skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife and I have been married 14 years, and it's the best decision I've ever made.

We knew from the start that we did not ever want to go through a divorce, and that we wanted our marriage to be for keeps. So, we worked backwards from that and thought about what it would take to make that happen.

So, I suggested that we go to marriage counseling right after we got married. And, within 6 months of getting married, we did marriage counseling for 1.5 years. It really helped a lot.

We've also taken communication classes together and we've made a point to go back in to counseling to talk through problems with a third party present before things get too bad.

It takes a lot of time and effort, but marriage is one of those investments where the returns always out weight the investment in it.

BTW, my wife is also my co founder.
Well probably the people who are interested on this know the name Milton Friedman very well, but I agree that for others an about page would be nice.

Just FYI: this is a television series from Friedmans book "Free to Choose", a classic book that advocates laissez-faire politics (free markets). Highly recommanded if you are interested in economics.

EDIT: Actually I checked and it seems that the book was written after the first TV-series, my bad.
Since you were polite, I'll actually explain. Museo 500's tendency to block up is something I deliberately exploit. My tumblr is not often a venue for long-form blog posts; it is almost exclusively for link sharing and my photography. Small blocks of Museo "flow" very well along with those sorts of media posts. Long blocks blend together and stream past, providing only a slight interruption to the flow of media and links.

I admit it's sub-optimal for long form posts like this, but it's a tradeoff I've decided to make for the sake of the majority of my tumblr's content. I could make a script to detect when the tumblr is showing a single post, changing the font. I just haven't yet, and I don't get that many complaints. Most people are happy to see any sort of original design and deliberate typography on a blog, even if it isn't perfect.

I still think it's fairly readable. Compare it to the readability-required status of even big-name content pushers like the Chicago-Sun Times. My site is an order of magnitude easier to read, even if their body font is a bit easier in block form.
Hidden Chrome Features on CR-48
Your comments are extremely unimpressive.

Comparing Apple to the Gestapo because they have a legit business need to keep new products secret until they are released?

Do you even know what the Gestapo was?

Are you even serious, posting this? Ludicrous.
Web video stats: December 2010
I actually love going to bookstores. Borders included. Books make great gifts, I like the way they look and feel, and I don't mind paying for them.

That said when I do buy books I RedLaser them and buy online. Here's what bookstores could do to get my money:

-sell coffee and make a quite place i can plug in and use wifi

-set up small reading/work stations with tables and comfortable chairs spread out amongst the aisles

-sell food and/or beer on site

some places kind of do this with tacking a starbucks in, but they are usually busy and loud and feature the parts of starbucks i dont like and cut out the parts i do. mainly the plush seating areas.

i do a lot of remote work and a bookstore environment seems better than a starbucks or indie coffee shop, which is where I've been spending such time.
You will have to compromise. If you're lucky, and have found the right person, they'll be willing to compromise, too. And if it's right, neither partner will mind.

If either of you maintain "It has to be my way" or "It has to be this way" thoughts, things might get rocky...
That's why we love Arc90's Readability http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ No longer do we have to care what ugly fonts or color schemes people use when posting blog articles.
Well, we'll have to agree to disagree then. I don't think a crappy public school system is an impediment to modest success - you'll never be the CEO of GM, but you can raise a family in a decent neighborhood through your own efforts.
Try a functional language, before you throw in the towel. If you've got some background in Prolog, look at an Erlang tutorial, e.g. http://learnyousomeerlang.com/

OO doesn't harmonize with my brain. I find it much easier to get into a flow with functional languages.
In 2010 I decided to fully focus only on what truly matters to me and became a music producer (http://soundcloud.com/alxander) I wake up happy every morning and go to sleep excited about the next day, every single day.

In 2011 I'm going to keep cutting my path while plowing through pressures to commercialize my ideas.
This Jarvis guy is a waste of perfectly good oxygen. I agree: STFU. What business is it of his how people get their gaming jollies?
>But beyond that, Harris points out that a significant fraction of your "fruits" are not of your labors but of your favorable circumstances. He's telling you that you ought to share some of the fruits of your good fortune.

I know that's a common perception on the left, but I don't accept it. I don't know anyone super-wealthy, but the people I know who are at least mid-six-figures didn't get their through favorable circumstances.
Does anyone know anything about David Tisch who runs TechStars NYC?

I can't find anything about his entrepreneurial history online. (Knowmore.com is a dead URL, archive.org shows nothing for the years he ran it, his name has never come up before with Mixergy guests, etc.)

I'm just curious about who he is.
It's no waste. That's social networking gold. I'm kind of sorry I couldn't attend, really; sounds rather enjoyable.
He never said anything about being 'employee number ten' at Apple. He just said he felt the ambient invigorating and felt excitement to work with people of the caliber that Apple employs. Aside, making a difference doesn't have to mean to 'fix' world hunger, it's the small things that count. I feel exited to work where I do (not Apple) because I get to try new things for the benefit of the company, and because a lot of the code I check in end's up making a difference in the product sold to the end user. I'm not a drone and I appreciate that.
> If you think the Netherlands has become hateful of immigration, guess again.

It doesn't seem to be a majority view, but politicians running on "zero immigration" platforms, like Pim Fortuyn and Geert Wilders, do seem to have done fairly well at various times. At least, we hear a lot about them in the international media...
RFC: Artificial Intelligence ALICE on GChat/Jabber
Add bored@bot.im as a GChat or Jabber friend and start talking. Love any feedback!

Chat via IMified and AI from Program E
What's the difference between functional and OO?
Good to see H.264 being mainstream :) Just wondering who needs VP6 output?
Gestapo? I take it you think I authored the Gizmodo features that I linked to?
I got married on New Year's Eve 16 years ago. It was a great night to get married, so congratulations. New Year's Eve will always be your anniversary first and a holiday second, which is a good thing if you ask me.

Advice? Don't!!! (Just a little vestibule humor.)

Real advice...

Don't ever treat your partner worse than you would treat a stranger. Another way of saying don't take them for granted.

Ensure your partner becomes or remains your best friend.

You will both change over the years. Do it together or you will inevitably do it separately.

Be a little unpredictable about doing nice things for your partner. Shockingly effective.

None of this is relevant for tonight. Enjoy!
I'm mostly saying that it seems useful for a maintainer to offer those aiming to contribute a path towards doing more than just fixing bugs.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/boor
I think one of the key parts of parenting for our generation will be to equipt our children with [...] the willpower to handle and enjoy games like WoW properly.

How do you do that?
The company was started by the guy who started Oakley.
I went to college in the early nineties for art & design, started out by working as a print designer, and launched an independent magazine in 1992.

That led me to the web in '95, where I learned HTML by working right on the server, using vi as my text editor. We had a tiny shop, so everyone did everything. Graphic design, front end coding, content - the only thing I couldn't do was back-end stuff.

Eventually we were bought by Razorfish, and they decided some people would be called "information architects," so in 1997 I took the title of IA, and went from there.

I've studied with various mentors, but my best education has come from Nielsen Norman Group's usability weeks, and constantly pestering people in emails, on message boards, listservs, conferences, you name it. The UX community is pretty tight-knit, and people really help each other out.

In the years that I've done IA and UX, I've worked for IBM, Disney, and several large agencies. I started as a usability freak, but have expanded my horizons to realize that there's a whole spectrum of things that are important to a good experience.

The best wakeup calls I had were when Don Norman published "Emotional Design," and when Peter Morville made his UX honeycomb ( http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000029.php)

I'm now executive director for a large NY agency with offices worldwide, and I have a very diverse group of UX people in the different offices.

One thing I look for in a UX practitioner is a diversity of experience and background. Someone who studied IA in college and has only been on one path often has trouble empathizing with real world users.

I have hired people with degrees in library sciences, human computer interaction, design, computer science, psychology, human factors, even theater. It's all about how a person solves problems to me, not the degree they pursued.

I'd encourage your friend to spend more time on listservs like IXDA or SIGIA, going to conferences like Adaptive Path's UX Week and N/Ng's usability week, and making that his new education. It's incredibly rewarding.
Ask HN:  Replace submission voting in HN by Google-style AI Challenges?
Instead of voting on submissions, why not have a weekly AI challenge whereby people making submissions would also submit code for the challenge? As the week progresses, you can improve your code, even for submissions already made.

The ranking of the front page of submissions would be based on the ranking of the associated programs for the AI challenge. Points gained by your AI program would be divided by the number of submissions associated with that program.

The AI challenge setup would be similar to the Google one: http://ai-contest.com/

What do you think?
I am currently trying to talk to Taylor about sharing cdn resources.

If anyone is not aware, one of the best CDNs out there for getting jQuery is the Taylor Swift "TaylorNation" cdn.

http://cdn.thetaylornation.com/taylornation/resources/displa...

I encourage everyone to use it.
Why We Procrastinate
Which projects made you millions?
You forgot: http://cdn.thetaylornation.com/taylornation/resources/displa...
Why We Make New Year’s Resolutions
Happy wife -> happy life.
There needn't be One Test Suite To Rule Them All.

I like having something similar to zombie.js during dev, then Selenium during CI triggered on git push, perhaps with Testswarm scheduled to run daily.
I couldn't disagree more strongly with this sentiment. Marriage is built on trust, and with a pre-nup agreement, you're starting out with the premise BEFORE YOU'VE EVEN MARRIED... that 'this is how we divorce'. BAD IDEA.

If you don't trust someone enough, don't get married. Period. End of story.
I don't really understand what you want.
It means that the submissions that rank highly would be ones submitted by people who are really good at the AI challenge -- real hackers!
> On a side note, if there is anyone in NYC with interest I playing such games, contact me via my info. :)

Too far from NYC to join you, but I recommend trying meetup.com:

http://board-games.meetup.com/cities/us/ny/new_york/
So hackers is now limited to AI programmers? I suspect a highly biased front page would then be an effect.
It isn't that that great of a description, since it doesn't tell whether the defective brick manifests itself through the brick overheating and catching fire or (as in the twitter video) the Wakemate unit itself. This isn't faulting them, they may not know at this point.

Both alternatives could presumably burn your house down, but one in particular could horribly mame you with less chance of avoidance.
You need more CPUs then :-)

Also, there really is a difference between SSDs available right now. My Kingston SSDs have blocksizes of 120k (!). My OCZ Vertex2 has blocksize of 4k. Its 4k write speed is off the chart. Like 40x faster than some SSDs.

I'm on OSX (2 cores), Windows (8 cores) and CentOS (4 cores).
I just wanted to add my 2 cents relating to gaming addiction. I've never played WoW so I can't comment on that. But I was kicked out of college indirectly due to my addiction to Counter Strike.

I dunno if the same is true for WoW but one of the reasons I believe Counter Strike is so addictive is the time you have to wait after you get killed, before the next round starts.

I believe this is due to the fact that variable reinforcement schedules are more resistant to extinction:

"Skinner also looked at variable schedules. Variable ratio means you change the “x” each time -- first it takes 3 presses to get a goodie, then 10, then 1, then 7 and so on. Variable interval means you keep changing the time period -- first 20 seconds, then 5, then 35, then 10 and so on.

In both cases, it keeps the rats on their rat toes. With the variable interval schedule, they no longer “pace” themselves, because they can no longer establish a “rhythm” between behavior and reward. Most importantly, these schedules are very resistant to extinction. It makes sense, if you think about it. If you haven’t gotten a reinforcer for a while, well, it could just be that you are at a particularly “bad” ratio or interval! Just one more bar press, maybe this’ll be the one!"

Counter Strike is a variable interval schedule. Once you die you have to wait an unknown amount of time before you can play again. This makes counter strike playing behavior more resistant to extinction and I believe one of the big reasons why people get so addicted to it. If you respawned the second you died in Counter Strike (as you do in deathmatch) I'm fairly positive there would be a much fewer number of people addicted to the game.
I believe this is quite a big factor in addiction. I haven't heard of anyone addicted to any FPS deathmatch multiplayer game. I'm sure there are some, but much less so than games like counter strike where you have to wait.
SCM (a la GitHub pull requests) really helps with this. When your contribution is reduced to a line-by-line diff, it becomes clear what the essential changes are (and satisfying to make the diff as short as possible).
Probably the two most important things as I close my first year of marriage (2 January is my anniversary):

- Do as much as possible together. Try to play games on the same team. Eat meals together. Talk together. Get ready in the mornings together. Watch movies together. Do as much as you possibly can - together. If you think about the way we use the word 'marry' in other concepts (i.e. the perfect marriage of X and Y), it talks about a blending of two things that becomes a new, third thing. So, marriage isn't just two people living in the same place. It's two people becoming something new together. One of the best examples I've seen of this idea is the second chapter of the book A Severe Mercy. The togetherness the author writes about is ridiculously complete.

- The wedding, as much work as it takes to put together, is just the starting line. Don't make the mistake of thinking that you've won your wife and can move onto another project. It's an incredibly easy mistake to make, and a terribly dangerous one. Marriage, especially because of my first point, is hard work. It's breath-taking and awe-inspiring, but it's also hard work. I Love it!

Congratulations!
I got bored halfway through this and didn't finish it. The section on the conference itself felt so much like the Onion I think it could be copied verbatim into one of their articles without seeming out of place.
No programming ability. But understand most of the jargon being a Telecom Engineer. So I skip over most techie posts like "Node.js v0.2.6 Released" or "Zombie.js insanely fast, full-stack, headless testing", but "What should I do? Choosing SQL, NoSQL or Both for Sacalable Web Applications" is fine.
It happens although I'd like to believe it's rare. I perpetrated the most glaring example of patch refactoring I've ever seen.

The scenario:
- Original maintainer's module code totally ignored the code style conventions for the larger project it was a part of.
- Module maintainer had been dragging heels on a raft of bugfixes, module stuck in beta limbo for six months.
- Boss says we need this feature (cleaned up and stable) in our codebase by the end of the month.

My play:
I refactored the codebase to meet larger project coding style standards, patched every bug in the issue queue, added a suite of unit tests and submitted the entire thing back to the maintainer.

Maintainer's play:
The maintainer opted to reject my patch on the grounds he preferred his personal coding style to the project standards.

Endgame:
I promptly re-rolled the patch as an addition to another related module, got the code committed to that project, posted an issue to the original maintainer's queue indicating his module was deprecated. Last time I checked in dude's module was still buggy and he was taking flack from several people involved with the larger project for being a cowboy with the coding standards.
I think it would be fun and would attract a huge number of top hackers to the site.
Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU
Fear is a bad reason.
I think the author misses the point of Vivek's post. His claim is that minimalism as an over arching aesthetic for a creative mode of operation is not tenable. It is good in cycles, but not all the time.

Minimalism as a popular meme as spawned a cottage industry of "concentration apps," that allow people to purchase their minimalism which is ironic.

The over-minimalists hamper their own progress by focusing on the aesthetic over the results. He is revolting at things like http://www.everydayminimalist.com/?p=678
For me, it's not so much fear but more as resignation. I can how an interview will end up within the first few minutes.
How does this compare to env.js?

http://www.envjs.com/
Definitely! But it would then also require a CSS renderer. Automated testing of something like Decal CMS (decalcms.com) where we provide javascript which manipulates the DOM but allows the designer to plug whatever markup/CSS they like into the system means that automated testing is incredibly difficult and does rely on actually checking for the position (and other computed styles) of an element after we've run certain pieces of code.
Communicate. A LOT.

And listen to her, at least twice as much as you speak. You know... the whole two ears - one mouth cliché? :)

Is she your best friend? If she isn't, get to a place in your relationship where she is.

Include her in your plans, your thoughts, your dreams.

Also, being a tech geek, you likely have the "problem solving" mentality. Understand that some days, she will be emotional, and perhaps even irrational... this is not the time to "fix" her. Just listen.

Women are responders. Typically, if you take good care of her, there's nothing she wouldn't do for you.

It is simple, but not at all easy. Be prepared for HARD WORK. :)
I just wonder about the true purity of the supplements. Also, other related chemicals in the wine that increase resveratrol's impact.
Andrew, I interviewed with TechStars NYC and in the process gathered a decent amount of intel on Dave Tisch.

Personal blog: http://www.davidtisch.com/
His angel fund: http://www.boxgroupnyc.com/

You can see from his linkedin that he went from undergrad straight to law school at NYU. He spent summers at law firms but never practiced and I don't believe that he's licensed to practice. He went to work in real estate but found his passion in startups. I believe he tried to start his own startup -- and learned a little Ruby in the process -- but the startup failed. He did some angel investing (he's independently wealthy as a Tisch and likely from his previous work history at law firms and in real estate), and was an early investor in Boxee. (Avner Rosen's talk at Techstars for a Day suggested that Dave was an early investor when they were struggling to raise money for their physical box concept, i.e., Dave was there before Boxee was cool.) He's otherwise made a few other good investments.

He met David Cohen at some event, approached him, and asked, "How about NYC?" Cohen as I recall said that he got that question all the time when Techstars was popping off, but Tisch was one of the few people that followed up on that and kept in touch. When Cohen thought seriously about doing NYC, it was Dave Tisch who he worked with so Dave was the logical choice to run the thing.

That said, Dave doesn't have the track record of someone like Brad Feld, but he's very enthusiastic, he's working very hard, and he's very bright. It seemed clear to me from Techstars for a Day NYC that Dave is running NYC -- he is the guy.
Odious person alert!
One thing that stuck out with me was Donald Trump's books. He wrote two or three of them in the 1980's/1990's, and in each dedicated an entire chapter to prenups, why to have one, and why he had one. He went through two divorces and only ended up paying a few million dollars (pre-agreed upon), rather than half which would have been close to a billion. Agreeing how to end a relationship is much easier to do while you're still friends rather than enemies. Hopefully it never happens, but situations and incentives change, and having a prenup is an excellent hedge against the unpredictability of the future.
Wow, I really like that quote from the medicine man. I think lots of people expect the first stage of the relationship to last for ever, and when things become less exciting, ignore the deeper love and attachment that generally comes along with it. Relationships evolve, just like people.
EXPLAIN EXTENDED is one of the most informative technical blogs I follow. I heartily recommend it, and not just for this admirably insane bit of hackery.
Ask HN: Something like OnLive, but for general computing?
Have you guys seen OnLive yet? It's pretty magical: you install a small client on your PC or Mac, and you can play any game from an extensive library. The catch is that the games are running out in the cloud somewhere, and the OnLive client is basically a remote desktop connection optimized for low latency. I'm not much of a gamer, but it's pretty mind boggling to use, just for the sake of the neat tech.

So, my question is, are there any services out there that can offer something similar for general desktop computing? I realize I could probably run an EC2 instance and use RDC, but I'd like sound and video to work fluidly.

Advice? Thoughts? Recommendations?

Happy New Year!
FWIW, the "Apple Gestapo" article is almost entirely fabricated nonsense.
depends on the voting rights of the shares.
Is test swarm even still up? I can't ever seem to get the website to load in a reasonable amount of time.
Then perhaps the mistake is to call nutrition a science as it is ambiguous in most cases.