skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate to read lists of negative things to avoid. I'll try to invert each of the points:

How to Avoid Stress

* Begin by setting reasonable standards for yourself

* Compare yourself with role models who you could someday be like

* Take all criticism with a grain of salt and try not to take it personally

* Allow yourself to make mistakes and to have imperfections

* View your work as a means to an end

* Pay attention to the outcome and the process

* Attribute the success or failure of every endeavor to the effort expended

* Acknowledge factors beyond your control but do not fixate on them

* Learn to meditate and relax; do it often

* Develop your sense of humor

* Listen to music for please

* If you have a physical problem, find the root cause of the problem and pursue a lasting solution

* Exercise often; eat healthy on a good schedule

* Avoid alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, and other drugs and stimulants

* Fasten your seatbelt, drive slowly, and reduce your time spent in the car

* Take on what you can handle, learn to say no

* Learn to prioritize everything and work on the important things

* Stay organized

* Participate in your support networks

* Ask for help

* Take responsibility for your behavior

* Develop and maintain friendships with others

* Recover from injury, don't wallow in victimization

* When in doubt, avoid hastily assigning blame
1) sandboxed apps. Concept isn't new, but consumer PCs have never had sandboxes. A game or word processor you install shouldn't have access to your tax returns. With the iPad nasty apps can't do much damage.

2) backup app installations, settings and documents by syncing with iTunes. iPad breaks or gets stolen? Buy a new one and plug it back in and you're back in business.

3) App Store. Now only used for "gimmick" software on the iPhone, but the potential is enormous. Only apt-get comes close, but apt-get doesn't have an easy payment model. And it has this dependecy-hell and installing updates can wreck havoc.

4) computer with built-in GPS & accelerometer and 3G internet. How many laptops have that?

5) locked-down and DRMed, even for developers. That's certainly revolutionary for a consumer PC.

6) No tree based filesystem. No /home/[user]/Documents, no c:\Users\[user]\AppData. Your files are just "there".
Compare the dinosaurs. The Digital Farm theme seems to contain the famous stomping dinosaur from Dinosaur Comics.
Repeal the Amazon Tax
In an interview I can't find right now the band explains that they came up with the idea of supplementing the income from the video with a corporate sponsorship. EMI helped them negotiate a sponsorship deal with State Farm (in return for a plug at the end of the video), so then EMI allowed the video to be embedded, since it was making extra money from the sponsorship.

Edit: It's this interview on NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1245329...

"Mr. KULASH: Yeah, we made the Notre Dame version of the video about three months ago, and we put that one up. And following the label's sort of standard procedure at that time, it wasn't embeddable, and we just got a lot of response from our fans, people really upset that they couldn't put it on their sites, and they couldn't blog about it, and they couldn't sort of include it in their Internet. It had to be done the way EMI wanted them to.

So before we made our next video, we looked for corporate sponsorship, which would allow us to roll out the video the way we wanted to, and to be fair, EMI helped us find corporate sponsors, who turned out to be State Farm. And State Farm agreed to cover the cost of the video if we would thank them at the end of it, and they left the creativity entirely to us. And it was sort of it's kind of like, you know, 17th-century patronage of the arts. We got to do what we wanted to do, and we put a thank you on the end, and that's it."
Yeah I didn't really see anything he did as particularly ruthless. I think of ruthlessness as more akin to making it to the top by destroying those ahead of you and keeping a short leash on those below you, perhaps utilizing deceit, betrayal, and duplicitous manipulation. Everyone seemed to at least have a favorable opinion of this guy which is not how most people tend to feel towards someone described as "ruthless".
Businessman live or die by their skill at picking talent. Bureacrats who fund science live and die by their skill at picked themselves. I'd trust the businessmen to get the job done.

Monetary competitions like the X prize would get you scientific discoveries faster and cheaper than the current system, simply because you would have a businessman driving progress rather than studious scientist-cum-team leader (PI).
Pain and damage are different.
Nope. I don't oppose it at all. Rights are demanded, not granted. Given the situation we have now, granting "two person" marriages at the expense of higher numbers would satisfy the most people with the least amount of upheaval. If and when polygamists are numerous and organized enough to make a strong case for themselves, then we can talk about it. That's how politics really works.
Most foreign FDAs are less strict than the US FDA.

In a variety of countries (Egypt, India, Iran, Turkey, France, to name a few), you can buy many non-narcotic drugs in the pharmacy. So if you have amoebiosis, want birth control, or have the same fungus as the author, you just ask a pharmacist for help.

In the US, all require a doctor's permission.
The Real Reason Everyone Loves Google In Silicon Valley
excellent, especially since it feels like I play with Twitter JSON all day these days.
It's the dinosaur; here's where I first saw it [the dinosaur]:

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php
I don't read it as "losers" being people who are risk adverse - more that they are incapable of playing the political games required to ascend to the ranks of the ruling sociopaths and are incapable of descending level of the clueless - who really don't know any better.
There is no doubt that this guy would be good management material, considering that he knows how to get things done and knows how to be friendly with people in a manner that helps him out. But the point is: a lot of people who want to be in upper management are not willing to build their relationships with other people in the company based off a non-personal need. They want their friends to be real friends, and not just strategic short term allies.

I'm not picking a side here, I'm just pointing out the operating mode that has resulted (in my observation) in at least one person getting ahead pretty quick.
Basically, it sucks to work in an environment where impressions count more than ability and feel-good vibes are more important than thoughtful analysis.
Communism's logically consistent. There are people who say that communism is actually a really good idea, Russia just implemented it poorly.

Can you see some parallels between that and the point you're trying to make?

In what world would it make sense to privatize, say, road building and make every road a toll road? It'd be even more of a mess than private health insurance. (EDIT: equivalent mess to the government producing toilet paper, if you'd rather)

Anytime you manage to neatly distill reality to the point where a simple sound byte is the solution to all of our extremely different problems, you've probably entered fantasy land.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_and_change
Yeah great, we just needed some "dc/bc" clone in a window at 19.95$. I agree with the interface mistake, not with the product...

Use dc or bc!
Curious Displays, concept display technology
"John Stossel is host of Stossel on the Fox Business Network."

I was willing to humor Reason, but I won't humor Rupert.
I think mutual funds shouldn't be licenses either, it just introduces friction in the system.

Even then, they're not licensed in the same way. It only takes a small exam, not years of graduate school.
"He got friendly with the boss, and 6 months later, he was a manager. His old friends said that Saul would walk by them, chatting and laughing with the managers, and it would be like they never existed."
There's http://github.com/jamespadolsey/prettyPrint.js
A relevant quantitative prediction would be of this form:

When participants are randomly divided into two experimental conditions, "donation" and "no-donation", participants in the donation condition donate significantly more than no-donation participants. The amount of donation is the dependent variable - it's the way you measure, quantitatively, that the experimental manipulation caused the participants to behave differently.

EDIT: I forgot the prediction part. So, I predict that this "donation effect" generalizes. If I ran a charity and I wanted to increase donations, then I might predict that if I gave something to potential donors, they would donate more when they were given the chance. I'd measure the outcome in terms of dollars donated.
Agreed.

Though Rand's interest in the-thing-that-she-should-have-just-made-up-a-word-for actually makes aspects of her philosophy appealing to me. I just tend to think more in the terms of the everyman who shouldn't be crushed in the name of The People, rather than the Great Man. Great Men tend to fend for themselves very well...
The question posed in the title differs somewhat from the behavior described. I've known people like that, and they are terrible people, and when I say "people" I'm using that generously - they're much closer to automatons. This one guy, if you talked to him about anything other than the acquisition of wealth or the acquisition of womens' lady bits - would give you a blank stare, take a second to reboot and then begin talking about one of the two aforementioned topics. They differ somewhat than the prototypical "cut-throat" business people. You know, those people who justify their behavior with faulty circular logic: you have to be ruthless in business, because business is ruthless. _Rarr, I'll eat your company_!

Like orangecat(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1184986) mentioned, they exhibit classic sociopathic behavior. To be fair, we all use people - you use friends for friendship, significant others for significant-othering. However, it is the complete lack of empathy from these sociopaths that makes their behavior abhorrent. Though we all use others, the implicit social contract that is normally entered keeps the exchange amiable.
CNET: Spain arrests three accused of running huge botnet
That's an assertion. Do you have a cite?
Amazing companies are built on free.
Or maybe it simply wasn't very good? It need not be some prejudice against new technologies. I'd say that the Academy has a big soft spot for fancy new film tricks, so in this case, it's good to see they weren't dazzled into choosing it for best film.
I'm the author of the second one. I don't pick a side because I use both for different personal projects and haven't made my mind up yet. It's an honest conclusion and the article is oriented to giving an introduction to someone who's trying to make a choice. That's the point.
It's kind of like sales, but instead of directly selling to customers you are pursuing partnerships with other companies.
The author claims the protestors are simply asking for more funding, and have no constructive input into California's budget crisis. The signs in the graphic accompanying his article contradict him, showing clearly that the students want funds spent on classroom teaching rather than the construction of new facilities on campus.

Hard to know what is reasonable without someone breaking down the University budget.
You know, if you'd used a little courtesy instead of psuedo tough-guy rhetoric, I might have mistakenly thought you were sincere and said. :)

Personally, I'm waiting to hear the reason for your apparent ego investment in those two systems.
XenServer (the version from Citrix/XenSource) has the ability to convert OVF; natively, they use the Microsoft-derived VHD format.
Interestingly similar to DRM, where we have to deal with massive limitations on legitimate use while having very little stopping effect on illegal use.
Bill Gates' original vision was "a computer on every desk, running Microsoft software". Once he more or less reached this goal, around the mid-90's, of course Microsoft stagnated.

I'd say that Bill's real failure was to not accept this fact and return as dividends or stock buybacks the tremendous amount of money that Microsoft was generating.
Get Unix Power Tools and you will grow up in 2 weeks.
Editorial by investigator of Audi brake "problems" asserting that Toyota issues are likely driver error:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/opinion/11schmidt.html?th&...
Indeed. However, I would suspect that considerably more than 5% of people would download a torrent rather than buying.
> Can someone explain to me why I'm being downmodded here?

Happens all the time. Very annoying.

I'm not advocating chrome os in favor of the the ipad, it seems a step back. The PC revolution is slowly being rolled back and that's not revolutionary at all, that's regression.

The whole reason open source took off is because we own these machines, if we end up just getting a piece of glass that puts us in touch with all kinds of software that we are allowed to use remotely then we are well on our way to the 60's.

We'll see about android, I'm keeping my fingers (and my toes) crossed that open will win out over closed, no matter how slickly packaged closed can be (that really is it's big advantage, the fact that the 'cathedral' usually has a single architect makes it a lot more aesthetically pleasing to the eye).
This...

"You need to have close friends that are at your stage in life and higher, and for that, you have to leave the ones that stayed behind back."

...is not the same as being friendly. It's actual sociopathy.
I think it's a stretch to say that the iPad gets the web completely wrong. The author complains about the lack of draggable windows on the iPad, but what is one of the best advancements in browsers in recent years? Tabbed browsing, specifically so you don't have so many windows floating around.

Also, she seems set on imposing her idea of the interrupt-driven experience of a traditional computer(instant messaging, etc.) in dismissing the iPad without considering that Apple may include background tasks in a future version of the iPhone OS — or that maybe an interface that promotes focusing on a single task at one time could be beneficial to the user.

She complains she hasn't done much web browsing on her iPhone, only when she specifically needs information. What exactly is wrong with that?
I'd rather see a clone implemented with Lua; with LuaJIT being so fast, it could be really interesting what could be accomplished in Emacs.
This isn't quite like CR. It's persistent, and it's not only 1-to-1.
Given the number of cultures in the world that still practice polygamy, and how historically some cultures in the US did as well, I wouldn't be surprised if a number of "closeted polygamists" started popping out of the woodwork if polygamy were legalized along with same-sex marriage.

I'd also question whether "people seriously agitating" is a good way of determining whether a particular action is right or necessary, as it's the lack of agitation caused by fear that allows discrimination (against any small minority: geeks/nerds, races, genders, etc.) to exist for such a long time before finally being addressed.
"Basically, it sucks to work in an environment where impressions count more than ability and feel-good vibes are more important than thoughtful analysis."

Get used to it. This is just an aspect of human nature. This is why geeks are bad at marketing (including me, but I am getting better).
Disabling internal services gracefully with redis_feature_control
Tangent: I've never seen a free-marketer say the market doesn't work. Doesn't always work, sure. Isn't a magical fairy that makes everything perfect, absolutely. But not work at all? I'm fairly sure you have to think that markets work to support free markets.
About lexical binding, couldn't this potentially break many, many existing packages? How easy would it be to fix the big ones (gnus, cc-mode, gdb, vc, etc.)?
Sexual Reproduction for Same-Sex Couples?
How to pee when you got morning wood.
Really? Because previously, you argued that because the number of people advocating for polygamy was lower, you therefore did not support polygamy. I guess that was just a fake argument?

So I'll repeat the question: can you state your real argument in favor of gay marriage?

Note: I'm asking why you favor it, not why you feel it is politically feasible.
$('body').css('word-spacing', 10);

God I love firebug and jQuery.
a manipulative asshole

That's unfair. There is a legitimate debate on this question. F stock runs largely against SV tradition, and presumably there isn't a lot of data yet on its long-term impact.
Too much middle management. Like 7 layers worth. Microsoft needs to cut fat.
the best comment I have read here so far. Y2Gay totally made my day!
Italian house speaker: nobel peace prize for internet
It is required for POSIX compliance.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
I bought it and didn't find it that impressive but don't regret the purchase as such. One of the biggest issues is that the viewing angle of the iPhone 3G's screen is so poor that when you turn it at the harder angles, you can barely see it.. or maybe I need to crank my brightness up to max to compensate.
Multitasking Headed to iPhone 4.0 [RUMOR]
I think the ruthless part was dumping his friendships with "the little people" as soon as they were no longer aiding his advancement.
Have barely tried anything with javascript. This instantly reminded me of the joy of the learning HTML in Mozilla back in the day. Will now, finally, be learning some javascript.
I'm not getting into a cite game on things Rand repeated so often that she said she was tired of people asking her about them. She repeatedly dismissed libertarianism as nothing more than a dressed-up leftist anarchist movement.

Unless you have something more substantive to ask than "Oh, yeah?", we're done here.
I was rather shocked when some of my friends went to go work with the big networks about what's staged and what's real. It's not an uncommon, for example, to interview someone with the camera on them 100% of the time, and then the interviewer re-asks the questions after the person leaves. Almost any ethical journalist will try to make sure those questions are exactly the same, but with so much in intonation, pacing, and more, it struck me as fundamentally altering the tone if not the substance story, even when the intentions of all involved were the best.

Tachometergate just takes it up a few RPM.
If this is how you define ruthlessness perhaps you need some tougher skin.
"The world's greatest fool may say the Sun is shining, but that doesn't make it dark out." -- Robert Pirsig
A good reminder that people overreacting is often just as much of a problem as whatever they're trying to solve.

One issue I had with the article though, is the overuse of hyperbole. There is no indication of how much of it was fact, and how much was embellishments and exaggerations.
Ironically, your speed limit example is exactly a case of government interference that doesn't cause the intended positive result. See the Montana no posted speed limits study (TLDR--no speed limit = decrease in fatalities): http://www.motorists.org/pressreleases/home/montana-no-speed...

The author's point is not that the role of government isn't to protect liberty and the general welfare of the American public. He is simply saying that licensing doesn't do a good job of that, and in fact causes the exact opposite effect through lack of competition (bad for prices and quality, and thus bad for consumers) while really doing nothing to ensure quality. In order to protect the liberty and general welfare of the public, the government would be best to stop requiring licensing.
His original post focused on the political aspect of it. The political aspect is what decides whether gays can marry, and a population's overall opinion on a mater influences political policy. Thus, his personal opinion is totally irrelevant to the point he was making.

Why are you trying to bring his personal opinions into play?
> Find me a woman...

I don't intend to insult, but to actually answer the question: how about your mom or grandmother? Do you honestly believe they wish to "show a bit of flesh"?
I agree with the general idea but there's an important distinction that needs to be made.

I have no problem with speed limits or licensing of doctors. If you want a group of people to dictate how does someone qualifies to be a doctor that's fine by me. When one does that in specific situations it's necessary that everybody follows the same rules, like in your example of the speed limit. I find no problem with that too.

A group of people should be able to determine rules for their property, the problem is when you start forcing others to do the same. This could be confusing in cases when compliance from everyone is needed like with speed limits, so I'll take my time explaining it.

Lets say we want quality control in dentistry. You like the government quality control the government gives and would like your dentists to count with their approval.
I, on the other hand, think it's requirements are excessive. Most of what my dentist does is find black spots in my teeth, drill them out, and then fill the hole.
This does not require 4 years of study. If I ever get to need a root canal I would need someone with more studies but until then I'd me happy with someone with less studies, maybe a certification given by the manufacturer of the equipment, I don't know.

This requirement drains the wallets of the poor. It's fine if you want to comply with the state regulation but I don't see the need for imposing it on everyone else.

There are different cases, like with speed limits, where everyone needs to comply for you to benefit from the regulation.

the Canandian Hockey federation used to lack reglamentation concerning helmets. Players would have benefited from using helmets but didn't because if someone didn't use one they had an advantage over the others. So the federation started demanding helmets and everyone benefited.

This is different than speed limits. If it where like speed limits the hockey federation would have made illegal all over Canada to play without helmets. It would be illegal to start a hockey federation without that rule and it would land you in jail to do so. There would be violence involved. Instead in the voluntary system you can participate in games without helmets just next to one with helmets and nobody will throw you in jail.

In the speed limits scenario I think you should be able to drive any street you want, but you can't force me to build one with the regulation you want. If I build a street, and someone wants to use it then it's their call.

If I want to go to a dentist or doctor without governmental accreditation that's my choice, and I wouldn't like to be imprisoned or fined (which without compliance ends in imprisonment) because of it.

I understand it sound chaotic if you are not familiar with the ideas. I don't know if this is the medium to discuss this.
Thanks!

That pretty much what I was thinking... but its good to get some confirmation.
That's not the same thing. Your video shows an app rendering frames of animation back and forth using the accelerometer data. The app in the posting uses the sensor data to calculate the orientation of the device and then uses that to manipulate the 3d engine camera location and orientation to create an illusion you are peeking to a 3d world.