skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You got a subtle reply from mbateman, but I'll add two points. First, it's a good idea to read http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html; notice the penultimate one. Second, the downvoting of quips on HN needs to be understood in relation to Reddit, where nearly every popular thread quickly becomes dominated by a long chain of (often genuinely funny) wisecracks. Experience shows that this pattern drowns out substantive discussion, and HN is all about the latter. What people here are downvoting is not merely the individual wisecrack, but that whole pattern. It's a kind of prophylaxis. Lack of a sense of humor has nothing to do with this; it's a conscious tradeoff.

This kind of downvoting has another virtue, which is that it's silent. If it added noise to the conversation, that would be ironic -- and annoying, too. If one thing's worse than misdirected wisecracks it's humorless metadiscussion. I'll stop here. :)
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Hard hitting journalism:

> "I heard it was like some weird demons and stuff through an iPod and he was like freaking out," said Mustang High School student Meghan Edwards.
I just wrapped a great conversation with Kent. It was awesome, and he was a really great sounding board.

I'd encourage any of you that are on the fence to give him a call.
That depends. Sometimes you get stuck with 7 eleven food as a result.
http://www.encoding.com/

In addition to video inputs, we also can convert popular image formats including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF.

Once completed, tell us where to deliver the encoded files: FTP / SFTP, your CDN or cloud storage location
Short work outs will produce the same result if they are performed within same time span day after day. You can mix the hours up for each work out but let's be honest... that would be too much of a hassle.

I don't think article is very scientific; 'hitting the gym' can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. They can sit in the gym, do cardio, do weights, do stretches, etc. Too many variables. Obviously if subject goes to the gym and does 20 curls before calling it quits there will be absolutely no benefit.

If you hit the gym during the lunch break or before/after work and throw cardio/stretching in (not just weights) you will be fine. Or simply do some good stretching here and there; problem solved.
"Never lose track of what you've thought and experienced" Man I would love to spend some time writing a debord-esque critique of that statement, but I am too busy also developing software to help people never lose track of their authentic experience...
I believe there is 100mbps that can be split out to an ethernet, but I don't see any evidence in the current press releases that a regular old 100base-T phy device can be plugged into an HDbase-T socket. It would be nice though. Then I just have to not plug my AV gear into my 1000base-T network.
I'm curious why you think the ecosystem contributes to the bad rep. If anything, I think that's one thing PHP has going for it. In general, yes, seasoned programmers who are new(ish) to PHP tend to have a bit of a NIH-based bias against the frameworks, but you gotta admit that other languages simply don't have the one-click-install-everything-you-will-never-need sort of thing that Fantastico or whatever gives you.

>> Well, there's one -- Java-style OO. But incidentally, Java is almost impossible to use for the same reason.

Tiobe begs to differ :)
It's a great brainstorming exercise to try to figure out what Apple is planning.
My favourite CouchDb commercial: http://vimeo.com/11852209
They didn't flee the DG of MS because you can't get stabbed, robbed, raped or shot by blacks on MySpace, only in real life.

They fled MS because it sucks. It looks like everyone's first web page, before they learned CSS and still thought the blink tag was cool.
It's a pretty cool extension! Altho the way you handle new tweets (or replies for that matter) is too slow in loading. Is there no other way than to load in a remote webpage on ostrichapp.com to get the new message window?
On the subject of the 'cool' factor, Yahoo Pipes has been around for years: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit
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What about YouTube?
@DotSauce Agreed. I keep my account honed to my actual friends and a few other people. When people add me and are clearly not into tech or anything I tweet about, I block them. So far, I've stayed spam-free.
I don't believe it's any Javascript overhead for non-IE browsers. It's just a single line of CSS:

behavior: url(path/to/PIE.htc);

that non-IE browsers will simply ignore.
It's retirement from a hobby. He can do other things!
That's part of it, although I think it's more along the lines of MySpace not providing proper customization tools in the first place. Once it was discovered that users could redesign their pages in a very hacky method it really went downhill. I mean, stuffing CSS in the "About Me" form field? That's not a real way to provide customization options.
Why "must" it? Can't we just say sensible things like "New evidence and thought experiments suggest that…"?
Best of all is to fail in a non-public way: I can't find the quote right now, but Jobs has said (roughly) that he's as proud of the things they've developed and then haven't shipped as the things they have. Presumably some really good products that just weren't right at the time for Apple to bring to market.

The example that comes to mind for me is Microsoft's recent Kin phones: because of the sunk-cost fallacy, they apparently felt like they had to bring something to market, even though everybody apparently knew the product wasn't good. So they made a few bucks back (not many!) from Kin sales, but got a ton of harder-to-quantify negative publicity from this very public failure. If they'd have just killed the project the day before public reveal and done something internally with the lessons learned, they'd be far better off.
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Adopting the "there's no reason" approach is akin to treating the process as random. First advocated by Boltzman to lay the groundwork of statistical physics, this approach basically says that the process is so complex that the only way to deal with it is through probabilistic methods.

I must respectfully disagree with you and agree with gxti.

Based on the article, it seems that what gets a modelling career started to build up its momentum is virtually random. Once it is started its own momentum can sustain it for some time, but that start is random.

Now, the market on a day to day basis is indeed virtually random. But the overall trends are not. Over the long term with general trends, the stock of strong companies will do well because they generate profits which are largely independent of the stock price. On the other hand, a high stock price might bolster an otherwise failing company for a while, but only for a while. Daily fluctuations are almost entirely random, but long term trend lines will tend to track the actual value of a company, with some exceptions.
This is hardly news. As I recall, anytime Facebook does anything, people threaten to leave en masse. And guess what? It never happens.

I can never get over the irony of this type of meta-journalism. It's not like TechCrunch hasn't been actively participating in covering the Facebook privacy "debacle".
It is so hard to explain this to people who haven't grown up down here, but I was still wrong. We can't make generalizations at all.

Yes India is a society where menstruation is a taboo. It is a "dirty thing" that girls do, or something to most men. Live in relationships are against god. Women have to be "pure" until marriage. Men can do whatever the fuck they want as long as they aren't gay or effeminate, of course.

Ah yes, the joys of indian "society", but do you know something?

I cherish people who do not live by these standards.

When you meet someone over here who treats women as human beings and considers live in relationships to be normal then you have found an outlier, and they tend to be pretty amazing folks.
After looking into Erlang for a while now (still in chapter 3 of ERLANG Programming by Francesco Cesarini)

I have to state that writing something this big in Erlang was bold, really, really bold.

Erlang is not really that fun or exciting to use
I think that after dozens of years of neuroscience we can determine whether a person is thinking or not by several means, all very different to 'introspection'.

Arguing about 'the illusion of thought' really sounds like medieval philosophy.

I recommend 'I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self' by Rodolfo Llinás for a more modern take on these issues.
I've heard a lot of hand waving arguments on both sides of this issue and at this point I'm not going to be persuaded by anything other than hard numbers. We need some way of quantifying the size and complexity of an application and then we need a statistically significant sampling of apps in both static and dynamic languages. At this point anything less than that is just conjecture.

We can do the "ruby doesn't scale" dance back and forth all day but we're not really learning anything.
From my personal experience; the actual question should be:

'Datacenters with UPS and generator that were never tested and never seem to work when power goes off?'
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I think the best advice is to just run a local version. That way you are guaranteed to not have a connectivity issue.

Even if you're on mobile, with local storage, you should be able to get a working demo to show-off.

Those who are interested can then go and check out your site or app on their own time when they have a reliable connection.
Isn't it just as likely that people were still ordering but clicking "Yes" to the remove insecure content option? This would mean the orders still came through but Google Analytics wasn't getting called and recording them.
This is a great use of the API.
Altho I wish the Dropbox team themselves would come with this option due to obvious security/privacy concerns (despite http://sendtodropbox.com/legal)
This really isn't anything new. I've had WP.com blogs on and off since 2007 and I knew in '07 that they had the right to insert ads. What was new to me a few weeks ago was someone showing me ads are also popping up in the mobile version of my blogs too. I put up a disclaimer post explaining the ads. Next!
You're not getting what you paid for; you're getting a complimentary case to address the "horrific loss of signal power" due a design flaw. Consumer Reports said the iPhone 4 is the "the best smartphone on the market" according to its test, but doesn't recommend it (it instead specifically endorsed the iPhone 3GS running iOS4) because of the antenna design flaw.
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Thanks Charlie! It was fun :)
do you have a skype id ?
Hmmm, except it's "common" knowledge in the waitress industry that being busy enough to have to walk around and do things frequently is way better than slow days when there's lots of standing around. standing around wreaks havoc on joints and stuff.

so....if you have a standing desk maybe the point is that you walk around more, whereas when one sits one is less inclined to get up for a minute walk.
When I was a kid I used to skateboard around town about 8 hours a day, moving around all the time. I ate nothing but junk food during while doing this. What was I going to do, steam some brussell sprouts in the parking lot? It's more like existing in America tends to correlate with poor diet.
> ... paranoid about getting sued by the RIAA. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

All of my internet-savvy friends pirate music, and nearly all of my non-savvy friends pirate music. The only difference is the non-savvy ones may actually get caught.

> ... popular music makes more money than unpopular music. Duh.

It being obvious doesn't make it not true. If the top-selling album in a year gets pirated 10 times as often as purchased, does the RIAA really think they only got one eleventh of the payments they would've gotten were it not for piracy?

> ... is not a demonstration of "pirates spend more money on music than they would if they weren't pirates".

I gave myself as an example to show that piracy can in fact directly lead to sales.

> If you're still pirating music in 2010, and the track you're pirating is available on the Apple Store for 99 cents, then you're just being a cheap bastard.

What if I pirate it, then either don't like it, or buy the physical album? I have never purchased music digitally because the digital versions are easily available for free. That seems like business 101—if your product is easily available for free (whether or not acquiring it is a crime), lower your prices or somehow make your product more appealing than the free version.
Same day as scala 2.8.0 final

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/7009
Yes, it reminded me of them as well. But while Yahoo Pipes look nice they get over complicated pretty fast. Flow charts for automatic call answering on the other hand have been around for quite some time and might be a better fit for such a representation.
In addition to individuals who do this, there are also online services that bids out local concierge services. I know that Chris (the guy who wrote the linked post) has used TaskRabbit (http://taskrabbit.com). I'm going to try to get him to do a post about that experience as well.
I think this might be a variation of something I heard about in the mid-1980s, related to a book called The Far Journeys.
http://www.intuitive-connections.net/2007/book-monroe.htm

EDIT: A better explanation, via Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemi-Sync
"Tweet This Page". Smart.
kent.fenwick on Skype.
If you want to be extra sure, you could go for one of those treadmill desks

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=treadmill%20desk...
I'm using it far less and will switch to a viable alternative as soon as one becomes available.
Given the solid summary of the PUA mindset and method (considering the space requirements) I would have granted the author some airs of grandeur if he had been able to give some insight on marrying the lessons of PUA with a respect for real romantic love. But he really couldn't, so the article ultimately disappoints.
Absolutely agree. Much easier to tweet a page WITHIN Safari rather than copy the URL, move over to a Twitter app, then post it. Great feature, for sure.
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personally I came here because I would randomly check paulgraham.com ever since his articles relating to lisp were being posted on slashdot. One day the YC link appeared which in turn had a link to hacker news. While I have gained an appreciation for start up culture(definitely the hacking approach to business) since then I still primarily hang around for articles on programming.
I think http://couchdb.apache.org/ is a better site for finding out what CouchDB is.
At first, I was loading the new tweet form inline. But since the client's code need to be injected in every webpage, because that's all I can do with the Safari Extension API, then I couldn't put the form inline.

Here's why: I figured any malicious site owner could add some javascript code to submit the form with any text they want. Therefore any website could tweet something in your name. This is really bad, so I took this approach instead.
Regular workout sessions do not appear to fully undo the effects of prolonged sitting

Well there go my health insurance rates (if I could afford insurance).
So my server, which is "here", is going to be talking to a redis which is where exactly? "over there"? How do I prevent someone from "somewhere else" from talking to it?
Granted, there's no scientific evidence that they wouldn't spend more if piracy weren't an option, but from personal (anecdotal) evidence as well as common sense, I think it's likely the case. Being exposed to more music seems like it would lead to more music sales.
Interesting hybrid eink / lcd android tablet.
Since you appear to be the developer of this product, this is as good a spot as any to point out that the link to your website in the footer of the blog is broken.
NPR and PBS are independent nonprofits that get most of their funding from private donations, and are in no way subject to government oversight.

Only a small fraction of NPR's and PBS's funding come from government, and most of that doesn't even come from the government directly, but from another nonprofit, the CPB, which in turn receive federal grants.

Whatever government influence is present in the existing public broadcasters is negligible and is entirely diluted by the influence of civil society in general.

The article is pretty vague as to what it's proposing, but it seems to be suggesting much more direct political funding of the press, and not just broadcasters, but newspapers.

More importantly, the author is suggesting that the government should consider funding the press because without new sources of funding, the established press will become extinct. In other words, he's advocating setting up a system in which the press is dependent upon political funding for its survival. This would be an unprecedented situation, and would generate conflicts of interest unlike anything we have now.
This theory corresponds more closely to prototype-oriented programming, like Javascript.
It'd be great to see it aggregated. Browse a list of available people by skill/topic.

Maybe you have to participate in order to have access.

It's like a professor's open office hours.
Both are like crack cocaine for investment bankers. Hay-O!
the FB connect button did not appear for me, either (also in Chrome). Saw it in Firefox; but... I'm not interested in logging in with my facebook account, so I guess I won't be using the site.

If it had you create a new account, quick and simple like, I would have checked it out.
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There are ways to automate server configuration though. AMIs, Chef, Puppet, even Linode's StackScripts.
Firstly, I didn't mean that A logically implies B and C. I meant them as three separate statements.

How is it possible that they couldn't pirate? Unless the world governments plan on actually filtering the entire internet clean of piracy, then all they'll be doing is criminalizing piracy, which is already the case most places.
wow good work! I just registered my blog after browsing for a few seconds and being able to click lisp and see my screen filled with goodness.
since everyone's ideal is diff prob the most surefire and arguably easiest way for you to get the particular aggregated and/or curated view is for you to write a small script that does exactly what you want. if others might want same then make the code avail with a link from your HN profile. If a particular service or view hack becomes popular perhaps PG will add an equiv feature to HN itself, etc.
> If you look at most people of the 'seduction' community, they usually have something in their history that stunted their sexual-social development...

So you're saying that the people looking for help in understanding and attracting women are more likely to have been bad at it in the past? And that people who already have a lot of experience and success are unlikely to be interested in PUD methods? Isn't that obvious?
Hah, thanks for the link! I just wrote a quick app to flirt with my girlfriend. Multiple choice questions with no wrong answers are hilarious. Punched in her phone number and waited for a callback.

Ok, maybe that's sad, but hey.
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why not just aggregate #dodont on twitter/facebook?
There is no need to create a totally new messaging platform, just build something on top.
<sarcasm>yes im creating a geolocation , cloudbased, micromessaging, html5, mobile, semantic, AR application.. its going to be huge </sarcasm> This about sums up this article.
I didn't quit, but I stopped reading the Facebook feed. That was a major step for me, as I was somewhat north of Facebook's average of 55 minutes per user per day on the site. This has really helped cut that down to < 10.
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The bottom of the horse-drawn trailer business has fallen out since industrialization. New technology can make existing products worth less. The horse-drawn trailer industry didn't rely on legislation to keep its newly-obsolete business running—they either modified their product or died out.
gotta mention OpenVBX for drag-and-drop voice apps http://www.openvbx.org
Could a startup trigger a similar 'white flight' in an established service by intentionally appealing to the most economically valuable demographic? Can we build good niche businesses by creating things like race-specific Twitter clients?

Would it be ethical to do so?
http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html
Another reason to write more is that there tends to be a positive correlation between Writing More and Sucking Less [At Writing], and in the business world there's really something to be said for Sucking Less [At Writing] because regardless of how smart you are or how great your product is if you can't string together a coherent sentence on your blog you run the serious risk of making yourself and your colleagues look dumber than you all probably are (at least in the eyes of people who care about Sucking Less [At Writing]).
Hmm... I wonder if this has any implications when it comes to school?
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> stocks, homes and startups all have to eventually produce value

I have to disagree. Companies fail and homes can burn or be subject to other natural disasters. And, at least part of a home's value is judged not on what the home actually provides, but how it looks. In some respects, all countertops are the same, but for value assigned, granite beats wood.
From the abstract of the study:

Participants were 7744 men (20-89 yr) initially free of CVD who returned a mail-back survey during 1982. Time spent watching TV and time spent riding in a car were reported. Mortality data were ascertained through the National Death Index until December 31, 2003.

They noted that they adjusted for age. I presume other factors like the economic status correlate also with the time they watched tv. Don't know if they've adjusted for that as well.
I thought this was a joke at first. The title of the post screams "NO" right off the bat.
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You're confusing two point: the meaninglessness of being simply atoms in the void, and our finite life spans. It's perfectly consistent to think that a finite life span would make us cherish our time more, if only not for the fact that everything is meaningless.
And yet, the way RIAA portrays it is as if every album has a set number of potential sales, and each instance of piracy takes away from those potential sales. The truth is, the piracy rate will usually be pretty constant across all albums, e.g. one album sale for every 20 free downloads.
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