skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Travis....who is 'MarK' ? :)

Secondly, thanks for replying. You totally injected yourself into what you call the 'Jaytar' wars. My post was not meant to be considered 'Jason hate mail'. I was simply saying why I fundamentally disagree with Jason's core work ethic principles.

We fully agree on letting the free market decide. Time will tell on that one.

What's very interesting about your blogpost, is that all those activities you list (afternoons off to go to the beach and play SC2, etc.) run contrary to Jason's public statements.

When he says, he expects you to be a 'Samurai' and work '80 hour weeks constantly'...that doesn't indicate afternoons off...so my entire post was based on what he says. If he does something different, then that might be totally reasonable. But given that I don't work there and don't know anyone that does (personally) I can only go on what he says.

So given that you are now shedding another light on it, that's good because it shows us what REALLY goes on. Not what Jason SAYS goes on.

Also, I am shocked, to say the least, that you actually have a life outside of work. Because according to Jason, anyone that does so is 'weak and normal'. He is 'strong and abnormal'. So that, again, contradicts with what he is saying.

I am happy for you, that you can have it and I think you should. In fact, I don't mind doing your bidding and publicly berating Jason for taking things too far, so he can ease up on you guys :) - because I don't believe when he takes away those things, that your performance goes up. Morale as well as performance must go down as it is unsustainable in the long run.

Also, just another quick note...I reject the notion that in order to produce anything 'great' you have to be prepared to work more than anyone else. If we look at this statement in it's extremes, that would mean that people in countries with dictators would produce much better/more innovative stuff than the Valley. Because they can literally lock people up in prisons and force them to do X work (i.e. programming, or anything they want) for more hours in a day, for a much longer period than a western government would allow. That has not worked, to date, because excellence cannot be brute forced. It can only be achieved through continual refinement.

Also, if 'great products' can only be achieved by working more than anyone else, then by that definition we would never have Rails or any other wonderful open source project/technology that came out of the spare hours of the creator. DHH famously says that he only worked on Basecamp for about 10 hours per week, and Rails was even less than that because it was done after he had worked on everything else. There are countless other OSS examples.

That's just my $0.02.
For the first time ever I'm asking for presents: Kindle, Arduino.
"Do you want to own the whole internet?"

That question is right up there with the tubes analogy. She should ask that question to the CEO of Comcast.
Is there a speech recognition engine built in to chrome this is leveraging?
The Space Shuttle's Lessons For The Future
I'm working on my own premium WordPress themes site, though it's been pushed back constantly due to freelance work (site's up at alphathemes.com though). If you want any advice, feel free to get in touch! (username at gmail)
A downvote...?

Should I have e-mailed the parent commenter instead of posting publicly how strongly I agreed...?
Its interesting to see how Facebook keeps on coming up with changes in its UI every now and then. Take one look at Orkut in its current state and you have enough reasons to assume that either they don't have any designer working on it, or even if they do, they simply aren't putting enough resources.
This is in my things to do - my webmaster has been unavailable, so seeking details to do it myself. I appreciate you pointing this out. Wiki is also on my list. I'm already posting a lot of stuff on my facebook page. But don't want to come across as "Self Serving". I'm also unsure of the $10k cap. If I find another laser surgery outfit, and they charge more, how would my donors feel.
Looks like Facebook is going for the social resume play w/ the jobs/projects page -- unlike LinkedIn, you add WHO you worked with, which makes all the difference. Just missing whose contribution you "liked" to get a professional endorsement graph.
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Having met Kohsuke at various Hudson meetups, and worked with the Hudson code somewhat, I can definitely attest to him being the smartest coder I've interacted with.

He's not just a productivity dynamo, but he's just a great coder. This was exemplified when I idly mentioned in the IRC channel "it would be pretty great if there was a way to unit test my plugin." About 10 minutes later, Kohsuke responds with "well, there is. There's a test harness I wrote." The test harness is a thing of beauty, spawning a headless, up-to-date version of Hudson that allows all sorts of querying about its operation. I'd never worked with something quite as amazing.

Kohsuke == Hudson. Hudson without Kohsuke is essentially just an historial artifact. Oracle stands to lose much more from a potential fork than they realize.

EDIT: The man also has the patience of a saint, which cannot be overstated when it comes to support.
This is response to a tagging comment because its not the user which puts her identity out there, but her friends, co-workers, etc, tagging her, even if she is not a member of the site. You interact with facebook wether you want to participate in it or not.

The only way to stop this now is if they allow you to block all pictures you're tagged in from the public (they pretty much do allow that now, except it just takes the tag off, not the actual picture).

Facebook really shouldn't be waiting until they're brought up as defendants in a wrongful death/battery suit before ferreting out these last bits of stupid over sharing.
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None of my doctors are online to make comments, nor are they legally able to put anything public about their patients.. I was able to get Doctor Roy Ashcroft to make a statement on my condition but he cannot legally go into details, and if you look on both my Facebook page, and "savingcaptaincrunch" page, is a complete diagnosis on my condition including diagram of my spine, and how this condition is deteriorating the nerves that control my hands...
I suspect this slide's covert purpose is to make me (yes, just me) sit here and say 'hello' to my computer like a moron for 3 minutes while seeing no effect what-so-ever. In this it has succeeded brilliantly.

Running Chrome, mic is on, no one is home... sigh. I so wanted to be wowed.
looks nice, but would be good to not have to sign up to see how much it costs, to have the costs put in context - as a normal non tech user it at first seemed high to me, but I guess it's fine in relation to professional tool. also examples of the output would be good.

But most important would be the faq.
On a related note, here's an interesting article about Hudson's development infrastructure and Oracle's attempts to keep the project on java.net:

http://www.hudson-labs.org/content/whos-driving-thing
The most direct (albeit non-passive) would be to freelance. I think the fastest passive route would be to build a high quality affiliate website. Themes could work, but if they get popular you're on the hook for support.
You didn't explicitly make a recommendation to make premium Wordpress themes, but I want to second your implicit suggestion ;-) It seems to be a big area and I certainly pay for themes that are just right - saves a lot of time. You even get the option of building bespoke ones or making a more generic one and selling it to many people.
It's very plausible in facebook's scenario. Allow Mary to flag "Do not show pictures with me in them to the public" in her profile.

This is not the case with twitter, as you pointed out, but for facebook, it is.
+1 (same question.)

A company I work with does a high volume of WP themes and there are residual income opportunities there. Do you have a portfolio or reference URLs you can provide? My email address is in my profile if you don't want to post here.
This would be good news for anybody who wants a laptop with good graphics (at least until AMD can ship a great mobile Fusion chip, which isn't likely to happen anytime soon).

What I don't understand is why, given the hardball Intel has been playing, I haven't seen much reference to NVidia's GPU related patents before this. We know that there are a lot of patent holders other than AMD and NVidia complicating things, but it would seem that after all these years, NVidia has got to have at least a few killer patents of their own. With Intel trying to make their agreement completely one-sided, why hasn't NVidia been threatening to cancel the agreement completely and use their GPU patents to get a C&D order against Intel's flagship consumer CPUs?
Translated by Google as...

> Nor again is there anyone who loves pain itself, because it is pain, the system, so blinded by desire. Hello World!
Down for me too, so I'm only responding to your comment.

>[using a DB join means that] the query takes almost a second

This is, at best, an overgeneralization and at worst outright FUD. I don't know what sort of data or database engine you're working with that might make this true, but it's definitely not a requirement that it be this way. The RDBMS backing my site is trivially able to return all needed data in fractions of a second for most cases regardless of the presence of joins. If it can't, that generally just means that I forgot to index something properly.

Moving past this, going with a simple key/value store instead of an RDBMS means giving up at least three of the ACID properties in favor of nothing more than a speed gain.

- Atomic: No transactions. If the system dies between two related commits...oops, your dataset is inconsistent.

- Isolated: No transactions, again. You cannot make guarantees about what information an object will have -- e.g., you cannot say "Every user will always have at least one entry in Pages, because we automatically create a non-deletable Home page for every user at signup." If you rely on that, you will eventually hit a user who is halfway through the signup process and has a user entry but no Page entry.

- Durable. If your backing store has not actually flushed your write to disk and the system crashes...oops, you're hosed. I hope you weren't storing your Accounts Receivable data in that NoDB.
Interesting to see whats possible with a cheap 3D camera.
integrative medicine (whole-body treat-the-cause instead of the symptom)

"Integrative medicine" is just another term invented for "alternative medicine". A few respectable universities have centers/institutes for this, but it is almost always the result of a specific effort on the part of big money donors.

I think, as many others have mentioned, that more data is becoming available, largely due to the shift to electronic medical records. As a physician, especially if you're involved in research, being able to make sense of that data will be very valuable.

I would suggest checking out http://forums.studentdoctor.net if you don't already read that forum.
Christine owns the domain, she setup the domain and web site, and her loyal supporters have done a great job, Bless her heart for this amazing support. She is also publisher of Technorazzi, also Gingerbread TV, and was one of the en2go officers.
The point isn't to allow her to also use the site (which would be alright). It's to make it so the site doesn't inadvertently disclose her location (as google buzz did for instance when it first popped up).

Giving people control over when they are tagged is really the issue here (and is why my comment was posted in response to that).
You should put screenshots/demos on the home/sale page.
A lot of people in this thread are too naive and optimistic, but not for the reasons you might think. We are in the twilight of a long era of peace and prosperity and are moving toward a time of great disorder. The West seems bent on abdicating its dominance of world politics, and no one knows what is going to take its place. Against that backdrop, trying to predict tiny details like the role of insurance in 10 year's time is pretty ridiculous, because there's a good chance that the changes won't be incremental.

Becoming a doctor sounds like a great idea, though. Good luck!
WikiLeaks now running on over 200 hosts around the world
The first thing I did when I got my new profile was to check the settings to see if it publicly shared any info I didn't want it too ...
Reading linear books (novels, etc.), get an e-ink reader like the Kindle, etc. You won't mind the page delay if it's one page at a time.

Reading tech books (manuals, reference material, etc.) get an iPad or subnotebook. Much faster to flip rapidly through as there's a much smaller page load delay, better search etc.

I'm so thankful for ebooks - there's a line in one of the perl docs that says "You can't grep dead trees", which has always been my beef with paper docs.
An answer [1] from a horse's mouth (Floyd Bloom, former editor of Science magazine, originator of the aphorism, "The gain in the brain lies mainly in the stain"[2]):

MI: Was it clear to you when you started out at as Editor-in-Chief of Science how important the move to electronic publishing was going to be?

FB: When I got to Science, it was quickly explained to me that the price for paper was going up. The price for postage was going up, and I was asked where in the budget did I want to make the cuts in order that we wouldn't be in a deficit. And so it occurred to me, if I was constantly going to be confronted by changes in paper costs and postal rates, which I couldn't control, I would have to find another way to distribute the magazine. And we decided we had to be online quickly.

MI: So the age of electronic publishing really came to fruition while you were at Science. Were there issues that you faced for which you really had to define limits as to how far electronic publishing could go?

FB: Well, PubMed Central [the initiative put forth by the National Library of Medicine to archive and disseminate biomedical research findings] was one of the last issues that I faced, and I think, faced down. It was wrong-headed in its origins. But the concept that people should have access to the scientific literature is of course a good one. Scientists want to have access to research findings so that they can pursue experiments. And when scientists are confronted by a publisher's wall that says you must be a subscriber to get in here, you'd like to find a way to get around it.

But to me, nothing is free. I am aware of the cost of making a prestigious publication. The cost of rejecting 95 percent of all the papers that are submitted makes the accepted ones so valuable. And there's only twenty-four hours in a day, no matter how intense your efforts to keep up with research reports. If I have time to read, I'm going to read in a place where I know that the information has been thoroughly vetted, and so I limit my reading to places where I can trust the judgment of the editors. If everything were free, and everybody could publish everything they want to, anyplace, I'd have no way to know how to sort things out. I certainly don't have time to read through a lot of very provocative assertions that turn out not to be true.

[1] excerpt from http://molinterv.aspetjournals.org/content/1/4/192.full
[2] Appel 1996 Ann NY Acad Sci "Classical and Contemporary Histochemical Approaches for Evaluating Central Nervous System Microanatomy"
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Fair enough, I did get sucked into responding as I began to write. I guess it feels a little personal so when I try to write about it I slide that direction. Maybe should think about revising that part of the post. Thanks for the feedback.
Is this not possible now?

Account->Privacy Settings->Customize->Pick whatever you want to customize and you can choose who to share it with.

Not to mention without going into customizations, you can just choose a "blanket" level which can be that only friends can ever see anything about you.
Isn't this last chance sort of page just as open to A & B testing as a sign up page? Your just checking to see how many users are leaving instead of entering. To answer my own question, it seems a little different, since making it hard to leave your site is probably decreasing your sites usability rather than increasing it. If it is easy for your customer to get started that is much different than making it hard for them to leave. I suppose I've come full circle while making this comment. I started thinking that you should optimize for keeping people and now think you should just try to make it easy for a returning user to get back into using their account.

Almost didn't post my thoughts, but here it goes anyways.
The difference is as follows. The pictures that show aren't necessarily relevant to my life at this point in time. For example, I'm not very active on the picture front and many of the pictures that show are from several years ago. My girlfriend won't be that understanding when the picture on the home of my profile are with people from my past.

If it's in my photos the date and context are much clearer than they are on the main section of your profile.
The feature required they don't have now is "Block pictures with me tagged in them from public view". Only "Take them off my profile page"
“Wow, you really have a passion there!”
What's the difference between the 10k rotovap and the 2k one? It seems like pound for pound (of dry ice that is) the 2k one might be better for smaller volumes... unless you're trying to simulate martian polar ice caps in your back garden...

FWIW I want one of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nauticalia-Copper-Pot-Still/dp/B0049...

I'm trying to convince the wife that a 'purely ornamental' (due to UK legislation) still used in a 'demonstrative manner' should fit in a small two bedroom starter house. Somehow the fact that I don't want to cook meth in the house after seeing breaking bad seems to count against me with her...
You can currently hide another users photo from public view if they tag you in them?

If so, where?
You need to click the little microphone icon - sorry if you've already tried this.
from unscientifically looking at network sent packet counts, it's definitely phoning home for the answer.
Finally contacted my webmaster, but he's out all day, and plans to get back tonight... So lets see here...

1) Link from WebCrunchers to my Facebook page
2) Link from Webcrunchers to "savingcaptaincrunch" site
3) Make changes to my WIKI with links to all 3 of these sites, plus a statement on my current health. Is there anything else I should do? I'm trying to distance myself from all this promotion so's not to appear "Self Serving".
"We're essentially telling people who have very legitimate reasons for wanting to protect their privacy that their other option is to become a Luddite hermit. Is that really the best we can do?"

Not exactly. We're telling people that they're not going to have privacy, period. We're assuming that privacy is dead. You might think it's still something that can be salvaged, but lots of people assume that the world is moving to less privacy whatever we do. Which is why we should be education people from the start that, whether we like it or not, anything they type into a computer is basically public.

I especially like Scoble's thoughts on this. He says, rightly I believe, that anything that is a copy-paste away from becoming public, isn't really private at all. He also had the fun adventure of having many private emails being made public as part of lawsuits against Microsoft.

Also, you might want to read about The Transparent Society: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society.
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* Books (politics, philosophy, scifi, fantasy, etc...)

* Clothing (socks, plain tshirts, a nice pair of jeans, a coat?)

* No more gadgets, I have enough of that.

* A toaster (mine broke recently and I loves me some burned bread!)
I don't think its even good advice for mary. The issue is that friends and family and co-workers will STILL post her identity online. She should be able to 100% control facebook's publishing of pictures in which she is identified.
You're talking about pictures that other people have taken, which happen to have you in them?

I understand what you're saying, but I really can't imagine this makes any kind of sense to implement. They aren't your pictures, after all, and other people have a right (probably even a legal right) to those pictures.
As a Medicine student, Technology can make doctors pointless. What a doctor do? He inspect the patient and prescribe medicines. That's all and its' inspection, while depend on his experience, can never be 100% accurate.

That is, if a new technological evolution, can make it possible to diagnose the human body with a simple and small device, no one will probably need a doctor and the device can prescribe you the treatment with even more accuracy.

You can also take daily inspection with the device and it'll follow your health and gives you suggestions based on that.

You may think I'm too optimistic, but who thought that one day we can see the interior of the human body without surgery?
What version of chrome does this work on?
Either I'm missing something or on an older version of chromium: Chromium 5.0.375.127 (Developer Build 55887) Ubuntu 10.04.
Cocchi is supposed to be the closest thing to Kinna Lillet that you can get. I've just found a source for the UK. Good god, I'm already over my alcohol budget this month. This is all wrong. You're a bad influence my friend :)

I've never had Cocchi (although I might in a few days) but Lillet Blanc is such a beautiful drink cold you can drink it on it's own cold like it's mother's milk.
I've never liked that saying. Nine women can make nine babies in nine months, you're just running up against fundamental limits with the nine month thing. Of course there are fundamental limits in software engineering as well, but they're much more difficult to identify than the length of time it takes to make a baby. The argument that fundamental limits exist is not an argument not to try and get to those limits.
I've wondered a few times how witness protection works in the world of Facebook. I can totally imagine someone's picture being randomly spotted by a 4-hop connection, being tagged and the cover being blown. Anyone have any interesting research on this subject?
And especially: does a founder's contribution of initial IP, rather than cash, for founding shares also qualify for the tax-free treatment?
That's precisely where I got the waltz thing from. Good find!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Three_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Section_3:_Treason

How can he (Assange) be accused of treason if he is not American and doesn't live in the US? By definition treason is only against your own country.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917

Assange got the documents from someone else, as the NYT did. Why is WikiLeaks or Assange charged with espionage while NYT isn't?
I don't really ask for stuff but I have bought myself Rugby World Cup tickets and I plan to go Skydiving in January.
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This is definitely ficticious. In the Duke's they'll only serve you two Vespers because of the strength of the drink.
I've always been saddened by some of the vitriol that has come up on hacker news when talking about women. But this seems like a pleasant conversation.
Props to anyone who watches a movie and thinks "Holy crap, monads!"