skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That there are badly motivated liars near a debate is not a reason to assume that everyone is lying or badly motivated.

Some random scientist is very (not completely, but very) unlikely to care much about the political implications of his results when analyzing his data.

A liberal politician looking to build his green credentials is likely to care a lot; as is a conservative Heritage foundation type.

But you know, sometimes science comes down on one side or the other. Science has shown pretty conclusively that nicotine is addictive; has suggested pretty strongly that humans affect the atmosphere in ways that affect how heat moves through water and air; and has shown pretty strongly that seeing lots of violence can be bad for children. Politicians from tobacco-growing regions, polticians from regions that produce fossil fuels, and politicians opposing limits on what should appear on television all therefore have the facts more or less not on their side; and unfortunately this usually leads to mendacity (of the sort the Heritage Foundation is displaying here) rather than any reconsideration of previously held beliefs.
I really like the control scheme: vertical drag to move, horizontal drag to change view heading. It was a bit confusing for the first few seconds but it feels much more intuitive than Google Earth, for example.
BFGoodrich Profiler 2 Summer Tire for Passenger Cars | Tire reviews and prices
Here are some earlier submissions on this and similar topics:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1491252

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175576

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011716

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726110 <- This has lots of comments
> The initial discovery experience, for most people, is that you don't do anything and you iPod "magically" does the right thing in return.

I think that, at this point, we're getting into anecdotal evidence; I don't have any idea what most people's iPod experience is, but certainly it's not natural to me to conclude my experience with an electronic device simply by walking away from it—I want to turn it off. (The fact that computers are an exception perhaps explains why a younger generation might be more inclined to the 'just walk away' approach. EDIT: OK, and cell phones. But I still think that I have more devices in my life that I turn off than devices that I don't. :-) )

My main evidence that this is not the only obvious approach is that it is different to the behaviour of the iPod Shuffle 1G, which one did (or at least could) put into hibernation by sliding the main switch to 'Off'. It was this change between generations that particularly confused me.
The problem is that collisions between larger pieces of debris can generate smaller pieces, more collisions, etc ... the potential for a chain reaction should not be dismissed so lighly because the consequences of humanity not being able to get into space are pretty far-reaching.
I've already got a couple of emails, so if you want to send me yours I'll send out a message out to the list here in a few hours to start discussing when and where.
The reason it works is because it's only one eye.

The brain compares the two eyes, and if it sees a difference it knows it's because of the magnetic field.

If it was both eyes it would not be able to tell the difference between magnetic images and regular ones.
Working on AduanaCol.com, uploading data to DB
PowerPoint presentation.

Who's happier than me? No one.
A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++, Part 1
Yes, but they don't get to be called Journalists. They are just wankers with a keyboard.
I did this about a year ago and have not regretted it. I've also discovered which newsletters I don't need to be getting anymore (not that I've ever subscribed to many)--i.e., the ones that don't send plaintext versions.
Much of the knowledge we have about the effect of cold water on the human body comes from the Nazi's human experiments.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/naziexp....
Reaching into Apache Sling from PDF
You're absolutely right, of course. By "front-load" I don't mean literally the second word; rather, I mean moving the predicate verb as close to the front of the sentence as clarity and flow allow.
Working on a Silverlight app for my employer. I inherited this app from previous contractors and some of the stuff they did is pretty scary, so last night was the tipping point and I've decided to start ripping out all the bad stuff.

I'm also torn on Silverlight in general and seriously considering rewriting the app from scratch in an HTML framework (debating between Rails and ASP.NET MVC, even if that debate may seem like a silly one to some :) )
Icefaces front end work. Java baby!
Working on Twitterrific for iPhone/iPad.
As far as I can gleen, this line of thinking is considered completely unreasonable by right-thinking people. As for explaining why this is so, I will need to leave that in the hands of one of those right-thinking people.
I'm implementing our PCI compliance by putting the entire credit card transaction handling offsite.
Tweaked my desktop theme (emerald aquatweak)
Continued work on a rails/sqlite app port to Sinatra/datamapper (jruby app engine)
Online dating is difficult if, like me, you generally dislike superficiality and find the prospect of turning yourself into a sales & marketing guy or a snake oil salesman terrifying.
Thanks! I looked at the control schemes of all popular 3D maps and decided to make something better :-) It helps that terrain, unlike 2D map data, has a certain natural scale, so tilt can be tied to camera altitude.
You've made it to result 1a on Google. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Oysters+oysters+...
AFAIK, MusicBrainz just relies on metadata associated with a music file and its length. It doesn't actually derive an audio fingerprint from the music, like Shazam does.
I feel that a lot of the points made by the original poster are just bolt on features and not actually evolving support systems. Sure, they are nice improvements, but I think I've seen them all at one time or another. Like you said, not all problems can be fixed with technology. At least, not with the base email support systems we have now.

I'm more interested in seeing some out of the box thinking.

For example, build in some AI to preselect/recommend a base response from a pool of previous responses. That doesn't mean it'll be perfect (and still needs to be personalized), but it's better than starting from scratch or scraping through your wiki looking for a previous response.

Also, I want a view that watches an email support queue, public forums and possibly chats. That way my support reps can take the next available request no matter where it comes from.
Porting _why's park place to ruby 1.9/sinatra/mongodb.
Clicking anywhere on the page effectively goes to google.com.hk so google.cn is pretty much just a dummy page. I guess it is all semantics, but it's a pretty dumb game.
Recently? I've used that feature for years, and just recently disabled it because of the mess it inevitably causes when you reply from pr@nsa.gov to a message sent to blanchesun@esp-squad.org - or, in this case, when someone replies to a portion of your message conspicuously missing from sent-mail.
Maybe he doesn't want to know, but I'm curious.

P.S. I'm also curious about what kind of damage can occur to the brain and from what exactly?
If you write well, removing the formatting won't delete information.
Actually this a problem with most mail clients. They are terribly slow, even web based ones, for people who have multiple accounts, have a high email volume, and have to archive all their mail and have it easily accessible. Essentially the problem is most email clients suck, many terminal apps have been optimized for speed and thus many people with a ton of email use them, the culmination of all my mailboxes is about 22Gb of email! Outlook sucks at handling mailboxes over 5Gb same with most other clients, Gmail is ok at it but searching is a bit slow, and organization and control isn't that great. Gmail is also slow in usability compared to most clients like mutt or sup.

Not only that but HTML emails INCREASE mailbox size dramatically! Especially HTML signatures, because they generally use several different sizes/faces of font, contain images and may introduce "email backgrounds". In many cases the HTML markup of an email may be LARGER than the content of the email.
a 500K government RFP...ugh..
My SXSW proposal. I plan to present "Design for the Coder's Mind": http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/design-for-the-coders-mind-...

But I'm stuck on the name. Some contenders:

- Hacking Design: Reverse-Engineering Beauty

- Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty

- Visual Design, Reverse-Engineered: Design for Coders

Thoughts?
Finishing first week (of eight) doing some fairly boring contract C# work (aggregating logs over low bandwidth to a webservice) to earn some money between university terms.
a hacker news rss filter written in haskell that uses redis to store feed information.

i've found a few filters that are like "only show feeditems which have 10+ votes" etc. I'm going for something a little more complicated - most popular n posts by hour, day, week and month.
"Her property is underwater by 300K. Mine is about 250K. Neither of us are wealthy..."

I realize that "wealthy" is a hopelessly vague relative term, but unless your houses are literally worth $0 now to put you $550K underwater, most people would consider you wealthy to have bought them in the first place.
Was the "get-off-my-lawn" pun intentional?
I've thought a lot about this and sketched out some ideas myself. I work at apartmenttherapy.com -- which is primarily a content/advertising oriented business, though we are building toward some more app & community-oriented features in the near future. Most of the systems I've evaluated tend to fall into either a "bug tracker," "help desk" and/or "CRM" bucket, none of which is a good fit for what we need. What we need is more of a "reader communication" platform. We get a LOT of incoming email but we don't have very good tools for really tracking it. Options I've evaluated are generally too rigid and expensive, or flexible but a lot of work to adapt & maintain , and ugly (e.g., RT).

Being able to manage the system solely over email, at least for basic interactions, I think is really important for my team. I really liked some of the features of Email Center Pro (http://www.emailcenterpro.com/features/) but found their UI a bit too clunky and the inability to do basic management directly in the email client was a killer. A streamlined/updated version of that plus email integration similar to RT would work really well for us, I think. If you want to chat more, please email me scott AT apartmenttherapy.com.
I don't think this is limited to people that have passed on. I want my photos out there for a long time, but I don't want to hand everything over to flickr/picasa, etc.
I'm creating a log parser for yellowpages.ca with Redis.
It makes sense if you took out an overblown mortgage and are in a big negative equity situation. If that's the case then getting rid of the property as soon as possible is really just about cutting your losses to the minimum.
Classic: "Web Depression"
Working on creating a web front end for a very old C++ app (no .net support) using java/jsp because that's what I know.
I'm building a machine learning system in .NET to attempt to predict the outcome of NBA games.
Great feedback and suggestions. Would it be possible to talk to you more on this offline? If yes, how do I reach you?
The important part of "journalistic integrity" is "integrity". People are certainly free act without integrity in what they say, but that doesn't mean they should.
Altitude Fasique: Smart and chic clothes for tall style-conscious ladies
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Yesterday we had a discussion and following point we made:
- nothing that we can do (simpler UI, faster search for the knowledge base etc.) is good enough to take it to market. People simply will not convert to our app because it will not fundamentally change the way they work - and help them fix their problems. We will still do the same thing, only a little bit better then competitors.

Also we joked that if a company want to make a user happy we can setup an engine that will send emails randomly from around 100 different templates assuring user that people are working on his case ;)
And I do have a bunch of potentially interesting feature ideas: things like "mood" analysis (based on the text, does this person seem upset/angry/happy/etc); hooks into custom/proprietary systems (is this person a paying customer for product X); analysis (is volume of email type X higher than usual? Might want to look into it, you may have broke something / made something awesomer).
Building .NET client and server components to transfer disk images over HTTP as fast as the I/O system can handle.

This gives me an idea: when will Mattel give us "Asynchrony is hard" Barbie?

My development environment is Visual Studio 2010 with R# and the zenburn theme.
There was always the possibility to add other addresses but when sending emails with those as a sender it displayed something like "sent on behalf of xx@gmail.com". With a recent addition it has become possible to use your email providers SMTP server [1] so you can avoid this.

You can also set that you always answer from the address the email was sent to.

[1] http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=m...
Creating config files for a universal report loader. Then hopefully deprecating the over 100 scripts which exist to do the same thing as the universal loader.
Updating our abstraction for a particular 3rd party camera, since we found ANOTHER edge case not mentioned in the documentation >.<
The main problem, just like on HN and other forums, is finding good technical rating mechanisms which allow the good stuff to rise to the top and the noise to be ignored.
Because you're not descended from creatures who migrated sufficiently often or far for this to be a significant advantage in their reproductive efficiency.
Subject-less?
Creating a PHP application for my employer that will allow us to deploy small 5 page websites for clients quicker than ever. We found we had to turn down a lot of jobs because the money didn't add up to the time required, but this will fix that issue.
Dave McClure Says Web Startups Must Tap Consumers’ Reptilian Psyche
Putting some enhancements on a dieting application for my employer. C#/MVC
In fact, at present four of the 10 front-page Google results for that query were written by me. (Two copies of the one in this thread, plus two copies of something on the C2 wiki. I can't be 100% sure that I wrote the latter, but I'm pretty sure it was me.)
Theres a huge NYC startup scene that exists and continues to develop. You should definitely come out to hackers and founders. During the summer we meet up at shake shack in Madison Square Park around 6pm on the last Thursday of every month. The crowd there is mainly people who have startups or want to be involved with one. Really solid group of smart people. A healty mix of business folks and developers. Almost never any media or sales people. I personally have made excellent contacts there and even some friends.

http://twitter.com/hackersfounders
UXEP spec doc for a major mobile provider's next hot phone.
I think software of this kind is the future of collective decision making (government), but as you say this sort of thing is very much in its infancy and it will probably be many years before really compelling systems emerge.
No. Night owls get more time do perfect their skills while others are asleep (no distraction).
The guy married her before his first startup...sold it for 800m...she divorced him. He was on is back. Did another startup--remarried same woman. Divorced again. Taken to bank both times. Prenup thrown out both times. It ain't right.
The perl code isn't a full search engine though. He uses Yahoo! Build Your Own Search Service, so that perl code is just taking the results from there and throwing results out, reordering results, getting the zero-click info, etc. Yahoo does all the crawling.
I'm readying up a Lisp to PHP compiler for release of the next version. Ideally it'll be done soon today while I add finishing touches to the website and do some final testing.
If you have the flexibility to rewrite the project in Rails, absolutely do it :)
That's cool. I've used DDG a few times in the past and generally like so far. I had no idea it was done in perl though. It's nice to see new perl apps getting some press.

I wonder if they use any of the newer CPAN libs like Moose and family in the architecture?
There's a difference between resisting progress and promoting simplicity.
Firefox 4 Beta Benchmarked: Looks Great, But is in Dead Heat With IE 9
trying to fix few issues and add some features to my web app (http://onlineqrlab.com); also looking for a PHP script to decode Qrcodes, any idea?
Mostly front-end dev:

Putting the finishing touches on a client's online store. Starting a larger WordPress project. Finishing up a personal design project.

I do most of my work in E Text Editor (Textmate clone for Windows).
chemistry laboratory write ups.
It's quite disappointing to see them go from: "we're pulling out" to: "please renew our domain license Mr. Nice Government."

I suppose their original threat was a touch naive.
I think:
- Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty

Sounds like an interesting talk!
Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) Certifications
Formatting helps the least, those who use it most.
I've just finished these 2 blogposts
http://blog.smartupz.com/2010/07/new-version-is-coming-up.ht...

http://blog.smartupz.com/2010/07/facebook-style-business-sof...
These guys have balls of steel to be doing this (or other people's money...). I started writing a long reply, but realised it was turning out almost exactly the same as an earlier post I made so with appologies for the copy/paste:

I'm a game developer, have built a profitable but small studio and I wouldn't invest a cent of my money into a game company I didn't have control over. The risks of developing a game are:

* Technical. Modern games of the retail console variety are incredibly complex pieces of technology. I would not be surprised if building an MMO was comparable to designing a car in terms of engineering effort expended. If your schedule slips, you need to rework major pieces of code just so your engine is no longer dated.

* Artistic/Creative. The game world needs to be interesting, believable and engaging. Asset production is very expensive. Let your schedule slip, and it will all feel dated.

* Gameplay. The game needs to be fun! This is much, much harder than it looks.

* Market. Distribution is incredibly hard, and even very good games often fly under the radar. Is your game the genre of the month? Is it fun enough that everyone talks about it? etc

Very rarely is someone great at all 4. I'm reasonably good at #1 & #3 and hopeless at #2, and average at #4.If you manage to somehow succeed at all four points, then you have a game that makes essentially a one time income of $x (it's spread out over a few years, but it spikes high and rapidly diminishes). Hopefully you made a profit!

And that's per game. All you need to do is mess up your next game (for instance by being too ambitious and letting your success get to your head), and you're bankrupt. The trouble is that you're essentially engineering new products each year or two. There's none of that nice, slow maturation of product and increased customer base you may get if you make, eg, bug tracking or database software, operating systems etc. Each release is potentially a very big, maybe-the-company-won't-survive flop.

There are a lot of companies that are established enough that they can survive on their fan base and income, but they're the exception, not the rule. I admire every one of them.
It's late evening at the moment, and tomorrow is the birthday party for one of my boys; a Pirate Party, arrrr.

At the moment I'm cutting out eyepatches so we can play pin the eyepatch on the pirate. Next up I've been assigned to draw treasure maps. Should be a fun day
Building a live auction application for an auction house, in Tornado/memcache/jQuery.
Geo-search backend for a mobile social network on App Engine. It's a project for someone else's startup and has been a lot of fun.
It's 33 degrees C in my room, I'm afraid nothing is getting done today.
He's just pointing out that a business wouldn't need to contemplate buying a $15,000 anybot for each employee when they can be handed off depending on who needs it at any given moment.

Not sure why the author felt like pointing that out.
Im interested. I travel to msp every week Monday - Thursday so I could do a mid-week meet-up
I don't want to offend anyone but that article was extremely boring (I did end up reading it). I suppose I'd seen the Richard Feynman video on fire and trees quite recently beforehand and was in an intolerant mood. But it's impossible to stay in any kind of negative mood if you watch Feynman, his love of knowledge is just infectious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pIYI5JQLE
Working on improvements for http://dddone.com
What's wrong with Silverlight? Just curious about your experience. I'm doing ASP.NET web forms at work and would much rather use Silverlight for a few things.
You're disappointed that someone posted a followup article to something that received a lot of attention? On the contrary, that's exactly what I like to see (although perhaps not this particular spin). Followups may not be as interesting as the original debacles, but they are more informative.
I really like the idea of making it easy for people to share pictures and stories of loved ones who have passed one. I particularly think people who couldn't make it to the funeral would enjoy the chance to read the stories that friends have posted.

I'm not sold on permanent archiving as a selling point, given that companies (particularly startups) aren't permanent. I do hope they explore ways to support themselves by selling a bound paper form of the contributions to a site or allow users to download a nicely designed PDF containing the pictures and stories.
Yes, as in no subject line. Think: PostIt/SMS/Twitter.
Working on a custom AMI I put together for Amazon's EC2 that is designed specifically to power a rails framework I built. Having some fun with their EBS volumes, very useful.
One of the ideas was to create something like a local business social network and use it for connecting employees and customers. You would ask your users to login with their Facebook account to your system (benefit - a lot of info about the customer) and then hook them up to the product they have and deal value they generated. This would give you good info about importance of the call.

Idea could be summed up as "Quora for support with CRM integration".
Thats probably because (most) birds don't have binocular vision and thus need to turn their head to get a better look at you.
Complete Beginners Guide to Web Analytics and Measurement
offerings so far do not use the get hooked before you buy.

Also the variables are fully adjustable so people can allow 1 year of access etc..

The video I created as an example took me a few hours which includes the time needed to make the codecs. Of course though higher quality videos take longer but still they can be made relatively painlessly today.

Thanks for your feedback though.
nice. solid execution on a great concept.
yeah i had a page hacked, but thought I had cleared it up. not seeing the malware warning on safari or chrome on my end anymore.

I think its due to mediatemple hosting this and their servers being compromised recently. http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=brianbres...