skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate the fact that I am a regular user as the whole concept of the site drives me insane. I recently executed a cull on my friends list and managed to remove over 50% of my 'friends' but I'm still left with a list of over 100 people, the majority of whom believe the main purpose of the site is to regurgitate other peoples status updates, take pointless quizzes and posting the results on my wall (I don’t care if you would last 17.8 seconds in a fight with a raptor).

I’ve been battling with the idea of simply deleting my profile and thus freeing myself from this social millstone but that leaves me with two problems:

1)	I live in the UK and almost all my family & friends are based in Ireland and Facebook is unequivocally the best medium for me to share photo’s of my 12 week old baby boy and keep them up to date with our progress in the UK.

2)	If (when) I delete my profile it subsequently deletes all of the photo’s I have uploaded which means my family will lose a huge amount of pics that they have saved in their albums.

Now I am well aware that there are a multitude of platforms that will allow me to share my family photo’s without being bombarded with pointless quizzes, polls and religious/political flame wars but trying to convince my computer illiterate family to adopt a new social platform would be akin to playing pool with a rope.

I admit to feeling trapped by this social giant and I live in hope that within the next few years a new platform will take the world by storm that will enable me to keep in touch with my family without having to trawl through pages of pointless content to find anything of remote interest.

/rant
The title of this article is absolutely irrelevant to the actual arguments presented therein. He never argues that a high IQ will kill your startup. He only argues that not working and avoiding problems could lead to the destruction of your startup. Which, of course, is patently obvious, even to someone who isn't intelligent at all.

A high IQ won't ever kill your startup; being a highly intelligent person can only help you. Don't be so sensational with your titles.
I use dojo toolkit for our web app development. In the past, we've evaluated YUI and ext.js too. All are great frameworks but it all depends what you are doing and how comfortable you are working with js. If its simple widgety stuff, maybe even jquery would be sufficient?

Also take a look at cappuccino.org. They have an interesting approach in web app development.

Good luck!
> but you can access the function version if you want, e.g. in glibc, getc() will call the macro, while (getc)() will call the function.

Are you sure about this?
Er, the problem seems to be more that Javascript-initiated keyboard events can trigger AutoComplete. Only KB events from the system should be allowed to do that.
The only proof that we've gained the talents we need is that we have achieved the goals we've set. We are all like you.
Has she purchased any Old Spice for you recently, by chance...?
I cannot know whether or not you would qualify my abilities as "talent". The way you've constructed your response leads me to believe that if I told you I won the Nobel Prize in Javascript, you'd list stupid things that Nobel Prize winners have done.

Even if this site is mostly "talentless wantrepreneurial pundits," which has some truth to it, you're not the slightest bit overwhelmed at the amount of high quality information here?
Here's the fix: don't compare yourself to others - compare your today's self to your tomorrow's self (ie: grow your own abilites instead).

I really suggest reading "Nonviolent Communication" (http://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Mars...), which gives a lot of insight on these topics.
Too big for what, or for who?
Psychological research studies have shown that if you tell a kid that he's "smart," he's less likely to take risks because he's afraid of not succeeding & losing the "smart" label.

Sounds like you're suffering the grown-up version of that. You're worried about the "smart" label and not the, say, persistence, hard-worker, stick-to-it label.

If you are interested in finishing something, I highly recommend read the posts on http://www.justfuckingship.com/ - you'll probably find them right up your alley.

Take heart, by the way. Finishing and shipping is a skill, like any other, you have to do it a lot to get good at it, but it's totally learnable. As is entrepreneurship.

Oh, and take all these people here as a challenge, not a reason. You aren't competing with them. You're the only person who will ever be "you." Let their accomplishments at being the best of who they can be inspire you to be the best of who you can be.

Sounds a little woo, but it works.
If you are damn good with javascript, you already have my respect. And I am not just trying to make you feel better.
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Also to add to what pg said - http://sushrutbidwai.com/?p=232

Remember the tools that you had at your disposal and some one else. Dont get overwhelmed by what others have achieved or seems to have achieved.
Hi, thanks for coming back!

> [...] then yes, that 'neutrality' enforcement is about curtailing the ISP's revenues [...]

But is that really what it's _about_? I think it is a result, but the aim isn't to affect their revenues, the aim is to ensure fair competition, by preventing the ISPs from abusing the monopoly that the public have granted them (exclusive frequencies, cabling, etc). That is, I see it as an anti-monopolistic measure.

> The FTC's trial balloons [...] are also motivated by the desire to provide a 'level playing field' for newsgatherers and story-originators, where a near-monopoly like Google, or thinly-staffed all-cut-and-paste-no-research aggregators, can't capture all the value news media create.

You point out and I agree that Google is a near-monopolist, but that fact doesn't automatically make these measures anti-monopolistic in spirit. They are measures that would regulate any provider of aggregation.

Wouldn't implementing such rules suggest that we see aggregators as simply parasitic? And if that's the case, why can't we just let the newspapers be protected under good old copyright (another public-approved monopoly)? No need to demand a tax on aggregation, just disallow the crawler access to your site.

> Once you invite committees and congresspeople to set rules to reallocate the revenues from an activity, where do you stop?

Sorry, I think that's a slippery-slope argument.

Btw, wrt net-neutrality: the government started meddling with this from day one, by licensing frequencies, handing out cabling contracts, etc. So the way I see it, net-neutrality is not a market-intervention, it is a band-aid to another market-intervention.

> If the FCC can ban certain service packages in the public interest, why can't the FTC force republishers to buy distribution rights from traditional media in the public interest?

I think they could. The question then is, are both in the public interest?

> Google wants its pot-of-gold to be protected from meddling network operators by new rulemaking. Why can't the newspapers ask for their pot-of-gold to be protected from Google by new rulemaking?

Yeah, there's too much legislation that just seems designed to protect someone's pot of gold. I like the other point better: what's in the long-term public interest?
I had this problem. I solved it by upping the threshold at which an article hits my "To Read" list.
do you know what you're speaking about? or just repeating caricatures like sheeps? Consterning, frankly. And I'm a start-up ceo in France.

Btw, you know what? Chinese don't wear braids anymore.
Ask HN: What's better for email deliverability? Own Server/AuthSMTP/SendGrid?
We are running some experiments to decide which route to take for sending emails in our marketing automation SaaS product. I wanted to get advice/recommendation from you as well as learn from what you have experienced/decided on for "sending emails". We are experimenting to see what performs better for deliverability and here are our numbers for a recent very small test:<p>Our server: 408 sent / 60 opened - 14.7% open rate
AuthSMTP: 300 sent / 23 opened - 7.67% open rate
SendGrid: 206 sent / 27 opened - 13.01 open rate<p>Its cheapest for us to send email from our server, AuthSMTP is more expensive than that and SendGrid is more expensive than AuthSMTP. You really cannot compromise on deliverability but (1) costs are significantly different and (2) open's is really a partial measure of deliverability, meaning even with 7.67% open rate, AuthSMTP "may" have delivered disproportionately more than the other channels.<p>Would love to hear your experiences and suggestions.
IANAL, but perhaps it could be argued that MZs continued work after the "online yearbook" site launched in 02/2004 constituted sweat-equity and thus diluted Ceglia's shares?

Anyway, if Ceglia and his lawyers have half a mind, they're after a tiny (compared to 84%) settlement.
Good! This is a good thing! You're feeling sick to your stomach that you're not living up to your potential - good that you come here to post this. Most people fight this feeling down with distraction, intoxication, or otherwise tuning out.

You're doing something about it. This is fantastic. If you want, email me a reasonably short email and tell me what your goals and projects are, I'll recommend you some reading and give you some advice. Spend 5-10 minutes thinking about your core life goals before writing me, and feel free to put in a couple specific projects as well. I'd be happy to be of service, I admire people who confront themselves and reality.

I love when I get that sick to my stomach feeling, it means I'm about to do some great things. Don't fight it. Drop me a line if you like, my email is in my profile.
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"Who knows how long they spent refining that comment?"

"The best writing is rewriting." - E. B. White

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This reminded me of Gator and their disingenuous practices.
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Couldn't you still use a variation of this hack to steal the info from Firefox?

Steps:

1. Go to a popular site that makes one fill out the information you want to steal.

2. Record the name they use for all their fields (afaik this is how FF determines what value to supply)

3. Use the hack to make a form with those fields

4. Profit

On step 3, it may be that you have to enter the field and type something to get the auto-complete to kick in, but that's easy: you only need to try 26 letters and 10 numbers to get a hit.
I must say, Safari 5's "reader" feature is great for articles like that.
Did you have to convince them or did they come to you?
We were overwhelmed by the response. We are excited that we are able to do things with that money already (more on that later).

But to be honest, the best part has been the postcards. Every day a big stack arrives, and it is awesome. I can't tell you how good it feels to get a stack of postcards all telling you how awesome you are and how you're changed people's lives.
"Don't ever let "Well, someone else is doing this..." stop you."

I take this as confirmation that my idea has some merit. It someone else is building it, it must be a real problem/pain point in people's lives.

I independently thought of a semi-decent concept (IMO) and googled similar terms, to discover that there were startups out there with near identical ideas, and already well along the path of execution. I console myself that at one stage Google was taking on Yahoo! and Microsoft when everyone thought search was done (i.e. an unsexy, overlooked field).
my company Deep Therapeutics is working on automating massage for physical therapy. And there will be software involved too. Right now its one man and a vision.
If you look at the (in)famous design criticism articles of the past year, you can see that discourtesy has become a pattern. Because these got so much attention, others started to think it's "okay" to do design critic in a similarly childish and discourteous manner. It's interesting to see the lengths people go for attention.

Tyler Thompson on Delta's boarding pass:
"It was like someone put on a blindfold, drank a fifth of whiskey, spun around 100 times, got kicked in the face by a mule (the person who designed this definitely has a mule living with them inside their house) and then just started puking numbers and letters onto the boarding pass at random..."

Andrew Wilkinson on Zappos:
"I checked out your new website and wanted to stab my eyes out with a sharp object."

Dustin Curtis on American Airlines:
"Fire your entire design team, if you have one."
(His original post was harsher but he has edited it since and I don't have access to the original.)
Since this is a problem in the JS handling (as mention in another comment in this thread, Safari isn't differentiating between keyboard entries that were generated from JS from ones that actually came from a keyboard), that's probably in Webkit itself and therefor fixable by the community, no?
> These fields are AutoFill’ed using data from the users personal record in the local operating system address book.

Sorry, maybe a stupid question, but can someone explain this? I had no idea my OS had an address book. Why does it have this? If it does, how do I put stuff in it? Or delete stuff in it? Is this just on mac, or windows and linux too?
I think reddit tried to do exactly that a while ago and didn't have much luck. It may have been smaller than HN at the time, but I think they kept trying for quite a while.
Do you ever watch Formula One? You know that guy who always finishes at the end of pack that everyone laughs at? He's the (~)20th fastest driver on this planet. Imagine how he feels.

EDIT: People are getting hung up on the specifics here, so let me expand a bit: If you are, say, the 20th best at anything then how you feel about yourself depends on where you look. If you only look forward you'll be thinking "good greif, there are NINETEEN people in front of me, I suck!". If you only look behind you'll think you're the greatest. Just look at all the billions behind you.

I think the key is a healthy combination of looking forward for motivation ("Just 19 more to go!") and behind for perspective.
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But just another interesting web service that demands my card details before it will tell me how much anything costs! Fundamental mistake? I think so...
I have only tested this with Chrome, but what I see is that Chrome does not autocomplete the form field (i.e. insert your name/etc into the text field).
In Chrome, the decision to add previously-entered text into the field is left to the user, through selection from a dropdown that Chrome displays below the text field.
Presumably Safari just sticks the text in the field as soon as the prefix added to the field using fake keypresses matches up with your addressbook info.

I havent used the autofill feature (have never trusted it), but in Chrome apparently it is site-specific, and requires user intervention for it to work. I'd be interested in how FF handles it.
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Can someone please clarify the ethical as well as legal ramifications of subverting investors by starting a new company?

For example: You start company A, in market M. Your investors give you 5k in exchange for 50%. You spend your 5k learning about market M and now you're diluted. What's stopping you from creating company B, to attack same market, but from an enhanced perspective?
I don't like objective-j, so cappuccino is out. Why is Dojo your framework of choice? Thanks.
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> One shouldn't think about legal issues in quantitative ways.

What about evidence? Presumably the copyright 'deriver' isn't just going to honestly detail how they stole the work. Surely an important part of the evidence is going to be what process was used to derive the work? If it can be established that an existing software package would produce an identical derivation surely that would be an important part of the evidence. Without understanding the processes of transformation (i.e. the spinning process) it may not be possible to accurately gauge the likelihood of the work having been derived versus a coincidence. This all seems to be firmly in the realm of quantities to me.

> It's this technocratically warped world view that lies at the basis of the bigger part of misunderstandings about the legal field and how it relates to technology.

I think the 'technocratically warped world view' is based on the notion that the function of the legal system is ultimately to serve society - not the other way around. Given that technological change is the major driver of social change it will necessarily also drive changes in the legal system. Situations where ancient laws and ignorant judges determine cases represent failures of the legal system and the more it fails the less relevant and powerful it must become for society to flourish. Inevitably it will be the legal system that needs to 'warp' itself towards the technocratic one rather than the other way around. Of course what I'm talking about is a medium/long term trend. Anyone expecting this to happen in any individual legal case would be making a big mistake.
If you're right, the test page should work in FF. You could try it.

Step 1 and 2 aren't required - the field names are 'standard'.

Step 3 is what the test page does already.

Edit: It looks like the javascript used to generate keypresses isn't supported by Firefox:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/document.createEvent

var event = document.createEvent('TextEvent');
event.initTextEvent('textInput', true, true, null, char);

input.value = "";
input.selectionStart = 0;
input.selectionEnd = 0;
input.focus();
input.dispatchEvent(event);
Yes, but for the opposite reason. I usually walk away wondering why I wasted my time here when I could have been learning something or, even better, creating something.
I fear that what you're feeling is a dark side of the net's otherwise positive aspects. (It's not just HN.)

The net lets us see all the great output from the most talented writers, thinkers, doers of their fields -- including people who we could imagine to be our peer group. But what we see is not an accurate sample -- it's dominated by the most remarkable, outliers by both skill and luck. (That is, there's massive survivorship bias; see Taleb's Fooled by Randomness.) Still, if we choose to look, it's in our face every hour of every day, in our news feeds, our Twitter streams, our Facebook statuses.

(Compare also: the quality of social networks whereby for almost everyone, your friends will have more friends than you [1]; the Matthew Effect, whereby small changes in initial endowment of power/fame/success can compound [2]; and how viewing top athletes can actually decrease someone's coordination in following challenges [3].)

In the plant and insect world, sometimes as one organism thrives, it sends off chemical signals that suppress the growth of its siblings/peers/neighbors, in an effect called allelopathy.

Information about others' great works and successes, transmitted by the net, may sometimes serve as a sort of memetic negative allelopathy. The message is: this territory is taken; you can't reach the sunshine here; try another place/strategy (or even just wither so your distant relatives can thrive). This can be be the subtext even if that's not the conscious intent of those relaying the information. Indeed, the reports may be intended as motivational, and sometimes be, while at other times being discouraging.

What to do? Not yet certain, but awareness that this mechanism is in play may help. You can recognize that what you're reading is not representative, and that comparing yourself against prominent outliers -- or even worse, vague composites of outliers who are each the best in one dimension -- is unrealistic and mentally unhealthy.

Actual progress for yourself may require detaching from the firehose a bit, picking a narrower focus. (HN's eclectic topic matter can be inherently defocusing.)

And remind yourself that despite various reptilian-hindbrain impulses, most interesting creative activity today is far from zero-sum. The outliers can win, and you can win too (even if you don't achieve outlier-sized success). Their success can expand your options, and they may wind up being your collaborators (formally or informally by simply participating in a mutual superstructure) moreso than your 'competitors'.

[1] http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundament...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect

[3] Can't find the reference at the moment, but the study I recall showed people video of a top soccer player, and subsequently they performed worse on tasks requiring physical coordination.
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In reference to point 2 and 'I've always been told I'm a smart kid and that I'll be a millionaire one day'

It's worth reading this recent thread and the comments.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/crywg/dear_reddit...

The post is entitled 'Dear reddit, did you believe that one day you'd all be millionaires, rockstars and moviestars?' - taken from the quote in Fight Club.
It raises some interesting points about how we are brought up to believe the dream is achievable and often it takes a lot more hard work than we originally perceive.

I personally wouldn't compare myself to anyone else. I've worked with some of the smartest guys I know from a technical point of view, but they have lacked in other areas such as ideas and execution.

(Often the best technical people neglect important things like marketing, design and user experience - expecting the 'amazing product' to equal success).
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MathOverflow's explicit purpose is to discuss research-level mathematics. First sentence of the FAQ: "MathOverflow's primary goal is for users to ask and answer research level math questions, the sorts of questions you come across when you're writing or reading articles or graduate level books." The discussion is really geared towards people doing research, or trying to. I'm a math grad student, and I find much of it hard to follow. It isn't really the place to go to learn math.
The gapingvoid comic line comes to mind: Never compare your inside to someone else's outside.
If you continue though at some point you will encounter math at a lower level and now seem like an expert at that much more than before because you pushed yourself to understand more of the boundaries of human math understanding.