skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first I thought, "Really? 300 wpm is average? I tried that setting and it's pretty slow." So I checked it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_(process)#Reading_rate If anything, that's the high end of average!

Holy cow. I was getting bored and consequently losing focus at 300wpm. No wonder "people" don't like to read, if a huge chunk of "people" can't even go that fast.
It's probably getting up-voted because of the first line:

"There's a pretty strong impulse to call somebody a "denier" in order to categorically denounce what he's saying, as well as everybody similarly skeptical."

This statement I'm in complete agreement with.
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My close familiarity is with light aircraft, such as my 2-axis autopilot-equipped Skylane. In nav-coupled mode, my airplane can fly the cruise portion of the flight essentially unaided, though I obviously don't just take a nap until we get there.

In a slow aircraft, you have plenty of time to get bored and have your attention wander off, so I use a 15-minute timer and every radio call directed at me as a trigger to monitor how well I'm managing the flight. Are there times that I've had those triggers clue me in that I was "screwing up"? Absolutely. Have I used that as a trigger to land and sleep, eat, or just walk around to refresh myself? At times.

That said, I believe that every pilot who has done any amount of travel in their airplane has had the experience of screwing something up from diverted/divided attention. Whether it's busting an altitude or airspace assignment, transmitting on the wrong frequency, or simply missing several radio calls, it happens.

My point of view is that the autopilot is important improvement in safety, especially in clouds or an abnormal situation, and I wouldn't want to add a system that requires additional button-pushing from the pilots that might compromise safety in a critical situation where the autopilot is providing meaningful off-load from the pilot. Aircraft and lives have been lost over trivial distractions in the past.
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I was waiting for someone to bring this up, it's because I put that "calculation" in before I put in the variable read rates in.

If you know how I can fix that, any advice will promptly be implemented :)
Well thought out; but by "evangelize" I just meant to consider those people visiting your site who don't know what your Bingo Cards are, and to sell the concept of Bingo Cards, not just your product (sell in the sense of explaining the benefits, as you did above). Like adding a link from "for instructional and entertainment purposes" to an explanation page. It would be a long-term strategy, to grow the pie, not just your slice, so it might take a long time to show up in A/B testing (and probably would be minuscule compared to the existing low hanging pie... er, fruit).

So many sites assume the reader already knows what they're selling.
Still, I can see that your customer acquisition costs must be much lower for those who already know, and your site speaks precisely to those people; and there seems to be enormous growth left in that segment.

I mainly mentioned it because it would be a beneficial thing to do for the world - a connotation of "evangelize".
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Very well put with respect to trolling. I, for one, appreciate the public dialogue. One nitpick: the law of large numbers doesn't mean what you intended here.
This can be handy, no doubt. I have a monitor that flips out blinking if you knock the cord, which my cat has seen fit to do a couple of times.

Don't forget the mnemonic - Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring.

There are a couple of variations:

REISUO will shutdown rather than reboot.

Some prefer RSEIUB, syncing earlier in the process - aka Rasing Skinny Elephants Is Unusually Bland. You may wish to throw another Sync in there to make RSEISUB.
If I understand what you're saying then despite the decent amount of info about each of us online (I'm a technical author, my girlfriend is a well-known blogger, and my ex does freelance writing for numerous periodicals), the relatively low-volume and infrequent queries that some people are making and that produce no search results are allowing Google to establish the connection?

Yes, the title on this post was a bit facetious, I don't think Google is actually cataloging my girlfriends, but I still don't buy your explanation. There is so much more info out there on each of us, and so many easier and better connections to make, that I am left to suspect that Google is not using the method you described to connect us because it is weaker than other possible connections.

Worse, even if I did accept infrequent GET requests to a search engine as an explanation for Google's connecting the names on the Wonder Wheel, I don't take it as a justification of that act. If a search engine is okay with drawing and publishing connections from just a few searches made, than wow is that a loop hole for fairly private information (especially about lesser-known people) to get out.
> Either evolution and the big bang happened or they did not; both matters can, in principle, be solved with more data and better theory. But the right form of taxation or government cannot be answered with more data and better theory. They are ideological positions that are established by subjective debate."

> If you don't adjust your views of taxation and government based on data, nobody should ever listen to what you have to say on politics (or anything else).

Wrong. Even if you knew exactly the result of spending $100 more on a given welfare program, that doesn't tell you whether you should spend that $100. There are two reasons (1) knowing the benefit of spending $100 there doesn't tell you whether that $100 is better spent somewhere else (2) reasonable folks can disagree on whether those benefits are worth $100. (I may be willing to spend $0.01 to make your life $1 better, but I'm not willing to spend $0.25. Your numbers are probably different and no amount of data helps us decide between them.)

More data is useful, but it isn't decisive.
That may be due to the cod being an apex predator. I.e. has the total biomass of the region collapsed?

However this is a classic Tragedy of the Commons example and the fact that Canada dithered long enough for it to reach what looks like a point of no return is sobering (I was living in the Boston area in the dozen years leading up to Canada's closing of fishery and remember reading articles about this). Some governments are simply not going to handle this well for the regions of the ocean they economically control, and plenty of the ocean (although I don't know how much of it is how productive) is beyond those areas.

All that said, we're likely to see a continuation of farm raised fish replacing wild catched. Something akin to this happened thousands of years ago as we converted to agriculture.
Ask HN: How can a brilliant hacker make the greatest impact on the world?
Let's assume the hacker is really fucking good at hacking, and reasonably intelligent/capable at other stuff.

Here are the options I see:

1. Start a Startup - Everything I've read suggests that the founders (and first ~5 employees) of a startup will be spending a lot of their time on non-hacking stuff.

2. Join a big company like Google - How much impact can a single employee have at a big company? Particularly a junior one who just joins (regardless of hacking ability).

3. Industrial research lab like Microsoft Research - Hacking ability is usually a distant second compared to research ability as a requirement for these type of jobs.

4. Academia - Even more so than (3).

5. "Side-projects" - This seems like the most effective way to me, but it requires another source of funding to sustain yourself.

What am I missing? Where am I wrong?
What do you understand the valuation to be when the financing is done as convertible debt?
He's actually a Northeastern alum whom I spoke with just a few weeks back! Great minds think alike and come out of NU! (disclaimer im one of the co-founders of Zazu)
MP3 project with TDD
A home grown music project has taken on a life of its own, but now I get to hone my development skills.
Farmed fish eats fish. For each kg of farmed fish, you have to catch two to five kg fish in the ocean. Some of this is fast-growing and might be ok to harvest in large quantities, but most of it, we don't know.

Farmed fish also spreads disease and destroys the local ecosystem. Chiles coastline is in pretty bad shape because of extremely large scale salmon farming.
Please don't.

If Microsoft starts using WebKit, they'll find a way to fragment it and make their implementation of WebKit incompatible and unmergeable with the rest of the crowd.

No. Please, Microsoft, stay away from the projects I depend on.
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"Is programming art or engineering?"

I would respond that the current state is similar to art, but that's simply a sign we're on the wrong track; it should be a form of mathematics.
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I agree. I replaced a SR MBP (2.4 C2D) with a new i7 and normal tasks really are that much faster. I had expected better performance, but was pleasantly surprised by how much the upgrade provided.
Yeah, let's go to every firm and ask them their trading strategies. I'm sure they're happy to share.
Are you suggesting that we converted to agriculture after killing almost all wild animals?
Same here. I was kind of confused as to why anyone would start a project and think, first, "Well, we need a user registration system."

Of course, I also become bored by these little details. So I wouldn't say it's any better, but it is certainly more fun to work on the interesting bits first.
Odd. I have an original unibody 13" with 4 GB of RAM and I've never felt this computer is slow. I typically have Chrome, iTunes, Fluid (running an instance of Gmail in Safari), Adium, Terminal, Preview and Finder open.
" The fact that we can't stop murder except by draconian measures (outlawing picking up a rock even...) doesn't somehow mean we shouldn't be opposed to murder."

Murder is in no way comparable to copyright infringement, which is a civil offense.
I'm even more concerned. Mine has "tom morton beatcroft" as a spoke....

Don't even know what that means!
I don't see what that has to do Job's decision. The board offered this to every employee individually. Steve could take it or leave it without affecting anybody else.
This already well underway. The book & film "End of the Line" is well worth a read. Also the massive disruption of the eco-system by removing large numbers of species has un-predictable knock on effects - for example massive numbers of jelly fish in some areas and of course the algae/plankton population explosions which in turn effect the ecosystem to the detriment of other species.

There is also a lot of deception in the naming of fish. Fish species are renamed in order to make them sound like fish we are used to. The fish species you get in British Fish and Chip shops are rarely the species our parents and grandparents ate
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> THE world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 unless fishing fleets are slashed and stocks allowed to recover, UN experts warned.

I dislike the rise of sensationalism and exaggeration in the media quite a lot. I dislike the rise of sensationalism and exaggeration in the United Nations even more.
I don't understand the negative feelings towards proprietary web frameworks. We offer a product that solves a problem. We've been working at it for 6 years, have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into R&D, and have numerous free options for non-commercial projects, including free educational, non-profit, developer, and open source project licenses. Compared to our competitors we're leaps and bounds ahead of them technologically, and we undercut them on price significantly.

Really, what more can we do? Do you not use a tool because there's a company behind it providing support, up to date documentation, and other resources? We even have a clause that says if anything should happen to us, all the source is opened.

It's unsettling that many developers who charge for their own services and products let out a sigh when other developers decide to charge for their services and products.
Did you consider smooth scrolling instead of adding/removing a word at a time? The bouncing around due to different word-lengths is troubling me.
It looks like they have room in the MB for an i3/5 and a separate Nvidia GPU since they have a 320M in the new one. The reasoning for the C2D in the 13" MBP though was that they didn't have room for both the i3/i5 and the Nvidia GPU so you'd be stuck with only the Intel IGP /shudder. Part of the blame I think needs to fall on Intel for making it so complicated to support other GPUs now.
Hehe, I was there when these guys were at boston.startupweekend. They should have won!
Set your refresh in seconds to (words at a time / words per minute) * 60. And maybe add a check to make sure the show value is never smaller than the words at a time value? (Though it is a fun, schizophrenic way to experience the start of 1984)
I believe that the Gabriel Weinberg method makes a lot more sense than the Schachter method. From his thread, the impression I got was that he just had some amount of money and wanted to put it in startups the way kids buy toys: Hey, that's pretty cool, here, have $10k.

The Weinberg method seems more thought out and more like it actually involves proper evaluation of the product. I believe that Weinberg is building his intuition much better than Schachter, even though Schachter may be involved in more deals.
No, he's suggesting that we switched from eating mostly hunted-meat to eating mostly domesticated meat.
I was searching for some legitimate software the other day and a link to the pirate bay came up on google. I was shocked.

As a producer of software and content including movies and pics, I am also shocked that websites like this find so much support from this community. I believe producers of content should be able to reap rewards for that production.

It takes time, energy, passion, dedication, and practice to create something of value. These products are of value if someone is downloading them and filling up hard drives.

The people supporting the copyright violations the pirate bay support, don't also support piracy off the coast of Somalia or theft of hard drives to store those songs. The argument is that bits aren't property.

But those bits are the mechanism that supports the creators of the content that has improved their lives throughout the years. If you don't believe that -- take all your lines of code, databases and photos and delete them. How much will it cost you to replace them?

I know I am in the minority around here, but I am not a supporter of the pirate bay. I acquire the content I consume legally and legitimately and in a manner consistent with how the producers have agreed that content should be consumed. Anything less would violate the golden rule. I don't want people using the software I create without helping me pay the bills.
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Alternatives: http://www.activecampaign.com/help-desk-software/

http://www.kayako.com/

http://webhelpdesk.com/

http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/default.jsp

http://tenderapp.com/

http://www.cerberusweb.com/

http://www.thevisionworld.com/

http://www.autotask.com/software/service_desk.htm
Chrome's incognito mode isn't quite (zoom-level is recorded)
LOL?

Yes, virtually all basic research is federally funded. Does it distort science?

Nutrition is not at all easy to do as science because doing research with humans is not considered ethical by society. I think it's something we need to address, and it seems short sighted to me.

Your example is not at all convincing evidence for you rather sweeping thesis.
Sharing has value both for Patrick, and his future businesses.
Make sure to watch the film The End of the Line: http://endoftheline.com/ - which explains the Canadian Cod collapse,the current state of affairs, and potential solutions.

Also take the time to watch some of the recent TED talks from Mission Blue which offer a good outline of the state of the ocean's and potential solutions.

http://www.tedprize.org/mission-blue-voyage/
This is why the British instituted a "hut tax" in their African colonies. Otherwise, the native population had no reason to go work in the mines!
When You're A Rockstar Nobody Cares If You Do Drugs.
You make it seem as though those are all choices that you get to make yourself. The assumption 'really fucking good at hacking' rarely holds true though.

Once you've proven yourself then those doors will open.

For someone that's simply convinced they are that good but without a track-record the only options are (1) and (5), all the rest will require some form of proof beyond 'your saying so'.
Ask For Opinion: what you do when everything is going wrong?
and you feel that there is no way out.

I know I've to give some details and will be ignored by some, but still.

(yes it's account-for-a-post, apologies for that.)
EBay’s flagship consumer shopping service has struggled in China, but the company is more successful here than many may think, thanks to its fast-growing online payment business, PayPal.
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It's more than that. Writing naturally invests itself with great authority. It tends to override ones own judgement, reason, experience, and sensibilities. This is what Socrates was referring to.

Thus the skilled reader learns to question authority, as a necessary defense.
Are spam messages about the same subjects (ie Viagra, enlarge your penis, etc) if so, you could create a filter and put the keyworkds in the apropriate field.
Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg should've listened to that advice?
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It seems like a lot to add a brand new case to your iPhone just to replace one card (which it doesn't even do, since you still have to use your regular Visa card at most businesses).
Recently I wanted to hire a consultant for an open source project. I had no idea how to do this because there's no easy way to find out who the right people are and who is interested in working on bug fixes that are interesting to me as a corporate user of their work. I googled and found that the project I needed work done on had a page for this but I only found it by searching (and I didn't expect to find anything when I did).

Maybe there are sites out there that do this and I'm just unaware of them. It seems like if you can solve that problem you'd have a nice feature on your hands. Maybe it's a separate site from what you're doing now. Don't know. It seems like it might be a common problem for people wanting to use a variety of open source tools and aren't plugged into the developer community for that project.

Just a thought I had today and I saw your site trying to do something related so I figured I'd share it. Good luck.
Have you ever played with stakes that large? I don't think you can hold a little private self doubt against anyone in that situation.
Forgive my ignorance, there is talk of "CV" or "CVs" everywhere on the site. Without googling for it, I would have no idea what it was or is. I think it's an overused abbreviation on your main and about pages.
Which is exactly why heirs are cursed with such wealth.
I'll bet that most competitor attempts are a net positive.

Even the failed attempts help convince folks that they need bingo cards.
I think what he is referring to is that ARCA (NYSE's sucky exchange) stopped routing buy orders in an effort to boost prices locally. So if you placed a buy order on ARCA, and it could be filled on BATS, it was not routed to BATS and remained unfilled (this is what normally occurrs).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05...
Have aliens hijacked Voyager 2?
Speed reading is great to remember isolated facts and data, but it doesn't work to really understand anything.

If I want to absorb a complex idea and integrate it into my base of knowledge, I need to pause while reading, digest what I've read, figure out its implications, and think about it in relation to what I already know and understand. Speeding up the physical act of reading doesn't add any value here.

When I try to use these techniques, I usually end up mechanically scanning the text word by word without consciously comprehending anything, and having to keep going back to re-read the same paragraphs over and over again.
Ironically, I started reading this article in the middle, got to the end and then read the top half.
To be fair, they are allowing customers to grandfather their pricing for a year: https://support.zendesk.com/entries/173169-new-grandfatherin...

However:

> "As a result, the new pricing reflects the added business value of each individual plan."

I read that entire post and I was unable to find the added business value, these features all seem like they should be part of the product not really premium stuff.
http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/nightly/html/config/editors.htm...

"TextMate¶

Currently, TextMate support in IPython is broken. It used to work well, but the code has been moved to IPython.quarantine until it is updated.

vim configuration¶

Currently, vim support in IPython is broken. Like the TextMate code, the vim support code has been moved to IPython.quarantine until it is updated."

I tried vim in ipython, it worked in a very simple test: define a function, :wq and run the function. Was able to get back to the same edit because ipython reports the /tmp file name after the editor returns. Dunno what's broken.

Fallback: you can use ipython, python or anything else as the argument to ScreenShell in vim.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2711
Mark Zuckerberg Isn't CEO, He's "The Hereditary King Of Facebook"
Social networks are not completely useless - Twitter, Facebook (and here in Brazil, Orkut) are useful tools to find old friends you lost contact with or to start conversations and point to interesting things you find. I get many tips from the hacker news popular feed.

But I really, really don't care for the farms people manage, the hearts people get and so on. I don't need a second job managing a farm.
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No, it's not. But the measures that would be necessary to actually stop it are identical, as they are for just about anything: completely draconian laws.
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I can see the value for a corporation in keeping more than a billion dollars in capital and assets, but not for a single person. I imagine this is why Bill Gates started giving tons of money to charities. At that level (billions, plural), what use could it possibly serve other than to pile it all in cash and gaze balefully down from your cash-throne at the peasants beneath you?

To the OP: Why is this a dumb trade? He should have somehow known his options would be worth more in 7 years' time? Had he been able to assuredly predict the future of AAPL (or any stock, for that matter), he'd be a hell of a lot richer than $13 billion.
Are you physically active? If no do yourself a favor and exercise. In my opinion it's the first thing to rule out before taking medicinal measures.

I would also recommend visiting a therapist instead of a GP. Your primary care physician likely knows everything they know about depression from the pamphlets and samples the pharmaceutical companies provide. Your GP will have you fill out a 6 question form asking how sad you feel and then put you on Zoloft. It's worth eliminating social and environmental issues with a psychologist before altering your brain chemistry.

http://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms/state/WA/Seattle.h...

Good luck. It's a really easily treatable problem.
Once decoded, the alien message will read: "Please update the playlist. We've seen all of these already".