skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Specifically, it’s called telegraphese.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphese

My guess is that laying a newspaper out on paper is essentially a 2D packing problem—which is an NP-hard optimization problem. I assume removing unnecessary words from headlines when helpful is a good way to give yourself some wiggle room in terms of what goes where.
This is the reason why I stopped using Facebook once instant personalization and the embeddable like buttons were added.

The risk of unknowingly spamming people was too big for me and I just quit. I don't even care as much about the privacy issues as I care about these services doing things and post stuff in my name without any way to stop it or even just indication that they are doing it
Given Scribd's dodgy reputation (for example, http://blog.ericgoldman.org/personal/archives/2010/09/scribd...) I was curious to see what they'd do with Instant Personalization which has a high creepiness factor even on a good day. True to form, they didn't disappoint.

I've been tracking the security/privacy problems with Instant Personalization for a while; my recent post might be relevant: http://33bits.org/2010/09/28/instant-personalization-privacy...

I'm also curious to see how things will turn out when a whole bunch of YC startups get Instant Personalization access, as YCRFS7 promises.
Do you have to completely delete your account right away? Why don't you try gradually reducing your Facebook presence by following these steps:

1. Stop posting any content yourself. Stop using/playing all apps/games. If you need to contact someone, do it via phone, email, or some other non-Facebook medium. Disable Facebook chat so they can't message you on there, and reply to their messages/wall posts in person or over the phone (replying with another internet-based medium might raise some red flags, but using an entirely different form of communication won't).

2. Delete content you've posted in the past. Remove apps/games you have installed and remove yourself from the groups you're in. Remove information from your profile. Untag yourself from pictures others have posted.

3. Delete friends that you haven't talked to in a long time.

4. Contact your remaining friends and give them your contact info.

5. Delete your account.
That's what it's purporting to be, but maybe it's just made up.

Look here: http://404uxd.com/2007/08/03/thinking-and-leaping

In reference to the illustration in question, it says "the result was a graphic that looked something like the image below", in other words it's made up.
Ask HN: Audio of awe-inspiring and impressive people for an experiment?
Have you ever noticed that after binging on some TV show or podcast or by some other means exposing yourself to hours of other peoples conversations and interaction, that it rubs off on you? Maybe I'm just very impressionable, or there’s some kind of perception bias afoot, but I notice myself doing this often. Sometimes they are just mannerisms, other times it is the way I put together sentences. And then there are times where I start to pick up pieces of other people's accents without meaning to.

For a while now I have been thinking about this, and wondering if there was any way to measure this effect. I am attempting to find as much content as I can with characters or real people I aspire to be like for an experiment. I am ripping the audio from videos and talks, collecting podcasts and finding radio interviews. I am cutting out the useless parts and putting together a library of material for my mp3 player, with the hope that repeated exposure to it all might leave some kind of noticeable effect.

I have not told my friends/family or colleagues as the idea is to use their reactions or comments as my most reliable and non-biased source of feedback.

So that's what I'm planning, but I'm having trouble finding sources of audio. Does anyone have any suggestions? Preferably of people or characters you find impressive or awe-inspiring. (hey, if it works at all I might as well aim for something I'd like)

(note: the idea isn't to learn anything from what these people are saying, but just to see if I will pick up any aspects of their (for lack of a better word) 'style')
... it's too difficult to second-guess when Perl will DWIM and when it won't.

You don't need to guess, never. I can recommend a book which explains how Perl 5 works (and which features to avoid because they're too difficult for novices--and sometimes experts--to use correctly).
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Why do sites insist on default opt-out? Everyone here seems to be blaming Facebook. Certainly, Instant Personalization is a Facebook tool that Scribd used but the core of the matter is Scribd created yet another feature that is opt-out.

I consider opt-out a special case of bait-and-switch. You offered X and I signed up for X. Two months later you added Y and change my settings so now I am signed up for X + Y. Since X != X + Y, I consider X + Y to be a new product Z. I signed up for X, you switched me to Z. Bait-and-switch as far as I'm concerned. Doesn't matter to me if Z = 99% of X. Z != X and the switch happened without my prior consent.

I'm sure in the short-term numbers game, opt-out wins opt-in by far. Grab as many eyeballs as you can in the cheapest way possible. In the long term, people stop using your services. There's a reason I'll never use RealPlayer even though the company has completely changed since the early 2000s. I just don't trust them anymore. Same with Facebook. I just don't trust them with my data. Same with Google Buzz. Even though I'm comfortable with Google managing emails, I can no longer trust the Buzz team. Privacy loss doesn't have to directly happen to me in order for me to feel violated.
It's important to recognize that the United States is version 1.0 of democracy. The U.S. system of governance hasn't changed significantly since its inception; the 12th, 17th and 22nd amendments are the only "bugfixes", and they're quite minor.

Other nations have had several advantages. Smaller populations, making experimenting and changes easier. Ability to see what the U.S. did wrong and learn from its mistakes. And so on. Democracy is at at least version 3 today, but the U.S. is stuck at version 1.0 and will be for the foreseeable future.

To put it another way, the U.S. Constitution is mostly from 1789, while the Swiss Constitution is from 1999. Does anyone think there might have been some advances in the science of democracy over those 210 years?
You can hide all this information and you can make yourself unsearchable. You can create multiple accounts (technically not supposed to but lots do). It's just like any other social tool. Use it how you want it. Tell it what you want to. Don't be friends with your dad if you don't want people finding him. The problem is not facebook, it's you and how you use it.
I think there's value in pointing out a specific topic that might otherwise be difficult to discover. Sure, it would be even better to summarize it a bit, but it's still valuable enough.
I wish I could ask Steve Ballmer the following: You just said you missed a generation in the phone market. You also missed a generation in the browser, web services, MP3 player and operating system* markets. How does this keep happening to you guys? I find it impossible to believe that with so many talented engineers no one wants to push the envelope; engineers live to push the envelope. So what exactly is the hangup? Am I wrong that your engineers are hungry? Is your management so unwieldy that no one can get anything done? Did you make innovative things that just didn't catch on?

When asked what your plan was for the tablet market (which you haven't missed a generation on yet, but the clock is ticking) you responded simply: "It's called Windows" and laughed. What exactly is the joke here? The absurdity of the idea that Windows could ever fail to dominate a market? Wake the fuck up.

Recently you had a QA on reddit regarding your new browser. Your response to almost every question of the form "Why didn't you include feature X?" was "Our market research shows people don't want feature X, we make what people want." Again you're only lying to yourselves and insulting us along the way. We are your users (at least we could be) and we're telling you what we want. What those answers mean to us is that your product is just never going to do what we want it to. Why do the QA with these people when all you're going to do is marginalize the concerns they express.

I think I know why you keep slipping up here Steve. You're somehow under the mass delusion that things are still going well.

This one less so than the others Vista wasn't a missed generation so much as just not up to snuff.
*To be fair this this QA was done in 2 parts first with marketing people then with programmers the prior having much more of this type of response than the latter.
Aw, no video for the "Ethics, Problem Solving" lecture? Now I'm really curious!
I'm only speaking to the dependency-resolution function that makes package management necessary on certain OSes. Public application repositories sharing a standard interface still have some nice features.

But if the applications are all statically-linked, I don't have to worry about dependency conflicts, and some things are a lot simpler, e.g. copying the binaries off to a flash drive to take them to another system, or running two different versions of the same software simultaneously.

On Windows, I don't usually even run installers anymotre; I extract the installers, collect all of the dlls into the application directory, and compress everything with UPX. Once the program is running out of a self-contained directory, I can run it off a thumbdrive, copy it to my Dropbox, etc. Plus I have the option of not updating software when I prefer not to.
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personally I found the manager's comment very condescending.

10 is just such a small number.

it's like "yeah this guy is VERY important, I'd have to interview like 2 whole people to find someone as "good" as him"
Yea. The key assumption for the "put the armor where the bullets aren't" is that the initial bullets are spread evenly over the surface area (or, rather, that the bullets are spread evenly over the cross-section, which you then average over the typical orientation of the plane as it takes enemy fire). This turns out to be a good assumption because planes typically take highly dispersed enemy fire compared to the size of the plane.

On the other hand, if the enemy had extremely accurate guns and (say, for visibility reasons) always shot at and hit particular parts of the plane (say, the parts of the wings next to the necessarily shiny propellers) then the naive reasoning would be correct: the areas that were bullet-ridden on returning planes would be the ones that should be armored.
Now I know what I'm doing with my Sunday afternoon.
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Does your outer circle of friends have an expectation of a certain level of knowledge about your life? Would it be considered rude of you to remove all your information and leave a note (in your information) simply saying "I no longer use Facebook, please contact me via email"?
There's a big difference between being a subject and being owned. Only a really dysfunctional government would act as if they owned their citizens. Some ways to determine whether you're owned: do you-the-asset-itself appear on a balance sheet? Is your tax rate 100%? Might you get sold to a new owner?

Some heuristics to determine China's shareholders: who receives the government's income in cash or cash equivalents? Who decides who belongs in the politburo?
Unfortunately "representing yourself" also ends up being "representing how you want others to be mistreated".
I use mindmapping each time a subject needs a bit of attention (ie: preparing a phone call, keeping the history and overview on a project, etc).
True enough, if the security hole is in a library that half of the software on my system is using. But most applications have fairly frequent update cycles for their own codebase anyway, and it's just as likely that an update to a central dynamically-linked library might introduce a new security hole that instantly compromises half of my system at once.

Thanks for the link to sta.li, I'll check it out. What I'd really like to see is a Linux distro that managed applications the way OSX does - every program is contained in its own directory.
I guess what I'm "doing wrong" is to expect sensible out of the box behaviour. I'm fully aware that I can make it do whatever I want to if I put enough work into it. That holds for almost everything in life. What's limited in my life, though, is time.

Installing Python 3 alongside the old version didn't work for a long time after Python 3 came out. If it works now, that's fine. I compiled my own Python 3 a long time before it finally appeared in my system's package manager.

[Edit] And one more thing. I'm not a sysadmin and my interest in system configuration and change management is very limited. But I've been using Linux for a very long time, so if I'm still doing it wrong then many people will do be doing it wrong and that means there's something wrong with the way it works.
Iran arrests "nuclear spies" accused of cyber attacks
Start removing friends. I do it every once in a while.

If you no longer want to be in the lives of your high school friends or vice versa, even online, cut the cord. You'll find that people are usually apathetic and none the wiser.
The Stuxnet saga continues to entertain...
Probably jumping for joy, as any star wars/trek fan should.
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As a generally rule be careful of long term goals. If you can't see the result of a goal sufficiently in two weeks and you don't know a lot of people who have succeed with such a goal don't follow it. I'm normally open to HN comments, but when a goal can side track you from your enjoyment of life for months it should be followed with great care.
Providence, RI. Swipely (http://swipely.com/jobs)

Now hiring back-end (mostly Ruby on Rails) and front-end (jQuery/HTML/CSS) developers.

Swipely is part social network, part financial application, and part gaming platform, and we have plenty of interesting problems to work on in all those areas and more. This is hands-down the strongest engineering team I've worked with. We work in weekly iterations and push new code to production at least once per iteration. Though not a strict requirement, we have a strong preference for full-time employees who can work out of our office in Providence.

Our perks blurb:
"Swipely offers competitive salaries and full benefits, similar to "big" companies. We also offer everyone equity in the company, to share in Swipely's long-term success. Our kitchen is stocked at all times with free drinks and snacks. Lunch is catered every day from a nearby sandwich shop, and we even keep a dedicated fridge stocked with craft beers from around the globe. We want you to have the best tools for the job, so the Macbook Pros are fast, the Internet pipes are fat and the screen pixels are unlimited. Go for it!"
If you're only pushing data into an SSD array at hard drive speeds, you won't be able to get all of them to stay out of idle mode, so the total power consumption of the SSD array will probably never top that of the hard drive.

To bring some real-world numbers in to this, a Western Digital VelociRaptor (10K RPM) draws 6.2W while reading or writing, and 4.3W while idle but online. An Intel X25-E 64GB draws 2.6W while reading and writing, and 0.06W while idle. Let's assume that you have 7 of the SSDs in a non-RAID aggregated volume, and one of the 450GB VelociRaptors, and you're streaming data to and from them at the fastest rate the VelociRaptor can handle. In order for the SSD array to draw as much power as the active VelociRaptor, you have to average 2.3 SSDs active at once. If the transfers are mostly sequential, you will basically never have more than two SSDs active at once. If you have random accesses, then you can obviously get many of the SSDs active at once, but they can all fulfill their requests and return to idle before the VelociRaptor has served the first request. In order for your SSD array to average the same power consumption as the VelociRaptor, it would have to be executing about 7.7K random 4KB writes per second, or 83K random 4KB reads per second. That difference in performance is big enough that the power draw of SSDs will never be a net disadvantage, and the running cost of an SSD-based solution will not be higher than the running cost of a hard-drive based solution.
Just because it's already done doesn't mean it can't push your abilities and isn't reachable.

Flickr would have had the resources to do anything they wanted with the project. You, as the only guy on it, will have to make tradeoffs and sacrifice features in order to get it done. What part of that isn't helpful in the real world?
Yeah, I'd like to see someone's lecture notes or something. "Mandatory Attendance"...
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Why is it better to have the RAID controller integrated on the disk instead of connecting several (cheaper) disks separately and use motherboards or software RAID
How is this different from Python?

I install Python and most of the libraries I want are included,(batteries included).

I install Perl and most of the libraries I want are included, (batteries also included).

With Perl I've got CPAN available to install any libraries that I may be missing.

Python may have some advantages over Perl, but "alot of things needed to get the language to work for you" isn't one of them. In this respect I think Perl is heads and shoulders above Python.
This would be the article you're looking for...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-1090.1993....

You'll need a Wiley Online Library membership to read all of it.
Or the study chose to study only heterosexual relationships. (Though the sibling comments seems to imply they didn't)
I did. Missed you, buddy.

What was your name again?
Actually reading it for the first time, thanks for the post.

Edit: So we are all random selections and rejections?
Well, it may be petty. But isn't that the whole point of a social website? It's about small talk, ephemera, and socializing online instead of at a party, club, bar or coffee shop.

If it's no longer cool because everyone goes there, then how do I remain cool? First by making sure everyone knows I don't go there anymore,. "Facebook is so last year." If I was through being cool, then I could just stop going there and not make a statement about it.
They're taking the Y Combinator name in vain. They charge to apply and are just giving out loans? Another very entrepreneur unfriendly approach to boosting the startup environment in Portland.

So, let's summarize. Portland Angel Network charges, Oregon Angel Fund charges, Angel Oregon charges, Portland Ten charges and now the Portland seed fund charges.

Book me a ticket to the valley when I'm ready to pitch my next startup!
Interesting related article about goal setting also on the front page right now:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1750680

Pretty hard to get the benefit of variable rewards when you're giving them to yourself. The only way I can see this working is if you just go out and let life give them to you.
And vice-versa. I could see people wearing this on situations where they believe the police might act illegally, in particular during protests. It would probably need to stream directly to some online server, which perhaps this isn't equipped for.
But this is true even if you never had an account. That's like saying you can't leave the internet, because people can still talk about you online.
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I try to keep only 50 friends max.
I use to have like 300+ friends which was totally useless and definitely not good for me because I was always checking every pages, answering comments, chatting etc. but I wasn't "that" connected to my true friends.
Excellent point. What I have never understood is that while the US constitution is relatively robust and, for the better part, has withstood the test of time, it is a document written to reflect the late 18th century, yet for some reason 21st century America seems to believe that it is a near immutable document and set of ideas. There is a need for a "refresh", or at least people should be willing to consider what aspects of the constitution have not aged as well as others.
Only the mind itself can process data into information - we apply a relevance filter to our perceptions and link related concepts together. That means that exposure to more data gives us better-trained filters and more, deeper connections between concepts.

In other words, we become better at thinking and making judgments when we are exposed to more and more data.

To say that "we are over our heads in data" is to see value in only in the the consumption of static, general knowledge, rather than in the ability to synthesize specific and relevant information.
All true, but the fact of the matter is that most visibility-related deaths involving bikes are from cars that bikes, not bikes hitting or being hit by pedestrians or anything else without headlights. There are a few cases where pedestrians are killed by bicyclists, e,g. NYC messenger bikes, but this is small.
The innovation game is a very boring game. People always redefine what exactly they mean by “innovate” just so they can blame some company for not innovating. It always works.
Come on man, it's not like the mobile division has the power to unilaterally chart the course for Microsoft's mobile strategy; with MS, every division is subservient to the rest and they're co-shackled, usually in support of Microsoft's core money makers (Windows and Office.)

The mobile division is not just coding for the present and the future, but also the past. If they manage to get half the developer attention that the iPhone gets, I am certain MS will demolish both iPhone and Android because they have a vast developer base to tap into.

If they manage to get the distribution right, control handset variety (or at least require minimum specs; a la PC architecture), tame the carriers and open up to developers just a tad, you will see millions of corporate developers installing the mobile plugins for Visual Studio and cranking out apps.

But I am afraid it's not in MS' nature to motivate developers, but have always relied on market demand and other people's $$$ to make their shenanigans palatable to developers.

If I was in charge, I would assemble a team of 8 - 12 and write a nice .NET/C# cross-compiler/wrapper given to any registered Windows Mobile developer; even remote, hosted cross compiler. Make people write with your tools first, for your primary platform, with the option to target other platforms from the same source. Apple was afraid of this with the 3.3.1 policy: iOS getting wrapped with Win32 API or Android SDK would have been a nightmare for quality on the iOS.

The first tool developer to successfully target top N platforms (for N>2) is gonna rake in cash, 3.3.1 permitting.
Even continually trying new things can become a habit. At that point, settling into a routine for a while might actually be a more novel choice.
Still seems like a low return on investment, especially when you multiply by the risk of failure. Yes you can increase your investment and reduce the risk, but the ceiling on gains make this unappetizing.

Taleb's talked about chasing activities where the black swans are positive: http://akkartik.name/blog/9400292
I love ubuntu as much as the next guy. I run all my servers with ubuntu.

But to say that Mac OS X is not as usable as ubuntu is blatantly wrong.
I made and use Chapters for iPad. Not as fluid as pencil and paper, but I don't lose things and can search for things I vaguely remember.