skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one except you really cares if you said something [..] rude

I don't think that's true and I think that it shows that you have never actually broken off an unwanted conversation by being honest. If you do that and, for instance, say "I'm sorry, but this conversation really doesn't interest me", people will feel insulted. You are forced to beat around the bush.

[or] stupid or pointless

The fact that you yourself care about those is enough. You don't want to feel forced to say stupid or pointless things.

There are two ways out:

1) Be interested in what people have to say about certain subjects and steer the conversation there. Those subjects have to be general enough that everyone has something to say about them. Sometimes you turn out to be annoying, for instance when you are cross-examining someone about why they are happy with their lives.

2) Accept the fact that people will think you're weird or an asshole. Me, I just stay silent when there's nothing left to say. There's nothing wrong with silence. When the silence lasts long enough, I turn around and walk.
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks (The Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Why is it so important to you that Google is evil and Apple is good? That's why Apple is like Big Brother. Fanatical, unreasoning devotion is a key component of Orwell's dystopia. Google doesn't have that.
See: http://www.virginamerica.com and http://www.virgin-atlantic.com
Achieving Personal Goals (The Crazy Story of How We Built PlentyOfTweeps.com)
Ask HN : How is everyone's YComb application coming along?
I think it's okay to take a break from the coding and getting your prototype functional to say how things are...
Graphing Your Emotional Life
Employers push rising health-care costs onto workers
Writing isn't doing? I think J.D. would be surprised to learn that he makes a living by not doing.
"first thing in the morning as needed I have a 15 month old daughter"

I UNDERSTAND

I have a 24 month old daughter and she is attacking me as I typo these wor .';;= =-p3r=0oi, m \weprkg!!!!!!!
I'll admit there's a really powerful bias against Roma as charlatans, hucksters, con artists, etc. Some of it is well earned, some of it is a survival response to centuries of racial discrimination and segregation.

However, I've personally been approached by several Roma over the years feigning some debilitating and crippling disease only to watch them hop up and run to their ride at the end of a day working the local tourist spot.

But I think France's response to the Roma is unfortunate. As an American I'm intimately familiar with the downward spiral racial discrimination can have on a group. A people tends to reflect back the treatment they've received. Turning that around can take generations and instead of rounding up camps of people and force migrating them out of your territory, integration activities will have a much better end result.

There are plenty of Roma throughout Europe who have managed to make the jump to integration and are productive members of society. But there's an unfortunately very large population who, as an insulative survival measure, live on the edges of society and siphon off whatever they can from the dominant civilization as they can. France's actions only justify that kind of behavior. When you never know if the winds will change and you'll be rounded up and kicked out or worse, you tend not to want to get too close.
If they get bought up by some other conglomerate before they've been able to bring themselves to pony up the lawyers fees to give you equity, they make money and you don't. If the other conglomerate has their own programmers and their own preferred way of building things, you quite possibly still find yourself looking for another job.
Ask HN: The best place to find Angel Investors for web apps?
I manage a web application design company and we focus on building web apps for 'productivity', for example:

- Freelancers and small business

- Getting projects organized quickly and easily

- Invoicing and getting paid through PayPal

- Collaborating with small teams

- Self-Publishing for websites (letting clients manage their websites)

We have gotten so far with the apps, but now we are hitting various brick walls after getting coverage on lots of great blogs, seeing big traffic spikes, but now it seems like quite an uphill struggle to really 'hit the big time', without significant capital behind us.

So investment at this stage might be a good idea, to help fund a big advertising push - but then again it might not be so I'm welcome to your ideas.

Thanks.
Stu

http://www.haloweb.co.uk
build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy

One of the lessons of running Woobius is that, at least where collaboration software is concerned, in order to make money, you need users to use it, but you also need managers to buy it. So you kind of have to do both really well. I like challenges.
Does this work on DOSBOX? because I'm really interested in the project and want to deploy it on my linux boxes.
Writing a web app is doing. Writing a blog post about writing a web app is talking.

I don't know J.D and I don't know the blog. If he makes money off of talking about doing, good for him.
Tutorials and Resources for Creating Facebook Style Interface
In this post, we bring you tutorials and resources for creating facebook style interface. This round up aimed to help Web designers and developers who want to integrate Facebook-like features into their websites and applications. Below, you will find scripts, jquery plugin, mootools plugin, photoshop tutorials that are typical for the Facebook user experience.
past experience shown that data in XML and CSV formats are the easiest to extract and make sense from.
this: http://userstyles.org/styles/28042 helps me.
Not sure why it was posted, but intro amd64 assembler code is frustratingly rare.

I've just started learning assembly, but my main platform is FreeBSD/amd64 so none of the basic tutorials run on my machine. 99.5% of such code is for i386, and 99% of the unix code is for Linux. I set up a FreeBSD/i386 jail for running the few basic intros for the platform, and I've been using a CentOS/i386 VM for the tutorials in that platform.

This link brings my personal count of unix amd64 assembler "Hello, world!" pages to three. While I don't think the submission is really noteworthy, I am glad I caught it here.
Connection go
I couldn't agree more, and add one to the folks who've been in the "when we become revenue neutral". The funny thing is that in my case, the entire company bought into the founder's line on that (well, only about 12 people), because none of us had done a startup before and we didn't know better. In any case, that's not how it works in the startup world. There's a reason why over the years, companies adopted vesting schedules.

edit: I should add that in my case, the stock options were left out more out of ineptness than maliciousness. Either way it's a bad sign. The company imploded after a year and a half, but not before one of the employees mentioned the options in a disgruntled tone. In short, we wondered if the founder really cared about our contribution.
>> "I'm the only programmer"

>> "all of the founders (CEO/CFO/COO)"

>> "no equity"

WHAT? Quit. Now.
[..] do you like being ditched?

It's not about liking, but about understanding. I'm often not interested in talking to someone. Because I'm pretty regular, that means that other people often aren't interested in talking to me. That's just a fact of life.

Was it really nice to meet them?

Autism alert. Such expressions are not meant to be taken literally. As a kid, I used to worry about not raking together the freshly mown grass well enough, because I was asked to rake together all the loose grass and the damned stuff kept slipping. That wasn't perfectionism, but something closer to autism: not understanding that 'raking together all the grass' was in no way meant to imply I had to even try to get all the grass. I used to get into arguments with my father about me being unhappy with my job of washing the car, because it wasn't actually completely clean. If you have such a problem, now would be a good time to start identifying these situations; it'll save you a lot of trouble.
IT in the Age of the Empowered Employee
He also wrote a book: http://www.amazon.com/Your-Money-Missing-J-D-Roth/dp/0596809...

I tend to agree with you, though.
"Just as a point of clarification, I believe that marketers who send out millions of emails are bad people."

Better be careful who you paint with that wide brush. I know marketers with legitimate opt-in lists of 250,000+ people. It's not how many emails you send -- it's about making sure that you're sending those emails to people who want to receive your emails, and who have opted in to do so.
Are you claiming that the Upper-West Side is only white? Isn't that a kind of racism? Minorities can't get rich and own houses in a fancy part of town? She might be the only white person in her building for all you know.

I suspect that many perceived racial biases are more class biases. It's interesting that you chose places with people of different skin colors as her theoretical avoidance zones. I suspect she'd be just as unlikely to hang around in poor white areas as well.
Top business Apps for BlackBerry
Extra points for the function call:

X(c, h, e, s)
Interactive Map of Where People are Moving
4.5M to 6M uniques sounds extremely high for a personal finance site.

P.S. According to compete.com, his site gets 300K uniques per month - http://siteanalytics.compete.com/getrichslowly.org/
First impressions of the Viewsonic Viewpad 7 Android tablet
N non-coding MBAs (N>1) plus 1 software person is usually an antipattern, even if the technical person is an equal founder.

The possible exceptions would be if the MBAs bring giant domain experience, prospects-ready-to-buy, or enough funding to pursue a larger/longer-term vision (with a salary and extra tech staff).
would you mind re-pasting the beautified code from the locally saved source? there are characters missing in the pasted blob (notice the italics.)
PG says that silent banning is the best way because trolls might keep going for awhile after being banned in that case, doing no harm because they're banned. But if they know they're banned, they'll just create another account.

I'm not saying that that's the best solution. A mefi-like $5 cost to join might be better, but then a) PG has to implement the payment stuff, and b) some people will complain about us charging nontrolls to get accounts.

It's possible that there could be some system where if, say, 5 people with at least 200 karma will vouch for you, it's free, but then there's even more complicated code that needs to get written, and people will complain that you can only join HN if you pay or are part of the "in crowd" that know lots of HNers.

I actually think that could work really well though. If for the first month/50 karma, those people were supposed to moderate the sponsorees comments and give them feedback on what they're doing well and what they're doing badly, we might have a lot fewer complaints about all those noobs that are ruining our site.
Further examples of charming behavior starting at comment 3 on this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/c...
Question answered above: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1666304
Just curious, why the downvote?

My house is very old and has large walls so 3G is out, and the kitchen is at the limit of my WiFi router... so, for me, the connection requirement is a no-no.
As a marketer myself and someone who advises small business owners on this, you're far better off calling them than emailing them. First, with the right phone script, you'll get a much higher response rate. Second, you don't risk getting your email list account dropped because you bought a list and your subscribers didn't actually opt in to receive YOUR marketing messages.

This especially applies in any "non-techie" industry such as the one cited (hair dressers). Non-techies are far more likely to hit "Report Spam" than to find the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each message.
Cash is not going to disappear but rather 'digitalized' and 'decentralized'.
I used to get repeatedly trounced by "Video Chess" on the TI-99/4A. Don't know how large that game was, but being from '79 it couldn't have been that large. Not that I was (or am) any good at chess -- if I fired up that game under MESS today it would probably still trounce me.
Current Startup Ideas  In My journal
Of course not Ender. It's just a game. Just a game.
That's probably the marketing part of being rock star programmer.
To skip the 3 line interstital blog post: http://ai-contest.com/
I definitely looked at this and went I just saw that identical article.
Http://www.openwall.com/john/darwin
That seems like a very narrow concept of "doing" which presumes that writing is an unproductive activity.

This may be true for programmers (whose most productive work is generally unrelated to writing), but is untrue for writers.
Under the circumstances (which have been well covered in other posts) I wouldn't offer them a minute more than 2 weeks.
Programmer feel-good quote
My sleep schedule usually becomes "normal" on vacation. I'm not much of a hiker but being outside 80% of the day seems to do the trick for sure. But I don't go to that from getting up at merely 10AM (which I'd consider normal myself) I just got up at 6PM ;-)
Most people go to bars with friends, not slight acquaintances, and have fun in-depth conversations, not pointless conversations. Most of the situations depicted in the cartoon are the result of unintentional meetings.
Perhaps someone should look at modifying this for a 4k competition with good AI and all of the movement rules.
It's basic university math, yes. But very few people are currently taking basic linear algebra, so it's nice to have better documentation.
Working on fixing reality. That's the first order of business. No point if reality is broken. Learned that the hard way. 120,000 lines of code, 6000 downloads and 3 fake emails later. Programming is not the problem.
Is there any place where the game's rules are exactly given? I'm particularly interested in how the growth rate and battles work. The Python package that I've downloaded contains no such info.
like the style of it ;)
APML - Attention Profiling Markup Language
Unseen colour video released of London blitz
Why Java at 92th place in Google AI Challenge?
Any guesses why in the ranking of last Google AI Challenge, the first Java code is at 92th place?

http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/rankings.php

After all its most popular language on earth.
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
I was struck by this quote (in regards to Rio Tinto): Until last year, China was trying to buy more of the company

As far as I know "China" does not buy things. Their government, maybe. I'd like to know if a Chinese government entity or connected company was truly involved in this. If not, the reporter is speaking carelessly...
Something like this will work (ActiveRecord):
Customer.find(:all, :include => {:orders => {:order_lines => :product}})

Pretty trivial, and loads all the needed records in a single query.
So the CEO is also micromanaging you down to lines of code off the internet. Leave as soon as you can. Start looking for jobs today.
Chickens in the Burbs
All I'm saying is that Big Brother is a stupid analogy and that it can just as swiftly be applied to Google for its obsession with collecting personal data with their free services. This ultimately damages customer value because it commits them to pushing inferior web app experiences that must be downloaded from scratch each time a user attempts to access a particular service.

I am not for strong accusations and name calling (and I deliberately didn't mention Google by name in my original post), but evidently you have no problem making this personal. If you look over this discussion, you're the one affixing labels on everything (including me). I have no commitment to maintaining intellectually impoverished rhetorical positions. In my opinion, such positions are ruining the discourse. I still don't understand why free and open-source advocates try to brush development, security, privacy, usability, compatibility, and monetization issues under a rug. Can we not fix a price to those elements? Are we so extreme that we can't accept that there are tradeoffs inherent to the system, and that approval doesn't have to necessarily equal malevolent control?

In tech, if we don't appreciate--and point out--the nuances of different kinds of relationships and different stances regarding privacy, cost, and experience, then ultimately we lose as entrepreneurs and developers because we don't see the next big thing coming, or we overvalue something that consumers are not necessarily interested in. Equating app store approval with Big Brother doesn't help anybody, and it deliberately slants the discussion.
Patriot missile software failure, 28 soldiers died. Fix: reboot the system
I think it is easier to fix the argument (change the mosquito for a dog, or if needed change it for your car) than to fix the preconception that the moon really affect us so much.

Now, if we simply observe the changes that the menstrual cycle inflicts on women's mood, then this is something real and with a correlation (depending on a different phase of the moon for each women), but it is not because of the moon, it is because of hormones.

In every case, the myth is busted.
POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT: I'm giving my answer below.

I'm going to say the balance reads 1kg. Since the setup on the right is in stasis, you could easily remove one of the weights and anchor the string to the ground and remain in stasis. You would then be recreating the setup on the left (equipment anchored to ceiling) except the string is just being redirected by pulleys. Since each bend in the string is 90 degrees you multiply all the forces by 1, still giving you a 1kg reading on the balance.

Thinking aloud about why 0kg and 2kg don't make sense.

0kg: the spring in the balance is going to stretch to some extent because of gravity pulling the weights down, so 0kg doesn't make sense.

2kg: I'm not sure how to disprove this one except by saying that I'm so convinced that 1kg is the right answer that 2kg doesn't make sense either.

That's my reasoning, anyway.
I live in NYC. The Upper-West Side is predominantly white, affluent and liberal. That was my point. And there is no chance in hell that she is the only white person in her building.

As for her disliking poor whites, I have no doubt that she does. Rich white liberals love to promulgate policies that harm poor whites, such as race-based affirmative action and illegal immigration.
Not a very good one :-) I just got to checkmate in 6 moves!
It's 1014, though.
I find that "out the door within the hour" extraordinarily unprofessional. I wouldn't want to work in a situation where people think throwing someone out on their ass without collecting documentation, checking up on projects, and generally tying up loose ends is a good strategy.

It just sounds like an extraordinarily petty and ineffective way to deal with losing a team member.
Many articles have been written about this: don't ever accept a counteroffer (google "counteroffer" to find them). It is generally just a way to delay your departure until they can quietly find your replacement, at which point they will fire you. And you don't want to work at a company that only treats you fairly when you threaten them.
Why your prospective customer’s view of the world is more important than yours
If you find another position, take it. Don't try to use quitting as leverage to make things happen - even if you stay on, your actions will always be there, lurking in the background.
Ask HN: How to generate interest/traffic for my open source projects?
Just wondering what methods people have found success with for generating interest/traffice (read: usage) in their free and/or open-source projects/tools/etc? It seems like simply contributing to an existing, relatively popular project can be a little tough sometimes, as far as getting people to review/read and merge your patches, etc... it's often that much harder to generate any usage of a brand new project, and nothing is more de-motivating that writing something 'for the community', and then have no one use it... thoughts/suggestions/pointers/etc?

(shameless self-promotion: the current project I'm talking about is http://github.com/sandbender/antistink ... it's intentionally left as-is in a Minimum Viable Product/Alpha state, not because I don't want to spend time polishing it, but would rather spend that time on other stuff if no one is going to use it except myself anyways :s )
That was exactly my line of thought.

Another way to see it is to look at what the spring-balance feels. In the picture on the left it feels the lower rope pulling down with 10N, and because it is at rest it feels the upper rope pulling up with 10N. In the picture on the right it feels exactly the same forces: 10N pulling on one side and 10N pulling on the other side. So the reading has to be the same.

Yet another and perhaps the simplest explanation is that you pick up the left mass and you don't hang its rope over its pulley, instead you just hang it in mid air. Now we just have the rope hanging over one pulley, with the mass and the spring-balance on the left and the other mass on the right. Because everything but the masses is massless it's still in rest, and the situation is exactly the same as when the rope was attached to the ceiling instead of to the other mass.
Isn't that an 'egg and chicken' type of problem? You can, after all, learn self-control / to defer gratification.
Have you patched your uxtheme.dll and are using a custom .msstyle? I'm guessing the default font of your theme may have an impact.
How to appraise a developer (part 2)
I would post this question on a UK based forum. You'll get a better response. State side there are a lot of angels. The Pasadena Angels group funded some deals like this.
IPod Touch Has a Vibrating Motor For Facetime Calls
Don't underestimate the small-mindedness of the news media.

Why was the iPad over all of their covers? Because they think it's their salvation. Yeah, Jobs is good at PR, and yeah, it's a reasonable cover story, but why was it the cover story?

Why is craigslist the trumped up bogus sex scandal?
الْعِيْد صُبْحِك وَالْهَدِيَّة حُضُوْرِك
I think the commenters so far are missing the point. This isn't a money-less society, but a cashless society. The money is based on American dollars, but soon they expect no hard cash to be changing hands.

I don't mind the idea of cashless society, as long as there is some way to allow for anonymous purchases.