skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with most of what you're saying, I've definitely become disillusioned by the system of high school. I definitely want to go to college, because there's a lot of interesting stuff that I want to learn, for which I need good grades.

I'm sure I can procure them if I study enough, but if I go by the "whatever interests you" philosophy, I think I'd hardly study. I would do lots of productive work, but it wouldn't be of any use to me right away. I think the promise of rewards in the future aren't powerful enough to make me do stuff that's considered necessary.

So, I suppose I'm on the lookout for something that can provide me with more, lets say, experience, problem is I can't take up a part-time job yet, I'm still not old enough!
As for socializing, I live in a very secluded friends circle, people whom I value, but people who are very, well...rare.
Any ideas as to where people who are genuinely interesting (preferably either hackers like on HN, or people into sciences) reside? Also, I think this is what I need to ask, do you have any particularly interesting things that I can do, that would perhaps help me in college?
There's a technique to create forecasts based on this concept. The Delphi method http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_method

If I recall it correctly, it's an iterative process:
1. you create a question list
2. every expert answers the questions (anonymous)
3. a secretary processes the questions and makes an overview (+ creates a new question list if there's no consensus)

Like that every expert has equal amount to say, without compromising the identities of people.

The main disadvantage of the Delphi method is that it takes a lot of time. Maybe you can change your concept to "Delphi on the cloud" -- cashing in on company's that want to make accurate forecasts.
Haven't various sharing models that look very similar to Circles been around for some time?

I have LOTS of friend lists on Facebook. I have Close Friends, Family, Teacher/RA/Restricted, Strangers and then my cohorts broken down by class for various reasons. Now, sometimes Facebook extrapolates from privacy settings for a post and changes my global privacy setting which is annoying but it's trivial to keep an eye on it.

But basically, my geeky posts get my cohorts, my funny posts get posted openly and my rants about drug policy or whatever are blocked from my family.
It is true that fats are among the most calorie dense food in existence but that doesn't make them necessarily 'practical'. If animal fats have lots of external costs (in terms of environmental damage) then they aren't very practical. The costs are just not well understood.

As for the spinach straw man argument...I don't think anyone is suggesting that you eat 10 kilos of spinach, that would be extremely unhealthy. I think the OP was suggesting simply that calories come mostly from plants. This includes nuts (peanut butter is very high calorie), fruits (also high calorie) and vegetables.
Simple little tip: You can save a ton of money for you and the rental owner if you go directly to the property management company and leave out the rental broker. I found several great apartments this way, I called the property management company told them what I wanted and they gave me a hand full of keys and addresses and I showed my self the apartments. The brokers make money from you and they charge the property managers a fee so you can actually get a place with lower rent this way.
It defeats the whole point of this system if those who criticize things are simply labelled trolls to be considered bad corporate citizens.

Chairman Mao called for a hundred flowers (opinions) to bloom. He invited criticism of the system. At first people said "It's a trap" and no one seriously criticized, only token critiques were offered. Perhaps similar to modern suggestions about policies for washing mugs, what sort of free coffee should be available in the breakroom, or if there should be a third bathroom for transgender. Things that don't represent any serious challenge to the existing order.

Then Mao made clear he really wanted criticism of the system and no one should hold back. So people started talking about what was wrong, and telling the truth about the failures of totalitarian communism. These criticisms were considered "absurd", the people were labelled trolls ("rightists"), rounded up, and executed in the Anti-Rightist Campaign.

If you want honest feedback from people, calling them trolls, with the implicit threat that criticism is wrong and should be eliminated, is not the way to get it.

The only way to have real honest feedback in a small group is to listen sincerely, and eliminate punishment of dissidents. This can only be done through trust, which is developed slowly and with difficulty. 99.99% of the time when corporate says to trust them and it's OK to make suggestions, they are lying and intend to identify and destroy anyone who seems to be a threat to their agenda.

I guarantee that if we collect a list of all the actual "troll" things that were said, most people outside your system will see significant numbers of them as representing valid criticism, and therefore unmask the truth that labeling the criticism "trolls" is an exercise of power to eliminate minority dissent.
It's worth highlighting that although broadband over-the-phone is competitive in the UK, the cable internet service (which was built with US money) is a virtual monopoly and there's no sign of its network being unbundled.
Google already ported Android to x86 for the Atom-based GoogleTV 1.0. (GoogleTV 2.0 will add support for ARM settop boxes.)
All hail the barbarian armies of the Waste Land!... :)
You'd think a service revolving around privacy (i.e. anonymity) would go to greater lengths to use SSL across the entire site. Otherwise, fantastic idea. Can't say I haven't bounced the idea around of the "groupthink" need lately.
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That sounds great. Thank you for explaining what was missing in the article.
C'mon man, this is targeted to FPs people. You need a better reticule than that!
He still is upset that people called him out on his misogynistic rant, isn't he?
If it is organic, all that energy input is carbon neutral.
Thats a really good point, actually - yeah, that makes sense.
>and your health

As far as I am aware, the data on this claim is conflicting, and most studies are plagued by confounding variables.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat#Health

See? This article is a freakin' yo-yo. It causes heart disease, it does not cause heart disease, it causes cancer, it does not cause cancer, everyone is jumping on everyone else's methodology, and sometimes it seems as though the conclusions were decided before the study was performed.

Here it causes heart disease:

>a survey ,conducted in 1960, of 25,153 California Seventh-Day Adventists, found that the risk of heart disease is three times greater for 45-64 year old men who eat meat daily, versus those who did not eat meat.

Here it does not:

>In another study[84] in 2010 involving over one million people who ate meat found that only processed meat had an adverse risk in relation to coronary heart disease. The study suggests that eating 50g (less than 2oz) of processed meat per day increases risk of coronary heart disease by 42%, and diabetes by 19%. Equivalent levels of fat, including saturated fats, in unprocessed meat (even when eating twice as much per day) did not show any deleterious effects, leading the researchers to suggest that "differences in salt and preservatives, rather than fats, might explain the higher risk of heart disease and diabetes seen with processed meats, but not with unprocessed red meats."

The lack of attention given to statistical confounding in the diets of the people studied is concerning. The fact that new studies appear to refute previous studies suggests that one of three things is going on:

-the new studies are wrong

-the old studies are wrong

-the physical laws of the Universe have changed in some fundamental manner

I cannot hope to be convinced on this topic without hopefully a thorough examination of the methodology of the researchers and potential biases. It is not becoming of a scientist to make an assertion of knowledge without a thorough examination of the data and its origins, and I have my doubts about the quality of any of the current data, whether it condemns or acquits meat consumption. The work regarding heterocyclic amines and the recommendation to microwave meat before it is cooked seems now as a tiny ignored candle flame in a dark room full of people claiming to see the light.

I do, however, have the intuition that studying something as broad as "meat consumption" is almost inherently inclined to error and bias, and that it would be better to perform multiple specific analyses and hopefully even experiments involving perhaps directed diets, so that the question can be laid to rest, and people can make a decision based on evidence, fact, and their own relative valuation of health and hedonism.

Not from dogma.
I've never seen a visual programming system that was anything like a picture book. Rather, every one that I've seen uses some sort of graph visualized in two or occasionally three dimensions.

In contrast, every natural language that I've seen, along with every remotely successful programming language, uses a one dimensional sequence of words and/or symbols with an implicit grammatical structure. That is probably no coincidence.
In this case and homeopathy, the solution is fake, but the problem is usually real.
Or go global!
I could see that. You need a goal of some sort. Like rescuing eggs from pigs.
At the top of this thread, ojbyrne says we need to have government regulation in order to create competition.

Here you say that we needed regulation to make AT&T a de jure national monopoly so that we could further regulate AT&T.

So, regulation grants monopolies, then regulates those monopolies, then also regulates more competition into the monopoly market it had previously granted? This is good governance?
Shameless plug, but should you decide to follow the article and move to New York, my startup can help you figure out where to live and hang out: http://nabewise.com/nyc . We also cover many other places that engineers might want to live.
There's a good reason I said "simply" instead of "easily." I'm personally planning some mild aerodynamic modifications to decrease the 75mph cruising penalty.

But I was referring to the current EPA numbers; the pre-2007 EPA ratings are harder to exceed by such large percentages.
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"It wouldn't be a 'regular' forum or IRC, but rather... say you and 5 and your friends all signed into a single IRC channel (so only the 6 of you), but all with randomized names"

I still don't see any difference between this and regular IRC.

There's no requirement on regular IRC to use your real name. Make up a random name if you want.

If you're too lazy to pick a random name yourself, you could automate it with something like this:

#
# IRCUSER is set to a random dictionary word
#
BIG_RANDOM=$(echo $(($RANDOM * 2))) # A number between 0 and (32767 * 2)
# Note, this will not be regularly distributed
# but who cares?
export IRCUSER=$(head -n $BIG_RANDOM /usr/share/dict/words | tail -n 1)
It blows my mind that anyone in the startup community would automatically assume taxes = bad. Startups benefit immensely from tax funded services.

As an example, you can complain all you want about specific laws and their enforcement,but nothing remotely resembling Silicon Valley could exist without the stable legal environment provided by the tax payer funded court system and law enforcement system. Not to mention the role tax payer funding played in the initial development of the Internet, the benefit US startups get from the interstate highway system, local fire departments, etc.
Here's why: population density is much higher in Europe. The price per mile to put cables into the ground has a lower bound that cannot be breached. The same length of cable will connect far more customers in high-population areas than it will in rural Wyoming. It is not valid to compare Europe with the USA in this regard because they truly are apples and oranges geographically.

I assert that broadband would be faster and cheaper anywhere given true capitalism (that is, a system where people trade honestly, at a profit, with the only government involvement being the courts [no regulation to give corrupt businesses and activists the upper hand].)
We're planning to implement a rating system for comments.

In terms of participants who contribute nothing to the discussion, keep in mind that whoever starts the conversation chooses who to invite. Presumably, those invited will be relevant in some way to the topic being discussed.
Oh yes, the word is "anonymous slander" and I also appreciate the fact that many a times ideas don't come out just because you are too scared. I was just trying to point out the irresponsible use which is kind of bound to happen if given in hands of irresponsible people.

I see that you are a co-founder. So curious about this - did launch of Google circles affect your decision to launch or not to launch? I am asking because Google circles kind of deals with similar group bound problem, though it's not anonymous but very helpful!
If you were trying to discourage your girlfriend from purchasing shoes, this method would probably only discourage your girlfriend from checking in to shoe stores.
The command line version outputs an ASCII/ANSI QR code directly in the terminal: http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/source/browse/...
That's not entirely true, how many crooks went round poisoning the water before starting to sell the tonics?
"Wave was released in "limited preview:" too few real users not soon enough. Google+ is in "field testing" right now. The language here is important. "Field test" implies that a significant number of real users outside of the plex's walls are putting Google+ through its paces, and will find confusing UI around sensitive items like privacy before the product gets released to the public."

Using the right buzzword doesn't mean anything. And 'field testing' doesn't imply more users than 'limited preview'. In fact, I would have said it meant less, by my gut feeling. It probably doesn't have any relation at all in their minds.

For the rest of it, I think I can summarize with:

Keep it simple, while still implementing all the features necessary for social networks, especially Notifications and mobile access.

The only non-obvious thing is the feedback mechanism, which is apparently pretty rich.

I still say that it doesn't matter how nice a social network is if my friends aren't also on it. And if you let me in but make me wait too long for my friends, you'll lose us all 1 at a time, which is the same result as never having us in the first place.
Regulation did not create AT&T's monopoly. AT&T did that, the government later sanctioned it in order to try and better regulate the monopolistic company (it failed).
I'm pretty sure the grandfather meant "released" in the sense of "I want the source code released" and not in the sense of "I want a product using it released".
Future of Journalism: Let people comment before your write the post
Are Amazon Reviews Corrupt?
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That's what I thought too. The only certain thing is that doing both (local and less meat) is the way to go.
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My memory is rusty and the link doesn't corroborate your figure from what I could see. What I remember is that methane is more potent a greenhouse gas than O2 but it has a significantly shorter half-life in the atmosphere.
I think cost is also a huge factor. But I would be interested to hear from some IT directors.

Right now volume licenses for Windows 7 just aren't that appealing cost-wise, especially when you consider that XP does still work. Home users have a similar dilemma: they can continue to use Windows XP for browsing the web and playing Farmville or they can spend $120 on a neutered Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade.

That's too much money for what is perceived to not be that much better. I think you'd see greater, faster adoption with a lower cost and one version (just Windows 8, not Windows 8 Starter, Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate) that has volume licensing for businesses.
Perhaps _more_ feasible, but not feasible enough. In German law schools they make it sound as if there's only one legal interpretation for every case, but actually there are often competing ones.

Also, even if the legal situation is clear, there's still discretion involved to decide which claim ranks higher. E.g. Free Speech versus (something like) Right to Privacy in the case you can see at http://lexetius.com/1999,2324 . (If you don't speak German, Google translate might be good enough.)

To me the practice of common law and civil law seem more similar than their theory.
How come they don't block friendster?
You can add languages at the bottom of the table and more general reddits at the parent node (programming)
HP Is In Talks to License WebOS Software
ok, yes snap to grid will be added soon. It is there but not enabled for this demo
More Secrecy in Silicon Valley
Ask HN: Are you using Hive? What for?
Also, having an environment where taxes are the norm gives people incentives to pursue new endeavors that lead to tax write-offs!
That's a hole, to be sure, but I'm not sure it "ruins" his book promotion. If you follow the "piracy is promotion" line of thinking, it could actually improve his book promotion.
The only reason we don't have most metropolitan areas with gigabit fiber to the door is almost entirely teleco/cable easements.

The day you stop government from mandating one company per area or delimiting it to a small few monopolistic entities and allow a free market is the day we stop dealing with the hell that is becoming us.

The answer is quite simply LESS government, dammit.
The article actually mentions that point:

Meanwhile, the size of the U.S. may be a red herring. Most of the region between Boston and Washington is as densely populated as most of Europe and the UK. So is the California coast between San Francisco and San Diego. And so is the region of the Midwest centered on Chicago. Those areas are home to about a quarter of all Americans. In other words, we live in a big country, but a lot of it is relatively empty space.
1. Foreign call centers. My parents are now too scared to move because they (foolishly) assume everyone uses them. Talktalk and BT do, low quality lines to South Africa and India.
2. I practically live on the dividing line between two exchanges. The one I'm not on is really advanced, lots of choice, but not the one I am on.

There are various ideas floating around, which I've never heard of since, such as iPlayer and Steam caches at every exchange. I wish they'd stop caring so much about speed (I get 5.5mb/s in speedtests, over 1.2 (directly, the line isn't) miles of copper) and move onto ping and caches.
They should have launched with a big social game player (obviously not zynga, who has an agreement with Facebook). However there are thousands of independent developers, and remember there were many killer apps before zynga came along.
I'm getting old, thought he is a HP-UX developer...
Symantec evaluates iOS, Android mobile security architectures
In order to try and regulate it, the federal sanction put Bell under purview of the FCC, so the FCC could handle Bell directly instead of having to go through the Justice Department every time.

While it ultimately failed, there was a method to the madness.
Here is the article mentioned (but not linked to) in the article

A comprehensive strategy for contention management in software transactional memory

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1594835.1504199
This answer is in response to a question about why I left my job. The question was deleted before I posted my reply below:

---------

It came down to asking myself these questions:

* Jeff Bezo's Regret Minimization Framework

Q: What will I regret when I'm 80 years old? What am I going to regret more: taking a shot at a dream and failing, or never having taken a shot at all? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwG_qR6XmDQ)

A: Taking a shot and failing.

* Future Utility Framework

Q: What's the realistic best case scenario end game? I.e. If I look at someone who's 15 years ahead of my in the same career path and has done a good job of getting promoted, recognized and rewarded, am I happy doing what he's doing in 15 years?

A: No.

* Money and risk

Q: I'm 25 with 3 years of work experience at a major international bank, what's going to happen if I screw this up and waste 3 years of my life?

A: I'll get a job at 28. I'll probably make less money, but 3 years of work experience isn't too bad.

Q: What if you never get such a sweet job? USD 100k is a lot of money for a 25 year old!

A: I don't have kids, I don't have a mortgage, I don't have debts and I do have a enough savings to tide me over for a few years. It means that I won't live with the same degree of financial freedom (e.g. watching my spending, going on fewer holidays, eating out less, etc.) but it's a price I'm prepared to pay.

For most people, the last few questions are going to be the most important. Being relatively young, not having liabilities and instead having savings definitely makes leaving your job easier.
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As i read this article today "Are amazon reviews corrupt" -http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387749,00.asp
i thought i should share the website i have created sometime back . www.ireviewable.com. This allows people to post reviews, share it in facebook and keep augmenting reviews. The fact that it utilises the social graph , you can come across the reviews by people in your own social graph.

Please have a look into the website and give me your suggestions so that i can implement those.. Thanks in advance
I await the results of this experiment with interest.

My gut feeling is that:

A) To first order this won't really work. You can't really be anonymous in a closed group. In a small closed group
you can't be anonymous at all (the degenerate case, two people, is obvious; writing style is an identifier in larger groups) and in a really large group the stakes of letting your mask slip are too high and will squelch serious conversation, while the lure of the big crowd will drive trolls and comedians.

B) To second order this could
work great. The second-order advantage of this is the useful social fiction of anonymity. Anonymity doesn't have to be cryptographically strong to be useful. Think: a masked ball. The masks aren't that highly effective - that seven-foot-tall masked woman is pretty easy to ID, mask or no - but if everyone plays along the game can go well. Plus, you can get plausible deniability, which can be very useful in social situations. ("No, it wasn't me who confessed that secret in anonymous chat. It must have been some other native speaker of Finnish from a basketball team in Toledo, Ohio.")

C) But, alas, I'm not sure use case (B) is significant enough to drive a product on its own. Nor that it will be easy to get the site's culture off on the right foot.

A great experiment; I hope it goes well despite my worst fears. We certainly need many more alternatives to the "stand naked in front of the world on the Googleable Internet" model of online conversation.
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