effectively by having unique pages) and have totally seen the benefit. It's definitely one of our better case studies for other prospective clients.

TL;DR - You've got to sell them on the business aspects, like SEO.
This basically looks like another rip-off of fmylife.com and textfromlastnight.com

expect the novelty and humor to wear off after some time.

Your best bet is to get some sort of book deal once you have enough good entries and make a fun book out of it.
It works in FF 3.6 on Mac.
Interesting. Is it actually cheaper to get the single pack ($13 per unit) than it is to get the macho pack (13.33 per unit)?
I've never been a fan of this argument.

1) Sure, its called a phone, but thats just because at some point it was a phone. Now its a phone/browser/weak computer/video game system. The name is almost misleading.

You have a good point that its doesn't make sense to complain "I'm using tool A to do job B for which it wasn't made and it doesn't work" but thats no longer the case for many modern "phones."

2) If the restaurant can get more business by adapting to people who "use their phone incorrectly" then they might as well do that (assuming the cost/benefit works out).
If more product websites were like this, the world would be a better place.
Honestly, the lesson here is that your DRM servers are more important than your game servers or your website.

If something is going to break, make sure it's not something your customer doesn't want anyway.
I predict less use of PowerPoint.
Garmin Quest Pocket Street Navigator
Portability meets capability in the pocket-sized Garmin Quest. This easy-to-use unit is loaded with the high-end navigation features from Garmin's most popular GPS navigators, and best of all, it's portable. So, you can use it in multiple vehicles - or slip it in your pocket for handy street-level directions when you're navigating on foot.
could anyone believe that facebook would be something more than a crimson face book, or that google would dominate yahoo, or that myspace would be almost forgotten by the media, could anyone believe twitter would become Twitter, no one knows really
My guess is that either your copy of Garamond is broken, or if you don't have Garamond that your PDF viewer is using a substitute font that doesn't have the full set of characters.
I'm not sure I understand your position. At the risk of beating a dead horse with another contrived analogy, in my opinion dealing with the App Store as the only channel for apps is akin to buying a house and being forced to get all my furniture and housewares at Crate & Barrel. On top of that, the house is built such that anything I buy from another retailer either won't fit in the door or might unexpectedly cause the roof to collapse.

I'll concede your point that real-world stores can be just as difficult to work with, if not even more so, but this doesn't change the fact that having the App Store as the sole arbiter of what's allowed is introducing artificial barriers to restrict consumer choice. Even WalMart has to deal with competition from other distributors.
LaTeX is really, really good. In fact, it's too good for the common people who don't spend a lot of time writing and/or reading books and publications, and instead spend their time not expecting publishing quality. The sad truth is that Word is more than good enough for almost anything.

If you buy a cheap power drill and you use it maybe twice a year, it still probably lasts your whole life and you really don't even need to know why a professional power drill might be much better. Unless, that is, you're a hi-fi junkie and want to do your 100 holes with the best drill you can find, or you're a professional who drills 100 holes a day.
I don't have Garamond at all. Perhaps the author should have used a PDF/X-n.
Switching the engine off in drive or neutral does not appear to lock the steering. You're right about the power-assist though.
Hm, Wolfram|Alpha doesn't like that function, and I don't have access to a real instance of Mathematica...
I think the real lesson here is that, for the fixed cost of learning LaTeX once, you get a significant benefit in improved rendering and layout (and that's before even accounting for formulas) on par with what would be rather significant incremental effort in each Word or Writter document you created.

I also love using LaTeX because I can grab a set of template and style files from whatever publication I might be writing for, and I can be sure that the outcome will be in line with what they were expecting. True, I could also get a Word template, but I've always found that with Word templates I hit backspace at some inopportune location and ruin the layout. "A set of finely tuned defaults" indeed!
Could anybody clarify?

You can find quite a bit of information about it here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/apple-ipad-the-definitive...

Is it just a regular tablet?

It's an iPhone with a huge screen, on steroids ;-)

What OS does it run?

As far as information like this is available before launch, it will probably run a custom version of the iPhone OS.

Is it free?

As you might understand, the iPad itself isn't free. The software on it is (very) probably propietary.

Can I change it to GNU?

In time, it will probably be possible to run a *nix distribution on the iPad, just as you can run these on playstations, xboxes, wifi routers etc.
Hopefully, less slides, because slides aren't inherently bad
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Nice! Now he can put up some pictures of the oscar :)
"How often do you need to buy new underwear?"

If you're asking that question, the answer is yesterday!
Now that's an interesting possibility.
Once the patent to the DNA was granted, the suit against the farmer in the neighboring field was logically necessary. It's the way patents work: you either sue to protect your monopoly whenever you're aware it's being infringed or you lose it. Nations suffering from starvation have refused patent encumbered food, because it would have meant that their farmers, who would plant some of that grain in the same way they have for thousands of years, would no longer have access to European markets, and would be liable for patent infringement. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/us-policy-on-aid-is...
Interesting to know that there are people who don't want to get into the discussions.

I come here to learn something new from the discussions, not the news.
As does TextEdit in rtf mode.
Cool concept, I hope it works out !
Why? In case I need to come out and say it - My underwear is clean! It's just not new. Sounds like typical consumerist propaganda.
I like the "Free Your Mind" up-side. Time to see if I can finally jump to that other building!

An interesting idea, and the price isn't too bad... but I get out to department stores at least this frequently. Remembering isn't that hard, though I wish them good luck on the business. I know some people will go for it, and it'd make a great parents-to-college-students gift.

Having a functioning website is always a good thing, though. Getting YC'd?
I would add the 12th: Once you are happy, spread and share it all over the world, don't keep it just for yourself.
I'm thinking some Lightspeed Briefs would go over well too.
I think the comment from Michael Schubert from Pivotal is spot on (http://bhargreaves.com/2010/03/hire-dev-shop-other-never/#co...).

When you're not sure about what you exactly want and need to quickly iterate on your idea, a good Agile Dev Shop is great. It allows you to limit your risks and not hire people you won't need...
It plays in Linux Firefox using the totem plugin, but I get no sound. Thanks for the YT link.
Turning off the ignition will kill your power brakes and power steering, and may lock the steering column. Not good if you're in traffic or generally not on a straight, flat road.

Shifting into neutral while standing on the brake pedal (and clutch if you have one) seems to be the consensus on what's safest.
The Trunk Club uses a model in this vein:
http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/the-trunk-club-for-men-neve...
I sincerely hope Tufte can successfully counteract the Washington tradition of applying the methods from How to Lie with Statistics. A good visualization can just as well expose the fraud from a contrived one.
It talks about underfill and overfull, usually ("Underfill \hbox"). It's certainly not obvious the first time, but it's not very complicated either.
Given the economics of the online music industry, Pandora is a truly admirable success story. I think what's great about it isn't necessarily that it's a superior music service (since there are so many that are awesome), but that their recommendation system is actually pretty good.
The mind sees what it wants to see
Found this link on a skydiving website I frequent. It was given up as an example on how things can go horribly wrong when we become complacent in things like gear checks.

I've always tried to draw parallels between what I learn in my hobbies and what I do in my professional life. Granted, the stakes are a bit higher in skydiving and they were certainly high in this story (the person involved died), but the lessons are still valid. Ignore them at your own peril.

When I read this post one of the things it reminded me of was a time when a coworker chased a crash bug for about two days. He scoured his code. He became convinced that he had exposed a bug in the compiler....he started to doubt the stability of glibc even! After many lost hours he asked me to look at his code and I saw the error in five minutes; two lines after calling free on a variable he called free on it again.

Before you jump to your keyboard and start typing about how this would not happen to you, realize that people in situations with higher stakes than the mere survival of an insignificant startup have made similar mistakes. The mind sees what it wants to see, and when the mind is reading code that it wrote it wants to see that code as being perfect.
New socks are so cheap that I don't consider it a "very successful" kind of habit. It's cheaper than a smoking habit, for example, even if you really do want a new pair every day (which is stupid and wasteful, IMHO, though not money-wise; just in terms of resources, and labor, and pollutants and such; bleached white fabric is somewhat environmentally yucky).

So, I don't go overboard...I just buy a new pack of six pairs of socks every few months, which is enough to where my socks are never worn out, I can wear two or three clean pair per day (I change socks every time I put my shoes on, and I don't wear shoes around the house, so every time I go out, I wear a clean pair of socks), and not have to do laundry more than once every ~10 days or so. I throw them away at about the same rate, so I always have a drawer full of socks right after doing the wash. In short, I have about 25-30 pair of socks in good condition at any moment in time. I buy the same kind of socks so that sorting is simpler. Hanes changed their thread color a while back and pissed me off a bit, but things have stabilized again and I'm down to only one remaining pair with black thread.

The "return box for charity" idea is a good one...my biggest problem with buying new clothes is getting rid of the old ones.
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Except that both American Airlines and Zappos ignore the fact that clearer visual design translates to moving more shore and selling airline tickets.
No, Helvetica's stature as a high point of type face design was not. In fact, Helvetica was the Arial of that time, and The People Who Are Always Right would snicker at it and instead go for Univers, the well-designed alternative that the riff-raff didn't know about.
I wonder about that too. Maybe people are not washing theirs properly (hot)?
But then he wouldn't have made Hacker News.
This sounds quite a bit like Amazon's Subscriptions. I've used that for diapers, so I'm thinking that underwear and socks would probably work the same way.
...not everyone is having as much luck as the Appmakr team.

And that, my friends, is the problem with the App Store.
The article missed the biggest advantage of TeX. The fact that it doesn't change.

I can take a document written any time in the last 25 years in TeX and print it today. It will still print the same way that it did then, modulo available printing technology, down to the visible wavelength of light. I can then tweak it and print the edited version, without any loss of formatting. Using WYSIWYG word processors and random formats that have existed over that time, not so much.

It isn't just word processing formats. The same is also not true of other printing formats such as postscript and pdf. (Witness in this thread how pdf documents that printed fine for one person not printing correctly for another. That with a pdf created this year.)

This trait is very important for anyone who needs to archive documents. Such as happens all of the time in academia...
Agree! He already has tremendous amount of attention,press and users. If he iterates fast, and keep "freaks and fuckers" off the site, it could become mainstream(maybe it already becomes).
Here's a restaurant web site that I recently used when deciding where to eat with friends. While it wouldn't win any design awards, it had exactly what I needed - a menu, an image of the location, and an address.

http://www.gaborbrothers.com/

A lot of local businesses don't get my business because they don't have or want a web site, and I don't use the yellow pages. A decent web site is becoming increasingly important IMO.
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Narrowest scope seems to be pretty standard practice, as long as that jibes with the language (ex. javascript's function scope).

But...there are probably more important battles to choose to fight during your project.
Imagine having a best friend like you had when you were 5. You could play in the tree house, play video games all day, build stuff, ride bikes all across town, stay over their house, do everything together, talk about anything, once in a while have fights and arguments but then make up. Well it's kind of like that even when you are grown up.

The way the society is structured might help develop these friendships or might prevent them. For example, were I was growing up (in ex Soviet Union), the school was structured such that you could end up being in the same class with mostly the same people for 12 years. Not just the same school -- but the same class. So if you never move (more on that later), you would end up knowing the same 30 people very well. One or two of them might become your good friends.

Now school is just one factor, the other is how transient people are. It used to be that people would be born, grow up and live most of their lives in one city. That means you probably will still have your fiends from since you were 5 living in the same city. In some countries, people move more, mostly because of jobs I guess. It is very hard to form deep friendships when you are moving every 4 years. Yes, you have many acquaintances but not too many friends.

I thought about this quite a bit. By now I lived half of my life in the "old world" and half in US. I can still skype, chat and email back and forth with my childhood buddies, but it is just not the same. I think good friendships need real face to face contact. I am making friends at work, but there is always an apprehension and competitiveness involved. They'll never be the same kind of friends I had growing up. Or maybe I became a different kind of person (too apprehensive, too withdrawn) that nobody would want to be best friends with ...?
Perfect. The karma game is old and tired. This puts the focus on the discussion, not the popularity contests. Thanks, pg!