skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it sounds cliche, John Carmack, along with Michael Abrash, are among several people that begat my interest in programming (with a focus towards games of course ;D), at a time when I was still unsure of what I wanted to do in my life.

It's interesting to see the evolution of what was happening at the time in the game development industry, and then correlate that to what I was experiencing at the time as I was growing up, and playing these games.
I think it's actually time that FaceBook got shut down. By law.
Whereas if I let the frontpage get filled up with crap, or the comment threads filled up with mean or stupid comments, people would start leaving pretty quickly. So almost all the time I spend thinking about HN is spent thinking about how to avoid that.

I'm afraid that is an excuse; it's a solved problem (almost) because of the users and editors.

Search is also a solved problem: link/form submission to Searchyc - done. :)

(but I get the feeling you have something against searchyc - it always gets ignored despite being a great resource)
Can you check again when you get a moment. I think we've fixed the issue. Really appreciate your time!
Hmm, I've got to say I'm not really convinced. It seems like what he's actually talking about is science answering factual questions, which can only be interpreted as answering moral questions if you've already arrived at some assumptions about morality via non-scientific, philosophical means. In particular, there is not a single thing he says in this talk that is genuinely a scientific answer to a genuinely moral question, unless you supplement the science with additional non-scientifically-validated axioms, which tell you why a particular empirical fact about the world, which is just a fact, should be interpreted using terms like "morality".

Science can, as he points out, constrain the possible philosophical positions one could consistently take, by providing facts that moral philosophies can't be inconsistent with (e.g. some kinds of utilitarianism might be ruled out, if they assume humans work in a way that, empirically, they don't). But that's somewhat different, and has been something people have discussed for a while (empirically studying morality was one of the things Nietzsche got famous for).
We can't revisit the past, since it's already happened. We can't travel into the future because it's not yet happened.

Am i missing something here ?
I'm sorry, but your recommendation algorithm just plain sucks.

It's so basic and ridiculous of an idea to just take the most popular twitter links and stream them one after the other. Recommendation Engines isn't a joke and isn't anything even remotely easy (see the netflix challenge). There are a million factors including age, location, culture, topic, timing, etc. and your engine (as far as I can tell) fails to take any of these into consideration even when being told through the thumbs-up/down buttons.

Sorry if I came across as being very harsh, it's just that this is a good idea very, very poorly executed. I hate to see this idea bombing because you're underestimating its complexities.
and streamable. I remember in the 56k modem days the main Flash's feature is streamable Web multimedia.
It pains me to think that there are firms on Wall
Street right now trying to figure out how to cause
another 1000-point fluctuation and achieve the above

What you describe is not a sustainable business model. Not any more than spreading false rumours about companies and shorting them, or insider-trading in jurisdictions where it's outlawed.

The guys at the SEC are not stupid. If the regulators had an idea that you were doing this they'd first try to find the evidence and jail you. And if they that doesn't work, they can just sit on you until they find something else - even if it's something they've dug up in an unrelated business unit in your group.
I usually do exactly that (although in this case someone else got to the parent comment before me). The immediate laugh at the cheap joke is half-involuntary, but it takes a significant effort to maintain the quality of the discussions on HN in the long-term.
Smoking is a morbid fascination and an affirmation of our mortality. But it's hard to grasp that significance until you've witnessed an eighteen month battle with lung cancer. It's a slow and painful death.

To be clear, if you smoke there is a very strong possibility you will die tethered to an oxygen machine, wearing a diaper, and unable to swallow.
If I visit the future, say 25 years hence, I'd like to be able to look back and see what i did in that time. I'd also expect to see grown up kids, maybe grand-kids.

If i visit the future the way Hawkins suggests, by slowing down my present... I would land up in a future where there's been no me for that period. All there is a memory of 5 years in my mind (while I was traveling in space). There's a missing 20 years. I can't then (hypothetically) jump back in time and see the last 20 years, since i was not "there" during that time.
It seems didn't want people to read, or understand the "FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS" part... Putting everything in one big block of text helped a lot, I guess.

As much as I like Nokia's products, I'm usually disappointed in how they communicate (or frequently don't) with customers.
Don't forget all the derivatives linked to the price. You don't see that volume or the losses caused by that.
Phone guitar
The article should also mention the significant impact on public health systems. Smoking carries external costs.
Thing is with Blizzard games is that the performance suffers on a Mac, especially if you've had a chance to compare Warcraft 3 and the Starcraft 2 Beta on both Windows and OSX on the _same hardware_

Probably something to do with OpenGL vs DirectX, but, the performance difference is stupid.

Im hoping that Steam won't be the same.
Apparatus and method for long-term storage of antimatter - US Patent #7709819
The Associated Press: Pieces still missing in NYC car bomb plot puzzle
I like the idea of getting rid of points. I dislike the idea of losing the ability to quickly scan for comments the community thinks are good. Because of the clever way new comments are briefly at/near the top of the page, something should stand in for "this is probably worth reading".
"What I'd like is distributed p2p linking. No personal data on a server that isn't yours." - This is exactly right. do, Currently my personal photos,emails etc. all run from a server hosted in my closet and when i need to share stuff i send a link by email. A distributed p2p linking will make things so much more easier.
You start off very nicely. But then you start building your theory and trying to fit everything into your theory. You also start jumping to conclusions, like you initially say others do.

I sort of think we need to make our own definitions of happiness and success and unhappiness. We cannot rely on other definitions since as you correctly say: we have no way of knowing if others are really happy. Most people often are running from one momentary pleasure to another and calling that happiness, IMHO.

Some of your conclusions are that one needs stress to be happy when relief comes, one cannot be happy when alone for long times etc. These are all statements with nothing behind it other than common perceptions.

Another one is that you cannot be happy doing nothing. Have you ever looked inside you to see why. What's lacking right now, that you need to do something. What is that something adding to you ? Don;t just answer back, look inside, keep examining till clarity comes. If you need to do things to be happy, then your general state is not a happy one. You rise out of a bored state for moments of relief and then sink back into the same dull state ?

What about the opposite? That you are happy as you are, whether doing anything or not. You could momentary slip to unhappiness or discomfort (hearing bad news, a tragedy) but then you are back to your normal happy state. Is that not better ? Are you/we unhappy doing nothing, because you've/we've been taught to believe that one is unhappy unless doing something exciting ?

Are unhappiness/happiness even real, or just concepts we've been taught and accepted ? Without such concepts and beliefs, if we aren't running after happiness in some future, then how are we ? Try this out. Cheers!
I sent it using gmail's web interface. My IP address shows up in "X-Originating-IP" part of header
The Short Talk
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Not to defend Facebook per se, but "managing privacy intuitively" is hell of a user interaction problem. I don't know any design that could encompass all the complexity of human social interaction and privacy issues related to it intuitively.
Evolution also relies on natural selection. This is more akin to intelligent design.
Adding a google or searchyc search box is about the same amount of work as typing that comment, and several orders of magnitude more useful.

<form action="http://searchyc.com/search/yc">
<input name="search[id]">
</form>
On what legal basis? It's just a website that you can use if you like. I think Facebook is actually very useful because they are so openly nasty, disrespectful and deceptive. Their users are, on average, so incredibly negligent and clueless that the whole thing will blow up in society's face eventually, and then much better sites (maybe even a reformed Facebook) will emerge.
I miss Nick B.
I don’t and hardly anybody I know noticed (I asked).
I do this every time I walk through a mud puddle. Walking through a few inches of water and "walking on water" look a lot alike.
1) JSON for everything. Want to leave? Download your profile in a text file.

2) Make it like email. Every item has a "to" list. Nothing outside the list can see.

3) pubsubhubbub or webhooks.

4) OK.

5,6) Difficult to impossible.
I understand the later post getting downvoted... but why this?

It makes little comment on whether the views are equal (that was a side issue Mixmax brought up). It is pointing out how the GP's logic is flawed!
Interview with Cleve Moler, the inventor of Matlab
I've recently quit smoking and I am feeling a little out in the cold (figuratively speaking) because my network that I've developed over the last 4 years has suddenly been reduced to a simple wave when I pass them rather than meaningful conversations.

The smoking shelter is much like the golf course in my opinion, smokers share an out of work interest and that creates a bond. I know that the interest is a horrifically addictive drug, but it's the (decreasingly) acceptable face of drug taking.

For the bosses that think a smoke break is bad for productivity... You're wrong, things get done on smoke breaks, being away from your desk in a different context gives your unconscious time to work.

Instead of grumbling about smokers taking time out, I'd recommend that non-smokers take up the habit. By which of course I mean the habit of social breaks.
I've noticed you can't make mean comments that have a point either.
So if I downloaded a movie illegally and am watching it on my TV, they can disable my TV? How will they remotely know it's been downloaded illegally?
Haha. Seems to be the norm in tech firms. I know it is where I work.
I prefer Conan like this -- he's funny. I never found him funny as a talk show host.
Molecular modelling's $10M comeback (with help from Bill Gates)?
In some settings, I've actually gotten some of the benefits of the smoke-breaks without smoking by simply accompanying smokers who I knew. I suppose it might be awkward if it were 8 smokers plus me as the only non-smoker, but I've mostly worked in offices with very few smokers, who might otherwise be standing outside smoking by themselves, so I ask if I can join them, if it's someone I at least sort of know already.

It does add slightly more social awkwardness, since I sort of have to explain why I would want to join them on a smoke break if I don't smoke, but I actually do genuinely enjoy getting out of my chair and going outside for a few minutes, and maybe swinging by the coffee cart on the way back, and it seems to have worked out well with at least a few coworkers I've had.
IMO, Email systems originally have been designed that way to facilitate traceability. When webmail came, it's natural that they followed this practice.

Facebook is a closed system. When you send a message to someone on Facebook, you presume that you are adding that message within Facebook. The notification email that Facebook sends to the recipient is just that, a notification generated by the Facebook system. You, the sender of the message is not part of this notification system, though you your action triggered the notification. There is no reason why the sender's IP should be exposed in this flow under normal circumstances.
Not that I'm suggesting that you smoke - because I most certainly am not - but I'm wondering what sort of illusions one might hold about how painless their death might be if they did not smoke?

If you look at the top 20 types of deaths in the United States, nearly all of them are painful. The only certainty is that by smoking you are almost insured of it - supposing a stroke or aneurysm doesn't take you out.

I'm honestly not trolling, I've always felt it curious when people tell me that smoking results in a painful death, leaving me wondering how they think they are going to be going out of this world. Natural causes? Not likely.
On the other hand, it significantly reduces costs for public pension systems--- the decrease in smoking leading to higher male life expectancy (slowly approaching traditionally higher female life expectancy) is one of the major factors in the insolvency of various pension schemes. (There are other factors, of course, like declining birth rates and improving health care, but pension funds would be in better shape overall if more people were heavy smokers.)
May 12th. Four days.
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So, it turns out that the version of Mobile Safari on the iPhone doesn't support getBoundingClientRect, which we were relying on. The fix for that should go out soon, at which point it will work on your iPhone.
There was a post on here a few days ago about just such a distributed system. Diaspora, and it's under development by some current college students looking for crowdsourced funding: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1321651
Ask HN: How do you prepare mentally?
Hello everybody,

I'm facing some big exams this August (EE undergrad, 1st year) and I want to be mentally ready for the task. What can you recommend to prepare myself mentally?

I've been looking into some mental preparation for athletes but I haven't come across onto something "trainable" (like doing something everyday for 15min.). What I picked up during reading Michael Jordans "Driven from Within'" is that Michael Jordan was never scared before a match because he knew he was prepared (trained x amount of hours for a match, etc.) so well. Maybe, I will be in this shape at the end of the preparation time, but maybe I won't that's why I'd like to train my mental coolness.

Thanks for your help.
> I’d like to have my profile visible only to my friends, not my boss. Cannot.

If you disable public search and set search preferences to "friends only" that should solve this problem.
I'd be happy with a minimalist two-way split: one category for mainly technical articles (new languages, language tutorials, code releases, review-my-app requests, in-depth articles on the state of some technology, etc.), and a second category for mainly business, startup, political, or meta-type news (X got bought, tips on productivity, VC term sheets, management styles, etc.).
http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/#anchor_demos

Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack.

Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax… good things come to those who wait.

Progress from serenely ambient levels into varied and challenging worlds. Confront attractors, repulsors and intelligent motes with similar abilities and goals as you.

Osmos is 100% DRM and region free.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5892502&server=vi...
"Now, say you you write a public update, saying, “My boss had a crazy great idea for a new product!” Now, you might not know it, but there is a Facebook page for “My Crazy Boss” and because your post had all the right words, your post now shows up on that page. Include the words “FBI” or “CIA,” and you show up on the FBI or CIA page."

Is this really true, or is the author conflating updates with the newly-normalized interests fields?
Python: Starting Tornado Apps at Boot using Upstart
Facebook: the media is to blame for privacy uproar, Users are clueless and happy
One indicator of possible success would be seeing its major competitor, the Financial Times, follow it. I'd have to wonder if Google Finance is even in the same business, e.g. unlike the WSJ or FT it doesn't charge "subscribers" for regular content at all.

The WSJ has some free articles and lots more if it thinks the link is redirected through Google (perhaps the Pro Edition articles don't allow that???), the FT only allows you to read 3 articles per month without free registration, then at allows a bit more than a dozen per month the last time I checked.

One thing to look for is non-delayed market info, you have to pay a lot more to get it without a 15 minute or whatever delay.
It's pretty clear in the video that the water is deeper than that. Watch when they fall: they definitely go in pretty deep.
Using Git - why and our success
How we use Git for Brightcove video module.
Blizzard, Id, and Valve must be riding on Apple to fix this because 10.6.3 had a large focus on improving OpenGL and driver performance, and supposedly the beta for 10.6.4 does also.

Hopefully its the start of a continuing trend and not just a temporary thing.
Questionify - Q&A-Powered customer support
Perhaps not exactly what you're looking for, but I always did no studying the day before, I just made sure I got a good nights sleep. The only exception was one term where an illness and a death in the family had me learning my first term organic chemistry up through the night before (which I then aced :-).

If you enter this last day before the exam confident that you've mastered the material as much as possible doing this should work, perhaps you might view your ability to do so as more of a test of your lack of anxiety or whatever. If you can pull it off it should leave you mentally refreshed and ready to do your best on Der Tag.
If "mean" is a tone, i.e. a manifestation of cruelty, then it's not well tolerated. Harsh when necessary seems to be.
I think Matt has his work cut out for him. There is a tonne of content that Google is having trouble weeding spam from.

Try searching for 'anything review' and you'll get 99.99% spam. Made it very difficult for me to make an informed choice about buying a new monitor recently.
Open the link in a background tab after clearing your cache.
This is indeed the last great problem of social UI — but Facebook could do with better defaults, which is half the battle.
I hate to spam, but I thought this app could maybe help you/your startup. Questionify is at the early stage and I'm following the lean startup principle, so I'm looking for the initial customers.

How is Questionify different from GetSatisfaction/Tenderapp/Uservoice?
Questionify is a Q&A platform that lets your customers ask questions. Your employees answer them through the web interface or by email(you get an email every time someone asks a question) and your support page is updated in a matter of seconds. You can upload screenshots or paste YouTube URLs in answers, we'll convert them and prettify the answers.

Fully brandable. Questionify is full brandable, you can style it by uploading your company's logo, setting the brand colors.

No registration necessary for posting a question. Your customers dont have to register on Questionify to post a question, questions are monitored through the Pending Questions tab.

Subscribe to a question. On every question page, customers can subscribe to a question(by leaving their email) and get notified when that question is answered or if the current answer is changed. Customers can leave their email when creating a question and they're automatically added to the question's subscriber list.

Questions are sorted by category and views. Every question belongs to a category which you can create/edit/update/delete, questions belong to categories. For instance, if Hacker News was using Questionify, some categories would be: issues, submitting a post, jobs, etc. Every time you open up a question it's rank is increased by one(backend: questions have a views field which is auto incremented by 1 upon every question view) so that your home page shows the 10 most viewed questions for each category.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, opionions, questions. I'm always on HN so expect a immediate response.
Focused email service providers like Fastmail.fm (just acquired by Opera, which is directing would be new customers of Opera Premium? Email to it) are one good solution.

If you want good spam and virus scanning protection you probably want to outsource it in one way or another.
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Indeed; I don't see their having done anything that rises to the level where an execution by the government is warranted. If they get slapped around some more by the FTC that will become even less likely.

One good thing that might come out of this is some "rules of the road" on changing ToS when they also change the social contract under which people entered their personal data.
Ok, but honestly, do you think or not that 3 lines of html code should be added, submitting to searchyc.com? I think most of the users here strongly agree.

This community is already pretty positively biased towards YC, note that there is no added value provided by HN technologically, it's just a matter of community. So it would be wise to avoid pushing hard the YC search startup if users don't like it.

Also the "I'm wasting my time" replying to this comment is the wrong attitude. Paul Graham and everybody else is supposed to just reply or not if he got something better to do, but replying this way honestly is not great.
The question though is, is that necessarily always a good thing? Do more chefs mean better meals?
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Volvo accidentally smashes new car in safety demo
A la Piers Anthony: The function of the Chief Privacy Officer is to ensure that there is no privacy.
I don't have a better word to describe "painkillers", as he is trying to convey the difference between want and need. I want candy, but it's also not good for me. What word conveys that, and isn't harmful in some way?
Slide 42 rocks! I wonder who designed it... or is it a real product???
oh nice! yea I originally grew up in Dunedin but have since moved to Christchurch (and am actually in Western Australia for the time being but am keen to come back soon). I might be coming down to Dunedin 20th/21st-would be a great chance to see what you guys are up to if you're free.
Yes, unless of course your 'saved stories' link has more than 210 entries on it.

edit: Hey, wow! This seems to have been quietly fixed, I really missed this and I'm pretty happy it's repaired.
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The town I grew up in has annual snowmobile races on the lake in July.