skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, is this one of the crappy ones or one of the good ones ;) ?

I don't think it'll ever go into a museum, but I'm hoping there's some value in there for people :)

> The funny thing is that it is unpredictable, what will be appreciated and what not. Sometimes I fire off a 10 minute blog post and it gets retweeted for days or even weeks after, and sometimes I work for hours and hours on something and nobody cares.

Isn't that the strangest thing? Yeah. Consistency of output leads to results.

> I see the 'lower grade stuff' as taking a break from the other stuff whilst still keeping busy. Sooner or later you find yourself engaged with more interesting things again, if you 'broke the routine' just because you're not doing anything worthwhile you'd find your source of inspiration dried up pretty quickly.

Great observation, this. I re-read it a couple times to get it down. Yes, even if the magnificent work isn't flowing, you keep going for inspiration.

> So keep busy, by all means, and fail often, looking forward to the gems. Like this one: http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/?p=95

Ah, cheers for the kind words. Didn't realize you read my site Jacques, gosh that pleases the hell out of me. By the way, I was so impressed by http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+start-up+from+hell - I won't say I enjoyed it, per se, I was cringing through a lot of it. But wow, what a story and learned a lot from it. Regular reader of your site as well, cheers for the kind words.
Several years ago in the U.S., many of the Religious Right-oriented media outlets complained of stores putting up "Happy Holidays" signs instead of the traditional "Merry Christmas" signs. Despite the fact that this had already been relatively common practice for some time. Nonetheless, the "issue" was created and lots of people decided to be outraged about it. Everyone else rolled their eyes.
Are you talking about "Somebody else's problem"? From the books: "An SEP [somebody else's problem] is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem.... The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot. If you look at it directly you won't see it unless you know precisely what it is. Your only hope is to catch it by surprise out of the corner of your eye."

Apparently, this term is now actually used in Psychology to describe actual phenomena, according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_elses_problem
What did he think of your app?
Thanks for the post! It's possible things have changed (I wrote it in early 2009), but I haven't upgraded iTunes or bought anything from iTMS since then, so I'm not sure.
It works to a certain extent in real life, but it won't work in BITS Pilani, until you find the right person or word it in the right way.

I am saying this because I actually over heard the management say that it isn't good for "business" if people thought x about the institute at the conference my mother forced me to attended, which is just... sad.

It isn't that their education quality is less (same texts; good enough teachers will give you the required amount of education. The rest is up to you). It's just that it is less likely to find free thinkers over there who are willing to speak out. If there are smart people on the faculty (there must be) they choose their battles carefully and in this case they would tow the managements line. If this was TIFR or IISc (I say this out of first hand experience) then it would have been fine, because they encourage such stuff and they would be delighted to find someone on the tail end of the curve.

Should I give you some advice as someone who has been through this?

Give them what they want.

Your professors are wise and follow their lead over here. Building a website is something trivial in the longer run and you have to pick your battles wisely. Spend the same energy in mastering this as it's obvious that you have a talent at work over here. Remember fighting with idiots tends to make you an idiot.

So, tread softly because you tread on your dreams.

Anyway, take care.
> 1) I had to Google this, but I don't think James Hansen was part of IPCC

Hansen wasn't the only climate scientist who expressed that point of view.

Also, the "jail them" sentiment isn't uncommon among the IPCC.

I'd like to see evidence that the IPCC scientists decried such stuff, or, better yet, the "beyond the science" proclamations, but I don't expect it because that almost never happens when science and policy are mixed.

And that's a shame, because policy is a place where we desparately need the best science. Instead, we get the worst science, reserving the best science for things that don't have much impact on human lives.
Analysing 5000 misspelled emails due to the iPhone keyboard
As a side note, I remember reading articles on this author's webpage almost 15 years ago. Some awesome stuff from a long-time netzen!

http://amasci.com
Software Engineer - New York, USA

Patch.com is looking for both front- and back-end engineers. I'm one of the back-end devs there, and my job is so awesome that I'm posting this of my own volition.

We're a rails shop that's really proud of our engineering team. Some of the things we built are:

* Sunspot - outoftime.github.com/sunspot - The most popular Ruby interface to Solr/Lucene for full-text search

* Template Streaming - github.com/oggy/template_streaming - Progressive Rendering for rails (which may become part of core eventually)

* HTML Namespacing - github.com/adamh/html_namespacing - This is some craziness the likes of which I can't explain in a text area

* Record Filter - aub.github.com/record_filter - It's like Arel++ for rails 2.3

Patch is a hyperlocal news site, but we're different because we have physical editors that live in the same town, covering it daily. We recently had (2 weeks ago) a media blitz where we opened our 100th town. Since then we've hit 130, so we're growing _very_ quickly.

We're owned by Aol but we have our own place in SoHo, which means great lunch options!

Telecommuting isn't an option, sorry.

Send me a message! tomc{at}patch
Agreed... the thing with League of Moveable Type is that the fonts are open-source, which is why they'd be perfect for Google's thing.
FWIW, Wen Jiabao is the more liberal figure and was pro-student in the Tiananmen Square protest. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Jiabao, "...and accompanied General Secretary Zhao Ziyang to the Tiananmen Square during the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests." Zhao Ziyang was removed from power and house arrested after the protest was crushed.

It's interesting to see how the governing-by-consensus-in-committee work in China, where each loosely formed faction having their representative in the committee. Even Wen Jiabao who was in the wrong end of a significant power struggle was able to become the prime minister later. Yet he's still unable to change the policies or reopen the Tiananmen case. It means no one faction gained upper hand and individual leader has little power. They have to get consensus from everyone else.
Matt Cutts: New startup someone should do
Indonesia, one of the poorest and most religious countries, is also one of the least violent (#57; USA: #24).
The MIT Guide to Hacking
Ask HN: Flattr on content sites
If a content site that pays it's writers a salary were to set up a flattr button (flattr.com) on it's posts, do the writers deserve a piece or does the site get to keep it all?
Newspapers are in decline in Europe, too. There's (almost) no Craigslist in Germany.
we integrate with GWO before there was Visual Website Optimizer or Optimizely. Believe me, i'd love to undo that decision.
It's harder to tell when you watch just 3d because eyes can adapt pretty well to low light.

I removed my 3d glasses while watching the Avatar to check how it looks. It was indeed much brighter and afterwards 3d felt quite dim (for some time, till my eyes didn't adapt again).

Brighter 2d felt right and 3d was dim as opposed to 3d feeling normal and 2d being too bright.

It's a bit like changing between good desktop LCD and notebook. If you work just on notebook, it feels perfectly ok, but if you have it side by side with a good monitor, it looks quite bad.
Jason Fried had a quote recently about proportion in design and the space between elements of the design. Although you have a minimal number of elements in your design, their arrangement isn't in the right proportion. It's not harmonious.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2531-great-proportions-melt-a...

There are a few other basic things that could be changed to make the site much more usable. As someone else said, don't break the back button. Ditch the scrolly boxes. You don't need them and they're unintuitive. Differentiate the links on the page from the rest of the text. Right now the navigation links are the same grey as the rest of the content. You have some red text mixed in there and it looks clickable, but it isn't.

You're off to a good start, it just needs some refinement.
Sad that the same personal demonization tactics of political campaigns are being applied to this issue. Schmidt can be in error without being evil.

Imagery that gets the 'Consumer Watchdog' group lots of emotional reaction and opt-in TXTs isn't likely to create the most reasoned, respectful discussion or public policy.

And, the effort spent campaigning for a legislated 'do not track me' list would be better spent promoting and expanding the sort of self-help that's already listed on this group's 'Privacy Toolbox' page:

http://insidegoogle.com/takeaction/privacy-toolbox/

These solutions don't require any congressional action or one-size-fits-all approach or national-database-of-opt-out-identities -- you can adopt them today, if concerned. Self-help can also keep up with changing technology better than a regulatory solution. And a campaign for self-help doesn't require anyone to send lawyers and lobbyists and political contributions to DC to make their case.
Mining social networks
Isn't duckduckgo written in Perl? Thats one huge application right there.
Top 5 Most Confusing Company Mascots
Mascots are a logical representation of what a given company is all about. With that in mind, we here at Weirdworm have taken the road less traveled and found ourselves some mascots that fail on multiple levels to actually make sense.
You'll be a happier person not knowing.
Totally different number of lines. Also Perl. 24 lines part 1 (OK, with some diagnosis printing) and 15 for part 2. (That includes use strict;/use warnings; and a few empty lines for both.)

For part 1, with 'time' got real 0m2.865s, user 0m2.780s on a T60 Lenovo/"IBM". I used a few minutes to think about the brute force, which probably saved me half the execution time.

In pure percentage of loss/earn, those minutes for three seconds was probably the worst business of my life... :-) You can take the C/C++ compiler from the old nerd, but you can't stop him from doing premature optimization. :-)
One does wonder, but we do have to factor in that this part of Harvard generally doesn't do tenure track, so his separation could in part be related to his knowing he was never going get tenure or his time was simply up.

Hmmm, I'll bet Harvard's standard separation package for these professors includes a non-disclosure agreement to not publicize their "system" and includes a nice consideration in return.

Anyway, my point here is that except for his not returning to formal academia and his silence over the separation there's absolutely nothing unusual here.
Most marriages are economically based, explicitly or implicitly. It's in the evolution instinct of married people to have the best environment to bring up kids, which means financial stability. Having huge debt would make you less attractive since you will make the union's financial situation worse. The other side being significantly well-off often mitigates the problem, so just look for rich people to marry if one is deep in the hole.
I don't see why this is getting any upvotes. This list isn't actually sorted from most common to least common in any way. It's just a bunch of random crap copied from Wikipedia.
Cars kills every minute, the car section should be shut down!
That's a good point. Interestingly, that religion is Muslim. But if we compare countries with similar GDP the U.S. is put to shame. Even Germany beats us for being less violent, and less religious.
I think you could be the Padmapper (http://padmapper.com) for events. It wins out because of its intuitive interface and nifty features integrated into the map.
I would recommend using gel pens (vs. ballpoint). These let you write on paper with a lot less effort compared to ballpoint, allowing you to write faster and without getting tired as quickly. If you don't already do so, you should write smaller (~15 words per line) and with very finetip pens, so you can cover more words in the same amount of time.

In high school, these were my favorite pens: http://www.jetpens.com/product_info.php/products_id/82
Designing for iOS - Forrst
I disagree about there being an ideal age (or, at least that it's 21 -- I'm not quite old enough to make a universal comment!).

Are there great things about being young (whether that be 16 or 21)? Sure. But there are a lot of great things about being older too, and it's easy to lose site of those things. I'm 30 now and I'm much more comfortable in my own skin now than I was even 5 or 10 years ago. Generally, I'm happier now than I was back then. I'm definitely smarter and more capable, in work and in life.

It's easy to think about how great it would be if you could be 21 again (while still knowing everything you've learned from your experiences since then), but, as they say, youth is wasted on the young. That's just how life works.

All we can do is encourage people of all ages to make the most of the opportunities they have right now.
C'mon do they REALLY believe in dragons? Or is it more like how people hang horseshoes above their doorways?
Two words. El Al. There hasn't been a successful attack in decades. Not cause they are such a small target but because they don't fuck around with their security and everyone knows it. When I fly El Al and they put me through the ringer, I know they are not wasting my time. When I fly non El Al I know that it's all kabuki theater.

Take, for example, the two degenerates who recently flew from Detroit to Schippol (Amsterdam, I believe. sp? On an iphone). Those dry run jokers got to Europe and were caught there. Um, why weren't they caught here before they could... You know... Kaboom the plane? The examples are endless.
> You wanted me to to provide details?

Actually, I didn't ask (in this thread) for details. So, once again, you're arguing with voices in your head and trying to attribute them to me.

However, I'm pretty sure that I can get really good kids (and upbringing) for less from India. They won't look like Swedes, but ....

> >Also, folks who are closer to the edge economically are less able to afford to be seen as less reliable.

> Now you're showing your own bias. Why do you think that someone who takes their leave will be seen as unreliable?

My "bias" is that of an employer. It doesn't matter whether "taking leave" is ordinary or not - folks who take a lot of leave are folks who you can't count on as much as folks who don't.

Folks who take a lot of leave who are behind on experience and knowledge. When you need someone who knows what happened last month, you can't ask someone who was on leave then.

> Again, a distinct lack of details

Most people can figure out that that n months of paid leave for someone who makes a lot of money takes more money than n months of leave for someone who makes less money without being given "details".

> your thesis/attitude/opinion is against the article

Again, I've posted nothing that supports your assertion. Or, are you going with "any criticism implies ...."?

> Otherwise your attitude comes across as you don't want to pay for it, therefore it must be bad thing.

I've found that most demands for subsidy are a bad thing.

As our libertarian friends say, there are four types of spending. (1) Our money, spent on ourselves, (2) our money spent on other people, (3) other people's money spent on ourselves, and (4) other people's money spent on other people.

For (1), we're concerned with cost vs benefit. For (2), we're less concerned with benefit and more with cost. With (3), we're more concerned with benefit and less with cost. With (4) ....
Another common fault: being fascinated by top 10 lists
Geeky way of saying a million monkeys at a typewriter.

This is Michael Jordan's philosophy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mMioJ5szc

Ira Glass believes that some people start out producing work that isn't as good or match their good taste. It's after a lot of work, trial and error, and mistakes that the disparity between your good taste and your good work match up.

Be patient, keep trying, be confidant. I should have joined a football team.
A spectre is haunting America -- the spectre of state Attorneys General running for office.

Whenever I see a story like this Google investigation, my first question is: "What's this AG running for?" In this case, Texas AG Greg Abbott is running for reelection to a 3rd term. Often, though, they're running for Governor, Senator, or other statewide office.

Chris Tolles' piece on TC a couple weeks ago, "When Attorneys General Attack", is instructive as well:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/19/when-attorneys-general-atta...
My favorite place for this kind of thing is font squirrel.
The lesson here: if you have a tendency toward perfectionism, like me, fight it. Produce things, a lot of things. Let your abilities develop by actually producing. Don't try to make One Great Thing. You're probably wrong about which thing is your One Great Thing anyway.

I was just reading the new introduction that Ray Bradbury wrote for The Martian Chronicles. It came together from a bunch of "asides" that he wrote just for fun -- he wasn't taking them very seriously. Then an editor saw them and suggested that they formed a whole story.
You don't have to be completely blind, the person may just have a severe visual impairment, and thus can still see a monitor in 1-2ft in front of them.
I'm reaching the point in my intellectual development where arguments from authority are less and less useful. I think a lot of people on hacker news are in a similar position. I need more from an article than, "Distinguished scientist believes X", especially in cases when distinguished scientists start going outside of their field and attempt to deal with philosophical questions.

If it involves a bunch of complicated math and physics, then at least show me the crap I can't understand. If I have time I'll work on it, and if not at least I have a better idea of how someone got from point A to B.
Classic bit. Also see http://comedians.jokes.com/patton-oswalt/videos/dvd---exclus...
What has that got to do with the chart in the article which has clearly labeled axes?
Insight, "Daileez: Icon"
Out. Fucking. Standing.

If you do watch this, make sure to stick through past the first minute and a half---listen to it, but it's really just setup for the subsequent four minutes. Worth it!
That speaks of a bad library and API design, not the language. Plus XML is a verbose technology in general.
Not exactly the same variables, but similar enough:
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2007...
I don't think the down votes are warranted here.

Craigslist makes money but this money is minimal compared to the amount of money its taking from the billion-dollar newspaper industry.

Sending 100+ lobbyists to Washington would cost at least a good chunk of the ~$100 million/year that craigslist makes. It's reasonable to argue that it would make no sense to do this.
hey although I am trying to find a tech co-founder for my startup, nuSage (http://www.nuSage.com) I have a ton of very great friends who would be amazing a biz dev for you out in the Boston area.
feel free to contact me maybe we can meet up and i can lead some intros.
Depends on how common place you think 'profit sharing' is at normal companies. I have yet to work somewhere (as a dev) where I earned a salary and earned a bonus each time the sales team sold it. Should I demand a share? After all, its the developers who actually created the product right?

In the end, it really depends on the site. But seeing as they are paying you a salary, I'm guessing they aren't inclined to do so since you get paid the same paycheck regardless of the amount of visits or flattr tips that come in.
Forgive my ignorance please; but- what exactly (in your own words though of course) was the purpose of the invasion of Iraq?
Me too, I think he should stick with that one.
Thanks for the advice. I just wanted to use Node as a way of "pushing" events down to the browser, but the only way Node will know if an event has happened or not is by polling a particular SOAP service. I do own the SOAP service though, so I suppose that I could add a new interface and let Node just connect with TCP?

What's the standard way of doing RPC between Node an other types of services?
Stop whining. It's not your data.
You're working very hard here to twist the world into your preconceived view. Are you sure it fits?

I'm an atheist too, but I still believe in good statistics.
to wage war.
This statement sounds really horrible, but every time I hear about what good things have happened to Japan after losing WWII, I'm kinda almost sad we didn't lose.

They certainly don't have a crazy, out of control amount of military spending... not that Japan doesn't have a lot of its own problems. But it seems like they've really had lemons turn into lemonade.
Software predicts criminal behavior
Average does not necessarily mean crap.
To obtain parity you want players moving to obtain higher salaries. That's how it works in the NFL to a large extent. It's why it's hard for a team to remain dominant for more than a few years, and why there's nobody doing there what the Lakers are now doing in the NBA.
In the community aspect http://conceptart.org/forums/ was much better than deviantart (though they seem to have gotten much more commercial and I can't comment now as I haven't been there for quite a while).
Why not also point out in the graph, most Muslim countries are poor. Muslim countries also seem to have a greater muslim influence in the government too. In the US we've kept the church out of government but tried to keep at least some of the morals at the same time.

This guy definitely has an angle going on. Perhaps instead, the US is a good example of how a moral system based on a higher power instead of man, natural rights, can help create a government and country better than the rest as long as it keeps the church (in my mind the political arm of religion) away from government. Instead of being an anomaly, we are the goal.
It's pretty new, it should get enabled by default soon.
Uh, all right? How dickish of me to suggest a way to forego using an application he or she doesn't like for even the one time that person feels he or she must.
I'm looking for a developer who fancies himself a designer (or vice versa) out in Boston area (preferably). Someone interested in pursuing the creation of a startup called nuSage http://nuSage.com which helps recruiters connect with college students.

I have a great background in biz dev as well as the general business side (marketing, customer development, management, and sales). Now I'm looking for someone to complement my skill set.

I landed the first investment check around the amount of what incubator/accelerator programs give out and I have another one around the same amount being finalized within the next two weeks.

I know the money isn't enough to pay market (obviously) I am very flexible with providing my tech co-founder with plenty enough living expenses to get us going into the angel round of financing projected somewhere around december.

email me at tim.chae@gmail.com!