skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also known as: "How to raise boys who hate their parents". Possibly also "boys who are shunned at school", since they won't be able to take part in a huge fraction of the conversations going on in the playground.

The best way to raise children with good habits is to have those habits yourself. If every day after dinner both parents retire to the lounge room to listen to some music and read a book (each), the children will quickly get the idea that's what people do. If they go and watch TV instead, they'll get that idea.

One more point: childhood habits don't always bleed over into the adult. From age 13-17 I probably barely read a single novel that wasn't assigned for school. (I read plenty of non-fiction for pleasure.) But once reading novels stopped being "schoolwork" I started doing it for pleasure, and have since read... a lot.
Why would anyone who has some coding skills and Rail skills build something like Twitter?

Because of his imagination. Stupid idea, but worth millions. Innovative people are hard to find.
Good blog post. Good UI, maybe not.

For fullscreen video, I set "fs" in my .mplayer/config. For notifications while I'm away from my computer, I use my phone. For seeing behind windows, I simply don't allow windows to overlap. (How do I know if something is on another desktop? I don't -- that's the window manager's job too. I press S-a to spawn or go to emacs. I press S-s to go to a web browser (or create one). I press S-d to go to the next urxvt. Instead of making my brain remember where my apps are, or making my eyes look for them, I just let the computer do that for me.)

Anyway, I guess these things make the computer seem "cooler", but I think they all kill your productivity. Only show me notifications every 45 minutes unless they are tagged as work and it's between 9-5. Manage my windows for me. Make the video full screen if the content is longer than 1 minute. Then let me use my 8 CPU cores for something other than popup boxes saying my friend is online.
it seems at the end we're arguing a lot on preference.

just a final note on the last part. I am aware that windows caches your recently run programs to some degree, but it's still not quite the same sense of control of knowing your app is running. (also, have you tried starting a MS office app on the mac? yikes)

and windows 7 has definitely fixed a lot of the clutter that really annoyed me with the taskbar and makes it a lot less annoying to minimize a whole bunch of windows. and the whole "minimize to tray" was just a way to get around the taskbar clutter, but then you start getting system tray clutter... and that's another story.

the list of running apps on OSX is fairly easy to tell for me from the "dots" under the dock badges. also, my fav trick for quitting apps is holding cmd, tabbing to the app you want, then pressing q to quit.

anyway, it's mostly a matter of preference. it all felt foreign to me when i first made the switch too, but after getting used to it, i'll take OSX's quirks over windows any day
Startups: What’s in a name?
Git Commit Templates, Vim, And You
"Virtual OS in the browser" sounds like the best business and consumer product. the stuff practically sells itself. If they haven't done much since 2007, I am left to wonder how well do they actually work.
I guess he meant the second. So, in general, associating names with email may be a nice idea. Though some emails may be more associated with roles than with specific persons.

And as a customer you expect some things to come from a machine.
Hmm... interesting! I think I should start running spell-check on the emails I forward too.
It occurred to me over the last week or two that most all of the startup and pet project work I've been doing over the past decade has all boiled down to presenting complex and thought-provoking data to the user in the most simple way possible. Every little piece of user interface, web application, or technology that sits between the brain and a simple version of the decisions it needs to make each day is a cognitive weight we carry around.

There was another great article on the front page of HN today about cognitive slaves. It's a topic that keeps coming up again and again for me and the community, and as one other commenter asks on this thread, at some point it's not enough to simply complain, what would you do to fix it? I'm happy to actually be trying something. Wish me luck!
So basically what is the message in this article?

"Avoid lonely people."

Pervertedly ironic.
Top-10 Web Application Security Vulnerabilities (2007)
I used to be one of those 'boys who read' (still am, just not so much of a boy I guess, maybe). I would read anything that had letters on it, packaging, comics, stuff that was way over my head and stuff that made sense to me.

There was a second hand bookstore near my grandmothers house that I had a deal with, if I brought back a book the next day after taking it I could exchange it for free. The little hacker in me didn't take long to figure out that for the price of one book I could technically read through the whole store.

Long nights with the flashlight under the blanket to avoid being discovered :)

It never really stopped, I still read, pretty much all day long, unless I'm coding or doing something else.

If you have a kid that likes to read, make sure they don't have to do it in secret, they'll do it anyway and it helps to have everybody on the same page instead of having secrets about your 'habits'.

The internet is changing our reading habits, and I think that those 'electronic media' that are to be kept under control according to the author are really the new books.

Another decade or so and you'll be able to find all that good stuff online and on mobile devices. To deal with the distracting element of that is going to be the real problem, but forbidding their use is to throw out the baby (that vast library out there) with the bathwater.

Project Gutenberg and Wikipedia are accessible through the same medium that leads to major sources of distraction.
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You can get focus follows mouse on Mac OS with this http://www.atomicbird.com/mondomouse

OS X is much more hackable than people usually think (although with the disappearance of input managers in snow leopard it's becoming harder)
Requiring 10 points to submit is really stupid?
Oh give me a break. Not playing video games and reading lots of books growing up never made me shunned on the playground and never made me hate my parents (and I’ve never heard anyone say they hate their parents for video-game deprivation). Playgrounds are for running around, kicking things, messily digging in the dirt, and generally making mischief, not analyzing video games.
What, you think births are instantaneous? It takes quite a while for a baby to be born, so for a reasonable finite-time definition of "moment" I can quite easily imagine one sixth (or one sixteenth) being born in that moment.

Though I am concerned about men being born, instead of babies.
I do a different type of data analysis (one of my core job responsibilities), not anything web related and each of the points made in the article are so true to the one that I do.

At the end of day, I guess, all data analysis is similar, its a tool to discern various aspects of reality (or the truth, if one is more philosophical).

And the interpretation of the truth is only as good as the tools used to arrive at it and how well they are used.
Slow, natural, deadly: The importance of fundamentals
Agreed.

I was actually shocked to see people falling for this. I deleted mine straight away knowing it was spam. Maybe I'm just a cynic :)
ARM's average royalty per chip is currently around 4.5c.
http://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-holdings-plc-reports-s...

Of course, that's a blend of the royalty for all their cores, but at that level a 100% hike won't have a material effect on a $400 smartphone, even with 2.6 cores/phone (again, average from above source).
Some great answers already here, but I'd just add this:

They don't know they want the product- np.

Are they aware of the problem that it solves? Can you make them acutely aware of the problem? (In terms of lost time, cost, etc.) And then, can you show that your solution is "morphine" for the problem? (rather than a vitamin for general well-being). And finally can you show them that (due to ease-of-use etc.) they can be relatively sure that it won't add its own set of problems?

If you can honestly do each of those steps, you're golden- get a killer sales-person and do it. If you can't honestly say yes, you have product issues to work out regardless of your instinct about it's efficacy.
Rumor aside, I'm surprised in general that ARM's stock has risen so much in the last year. I suppose the increase in price is due to the current, and anticipated, use of ARM designs in mobile devices. Still, in the long run would ARM really be able to maintain it's lower-power chip dominance over Intel? I know Intel isn't there yet, but they seem to be a fearsome R&D competitor.
How about offering a backup/download solution for a small price?
Where does the 100000 power users number come from?
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I can sympathize with your complaints. There does seem to be a lot of retreaded topics on the main page, so I've just changed my HN bookmark to http://news.ycombinator.com/newest. I'll try it for a week, and hopefully I'll spot some more interesting stuff that otherwise would fall by the wayside.
How Many Words is Fair Use? Maybe More Than You and AP Thought
"Obsession with Design Details" lead to high profits.
A local startup in SB has been applying this technology to the medical field since 02'. They allow specialists to reach and diagnose patients in non-metropolitan/rural areas who otherwise wouldn't have access to such.

www.intouchhealth.com
This is going to sound very cryptic, but I hope it comes across, you are a solution looking for a problem.

I think it's only a matter of time before you find your groove, I see it happening all over HN, people that try one thing after another and suddenly it clicks, they find their thing and from there on it's upwards.

Don't give up, the 'making complex stuff simple' thing you've got is absolutely a key in all this. The webcam thing was much the same, until we came along it was just too hard to put live video on the web, we reduced it to one click, that was all it took. Youtube did the same for clips and look where they ended up.

All you you need to do is to apply that wisdom to something that draws a crowd.
I've noticed this effect on Facebook as well. And the effect seems to be more pronounced among those who visit as much as three or four times a day.

Specifically you can see status updates shift wildly from "I'm so happy! My life is awesome!" to "Why can't people just stop talking behind my back!?", often over the course of only a few days.

I get the feeling some people have inadvertently allowed DB to replace their social lives. And FB is replete with empty social promises ("we should hang out sometime"). I can see that resulting in the social mistrust the article's talking about.

When I am on FB too much, I sometimes get the feeling I am looking through a window at social scenes in which I am conspicuously absent. I am sometimes invited to participate, but I can always feel the fake "here's my card" element in the invitations. I don't get that feeling on other social networks --HN, for example--even though I think I have less common ground with the brilliant people here on HN than I do on Facebook. What do you think it is about Facebook, specifically, that creates that feeling?
That's sort of what DHH suggests where anyone can start their own business by working on it just 10 hours a week or so. That advice is definitely working for me at the moment.

Just do a little bit every day, an hour or two towards your goal, and you'll get there soon enough.

Don't know where this quote is from, but I've seen it in Civ4 - "you move a mountain by first removing small rocks".
On the survival of the human race in a desperate situation.
The Survival of the human race may one day depend on rape, but would that justify rape?

Picture this. The earth has been bombarded by astroids and only a handful of people have survived. A lot of religious women and a couple of highly intelligent atheist men. Now these religious women do not want to have sexual intercourse with unbelievers, but time is short. Either the men rape the women and start rebuilding society or the women have their way and everyone dies out.
Would rape be justified? If so, how much force should be used? Is it possible to humanely rape a woman? Basically so you could say you were not proud of what you did, but it had to be done and you did it as humanely as possible.
Anecdotal evidence: my father raised me exactly that way.

No TV (that was in the 80s), no newfangled Nintendo thingie (I got one when I was ten, and was allowed only during the weekends)

And an all-you-can-eat collection of books, by an Argentinean editorial that included books by Jack London, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens and Emilio Salgari and many many others.

Plus, my mother re-married and her second husband is a huge science fiction fan, so I got acquainted with Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and others also from an early age (it also set me into my career path, so maybe it wasn't that healthy :) ).

The result: I'm about the fastest reader I know of (whenever they offer me a fast-reading course I see the benchmarks of what you can supposedly archieve are a bit lower than what I already do archieve), and when I moved I had to leave 14 boxes full of paperback novels (about 300 books) which I had read - add to that a few thousand I've borrowed from family, friends and libraries or read as e-books, and I'd say that my father's experiment turned out a success as far as book-reading goes.

On the other hand, I'm often "out" when it comes to discussing movies or old TV shows and other shared cultural experiences, which makes me think I missed out some things as well.
Having raised two "boys who read," (and three girls as well), I think that the secret here is, like many aspects of "how to," simply lead by example.

Read to your kids when they are very young, let them see you read, make sure that there are plenty of interesting books around, and do your best to instill them with a sense of curiosity. From time to time, drop a book on their bed or desk and say "you might find this one interesting."

Also, my secret policy is to always buy my kids whatever books they ask for, without consideration to price or budget. My younger son (20) almost literally eats advanced math books for breakfast. I am happy to keep him well-fed.

Net-net: Well-informed kids who love to read and a house stuffed with books.
Useful, thanks.
I remember using the xenocode sandbox... It was incredibly useful for web development.
As far as I am concerned, Dropbox "just works".

Why not try it out with the free, 2GB version, and see how it works for you?
> I sincerely hope that ARM doesn't join the Oracle graveyard of once-great technologies.

And maybe part of me is so scared of that happening that I see all kinds of reasons why Oracle really shouldn't buy ARM.

Those big companies are like black holes, stuff goes in and it's anybodies guess what will come out.
A Live Demo of the Samsung Galaxy Tab
Recreational pedantry isn't confined to programmers. My dad was a lawyer and he would do it too, but he did it for amusement value rather than force of habit.

"Would anyone like tea or coffee?"

"I'm sure someone would."

"Would you like tea or coffee?"

"Yes please"

"Which one?"

"Coffee, please"
If anything, Swedes know English too well. Early on I would struggle with something in Swedish, they would switch to English, and I would have to insist on Swedish else I would never learn.
Feature a random article selected from a probability distribution based on user karma.

e.g.

Alice - 100
Bob - 200
Charlie - 300
Dave - 0

Dave's new article will never get front page exposure. Charlie has a 50% chance, Bob a 33% chance, and Alice a 16% chance.
"Now that I think about it, no, we are both wrong. Information should not just appear in my brain waiting to be processed."

Taking it one step further, something like "Skynet" will realize that humans have inefficient brains compared to whatever technology it is using, and attempt to eliminate us, completely resolving the issue. However, then it will realize it was destroying information that it should keep, so it will then morph into something like the "Borg" to start collecting info, until it realizes that is too "high-touch" and interferes with the processes it is trying to study, at which point it will just watch us from a distance and only interfere when needed or when we fail.
> Windows Phone 7 is about to be released (and after seeing it in action during a short trip to Redmond earlier this week, I’m convinced that it will be a huge hit).

That's the first time I've heard someone positively speak about Windows Phone 7. Everyone I know (myself included) seems to think it will be a disaster. But as I've said before, I haven't actually seen it in person yet - the marketing videos online make me think I'll hate it, but perhaps I should reserve judgement until I can use one.

If the Microsoft Tanker is actually turning around, then why is Windows losing more and more of the consumer markets every single day? MS is about three years late to the phone party, and they don't have a damn clue about tablets or anything mobile. Windows 7 is a "huge success" only because it works properly; that's no innovation, and that's not going anywhere for the future. MS is doing well with IE9, but you will still need Windows to run it! One of their main competitors is about to release an OS (I'm referring to Chrome OS), and Chrome (the browser) has been gaining and gaining market share while IE loses and loses.

I do not agree with the conclusions of this article at all. MS is still fumbling and bumbling about, with no clear path for the future. They're still mostly ignoring the web (sure, IE9 and Bing are great, but why are they so forcefully shoving Silverlight plugins everywhere?! That's not the web!) and they're ignoring the fact that consumers won't care what OS they're running in the next few years.

Microsoft will grip the business world for a very long time, but they haven't got long to live in the consumer market.

Edit TL;DR: Microsoft isn't turning around because they're still mostly ignoring the Internet.
The title "My Master Plan to Destroy the Internet as we know it (whattofix.com)" doesn't have any terms that interest me.

In your first paragraph you use the phrase "web interface" if that or some other technical term had been in the title, I might have clicked. fyi
I think more than anything, is to encourage your children to learn, and help them to find passions early in life. I used to read a lot when I was a kid because I was really interested in our founding fathers, so I read a lot about Ben Franklin, Jefferson, etc. I lost that for a while because I didn't have any books available that interested me. Near the end of highschool, I was forced to read a few books that really got me going and I've been reading fiction ever since. I found a passion for it.
What prevents you from doing so? HN has an unofficial API[1], fetch the content and roll your own HN.

[1] http://api.ihackernews.com/
If these guys have been around since 2007 they should really consider putting a bit more effort into marketing.
Another answer is to stop treating reading and video games as mutually exclusive. Maybe the real answer is a new genre of media that includes interactivity, game-play dynamics, and lots of text.
Does The Future Of The Internet Have Room For Web Designers?
Apparently they found a better business model with this, or so I assume.
When was the last time you were on a playground? Let's assume you're only in your 20s, it's been almost a decade. Perhaps you don't know exactly what is happening on the playground. Not that I do either.
How I raised two boys who read:

1. Start reading to them pretty much as soon as they're born.

2. Read a lot - both frequently and as long as their attention holds. Their attention for stories will get longer as they get older if you keep reading to them.

3. Get comfy and make reading time a time to cuddle.

4. Read really well-written books - engaging plots, smart dialogue, solid exposition. Even young children are sophisticated and discerning enough to know when an author is condescending to them.

5. Perform when you're reading. Don't just read in a monotone: recite the book, with intonation and voices and accents and everything.

6. When they interrupt you to ask questions, take the time to answer them. By doing this, you help children to engage the story and build their own listening comprehension.

7. When they start to show an interest in reading, start teaching them how to do it. Get into the habit of taking turns reading to each other.

Edit - one more thing:

8. Be seen reading a lot yourself.
Requiring 10 points to submit stories seems like a pretty decent idea to me.
Buy ARM to ruin it? ^_^

Jokes aside, seems like the target is AMD. They're in trouble, like Sun.
That wouldn't work either, it would simply cause a karma feedback loop.
Microsoft takes PC vs. Mac trolling to Facebook
Can I use Spoon on my Mac?

Not yet! But we hope to bring Spoon to other platforms soon -- stay tuned!

Note you can run Spoon on Mac using a Windows emulation product such as Parallels or VMware Fusion.

http://www.spoon.net/Help/
How do you feel their security is? I get nervous about services like these because of info I would keep out there. Source code, personal documents, etc, etc
Don't watch TV.

My father never watched TV. He finally put a tv in the living room of his home long after all three of us were out of the house. Growing up, I'd be doing homework while my father read and smoked his pipe, the tv downstairs off.

He'd unplug for a week/month as punishment for even the smallest mistakes, but he would always bring us to the library.
> For fullscreen video, I set "fs" in my .mplayer/config.

This is not intended for you.
Who are you coding for?
New FCC white space rules: inside the Satanic details
Adobe's Lightroom is a good example of a successful hybrid language app as a big chunk of it is written in Lua. Here's a presentation on its architecture: http://www.troygaul.com/LrExposedC4.html
I think this is one the places where the concept of subreddits really shines. Allowing users to control the content that is shown to them allows interesting niche posts to maintain visibility.
The HN headline is extremely misleading. It's the first sustained flight of a FLAPPING WING human powered aircraft.

The Gossamer Condor demonstrated sustained flight in 1977.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_Condor
I renabled Java in Safari and the Xiph site loaded some kind of applet based decoder that didn't work properly. Will appreciate your link.
Discovering Essay Outline Examples
When you need to outline your essays and you don’t have a proper idea as to how this is done, an essay outline example will help. There are many of these examples available online, and if you are to use them regularly you should know how to select the best ones.
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