skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would a Jew describe Hitler positively? She could say he was out of his mind, and that would tell you that she considers Hitler's actions out of this world, even for the most evil - but still sane - person. That would tell you she is very understanding even of nasty people. OTOH, if she says is he was very cruel, that would say that she considers Hitler's action in the realm of human behavior. Whatever she says, that will tell you something about her.

The article says that "a person’s tendency to describe others in positive terms is an important indicator of the positivity of the person’s own personality traits". It doesn't say you only tell good things about others.
If you want an affordable, quality place full of capable, motivated people, not to mention the headquarters of the Kauffman Foundation... Kansas City is the place.
Rails 3 Internals: Railtie & Creating Plugins
It would be nice to have a score associated with the results, similar to Y-Slow. I don't expect at the early stages that you would provide guidance on how to improve, but showing my score vs. average, or best or something would be beneficial, so I know how badly I need to improve.
Ah, the usual gigabit / gibabyte confusion!

Your mission is to decide which is what.
Honestly, I don't think the iPad becomes truly useful for a couch surfing thing until iOS 4 is released for it.

I started out using it with a bang, but the flow of iOS 3.x was no where as smooth as just using my laptop. Reading in Safari, switching to email, switching to the iPod, etc. it's still clunky and mildly frustrating.

Also, my fingers are getting fatter as I get older, so I'm constantly tapping the wrong fricking thing which is uber frustrating.
That's the point I'm making!!! Why is everyone down voting and not bothering to read?!!?!

"People attacking AppStore policies in the context of a browser exploit is as relevant as a "malicious app" that reports having access to your contact list, "stealing" your data through a Wallpaper that you manually install and grant access (ie, last weeks "debacle")"

AKA, NOT RELEVANT. Hence the sarcasm. Whatever.
It looks a lot like how Greece was looking a few weeks back. (Probably still is looking in all likely-hood)

Most of the national debt is written off, public services are cut or re-financed through printing money which has the nasty side effect of inflation and then eventually hyperinflation.

Here's some examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#Examples_of_hype...
Wait a minute. You are talking about the one that's somewhat slower and lacks a camera or the one that you have to hold in a certain way to prevent dropped calls? ;-)
“I was disappointed that the iPhone wasn’t... a phone that ran Mac software.”

What? I admire Dave Winer’s idealism, but really?! Would anyone else enjoy using the full Mac OS X interface on the iPhone? (Ignoring the iPhone’s performance and power limitations, which negate this possibility.)

Does he really want a phone to run applications that were designed for much larger screens, with mice and keyboards?

If you know how to write a Mac app, it’s not a terrible leap to write an iPhone app. If you want compatibility with Mac apps, look for iPhone apps like OmniFocus, Things, &c. that have been retooled for a mobile use case. If anything, the iPad comes closest in this regard, with some of it’s near-desktop-class apps, e.g. iWork, OmniGraphSketcher, OmniFocus, OmniGraffle, &c.
[0] is awesome, thanks. I encounter a lot of stop energy, and unfortunately sometimes it works on me. I need to just ignore it.
"Top Mobile OS"?

Is the iPod Touch not "mobile"? Consumers think it is. And both versions of the iPad certainly are mobile.

If you're comparing platforms, compare platforms. If OS, compare OS. If you're comparing smartphone models, compare model to model.

Don't compare a platform to a model and pretend you wrote anything to be taken seriously.

Here's a more interesting pair of apples and oranges:

1. Verizon Wireless maintained its lead in the carrier market with 33 percent. Followed by AT&T with 25 percent.

2. RIM accounted for 28 percent of commercial smartphones activated in Q2 2010. iOS accounted for 22 percent.

That makes it seem 92% of commercial smartphones activated on AT&T are iOS, leaving 8% for the RIM, Android, PalmOS, Symbian, Windows Mobile, etc. (You can make stats say almost anything...)

These stats make it seem as though people walk into an AT&T store with choice and walk out with an iPhone. What might happen if they could walk into other carriers with choice?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopussy_(character)
Does that factor in interest on the debt?
If you think your job depends on qualified interviewer anyway, good luck. This guy just learned a tip which hopefully will help him get a better view of a candidate.
CardMunch Aims To Solve Business Card Overload
It's true that individual contributions are limited to $2400 as of 2010. See the FEC restrictions:
http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/contriblimits.shtml
I would like to see more about the specific restriction on direction corporate contributions, as I wasn't able to find a reference to it.

However, because the free speech of an individual or corporations must be protected, nothing stops a corp from paying thousands of people to shout praises from a rooftop, either about a specific candidate or just a divisive campaign issue. Because money can fairly easily be translated into free speech or the opportunity for free speech (the attention of the public) it is very hard to effectively regulate. The best that has been done is regulation around the edges that require campaign commercial disclosures. Lately, even these restrictions have been called into question as well:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1228056...
How Electric Cars Will Screw Tesla
Good article.
Anybody with personal accounts from Iceland?
Even with iOS 4 I think multi-tasking will be crap. Copying and pasting from a web-page to an email is a real slog. The power of multi-tasking comes from having multiple windows visible at the same time and this will never happen.
I rarely list the contents of my S3 buckets so I'd probably never notice this.

Send them a message on GitHub, perhaps?
Market penetration has little relation to overall quality. Apple has always been happy with a smaller slice of a huge pie.

Macs have outsold individual PC makers since ever. In the end, though, there are so many PC makers that Macs have a small market share. The same is happening here - a dozen manufacturers agreeing on commoditizing their software and differentiating in hardware will, eventually, relegate Apple's exclusive platform to a very lucrative, but relatively small, niche.
The meaning of life (on celebrating mortality)
Sounds much like a self-congratulatory piece by one of the architects. It fails to address what makes this house special though, considering that passive houses have been build for at least 5 years in Belgium and that the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands is considering only issuing building permits for passive houses come 2020. There are various forums for Belgian private home builders to discuss the technologies used and although it is not standard yet, there are many passive houses build or under construction (using PV panels, heat pumps (air and underground), heat exchangers for ventilation, blowerdoor tests for finding air leaks etc.).
> The research did not factor in enterprise/corporate purchases.

So Android beat RIM's OS when not factoring in most of RIM's market.
I don't know, but Boston is C++. Its mixture of hacker culture, hyper-IQ academia, and classical puritan social values is sort of like implementing closures with template metaprogramming and special #ifdefs everywhere for compiler backward compatibility.

It's puritan social values plus academic liberalism plus nerds. It is backward compatible but not strictly a superset.

Comparing cities to programming languages thread GO!
People might start bartering, i.e., doing business without involving government-backed currency.
Cheap punches at Android's flashiness with no details or actual complaints? Check. Endorsing Apple's review policy for magically making apps better, which is of course silly. Check. Refusing to understand that companies make money on OSS and that Google even competeing with Facebook is better than sitting there allowing them to grow as an advertising competitor. Check.

Why did I read this article?
> deny all of the science behind breastmilk benefits

I don't think I have done this. I have linked to scientific studies, and meta-studies, that indicate that the benefits are not clear and that more research is needed.

I think that you have denied all the science behind breast-milk not having significant advantages, by posting FUD about GlaxoSmithKlein being linked to all of those studies.

I'm not sure if you are picking up on the difference between association and causation.

I have not said that formula is better, and I don't believe it is. I think that the current dogma around breastmilk being worlds ahead is not justified by the scientific studies.

I am happy to change my mind and apologize for my truculence if I see the scientific data that the benefits are significant, causal, and proven. Got any links?

> significantly downplay a known medical condition as nothing more than feeling embarrassed.

No, I didn't say that.
Flipboard obv. Pulse also (both iPad apps).

FT Alphaville is an interesting startup-style product from the FT - their Markets Live daily chat is quite cool.

But yeah, I think you're right - it seems quiet. What you thinking?
You could add a spring-loaded rod on the bottom of the car that would be triggered during a wreck. The rod would fire down and flip the car over.
I too agree to donate half of my net worth to charity.

United Way: Please send a check for $25K to Sallie Mae on my behalf, and we'll call it settled.
I like this rebuttal, a lot. I will say, having lived in California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Kentucky (not in that order) has made me realize this: culture counts for a lot, the internet is prolific, and calling any large American city a "technological backwater" is a farce.

A lot of people = a diversity of ideas = culture = innovation. New York has a lot of people and a lot of culture, quite a bit of innovation has come out of that city; California (as a whole, not just the Valley, I live in SD right now) has a lot of people and a lot of culture. The same can be said for Atlanta, Dallas, etc...

I will note this difference, though: much of California's culture embraces the leading edge more than it's east coast counterparts - computers and the internet is the leading edge; the internet is an agent of social reform and change, technology (computers) is the vessel through which widespread social reticulation is delivered. Therefore, I do not think New York is a technological backwater; but I do think the people in California/Portland/Seattle can be more progressive and this is why the west coast is carrying the torch.

Small disclaimer: I've been to New York but I haven't lived there, my conclusion is derived much more from intuition than actual experience.
It's not the overall 'Top Mobile OS', it just happened to be the 'Top Selling Mobile OS Last Quarter'. Big difference.
> Do you really check for directions while on phone calls often? Perhaps it's just me, but people don't call me for directions that much.

No, but people do call me and ask me for feedback on an email they just sent, and I'm able to look at it. They call me and ask me how a stream looks. And I'm able to play it. They call me and ask me if a web page is suitable to share with a client. I check and say it is.

I work online. People call me about things that are online. If I'm at my desk, I'm using a landline. If I'm away from my desk, I'm not by a computer.

So yes, my most common multitasking use case on my mobile phone is to look at something online while on the phone.

While I can do that on Android on AT&T, I can't do that on Verizon.
Good read. This and others like it in the recent past have made it abundantly clear to me that my future doesn't lie at Google (except through acquisition). Still sounds like a great place to start, though.
When considering that the national debt is directly related to inflation, this"$600 billion" might not be, as it is "their net worth". The public debt is $8.63 Trillion and this pledge could reduce that significantly, boosting the dollar and reducing the debt increase rate a corresponding amount.

On the other hand, maybe I don't understand what I'm talking about, and if so, please correct me.
This cool to see yet I am very interested per recent debate here who buys more apps. Android or iPhone users?

I created a poll if you too are interested please vote on this poll http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1571592 or heck create your own and get it to the front page. Im very interested in this data as a iPhone and a possible Android developer.
And where do they learn the "why" of all this?

They don't. That's the problem with the school system. Likewise, you seem to be so focused on skills that you can't even question anymore why those skills are necessary, or even worthwhile.
I like this one. You know, get pumped up to deploy new code. http://www.xbo85.dial.pipex.com/wavs/rumble.wav
Might be worth setting up a git hook to scan your commits for sensitive data.

Of course you'll need to include that sensitive data in the script, though the first few characters of AWS credentials should be unique enough.

I thought about setting up something similar for networking. If a packet contains my password in cleartext then pop up a warning allowing/denying (denying would have to force the connect to close, I guess). Might be too much overhead though.
But if they're providing an alternative for printed books, why can't they provide the same alternative for the Kindle?
Palo Alto is not in San Francisco. Look at a map. Comparing New York City to Palo Alto is like comparing San Francisco to Burlingame.
What? In normal English, value and worth are nearly the same thing. In economic English, value is worth, usually spoken of relative to other worthwhile things, but not relative to price. So I don't understand you at all.
This is why it's so important to breast feed. Every time someone discovers something like this, it gets added to formula in a couple years, but it seems like every month something new comes out. Who knows what formula is missing that we just don't know about yet.
San Diego isn't that rough; it's only rough if you aren't in the "scene". That said, if it isn't your thing, then I could see why it wouldn't work out - Las Vegas was rough for me because my personality didn't fit in with the "scene" there.
"This statement of yours sounds like an avowal of ideology (an ideology that's sadly all too prevalent on HN), rather than any sort of argument in favor of capitalism or against communism."

No, it's a reflection of Economics 101, really. You simply can not replicate the amount of information in a price in a centralized system, it's actually impossible.

Walk through the first few chapters of http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Price_Theory/PThy_ToC... . No, seriously, do it. The first few chapters are very basic and if you can just wave them away as "ideological" then we're done here anyhow. Prices contain a lot of information and no central authority can match it. They especially can't match it if they believe prices are a moral issue and they ignore the basis of them in the first place.

"Are you saying that "favored central government cliques" and violence aren't possible in capitalist systems? Even a superficial look at a model capitalist country like the US will reveal their presence."

First, the US is not a model capitalist country and has not been in a long time. The idea that the US is some sort of unrestricted capitalist paradise is propaganda, not fact. Second, your logic here is terrible. When I say that the only outlet for advancement is one or another form of violence in a centralized system, therefore I am claiming that in a capitalistic system it is never a form of advancement? If you're not even reading my actual points and you're willing to bend what I'm saying that hard, or you can't even see the grievous crime against logic you just committed, that's not even worth replying to.
Confounding, External/Internal Validity
Ironically, most of my startup ideas are the result of 'grit' developing activities.
So you think Apple would outsell Android if they licensed their OS, not a chance. If Apple customer's compared features and not style they would be out of business
What about Boston in this whole discussion?
Yup, symlinking config files after deploy is the approach I use. Thanks for the Cap task to set things up; at the rate I setup new projects, manually copying those files was getting old :)
The problem with the new design is it looks like a logo I'd see on a squatters page. Relatively bland. Not really linked to the site.

The original logo, while not extremely attractive, at least lets me know, "OK, this is really about bingo cards, there's a bingo card in the logo. Not just someone who got the name to the domain."

If I hit the new logo, I'd probably retype the URL or go back to a search engine to make sure that I was at the site that I intended to go to.
The Almighty API, Crawling and the Programmable Web
Wouldn't publishers already be doing this as most ebooks are physical books as well? I don't see how the format printed to (ie. physical book vs. ebook) matters. Its not the responsibility of the physical book printer to manage the handicap experience, I don't see why it should be Amazon's.

(provided of course that accessible options for the information is provided, which apparently was the case)
In this regard, Chicago trumps all. Chicago is to New York, as New York is to SF. Normalize this graph for population and you'll see what I mean: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/06/where_are_all_the...
A strong work ethic definitely matters to getting what you want, no matter what it may be, but you need to reorient the ethic to benefit yourself first. When I work for somebody else I work hard and do the best job I can, as long as I am there, for my own benefit. Among other things if you get in the habit of being sloppy or tardy, it tends to spread to other things you do, and they are hard habits to break once you let them get established.
Url shortened links get autokilled because they're popular with spammers.
Teach a man to fish....

I'd MUCH rather that they pledge to donating half of their wealth to economic development. We are in desperate need of investment capital here at home. Wouldn't that $600B be better spent investing in alternative-energy and other high growth fields?

We've given these folks huge tax breaks with the idea that they'd reinvest that money in our economy. The article is somewhat light on details about where this money ultimately ends up, but I firmly believe that it's best spent helping tomorrows billionaires (all over the world) get their start.
Counterpoint: The article's point is that these 24 year olds with "respectable degrees" but no opportunities should create their own opportunities.

Sure, it may not come with the creature comforts of a management job at a large corporation, but you're also your own boss. I know a lot of people who can't or won't put a price on only answering themselves.

To recap: Yes, a degree makes you more employable, but there's more to prospering than being a good employee. Especially as the corporate structure is figuring out that there are too many cogs in the machine.
Something I would never expect Bruce Wayne to say!
They most likely are. The body copy limits the discussion to "commercial smartphones" which is a subset of mobile phones which is a subset of mobile devices.

My first point is they're comparing things which are not like.

My second point is that either their stats are suspect or the other manufacturers better start paying Verizon, Sprint, et al., to keep the iPhone on AT&T.
I think Lessig would be in favor of this. What he's proposing now is a more practical compromise that is less likely to be ruled unconstitutional.

Practically speaking thought, how do you regulation how campaigns are funded? Ultimately a campaign is just a bunch of people talking to each other, which translates into free speech. Constitutional guarantees of free speech and the 14th amendment make it very difficult to restrict how a company can influence an election.
First off - good for you for trying something. Thanks awesome.
Takes a lot of guts and hard work to put something out there so hats off to you for that.

As far as feedback, I think the Take a Tour screen is begging for a picture or something to show me at a glance how it works.

I would try to add more pictures to the site as it is currently all text (at least what I saw). Even it is just a piggy bank or something - show me how I am going to save money. Or make me feel the pain.

But I think a picture would really spruce things up.

Good job though. And good luck!
I totally agree. I should add that I was surprised merely because in my head, I had this notion that Japanese people were mostly hard working and true to their crafts, before I had entered Japan.

To add, young Japanese people also don't have the option of being an entrepreneur, because that notion is still widely shunned by society. So they toil in misery for many many years without escape.
I always have trouble wording it in a way that doesn't convey that logic.. I just mean there's much more resistance to go through to vet your idea, for better or for worse. The NY tech community has a lot of the same personality as the HN community - just because you are a part of it doesn't make you less likely to succeed without it but it's great at providing guidance and critique.

I hope that clarifies, I still haven't found a great way to articulate it appropriately.
> Buffett says the rich should pay more taxes

Easy to say for a guy who built his wealth starting with an insurance company, which uses government regulation to make most of its money. Wealthy people put their money into the insurance company because life insurance payouts aren't taxable but estate taxes are. Then Buffet's insurance company gets to invest that money in low risk bonds to get basically free money before paying it out. This only exists because of insurance company lobbying - it only adds friction to the system and wastes time and resources, while insurance companies get rich extracting money from the system. This is how Buffet built much of his starting capital.

Then he keeps most of his earnings in the holdings company, and only occasionally pays capital gains. The guy's gamed huge loopholes in the U.S. tax system his whole life, and then has the audacity to say that "the rich" should pay more taxes? Physician, heal thyself.

Edit: Reply instead of downvoting? There's a bunch of not commonly known facts in this comment and it's getting some downs, a non-fact progressive viewpoint is getting some ups... that's got to be the most disappointing thing about HN lately, the trend towards up/downvoting based on politics and not content in a comment.
We're too busy coding and working on our startups to comment. ;)
> all signs point to the fact that formula is not an equal replacement in certain key ways

That's a much softer position than "the fact remains that it is scientifically proven that breast milk provides numerous health benefits over formula. If you were fed formula, you have, on average, a higher risk of everything from a childhood cold/flu to asthma to leukemia." and one I could agree with.