skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has well-understood powers to fire off pain circuits in perfectly normal brains.

Stephen Pinker gave a talk on the subject at Google a few years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBpetDxIEMU

Swear words are swear words because they actually are processed differently in your brain than regular propositional speech is. They're the linguistic counterpart of the emotional signals used by other social animals. The difference is that the sounds associated with our signalling systems are learned as part of language, rather than being hard-coded and instinctual. Hence, there's the possibility for different people to have their brains trained in different ways. So, for some people, the "f-word" may not have any ill effect, but don't deceive yourself thinking that there aren't people who really are hurt by it.
Since the psychological reaction is associated with the signal, not with whatever additional propositional meaning it might have in the language, referring to it by circumlocution really does have a point- it lets you talk about the words without risking triggering someone's reaction to the words.
I don't necessarily disagree with the author's logic, but it would seem that the real world does: http://www.spring.org.uk/2010/10/the-persuasive-power-of-swe...

...at least that is assuming that "shit" has the same effect as "damn".
Not that i disagree that this is a bad thing, but you are aware that nearly every single webpage includes Google Analytics tracking scripts that provide the same information to Google?
Not true ( I don't think.) I know Susan Kare designed the icons, and she was working for Apple around the time of the Macintosh.
It is the most useable remote desktop system I have ever used. On a medium-speed link it is nearly seamless, which is a lot more than I can say for RDP, VNC et al on a direct LAN connection.
Google going SSL - what's it mean for analytics?
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I agree with Jerry Seinfeld that swearing (when writing or speaking) is not so much offensive but just a lazy way to grab people's attention. A good speaker can hold attention without resorting to swearing.

That said, I actually think that the phrase "shit work" perfectly expresses the point, and I'm not sure I would have called it anything else if I were the author.
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There are very few rules for effective comunication. There are often guidelines that are useful for the inexperienced or timid. A good speaker who knows his/her business can get away with nearly anything they can get away with...
I use letscrate [dot com] for this. I like the fact that log in is not required and files can can be dragged/dropped. Their UI is a great hook and lure for potentially paying customers.
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Interesting. Do you have a source for that? I have wondered what the actual reason is for a while.
Profanity is popular in the tech community because it conveys that we don't give a fuck about offending people as we challenge existing norms. People are going to object to that; if they're not offended, we're not doing a good enough job.
It does mean you can't meaningfully compare the two.

Are you saying that if people started installing Android onto iPhones (if it were possible) all of a sudden the hardware failure rates for iPhones would sky rocket?
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I returned, and saw under the sun,
that the race is not to the swift,
nor the battle to the strong,
neither yet bread to the wise,
nor yet riches to men of understanding,
nor yet favor to men of skill;
but time and chance happens to them all.
WTF? Really? Are we going to comment on "is swearing right or wrong", now? It's a personal choice and that's Holman's way of doing things. That's part of his persona.

I, personally, would never read holman if it wasn't for swearing. People swear, they build professions over it. If you don't like it, don't do it. Get over it.

PS: More examples of people who sear when working - http://ittybiz.com , Garry Vaynerchuck, me.
Honestly, $12.65 might be too much too - the company has built up some pretty serious liabilities the way the deal payouts are structured.
It almost does. I'm not offended by the word fuck, because English is not my native language. I have little emotional attachment to profanities of other languages, so they don't really affect me.

But there is one in my native language. It is not the equivalent of fuck, but something usually considered a milder swear word. I'm almost physically unable to say or type that word. If I try to force it out I get panicky and my chest starts to hurt. It is the strangest feeling and when added to that the fact that I'm completely aware how irrational and, well, stupid that is just increases the mental scuffle I'm going through.

I know exactly when I developed this. I was about 8 years old when one of my friends trashed something I had made and called me names. I went to home and complained to my mother what a twat this guy had been. I quoted what the guy called me and used the special word. My mother was visibly shocked, took a moment, and very calmly informed me how that was the worst word to say. And that's it. She didn't punish me or yell at me, just explained that there literally wasn't any worse word I could have uttered. According to her. And that hit me. I had done something bad that I, or anyone else, couldn't top. I hit peak profanity. I learned that reception from her and took it to heart and haven't used the word since.

Now, saying it out loud clearly is hard for me. But what about hearing it? Well I wouldn't use the word "offended". It is not your problem that I have this emotional connection to a certain word. If you didn't try to offend me with it I'm not offended. But I do go through a certain train of thoughts after hearing it. First I get a little shocked because I wasn't prepared for it. Then, because now my focus is on that word, I repeat it in my head as we all do with words we read or concentrate on (altough many 'speed-readers' say they can read without verbalizing words, this is not possible. You can limit it, but not turn it off completely). And verbalizing the word in my head causes a similar reaction, but milder, as saying it does. For a second I can't concentrate on what you are saying because there's something going between my ears and I need a second to calm it down. And after that it is still nimbling in my thoughts for some while before I forget it.

It IS kinda like when someone insults me. First you get shocked when someone really stabs you, then you get various emotions like anger, frustration, feelings for vengeance, sadness, and what not. Then you calm down but the memory of the feelings is still there for a while. Then you forget it and move on. It is the same thing with me and hearing that word, except I don't feed offended and I have nothing against you. I have something against myself and that is not a pleasant state of mental affairs.

If you are trying to present something to me or lecture me about some subject, I don't think that is the reaction you are looking for.

edit: oh and it isn't anything religious as me and my mother are both atheists. The f-word in my language means vagina and this word is the male counterpart.
In support of what you're saying - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_g-EOWoads
I like the other posts. Another thing you could do is break the market down even further. Find a niche that the other companies aren't serving. Serve that customer better than anyone. Then when you "win" the majority market share for that niche you can expand (a la crossing the chasm).

You might also go all out lean on these mo fos and put up a landing page, then start reaching out to customers and have one on one conversations to see if anyone will even buy your product. There's nothing like a real life customer willing to buy your product to get you back in the right mindset.
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This is what happens when high design meets the real world. As much as it pains designers to realise, most people have shitty taste and as such, there are times when compromises must be made to get them on board. As Reichenstein notes, for most consumer-targeted UIs, users won't even give your serious design a chance if it lacks a bit of eye candy. You'll just have to find some kind of balance.
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Ask HN: How do I know if I'm ready to launch?
I’m petrified of launching my web application because I’m fearful that I won’t …

acquire users,
support my users well,
scale in a timely manner,
react quickly to feedback, or
monetize the application

How do I prepare myself mentally for launch? Do you think I'm ready?

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For a lighter side of both Steve Russell and Alan Kotok, you absolutely must read Steven Levy's Hackers.

A large chunk of this book deals with the very early computer scene of MIT in the late 1950s and 1960s. Both of those guys played a big role, especially Russell. He developed a game, Spacewar, that just enraptured the whole PDP crowd and led to this mania of gameplay and hacking, gameplay and hacking, etc.

It is really a delightful book. It's great to see these gentlemen recognized for their more formal contributions.
Might be a cool concept for another video. Record a video over several years with the point being to show yourself growing up.
The amount of swearing that is tolerated is a function of geography. To the rest of the world, Americans are a bit prissy.

I'm from Norway. To me a typical American's reaction to swearing is more offensive than the swearing itself. It offends me because because there being "forbidden words" is indeed a terribly childish notion.

In fact, if you are from Norway, it takes a bit of time getting used to the childish reaction most Americans will have even to relatively mild expletives.

(And I am not even from the north of Norway where swearing is more or less a byproduct of how the respiratory system works).

It is just language. Grow up.
What are the chances that some random hosting company won't just do the same thing if you ran all of your services on a VPS or colo box?
So when you visit my website and I see Google pushing ads to you for Justin Bieber posters and pillowcases http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003FCXDRM/ we'll know Google isn't reading your Gmail.

... or are they? ;-)
This is interesting, and not something I'd consciously thought about before, but quite often I will go back after I've finished something and add some white space and (sometimes quite thorough) comments to the code I've written. I especially do this with open source code that I plan to release.

My reason for doing this is that I want to make it clear to whoever ends up maintaining the code after I've left the project. I have no idea what their skill level might be and getting up to speed on someone else's code can be tedious. Apparently this also makes me look like a less-skilled developer?
Exactly; it's not so much about building a "better" product so much as being able to find a key differentiator (though to be fair, overall quality WOULD be a strong one).
"Yet I simply cannot safely try them out without an exorbitant amount of work."

If you are on Windows, Sandboxie is excellent for this. Just right-click the untrusted .exe and select "Run sandboxed".

http://www.sandboxie.com/
Of course not! Why would you think that?

All this says is that devices running Android fail on average more often than iPhones – for whatever reason (regression to the mean, one designer and manufacturer vs many, lower priced devices, and so on). That’s a perfectly valid comparison.
That's not true, there were several versions to prove the concept. Before they went all out, they created a story board of each scene, then they animated it and then they went for it.
The main reason we initially chose GPL, I think, was because while we had strong respect and appreciation for the MIT-license-like Ruby culture, we were more concerned about the science culture.

In other words, what could we do to provide another arm-twisting mechanism to force publishing authors to release their source code? We wanted to facilitate openness among people who might join the Ruby community by way of SciRuby, as opposed to those who might join the SciRuby community by way of Ruby.

Whether or not we can actually enforce release of source code is an open question. Certainly many journals and funding agencies have enormous problems here.

What about a joint license? For example, is the following practical? "If you publish your work in an academic context, SciRuby is GPLv3 for you. If you do not publish your work in an academic context, SciRuby is MIT."
Your entire objection seems to be predicated on the idea that tags are either arbitrary or presentational, rather than a means of organizing and characterizing data. You may use them that way, but that is not how it's supposed to be.
Well, I don't. That's how convenient this arrangement is :)
How should I deliver this content?
I'm planning to launch a site that I've believed all this time would be a membership site. But, I think I might be going the wrong direction.

I've outsourced the process of securing lists of information and my target market really wants these lists spoon-fed to them.

The plan was to create 3 levels of membership.

Platinum - $$$ - All available lists are released to platinum members as soon as we receive them.

Gold - $$ - All available lists are delivered on a bit of a delay (2-3 days after they are released to the Platinum members)

Silver - Free - Lists are delivered 7 days after we receive them (and only 1 list per day)

The information is obviously time sensitive to some degree.

I think this is the definition of content dripping.

I've been brainstorming other ways to release this information, but I just can't figure it out.

I thought about just using ONE price point and all members get the same information at the same time - but I'm not crazy about that idea anymore.

Questions:

- Is there any way to distribute in this fashion WITHOUT using an obvious WordPress membership plugin setup?

- What about just using a simple web store, shopping cart with a mailing list so that I can email the lists directly to the subscribers (rather than having a website they must login to in order to download files)?

- If you think a membership site is the way to go should I use: Wishlist? Digital Access Pass? Others?

Again, the information is something people want - not super sexy, but time sensitive and helpful to someone who sees the value in not having to find it themselves.

I want to make sure that my delivery is seamless and uncomplicated both to the customer on from my end of the delivery.

Thanks for any input!
I'm excited about the form states in this release as well as the bug fixes.

As a generalist developer who does a little bit of everything but has a hard time with the design side of things, I'm loving using Twitter Bootstrap on some of my personal projects. One example where I've used it is http://smacktweets.com. The header bar alone, while extremely simple, is so much better than what I probably would have done on my own.

Twitter Bootstrap gives you great looking design elements with very very little effort. If you are good with the design side of things it's probably overkill and heavier weight than you want in a boilerplate if you are going to customize everything anyways.

Skeleton (http://getskeleton.com/) is another great boiler plate that I have also enjoyed using on all kinds of projects. It is really just a boilerplate and doesn't have all the pretty design elements that bootstrap has.

Just wanted to say thanks for putting this out and for the community continuing development on it. I'm really enjoying it.
There's the second bill, HR 2930, that concerns crowdfunding: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr2930rh/pdf/BILLS-112...
I personally read it as tubular. So no confusions for me, just to throw that out there. I like the name.
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Ask HN: Certification services for OSS professionals
Hi everyone,

I've build a first prototype of web platform that will allow companies and individuals involved in open source projects easily provide professional certification services around their products / technologies.

Do you think there is any demand for such product?

IMHO the service will be valuable for:

a) OSS authors and contributors - as a source of money to support their efforts,

b) professional users of OSS (developers, admins, etc.) - giving them opportunity to improve their knowledge, prove their professional credibility, promote their expertise,

c) clients using OSS in their projects and businesses - making easier for them to find experts in specific products / technologies (esp. less popular).

I will be happy to hear your feedback on the idea.

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As long as individual investments made are less than $10k:
`(B) individual investments in the securities are limited to an aggregate annual amount equal to the lesser of--
`(i) $10,000; and
`(ii) 10 percent of the investor's annual income;

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So this is one problem with using an MIT license for SciRuby.

Our distribution gem -- well, technically, Claudio's distribution gem, but used by SciRuby -- has some Ruby code in it derived from C code in the GNU Scientific Library. Being a GNU library, GSL is licensed under the GPL.

Interestingly, the GSL-derived code is only utilized if the user does not have libgsl installed. And my understanding is that code which uses libgsl is not technically a derivative work, and therefore not required to be GPL'd itself.

I suppose one possibility is to abstract the GPL'd code into yet another gem (distribution-gsl?), which is itself licensed under the GPL.
I love the back button. It takes a little getting used to, but it's definitely one of my favorite features in Android now. I really can't imagine not having it.
I'm a student at the University of Miami. I'd love to chat and see if there is anything I can do to help. My email is in my profile.
"22 months, 1,357 hours, 30 people"

If you consider that big budget music videos can have ~100 people working on it (casting, production crew and post crew) each putting in at least 12-16 hours, this falls right in line with the amount of people hours that's typical for a music label.
As a non-American, seeing people get upset about a bit of colourful language is quite amusing.
If you execute two businesses in a single company, you subject each other to increased risk. Somebody suing her company will go after your assets. My advice is to set up separate companies. You can share facilities etc. But don't ever run them under the same company if they are run by two different people, doing two different businesses - unless cost is important and you want to save $1 of legal fees keeping them separate.

Steve Jobs: it doesn't make sense. In a company every idea will have to fight for funds and resources. If your idea is funded on its own merits then there will never be this issue.

Anyway, you are putting the cart before the horse. Go and sell something.
That's all very nice, but it seems to me to be besides the point.

On point would be to answer the question (to yourself) of what you are going to do when you are part of the hiring process for open positions at that startup, or when you are approached about mentoring, or making an angel investment, or making an introduction.

Given that you seem intent on dismissing the issue as somehow unknowable as well as concluding that the only course of action is unrealistic, my best guess is that you will happily behave consistently with your cognitive biases, rather than working around them.

That doesn't make you a racist. It just makes you ignorant, and one of a proud majority, it would appear.
I find ties offensive.
Sounds like you're a bigot about bigots? Take a look at your own hypocrisy
If Safari had prominent wood grain I'd care, but the fact that this kind of design is isolated to a few of Apple's more obscure, lesser used apps makes this whole thing a non-issue.

I will say that I prefer iBook to the reading app I actually use (Kindle, since I'm in Amazon's ecosystem) - I find the subtle border and gradients on the edges (and a handsome color scheme) more pleasing to the eye than the flat "text on a plain background" that I see in the Kindle and Google Books apps. Done right, texture and shadow can subtly draw the eye to the most relevant section of a screen. To me, the flat interfaces that the anti-skeutomorph people seem to admire are unnatural and decidedly uneasy on the eyes.
Though I don't get behind him 100 percent, the man does have a bit of a point--especially for younger founders in a startup's initial phases. If you want the job and the respect that comes with it, act the part. Obviously the rub here lies in the speaker's ability to deliver the desired effect. But sometimes dropping an f-bomb, especially in a presentation, makes it seem like you're just trying too hard.
You don't even know what you like
hunch says the same thing. In fact most mobile check in type , location based apps all live off this premise.
According to Isaacson's biography, it was Markkula who insisted that Jobs be heavily involved in the non-engineering areas of the company.
Google does read your email for ads, and that fact is spelled out in their answer quoted above. AdWords/AdSense doesn't only apply to the content of the site you happen to be on, but is an aggregate of all they've learned about you over time. This means that data they collect from relevant keywords in an email is used to show relevant ads to you on a separate website.

I've never used AdSense so I don't know how it works. Is it possible for the site owner to read the ads that are displayed to you on a website? Does Google "leak" collected ad data to other websites which use AdSense? Or are these ads typically displayed in something like an iframe, where possibly the "host" website can't read them?
This is totally a matter of culture.

My father worked for a (US) national company that actually required etiquette training for their representatives from the northeast, because they were so much more prone to swearing in casual conversation, that it would cause others to be drawn aback and brought out of the conversation. Not to mention when you get to international differences. My australian exchange student in high school would drop 'fuck' as though it was his middle name.

But regardless, I thought one of the biggest points of hacker news was the ability to grok out meaning of news and opinions, and not debate the effectiveness of its communication.
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The difference is that most people don't know how to do that. What they can do however is load a website and follow simple step by step instructions.
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I used a dropbox shared folder to transfer a large file just last weekend. The sender (I was the recipient) didn't have a dropbox account. All I did was share the folder with his email address and he worked out the rest.