skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because someone is using a pseudonym doesn't mean they're using an alternate persona.

Google allows pseudonyms on almost all of their other services, which are supposedly getting integrated with Google+. How is that supposed to happen, exactly?

Twitter isn't primarily for alternate personas. Where did you get that idea?

Futhermore, what makes you think pseudonyms are for just for alternate personas? There are plenty of legitimate reasons for people to be using pseudonyms, both online and offline.

Many people are known only by their pseudonym (even when not online). How are their friends supposed to find them on a social network where they're only allowed to use their "real name"?

To quote you: "I want to call people by the same name we use in person."
I agree with you. That's how I code and I don't have any problem with such leaks. But the usual response by people who don't believe that is "well the language doesn't force you to use them".

I was thinking of the weird tricks that would have to be in place to plausibly prove that there was no unmanaged dynamic allocation going on.
This isn't relevant to the actual message of the post, but something that caught my eye was in the paragraph about thinking you are "too X to be Y". Most of them make sense, and I can understand people thinking the Y because of feeling the X. Except these two:

too effeminate to be straight

too smart to be kind

Am I being foolish or do those two not fit? I can imagine someone thinking "I'm too sensitive, that's not how a man should be", I can't imagine someone thinking "I'm effeminate, I guess I can't be straight after all".
Hi mtogo,

The way I see it, the purpose of Interviewstreet is to provide a platform for skilled hackers to score tremendous opportunities without having to go through pre-screen interviews. A lot of these pre-screen interviews and traditional selection processes are based on check-lists, school grades, etc.

The intention here doesn't appear to be the solving of ridiculous puzzles all day in the hopes of finding a job. In fact, I think the aim is to remove jumping unnecessary hoops and give the hacker a chance to display his technical prowess up front - after all, that's their strongest suit!

This is my understanding of the site, maybe Vivek can shed some light here.
actually, I think the price $99 is quite fair. Compared to having all the tablets returned and don't know what to do with them, HP now created a super hot products with 2-digit price that everyone wants to grab one, or two, or twelve. Things wouldn't happen this way if the price was $200. True that HP didn't earn that much money back but as a big corporation, HP could afford that and earned something beyond money. Let's keep an eye on this matter to see what happens in the end.
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True, I re-read the article and see it now, and agree 100%. However, I still think "I am nothing" is a poor turn of phrase for it. I would prefer "I cannot be labeled" or "I am none of the above".
Because Minecraft is a very buggy, poorly designed product. Notch is only "respected" as a programmer by people who have never looked into his programming.
You making a distinction between labor and capital which does not exist. Contemporary economists view both labor and capital as inputs to production. If Input A and Input B are substitutes, then producers will choose the cheaper one.
It seems a little ironic that he would copy the standard religious formulation. The problem with this approach is that you may devote your life to the wrong bigger thing and then end up in the middle of a "religious" war.
My (perhaps inaccurate) feeling is that it is most important for Twitter. In my experience most people (except perhaps those both very familiar with the website and pretty techy) are unlikely to try and go directly to a URL for most services based on a name, e.g. typing in www.facebook.com/ycombinator, or whatever the youtube/tumblr/etc equivilents are. Whereas for twitter, if you think you know the name, or even if you just think you have a good guess, lots of people will type it right into the address bar.

Maybe this is because Twitter, right from launch, had a very clear link between "if this is their username, it's also their display name, and also their URL", whereas other services, while they might have done the same thing (often as a post-launch change), it was sold more as a "this makes links look nicer" rather than as a "go straight to an account easily" feature.
+1. I fat thumbed you and downvoted, so sorry!
They are all false. The point is that people hide parts of themselves so that they can more cleanly fit into whatever categories they identify with. How many straight men act macho out of fear of seeming gay?
Correct me if I'm wrong but this means the referer will show up as t.co, meaning that you can just as easily track twitter referals, just by looking for t.co rather than twitter.com?

The downside is that you can't see which twitter URL it came from, but in my experience that was rarely useful as so often it came from users' home pages. And the upside is that it will show a t.co referal for non-web twitter clients, e.g. mobile apps.
Domain names of course! And get a trademark or several. The latter has more leeway to the point of people blogging about losing their handlers on the online platforms due to trademark rules or something.

Seek your own legal advice with Trademarks. The good advice should include handling 'typo' handlers possibly impersonating your service. eg YCOMBlNATOR.com
Here's a PDF mirror in case the cache goes down:　http://ompldr.org/vOXppeQ/solar_trees.pdf
nnoremap \ta <Esc>:tab ball<CR>

Now you can run `vim foo bar baz` and then when open just type `\ta` and it will open them cleanly in three different tabs. Why they renamed a command "tab ball" I will never know.
I've been reading hacker news for about 18 months or so, and signed up for an account ~9 months ago. Since signing up, I've contributed a fair amount of comments. Interestingly, most of the comments I've put the most thought and time into don't get any upvotes. Not because they aren't insightful (well, maybe they aren't), but because the thread itself didn't get any visibility or popularity. No big deal! I'm not here for karma! I'm here to contribute and gain insight. From some of the responses to some of my posts I've found flaws in my logic or reasoning. Or I've been able to see another view - that's worth more than any amount of karma.

Your goal here shouldn't be to get points. What's the value in that? Bragging rights? That doesn't seem consistent with the experience of the site. This is a site to contribute where you can, learn from people who are extremely intelligent and have great points of view and hopefully gain some valuable insight and experience without getting addicted to it! :-)
Lilliputian Computer Works Even For Us Giants
"And for anyone with a decent idea and the drive to start a company, $100,000 to get it off the ground is easy to come by."

What? Seriously? Well I have a decent idea that is being worked on right now and I have the drive. Anyone want to fund it to a guy that lives in VA instead of in Silicon Valley?
What HP Should Do With WebOS?
I think you're missing the part where the government spends the same amount on defense regardless of the tax level. The question being batted back and forth between Democrats and Republicans is "raise taxes or print money?"

Still, I agree we need a movement which will kick-out rent-seeking entities out of the spending loop. I wasn't so much agreeing with Buffet as using him as an example.

Also, I have no desire for that Koch brothers to agree with me. I would like them to go to jail but the odds look long.
Ah, I mis-understood your premise for that paragraph then - sorry!

On another offtopic note, I think the whole having to be macho thing is changing pretty fast though - not yet disappeared, but on its way. One of the biggest things I've noticed (in England) is that it's very common to see boys, aged 7-16 wearing pink tshirts. Even in my childhood ~10 years ago I don't think I remember any friends or anyone my age wearing pink for it being too feminine a colour. And that's just one random thing, but that trend seems to hold true in my experience in adults too, and not just in clothing.
As Heraclitus would say, all flows.
There is clear resonance between his main point and Kazantzakis's famous epitaph:

Δεν ελπίζω τίποτε. Δεν φοβούμαι τίποτε. Είμαι λεύτερος.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

That said, awesome post.
Nope, if someone clicks on one of my links on Twitter the referer field is empty. If I click on Facebook I get a Facebook url. That is a problem for both Twitter and web sites.
A better game is to think of as many sci-fi tv shows and movies as possible and find those robots in there. Any self-respecting geek can find the Dalek, but where's the DRD from Farscape?
...and that it requires giving access to all sorts of Facebook permissions when all the user knows about the site beforehand is "LuckyChat - Connect with someone special"

A general concern that I would have is that there have been various websites over the years that address this problem (the first one I remember was called something like CrushMail back in 1999 or so and the most recent was the pivot made by Breakup Notifier after Facebook shut them down (http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2264660)). But often, they end up being mostly a way for people to spam their friends instead of people getting value out of it. (Typically, they ask you to enter email addresses of who you think has a crush on you. The site then uses that information to notify those people that someone has a crush on them. So when you find a 'match' it could just be that both people entered the others' name on there thinking that they might be the one to have a crush on them.)
You, as "yanw", have accumulated a karma of 7218 on HN, which is quite impressive, even though I have no idea what your "real life" name is. Do I need to know? Of couse not. But you're not welcome on Google+ (as yanw).
SAP's business model is to license a framework for waaay too much money. Then they tell you to hire one of their consulting partners to (not) make it work. Finger pointing in all directions when things go wrong – but one thing is for sure – you're paying for that license no matter what happens.

Not a business model that is likely to understand webOS.
See :he ball for why the command is named the way it is, ball as in buffer all ;-)
...you shouldn't compare yourself with others -- you didn't start in the same place or with the same challenges...

Reminds me of this:

Reb Zusha was laying on his deathbed surrounded by his disciples. He was crying and no one could comfort him. One student asked his Rebbe, "Why do you cry? You were almost as wise as Moses and as kind as Abraham." Reb Zusha answered, "When I pass from this world and appear before the Heavenly Tribunal, they won't ask me, 'Zusha, why weren't you as wise as Moses or as kind as Abraham,' rather, they will ask me, 'Zusha, why weren't you Zusha?' Why didn't I fulfill my potential, why didn't I follow the path that could have been mine."
I was just able to pick up a 32gig model from the small business site.. thanks!
How Hackathon Culture Is Splicing Together the Art World and Silicon Alley
I think even thinking about drive is a misnomer. Personal growth is more like the unfolding of a flower, it's not something that you (or anyone else) can will yourself to do. It just happens gradually given the right conditions.
Meh, I would just be fine with them allowing it on other platforms. Don't really care how they license it to make that happen.
Nymwars: A view from the trenches within Google
In fact, there are already sectors in the US that are having a hard time finding people because people have generally become too prideful. Just look at the skilled trade problem, which is way better work than what patio11 is talking about.

Any company in the US that pays significantly more than minimum wage and which claims "we can't find workers" is basically lying.

When they say "we can't find workers to do X" what they meaning is "we can't worker to do X [low-voice-over]between the ages of 23 and 27 who graduated in the top 15% of their class, with six+ year of experience in X and who have strong willingness to work 100 hours/week and able to start yesterday[/low-voice-over]"
Yeah, let's break the web!
what's the implicit context here? it's hard not to think that this is related to the nym-wars, but how?

(i hope it's not "if we can be happy with who we are, then we will not mind using fixed identities"...)
An interactive approach to the fascinating world of quantum physics
Somewhere in the a-b-c range.

The question of when will depend on a number of variables that you can only answer depending on the specific situation.

More importantly, ask yourself how much risk will the potential co-founder be taking on? In stages a-b-c there's plenty of risk; after f; there's not so much. If your potential co-founder is unwilling or unable to assume a significant amount of risk, relative to yours, then they're more of an employee than a co-founder.

Something you'll discover is that there are plenty of people who want the "co-founder" title but aren't willing to assume a commensurate amount of risk. They'll tell you to go out and get the money, then they'll jump in once you've guaranteed their paycheck. Avoid these people.
What a wonderfully thought-provoking and inspiring piece. Thanks, Paul, for sharing it.

In a similar vein, from David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement address at Kenyon College:

"If you worship money and things -- if they are where you tap real meaning in life -- then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you.... Worship power -- you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart -- you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178211966454607.html
This is why I like to do science. I feel like I am constantly learning. I know that I know nothing and I can only know a little bit more by science. When I acknowledged my limitations and just sat down and calculated then I performed better. Sort of a zen like way of thinking. I know that I know nothing and instead I must just calculate and manipulate symbols.
As an expert, you've already got it figured out, so you don't need to pay attention to what's happening. Pity.

Not necessarily a pity. You have to be an expert at some things in order to become a beginner at others.
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What's interesting is that this is not a just g+ phenomenon, but holds true for other social networking sites as well.

What matters then is not what percentage of people stay, but what is the behavior of those who stay.
Anyone seriously considering the web browser as a platform for future 3d gaming is, of course, in a state of sin.

(stolen from Jon Von Neumann's famous random number quote)
Well, actually he's describing Alef as it existed in the Plan 9 system in the early 90s. The creators of Go were also involved in creating Plan 9, so presumably they drew on their earlier experience of channels in Plan 9 when they developed the concurrency system for Go.
The more of an IT flavor the job descriptions had, the less dangerous the company was. The safest kind were the ones that wanted Oracle experience. You never had to worry about those. You were also safe if they said they wanted C++ or Java developers. If they wanted Perl or Python programmers, that would be a bit frightening-- that's starting to sound like a company where the technical side, at least, is run by real hackers. If I had ever seen a job posting looking for Lisp hackers, I would have been really worried.

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
The internet in China isn't that good. Transfer fees are slow, there is a lot of government censorship, and not many people can afford it. Why invest in a risky internet startup, then, when there is much more money to be made in manufacturing or real estate? So the financial incentive to invest in a tech startup just isn't there. It's probably also difficult for potential startups to get good engineers, as the brightest students usually go into government or work for one of the large government-sponsored corporations that dominate the economy.
There is a group of Americans that would like a semi-skilled labor job that affords them a middle class lifestyle

What job is that? Because it's apparently not (US) manufacturing
Godaddy already tells me to get twitter when I buy a domain.
From what i've seen, we all have something we worship, God or not. This entity is perceived by us to be greater and may or may not benefit us. It's like we're wired to worship, only we have different opinions on the deity.
From Wikipedia: "There is some contention about the all-caps spelling "PERL", which the documentation declares incorrect[28] and which some core community members consider a sign of outsiders.[29] The name is occasionally backronymed as Practical Extraction and Report Language, which appears at the top of the documentation[27] and in some printed literature.[30]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Name
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This reminds me of Derren Brown's The System:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derren_Brown#Derren_Brown:_The_...
The future of work? Hiring yourself out online.
Before we get too caught up in "what Christians believe" let's point out that it is a big tent religion and the story is much more complicated.

Perhaps, as Chesterton said, GP is being "as narrow as the universe".

When I read your essay I immediately thought of the negative way, which is the strain of Christian philosophy that denies affirmative statements about God, and denies to some extent settled knowledge.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophatic_theology

There is also an equal and opposite affirmative way that takes God as knowable not literally, but by analogy.

And this to me is the missing element in the essay. This egoless vehicle that we are cleaning so carefully, where are we to drive it? What shall we use to measure improvement? How will we understand progress?
Go existed in various forms for a very long time. I was learning alef in the mid-nineties. When go came out, it was pretty easy to recognize.

That was a great explanation, though.
The only thing is life I worship are my kids. They are, consequently, both greater than I and the direct benefit has already been apparent. With continued effort, it is also likely to grow.

:)
definitely noticed all the outgoing links briefly flashing over to t.co the past few weeks. Interesting. I expect someone at twitter dev will explain this in few days
So is there any instruction on how to install or try out this software project. I know Ruby on Rails is popular but at least some instruction on configuration would be helpful.
Almost every case famine during last few decades had to do with some kind of local conflict (e.g. local gangs interfering with delivery of food aid) as opposed to resource shortage. Developed countries produce much more food than they need and then consume it in a very inefficient way. Growing grain and using it to feed livestock as opposed to consuming grain directly is one such example. Earth could comfortably support much large population than we have now.
I tried sending him an email but got no response. Either the demand is too much for them to keep up, or he's just blowing a lot of hot air.
I don't know if FP will appeal to you or make your life easier, but why not spend a couple weeks learning Haskell and see? Try "learn you a Haskell" or the Real World Haskell book (both excellent and free online).

I'm a fucking music major and figured it out pretty well. I'm sure you'll have no problems if it's something you're actually interested in learning about in your free time.
Reread it again :). Especially look at the charts.

Like the author, I personally see t.co in my server logs.

It would be pretty hard for Twitter to remove the referrer altogether (and I'm not sure what the point would be; they should want people to see that they got traffic from Twitter). Just did some research on ways to remove the referrer and found this: http://coding-talk.com/f14/how-to-remove-referral-8570/. At comment #8, they suggest making links via Flash, using https, or using a redirect (which is what t.co is). Users could also do it by configuring their browser to not send along the referrer when they make new requests, but Twitter wouldn't have control over that.)
Isn't indie game development all about being self-publishing aka independent aka indie?
as a first gen ipad owner, I think it will have the opposite effect. I had the ipad sitting on my dining table for over a year now, collecting dust as I'd rather use my kindle for reading, my laptop for computer stuff or phone when on the go. I know a lot of people will disagree, but I know for a lot of people once the whole new toy effect wears off.. it becomes an expensive toy. For the people like me it will be hard to justify paying $500 for a tablet again.

I think its actually quite brilliant strategy as HP is still in the business of selling computers, flood the market with good, cheap tablets and reduce the magical experience to a commodity and hope it works. Asus had the same sort of lead with netbooks, and once the market got flooded they became commodity.
Reversing The Moral Decay Behind The London Riots
Quite. See this supposed American barbarism from Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel "Journal of the Plague Year": "besides, it being in the time of the vacation too, they were generally gone into the country". (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/376/376-h/376-h.htm)
It's not blocked everywhere in China, I can access it fine here (Chengdu).
I'm interested in hearing what HN'ers think about this:

"He quotes a member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, tasked with finding out what gave the West its dominance. He said: At first we thought it was your guns. Then we thought it was your political system, democracy. Then we said it was your economic system, capitalism. But for the last 20 years, we have known that it was your religion.

It was the Judeo-Christian heritage that gave the West its restless pursuit of a tomorrow that would be better than today. The Chinese have learned the lesson. Fifty years after Chairman Mao declared China a religion-free zone, there are now more Chinese Christians than there are members of the Communist Party.

China has learned the lesson. The question is: Will we?"
I think you're missing the part where the government spends the same amount on defense regardless of the tax level.

And you, in turn, may be missing the point that this is ridiculous.

The question being batted back and forth between Democrats and Republicans is "raise taxes or print money?"

This is called a "false dichotomy." It's an indication that neither "side" has your interests in mind.
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