skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll always remember him for this one:

Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: ‘I’m saving food!’

Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: ‘I’m saving my life!’
That depends on your OS/browser. You could set a user style up (with Stylish for FF for example)
"As the “rest” modernizes in the next 20-40 years, we have a unique opportunity to create a world where people all feel like they belong to the same society. It’s already happening in business. Look at the EU to see a model of what the entire world could become."

Scary. I thought 1984 was a popular book in the US, so why is that so much people buy in that "One World, One Government, One Society" distopian future ?

By the way, did he follow the actuality of Europe at all ? When we asked the people directly (by referendum), in France, Netherlands, and very recently Ireland, they said NO to the next step of European construction. A world where the technocratic elites go against the will of the majority (aka people) isn't supposed to be a model to be followed. That's precisely what is slowely happening in Europe, you can bet that Ireland was the last referendum ever organized.
I think it is not inevitable, but maybe tighter form of editorial control will be necessary.

IMHO slashdot is different animal, because stories are picked up by editors, not "crowd". I personally do like /., especially the funny comments. In one sentence, slashdot is alive and well.
Want To Succeed In Retail: Integrate Online Research & Offline Buying 
In a session called “What’s that shopper worth? Measuring the offline impact of an online visit" Ken Cassar, vice president, industry solutions analytics, Nielsen Online, offered a glimpse into the research firm’s recent finding exploring cross-channel shopping behavior. He shared data from a Nielsen Online survey on how shoppers arrived at their purchases in two categories: consumer electronics and pet food.
How many ways can you design a calendar?
Sun: Java will be free this year
I have noticed that stories seem to stay on the front page for too long these days, and good new stuff isn't making it through. Maybe I'm imagining it, but it could also be a problem with the ranking algorithm.

Unfortunately, I don't have time to watch the 'new' page 24/7, so I think I'm missing out on quite a bit of good stuff. Unfortunately, 1-2 upvotes don't seem to be enough to hold a story on the front page for more than a few minutes.
How UPS Next Day delivers (photos of UPS' gigantic Worldport air facility)
UPS and the art of sorting a million packages a day
Chinese-language Facebook launches
The Microsoft Millionaires Come of Age
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Ah, okay. In that case, I have no idea. ;) Based on the number of startups in existence, I would guess that yes, it's probably feasible, but I didn't go that route so I won't have anything useful to say about it.
It's actually possible to write slightly less verbose code with C# 3.0. For example:

//...

char[] someChars = {'A', 'B', 'C'};

var moreChars = new [] {'D', 'E', 'F'};

SomeMethod(new[] { 'G', 'H', 'I' });

//...

I do, however, agree with your sentiment. The language still has some aspects that are quite verbose when compared with dynamically typed languages. You are also right in pointing out that these new features are irrelevant if programmers are not taking advantage of them.
It would be better if it could be incorporated easily into websites (did not rely on Java to display the word cloud) and generated automatically upon changes to the context it is used within.

In such a case, it would be a hit as a WordPress plugin.
Android Delayed
How Darwin won the evolution race
See also: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-9974653-52.html

Nice description, including a video.
How to Save Twitter
See also: http://news.cnet.com/2300-13576_3-6242193-1.html

(related photo set, that doesn't seem to be linked in the article...)
ABC Moves to Expand Its Reach on Video Web Sites
What Privacy Policy?
The inflation thing has been an article of faith with Buffett and Munger. I think a fairly smart person could see that: unless the government has a bias against extending suffrage, you should expect politicians to advocate extending suffrage to more groups (so those groups feel they owe it to whoever let them vote); so there will be more voters; so politicians will have an incentive to do take more broadly redistributive action; so if they can have their money on the benefits (projects funded by deficit spending) but not on the costs (depreciation of financial assets), they'll go for it. This is a huge part of the reason that Buffett and Munger have moved away from capital-intensive industries.

I thought one interesting part was the mix of different cognitive biases used to make Coke popular: the idea that universal distribution was a form of 'social proof' was new to me (the first time I read it; KO is up about 40% including dividends since then).

And the inflation thing should not be a big deal. Besides those paragraphs, the essay holds true if you have a real-money target (with the same compounded growth) or a target in terms of ounces of gold or cowrie shells. It's not like Coca-Cola made their money because they were short the dollar through leverage.
Oddly, I can only stand warm/cool coffee if it's been sweetened. Is this rule of thumb based on a known phenomenon re: sweet drinks?
Fighting a Workplace War Against Distraction
Carlin used to do a straight stand-up kinda gig, with a suit and a tie and the lot. Used to play Saturday nights at the Holiday Inn to a bunch of middle-aged salesmen.

Then he realized that he could do a 180 and instead do a routine attacking the system. That's when he really took off. He hit his stride during the late 60s/early 70s with a completely new and growing market: the kids.

This is a good example of the same product (Carlin) working at a mediocre level in one market and being a complete success in another. It takes guts to change your market positioning!

I loved some of his stuff. In all fairness, to me some of his stuff towards the end sounded like "old angry hippie tries to stay relevant"

But he was a genius by any measure. Somewhere up in Vallhalla Odin is probably laughing right now at the cats and dogs routine.
new [] {'D', 'E', 'F'}

I thought it was impossible at least in 2.x, is this something added in 3.0?
Coca-Cola had invested a whole lot in making their flavor synonymous with, well, every positive emotion they could think of. It is amazing that they decided to get rid of their flavor and try again. It would be like Google getting into the farm equipment business and just shutting down google.com because it was distracting them.
My education taught me to believe that people who didn’t go to an Ivy League or equivalent school weren’t worth talking to, regardless of their class.

I didn't go to an ivy league school, but is this generally accepted as true? Is this other people's experience, or is the author's opinion more of an outlier?
they have 'menu engineers' now? does anyone else feel as though the word engineer has completely lost its cache?
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Rethinking the conference
EFF attacks foundation of entire RIAA lawsuit campaign
Singular. Menu engineer.

http://www.portfolio.com/careers/job-of-the-week/2007/05/14/...
FCC's plan for free, censored wireless broadband
"Getting through the gate is very difficult, but once you’re in, there’s almost nothing you can do to get kicked out."

That is so true. At Amherst, practically the only way to not get an Amherst degree is to finish your 4 years and not complete a major. (Guess how I found that out... ;-)) Steal an ambulance, drive it around the freshman quad, and crash it into a tree, and you get a 1-year suspension. Embezzle $13,000 from the school newspaper and you get a 4-year suspension. Both of those are real incidents, and their perpetrators are either Amherst alums or back at school now.
This article explains why:
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/closure.html

Upd: just found an interesting discussion on the topic:
http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=1...
Wish I could upmod you more than once. Having an artistic (in the proper, good sense) sensibility and simply good taste will improve your designs tremendously.

You see, one clever fellow named Steve Jobs did exactly that. He took a calligraphy class that turned him onto design. Later he became pretty well known for his great products.

On a side note, good taste helps even in the small things or the things you do not design yourself but simply choose: clothes, business card designs, and so on.
Hmm. He was just here a minute ago.
Probably the underlying rule is really avoid sweetened drinks.
http://news.cnet.com/2300-13576_3-6242193-15.html?tag=ne.gal...

This one's amazing. Hundreds (thousands) of flights above the US.
It's true but incomplete, in the way that so many written articles on the web are.

If you explicitly went up to an Ivy League or top liberal arts student with the above quote, most of them would be disgusted. It's not like people walk around campus all day talking about how everyone else is inferior to them. Someone like that would probably be considered an antisocial boor.

But the point about not having anything to talk about with people who didn't go to an Ivy or other top college is true. One of the selling points of Ivies & top liberal arts colleges is that they "teach you how to think"; well, if they teach you how to think, how do you relate to other people that think differently? There's a shared depth of experience that going to a top college gives you, like the close relationships with professors, chance to talk to well-known public speakers, hanging out on a lush green quad in the middle of a city, or being able to break lots of rules without the administration caring. People who went to state schools, community colleges, or no college at all often didn't have that experience, so what's there to talk about?

This is ameliorated somewhat depending on what you choose to do after college. I went into computers, where many of the best programmers went to no-name colleges or dropped out of high school, so a.) I can always talk tech with other people in the computer field and b.) I found out pretty soon that where you went to school isn't a good proxy for ability. Some of my friends are bakers or teachers or secretaries, and they're sitting firmly in the real world. But the financial system and top law schools are populated with huge proportions of alums from top colleges, so the "Amherst bubble" (which includes Harvard & Yale & Columbia & Brown & Dartmouth & Swarthmore & Williams too, except they undoubtedly call it by their own school name) extends over it too.
You're right - it has been there since at least 2.0. I threw that in there as an example. I apologize for not clarifying that.
Daily stand-ups for 5 minutes each.

Weekly 15-minute "what's killing us right now" meetings

Work in the same room all the time.

Make it a point to spend a lunch with the team at least once a week somewhere besides lunch.

Repeat and rinse.

My guess is that you're not co-locating and collaborating effectively. If you were, meetings would not be a problem.
There's a really excellent hour-long show on NatGeo called Ultimate Factories that did a great episode on the UPS Worldport.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/ultimate-factor...

Check your local listings, it's been playing recently.
The Ultimate Code Kata
congrats. You made it.

It's all downhill from here. : )
Life for Gates without Microsoft
I'd like to point out that I disagree with the purpose of this article -- I want to take submitter's comments on their own merits. I don't care if you are Bill Gates or the janitor.

However -- and this is a "feature" of HackerNews -- I have to upvote it to keep it in my list, and I am curious to see the answers.

So count this as a forced upvote.Simply because I am curious about something should not make me upvote it. Geesh.
Then we need to build the technology.

Hm, I'm thinking of ways now...
Shop around for a Thinkpad, you can occasionally find a batch of them off a corporate lease, which can be a real bargain (half what you'd pay for a new laptop of equivalent specs).
It's a 50/50 split between typical Win PC's, and yes, MacBook Pros. I use a MacBook Pro. Perhaps there is a correlation.
Real Market Value of Social Networks
NOLOH Launches Beta Program
Thanks everyone--some really awesome, useful advice. I really appreciate it!
Ditto on the agenda-in-wiki, with the addition that if it's not on the agenda it has to wait until next week. This keeps meetings from wandering from topic to topic, usually on topics that someone just thought of that don't really need to be discussed in a group.
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So are pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. Saying "it's human" means "it's easy to do this," and is too often an excuse for not-so-excusable behavior.
Three sites you might be interested in:
http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/
http://almostfearless.com
Google blogsearch not reg. search: 'travel' + [location] + 'budget'
I went for the sound bite, but the truth is: I left grad school last December, and I've been in Turkey ever since. I'll likely move to India in a few months.

Turkey outside of Istanbul is rather cheap, but not incredibly so. My nice 4-bedroom flat is 400 euros/month in a good student neighborhood (split with my 3 roomies of course). A very good student meal is around 4 euros, so we eat out a lot. The fruits/vegetables are ridiculously cheap in bazaars. People are really friendly and helpful, though it's hard to find people who are... different, for lack of better term. The uni libraries suck in Izmir, which is bad for me.

Staying with Erasmus students turned out to be best for me. Living with Turkish men has proven... difficult, and the culture doesn't really allow mixed-sex appartment sharing before marriage.

I never did it, but you can get 15 Euro/hour teaching English here, which is really good money for Izmir.

Everything else I've heard second-hand, so you might have more luck with Google. India is supposed to be dirt cheap (7 euros/night reasonable hotels). I'll go there alone and network my way into an appartment. My roomie went to Iran for two weeks, and it seems so interesting, culturally. If there wasn't the threat of a looming war, I'd stay some time there before moving more to the east.

Finally: moving/finding an appartment is very costly, both in time and money. Changing country is even moreso. If you're staying less than 4 months in a city, you're not really living there, you're just travelling. (nothing wrong with that of course, but my goal is to get work done and learn as much as I can)

Feel free to email. I wish I knew more people doing what I'm doing.
Biggest argument against taking drugs: they'll make you think that crap like that is "wisdom".

Seriously, that seems to be the worst side-effect I've noticed of most of these drugs -- they grant an unjustified feeling of the profundity of your own thoughts.
Wikipedia Updater Fired For Scooping NBC on Tim Russert's Death
Anyone can afford to go skydiving once, and it's worth doing.
I dunno. Something doesn't quite add up to me. There are certain topics that all people like to talk about, regardless of how they think. Knowing those topics reveals certain tricks to talking to different people. "Ask the expert", where you compliment someone on their skill or knowledge (plumbing, say) and then ask them for more details, showing genuine interest as they talk. People who have kids or pets are also pretty easy to talk to, because they're proud and love to talk about them. Humor, sports, and local news also tend to break the ice.

So I'm truly curious what's at work behind this inability or unwillingness to talk to "the masses", as it were.
Multicore’s Not-So-Secret Problem
i don't know C# but i found this and i thought it was hilarious:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=z99EHyG2jQA&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=528BCJiRkks&feature=user
http://www.archive.org/details/JacquesRicherCountryRain
The title of the main page may need some work. "Blog Topic Suggestion Application" seems to lack any fluency when you describe it. Perhaps "Cure your blogger's block" or something like that, except much better.

You also might want to think about bringing your signup forms up to the front page, or at least making the buttons stand out a little more. Maybe bringing the login/signup from the top and putting it above your yellow box would help add to conversions.
It depends, there are certain people whose opinion I respect more than others.

Tech celebrities are a bit different from regular celebrities. It's (usually) not about what they look like and I'm sure most people you ask wouldn't know who someone like Joel Spolsky was anyway. With nothing else to go by, I would respect Joel's opinion far more than someone I've never spoken to before.

If Bill Gates started commenting here, I'd certainly be paying attention. :)
How do far less intelligent people fascinate you? Is it because they know something that you don't, and/or are able to see things in ways that are new to you? Or perhaps they are less concerned about evaluating the level (in anything) of the other party?

If I was sitting next to Tiger Woods I would probably talk very little about golf, knowing that we share little in common in that area and would make for a very one-way conversation. Perhaps, then, it would appear that I have interesting things to say, although the whole time I am a golf idiot (or sports idiot, or math idiot, whatever).

Or is it something different?
Montalvo Systems post-mortem: "Clever design isn’t enough when it comes to getting a product out."
What were the disadvantages again? The students are 32 flavors of vanilla? Something like that. I went to a poor school and the students were 32 flavors of shit. So think about that the next time you open your mouth to complain.
Serious question: Why is this one OK, but the news of Tim Russert passing was not?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=217591
Really? Tell that to someone in their 60s.
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Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Yahoo to double India headcount
That's almost universally a bad idea. That forces you to pour resources in an area that isn't the core of your business on a system that eventually won't scale if you start growing ... at which point you'll annoy your employees by forcing them to switch to a system they're not used to for reasons they don't understand.
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And who doesn't love the UPS? I'll bet they're the most beloved company on earth. They're like the mail, except that instead of delivering bills and subpoenas, they deliver Christmas presents year-round.
Probably because less people liked Tim Russert.
It would be nice if it generated a PNG or JPG or PDF.
I second the "surprisingly good" comment. I have one friend who managed to get into the Ivy League and come out with a law degree. A lot of what was said in the article reminds me of him.

Having excessively high expectations for his kids (or, you could say, excessively narrow) is the worst of it. I want to tell him, you have three kids, odds are they are not all going to be Ivy League scholars. But he can't imagine any other future for them. Going to be rough on him and his kids alike, I'm afraid.
You don't find girls at parties. Truthfully, you don't WANT to find girls at a party. Any girl after the first month of freshman year who will hook up with someone she met at a party - has already done so. The best route is to find an activity that you like and meet people through that, then you actually have something in common and a chance to spend time talking sober. That forges real relationships, which ultimately are a lot better because you have someone to lean on not just someone to hook up with. But truthfully, having someone is important and hardly precludes you from being in a successful startup. There are 20 of us now at my startup and only 1 or 2 are single.
Sin & Cos: The Programmer's Pals!
I think inquiring about notable figures in the fields and industries in which many of us here find sustenance could hardly be considered 'not-so-excusable'. Branding said inquirers as fanboys seems pretty inexcusable to me.
yc appreciates genius.
He is here quite often actaully
One thing I've learned is that there are many people like the plumber mentioned in the article that do better than many Ivy League grads financially. I know one person who has a two-year degree, worked as an electrician, and built his business to where he's one of the wealthiest people I personally know. Another sold his junk yard (which made him good money for years) for over a million. According to the book "The Millionaire Mind" there's plenty of folks like that and just as many graduates of big schools who live paycheck to paycheck to show how "rich" they are.
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I think many people at Ivy League colleges don't know how to talk about those topics, or aren't interested in them. ;-)

I certainly didn't when I went to college, though I try to practice when I get a chance now. And I remember many of my classmates expressing an uncomfortableness with smalltalk when I got to freshman orientation. "I'd rather talk about God or philosophy or Plato or quantum physics than the weather or sports results," I heard many people say.

Remember there's a bit of selection bias at work here: people who like to learn about and talk about academic things tend to do well in academics, which is how they got into Ivy League colleges in the first place.
This reminds me of a letter-to-the-editor I saw in a computer magazine years ago, asking why computer books cost so much when the materials that go into them only cost a couple dollars.

In the case of XKCD, the limiting factor is not how fast he can do the artwork but how frequently he has good ideas. That frequency may not increase with free time... In fact, it may even decrease, since he might have less experiences from which to draw inspiration.
For the "searchers" there are other, better schools than those of the Ivy League. I still wish I had gone to one of them.

Less seriously, but maybe relatedly: Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed; Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard.
That turns a true statement into a false statement.
Keep in mind, Gmail has fewer customers than Yahoo mail or Hotmail - you're limiting your service to a fairly small number of users if you do option B, and people are probably not interested in signing up for some OTHER service just so they can sign up for YOUR service.
HP Open Sources their Tru64 AdvFS File System
No. C++ is too obtuse and doesn't have many of the features of D. C# is not a systems programming language (it runs in a sandboxed VM).
"Ohhh the anti-system dollar, that's a big dollar!"

Bill Hicks on marketing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo
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