skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you think the problem people will be the ones who click the link? And think about it enough to figure out what situations it applies to and learn how to recognize those situations. And learn to see situations they are personally involved in, in an objective enough way so that they can recognize when they personally are doing it. And remember all this.

The link offers very little help in doing these tasks. It's almost pure content, with little about how to integrate it into your life and actually use it. I think it therefore is failing to give much advice about a part where the many of relevant people get stuck or fail.

There also seems to be some significant proportion of people who think taking issues like this seriously is not fun -- it's "overly serious" -- and they want their internet discussions to be light-hearted and enjoyable. They are alienated to learning things. So they won't care what you're saying; they think it's only for people with a different personality type who like that kind of thing. I don't even know what to do about these people because giving an explanation of why they are making a mistake would offend them -- if they aren't going to take discussion too seriously, they certainly don't want it to turn into a self-help seminar that asks them personally to improve.

So, point is, while it's a decent article, if it's supposed to be for fixing a discussion atmosphere involving thousands of people, I don't think it will solve that problem.
I don't use Yahoo/Bing straight up, e.g. I re-rank, omit, etc.

All re-ranking you can do is very limited with these services because they are black boxes: you don't see what factors went into ranking a page the way it happened, you can't tweak the weight of different factors, you can't add new factors. All you can have is hardcoded rules like "if there is a wikipedia page in the first 20 results, bring it on top" that don't really add much value, because if that wikipedia page is any good it would be on top already. With spam results it's similar: you can provide impressive customer service blacklisting spam on user requests, but major search engines are already pretty good in low-ranking spam so much that you don't see it if there are any other meaningful results.

Your marketing here on HN has been brilliant, you have some very interesting UI decisions and possibilities that Google doesn't have, but your added value is definitely not in improved ranking of results.
The original title is "The E-Textbook Experiment Turns A Page". The editorialized title made little sense at first.

A professor that had students with Kindles says it wasn't very useful because it was slow at highlighting, note-taking and turning pages.

The CEO of inkling.com, who make e-textbooks for the iPad, thinks the iPad is better than the Kindle for interacting with textbooks. The professor is also hoping that the iPad will prove better than the Kindle. A couple students that already had iPads said it was pleasant to use in class but considering the cost, a laptop would also suffice.
This doesn't seem to be the handset maker or even the carrier controlling the options. It's another software provider limiting potentially competing software...on an open platform. Seems they're using their competitive power in one domain to inhibit competition in another. What am I missing?
Civil disobedience is a very well-defined term in its proper usage, and does not extend to all forms of "breaking the law because you're angry about something".

Civil disobedience goes like this:

1. You observe that a law is unjust (no blacks at the front of the bus, no Indians making salt)

2. You break that law, and only that law, deliberately and openly.

3. You get arrested and punished.

4. The fact that you're being punished for breaking an unjust law draws attention to that unjust law.

DDoSing a website is only civil disobedience if you think that laws against DDoSing a website are unjust, and if you plan to get caught and punished for doing it.
Dick Costolo (Twitter COO, Feedburner founder) wrote a great article about the organizational impact of the office lay-out back in 2007 - http://www.burningdoor.com/askthewizard/2007/09/no_offices.h...
- he's for Open Plan offices. He says they increase interdepartmental communication, which is true in my experience.
You are probably right, and PayPal are probably opnly doing what they think they must.

However:

1. people are getting screwed when it's not really their fault

2. PayPal respond slowly and badly in cases like this

3. you can lose a lot of money with no recourse.

TANSTAAFL. Several groups I work with have repeatedly said they want the convenience of having people pay by using PayPal. I have now put together a standard response with the evidence of cases like this. I specifically require written confirmation that they, the customer, is stating that I must provide the PayPal option, and that they have read the documentation I provided.

FWIW, personally, I get people to send me a check or transfer money by BACS (direct bank-to-bank transfer). This is entirely within a single country, so it works.

As Fagan says, I am reviewing the situation.
So if you picked "keep" you have a chance at an extra $125,000. But you also look like a selfish bastard on national TV, you'll probably lose a lot of friends, and whatever relationship you had going with your housemate (I assume there was something, I didn't watch the show) is now gone. I think those outweigh the extra hundred-odd grand.

The moral of the story is that ongoing relationships can break the prisoner's dilemma. This could be anything from an emotional relationship to a business contract to mere public scrutiny. The prisoner's dilemma is really only a dilemma if it is a true one-shot game, or if the monetary amounts are enough to overcome these other factors.
Unfortunately it seems to be both. Google could deny carriers licenses for Google apps/market if they choose to load crapware and/or disable tethering but so far they've used that power to go after Skyhook. Maybe they have entirely legitimate reasons for this? It's very difficult to walk the line between open and closed without running into some uncomfortable situations.
Maybe (I don't study this) but at least some of this pathway is also used in embryonic cells, so it's pretty fundamental. More often, cancer cells will evolve resistance to whatever inhibitor molecule is targeting them, i.e. mutate so the ligand doesn't bind as well.
If you're not getting down voted a reasonable proportion of the time, you're too timid a thinker (or your comments avoid all controversy and stick to technical matters).
Great point. Co-founders should "date" and not do shotgun weddings.
I'm curious how many people started replying to you but ended up discarding it.
Getting Back to the Phantom Skill [of Drawing]
HDCP is important for VOD. With release windows changing and Studio's pushing for various types of pre-DVD street date VOD releases, and providers pushing for the same, an HDCP crack could enable profit-seeking pirates to obtain pre-DVD, pre-Bluray, in some cases pre-theatrical releases and redistribute them.

The financial considerations for a profit seeking pirate are trivial - perhaps an FPGA (though software seems feasible), HDMI capture card, RAID system, Bluray burner.

On the consumer end, why pay $50 for a theatrical day-and-date VOD when you can purchase a pirated Bluray of it a day or two later?

Market considerations aside, this crack will force the Studios to rethink VOD release windows.
I find EHow results useful from time to time. Isn't ask.com another search engine? I don't know about demandstudios because I don't know what their domain names are.
Craigslist's UI is fantastic.

It's not pretty, but that's about the least important element of web-design.

It's very easy for people to understand how things are organized. Cities are organized together, categories are organized together. All of the pages are text-based so pages load fast. Various functions on the page are explained with helpful text explaining what's going on when you try and post or respond to a post. Etc.

Their UI can be improved with a little more padding in places and a little more focus on quality typography, but it's remarkable that such a large site has maintained such a quality design in the face of enormous pressure to change.
I use a nook for reading novels, but can't imagine using it for a textbook. Apart from the fact the page is too small, it just takes too long to flip back and forth looking for something, and that's the primary mode in which people use textbooks.

Besides, I still have my undergraduate textbooks from ten years ago on my shelf and occasionally look something up. If they'd been in an electronic format I'm sure it would be far too much trouble to find a reader for them.
The Geometry of Sprawl
Mageia – A New Linux Distribution, forked from Mandriva Linux
The work so far has been mainly testing, about to get programmers and its going to be quite busy. One of the issues is this office is in India in part of a city with high noise pollution, high enough that it comes into the office.

The other issue is that the staff expansion plans would soon make the current office a tad small, in which case I would have to incur expenses for moving to a bigger office. So, it is also about stretching out the usability of the current office with a one time expense.

Abt the Bose, the new ones (QC 15) are quite good in noise canceling (the construction does look quite cheap). Tried the QC 3, 2 years ago, didn't find them helpful enough, so I returned them. But the new ones are so good that I am keeping them, and this is from a guy who hardly ever buys $300 gadgets. You might want to check out the 15s

I use them more for noise cancellation than for music, hmm.. for a simulated private office environment :)
Somewhat off-topic: What does the Chief Philosopher of a software company do? And how do I get that job?
The Pros and Cons of Classification Essay Examples
When you are unfamiliar with the writing of any type of essay, turning to essay examples is natural. The same is applicable when writing classification essays. Knowing the many advantages and disadvantages of essay examples, will enable you to be careful with the selection process.
tptacek is a recognized world-class computer security expert. He knows his stuff.

Watch your tone. Mindlessly contradicting him in his field of expertise is not advisable.
I think it might be better to ignore the roles of an expert and evaluate the comments by themselves. If the comments are insightful, they can stand on their own. Evaluating the comments by themselves help to develop critical thinking and avoid being spoonfed by others.
The academic publishers are in for a swift attitude adjustment when the average student realizes that scanned copies of almost any undergrad textbook can be found online. It seems strange to me that so many 18-22 y/o's won't pay $0.99 for a song, yet they're still paying $200 for a textbook.
Chip and PIN have one major drawback for you though: they shift the liability from the merchant to the consumer. With conventional cards you can contest a purchase and the merchant is out of pocket. With Chip and PIN it's like a debit card and typically you the consumer is out.
Alternate Reality Kit from Xerox PARC 1987 - still futuristic [video]
Thinking about joining a start-up?
Visa and Mastercard are no longer owned by the banks, they both went public in the past couple of years and are increasingly acting as independent organizations.
1. Don't buy Nokia; waste of money and no help in sorting out a mobile strategy
2. Port CE to ARM as soon as possible before the entire tablet/phone market is lost
3. Focus on the enterprise market where you potentially contribute value added and move out of consumer software apps which will all be free, web-based in five years
4. Focus all software development on smaller code that assumes no hard drive and 4GB or less of flash memory in the device; really understand products like Dropbox as a means to see a software strategy going forward
5. Abandon the strategy where all the software (Office, IE, etc) only runs on Windows
Support the .NET ecosystem on Linux.
Do a proper shell on windows.
Well... Since we are reporting bugs, the Nook browser is also unable to properly show HN without horizontal scrolling.

That and logging in, but this one I suspect is a browser problem.
Schools: The Disaster Movie
The reviews were not based on the latest kindle which is faster and more responsive than previous versions. However, granted that for interactive learning the iPad will excel, but as a pure reading platform the kindle can not be bettered.
I think he means your overall karma (in the top right hand corner), not the karma on each comment.

An experiment would be to remove it, and only display it on your username page (as your average karma is now.)
> Nobody wants their credit card company to know they're looking at porn (as though they care),

There's an interesting and testable hypothesis hiding behind that offhand remark: is there a legal market for information about who buys porn? Are people who buy porn differently creditworthy than people who don't? For example, maybe they have more money (more creditworthy), or poorer impulse control (less creditworthy), or less intelligence (makes it harder for them to pay but also harder to declare bankruptcy, dispute collections, etc.). Maybe there are other customers who would be interested in this data as well: health insurers, or auto insurers, or private investigators, or political or religious opponents. Or, obviously, competing porn merchants, who would love to have a list of leads who are already known to be willing to spend money on porn.

I have this vague memory of an article about how it turned out that people who bought "responsible" products like, I forget, in-wall house insulation or vinyl siding, were much more likely to pay their debts than people who spent money in strip clubs --- even when they were matched for income, age, and gender. Unfortunately my vague memory is not enough to retrieve this from a search engine.
Very insightful. I have become a casual reader just for articles, not really for the illogical arguments or personal attacks. It really does feel like everybody's talking and no one is saying anything.
I'm of two minds about offices. We should make them as great as possible. But we should also try to eliminate them entirely. Office/commute/cubicle culture is the cause of much waste, pollution, inefficiency, parasitism and distraction, reduced productivity and meta/make-work. Are there situations where a company office is a net win? Probably. But I'm sure there are lots of cases where it's a net negative.
1. Piracy and free stuff are hurting. Do you know what we are doing to combat it? The goal this year has been to offer increased quality and enhanced services. We can't stop pirates or free content. We can, however, offer a better service. This means catering to a wide variety of wants. You'd be surprised, not everyone is looking for a quick fix. We have customers that have been around for years.

2. Advertising via this method brings in customers. There are things being done this way. Don't assume all free content is "free."

3. See 1. By building in new features, and giving existing customers better, quality choices, and new ways to access that content, is helping. You'd be surprised at the numerous things that are done to bring in the customers. All legit, all above board, and all surprisingly effective.

It's what I love about this industry.
The key is to individualize to the level of the specific cancer, not necessarily to the patient with the cancer (Osler would punch me for saying this).

I say this because, for example, leukemia is not one cancer; it is a constellation of cancers with similar features. However, if you take one specific cancer from this group (chronic myelogenous leukemia of the Bcr/abl type), you can treat it with imatinib. The survival at 5 years with imatinib is 89%--an incredible success. I'm saying this to point out that we already have individualized treatments for (a vanishing minority of) cancers.

As we grow to understand the molecular and genetic basis for each individual cancer, we will, one by one, be able to target these and turn them into chronic diseases like hypertension or hypercholesterolemia. Perhaps, one day, we will even cure them. The current article being discussed actually hints at a more global phenomenon, and may produce tools that we can use as add-ons to the individualized cancer treatments that we will be giving patients.

I'll just repeat the two things that I always like to say in this type of discussion:

1: We need to target the molecular basis for disease.

2: We need to remember the HAART model when treating cancer, which involves targeting multiple enzymes necessary for tumor growth and proliferation (or at least target different parts of the same enzymes) in order to fight drug resistance.
This could use a helluva lot more information on what the product will actually be. A clone of the original C64? A new-style Windows box in a keyboard form factor? A machine with a Commodore-branded special-purpose Linux-based OS?
Odds, Disclosure, Etc…
Being unable to stop reading or commenting on hn can never possibly be the reason you've successfully stopped reading or commenting on hn can it?

He wanted to spend his time reading and discussing articles on hn. His problem was that he was finding it increasingly unrewarding. So he quit.

Your last point regarding the best tech-news site is irrelevant. He is replacing hn with "arguing with people in person or via e-mail, reading disagreeable books, and the like."
I wouldn't say so. Pirating textbooks is much harder than pirating music. The entry point is $0.99 for pirating music; it is $150+ plus scanning (or somehow obtaining a PDF version of the textbook) for textbooks.
Convergence Kills: Why We Will Never Have Flying Cars
HDCP being broken means nothing for ripping Blu-rays. There you'd want the original compressed stream stored on the disk; if you grabbed from the HDMI stream you'd have to re-encode it and it'd be a lossy rip.

What it does impact is the possibility for hardware devices with unlicensed HDMI inputs. This is primarily useful for people with early HD TVs that didn't support HDCP (or didn't have HDMI/DVI at all), or an owner of an HD projector (many of which have no or bad HDCP implementations.) It would also theoretically be useful for creating a custom DAC or video processor.

Anyway, with Intel threatening to sue, this means only the Chinese will create HDCP strippers. But that's all that's needed for any usage.
I do too, but I would MUCH prefer it if that number were replaced with a count of new replies made to posts you've made, and linked to the 'threads' view of that same count.

The majority of time when I post it isn't to make a point, but to get clarification or ask a question, and sometimes I forget to look for the answers, or the answer comes after my 'threads' page has gone through a few pages, making it harder to find, etc.
Be most sensible to others.
A way to implement this is to use the new page. There's little indication of what you "should" read, so you have to make up your own mind, from the title or brief skim. There's no or few comments, so less opportunity for meaningless conflict that is irrelevant to the submission. It is, however, more work.

bonus: you have a massively increased influence on what gets to the front page - so, to an extent, you create the HN you want.
You can always use VICE.

Or MESS, but I never quite got that one to work.

Still, a modern PC in a C64-like box would be sweet. It's like a casemod without sacrificing a real C64.

We cannot preserve those machines forever - they'll end up breaking. This may be an economically viable way to preserve the experience of using a C64, as well as a source of mechanically compatible parts.

The joysticks of my Atari XE were manufactured 20 years after the computer.
Oh, I thought he had made a live recording of the game. My mistake.
Trojan Monitors Your Porn Surfing Habits, Threatens to Blackmail You
Except that on HN, if you are not getting more upvotes than the number of comments you are posting, you can't vote on the comments. That is what the "avg: " on your profile page is for, if it's not 2 or higher your votes don't count.
Except that I also don't allow google to set cookies either.
In China, Baidu for sure!
You'd have to match up the volume on the output and input to avoid clipping or compressing the dynamic range. It's not impossible, just a bit finicky to get a recording that's nearly as good as the original. Also, doesn't Guitar Hero have a surround sound option? Anyway, ripping the bitstream just seems cleaner and simpler than recording it yourself.
If you're not doing things that are transformative -- that change your habits and the way you have of looking at the world, you're wasting your time.

As written, this is a dangerously solipsistic statement. Transforming your mind, body, knowledge, opinions and philosophy is indeed helpful, but it is much less than half the problem: Unless you are content to live and die as a hermit, you must also seek to transform the world, even if it's just the world in your immediate vicinity.

Learning is valuable, but teaching is just as valuable, if not more so.

Teaching is hard, though. You have to do it in tiny pieces, applied one drop at a time over weeks, months, and years. One of the hardest things to learn is not to lecture. You think -- especially if you have spent years in school -- that you can just tie someone down and tell them the truth over and over until they get it, but it doesn't work that way in real life. Rather, it is both ineffective and rude to grab a piece of someone's attention and then attempt to deliver a big lecture. In face-to-face interaction, people deploy social signals to discourage this; on the web we must take more obvious measures, such as designing venues like HN where lecturing feels awkward and is therefore discouraged.

But if you want to read incredibly long-form back-and-forth discussions that go on for pages the rest of the Internet is right there, one click away.
It's a step in the right direction, but (please correct me if I'm wrong) your system still seems to be merchant-initiated. I'm using my phone as a glorified piece of paper; the merchant scans my barcode and processes the transaction on their hardware, the same way they would with plastic.

That still seems ridiculous when my phone itself is a device capable of handling the transaction, yes? I should be scanning the register's barcode. I should be able to see what I'm paying for on my phone as it rings up. I should be able to authorize the payment using whatever securities I want on hardware that I own. I should be able to complete the entire transaction and walk out of the store without ever giving the merchant any information besides what bank I use.

All of that is completely possible with today's tech. Who decided that the future of electronic payment is a debit card in a different form factor?
… basically the new "interactive CDROM" …

I don’t think that’s a fair description. Why were interactive CDs so horrible? Well, you needed this huge clunky machine (the wall of screens between teacher and students) which takes ages to start, you need to find the damn CD and you need to wait forever until the program is loaded. Oh, and that whole interaction thing with the mouse was very clunky. [+]

The new tablets are small, lightweight, you don’t have to boot them up and apps load practically instantly.

I wouldn’t be too dismissive of them. They are a far cry from the old experience. It still might not work but I don’t think it’s enough to say “Oh, just like the old CD-ROMs!” and leave it at that.

[+] To be fair, I think that horribly production values had also something to do with it. That’s something new devices can’t remedy but I think we are a lot more experienced and have better tools today. The technology and our knowledge is more mature.