skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can also look over the NYTimes archives for an inconsistent treatment of the word that has replaced 'fuck' as the ultimate obscenity -- the 'n-word'. Sometimes when it's part of the story, they quote it; other times (and increasingly in recent years), they use indirect euphemisms, as I have here.
Ask HN: Build a HN website with the higher rated comments only
With my startup getting more traction I don’t have the time to read through the comments despite the high quality feedback. I found over time that reading the first groups of the highest up voted comments tend to be the best contribution in most cases anyway. There are sometimes still some jewels in-between, but for me not worth reading through all the comments.
Would be nice if there exists a website aggregating the HN topic/article & the higher rated comments only. Anybody builds it I would follow.
How Google Cost Me $4 Million
I wonder how many of you that fail to see the transfer of knowledge or "teaching" as the real web 2.0 revolution are out their building the next "social" whatever. From the comments it seems pretty common.

Facebook and farmville are the ghettos of the social media world, playing to the same audience feelings that Jerry Springer did in the 90's. Remember, we all watched that show back then. The real force in social media is what it will do to teaching, and 37Signals is recognizing this in spades.

Instead of professionals transferring knowledge to schools and teachers to transfer into the student; diluting it, by default, they can now transfer knowledge directly, for better or worse.
An aggregate theory of any sort has two separate pieces. The first is the definition of the aggregate. The second is a a reduction of the more complicated system to a simplified one based on the aggregate, i.e. showing that theories based on the aggregate quantity are sufficient to predict the world.

I'll make the analogy to statistical physics again. You can always define the average temperature and pressure in a vessel. One can come up with simple calculus laws, such as PV=nT and make predictions(remember high school chem?). Sometimes that's an oversimplification, since temperature and pressure vary from place to place within the vessel. Sometimes you can't even use simple gas laws and need to revert to newtonian or quantum mechanics.

The belief of Austrians (and myself) is that for the most part, the simple calculus of aggregates is an oversimplification and hides important details necessary to explain the world.

One example: you can make a two-sector model of the economy, say [housing, everything else]. In this case, demand is a vector, say [housing demand, other demand]. The demand shock is in housing, and that's where a lot of the unemployment lives (there is some unemployment in "everything else" due to knock-on effects). It's fairly clear to see that stimulus will have different effects depending on whether it is a housing stimulus or an "everything else" stimulus, and that stimulus can mostly only help with the knock-on effects.

A theory based solely on aggregate demand is completely incapable of recognizing this, since it doesn't even have the variables to describe it. The AD theory simply studies AD=housing demand + everything else demand, and tries to go from there. If, for example, housing demand = alpha x AD, and everything else demand = beta x AD, an AD-based theory would be very useful since it would just hide unnecessary complexity. If that isn't the case, then an AD-based theory hides necessary complexity and gives the wrong answers.
you can vote on http://nodeknockout.com/teams/celestial-being if you liked it
I think this story is actually about Max Klein. The TechCrunch pickup, the villager are all story avatars. Another HN commenter found out that he writes video encoding software, along with a franchise of profitable information iPhone apps. It is a pretty powerful idea - build what people are looking for - but not as a software soldier-of-fortune but as an owner.
That's strange. While some boys were undeniably competitive (mostly athletes, where they're expected to be), on the whole, my observations growing up were that girls were viciously competitive, following the maxim "it's a small world, so use your elbows a lot." They were also often cruel to each other, and in any case, keen to establish explicit hierarchies of social popularity and dominance. I am not sure they were in it for authority or power or respect per se - psychological desires often attributed to men - but they were definitely aggressive and competitive.

Most men I knew, meanwhile, easily made friends with each other, were not particularly standoffish, and tended to work together to achieve common goals rather effectively. Sometimes there would be a little bit of healthy competitive dynamic, but almost always within the context of a universally acknowledged, healthy group effort.
link to that example for-sale page from the homepage, or show some kind of example there. from just reading the text, it's not clear at all how it works or looks.
Trying to run a Fortune 500 company like other Fortune 500 companies is a bad idea.

"Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders." Is more than just picking the right people also it's noticing when your companies business is heading for a cliff. Unfortunately replacement CEO’s tend to be better at networking and golf than realizing the company’s pension plan is unsustainable.
Business Writing for the Web: 27 Ways to Write Better
All business writing has one goal and that’s to persuade someone to do something. Whether you’re writing a blog post or sales copy, you want your audience to act. Persuasive writing can often be the most difficult type of writing, especially when the average person is barraged daily by a never-ending flow of information.
If you listen to Sal's talks or read some tesimonials, you will find it is a very real part of education already. I hope the work of Khan Academy keeps growing organically on its own merit and is not institutionalised in anyway.
Data analysis recipes: Fitting a model to data
For those of you unfamiliar with beer, I'll rephrase this article in terms which might be more familiar to you. Hopefully you'll have the same "wtf?" moment I did.

We had people place five cars on a perceptual map. The five vehicles consisted of four medium sedans and one pickup truck. When branding badges were removed, we found that people tended to lump the four sedans together on a perceptual map, while placing the pickup truck off by itself.
Tech will change but the core of computing science will not. If you haven't done this already: Immerse yourself (even briefly) in the fundamentals of comp sci with Java, database structures (RDBMS) and healthy amount of maths. No matter the platform, I always seem to revert to what I learned back then.
This is very nice. Would help if you used colours on the buttons, moved the button at the top-left so it wasn't touching the edge of the window, stuff like that. Black everywhere is not the answer ;) But it's very usable and does what it's supposed to.
Great. Thank you ;-))
reflog is a pretty neat demonstration of the power inherent in the way git stores data. The backend is just a giant bucket of changesets, and then constructs like branches and tags are pointers into that bucket. You get free undo because git keeps a list of what the HEAD of the branch was each time it changes, so you can rewind by moving the pointer back to where it was. Of course every time you rewrite history (like rebase does) that orphans a whole line of changesets which have been superseded by the newly rewritten ones, which is why you need to (or git needs to) "garbage collect" periodically. Once an orphaned line gets pushed off the end of the reflog, changesets only referenced by those old HEADs can be deleted.
Not only does his beer come from a grocery store, he doesn't travel at all. I know my area (western Montana) is saturated with microbreweries, which translates to all manner of craft beers available on tap and in stores... but I've never been anywhere I couldn't at least get something from New Belgium or Deschutes.

Granted, I've spent my entire life on the western side of the Rockies, and I can imagine places where you can't get anything but lagers and Guinness. I just can't imagine never seeing even Sam Adams on tap.
OT, but this tendency of marketing droids to noun "spend" (as opposed to "spending") drives me absolutely insane...
Wow, this screams "Philanthropic PR stunt to get people to forget they hated us for killing net neutrality with Verizon."
I don't think Diaspora's goal is to topple Facebook. I think their goal is to offer an alternative, and I think they'll succeed at that.

Perhaps the media-invented goal is to topple Facebook, and I do think the Diaspora team is very likely fail at meeting objectives that they themselves have not set! I have never heard the founders say that they want to topple Facebook ... but maybe I wasn't listening closely enough?
Ask HN: What are the best iPhone startups out there?
I am doing a startup myself, and want to check out what's already there, can you give me a list of a few good ones?
We're not really a case study of that situation. There isn't one person who's clueless asking another person who's very knowledgeable.

We're all knowledgeable, trying to clarify our experiences and make them fit with what other people have experienced.
I think there's a corporate equivalent of godwin's law. "The chance of a company turning into a bank is proportional to how big it is".
One of my goals is to use this app as the foundation for some free online introductory programming tutorials. Unfortunately, I don't have much free time right now to pursue this goal; but if you're interested in getting involved, please email me!
Here is an interview with Khan done at Mixergy. Awesome guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQtXHp5wXLE&feature=chann...
See this is why your CEO needs to be technically competent to some level. If they are hiring and setting the vision for the entire company, you can't build a good product if you don't have the basic technical understanding yourself.
Monads in an Object Oriented context
I'm glad it worked for the restaurant; that's why I said "most" companies.
They killed net neutrality? When did the bill pass? I must have missed it.
Shoes, clothing, make-up, houses, boobs, boyfriends, husbands... you name it. Women are just as competitive as men.

Something the article did not mention, that I have found to be true. We tend to collaborate with people we trust and fiercely compete with those we do not. Two women may get on fine together (no fierce competition only friendly competition) but two who dislike each other, will not get along and will try to outdo the other... just like guys. So I'm not sure it's 100% gender that determines the situation.
What just occurred to me is that I've never really needed a debugger using Python. Maybe it's just the problems I've been solving with it, but the runtime reflection capabilities of python help me catch most of the sort of bugs that I'd use a debugger for in C. (Which happen far less in Python anyway since I spend so much less time manipulating variables.)

So I think that's probably the reason why they're less common. With scripting languages it takes a lot longer to reach the point where you start searching for tools to make your life less painful.
The best part by far was the canvas where you could draw/write messages [to your younger self].

I especially liked how the birds flew in and rested on the drawn lines.

Also, this is a fantastic album.
I had a great time! Node KO was fun.

I've learned a lot and loved the opportunity to have an excuse to gather my brother and friends from other nearby cities in my apartment for coding and hack on ideas that fills my archive of notes-that-wont-see-the-light-of-day…

Our entry is this one http://umeboshi-fireteam.no.de a communication server to be used by web-apps (and webpage) developers that want to distribute the UI control elements over multiple (mobile) devices. Make sure you check out the examples :)
Around here (Tampa Bay) even the grocery stores carry a small selection from local breweries and quality national offerings like Dogfish Head.
So all these different 'book sites are going to send javascript decryption code with their pages? And how exactly would you prevent one from just stealing your password or being modified in transit?
This does not seem very useful to me. I read my feeds by using Google Reader with Firefox, and middle-mouse clicking on any link that I want to actually read. By the time I've opened a few tabs this way, the first of them has loaded.

In fact, my tabs are even displayed along the left and grouped properly (using tabkit)

Why would I want to use prldr?
Landing Page Teardowns for Conversion Increase
Alcohol is a toxic industrial solvent. People drink it for the mild euphoria it brings. This is undignified and advertising provides social cover. Behaviour not much different from glue-sniffing is advertised into being grown-up, sophisticated, manly, adult, a reward for hard work, the drink of heroes,...

First the article takes the idea of beer drinkers appreciating different flavours at face value and then rebuts it. Drinkers are claiming to be appreciating the various different flavours, but actually they taste they same. That surprises me. I think it would be easier to spin a taste-bud romance around alcohol if the flavours were more various.

Second the article suggests that advertising is "creating" the different tastes and tries to draw a wider lesson for other products that one might advertise. I disagree with drawing any wider lesson. Alcohol is a unusual product such that the purpose of advertisements is especially covert. The advertisers are not fooling the drinkers into tasting differences that are not there. There are colluding with users in providing a shiny social sheen on a product that would otherwise offer only a guilty pleasure.
The reason Javascript won't do the trick is that in order to send the correct Javascript, the server needs to have all the information necessary to decrypt all the content anyway. So there's no point in the encryption at all, because the information will pass through the server unencrypted at some stage and can be captured.

If this were implemented as a browser feature or plugin, machines with the user's key information installed would be the only devices capable of decrypting the content sent by the server.
I'd like to run my business out of the back of a pickup
Yes, and I wasn't talking about one's income, but success at one's "work". The "achievements you can be proud of" will mostly be in the area of what you "do" since most achievements you can be proud of take a great deal of time and, as you say, "working harder", or they wouldn't be a source of much pride. What you spend a great deal of time working hard at is, for the most part, your "work", what you "do" at that stage in your life.

>"I think it's been established beyond doubt that a successful career doesn't make you happy...[very limited] correlation of income to happiness...."

Dan Gilbert's work, applies to "achievements you can be proud of" in general, not just one's income, so if you think it's relevant, then you can stop worrying about working harder. It won't permanently raise your "baseline happiness". But Gilbert's work, and the work he cites, is only "established beyond doubt" in the popular press, not in cog sci, where there is still a lot of wiggle room left and a lot of debate going on.

I like Gilbert's work overall, though, and it is one of the reasons I am expressing skepticism about the validity of the deathbed wish for "less time at the office". It might depend on how narrowly one thinks of "career" or "at the office" or "working" (I mean it more broadly), but if Gilbert has shown anything, it is that we seldom know how a given change really would make (or have made) us feel after a while--we just think we know.
I think electronic medical records is going to help equal out the amount of women in IT type jobs. At the place I work now medical billing/EMR implementation there are about 40 women and just 3 men.

And yes the women all talk shit about each other constantly, and few get along genuinely.
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I don't see how a movie review can be founded an argument so vaguely articulated. What does it mean to "celebrate consumerism" if not glorifying the purchase of things while simultaneously discarding the old irresponsibly? That doesn't happen in the movie! Where is consumerism bring celebrated? Where is the movie doing a bad thing?
Smart way to combat some of the recent PR trouble they've stumbled into with what clearly falls into the investment diversification category.
My interest in this topic remains purely academic, but part of the barefoot resurgence is about using "shoes" that are little more than rubber wrappers around your feet, allowing natural motion but also protecting your foot. I have 0 experience with these, it just sounds like you might be interested. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1603650 is enough of a link to get started.
Also, if it helps, rails tutorial ( http://railstutorial.org/book ) is updated for version 3. This is a pretty good resource when you are just starting out with rails.
Worked fine on my Macbook Pro, the fan didn't even come on.
The Wilderness Downtown: A future of Internet Music Videos
This is the most evocative use of APIs I've ever seen.
So the women in your example compete to see who can have the best boyfriends and husbands and possessions, right? While the men compete to see who can do the best job, run the fastest, hit the hardest, and win the football game or finish the job or beat the other guy at pool.
Not being based in the US, I can't help but wonder how this sort of thing fits in with labor laws in Europe.
If you would try and screw your previous partners and your users, well, you would have not problem screwing over a tiny startup.

Zuckerberg's moral compass is set on "WIN."
This is precisely the kind of hype we ruby devs do not need. Many of us are just ordinary people getting work done.

Unfortunately, there's no warning of bad language. Keep volume low ... several F-words.
Indeed. I don't disagree with any of this. Perhaps I didn't phrase it well, but my parenthetical was intended to convey what you said in your comment.
This is the most evocative use of APIs I've ever seen. The power to make art personalized is something that is very hard to do over the internet in an interesting way. I enjoyed this tremendouslyh.
It does not matter if Disapora "fails." It's a really important problem they are working on and as long as they release some code and it gets people thinking and talking about how to solve the problems surrounding secure distributed systems it will be time and money well spent. I look forward to seeing the code they release and what they were able to accomplish this summer.
Adams has a point about using pool in schools to teach the correlation between effort and effectiveness.

His experiment might have interesting side effects. Number of hours spent practicing isn't the only variable that affects skill - it matters what type of practice you do. The kids who practice deeply and push themselves to the limit of their abilities will see much greater return on their investment of time. The kids who just mess around won't get that much better.

It would be interesting to see the look on the kid's face who spent 100 hours practicing over the course of a year, after he gets beaten by the kid who spent 50 hours practicing. I wonder if he'd understand the concept of "intentional practice", or if he'd just be humiliated.

Just another example of how easy it is to measure the wrong thing.
Ebert's reviews are useful because they relate, roughly, to how normal, thoughtful people watch a movie. They aren't an academic exercise in critiquing Art. Most people outside of academics in the field of critiquing Art aren't interested in that.
White Bull takes a snapshot of Europe’s hottest tech companies
Venus Needs Some Austrians
Did you go to Mado? I just bought a whole pig through them and was considering the butchering demo. Worth it?

(I f'ing love that place).
Building strong brands as a Product Manager
$6/hour is a very high rate for a virtual assistant in the Philippines. I pay $4/hour for skilled web/graphic designers and programmers, all with at least 4 year degrees, some with masters or higher. For virtual assistants/data entry/data mining, I pay around $2.50/hour. That works out to $400/month for virtual assistants, $640/month for designers/coders. Even better, my team is in Cebu, Philippines, which enjoys a much lower cost of living than Manila (think Atlanta vs New York City), so this money goes even farther for them.

For those of you outraged by those numbers, consider that a typical nurse in the Philippines will make $120/month, and a doctor will make $300-800 (http://bulatlat.com/news/4-37/4-37-sick.html or http://doktorko.com/_blog/index.php?mod=blog_article&a=1...). The president of the Philippines earns $1000/month (officially, that is).
3.0 only. Most plugins are more or less compliant already.
Machiavelli for Our Times
Takes minutes to load, CPU at 100%, form over function; aren't these all the same critics Flash receives?
OT: Was this the Great British Beer Fest at the Earl's Court Exhibition Centre?
I can not find it, but I have seen a C to brainfuck compiler. Don't ask.
Bio-medically purified urine to… Whisky?
This reminds me of an article I came across on HN a couple of months ago:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/american...

"Why is crime rising in so many American cities? The answer implicates one of the most celebrated antipoverty programs of recent decades."
Zingermans is amazing (it's one of the three things I miss about living in Ann Arbor). But I'm chiming in here to add that Zingermans doesn't just host random events; just like Jason Fried, Zingermans teaches workshops on "how to be like Zingermans". The Marion Street Cheese Market down the street from me in Oak Park went to one, and are rabid disciples.
Documentary on Andrew Wiles and Fermat's Last Theorem
I’m actually quite proud of having implemented the scoring client-side. It helps keep the load on the server down. Looking up all possible formations is somewhat computationally intensive.

It does create some problems when some clients have high latency and don't detect the formation in time, but I think it's fixable. One way could be to make the computation redundant, e.g. get three pixels to do the detection instead of one, and consider the formation valid if 2 out of 3 of them report success.
It's great. I wish there was something like this on higher level subjects. The pace of learning when sitting in a lecture is depressingly low.
Absolutely. I don't mean to come across as harsh, but simply to provide my impressions as constructive criticism. I think the idea is really neat, since it can give you a chance to showcase some of your skills in a resume-relevant manner, but it does need to be executed really well to work right, IMO.
The "email" line in your profile won't display, ever. It's basically only there in case you lose your password.

If you want people to be able to contact you, you have to put some sort of contact info in the "about" section of your profile.
We do have some great breweries in Montana. I think Blackfoot and Bayern are my favorites.
We do open-enrollment training at Matasano for appsec issues. The advice ports to us. I can't be the only one here for whom this article resonates directly.
I'm not sure how to paraphrase what he said about "hard-wiring" but it all rang completely true to me, as the parent of a 10 year old boy. The differences between boys and girls don't have to have value judgments attached to them, but the differences between them are far more than simply cultural.