skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computers are not social - they are oversized counters.

Networks are not social - they are mediums to carry what counters produce.

Groups of people can be social - but if they use less expressive way of communication (read: words typed as text without the body language) then these groups of people are less social, not more. And uttering a phrase "social network" thousand times will not change this reality.
Been shopping for a martial arts school for the exact same reason - seems like a great way to add variety to what would otherwise become a dull workout routine.
and has moved on to club racing: http://twitter.com/dhh/status/20155491804
You might have read it that way but I don't think that was the author's intent. In fact, the Zonda has gone out of production (twice so far), so the only way to get a new one is to order one custom.

Not that "production" versus "custom" means a lot in such a low-volume car.
Can a company really support two brands? When you think Google should you think Android or Chrome OS? I know I'm confused.
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Ok Digg is having a hard time. I feel like I witness a strange blood thirsty tone in some of the comments though. I wish Digg the best and I hope they can prove all the skeptics wrong. It's going to be tough though!
Try thinking about the issue before you go to sleep. This has worked great for me, often I'll awake to a keen sense of understanding what I was thinking of, although a few times it has resulted in keeping me up for hours frustrasted with neither sleep or understanding!
I've got nothing to do with the OP, but what sort of filtering and categorization do you think you'd use? By cuisine? Ingredient?
Fantastic. Though what Mercurial needs even more than Matt's full time attention is a really good forge. Bitbucket just really doesn't hold a candle to Github (and codeplex is pretty unattractive for anyone not a microsoft dev).

It's a genuine problem (for me at least) when starting a new project - bitbucket (-) and Mercurial (+) or github (+) and git (-). If anyone from github is reading this - please consider first-class Mercurial support. It would almost definitely be easier for you to do this than for bitbucket to make up the gap.

(I know lots of people prefer git, but Github already has that market pretty cornered. There is an opportunity among those who prefer hg.)
For such web services, what is the average/peak load on the network? Is it a bottleneck at all? Are the networks over provisioned?
Everything is fixable. It's just a question of time, process, testing, re-testing, etc. Is it always worth it? No.
Only virtual matter.
The cadence reminds me of a certain character from BSG. You tell me:

Kara Thrace and here is their website and buy this product again and again and I'ma let you finish but Beyonce had one of these days I'll bet your life on the road today and they are nothing but another form of therapy for these patients is not known whether these are the only ones who can not afford to pay for their own users and groups to their Friends / Favorites list yet.

That was... trippy.
I agree, it sure is exhausting waiting in line at all the trendy Chicago bars and seeing DHH whisk up in his sports car of the day, a different model on each arm.
I understand how these things go, and the need for non-disclosure, but I would love to know who is suing who here. I put Tomato on every router I install, because when I do that, those routers NEVER require a restart.

I would love to know what hardware NOT to buy. Please, somebody tell me it's not Buffalo Wireless.
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> I'm not sure a company that still survives more on the wishful thinking of investors

Unless you are owned by a larger company that runs you at a loss as part of their strategy. Or stragedy.
Yes. Although Newton did lose out on notation. Leibniz had the better notation for integrals and differentiation at around the same time.
Most of the world is not Reddit ;) Which is to say, I rarely see people on Facebook talking about Facebook. In fact, they are more often than not talking about... life things.

> "it's artificial when it happens at the same time when real communication is in place already but people turn to their twitter or whatever"

Yet... even before smartphones, before you could get lost in Facebook or Twitter on a bus, people still weren't talking to each other. The fact that we are placed in a situation with great social potential, yet do nothing about it, is hardly the fault of this technology we've created. It's not as if buses and trains were the hub of social affairs prior to the invention of the mobile web.
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As many of the following as possible: cuisine, ingredients, type of dish (i.e. salad, meat, dessert), difficulty (of preparation), time (i.e. how long it takes to prepare it).

If I had to choose three, I would choose type, difficulty and time. Those three would be "must haves" for me, cuisine would be a "should have" and ingredients would be "nice to have".
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Ha! But what if it was the opposite and we are simply a cycle down the road of big bang/big crunch/big bang/big crunch/big bang where the speed of light used to be faster but is slowing each cycle because of lost mass/energy.

What if the speed of light was slightly faster or slightly slower, how would it affect the development/entropy of the universe?
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This is the same guy who failed to mention Merb in the Rails 3.0 annoucement? I'm shocked!
> I wouldn't for example want Nazi Germany to know that I am Jewish.

Then you can't afford to let the Weimar Republic gather records saying you're Jewish, not because they're untrustworthy but because collating pre-existing data (gee, thanks, IBM) is where the Nazis got their lists.
Looks really cool and very exciting to a foody like me. It would be nice though to have more details about the recipe structured into some of the posts. Some pics, titles, and details barely tell you what the recipe is... Maybe you can create incentives for some of your submitters to add the recipe and get entered into a recipe DB as well. Best recipe can receive major attention... etc.
I've been watching Harald Welte's tweets about attending a court hearing over this:

Today I learned in court that removing a module using 'rmmod' has nothing to do with the #linux #kernel ;) lol. [1]

but AFAIK noone yet knows the specifics...

[1] http://twitter.com/laf0rge
less expressive way of communication (read: words typed as text without the body language)

Are books less expressive than in-person communication? I'd say they're differently expressive.
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The talk was recorded, and the video will be made available (once it's ready).
I think this site will succeed or fail based on the quality of the food images. I would recommend you look at how opensourcefood.com cultivated high quality images from their community. If a low standard is set, I don't think there will be much you can do to make the site valuable.
It really shouldn't matter what you use or how long you've been using it for if it works for you.

I freelance and find these types of billing/time management applications to provide a service that is invaluable to me. I can more accurately bill clients and easily keep track of the projects I'm working on because they tend to have things like built-in time trackers and integration with popular apps that perform other functions (e.g. project management) that excel doesn't. There is no way that I can do this without a lot more effort with a simple office suite. Alternatively, if I did use something like excel to keep track of these things for a month or two, I've now got to slowly migrate to some other alternative or find a way to input that kind of data into my new choice of app, and that's time wasted that didn't need to be. If you know you're going to do this, you may as well start with what you're going to use. I've switched apps mid-project before, and it was a huge pain to the point that the next time I switched to another app, I was stuck using both the old and the new until projects were finished, just because of the migration hassle. (For the record, the first one was a billing/invoicing one, second was my business to-do.)

On the flip side, I know people that keep track of these things in spreadsheets, they've done this for years, and that's their choice because they like it that way. I can't stand it. Whatever works for you.
For those who think it's because of skin protection. See below.

"Sebum Secretion and Sebaceous Lipids", Stewart et al, Dermatologic Clinics -- Vol. 1, No. 3, July 1983.

Sebum is an oily substance that is secreted onto the skin surface from glands located in the dermis. Although a number of useful functions have been proposed for sebum, proof that sebum performs any of them is lacking. In furred mammals an essential function of sebum is to supply 7-dehydrocholesterol, which is converted to vitamin D by the action of sunlight and then ingested by the animal as it grooms itself. In man, however, the location of 7-dehydrocholesterol has been shown to be the epidermis rather than sebum. Sebum may act as a waterproofing agent for fur, but humans obviously have little need for this function. Kligman has specifically disproved the notions that sebum improves the barrier function of skin, that sebum helps to regulate the water content of the horny layer by forming emulsions with sweat, or that sebum on the skin surface is fungistatic or antibacterial.(21) Kligman regards the human sebaceous glands as 'living fossils' that lost their usefulness to our species as we lost our fur.(21)

(21) Kligman, A. M.: The uses of sebum? In Montagna, W., Ellis, R. A., and Silver, A. F. (eds.): Advances in the Biology of Skin. Volume 4. Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1963.
Wikipedia has a good interpretation:

[Those] buffalo(es) from Buffalo [that are intimidated by] buffalo(es) from Buffalo intimidate buffalo(es) from Buffalo.
Digg was something else before?
I'm no match for this Joakim Bugge character who has recently cranked out 4 new dishes!

In all seriousness, I would at least provide a way to broadly tag dishes according to ethnic influence/price of ingredients/or time to prepare.

From here, I would personally prefer a slider to browse through the dishes rather than scrolling down a seemingly bottomless page.
Every time the challenge du jour pops into my head before sleep I just end up thinking about it for hours. And not sleeping. It's tough.
Meaning isn't necessary, and randomness is still information. The computer science definition works well for physics, too.
I think blind people would disagree with your hypothesis.

There are many ways to socialize. I prefer some, but other people have vastly different preferences. If you're connecting with someone else on a personal level, I don't see how that's not social.
Really? negative points . . . ?

Well, you opened with,

I'm guessing you've never tried to live on $12.50/hr.

I consider this aggressive and personal. Rather than stating your position and evidence, you've attacked the credentials of anyone who disagrees with you. Aside from the fact that it's naive and almost certainly false (there are folks on this site from all walks of life with all kinds of experience and opinions), it is distracting. I do not care at all whether someone has the particular credentials you think are necessary to comment on the topic; I care only about what evidence and experience they do have.

Above all, I want to hear about ideas, not people. If you speculate on people's motives or qualifications (especially if you're suggesting downvotes are the result of disagreement or censorship), or any time in general that you attack the person of other commenters, you won't interest me. You'll annoy me. And unless you say something particularly redeeming, I'll probably downvote the comment.
You are so right. I have been in the space for 15 years. Started my career at Netscape and kept going to smaller and more edgy startups since. The most stressful episodes happened at dead-in-the-water memories like RealNames and OpenHarbor. Let's put it this way though, I have learned and I am proud to say that I am now a sustainable contributor. I can keep going for a long time but there will always be something crazy about working in any entrepreneurial setting that is both my engine and a best that has to be tamed or else...
"Taking in a brainy podcast at the gym combats that feeling."

Similarly, I find watching TED videos while lifting weights (at home) is a nice combination.
the place around the corner from me is around $1.10 a pound

The pricing is based on weight? It seems to me that the time it takes to fold a pound of clothing varies dramatically based on the type of clothing...
Looks ok for a first effort, but check this site out: www.mycookingdiary.com My wife loves it, it has great, large photos and a cool navigation system.

Anyway, I clicked on one of your ads, so at least you will make some money.
> The Einstein field equations are non-linear, so gravitational energy is itself a source of gravity.

Non sequitur? I mean, non-linearity is not the same as feedback. Linear system can exhibit feedback (and still stay linear), and non-linear systems do not have to exhibit feedback.
no, it's just the 4 exhaust tips collecting into one outlet
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Note that Medical Hypotheses is not the most rigorous journal.

For instance, they have published the following conspiracy theory article: "President Kennedy’s death: A poison arrow-assisted homicide" http://www.medical-hypotheses.com/article/S0306-9877(10)0016...
You make a fair point but it's still creepy to me. I guess partly because I'm becoming paranoid about exactly what data Google is collecting. I know exactly what Facebook has on me. The other day I was about to do a Google search and actually stopped and thought about it for a second because the search terms I was using were not something I wanted recorded and linked to my account. It occurred to me I might be seeing some really strange ads in the future if I put those search terms into Google. I ended up using a different search engine.
That definition would probably work. Have a look at Feynman's lectures on computer science. He also investigates how much energy has to be used for computing. (Or to be more precise, how much entropy has to be created.)
I don't know if it's gonna steamroll, but the senior mgmt at my enterprise workplace are twisting arms in the IT department to get iPads OK'd. The problem for IT is that we already have the infrastructure to support Blackberrys, so it would be a pain to also support iOS.
Hopefully Rim will hurry up with their tablets.
So what's the digg story here?

I get that some VP suggested a new buzzwordy technology, they gave him enough rope to hang himself and he did and left the company with a broken pile of crap. It could happen, if you have a healthy company you give trust to people. That it got this far doesn't speak well of the rest of management. It doesn't speak really well of the rest of the team either. Shouldn't there have been some circuit breakers or something?

Digg isn't a poor, bring-your-own-laptop startup. They've got resources, they've had substantial investment. They can afford to build and test software and I know of no real marketing reason they had to push something untested out. Rose could go out and say it wasn't done, it's going to take more time.

How does Rose keep his job? Wasn't he this VP's boss?

And it's single technology? That couldn't have been vetted and tested independently of all of digg? Really? And MongoDB, or hadoop, or one of the dozens of other nosqls wouldn't work, either? You do what you have to do and there is never a 'truth' with VPs and CxOs are canned, but it all doesn't float with me, just looks like another over valued and under talented company, got lucky and the blind squirrel found the nut, there isn't gonna be a second act.

Maybe it just seems low brow to me, name and finger the guy, blame the opensource tool you use, never explain or elaborate why you launched anyways when you were fixing bugs in the tool at the 11th hour.
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I'm currently on my third SaaS offering at some stage of development (Appointment Reminder). The first two got shelved prior to launch after I lost faith in their individual business models during development.
Go and read the article. It is absolutely about oppression. Not necessarily overt (although go and read the TechCrunch comments and be horrified), but it's still there, and still happening.

> OK, that's an argument. You're doing it right...

Yeah, that's exactly the sort of stupid, patronising attitude that causes the problem in the first place. I'll just point out that neither you or Kiba have introduced any evidence in your arguments, that you don't even know what begging the question is, and that someone arguing rationally would have instead pointed out all of the areas in IT where women are treated fairly or overrepresented, and leave it at that.
"We could if we all worked on one-man projects where you are the only one that reads the code that you write. The reality of the situation is, one day someone else will need to understand and modify your code."

Please don't patronize me. I'm fully aware of the fact that I'm working on a team of developers. They even work in the same room as I do.

Secondly, my argument is about 5 miles away from the argument you are arguing against. I'm arguing about organizational issues. I'm not saying that any developer needs to be able to be "incosiderate" all he wants (whatever that means). Guess what? Some shops do well by being agile. Some shops do well by not being agile. Some shops (if you can find them) do well by using Haskell. And there are a ton of shops out there that don't. What I'm getting at is that just because something didn't work for you in your particular situation doesn't mean it's bad.
I think you must mean Tony Robbins.
Avoiding “magic strings”
Me too. For a little while it feels productive and nice because I often have good ideas, but then after half an hour or so, I want my brain to shut up so I can sleep.

A friend of mine told me she has a similar issue and has a special meditation that she does in bed to wind her brain down. I should email her, but if anyone has ways they deal with this issue, I'd love to hear them.
Yeah, I wasn't quite intending on putting the business into park and then going fishing for the next forty years.
I've been using CrowdFlower as an interface to MTurk, and it let me exclude specific countries. Your point about the secondary motivation is unfortunately valid, though.
I know plenty of entries from the Node Knockout competition that fit this description perfectly. I wonder if Mozilla was inspired by what they saw at Node Knockout to put this on? There were a bunch of high-profile Mozilla employees judging.
If you can't see it, ask your manager. Or your manager's manager. Or someone who is actually using nlp or stuff like that. Or just grab a (any) book on psychology.

But of course, if somebody doesn't want to think on it because I offended his beloved toy for communicating, he will tend to argue endlessly instead. That's one of the most basic human behaviors: everyone is justifying what he's spending time on.
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If you want to ride an "unrideable" bicycle, try a flevo bike (like http://home.ultramagic.net/bicycles/knakker/). It has a giant joint in the middle, instead of steering bars.
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But is it quicker to charge every customer the same rate per lb of laundry than to spend time analysing the laundry or ask your customers to pre-sort? I'd say yes.
In the case of EverNote, dont you have to take the step of actively capturing what you are doing in order to make it remember it?
Maybe it's just because I'm hungry, but I really like this site. The only thing I didn't like was the infinite scrolling. There's something psychologically unsatisfying about a page you can never reach the bottom of. I much prefer the steady progress of a "next" button.
I absolutely do not think about stuff like that before I sleep - I try to spend at least an hour winding down with a book and peppermint tea or something similar.

I do however think about tough issues when I'm half asleep in the morning, reaching for the snooze button. (Sometimes it's counterproductive, making me want to snooze more to make the world go away, but I reach some surprising insights here - and then crystallise them in the shower, of course!)
Ask HN: Should HN provide more RSS feeds?
Hi,

I had the feeling that since the last summer, the number of posts has been increasing dramatically, so I checked the stats on Google Reader: 890.2 posts per week!!!

I honestly have no time to read all of that (and 70% is.... too specialised), but I also need my daily HN.

I think it is time for more RSS feeds: would you like to have the "homepage links"/"most popular"/... feeds?

Do you agree? Better Idea? Please share your voice to solve this issue.
Welcome to nobody cares what you think about their hobbies. Population: 6 billion.

That's one thing we have in common at least.
Digg's put out a lot of information about their Cassandra implementation, eg https://nosqleast.com/2009/slides/sarkissian-cassandra.pdf (from November 2009).

Back then they seemed to have a rather sensible migration strategy (ie, basically running the new Cassandra back-end in parallel with the MySQL backend).

It seems to me that it was the v4 upgrade that broke, not Cassandra alone. It's possible their frustrations with Cassandra were more long term, and the fact the v4 upgrade didn't go well was the last straw.

For example, Digg has done a lot of work on Cassandra internals and tools. If you are using a new, open source product you kind of expect that, but it's possible the expense of that didn't seem like good value once v4 started to get into trouble,
> They are planning to transition to Cassandra as the primary database.

do you have a source for that ?

> it is used as a makeshift k-v store

That is very true, they should switch. It just seemed like they had no plan to do so.
> While I’m sure Schmidt has the best intentions here, it’s probably time he got a PR person or maybe even a friend that can clue him into the fact that statements like “We know where you are, we know what you like” can come off a little creepy

So he should get a PR person to rephrase that statement until it sounds good, but no one understands what it really means? I fail to see how that statement could be rephrased and TechCrunch doesn't offer any suggestions either.