skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been a long day. Sorry for the late reply again. BTW, haven't had a stimulating conversation like this in a while.

I'm glad you've looked through the situation from different angles. Sounds like you've learnt lots.

Wow. You've made some drastic changes to your life. Freaky indeed. On the upside, you've beaten this huge monster of a disease.

It's great that you've got a list already. Also great that you've been featured in a health book. Perfect bunch of reasons for why it'd be great if you'd consider raising some funding over at kickStarter. Take things to a whole other level. It'll help you collect your thoughts about how you'd build an ideal community for CF-conquerers. Where members could share what worked for them, have very customized 'plans of action' even. (hope you've explored http://crohnology.com) You'll need some funding for the game, as well as the ad campaigns, etc. Also, with this one move, you'd have built up a list of 1000's. I'd be glad to help out a little, if required.

What is your web comic about? Have you got a marketing/distribution plan handy? Webcomics certainly are interesting, but I'd say the existing publisher/writer distribution model sucks to say the least.
I recently convinced a friend of mine, who'd been turning his freshly baked novel into a web comic, to turn it into a Facebook game instead. Drove the idea's monetization potential up a hundred fold possibly.

"power dressing for women". Love the idea. Feel you certainly should pursue it in some form or the other. How about starting with a dribbble/pinterest-like community for fashion designers. Get them to submit ideas etc. I'd be more psyched about curation/community, utilizing network-effects and so on. Than a pure clothing line. But either way, you'll get a lot of great feedback from HN about the most vital parts -- e-commerce, marketing, seo etc. An internet-first clothing line around this concept seems doable, and the community aspect 'empowering women' etc. would drive it ahead.
Every successful business needs to start with inspirational stories. And you've got plenty of 'em.

Interesting that you'd say people weren't as forgiving 'cause you got better. This seems quite plausible. Empathy is indeed a depletable resource.
Reading through, can't help but feel inspired by your attitude towards all of this. Massively inspired.

You haven't elaborated on the mechanics of the game yet. But I love the idea of the shift in mental models -- leveling up on the characters health through subtle changes that can be visualized. What might the game look like? 2D side-scroller? top-down/isometric? (farmville/diablo) 3d environments? text-based? (like mafia wars)
What sort of environmental / personal changes would the character make?
I've gotten myself all worked-up about the game concept. Would love to send over a single page write-up of what I imagine this should look/play like, if you don't mind ie.

I'm really curious about the 'complex set of choices' you make throughout the day. Have you considered parallels that could be applied to curing other diseases. More often than not, there tends to be subtle links between certain diseases.
Not many people can have an almost complete and thorough understanding on how each compiler/linker/platform will behave on the various C standards, to suggest such a thing is silly and to enforce it is borderline insanity.

And if you don't understand the language, then why, oh why are you trying to read or write it?

a) To get things done.

b) To attempt to understand the language.

Not everyone can learn the complete work of C standards and quirks just by reading, some need to read and write it.
2010s Smartphone Screens are the New 1950s Tail Fins
Goodbye Print, Hello World.
Handling Listviews with Multiple Row Types in Android
Is this a common practice across most companies or something unique to Facebook ?
I would have upvoted this if the title wasn't such a misleading link bait. The title "Interactive Periodic Table" is totally misplaced here.

This website is as "interactive" as a tool tip. You click on an element and a small box show some very limited additional information. You click on "Halogens" and everything except the halogens becomes darker. That's all there is to it.

Chemistry is such a great topic with so many opportunities for an interactive, playful website, but this one doesn't make any use of it.
You should move closer to home.

;-)
orkut was released in 2004, although it wasn't promoted as heavily as Google+ is now and Google wasn't using it to create a social layer for the Internet.
Building on what you've posted, psychopaths having diminished capacity to build relationships could very well lead to depression or atleast unhappiness. I find this really interesting because we often see a psychopath represented as a remorseless beast void of any human emotions yet, looking from this perspective, it almost paints psychopathy as a dibilating disorder.

I also note it probably wouldn't be correct for me to use psychopathy as the name of a disorder but it should be fine for casual discussion.
I've never done anything in particular to my bike in Denmark, except to keep it indoors at night. Haven't had any problems.
Did you really believe that the New York Times was infallible?
The key thing which all of the existing solutions miss is proactive recommendations based on your company.

I mentioned ST 121.3 as an awesome example because most NYC startup founders aren't aware of the rule.
In science there's a difference between "law" and "hypothesis" and "theory". A "law", in science, is typically a formula that fits the data. For example: Hubble's law states that the relative speed of some astral object is proportional to its distance. That is, objects that are far away seem to move faster than objects that are closer. Hubble's law is an observation that holds under scrutiny. It would be silly to say that Hubble's law explains why objects that are farther away seem to move faster. That's where theories come in (they go beyond describing the facts, and actually attempt to explain why the facts arise).

So, in the scientific sense, Moore's law IS a law. It doesn't explain why it holds, but it seems to hold.
(I'm not sure how that even works or makes sense to anyone that a minority of votes can give a majority government)

Through the magic of single-member electorates and first-past-the-post voting.
From the FAQ:

"Why aren't ISO standards free?

ISO standards cost money to develop, publish and distribute. Someone has to pay. The current system whereby users are requested to pay for the standards they use, not only sustains the development process but also, very importantly, ensures that the balance of independent vs. government, private vs. public interests can be maintained."

http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/faq_standards_2.htm
Sam Ramji: Cloud makes open source 'inevitable' for Microsoft, others
The one reason I still use the iPhone version was when I wanted to upload my photos , browser don't allows you to do this. The Facebook app UI is so antique, after seeing the super UI you see on iPad apps and also on 2x the fonts looked so awkward

After getting the iPad camera kit, it was feeling even more horrible, thank god the new iPad app is getting launched, will have one less reason to c
You've never bought an ISO standard, have you. They explain the reason for the costs on the website. When you buy a personal copy, each page will have a footer that reads something like, "Licensed to Bob Smith for Bob Smith's use only." Group licenses cost much more.

Anyway, this is off-topic as all ISO standards cost money and have for a long time now. I'm glad C++ has a new standard. The boost additions are great and make C++ even better than it was.
I agree to a point. For one, I would not group Finnish and Chinese together. Now, I can't speak much for Finnish, but I am positive a statistical approach to Chinese provides very poor results. However, with that said, I do agree that domain logic and a large relational data set is a good approach. Essentially relationships between words and symbols need to be established with false positive and false negative associations broken down and re-established in near real time to come close to a perfect solution. Basically, the problem is too expensive to solve.
Sweating: speak for yourself.

I'm in very good shape.

I'll sweat, particularly in humid weather, even if it's nominally cool out.

San Francisco, not commonly considered sultry, runs ~85% RH in the morning, year round.

Even a transit commute (warm busses/subways, and some hill walking) can leave someone pretty schvitzy. Taking 5-10 minutes to cool down, outside, can help.

That said: I agree that commute costs and time are best avoided.
Local staging / web-dev configuration for using Apache 2.0 and DNS wildcards
Vital Evaluation of Mannatech
That explains the Patriot Act and fun stuff like MAIN CORE, but there seems to be a pattern beyond old-fashioned domestic surveillance: DHS, Northcom, Infragard, secret prisons run by ICE, federal direction of local law enforcement (i.e. Operation FALCON), domestic use of drones, the push for body scanners/pre-crime detectors, the ability of the federal government to assassinate US citizens, the "watch list" that feds can keep you on even if you've been cleared or wrongdoing, etc.

The biggest federal building project since the Pentagon is the DHS HQ:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/09/homeland.security.hea...
I submitted my application within the first week. However, this link (http://news.ycombinator.com/susrsvp) is saying that YC has no record of my application. Yet, the another page says that it has been submitted. What's going on?
i disagree, free texting apps do not hurt carrier profits for 2 reasons.
a) Users don't want another phone number, and even if they agreed, getting your friends to text you using that number instead of you carrier number is a large burden.
b)texts are priced so that even if you are able to use apps to cut down your texting, you don't save any money.
for example: a text costs 20 cents. verizon has a plan for 5 dollars a month for 250 texts. if after using apps you are able to get your incidental texts down to 25, you break even. Anymore and you loose money.
ATT is worse by forcing you into unlimited plans.
Which is why carriers are not afraid of iMessage. As long as users have a few incidental texts they'll still buy plans to prevent bill shock.

update:they mention point 2 at the end of the article but don't view it as damning as i do.
We are what we eat: the demise of the ethical grocery shopper
Someone more "average"?

Fuck, you HN types are a bunch of elitist douches.
The lack of parking in Melbourne's city is a good thing. It acts as a cost on the negative externalities of driving into one of Australia's biggest cities.

It encourages you to catch the train, which is better for everyone around you, because you don't have to drive.
Only the world in our imaginations exists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism

The real world and the world in our imagniations exists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism_(philosophy_of_mind)

Only the real world exists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism

Philosophers have long discussed material and ideal realms. There's the world as it is and the world as it appears. Anyone who has no spiritual experiences is a worthless peon. The movie American Beauty has a scene where a neighbor thought he saw a homosexual act, but it was a drug deal. Reality can depend on perspective. A radio show can draw-you-in by including a detail from your life.

If you are not confused you are like the 1984 proletariets.

Heaven is a delusional reality on top of regular reality.

I cannot help you understand, though.

God says...
C:\TEXT\DARWIN.TXT

each other, sometimes to an almost incredible
degree, and are thus divided into two or even three castes. The castes,
moreover, do not generally graduate into each other, but are perfectly well
defined; being as distinct from each other as are any two species of the
same genus, or rather as any two genera of the same family. Thus, in
Eciton, there are working and soldier neuters, with jaws and instincts
extraordinarily different: in Cryptocerus, the workers of one caste alone
carry a wonderful s

----------------------

So, my download numbers seem suspicious, after I've filtered them. And, I get no emails but FBI stoodges. Well, the whole media talks to me... surprise, surprise -- not in Kansas any longer, so no surprise my download numbers are bogus. My reality is any number of possibilities -- some kind of prison like the 1960's prinsoner's show. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner

I'm kind-of in charge of my bogus reality. Bible says you will determine what sins are forgiven and what stand. Bible kinda promises governorship of a realm.

God says...
C:\TEXT\DARWIN.TXT

efore, during the modification of the
descendants of any one species, and during the incessant struggle of all
species to increase in numbers, the more diversified the descendants
become, the better will be their chance of success in the battle for life.
Thus the small differences distinguishing varieties of the same species,
steadily tend to increase, till they equal the greater differences between
species of the same genus, or even of distinct genera.

We have seen that it is the common, the wid
Not true, look at Objective-C for an example of how it's done. Broken up into two methods, the first of which is a static method which creates an uninitialized instance, and the second which is a plain method which initializes the instance and returns self (or rarely, nil):

+ alloc // reserves memory and creates an instance
- init // initializes the instance
- initWithSomething: // can have multiple inits
Thanks for tipping me off to that - it seems substantially less buggy than the app. Faster too, oddly enough.
I edited out some of my previous comments where I mentioned "I don't understand why people still like books" before you replied. What I mean is "I like the e-book experience so much that I'd be surprised if most people who switched over didn't feel the same way." It's a subjective thing to say, but I've been a heavy user of both paperbacks and now e-books. If you try the Kindle reader out, you might be pleasantly surprised by the experience (or maybe not, but the main thing I was trying to understand from this is whether the OP had tried it and disliked it, having a preference for paperbacks).
Try to put in SSD in it if you can.
BETA.ASP.NET review of changes
Just to play the devils advocate (which admittedly isn't popular). He is considered a 'terrorist' by the Chinese Govt.

Regardless the truth in it, it is important to show countries respect on these matters. Keep in mind, other countries have invaded people who've harboured 'terrorists'.
New Census Data Reveal American Habits and Preferences
Aside from the home page.. am I the only thinking "Look: it's Facebook!" ?
Tim Cook Is Thinking Different
> Ultimately they may have to give SmartPhone makers some incentive to stop bundling the Facebook app/integration on their devices.

Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft

I'm not trying to be snide either, Microsoft leveraged its relationships with OEMs to incentivize them to stop bundling netscape. I don't think that Google would play that dirty, but it's certainly thin ice.
Fun with Google's Ngram
An Ode to Cheap Books in a Former Borders
I'm rather baffled that Apple hasn't hooked `<input type="file" />` into iOS Safari. Seems like it'd be an easy enough thing to do.
Apple Plans Jobs Remembrance
Chicago. It's cheap and dense. It's difficult to go car-free with children, though. Some do, however: http://onelessminivan.tumblr.com/ is about living car-free with kids in the city.
Ask HN: The YC rsvp link says YC has no record of my application?
I submitted my application within the first week. However, this link (http://news.ycombinator.com/susrsvp) is saying that YC has no record of my application. Yet, the another page says that it has been submitted. What's going on?
I knew a company where the CEO was a coder, wrote much of the original code and sometimes coded.

The smallish company had ISO 9000 and an anal change control procedure for Network and System changes. By contrast the programming team had little/no change control or testing.

One day the CEO made a change to the code and blew away the customer database (or at least a substantial proportion of the data in it). Everybody just shrugged their shoulders, restored from the overnight backup and wrote off that days data/work.
Writing code every as a CEO now and again is a nice thing to say but it isn't a scalable approach if you want to maintain that code properly. You can't just expect your C(E|T)O to drop everything that they're doing when an unexpected bug pops up. Great for the morale, but bad for the code.
Adobe MAX 2011 - Photoshop Image Deblurring sneak
i think most people just wait until the very last minute... it's like a bad habit. but also things can change quickly on the web.

we've been experimenting with a couple of stuff recently and came up with something different last week. :)
No, it's not considered murder to kill a wartime enemy in compliance with the laws of war.

The parent is probably referring to the drone strike in Yemen that successfully killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen. Here the issue isn't his death, but the process leading to it.

The circumstances surrounding al-Awlaki's death might be legally justifiable - apparently there's a 50-page DoJ memorandum arguing that it was. I'm certain the 'wartime enemy' argument was used.

However, the public will never know if the death of al-Awlaki was justifiable, because that memorandum is secret. The executive order that led to al-Awlaki's death is secret - the Obama administration is refusing to discuss any US involvement. The evidence that informed the executive order leading to al-Awlaki's death is secret.

I'm not a naïf. I'm prepared to concede that under certain quite rare and specific circumstances, it might be justifiable for the US government to kill a US citizen without full due process - I'd choose that, say, over a nuke going off in Manhattan. But there must be some judicial oversight.

At the moment, we have no idea how many US citizens the president has ordered killed - and because the details behind these are 'state secrets', normal checks and balances against the abuse of power do not apply.

I've got no sympathy for al-Awlaki, but this is as good a definition of tyranny as any.
> The only way you can have both high job density and moderate housing prices close together is to allow enough vertical construction to reduce competition for housing to reasonable levels.

I think this is a pipe dream, unfortunately. How could you sell such an idea to the existing homeowner who comprise the voting base?
You seem new to software. Every addition costs. The 2nd scripting engine in particular. Mozilla went through this to no avail with CPython several years ago. I paid Mark Hammond to do the integration work. It was a constant source of bugs and overhead, and without CPython distribution on Windows, and sane versioning on Mac and Linux, no one used the non-JS code paths save ActiveState in Komodo.

WebKit is supporting Python bindings but that language is 3rd after Objective-C and Apple pays the big Obj-C costs.

My comment about Dart's merits was purely a businessman's evaluation, not NIH. Before you throw that accusation my way, consider Mozilla using Google WebM code, and lately implementing SPDY.

You expect other competing browsers to give Google a strategic free lunch, and to give up their share of influence in standards bodies? No way, not from us, or from Apple or Microsoft or Opera.

But it turns out Dart does not have obvious merit, such that I am moved to implement it (see SPDY for a counter-example). Dart is jejune, knee-jerk, and conservative in its design, from what I have now seen.
I'm a hater of long commutes (happily with a 1.5 mile one right now), but some of the analysis is flawed:

1) Commuting cost. The $0.17 as a minimum marginal cost per mile is reasonable. The IRS' $0.51 really can't be used as a margnal rate. Simply put, the operating cost of a car is not a linear function of mileage. There are exceptionally high fixed costs, namely depreciation, insurance, (some) maintenance and registration. Personally, as I only drive 7000 miles a year (well below car average), my car ownership costs per mile slightly exceed the IRS reimbursement rate. But my marginal rate is still extremely low - if I drove another 1000 miles a year, it'd cost maybe $200 more ($0.2/mile).
Attempting to average a minimum marginal cost and an optimistic estimate of car ownership per mile does not produce a valid estimate for average marginal cost.

2) Mileage to time conversion: I have no idea how he concludes that 1 mile = 6 minutes round trip. Living father away generally implies freeway utlization, where a marginal mile would be closer to 2 minutes round trip. (Anecdote: I live in SF. Thanks to the lack of freeway system within the city itself, a commute may be shorter (and use not much more gas) living 20 miles away from work in the suburbs than 7 miles away within the city borders).

3) Value of time. On a long commute, I'm not necessarily wasting time. Whenever I had one, I deferred actual reading I would otherwise do to podcasts.

I've always found the main benefit of a short commute is flexibility (go home and back in the middle of the day) and reduction of stress (traffic sucks). It is awesome to have a shorter commute, but in no way is it worth spending nearly $250k more on a house solely to live 15 miles closer to work for a typical person.
When a company the size of Oracle announces something at their premiere conference, it's reliably not something they thought of for the first time that morning. If Ed Screven was a developer, hacking up DTrace for OEL, and writing on his blog and not the Chief Corporate Architect, reporting to Oracle's CEO, Larry Ellison, speaking at a keynote then I would totally agree with you.

Apple's WWDC in 2006 they announced DTrace. They handed it out; it worked. It had rough edges, but it was obviously worthy of release.

Paul Fox started hacking up DTrace for Linux in 2008. It's not perfect, and there's work to be done, but he's making progress and representing what he has appropriately.

Here's what Oracle's Linux blog had to say earlier today:
http://blogs.oracle.com/linux/entry/looking_back_at_oracle_o...
Another interesting feature we announced and is already available to Oracle Linux customers is "DTrace." We released a preview of DTrace which is made available to Oracle Linux support subscribers. Wim is also on a roll as you can see from his detailed blog entry on DTrace!
If you're going to do something as intrusive as attaching the debugger interface to the process, you could just check to make sure the code isn't in malloc.
The android market is blocked in China? Do you have a link--that sounds interesting.
Free parking increases congestion. Think about it - if it's a pain to park in a place, fewer people will drive to that place. Some will take alternatives (walk, bike, transit), others just won't go. More cars on the road -> more congestion -> longer commute times for everyone.
Good to know, I have had an application in for a couple weeks and since then have made immense changes to it.

Thanks for the clarification.
There's a difference between an implementation which clearly violates the intended design and a tricky bug that is breaking something. Without knowing exactly why it is broken, it just seems to be a missed first opportunity for them to wow everyone. I'd be more concerned if it stayed broken more than a short period of time now that it has been publicly pointed out to them. It would be helpful if the Oracle guys posted the most efficient way for users to funnel them bug reports.
I had to completely remove and reinstall the Facebook app from scratch on both my Verizon iPhone 4 (4.2.7) and my wifi-only iPad 1 (iOS 5 GM) to get it to work. The iPhone just sat and "pinwheeled" for 4-5 minutes, and the iPad would dump back to Springboard on launch.