skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but in most cases this IQ may be dormant, since from an early age attractive people learn that they can get what they want without working as hard as other people. It's like weight lifting on the moon!
I think we're in violent agreement. Removing a feature only makes things better when it permits the addition of another feature. This is the point I trying to make about pure functional programming. Removing the ability to arbitrarily entangle state in time does not make a functional language more powerful, but adding lazy evaluation does make it more powerful.

Am I correct that we are seeing things the same way, even if my ability to explain it is poor?
I always cringe at shows like Big Bang Theory that portray smart folks as socially inept ... when in fact smart people are just like everyone else

I think thats what Big Bang Theory does best... portray smart people who are socially inept as someone that anyone can relate to. In the show, they are just regular people trying to get by, find love, etc... well, except for Sheldon.

To me, its amazing that a show that is completely over the top nerdy is incredibly popular.
That comment is from my own experience. I've sold a bit of both in my day, and while I don't hate long form copy, I hate pages that look like crap, such as some of those examples.

Again, I'm not hating on you, or your piece, but the fact that often times long form copy is associated with horrid design. That's the trend I want to see disappear.
It's still buggy:

* Sometimes when loading a project, it gets stuck at "Loading..."

* When editing a file, sometimes the Enter button doesn't return. It works if I hold the Enter key down but then it adds a ton of returns.

* The buttons on the right don't really do anything yet, except for the collaborators section. There isn't a label or hint box so I'm not sure what exactly they are for.

With that said, I love the idea of this and really want this to become a viable alternative to Textmate + desktop development, which will hopefully improve the pace and standard at which progress happens.

Looking forward to Ruby support.
Great description of when they realized how valuable the comparison with PayPal could be: "The first time we actively embraced the PayPal comparison was when PayPal froze the account of the Flux foundation – a non-profit arts organization – just a few days before the Flux Crew headed to the desert to build their famous Temple at Burning Man.

The Flux Foundation and a bunch of other people and organizations collecting donations ended up turning to WePay in protest (and in desperation). Our pitch was easy: yes, you can use WePay instead of PayPal. WePay.com is better than PayPal for collecting donations, and we won’t freeze your accounts.

After that, people started referring to us as the consumer-friendly or “community-oriented” version of PayPal. CNN actually referred to us as the anti-PayPal."
If PG sent a letter like that, I'd lose a ton of respect for him because he would've jumped the shark.
Of course, they wouldn't tell you about it, but Russians have been doing automatic docking for the past 20 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurs_%28docking_system%29
Facebook: Improving Comments Across The Web
okay, perhaps you and i have different definitions of "scientist". anyway, i don't want to overdo this here, if you want to call her "scientist", fine.

i know who she is since i saw beautiful girls and of course leon and she always stood out to me as a very, very smart person, but in my book one student co-authorship does not make one a "scientist". it's more like "very good student", "on the way" or "caught the attention of a famous prof and got a head start". none of which detracts from her, btw.

but hey, i suffer my own forms of hero worship, all of which is harmless fun, which is what hollywood is here for, i suppose. ;-)
Startup Helps Mitigate E-mail Thread Overload
Now available with Google Apps: User Managed Storage
Better products through careful use of unexpected and non-durable elements
Apologies for being overly harsh. Seeing content tailored to hit the front page on HN is a bit of a sensitive spot, I understand there was no malice in your choice of title. I do love your idea, hope it sees the light of day.
http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/430/microsoftg.jpg
As a frequent airbnb host, I wonder if this is going to increase bookings... It seems like a lot more people have heard of hipmunk than airbnb.
>"I've become really disillusioned with clinical psychology because of things like this."

I agree with your points about people using diagnostic jargon in conversation in a way that distorts its meaning. I'm sure that happens in other fields also, but speaking as a psychiatrist one thing that I have noticed is that it tends to make people feel like experts on mental health when that conclusion is not justified. There are, however, relatively specific technical definitions for terms like Bipolar Disorder and ADHD. This article doesn't use them, but it's not being published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Don't let this article disillusion you, because it's not about clinical psychology or by a clinical psychologist. It's by someone with some interesting observations who is mis-applying technical terms.
I'll also add to this: Men who fail to have children are called into question. If you're married, older, and have no children then one of you is assumed to be impotent. If the woman is prettier, then its likely the man will be considered impotent. Even if the man is charismatic, a lack of children combined with a lack of sexual show (e.g. philandering) will be seen a sign of low testosterone and emasculation.
John McCarthy's Lisp Programmer's Manual Released
That article reminded me of Giles Bowkett’s blog postings advertising his video- and ebook-based classes, e.g.:

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2010/03/programmers-what-to...

I have no idea if the courses are any good, but he does market them to programmers, and since he has put up more than one blog posting of this nature, I assume he must be getting sales.
Forum and Message Board Consolidator Raises $7.85m
How about if the first line begins with a '>', the paragraph that follows is not included in the body.

Example 1:

>I actually want a subject

This is my message

Example 2:

This is my first paragraph (and subject).

This is my second paragraph.
What Every Entrepreneur Could Learn from Justin Bieber
I thought that too until I moved to San Francisco and started meeting people that consistently see things that I miss. It wasn't that they had more domain knowledge or worked harder, it was that they were just better at seeing remotely connected things.
great product name (even if it's vaporware at this point) ... it's refreshing to see a name that's crisp, memorable, and comprised of PROPERLY SPELLED WORDS! bravo to whoever came up with that name
Ok, well I'm sold, only problem is I'm not a mac user.

I would say cross platform it, but it seems to be a mac-centric app.
I thought they were referencing the ability to find MDMA by searching for 'vice'. You know...they are on a 'roll'.
I block connect.facebook.com in /etc/hosts so the comments don't load in any browser for me as the request 404s, Facebook Disconnect is just a bonus.
WikiLeaks Is Up for a Nobel Peace Prize
Shazam & The Future of TV Ads + Mobile Integration?
Naw. What they REALLY meant was, "We're adult children who are afraid of life, afraid to take risks, and because we don't bother to know who you really are, daughter, we're going to project our brokenness on you and destroy your dreams like other people destroyed ours."
Another article on this subject with unwarranted jumps to conclusions. The first sentences set the gemneral overgeneralizing tone. But how about this:

"How do girls and boys develop these different views? Most likely, it has to do with the kinds of feedback we get from parents and teachers as young children."

In today's competitive parenting world, I'd be very doubtful that parents are holding back on their girls and 5 is such an early age for such discrepancy to occur. But these are my thoughts on the subject, similar to hers. We both have to back them with proof, if there's any. Otherwise it's idle chatter.
There are different kinds of journals and so the costs and benefits can differ widely. Academic archival journals typically have volunteer editors whose salary is paid for by their employer rather than the publisher (usually a non-profit society such as ACM). These editors manage the peer-review and acceptance process. Once the papers have been accepted, they go into production and, depending upon the journal and its goals, they may be subject to simple editing for mark-up and obvious spelling/grammatical errors or they may be carefully edited to improve presentation, style, and content. Professional editing greatly enhances the quality and readability of every author's work. This is the traditional publications model used by professional societies. I have no idea what the relative costs are relative to a Wikipedia-style journal with a totally volunteer staff. What I do know is that the amount of human effort that goes into such a quality journal is significant and that no matter what the infrastructure is, someone has to put in that time, and their efforts should be compensated in some fashion.
Who is John Galt's housekeeper?
Roll Over Copernicus, It Turns Out We Are The Center Of The Universe
On the other hand, I'm completely unamazed that a show that reinforces negative geek stereotypes while passing itself off as an accurate and fair representation is incredibly popular.
Dear HN: Can you spread the word about "Microsoft Windows Support Center" scam?
It's all in the third paragraph of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph_lundgren#Early_life. Here is a permalink in case of future edits to the version I am viewing: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dolph_Lundgren&...
Maybe my question was framed wrong.

If I ask about how a OSX-like services framework may be created, what is the answer ? For example, there are OSX services that remove spaces from text or even summarize paragraphs.
IMHO, some of them are contextual - some services only show up as active when you copy a URL, etc.

They seem pretty nifty and I always wondered why Linux doesnt have something like this.
Interview: Index Ventures Says This Is Not a Bubble
What I don't understand, is why the author says the Firefox is loosing share? It looks like they have remained at about 20% for some time now.
Chart Sweep: 5 seconds of every top chart single over 40 decades
WEBNODE: Referentie #1: Habbonr2
I'd probably describe her success as "realized potential". She was gifted with some things congenitally (I mean just look at her), and she seems to have had some very supportive parents.
Show HN: A site for collaborative poetry
A friend and I spent the last few weekends creating a site for poetry duels. The concept was simple: two poets can choose between a verbal face-off or a constructive build-up, to create a poem one stanza at a time. The duel is set against a stipulated time frame, to decide who wins.

The site has started out in decent way, and have managed to have some pretty awesome duels so far. 'Eintein's Gods' turned out to be a rather interesting one. You can view the duel here: http://blackriverpoets.com/poems/9-einstein-s-gods

Given our hatred for signups, we have kept the site it signup free. We worked with social logins instead. :)

So yeah, do rhyme it up here: www.blackriverpoets.com
California Lt. Gov. gets hipper startup digs, wants more entrepreneurial spirit
Hybrid Incremental MySQL Backups
I think the idea is that women have equivalents for all the male modes of dominance politics (e.g. high heels vs elevator shoes), and then some. Also, women talk openly about the practice of politics more often while men are more likely to create a fiction about 'meritocracy'.
"in Evernote, but it’s not convenient for writing. It’s too cluttered and distracting for that."

To you. I think that is the key. You don't like it. But 5 million people do, apparently!
Humble Bundle creator on Ars' influence and why Linux is important
There's already a thread in progress for this.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270791
When you think about it from the perspective of big sites like TechCrunch, requiring that people use their true Facebook identity would virtually eliminate nasty comments overnight. When you're using your true identity people will generally behave a lot better.

If that was the only motive behind Facebook comments I could easily get on board with that, but inevitably Facebook will find deviant and lucrative purposes for the information they gather.
Congrats to the main team. I started using beluga this weekend for a ski trip and was impressed with it's speed and ease of use!
I wrote this post to give people a different perspective on answering the freelancer vs. dev shop question. We've had a number of entrepreneurs lately asking about the difference between the two and it seemed like a useful way to explain the difference. The value proposition for working with Terralien is very different. We're all about long term relationships with entrepreneurs and helping them build their business rather than just an app. Thanks for the comment and opportunity to clarify that.
Mark Zuckerberg isn't Led Zeppelin, the Winklevi aren't blues singers
That doesn't mean intelligence isn't malleable - San Francisco might just be a great environment for helping people see those connections more and more.
This 'works for me' attitude is completely unrelated to Lisp. Ever worked in a Java team where some guy constantly checks in code which works for him? I've seen that. He still wanted to check in untested code.
Can someone explain the appeal of using this over something with support for pseudonyms?
MM rocks!
Thanks. I'll post there. I've flagged this post hoping it will go away.
Is it weird having other people in your place? Do you ever put up your space while you're away, leaving people unsupervised?
I don't know where you get this.

From publishing an article in an IEEE journal? I mean, I did DARPA funded work in grad school and got it published in a journal. I understand very well that authors are generally paid. My point remains: they are not paid BY THE JOURNAL. From the journal's perspective, authors do not cost them anything.

The difference being that there are only 4 or 5 people in the world capable of producing or verifying the articles that appear in scientific journal.

And academic journals generally don't pay them a damn thing.
Franco is obviously extremely productive and very bright, but I can't help but focus on the fact that he has a full+ time personal assistant. She's up 18 hours a day with him handing the "details" of his life, so he's free to focus on whatever he wants to focus on.

Sometimes I wonder what kind of difference that would make in my life, particularly when I was in grad school.

And then I tell myself to shut up and get back to work.
YouTube for Hackers
Same, and I tried again with the same result a few times. Looks promising though - looking forward to giving it a try!

[edit] tried on FF 3.6.13 and Chrome 10, snow leopard
Thanks for the reply. Are there any specific advantages over say Ruby or PHP? How can I make an informed decision?
> When you're using your true identity people will generally behave a lot better.

Because obviously no one has fake facebook accounts, and the barrier of creating an account with a plausible sounding name in order to troll people is a high enough barrier of entry to stop trolls. And no one is ever mean to other people in situations where their real name is known.

I admit to being a bit envious of whatever fantasy world you live in.
It was an essay for Business and Management advising a internet services company on whether to invest in creating a certain website, mainly looking at the financials and some limited real marketing data.
Thanks to Gmail I just found it again, and looking back it's pretty sad, but is a good convincing study. The factors (mainly financial) are not what I would look at if I did it again, but that was partly my very good advisor's pressuring. I had an idea, but it had to be fit within the framework of the "extended essay" framework.
Oh, and I'm a senior in college, doing "Technical Information Science), hoping to graduate this spring.
> "while passing itself off as an accurate and fair representation"

... Wait, what? You know you're talking about a sitcom, right? The whole point of the show is to be ridiculous for laughs.
If any Computer Science students in the NYC, Boston, or Philadelphia area are interesting in working on a crowdsouring startup, shoot me an email at wguaraca@haverford.edu or my partner at samuel.peprah@brown.edu.
IIRC the clear distinctions between unrelated friend groups is one of Diaspora's big selling points.

A feature that Appleseed has had since around 2007. ;) Except we call them friends "Circles", not "Aspects".
We're seeing this as well. The problems are being investigated.
More likely these guys are moving at mach 5 because of such a small team.
To understand the scene on comments, here's a This Week in Startups episode with Daniel Ha, founder of Disqus.

http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/this-week-in-start...

Starts at 00:15:00
I would also add - sometimes a smart person just doesn't give a damn about impressing others.

When I deliberately dis-engage in uninteresting conversations with "smart people" I can see them judging me immediately. Sometimes I just don't want to faux-argue over inconsequential bullshit. The older you get the better you get at letting your ego go in these kinds of meaningless contests.
63% of web videos now HTML5 compatible
The link to the original paper seems to be broken.

I found this one on Kent's website:
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.pd...
Try RoR, PHP, and Python and see which fits YOU personally. Everyone is different and to be honest, unless you try it, you're not going to be able to find what works best for you and what you like. Try to find something small to code with all three and see which you prefer.
Tinypay.me rolls out powerful API to create an e-commerce app in a day.
Show HN: Yak.to, my weekends project - invite code "hackernews"
I'd love some feedback on Yak (http://yak.to). Trying to figure out positioning and differentiation, and how to solve the chicken-and-egg problem.
Because they need to make more money? Their vision has been to own identity on the web for quite a while. This is just one more small step in that direction, the big previous step being Facebook Connect itself.
Why has Japan had better mobile phones than the United States?
Or possibly because they believe that what they're doing isn't much like "a war-like act comitted by private parties that engage in acts of robbery and/or criminal violence at sea," and there is probably a more descriptive term. ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Piracy )
clickable link: http://yak.to
This should have been a poll. I prefer Jobs style.
The key word there is personalized.

If a key member of the silicon valley venture capital community sent me a personalized letter about anything, especially to do with startups, or funding, of course I would listen.

If Stephen Hawking sent me a personalized letter, I would read it.

If Darren Aronofsky sent me a personalized letter, I would read it.

If Warren Buffet sent me a personalized letter, I would read it.

If Steve Jobs sent me a personalized letter, I would read it.

If Barack Obama sent me a personalized letter, I would read it.

If George Bush sent me a personalized letter, I would read it.

It's also about the context. I'll read mass-produced essays in Foreign Affairs all day long, because they're written by [mostly] authority figures, not copywriters who are trying to make money off of me.
What, you've never seen/heard of peer pressure :D

It exists even after high school :)
This is interesting but very long. Is a transcript on the horizon?
How the Box 2D hero caught Rovio out
Much of the article read like a description of my life, even though it's only in the past couple of years that I've gotten into Lisp.
Wow. That description fits me almost exactly.

Or, rather, it fits what I wish I could feel free to do as life cycles between these phases. What usually happens is I have to keep going to work and slogging through stuff even after I finish a productive frantic stage, and it's really really hard to do that. I get very slow. I feel down/demotivated/depressed during the down phase. Then the next frantic/excited stage hits (randomly as far as I can tell) and I work on the currently interesting feature/framework/whatever with all my waking energy until the phase suddenly fades on me. Rinse, repeat.
I hope I'm not alone, but it's impossible for me to differentiate what you do versus as something already provided by PayPal.

PayPal was revolutionary, but WePay seems something that PayPal already provides.

Borland (with their IDEs and Quattro) taking on Microsoft is akin to a little-guy taking on a 800lb gorilla.

I fail to see the parallel here.
Boxee Gets Additional Funding in Its Bid for Living Room Domination
I think it helps to distinguish different types of costs. If we're talking about general technical writing editing or assistance getting something latex-ified, that seems like the kind of thing that can be readily pushed back onto authors themselves. For example, the volunteer editor could easily tell an author: "the reviewers loved your work, but you need a technical editor to make this acceptable for publication: hire one, get it fixed up, and submit it in 2 weeks if you want it published". The same thing could be done for Latex help.

From an author's perspective, paying for a tech writer to help them edit would only need to be done if they're actually bad at writing, in which case it seems perfectly fair to have them spend a few hundred dollars paying a local editor to help get their work publishable. The net financial benefit to having another published paper on their CV is certainly worth far more than whatever a good tech writer would charge.
One of their sort options at the top of your hotel search results column is "ecstasy". I suppose that in hipmunk land, agony is to ecstasy as 0 is to 1.
I like that the past discussion and submissions are considered- but I'm not sure that the cross-posting is actually discouraging the posting of material that isn't genuinely new? Seems like it tends to encourage discussion in the new thread, rather than having everyone first read the old stuff and then only mention any new thoughts or things which might be more relevant now in the new thread.

That something hasn't been previously discussed is more a function of it being new, most of the time. I'd love to encourage people to post things which are not necessarily new but have never been discussed on HN...that'd be ideal. Otherwise, it's more likely that only time-sensitive items will truly be "new" in this sense to HN discussions.

What's a good example of "hacker news" vs. merely "news"?
"To keep track of just 500 balls, we have to make (500501/2 comparisons) (60 frames per second) = 7,515,000 comparisons per second."

This is incorrect. Space partitioning makes the distance search much faster.

Ideal gas simulations started in the 1950s. One of the standard optimizations is to compute time until next collision and use a priority queue. Pop the smallest item off the queue and advance everything by that step, compute the collision, then do the 500 or so line intersection tests to figure out when the next collision will occur, and put that back into the queue.
Like it!

-Manjit
I'm not sure there's enough information in that paragraph for a proper diagnosis... Bipolar and ADD can be confused easily.

Here's a nice grid showing the differences:
http://www.revolutionhealth.com/conditions/mental-behavioral...
> ...that this is neither a new concept nor is it unique to node.js

Very true, but for starters it gives a nice overview about the different models: per process, per thread and evented non-blocking single threaded.
Only if you're talking HFT, most quant trading isn't HFT.