skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, yes you did do any such thing. Here's what you wrote:

"Objectivism is -- literally -- orthodox Marxism with different words filled into key blanks."

Then your link leads to:

"There are two classes of people in society. One class, which we call the ____, is productive and labors to bring forth all manner of useful things. The other class, which we call the ____, is not productive and, in fact, consists entirely [emphasis mine -dgordon] of parasites who suck the life's blood out of their fellow men. These parasites accomplish their goal via exploitation and alienation: unjustly separating others from the fruits of their labor, though they wrap themselves in a philosophy by which they seek to justify their theft. One day, the revolution will come and the productive class will rise up and throw off the yoke of the parasites.

Broadly speaking, one can insert "poor" into the first blank and "rich" into the second and obtain the works of Marx. Or one can insert "rich" into the first blank and "poor" into the second and obtain the works of Rand."

Anyway, let me address your current argument.

"The selfishness of, say, Galt is held up as great and good, the selfishness of people other than Rand's heroes is painted as a vast evil, such that their very lives are to be forfeit as punishment."

Rand uses selfishness in a very specific and unconventional sense, which includes "neither sacrificing oneself to others nor sacrificing others to oneself." The second one is considered selfish under the conventional definition. So if you're trying to claim that Galt's selfishness is the same as, say, Jim Taggart's selfishness, which you seem to be, that won't work because you're clearly conflating Rand's definition and the conventional one. (Was that new definition a good one for ease of understanding? Maybe not, but I'm not sure what word is available to convey the same meaning -- even "independence" or "self-reliance" don't quite get there.)

In your other argument, you seem to be referring to the train crash that collapsed the Taggart Tunnel, and specifically to the listing of the beliefs of the passengers in the train. Nothing there suggested they "can and should be killed...to expose corruption." First, the situation that led to the train being sent into the tunnel with an unsafe engine was much deeper and worse than corruption in railway management. More importantly, nothing in the book said or suggested they "can and should be killed" -- only that the ideas they practiced and preached helped to create the state of society in which they could die in the way they did. If you disagree with that claim, fine, but you're badly distorting that part of the book.

I don't trust that you've given this thought, because you're repeating standard criticisms which don't have much substance to them.
Tried FreeMat yet? It's effectively the "Open Source's Mathematica". I've used it for a couple classes, it handles just about everything.

http://freemat.sourceforge.net/
A well known poet (I forget who) taught creative writing for years at a small Midwestern college (I forget which). His rule was that his students had to write a poem a day. One day a student said, "Professor X, I'm trying to follow your rule, I sit down to write, but I just don't get any inspiration. Do you have any advice for me?" His reply: "Lower your standards."
Ask YC/HN: What's a problem, any problem, you'd like to see someone solve?
Just name it -- something you want to see solved but hasn't been yet. Political, technology, scientific...anything.

I hope to spark a discussion like the original version of this topic - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=442571. More importantly, maybe someone will do something about your problem.
Apologies, I just got too excited and started asking questions and crying for help about finding customers, probably inappropriate for this discussion.

Desperate times... :)
No, that's not hilarious. It's a typo or a scam.

1 Gbit/s (one Gbit/s) flat will set you back at least around 5000 EUR/month. 1 Gbps (that would be eight Gbit/s) for 300? Yeah. Right.
i tried under the sheet, it annoyed me and was inconvenient. personal preference though.

my phone sits on my bedside table, next to my bed. easily close enough for the wakemate connection.
This question does not exactly keep me up at night, but if it did, my answer might sound like "Our most important product isn't the one we're selling, it is the processes we use to make and market the product(s) we're selling and will sell in the future, and those processes are non-trivial and so ridiculously superior to what the competition will be using that they will never catch up."

IMVU or Zygna are good examples of this. Neither has a patent wall around them, either is about as well defended as any business based on computers can be. The reason is that, while you can make your own Big-Chested-Anime-Chicks-Farming-Together-Chat-Client in not a whole lot of time, you won't have their creation process... and they're learning so fast about their markets that they will bury you. The advantages they get from the whole lean startup thing -- fast learning and fast production -- are compounding, because it buys them more traditional advantages like network effects, kickstarts their virality, gives them money to buy insane amounts of FB advertising, etc etc.

This is totally not limited to these market segments. (If either of them were in search-focused verticals I'd tell you about how this helps build the self-reinforcing authority cycle for SEO, too.)
Is there something with functionality similar to basecamp that allows you to use your own domain, not a sub-domain, and to theme the interface in a custom way to completely match your company's colors and branding ?
On my phone,so pardon the terseness.

A) There's two issues here: whether the incident was racism, and whether the retelling you gave was, due to the assumptions it carried. I was addressing the latter.

B) Of course you were being judgemental; the entire point was to communicate your judgement of the situation as a flagrant race card play. Smug is in the eye of the beholder; I'm certain it wasn't intentional.

C) Re: hypo. It can be true that he is guilty and that he was persecuted due to racism at the same time. Not mutually exclusive; just as in another situation someone fully guilty may be proven so by an illegal search. Its up to the courts to decide whether the violation of equality would prevent a conviction. (Currently: racism no; illegal search yes.)

D) Would you hold the same position if the crime was possession of a recreational amount of marijuana?
Thanks for the tip! Do you know if it works in Chrome?
I know a small data center (tiny) that might be interested for monitoring the air conditioners. Though that's a bit of a stretch and they probably wouldn't want to spend the $.

But, it makes me wonder if that might be good for other things like monitoring commercial refrigerators... especially if it could send alarms. I'm not too worried if my house draws a little extra energy...but if I might be worried if thousands of dollars are on the line if equipment fails.

Also, a business might have more people looking at the stats and more room to save $ with efficiency improvements.
As others have said looks like some sort of voxel raycaster. I wrote one a couple years back that got to about 1FPS w/o too much optimization so it's pretty conceivable that with better optimization and faster hardware you could go much faster. The big problem with building scenes like this is that the datasets get really big really fast. There's a lot of interesting work happening in the area, in particular id's upcoming stuff and the GigaVoxels project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HScYuRhgEJw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpEpAFGplnI
http://artis.imag.fr/Publications/2009/CNLE09/
If drowsiness affects your productivity, then all of your wakeups over the lifetime of the device are probably worth $2400. Of course, it's best to leave judgement until we know whether WakeMate is better, and if so then by how much.
How Do I Sign Up for a Free Internet Phone Service?
Almost every phone service provider claims to offer cheap phone calls. However, did you know that you can actually make free online phone calls to PCs, landlines, and mobile phones?
Out of interest, how many years?
I stopped looking at leaders because it just seemed impossible to join them. They're too far ahead. If you do put leaders back maybe you could add some entropy to our points.
This is the sort of thing that keeps me a big fan of Google. Who else would undertake to digitize 15th century Italian manuals? Google have redrawn the traditional lines separating commercial activity, academic research, and public service.

Speaking of Google books, our local university library has many books available online, especially up-to-date research literature that is hard to get in print form. You can only read this stuff if you're sitting at a workstation in the library, or if you have a student/faculty account. That's reasonable. But they use proprietary e-book software that is so awful and clunky that it's unusable. I keep thinking about that crappy software company that was good at nothing but selling to university executives, and wishing the library could just cut a deal to use Google Books instead.
I have purposely kept the design pedestrian and thats what the website name signifies: board "LITE". Ever wondered why people prefer Gmail over Hotmail or Google over Yahoo, or for that matter Facebook over MySpace?
Regarding the Welcome message, its just a starter topic. It will roll down when new topics are created.
If your topics get lost and you are unable to find them, you can search for the IDs(if you remember of course) in the searchbar.
Hmmm. I assume you're referring to VisualAge. It's a bit of a stretch to call that "the original version of Eclipse". A predecessor, yes - but the only thing the two have in common is that they were both IDEs.
This could really use a webpage detailing what they are doing and why.
Slick real-time network connectivity visualization
You don't even have to go as far as dark matter, dark energy, or indeed space at all to find amazing undiscovered principles in physics. For example: put a ball on your desk. Now push it. Did it resist? Why? Well, sure, there's a component of friction, but even without friction it would resist your push...so, why? Inertia, right? But where does inertia come from?!? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertia#Source_of_Inertia
I like the leaders list, but I can always go there directly (as I can with, say, Best when I've been away a few days).

I will visit the Ask page more often than Leaders, and importantly so too will other (including new) visitors. It's one of the best features of the HN community because it depends on the quality of the HN community, so anything that supports it is a great idea.
He probably doesn't know anything about .Net Framework in the first place.
Traces of the Past: Computer Algorithm Able to 'Read' Memories
Computer programs have been able to predict which of three short films a person is thinking about, just by looking at their brain activity. The research, conducted by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL (University College London), provides further insight into how our memories are recorded.
Yeah, the generated code is asinine, but what would you prefer? "Improve quality" in this case would just leave out the try/catch altogether. Is there another behavior that would be better, given that we know nothing about foo, bar, baz, or qux?
I'm giving our servers their nightly bath. It's important to keep them clean.
Yeah, I think that Business customers are the a major potential market.
Yes, Gridspy won't be convincing until it pays for itself inside a year. For a residential user, that means we need high volume manufacture to reduce prices first.
In the next episode - "How to use sparks to dial a phone number" :)
Your point about Green cred and imbedded graphs is also where I see a major future selling point for our system.

Interesting point about not wanting to see power usage online. Fair enough.
In the technical sense I've done but not shipped a major API update, I'm still re-tooling some components of the interface to better suit the new API capabilities. I also scaled out to a second server to help accommodate the 50 million events being logged a day. But really I haven't worked so much on the systems side of it this last month.

Mostly I've been working on traction, trying to get the big guys on board using my system ... and somehow it's actually working! I came up to SF (still here now) for the Flash Gaming Summit and I've had amazing opportunities to meet and pitch to the owners and reps of major portals like Kongregate, King, Armor Games, Crazy Monkey Games etc to get them on board. And loads of amazing developers ... this last week I've networked more than I even imagined was possible, hanging out with some of the top-tier developers and studios in Flash casual gaming.

I also shipped a game and am in the final stages of shipping another one, just waiting on the translations to come back to me now.

So I've been pretty busy... heh.
Never used "leaders", but "ask" sounds like something that I would actually click on when the front page is lacking readable content.

(edit) Oh, and while you are reading this, pg - what happened to the idea of anonymizing all posts? I visit HN fairly infrequently and the voting favouritism seems to be on a steady climb. Many comments are clearly voted up because they are written by someone and not because they are actually interesting.
Thanks for your honesty.

I hope that people who have $10,000 per month power bills can see the benefit of localising their power usage to a faulty air conditioning system or inefficient lighting.

Our price won't be suitable for homeowners until we manufacture in quantity.
Cheers for your points. Greenies and huge power hogs only I guess :)
It doesn't say he was a sociopath (although it sounds like he could have been, perhaps a narcissist), but if he had no core business acumen, no ability to grow the business and the staff, then he'd have to be really good at trashing those that did, or faking that he did.
Super cool!

But I didn't understand the last panel ("Maximum Stereo or
Mono and 1 channel 180° phased")... and, also, how did they do quadraphonic?
Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail
If he did, he'd make a fool of himself. Wikipedia explicitly allows this sort of thing, it's one of the founding principles of the site. And I think it's great, IMO it's one of the reasons the site is so successful.

That someone running a shitty recycled content farm is making money off of it doesn't alter a damn thing.

And that's not to say that Calacanis is adding anything of value to the web or anything like that, he's certainly not, as far as I can tell, but I just can't get too worked up when someone actually makes use of the license freedoms that we all fight so strenuously to spread...

WTF re: Google, though, I can't believe for one second that this is not on their radar?
Martin Cooper, inventor of the cellphone, on the future of telecommunications
Seriously, this level of attention doesn't seem to be rational anymore.

The guy is trying to build a business that creates jobs, and hes putting some of his own capital on the line to do it. Thats the most important point here - he's making jobs.

The guy isnt selling blood diamonds or anything, at worst he's gaming a search engine. Sure, he's using some wikipedia content to run some tests. But, haven't the same people on here also run tests on their businesses - maybe incomplete features, bugs, overselling, trying to keep up. Thats all part of building something from nothing.

Give him a break - he's trying to create more jobs, but hes from a position where doesn't have to bother.
Right, sex isn't all bad, the things that make us attracted to naked bodies are good. Tearing those things out of context and exploiting them for personal enrichment (pornography) is just as wrong as tearing opiates out of their context in medical treatment and exploiting them for personal enrichment.

I don't know why you're coming in here talking about law because I never brought that up. It's a different issue.

I'm not telling anyone how to live his/her life. I'm just informing people and giving them facts I know. Each person is free to make his/her own choices and I don't endeavor to remove or abridge that freedom.
Working for free is a bad idea. It encourages both the "employer" (if you want to call them that) and you to think in sloppy ways not focused on doing things to make money.

The idea that a person can be appropriately compensated just by the presense of others is a creepy feudal notion that has no place in the modern world, and should be left in the ages that allowed the divine right of kings and other nonsense.

I like the idea of apprenticeships; I think more learning is done on the job in aprenticeship type relationships than we acknowledge. However if a Master can't direct an apprentice in such a way that at least produces a minimum wage, he is not a Master. Any fool can glean some small advantage to free labor; why start out your career under the direction of fools ?

Finally, such a relationship is especially unsuited to startups. By their nature your internship will be supervised by people who have about your own level of experience, and thus have no more to contribute to teaching you than you have to teaching them.
It would be really cool if the page referenced (http://www.well.com/www/cnewmark/main.html) was actually available to view somewhere. Checked the internet archive, I guess it predated it, or was behind a login. Too bad.
Either that or you would still be developing, perhaps even given up and gone home
I've worked in .NET for 3 years.

ASP.NET is extremely heavyweight, late to implement asynchronous calls, hardly as agile as web platforms such as RoR.
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Akrasia for the win! I don't want to work on it because I can't see how to apply it now, and I'm not being paid to do it. Man, I miss getting paid.
Well, you are you, I am myself, and the OP is the OP. Everyone has different tastes!

The good news is that if the OP finds that he doesn't enjoy comp sci, at least he'll know that it isn't because the local department is objectively terrible.
3-4 perhaps. Though interestingly enough, the bigger the company, the longer it takes to know; most people would have underestimated Google after 3 years.
"Trust me, you’re not, and no matter how much you think you know about what it’s going to be like, when that first jab comes, you’ll begin to truly understand for the first time."

I think some one has to pitch in and add some perspective here. This, frankly is not helping. I appreciate the warnings and all - but the echo chamber is getting a bit too loud lately. The worst thing that will happen is I will fail. Miserably and in front of the whole world for everyone to see the weakling stupid naive ass that I am. Whats so bad about that? Relax people, stay calm. It will all work out just fine. Trust me! :)
So any ad-based company is b2b? I don't think so. In nature of service, number of users, any aspect actually, they are b2c. You just charge them for their attention instead of money, and the cost is fractional.
Come on, think about it seriously. They probably already knew their idea was very good or else they wouldn't be working that hard on it. Google's joining their market does not provide them much information. However, the odds of them being killed be a competitor probably increase by more than a factor of ten from the world where Google was not copying their core feature.
Ask, or maybe Lists.. There are many hidden treasures on this site, and "ask" might be a small step to help us discover some of them.
Inverting the phase of a mono signal and feeding it to one side of a stereo channel (with the original on the other) isn't true stereo, but flipping the phase of one channel fools the brain into believing it has a spatial dimension - the sound seems louder and more vibrant although in reality all that's happening is that the left and right channels are interfering with each other.

It was a trick used on a lot of old record when the music industry was moving from mono to stereo recording, but still effective if you're stuck with a mono sound source (quite often the case in film and TV) and you need to beef it up without changing the timbre of the sound substantially.
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I used to have a party trick whereby I'd dial a number by tapping the receiver of a phone on a table to emulate pulse dialing. It probably still works on landlines, but it's so long since I had one that I don't know if they support pulse any more.
Ask HN: Best mainstream print publication for tech/business coverage?
Could anyone recommend a good print publication for coverage and analysis of tech and tech-oriented business news?
New Zealand's Internet filter goes live
I never seriously thought of anonymizing posts. In a lot of situations that would be like anonymizing the lines in a play. But I am considering not displaying points on posts, which would address the same problem.
Hey, great idea for a book.

Just one extremely minor suggestion: use a better cover image for the book :) The existing one is fine but I think it can be improved a lot to give it a more professional and serious look.
We're not. I mean, I guess it's hard if you're obsessed with scoring, but if you make good comments and posts you'll show up there. My sex life has drastically improved since I hit the leaderboard, possibly because I spend less time crafting HN posts.
Fair point. The issue is more that life events happen (you have kids, need to buy a house etc.) and may not have the capital to do it...
I used "Trust me" in a blog post http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/debunki... and my friend quickly reminded me that it is a cliche and usually doesn't add much value to the argument. Ideally, your argument should be so strong that it doesn't require an explicit reminder for readers to trust you.
Akrasia for the lose! Or at least, which type of akrasia?

http://lesswrong.com/lw/1tu/improving_the_akrasia_hypothesis...

You're on HN Reading plenty of things you can't apply immediately, and aren't getting paid for, so those reasons are possibly present but not sufficient.
Cosmologists have pretty wide agreement on, for instance, the order of events in the first second. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_%28cosmology%29 for details.

Those events took place under conditions of gravity, temperature and pressure that we can't reproduce.

Those theories include belief in a phenomena called inflation which is not predicted by any theory we have in physics today, and which has some internal contradictions. (See http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_4.html#Steinhardt for an explanation of some of them.)

Oh, and the thing we can look at to test these theories? That's the cosmic background radiation which is believed to have been formed several hundred thousand years later.

Are you still confident in what scientists currently claim about cosmology?
Sometimes, I wish the internet had permabans.
Thank you. I should have read this first.

I got all the way to the bottom before I realized his only point was that editing macros are cool.
What about "lists" itself?
Where Do All Our Taxes Go?
Where do all our taxes go? This visualization shows how the tax dollars of workers in an average office building, from top-ranking officer and down through the ranks, contribute to National Defense, Medicare, Social Security and more.
Thanks, that really helps a lot. I didn't realize that the glow's colors were based on the video.

Incidentally, I'm impressed with Google's Russian => English translation. I don't usually expect anything readable, but this article was fine.
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Information-Sharing and Privacy in Social Networks
Built with Django, right?
A better way to communicate between cars -- honking a horn seems kind of stone age at this point.