skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me assure you, I bear you no ill will, I wish you well, I could care less about analyzing your intentions/goal/reasons etc are :-).

I am not angry and I don't see where I "sound" that way. I do think your submission was a cheesy one, violating HN guidelines, and more importantly, hardly insightful. It is true that I don't think you have much of a "thesis" (beyond the inapplicable Principal Agent concept) to counter.

"Long-term use may have unintentional side-effects. What's your opinion on that and suggestions for other readers? (repeating the topic)"

I am happy with HN's focus on startups, tech and stuff of interest to hackers/of intellectual interest to them. Any unhappiness I have with HN is due to (perceived) deviations from that focus and I don't want HN to include "pictures of pretty girls in TShirts with lame jokes" or otherwise focus explicitly on "humour".

I don't have any suggestions for "other readers" beyond "Stick with the HN guidelines. Please don't post such "humour" here. Please go elsewhere for such things. The Internet is a big place and there is a site for everyone" (repeating the answer)

You asked a question and got an answer. Do with it what you will. Continuing this thread (it just triggered my thread depth tripwire) would be a disservice to other readers and so I am done with this thread.

Thanks for reading and Have a great day!!
There is no reason for every discussion site to become like reedit. I am sure they would appreciate your banal humor.
If you force yourself to eat more of something, you will grow to like it. I've heard this before, and I've definitely noticed it with myself, my friends, and my family, but I could not find a scientific article to back it up (though I didn't look that hard)

So your picky eating is literally "nonsense" because there is no logical, sensible reason for it--if you would only force yourself to eat other foods (for an extended period of time), you would almost certainly begin to like them.

EDIT: and while I looked for those articles, someone else posted the same comment. Oops.
I think you missed the point again. Sure - you choose to be responsible for your words. That does not mean the staff at Facebook need to be responsible as well. They are not the ones making the posts - anonymous or not!

That is why I'm saying: If you are on a distributed system where no select group of individuals are responsible for the system, you will have more free speech.
Kind of a weak argument.

The people that are working on these devices aren't idiots and they realize that input is a problem.

Many cable operators are exploring the use of smart phones as remote (in fact the Google TV demo used and android phone as its data entry device).

Vizio TV's are putting keyboards in their remotes as well.

What most people designing apps for TV realizes is that apps that require heavy user input don't work well so they instead design apps that work around these restrictions. Its a challenge but not one that is insurmountable. No one is trying to turn your TV into a PC replacement they're just trying to extend its capabilities a bit.
I've always wanted the following:

A site I can "commit" to a goal buy sending money. I assign a friend I trust to update the site (let's say every week) on whether I'm fulfilling my commitment (exercising, dieting, etc.) As long as I keep my goal, I don't pay the money. If I don't meet my goal a certain week, 50% of my money goes to charity, 50% to the site (or some such percentage).
I was going to include that in my post but the site is down. Still seems to be. So I just assumed they'd gone under because I hadn't heard of them for a year or so.. Know anything to the contrary?
I think that I don't trust me with my user's passwords and I am darn sure not going to trust you with my user's passwords, and I am not exactly a high-security niche.

Also, bouncing many users in the midst of using the app is worse than a security breach in some cases.
Thanks, that's exactly what I meant. I didn't think about how many people were unfamiliar with the definition in the Buddhist/Nietzschian sense, as you put it :)

I definitely don't mean that life is sadness. I mean that life is absolutely full of little pains, and big ones, from losing people you love to being aggravated that your thermostat is hard to use, to not being able to find your keys, to wishing it wasn't raining right now.

That's definitely all suffering, in the Buddhist sense. And I don't believe anyone who says they don't suffer.
Sounds like you have a startup idea there. Good luck!
http://nom.ms/
Redis 2.0.0 RC1 just released
Vitamin D also seems to improve my mood. So does lying in the sun all afternoon, but Vit D is safer and more practical :)
I know :-) I work on developing new TV experiences for STBs for one of the two major STB manufacturers in the US. What I meant was: currently the Google TV box is just a means to get Internet content, called "over the top" in Cable TV parlance (because it's not controlled by the cable companies). If Google TV just does this, it'll be doomed like other systems because it will not be able to compete with cable STBs.

An interesting thing can happen if Google does partner with a cable provider to also add cable TV functionality to the box. I heard they've already partnered with Time-Warner for trials. That would be another TiVo-like system, but, of course, much more open. I see little chance of them persuading the cable guys to let their apps fiddle with the content, though. But who knows, it's Google.
Most important: Folic acid (B9).

Apparently has strong correlation with IQ.
Makes me wake up instantly in the morning. Less tired. Better concentration.

Don't take more than ~400mg /day.
This has improved in 10.1, finally.
I have been using my Android phones as my remote for my Windows 7 media center for quite some time. I don't see why this wouldn't be possible with Google TV...
No no no - the system will not have user passwords! We will get only "ok" from the web app that the password was correct.
"Often your boss won't be happy to hear you pointing out problems no matter how good your solutions are.

Also, when you point out problems you might make other people or teams look bad, especially if your solutions are good."

There is a some thought that has to go behind problem selection. Going out of one's way to find problems usually doesn't help.

Fortunately, where I work, the problems present themselves as a pain point for my bosses, which I can then offer and implement solutions. It's really the same as listening to or observing a customer and providing a solution for them.
You did:
wget http://opendna.org/dna/mycoides.txt
then emailed it as an attachment from your hotmail account to DNASyth LLC and they sent you back a vial, you pulled up a bacteria, put a needle in it, squirted your lols into it, and then wrote a paper.
What parts are inaccurate? Was it a yahoo email address?

hahaha

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c6kd6/i_am_one_of_the_...
Odd. Desktop iMac, older Core 2 version, it only takes me from my background 2% cpu use to 7% cpu use. Perhaps it is making heavy use of the GPU, which I wouldn't see in the cpu usage stats. (I add: using Safari.)
And of course Toyota wants some GOOD American press for once.
"Imagine instead if the remote for a storage, OS and video-decoding “media box” was an iPad(-like) tablet on which you did all the interactions and the TV simply mirrored those when you where browsing, or presented the results of such interactions, like playing a show from a playlist you just created."

I think the author missed the part where they were controlling the TV using their Nexus Ones. Go watch the presentation again, they're already doing exactly that. You can't complain a product is flawed if it is already doing exactly what you want it to do!

Edit: Logitech already has iPhone and Android apps for their box: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/logitechs-google-tv-compa...
So, is anyone here wondering if they could do this for a software idea they have?
Purified Omega-3 1000 mg, 4000 IU Vitamin D, 100 mg CoQ10, 1000 mg Calcium, 800 mg Magnesium; thinking seriously of capping up KCl and taking that too... idiots that kill themselves with potassium overdoses mean you have to pay prescription prices for what ought to cost a few pennies a day.
As far as I understand, the vast majority of vitamin supplements have no independently demonstrated or scientifically evaluated benefit whatsoever. In fact, many supplements have been shown to do more harm than good. They are basically a huge con. Eating a balanced diet of meat, fish, staple cereals/crops, vegetables and fruit is the best thing you can do for yourself.

The _only_ supplement I am aware of that genuinely has a benefit is Folic Acid, which pregnant and planning-on-getting pregnant women should take. This is available free on the NHS.
and fruits!
Indeed, that could be known as the Slashdot approach.
I've got pages of writing /sketches expanding upon your idea. I almost went with it but there's a lot of regulation involved and people are unlikely to want to hire out for their security. My only concept was selling it as a larger package and not a monthly fee to hopefully transfer some of the responsibility of keeping the info safe to purchasing company.

I was thinking something along the lines of usage patterns that would actually predict some fraudulent activity before it happens.
Can you explain the "fill the cup" part? Haven't heard that idiom before (non-native English speaker here)
None. I try for lots of sunshine all year round, eat fruits & nuts & veggies and live scoby-produced foods - I have a pet kombucha that produces fizzy health in potable form.
Good. Better to get this all resolved now so we can move on and start spreading this to every corner of the net and mobile device. I have no doubt that Google was anticipating this and are ready to deal with it.
The day that Cute Girls N Nerdy Tshirts makes HN's front page is the day I'll know that it's not just suspending in the air over the shark, but actually over it.

Now, I get what you mean. HN seems largely humorless. Everybody's trying to out-intellectualize everybody else (with a greater or lesser degree of success).

For example: People stop using contractions, or wanna/gonna. "You are" "I am" "It is" -- even you were doing it in your replies to what I'll call the 'Spock subthread' here on this item.

Other signs include the (usually incorrect) applications of rhetorical/logical fallacies, and talking about 'the facts' as if any one blog post or video could possibly convey all 'the facts' about a situation, and that which 'facts' are chosen to be presented is not an entirely subjective thing.

When I write "gonna" etc. here and use smilies, I'm pretty sure people think less of me. That's fine, cuz I know I'm smarter than they are. ;) But when I write a really hilarious essay ripping something up, and that something is related to startups or programming, it typically ends up on here one way or the other. I'm not the only one.

Then the comments are all deadly serious. Such is the cycle of life, and HN's tone, for better or for worse.

But HN isn't actually humorless, it just likes to keep it hidden under its hat... you know, the one with the special proturbation up front for our unusually prodigious forebrains.
Artist-Friendly JavaScript (startup idea?)
GSA (http://gsacom.com); roughly equivalent to the CDG for GSM.
What's your business model? I.e. how do you make money!
There's already at least a few feedback sites out there. There's that one with the orange "Feedback" tab I've seen some places, that pops out from the side. I can't remember the name. But perhaps none of them do what's described in this article.
A presentation written with and about OpenLayers showing some features
I thought it was pretty good. If you don't like the silliness, you don't have to keep reading the silly threads. They aren't hard to identify, especially in an AMA post where the submitter's name is highlighted.
A friend of mine was attempting to filter Gmail using AI, is this similar to what you were thinking of? His product is: http://gtriage.com/
Yes, but it's actually easier than people think. You don't have to make a science of it or measure doses, just ditch flavor enhancers and avoid preservatives, read the labels on stuff you buy (yes, time-consuming at first, but you'll have to do it less and less as you gain experience), favor fresh produce over junk food and get lots of sunshine.
Ibatis project team leaving Apache, moving to Google Code
This is one trick you can use to make a prediction future proof. He misses mostly when he says something won't be possible.

I am quite sure a lot of stuff will be possible in a couple decades. I am not sure people will be doing them.
I think the more important thing is that nobody is supporting Theora. If the difference is "expensive, but takes 10% less storage once encoded" vs "free, but needs more storage", I think the choice is obvious. The bigger problem is that at this moment there is almost no device or browser I can play a Theora video on.
I like the principle of the idea, but the practise is another matter. You want me to trust a piece of external Javascript on my login page? A piece of javascript that is used exclusively for authentication? If your service took off, I don't see how you won't end up with at least one major security breach :(
I have a Hauppauge WinTV HVR-2250 and Windows 7, which I use with the cheapest basic cable package Comcast has -no STB, basically just analog and HD Clear QAM of the local channels. Upon installation, Windows scans your signal and asks your ZIP code and service provider, and that's it- the EPG is set up and works great. Hardly what I'd call 'hacky'. If Microsoft can maintain a database and have it work flawlessly, I don't see why Google couldn't...
In a gas the molecules are moving around with lots of space between them without much interaction. Some quickly, some slowly, all in different directions. Occasionally they collide and bounce off each other, or more rarely they may temporarily form weak (liquid) bonds with each other until a fast molecule hits them and breaks them apart.

In a liquid the molecules (which are indistinguishable from gas molecules of course if you looked at them individually) are moving much slower and form and re-form weak (liquid) bonds with the molecules near them. But still there are some moving faster and others more slowly and they are going in random directions.

Now think about the surface where the liquid meets the gas. There are some gas molecules that plunge into the liquid and become part of the liquid and there are some liquid molecules moving fast enough to escape from the liquid, breaking all their weak (liquid) bonds, and become part of the gas. The liquid surface at a molecular scale will not be a nice flat surface. It will be a complex seething bubbling thing with droplets and molecules leaving and rejoining the liquid. If we heat the liquid, make the molecules move faster, more of them will be moving fast enough to escape from the liquid. Anyway, if there are more molecules going from the gas to the liquid we say the gas is condensing, and if there are more going the other way the liquid is evaporating. Now think what would happen if we take away all the gas molecules - put the liquid into a vacuum. There will no molecules returning to the liquid, only liquid molecules becoming gas. Conversely, if we compressed the gas above the liquid we would get more gas molecules going into the liquid.

I think that's how it works.
Just some decent user-viewable logfiles of their logins (hour/date/browser/cookies) would be enough for them to be able to check when someone logged in.

I never understood that online emailsites didn't provide those...
And in the late 90s, investment banks would be taking this out on roadshows.
Next generation OS and its applications
I can easily imagine an HIV that's as easy to transmit as the common cold.

Franky we got lucky with HIV, it could have been something like that and we along with cheetahs and a few other species don't have much genetic diversity within the species and are thus susceptible to extinction via disease.

This is why I want the biotech pedal to the metal. Because in my opinion the probably of us accidental creating something horrific are far less then something horrific being created quite naturally. Like in some shared living space with humans and domestic animals, it could happen in any given moment and spread quickly around the world. We don't need labs to die of something horrible.
I have kids; they have friends; all are intelligent, responsible youngsters. I live in the American midwest, in Iowa in fact. These kids do chores, cook dinner, read more than one language, do calculus. Maybe we just do things different in Iowa. But its easy to moan about the next generation, harder to do something about it. Consider joining a Scout Troop, the Music Auxiliary, the Debate team. Don't have those things in your area? There's your trouble right there.
Hmmm, note http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1366104
Does Business Insider read HN?

http://www.businessinsider.com/who-was-the-vc-who-screwed-st...
I just changed startups. Everything was new and interesting again! 51 this fall, still no emotional meltdown, still with wife of 25 years. Startups are the solution!
Scientists devise algorithm to detect sarcasm
Essentially this is how parents should educate children. Children should be made to taste all foods that are presented to them.
Bigger photos for one. It's painful to look at photos in the current fixed format. Have you seen the size of monitors today?

In general I also find the management interface a bit awkward. Perhaps a few weekend of kill a feature are needed. I think they've tried to be all things to a rather diverse user group and have suffered b/c of it.

It's still fantastic though!
The Enemy Within
Since our service largely about sharing what our tool helps a user create, free users plaster links around the internet. They don't use much resources except bug reports and suggestions (I've let 300 accumulate over the last month), but they provide us with a big insight into what we need to do in order to be top notch. Additionally, since we are all about helping people map/find bike rides, free users increase the amount of rides in our database, which give value to the paying users.

I agree though, I want to keep their features very limited in order to push people towards paid accounts. It's hard to offer a recreational site (mapping bike rides), which doesn't propose to save people money (it's not a business site), without giving them a free trial.
I'm not opposed to people posting whatever they like and having the community decide via upvotes if its worthwhile. Deleting posts outright seems too heavy-handed to me.

Personally, I look to Reddit and Fark for mindless frivolity and Hacker News for more thought-provoking articles. You don't have to only hang out in the joke free zone. It's possible to participate in more than one community.
Commenting on the idea is fun but not productive. Address the real issue: why are you standing there doing nothing? Fear of failure? Lack necessary skills? No partner? Address these things, one at a time, and that's progress.
What's the rest of your diet like? Are you physically fit? I'm a bit curious as to what a breakfast of Slim Jims and Red Bulls will produce in the long run.
It might not be his/her fault. Some people with Aspergers have a problem with certain food textures. It might even be a mild form of Aspergers that hasn't been diagnosed.

I myself have a problem with the "crunchiness" of vegetables and can't eat them. I've tried to overcome it but my throat closes up when I feel the texture and know that I'm eating it.

So I can't eat vegetables. I joke around that I'm a meatarian since I eat everything but vegetables (defined as exclusive, since vegetarians are people who eat anything but meat, also exclusive). But it's not really a joke.

As a consequence I've had to make sure I'm eating healthy with this extra restriction. I used to do what they did and just eat what I like and take a supplement plus 1000mg of vitamin c. But I've changed and now eat lots of fruit and no snack food. And I've decided not to take the supplements anymore.

Supplement also tend not to be absorbed well into the body so their use is questionable. But is it better they take a vitamin supplement vs not taking one on the the same diet?
Tech Crunch Hackathon on Saturday in NYC I will be there.

Most important rule? Have fun. Pick a project YOU want to work on. Do it. Doesn't have to be helpful to anyone, or even remotely sane. Just something you are excited as hell about doing. Hackathons are meant to be fun.

Club Mate is great for staying awake. Guarana ( Antarctica ) is also great. Coffee, and Jolt are acceptable as well.

Have some munchies. When that dead zone around 3-4 am hits it's good to just munch on some m&ms or twizzlers. The chewing is monotonous and helps you concentrate, and the act keeps you alert and awake.

Bring headphones. There might be times that call for a long coding stretch, and you don't want to be disturbed. Throw on some brainless monotonous music ( such as trance or drum and base ). It'll help you tunnel vision.

Don't be afraid to screw up. You don't have to leave successful. Try to, but don't give up on an ambitious plan just to be on the safe side. Hell you can always finish it up a few days later and still have something awesome to show off.

If you finish early, or during meals / breaks... talk to other people. Tell them what you are doing, ask what they are doing. You never know you might end up recruiting someone who can help, or tying two projects together... or just making a good friend.

And remember, chicks dig hardware hackers. So attach some LEDs and a type R sticker to whatever you do.
He has been accused of dealing in bad faith. But consider he didn't know which deal would pan out; he was working them all. It is just business.
-vs. Flash which is closed.

Flash Player is not completely open sourced, because of H264( the patent pool of which, Apple is part of). Adobe pays the licensing fee for using H264 . Adobe has released enough code and specification to let anyone build a flash playing software. Completely open sourcing Flash Player wont be possible unless H264 is open and patent free.
So if Apple really wants, they can build their own Flash Player without Adobe's approval.

src: http://blogs.adobe.com/open/2010/02/following_the_open_trail...
looks like jmatt got it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jmatt

http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIs.aspx?domain=tartups.com&pro...
It's not so much taking down face book.

A social app, by definition, is governed by the network effect. For it to be successful, it needs much more than a great codebase. It needs users.

Diaspora will need to attract users, and that probably means enticing them to come from elsewhere. The purpose isn't destructive against FB, it's constructive for diaspora.
As I said in my post: unless you have a medical problem that prevents you.
I'm skeptical also. Do people really want a search driven TV experience? TV is the opposite of the Internet in many ways. I think people want content pushed at them or presented in a buffet style interface. From the demo video Google TV looks to be very focused on search instead. The other thing that made me skeptical was Google presenting the problem of a program being on multiple channels. My cruddy cable DVR was able to figure this out years ago. TIVO has always done a very good job at it. What's the problem there?
I used to get a lot of emails from companies and organizations too. Then I just unsubscribed from all of them. Problem fixed.
I've read a variation on this where you commit money to a charity you hate, to motivate yourself toward your goal, or literally your enemies win.
Email replaced meetings in the same way that desktop computers replaced paper.