skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have nanosecond Jedi reflexes! How cool is that!

God says...
variation tempting those preliminary aim US projected commencement
bands liar Offices solemnities double bared kill certainly
walking inexpressible Wordly fig pictures worm womanish
scenical fine fragment illusion short thoughts gaze foreshowed
distempered shook promising shadows fanned breaking sinks
Deceased experience limitation guiltless agreeable TIBI
orbs sakes diluted MEDIUM particles slow Knowledge myself
innate sublimely thieve annual profited sound software
talents ardent Lamentable persevering Fire prepare astray
blade fearing changing moveth AUGUSTINE disobeyed delayed
abandon privately licenses uproar and Forsake endeared
magistrates ventures greatly

Thde radio talks to me. I'm obviously a VIP. Don't be silly. Insanity is being a VIP, solving the worlds problems... in your spare time when you're not working as a chef. When the radio stops talking and my world isn't a lab rat, we can talk jobs. All my jobs were madee-up by the experimentors, costing exorbitant amounts, but not really much compared to all media talking to me. I have an entertainment budget in many millions of dollars with hundreds of people serving me... and I should worry about being a chef? That's crazy-talk.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\BIBLE.TXT

ua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote
the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of
all those kingdoms.

11:11 And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of
the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe:
and he burnt Hazor with fire.

11:12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them,
did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he
utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of
There are so many illegal things the US gov't has done in the past 10 years, one more doen't really matter. At least this time it didn't involve killing people.
The first three images in the screenshots work as a good three panel joke.

But yep, I agree - the author shouldn't necessarily try to start a debate without offering specific use cases and failures. Far too much conjecture IMO.
There is a lot more travel North-South in the USA than there is East-West. Just look at the way the US highway system is setup. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/1926us.jp...

Note: Number of lanes paints a much stronger picture, but I can't find a good map of that.
Why analysts can't tell you how iPads are selling – so tell you about others
> I'm one of the few percentage of the population that can frisson to certain works of music.

I've been labeling this feeling as an ASMR[1] (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response). Is it really a rare occurrence? I can pretty much do this on demand when listening to certain songs/types of music.

[1] http://www.asmr-research.org/
It is already quite possible to produce native apps for both iPhone and Android from a single codebase: use C++, and know how to use toll-free bridge and ndk-build properly. The platform-specific stuff is all quite available, if one looks, to the C++ coder who wants a couple local project header files to be the only difference she cares about between the platforms ..

Or, from a different perspective and mostly only really applicable for very domain-specific problems, use Lua.

For example, getmoai.com provides a fantastic Lua-based approach to the 'developers want a single codebase for all mobile platforms' methodology, going in another extreme completely. One set of code, runs on 6 different platforms, is a very viable 2D game kit ..
JaxtrSMS: Sabeer Bhatia's new free mobile txting service
> Hey kids! Everything is fun, fun, fun!

Programming is fun if it's taught well, which is why it must always be taught poorly, if at all. After all, education and play are two mutually-exclusive concepts for humans, like they are for all somewhat-intelligent mammals.
From my experience it is enough it voted in so short time period as it was.
Right. IQ is only a measure of capacity to learn, not what you've spent time filling your brain with.
I like their graph, very detailed. I've had some other people tell me how they like to read the forecast graphs as well so maybe I'll add that in the next iteration but still try to keep it super simple... if possible.
I have no idea who voted. I just submitted link to HN. And has not asked about upvotes anywhere.
Fixed.

EDIT: And by "fixed" I mean it points to a new page. The old Contact page is essentially dead. Click on the link again.
There are no limits to your potential, in that sense. There are limits to the stress that your body can take, and it sounds like you've already run up against them.
You don't need to change your feedback, you need to change what she's doing. Get her into some more challenging stuff, stat.

I sailed through my cow-town high school and then got my ass handed to me in the first semester of a competitive engineering program. Academic probation, failed classes, and all the low self-esteem that came with it.

Yes, I eventually figured out how to succeed by working hard, but it would've been better to have known this going in. Plus I had the capacity to learn a lot more as a child than I actually did.
That makes more sense if the gradient is radial. For a linear gradient, inversion gives the appearance of a changing light source - just like the example given shows.

A radial gradient, on the other hand, might more typically assume an 'oveerhead' light, which is why inversion makes sense.
File deduplication in node.js; reduce your disk usage with symlinks
I will not be silenced by the functional agenda, dammit. Sometimes the right tool is imperative programming :p
I think the problem is people are expecting all the functionality of the iPad, this is simply a e-reader on a little bit of steroids. For me the device has been good, the issue with the .mobi files confused me also but really they just appear in the Doc section. If you go to this expecting for an iPad, you will hate it. If you want a simple e reader that lets you browse the web and download some apps, then its great.
Bringing the new functionality into Firefox, where it can be more exhaustively slimmed down and the primary team is responsible for it makes sense to me.

Heck, if the basic functionality is there then Firebug can be written to take advantage of those APIs, which would be a win all round.
It is not enough. Luck has a lot to do with it. It is so upsetting to believe the role that luck has we come up with these fairy tales that if you just work yourself into an early health problems you will be rewarded with riches. But let's remember the basics, you can work this hard, yet most start up fail.
Ever heard about Thalidomide? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
I think there are good reasons why we are careful with prescribing drugs.
Take cocaine for example. Before 1900 they used it a lot. Even on children. But cocaine addiction caused a lot of troubles.
Why is this significant? Alcohol can affect judgement, but so can fatigue, depression or lust. We're humans. Our brains are housed in our bodies and we have to make decisions under all kinds of physical influences all the time.

Barring being in a fanatical teetotaler culture, why does it matter that there's a record of him writing an email while moderately drunk? Business gets done in bars, lounges and karaoke places all over the world.

It's not like he made a spontaneous marriage proposal or signed up for the military. It was just a damned email, and a satisfactory one at that.
Startups - don't forget the customer
Dear Author ( Author == OP in this case),

Can you please share markup/css you were using?
Will do, thanks for commenting anyway, helps gauge how important this is to add.
The fuselage IS a Faraday cage. Only the division between passenger/pilot probably needs attention. A good idea.

But some of the electronics are not in the cockpit.
In Some Virtual Worlds, the Thrill Is Gone
Arrington in particular has a well-deserved reputation for ignoring good journalistic practices, writing and publishing hit pieces on startups that don't jump through hoops when he asks them to, and similar doesn't he?
I didn't read the short story line at the top there, I actually thought this was a real account then. Coming from the UK none of this applies to the UK so I wouldn't have heard about this initiative if any of it was true.

Good story and could quite easily be true
This post has just been removed as well!
It's not weird if you understand what's really happening when people are buying stuff.

Value comes from the amount paid vs the perceived value gained from getting the object. Something along that line. I learned it in a marketing class.

Just because you can afford a $100 watermelon doesn't mean you have to. Same thing as a $4 coffee or a $2 app.

The concept of perceived value is very important, more so for luxury goods and services.
If a urinal laid on its back[1] can be considered art, so can an external hard drive placed on a pedestal.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)
This is not so bad in my book.
There's one thing that drives me crazy though; PgUp and PgDown. Why doesn't that also move the cursor? Why only move the viewpoint?
I use both Windows and OSX and this is the one thing that bothers me most.

Muscle memory dies hard.

/rant
Even more important : HOW does this get to the first two results in the first place, with only 3 comments and 20 points ? Is it enough for 20 of the OP's friends to upvote a story for it to get to the top ? Not hating, just curious to know.
What nonsense - it is number 27 on the new list right now.
What Our Searches Tell Us About 2011: Bing Releases Most-Searched Terms
if you were to install all of those plugins/add-ons simultaneously your computer would grind to a halt from RAM usage.
Show HN: Asciifi, HTML5 ASCII art converter
Thanks for that (and the pity!). I think maybe either my timing is off, or more likely it's a little incoherent and a lot of saying not much at all :D Maybe I should spend a bit more time thinking over it than posting on here!
Let me add more: not creative, not logical, not coherent. Incapable of being social.

Studies show that chronic lack of sleep is equivalent of being drunk when driving. Do we really want the cognitive equivalent of drunk workers "changing the world"?
git commit -am "Catch-up commit" is a favourite of mine. I could always rebase it at some point…
Best Black Friday Ever for Kindle: Kindle Sales Increase 4X Over Last Year
You probably got banned for http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3282690. You could try to petition pg@ycombinator.com; you may want to point to this account as evidence that the banning may have been a bit hasty.
This error builds on a simpler, even more common one (at least among students): Suppose you have just one treatment (A), and you find that A has no statistically significant effect. This does not show that A has no effect, or that A's effect is small. (It could just mean your dataset isn't large enough.) The error discussed in the article seems to build off this mistake.
A Few Ideas for Beleaguered Innovators
The part's of the work you don't see can be just as important as the parts you can see. You can look at the physical device, and if found art is still art then so can a HDD. But, in the larger context this is similar to creating a sculpture and then displaying it covered in a tarp. You could take at the information inside, but that's irrelevant to what you see and feel when you look at the HDD / Tarp.

PS: I think most people would get a much stronger reaction from looking at the tarp than they would looking at most pieces of modern art.
I can see your point but here two key presses makes more sense as it allows me the flexibility to decide whether I want that highlight to mean something. I am often blending cut'n'paste actions with search actions and it would be an extra key/mouse press for me to get the functionality I want.

Different people have different work flows, and impossible to make everyone happy. However, in this case the extra-key press (which is easy as same modifier key and the E,F & G keys are all nearby) allows for greater flexibility and doesn't do unexpected stuff for newbie users.

Horses for courses.
I think he's intentionally seeing how far he can take his readers before they call BS. That article is possibly his greatest work in the genre, thanks for posting it.
I can't be of help because I only started studying this stuff on the side not long ago. But one of the first things I searched for was differential forms vs Geometric algebra. It appeared that the war between the two was old with both sides claiming subsumption. I decided to learn both but started with GA since it seemed easier to compute with. See:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.research/browse_t...

http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~clifford/introduction/intro/node1...

http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/DIF_FORM.pdf
Add: battery lifetime, real personalized recommendations.
Somewhat related, LiveReload (http://livereload.com/) has made the biggest impact in the way I develop recently.

It feels a lot like the way notch developed with hot swapping during Lundum Dare.
Many people enter biology and related areas precisely because they dislike math.

How ironic...
Or: if I compare three different distributions, it's possible for A&C to be distinct, but for A&B and B&C to overlap.

As the linked article says, the idea of statistical significance being a binary state is to blame here.
this is on HN front-page right now :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15916677
Design of the 60's and 70's for Nerds
You can tell this is from 2007 because Google employees are obsessing about what Yahoo! are doing. Today, it would be Facebook.
Ladies fashion, beauty tips, bridal makeup, bridal dresses 
ladies fashion, beauty tips, bridal makeup, bridal dresses
Don't you think if they haven't banned magazines and books, these rules are not about people being distracted?
Examples make a huge difference. I try to keep a few personal projects around for people to look at so that I do not have to worry about proprietary code issues.
Releasing well-polished version of products makes sense most of the time. With all due respect to movie directors, engineers, software developers and game designers you _mostly_ know how to do a movie, a car, an MP3 player, or yet another take on video editing program.

Sometimes, however, things are so new that the only way to get to the good result fast (or, to get to the good result at all) you need to release early, release often. Lotus 1-2-3 was such a huge improvement over paper sheets and such a new idea that it totally warranted "release early, release often" mantra.
The software successes I see in the App Store take a two-pronged approach: launch with a polished 1.0, but then iterate quickly with similarly well-built .1s, .2s, etc. The upside of releasing multiple updates after a good 1.0 is out the door (on the App Store at least) is that your app shows up more frequently in the App Store Updates area so if people haven't used your app in awhile, they may be incensed to give it another try. A downside of releasing too often is that all the great reviews you got for the 1.0 will be gone once enough reviews for 1.1 are in. If all you did was drop a bugfix into 1.1, you may not receive as many glowing reviews and your overall app rating will drop. This really sucks, but it's a reality of the ecosystem.
Newer articles on the subject appear in the obvious Google Scholar search:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?gcx=w&q=cannabinoids+n...
"What if you get a crappy client? How about a demanding one or one who doesn't pay."

You are assuming the business is consulting/freelancing, which in my opinion is just as bad as a regular job.

"either will suck at some point"

I would much rather slave 12 hours a day for something that might make me rich rather than my boss.
This story is also included in the excellent "With a Little Help" collection:

http://craphound.com/walh/

The free audio versions of the stories are particularly good.
>I don't think the parent wanting more convenience is lazy. But I think that not reading the manual and complaining about the absence of an obviously present feature is proof of lazyness.

Parent commenter here. Some points:

1. Just because it's buried in a submenu doesn't make it obviously present.

2. When a user notices that something doesn't behave as it's expected, he/she won't think: "oh, let's look in the manual, maybe there's some way to do this". He'll just think the software is broken.

3. Another very true example of this is cut and paste of files. For years you could not cut and paste a file on Mac like in any other OS. Lion adds this, but instead of the simple and obvious Cmd-X, Cmd-V, you have to do Cmd-C, Cmd-Option-V.

When a user tries Cmd-X to move a file and discover it doesn't work, you can say he's lazy for not looking up in the manual. Or you can agree that some things are just badly designed, period. And I believe Cmd-F to search for selected text falls in that category too, despite of you arguing it's more robust.

And no, they don't always run "extensive usability tests". It's not because it's Apple that they get _everything_ right. They're humans, too.

I answered curtly to you calling me lazy, but I think now you're a bit biased here.
Art can be almost anything, I've recently read this story:

http://www.reflex.cz/clanek/lajk/43907/povedena-recese-cesky...

(sorry I couldn't find it in another language). Basically a visitor of Venetian Biennale left a pack of biscuits in an empty space, took a couple of pictures and suddenly people started queuing at it, trying to find it in the catalogue and taking pictures too.
The prevailing attitude in my lab is that "if you need statistics, you did the wrong experiment."
But is not on "ask" section (was number 1). And has been on main page as well... Same with my other posts.
> Does everyone really need to know about recursion?

Recursion is taught in gym class through the game of dodgeball. Consider the following C-like pseudocode:

void throw(int *ball, int hits)
{
if (hits < NUMBER_OF_PLAYERS)
throw(ball + angle(), hits + *ball);
else
return;
}

The question then becomes, do people need to learn specific computer languages, or is teaching the underlying concepts in abstract ways enough?
If someone thinks a given submission is inappropriate for HN they can and will flag it. Flags cause a submission to plummet in the rankings, and just a few flags suffice to send your item down to the 500's or worse, even if you have 5 to 10 votes. Getting 5 to 10 votes quickly is enough to get you to the front page at certain times of day. Once there, more up-votes usually follow. A single flag is enough to make that moot and get you off the front page.

Further, enough flags and your item will be killed with no attention from moderators required.

If someone has decided they don't like you, or don't like the topic on which you regularly post, then it's plausible that they will simply flag everything you submit on reflex.

Having a few active flaggers who are uninterested in your topic of expertise is enough to explain the symptoms you describe. I've seen it happen.

Further, complaints about voting and flagging are the items most certain to get flagged by a specific minority.
Should I pretend to be a PC technician?
Investigating bugs seems to me like the only part of computing that could actually be considered a true science. You come up with theories about why a system is going wrong, and then setup experiments based on those theories.
That's quite impressive. Esp. when they suggest that researchers may choose to report differences in significance because the actual interaction effect is not significant. Part of the craze to publish or perish i guess. Having an open science approach would help identify these errors here.

That is not to say that the significant results are not significant, though, just that any claim you may read in the discussion section should be taken with a grain of salt (which i think is already the case, given that brain phenomena are borderline chaotic).

This may even indicate the mere fact that in neurosciences you have zero really large and deep labs (think LHC scale), but instead you have thousands of small labs doing largely overlapping work with usually small sample sizes, all competing for small grants.
you only have to look at the successful ecosystem of free/open source software

I'm not going to say that the free/open source software ecosystem is not successful, but I will say it is orders of magnitude less successful that commercial software.
Well, it is a reason. You might not think it's a good reason.
I wonder how many people make this error while A/B testing their websites...
That may explain it... Thanks.
reminds me of the nine billion names of God: http://365tomorrows.com/09/12/the-nine-billion-names-of-god/
I'm wondering how the cash out works. I have completed one beta testing and it shows $5.00 as my available balance.
There are certainly people for which your description of "drugged life" is true, but the older I get, the more I see that everyone has a sense of self-regulation (and at least the people I'm around seem to listen to it). People know when they're turning into automatons, people know when they're compromising their health. There comes a point with any drug where your tolerance rises and you have to decide whether to consume more or take a break, explore other avenues. Almost everyone I know on Adderall has slowed down or quit over time. The returns diminish and regular usage of a strong dose tends to make people noticeably neurotic (incessantly talkative) - going off of it is kind of a relief.

My experience with Adderall has been far different than the "faster, faster faster" characterization. It really makes the psychological term "executive function" make sense - I temporarily get a much clearer sense of all of my priorities and the systemic obstacles to reach them. It's made me more social, organized and energetic long after the high wears off.
EGO is the number one reason most startups fail.
I think it's disappointing that we react to weird rules by inventing reasons to defend them.

You come up with a rationale for a set of rules and believe it to be true. I'd argue that this is a circular reference. Natural maybe, to try to rationalize things. But still, please consider that you just try to justify things that have been like that for a long time without a canonical explanation.
Or reading it on a Google Chrome browser...
Ewnay atinlay? ixnay!