skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May I encourage you to raise your vision from "having kids" to something more meaningful? Maybe we could call it raising children to maturity.

You will never have a chance at impressing anyone as deeply as those you call your children. And I for one do care what happens after I'm dead.

"I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth." (3 John 1:4)
Sure, but the more complicated it gets, the more expertise they need. That means they need some specialized people and by that they are just augmenting the risk of getting caught at some point in the process.
Questions I Ask Myself Daily
Interesting post:

The lessons i seem to take away from this are:
1. Be yourself; show your true colours; Be honest
2. Build 'true' networks (not just networks of acquaintances)
I like the idea. Though, in its current form, probably not enough to pay.

As a suggestion, I think the site could be little more fun/game-y instead of looking like a list of articles. And maybe make the current hot/popular prediction be the most prominent thing on the page asking 'Do you think <link>X</link> or <link>Y</link> will happen", so a new person on the site immediately has something to see and do.

Good luck!
people facing a massive die off due to something like smallpox might view it as a crisis

First, "There is no crisis" refers to birthrates, not smallpox. Second, by "crisis" I mean existential crises, not personal. Even the black plague was not an existential crisis. For comparison, the Ottoman and Mongol expansions were.

because of the many reasons

Every western country has had its birthrate drop as the economy and education levels improved. It's a very solid correlation, and almost certainly the real reason. But people still say, "I can't afford children" (or whatever), even if the real reason is their large and distracting discretionary income. People rationalize, and certainly don't understand their own motivations.
I think the average income of people trying to make it big on one hot single puts them firmly in the <$20K category.

The rich people I know work incredibly hard when they have to.
It's a pity the recommendations were never worked out properly - I think such an engine with a proper recommendations system would be quite valuable.

Also, taking note of how often a user visits (refreshes) the site could be useful (varying the second component) - if I haven't been to the site in a week, it would make sense to show me older stories than if I visited this morning.
The MySpace audio player is pretty good. It gives you the name, upcoming songs, volume control, etc. all of which are missing from this.
Good advice from both mechanical_fish and pivo. The GNU Emacs book is a tad old, considering that emacs is now v.22 but it certainly will help you get from nowhere to a slow jog ;-). Considering I too am trying to learn Emacs, here's one thing that I try and do. Learn one new command everyday, and practice that all day. I mean literally - for e.g. Ctrl-T swaps two characters (I learned that one today). I essentially just started typing random letters into emacs and hitting ctrl-t every now and then (amongst some other commands I learned over the last few days).

A good editor has to be an extension of your fingers. Emacs can do that for you, once you accept that the learning curve is extremely steep. Another thing I learned, don't try and bite off more than you can chew. Emacs has several modes and hundreds of extensions that you can install, each with their own commands, and key-board shortcuts (not to mention the initial set up and configuration). Take it one step at a time, figure out the basic commands from the tutorial, and take it from there. Once you have established mastery of moving around within emacs, basic editing, searching etc you will not only be ready, but be much more comfortable with the "zen of emacs".

Here is another discussion (of several more, I am sure) that I came across on HN today. Some good advice there...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=230639

Good luck.
I guess you missed this article claiming that couples w/o children are happier than those with. Which could imply; not having kids means working less and having more leisure time?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231236

But surely isn't the point in having kids is make them productive adults who can fend for themselves and not have to rely on their parents wealth?
I'm not saying he specifically bid up auctions, but there's a possibility. So it weakens trust with all parties involved. All the other major companies have some policy against this (not all). I would also figure that his compensation is tied to the performance of his division (domain auctions).

It's almost like saying, "I don't see the problem with that figure skater also judging the event."

:)
Cross mashing whois data with jigsaw data
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Google taps 'Family Guy' guy for Web series
The 6-hour workday
Actually, Google does have one major challenge -- how to motivate its people. I'm not talking about fresh college graduates, but rather people who are high up in the organization because they happened to join early on. Many of these people are worth a lot of money, and presumably see day to day work at Google as a way to spend their time, socialize, and to flex their political muscle.

In such a place, bringing in new hungry blood is very difficult to do, especially since the old crowd will try very hard to protect their power structure. In the long term, this does cause problems in the ranks, since success within the company starts to become a measure of how well you can navigate politically, vs. the quality of work produced.
The state of browser-based HTML editors
This article's outlook is way too simplistic; Chinese won't be the only influence on English's future. China still accounts for only a somewhat small fraction of English speakers, so other languages and cultures will have as much, if not more, impact. Also, this time won't be like Latin- there won't be any collapse of global society, so eventually the various dialects will homogenize, both because everyone has to understand them (otherwise what's the point of a lingua franca?) and because people from all over will be interacting so much. The end result probably won't be exactly like modern English, but I don't expect it to be too far removed, as all the changes should more or less balance themselves out.
Perhaps the reason Mono has no traffic on their mailing list is because Mono as a piece of software kind of sucks, at least in my opinion. Then again my perception might just be colored by my experience with using OpenEmbedded which I've come to dislike greatly and coincidentally also uses Mono.
It shouldn't be a matter of what is proven. It should be a matter of my own judgment about what I want to use, or not.
My bet is on Bollywood.
I think more charitably it's because mono is in some senses a write-only project. It's a collection of people who are essentially writing software to an external spec. Except for design details at the very core (probably handled via private mail between the half dozen people involved), there really isn't any need for elaborate collaboration on development details. And futures issues (the "how do I do this?" kind of discussion) are all directed at microsoft anyway, not mono.

I guess I'd have expected it to be a little sterile. Certainly it isn't something I'm dying to work on.
Who says big ideas are rare? by Malcolm Gladwell
And your judgment doesn't, at least sometimes, rely on rational evidence to make its decisions?
Your tinyurl doesn't shorten the URL any, and even if your target URL was long, News.YC doesn't have a problem with long URLs.

What are you trying to hide by using TinyURL?
Well we already know that sometimes you can get prescription marijuana pills if you are hospitalized. You just cannot buy it over the counter.
Has anyone seen any data to back this up? This seems like the sort of assertion that would be quantifiable - Every company seems to have its own internal satisfaction surveys; and external sources have been doing employee happiness surveys for years.
I'm calling bollocks on this. It doesn't make any sense that they'd intentionally generate bad instructions rather than erroring out at compile time, and one unsubstantiated claim on a third-party mailing list doesn't make it true.
Do these feeds respect the 'Delay' feature announced yesterday?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231024
Marijuana is a plant containing many chemicals, and this article refers to one of them. So, the word "Marijuana" shouldn't be in the headline. When chemicals are actually useful, they tend to be legal, as with Marinol (thc) and cocaine (as an anaesthetic) and obviously morphine. There will never be "medical marijuana"...no more than "medical poppies" anyway.
My point is that these various religious books are full of misogyny, intolerance, and violence (which you have agreed with).

At that point any reasonable person would say something along the lines of: "You know what, this book isn't very good. It may have been decent x years ago, and it does have some good ideas, but on balance it isn't that good. Let's keep the good stuff, throw out the bad, and come up with a new canon based on the best thinking of today."

But that isn't what happened. Islam and Judaism have chosen to keep their deeply flawed books at the center of their religions (and yes, they are the center). And we still have wackos using the text in these books to justify their violence and bigotry.

So, until Jews and Muslims openly disavow huge potions of the torah and quaran, I have very little respect for them.
Past nuclear explosions can help detect art forgeries
I don't see anything in that book quote suggesting Filo or Yang were "unfit" for leadership -- just that "[t]hey never quite ran the company" because other executives were brought in from the beginning.

The excerpt is criticizing the exaggerated myth of technical-founder-as-manager. It's not criticizing Yang specifically in the slightest, nor does it make any predictions about the future, a Yahoo "collapse", or what would happen if its founders took over.

This submission has a misleading, attention-stealing headline.
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Sure, evidence is good. But one shouldn't have to prove anything before it's legal to make my own decision. A proof that marijuana has medical value would not be very important if we already had freedom on the matter (especially since we already knew it did).
It's not so simple. Places that supply medical marijuana get raided.
Auction rigging to generate bigger revenues eh

Could this company be sued for this?
yeah dude, I would have done the same lol

Time for other companies to get ready with additional servers for massive switching haha
Amazing Visualization - Charts connections between 33,000+ VIPs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sativex
Dissecting today's Internet traffic spikes
I agree as long as your individual decision doesn't hurt others.
What I was aiming at was the notion that creating maximally stable software that does exactly what it's designed to do is something to aspire to.

Just my opinion, obviously. You could be right that the above is not in most companies' interest.
Public infrastructure may be designed to last many decades, but at least around here (Seattle) it only lasts a few years before being 'upgraded' for whatever reason, usually due to growth. On a meaningless and cynical tangent, I think the reason is to keep the construction firms employed.

The same seems to be true of much of our software. The core concepts are solid; but the growth rate of datasets and improvements in technology warrant constant replacement of old infrastructure with new. Whether the improvement is for efficiency or fun, it happens.

Reading further down the article (find the bulleted list), this individual's thought process is quite frightening. The argument seems to be for the removal of 'societal infrastructure software' from the free market, existing instead in a subsidized walled garden of chosen businesses. Municipalities would then have to rely on the products of such organizations.

To me this looks like an argument for the establishment of Looters. I'll grant the author good intentions, but not my agreement. Software, even for infrastructure, needs to continue being produced in a market setting where fast-paced innovation is embraced and praised, rather than feared.
My I haven't seen such trollish behavior in HN for a long time.
Former Intel Chairman Andy Grove pushes electric cars
The FDA's refusal to allow terminal patients the ability to try truly experimental treatment is holding back medical research a great deal.
That's fantastic, but I'm afraid this is not the greatest prank ever. Which one is? This one:

http://today.caltech.edu/today/story-display.tcl?story_id=11...
Howto: Make Money While Hacking On Open Source Projects
This is a genuinely terrible article with an overblown and under-researched thesis - just a lot of uneducated pontificating.

One way you can tell, for example, is his treatment of the Singlish phenomena in the same context as mainland Chinese English when, at even the most casual glance, they are completely different things. (Singlish is a primary day-to-day language for a large number of people - mainland Chinese-English is not. Singlish is often spoken by native/fluent English speakers who have been educated in English from primary school to university; the situation in mainland China is the opposite.)
Take all of that and compress it into six weeks.

The pace of business, and particularly startups, is too fast to spend six months feeling out your potential market.
I'd bet that the potential market of people willing to waste their time betting on celebrities, sports, and the latest whatever in current events is greater than the segment of people willing to waste their time trying to find X device driver to get Y hardware working properly on a laptop that came with Vista preinstalled.

I wish the best developers got paid the most, but the reality is, it seems to go to the ones who are best at getting people to part with their hard-earned cash.
The Worm Turns - Curing Diseases With Parasites?
In my opinion, if you're making employees fill out surveys about their happiness, you're doing it wrong. What's needed is a culture where employees don't just follow policy but help shape it as well. Contributions met with positive feedback beget more contribution, and everyone feels as though they have a say in how things are done.

Of course, not every idea is good. Instead of ignoring or dismissing the idea, explain its flaws and ask them to present a revised idea that addresses those points.
Could you make the text on the front page bigger?
Microsoft's Mac Team: "We're The Coolest"
Yes. See my explanation in the reddit thread. Basically, after orthogonalizing a set of feature vectors for dimensionality reduction, the resulting landscape of posts is clustered (k-NN as far as I can tell) and the 'closest' set of 'hot' posts to a user is returned. I'll be better able to fuss with this after I have a little more free time (eg. after my exam and the paper I'm working on); the code is primarily in Recommender.cpp if you have checked out the r2 git repo.

Using an unsupervised clustering algorithm instead of a supervised algorithm was, in my opinion, the Wrong Way to Go. After I get done with my screening exam this week, I am planning to screw around with it and maybe see if libSVM will offer a means of constructing arbitrary discriminators based on the selections of, say, one's favorite users, or one's own feedback.

Obviously there are a great many nits that need to be worked out with my idea, but I figure it may be worth a try.
I'm not buying the article's comparison with Latin. A big reason that Latin forked off into Spanish, Italian, French, etc. is because of the influence of Germanic and Moorish invaders. Also, the vast majority of people living during the Dark Ages were illiterate and had no idea that their Vulgar Latin was evolving into something else. Add to this the fact that most populations were isolated from each other.

Today, we have widespread literacy, sound recordings and linguists who are able to identify these trends. Humans are becoming less and less isolated, so there are actually fewer opportunities for English to diverge, not more.
Another site to be aware of is http://inklingmarkets.com/ ... they have a free prediction market that anyone can use, and then have it available as a platform for enterprisey goodness.

Your site is the cleanest of the ones I've seen, so that may be a win. Make it easy to embed predictions in websites, and make an API for people to build mashups with.

As others have said, though...I don't think many people will pay $10/mo unless there's something much more compelling that we haven't seen yet.

Oh, a "Closing Soon" search would be nice, too.
I would think more influence on English will come from India. They have many more native somthing-like-English speakers.
"The economic depression that struck Europe in the fourteenth century was followed ultimately by economic and technological recovery. But the depression we have moved into will have no end. We can anticipate centuries of decline and exhaustion."

- Jean Gimpel, The Medieval Machine, 1975
LinkedIn quietly launches DirectAds ad platform and Research Network
This is a nice, succinct condemnation of the same idiocy that motivates people to pick up a book on "agent-driven swarm learning systems" instead of understanding how to maximize a posteriori the probability of an observed data set and apply the results to an incoming stream like it.

(Example kiped from http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials/mle.html ; Andrew Moore is a hero)
I agree that it's no longer english as she's spoke, but it is ultimately comprehensible with difficulty. It's harder to unpack deeply nested clauses; human beings have trouble thinking on more than one levelf of the stack at the same time. Whether that counts as grammatically correct is a matter of definitions; I'd say it does, but it hardly matters.
False. Trac has a git plugin. Ergo, Git has an excellent bug tracker available for anyone who wants to use it.

Or there's Lighthouse.
Even pg will agree that a lot of the things that make a startup so productive and exciting fundamentally break when you have 15,000+ people.

Well then, let's hear it from pg.
The Google Way of Science. Google's translation of Chinese web pages invalidates Searle's Chinese Room riddle
Rhapsody launches DRM-free MP3 store
They tend to in practice, but it may not be completely inevitable. Organizations have some control over how bureaucratic they become.
First Pregnant Man
Thomas Beatie was born a woman (Tracy), then he Tran-gendered into a man by having

reconstructive surgery to remove the breasts and taking testosterone hormone injections to grow facial hair and develop other male characteristics. OK so far, familiar enough story: Tran-gendering from one to another sex is getting less shocking and more common. But Thomas chose to keep the reproductive organs he was born with (I don’t know about the genitalia and was somewhat queasy to find out about that, so I didn’t).
Happiness studies aren't worth your time. Also, generalizations about the lives of others make bad advice.
Religion as practiced by the common man has always been more about tribal identity and rituals than books or theology. The preexisting cultural traditions are adapted as needed to satisfy the dictates of the ruling elite. Most of Christianity is a thin coat on pagan traditions. Your typical white Christian can't articulate much more than some parables, but knows the pagan celestial feasts of Christmas and Easter are central to his culture.

Constantine, King David, Shinto Imperialists, or whatever, come along and write books as part of a social control program, and people shrug and do what they were doing. See how Catholicism in South America is rife with rituals of native origin, different from the European pagan ones.

But Islam is a bit different. Islam was fairly clearly articulated by well documented real people (I personally don't think Jesus even existed) who spread their beliefs through military conquest. Islam is unambiguously defined by the koran, both theologically and in practice, in a way not true of most other faiths. The historical experience of the Caliphate and the enforcement of Islamic law is quite different. The historical actions of Islamic states have corresponded well to the precepts of the koran.
Please stop this.
Cool Hunting: what is the big deal?
As Microsoft is trying to become cool, I wonder what the purpose of being cool is in the first place...
Atomkeep is not OpenProfile. Idea is to do manual job for the user, just facilitate the usual boring process. Like "Autofill" in your browser did it many years ago :-) Doing just same what user will do, but just filling the fields for him.
The possibility of coding on FOSS projects while earning a decent income might be low, but the idea is intriguing. We could build a way to make such a route more feasible for our idealistic comrades. Or, it might be impossible.

Any hackers here doing something like the OP?
Great insight. Very practical. I hope Google founders are NOT reading this.
There is no idea to force people "stick" to the Atomkeep site and keep syncing and syncing. I believe people who will be doing that will be crazy! ;-) Just when you need to update something, with Atomkeep you always sure it will reflect everywhere you need it. Use it when you need it.
I didn't do a good job making my point. I'm not interested in having my employees fill out surveys at all. I'm curious as to whether or not someone has actually done any studies with regards to the claim that happy employees equates to successful companies.

If a correlation can be made, then it validates the foosball tables and Wii that seem to be ubiquitous in startups these days.

Otherwise, it seems like the article is saying "these two guys have successful companies because their employees are happy"; versus the conventional wisdom that successful companies tend to have happier employees than unsuccessful ones. In other words, correlation does not equal causality.
The medical marijuana debate is retarded. Of course it should be allowed for medical reasons. We already use a lot of heavier drugs for that obviously.
The retardedness comes in when people use that as an argument for legalization.
What does marijuana as medicine has to do with marijuana as a social/enertainment drug?

Sidenote: I dont smoke marijuana as someone would probably deduce from the above but I am also not opposed to it.
If people want to smoke it it is fine with me, it just makes my head explode when people use the above argumentation.
Good point but some cancerpatients smoke marijuana to lessen the pain.
This one is US only too :(
I think you need to expand the definition of paid. These people aren't slogging away in a mine. They are writing code. Many of them enjoy it so much they like to do it for reasons other then money. Also, don't forget that if you contribute to an open source project you are recognized for doing so. You are apart of a community. That is worth something. Thinking of open source solely as work done for "free" isn't the right way to think about open source.
When you are rich, you can delegate. You can have people organize for you, cook for you, clean for you, do errands for you, etc. You get to decide what you spend your time on.