skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I'm the same exact way. I've had casual sex a few times, and felt repulsed and depressed to an extreme degree for the next few days after.

It bothers me greatly and the memories of the casual sex alone freaking kill me when they surface.

It doesn't help that I'm a college drop-out, have no family around, and most of my friends are distant now. And single. And don't know to meet people.

Fuck I need to figure out a hobby that involves interacting with other people.

Actually, I think that'll be my next ask reddit/yc posts.

Maybe a targeted question like that will work.

Either way, yeah, I'm the same way. I have to at least care about her to enjoy it at all. Interestingly, the girl I enjoyed sex with the most, was a virgin when we started dating. The reason she was so good was her enthusiasm and that she displayed how much she cared for me even in bed.

It just magnified the quality of the whole experience.

Hrm. Nostalgia is killing me. I'd better slough off to bed.

Good luck in sharing this weakness we both seem to have.

Cheers mate.
no where did i say my dad only worked 25 years. i said he worked for gm over 25 years. does this mean it was his first job, no? as for student loans, i certainly do have them. it's unfortunate that in this country simply getting student loans will not pay for a four year school. again, i believe i said "benefit my country or my family". do i have to go on? seriously, this is the classic case of reading what you want to read to form the picture to fit your preconceived notions.

sure, "you raise me" wwII. wtf? i'm sorry for what your dad went through, but so did my grandparents who were born in eastern europe and escaped to america. i just don't get this idea that you can't feel any compassion if someone didn't escape genocide. there's a lot more complexity to people's stories than you may realize.

my simple point is not that you should cry for any autoworker or even give them a dime. i'm just sick of hearing statement like crabapple's which completely exaggerate the facts.

* 8x wages - no
* no deductable healthcare - not for 10 years
* work less - by my personal experience, no

it comes from this characature of what the reality is. the fact is AMERICANS ARE PRIVILEGED. i get it. i'm not asking anyone to cry for my family. what i am saying is that chances are most auto workers are hard working people like the rest of us. i know my father didn't escape ethnic conflict in europe in wwII, but he certainly did the best of his ability to provide for his family. i'm not saying that deserves your money, but i am saying that it doesn't deserve to be belittled.
170 million murdered in genocides. Armenia, the Gulag, Auschwitz, the Great Leap Forward. Rwanda. Littler, still stark things like Varosha. World wars.

In the 20th century alone.

Can the market match that?
It would also be trivial to write a program to update the dictionaries to include the flipped / reversed / other silly unicode trick version of everything already in the dictionary.

I wouldn't assume that this would help against dictionary attacks for long, if at all now considering that people have been doing stuff like this pretty much since unicode got "mainstream" status.
JQuery Feed Menus
After, huh?
It's useful for passwords if you use a password manager or equivalent technology.

What? Why?
His "How to Destroy The Earth" is a perfect example of a form we could use a lot more of these days -- comic science.
It was in the book I had. (Which was the "Trilogy in 5 parts" one..) Was probably in one of the last 2 books..
Does this kind of inquisitorial behavior really achieve anything?
Rice Paddies And Math Tests
Does a similar effect apply to code?

Perhaps technical debt comes with punitive interest rates, making maintainers add more cruft than they otherwise would.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt
and just looking through the million dollar homepage --> awful lot of ads for casino's etc.. these werent big ad spenders..
Who’s Bringing Karma Back?
A Lost Decade - But Not For Everyone
Immersion - how focused young video-game players can be
The girl with no emotion cracks me up.
The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 8.10
I'd be interested to see some data on how children learning math in Hindi do, because the numbers are even less regular, enough so that even though there's a pattern, you still have to learn all the numbers from 1-100 individually. There are also more specific words for different fractions, such as a word for 3/4 that sounds nothing like the word for 1/4.

http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/language/number/hindi.html

http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/jishnu/101/numbersfractions/d...

(My apologies if any of this is wrong. I'm not a native speaker, just took a few years of Hindi in college.)
NVIDIA's $10K Tesla GPU-Based Personal Supercomputer
“A table is nearly always better than a dumb pie chart; the only worse design than a pie chart is several of them.”
A Proof of the Halting Problem's Undecidability in Verse
It is perfectly legal in HTML to not quote attributes, and the FONT-tag is also a perfectly legal HTML-tag.

Purely presentational markup (like the FONT-tag) is legal and not a problem. It is only a problem (e.g. for accessibility) when information is conveyed only through presentational markup, or when semantic markup are misused for presentation (eg tables for layout or blockquote for margins). But validation cannot detect these kinds of problems (because it requires an understanding of the meaning of the document), so validation is pretty useless to determine if the HTML is "good" or "bad".

Validation is highly overrated as a means of determining the standards-compliance of a web-site.
This is fascist propaganda not science. Not taking spam ads with you, littering, taking shortcuts etc. don't count as crime in any way, and given the rest of the study I'm inclined to believe that the 5 euro note thing was somehow biased too.

In reality enforcement of zero tolerance policies causes a lot more cost and human suffering than whatever it prevents.
hmmm... you know i just wrote this, and i'm realizing i'm just falling into this trap needless argument. looking back at my thread i think i approached crabapple's initial comment with way too much zeal myself. the thing that irked me the most about crabapple's comment was not the point (ie agreeing with mit romney's position), but the way in which he/she went about making it. by perpetuating this characature of the "uaw king", i feel like it belittles honest, working americans like my father. i realize that my father was lucky for being born in america after wwII, but he did the best he could with the hand he was dealt and my pride certainly show through.
Chans get a lot of undeserved bad reputation. Even 4chan's /b/ which has the worst reputation of them all there's almost no real trolling - it's just a place to talk about everything and nothing, and full anonymity and all the irrelevant stuff simply makes people open up more. People pretend to be homophobic or pretend to be gay depending on their mood, and role play flame wars, but none of this is real, and everybody other than newfags knows it. Everybody can say whatever they really think and that's fine.

On the other hand I've seen a lot more trolling and spamming and groupthink and bitterness on Reddit - ronpaul, obama, palin, proposition 8, sensationalizing titles, vote up if etc. As a scientific experiment try criticizing gay marriage or whatever is the popular thing on Reddit right now - you'll be downmoded into oblivion no matter how thoughtful your comment is.
he was talking about the start of the OP: There was a "Male" table and a "Female".

It was options 1 through to 6 I believe.
Very interesting. I've never heard any breakdown of their being a different approach to numbers in any system so that was neat.
Dont confuse standards and validation. Web standards are of course critical for the workings of the web. Validation is highly overrated though.

The reason people get hung up about validation is that it can be performed mechanically and gives an unambigous result. However it only check against a small (and pretty unimportant) part of the specs. For example a validator cannot check if you use semantic markup (which is pretty important), but will complain about superficial and harmless errors like leaving out the type attribute on a script tag.
It's confirmed: Science Writing is merely vacuity fluctuations
I got into a situation a few weeks ago like this. I downloaded trial version, liked it, and then wanted to buy. I registered for an account and was told that I could continue to purchase once my email was confirmed. Well, at the time we were on a shared hosting mail server and apparently it was about 5 hours behind. I had to wait 5 hours to purchase. I wanted the software badly so I waited but I bitched the whole time.
Ask HN: Accept credit card payments in Europe
Hi guys,

we're a startup from Germany which is selling "offline-goods" (yes, things with "a price") to consumers. So far, we're using Paypal to accept credit card payments, but to be honest: it sucks. big time. Not only that the interface is counter-intuitive, our customers are also reluctant to create an account on behalf of Paypal. In a nutshell, we estimated that the current system kills 40% of our sales.

Question:

(1) Do you know any good/ working payment services, that can be integrated into our custom-built shopping cart? Best case would be to have something built into our own site, so the user will not be redirected to a third-party site to complete the payment? (Dev skills are present, no worries about that!)

(2) What are your experiences with this provider?

Thanks a lot and keep up the good work!
Philipp
nope, I wasn't flagged for abuse. Search wiki just reappeared.
An unclosed P is not an error. It has always been perfectly legal HTML and has an unambigous parse. There are a lot of cases in HTML where you are allowed to leave out tags, and the paser can infer then. This is part of the SGML nature of HTML.

However browsers also have graceful handling of invalid and ambigous syntax, and that is a much more controversial issue, because the resolutions have been browser specific and undocumented. This is obviously bad for interoperability.

Draconian error handling is the simplest possible solution to this problem, but HTML5 has a much better (but also much more complex) solution which is to openly specify rules for handling any conceivable syntax error. Microsoft has not peen part of this effort AFAIK.
Facebook’s Project Palantir: Beautiful Visualization Of People Connecting
Sure, there are examples of spectacular product failures. But the software industry seems to be particularly bad in this regard. We all use software that is buggy, and most of us just shrug our shoulders and say "oh, well" or post on our blogs about it. And, of course, we can tolerate these sorts of things because if my phone drops a signal or an app freezes, it's unlikely it will be as catastrophic as a zeppelin bursting into flames.

Product management would tell you that they have no choice but to rush these things to market. And maybe that's true. Also consider that some "important" software came from academic/research settings, where the pressure to bring things to market was much lower (though there is considerable pressure to publish in some cases). As an example: my employer, who writes software for a highly regulated industry, recently hired a new product manager. We have been preparing a minor update release for a core product, and he has been tasked to manage this update. He comes from a company that offered non-critical web applications. When our QC department gave him estimates for testing, he became visibly pale, and pulled me aside to ask how, exactly, they needed that much time to test. I responded that he would understand the first time he is pulled into an audit by one of our clients and is asked to explain the validation process for the software. Quality just isn't the first thing management thinks about--it's all about getting something to market.
Hehe, danish? You study?

I live in the south(Skåne) and yes even here it is too dark.

Great country society-wise, climate-wise not so much.
How is any idea, that makes money, stupid? It's arguably the best metric for judging an idea/execution.
Check Ramanujan's story please... he could have made use of this kind of scholarship (not in Africa, but anyway).
It's possible from Javascript without extensions. I did a prototype of this, and while streaming the mouse x&y coords to a server was trivial, the hard part was making sure that what the user is seeing is the same layout I'm seeing myself.

For example if the user has a larger font size, then the layout might be different, so those coordinates would not mean what I think they mean. Faced with this I abandoned my own project on this, but I noticed that sites like http://robotreplay.com/ have appeared, not sure how they dealt with that issue.
Watching the Times struggle (and what you can learn)
It does indeed.

Things like amount of unit tests and comments are influenced heavily by this effect.

It's elaborated further in The Pragmatic Programmer (http://pragprog.com/titles/tpp/the-pragmatic-programmer), which actually introduced me to the concept some time back.
Your two comments don't add a lot of value to the discussion. (If you'd like, I can go into details as to why they don't.) If you care about that kind of thing, then please try to communicate more calmly and clearly in the future.
Newspaper article, most likely, I don't remember exactly. However, a quick google search for "low birth weight race" yields:

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5127a1.htm#tab1

Here is another quirk of the measurement system I just discovered while googling. Low birthweight rates increase with income (at least in Brazil):

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118696841/abstrac...
I'd bet heavily that it was a meteor of some kind. The different compositions will produce different colors and they can enter the atmosphere at many different angles. But there may not have been a report because you may have been the only one to see it! They happen so quickly and you have to be looking up at just the right moment.

I once saw one (fiery streak then short burst of flaming goodness) sitting on the Hudson shore in Hoboken looking across at the NYC skyline. I'll never forget that, especially with revelers nearby jamming to Latin music.
I am currently using CentOS on my laptop. I've never experienced weird bugs, and everything works as expected. Isn't that boring. ;-)

CentOS is usually well supported, there is lots of tested software for it. I couldn't find an Emacs 22 rpm, but I compiled the editor myself and it took me 5 minutes.

I've tried newer distros, but I don't miss any features from them. I feel I use beta software when I try the newer ones.
This is why we need to teach numbers and concepts, not names.

I admit that the English number system is flawed, but that's what digits are for, right? 37 = 3(10s)7. Its just a shortcut, we can express 37 to be 3*10 + 7, but its just not worth saying every time
This is actually the distro I used before Ubuntu got big. I loved it, it did everything I needed it to do while still being debian based.
"Freak your friends" ...
Well Nature (or God or whatever) decided that some people (through illness, genetical defect or whatever) are sterile and can't procreate... So they shouldn't be allowed to marry?
long story short, if media is your business, and media is changing, you'd best change with it because its not going to wait around for you.

seems like common sense, but i guess when you get to be old and venerable you also acquire a stance of complacency. no one is invulnerable however. seth should have reminded nytimes of their mortality about five years ago.
Auto-history (neat feature in Firefox)
Did you know that each Ctrl+Shift+T will open a tab which point to a popped item from the history-stack?

I just discovered that and wanted to share this with you
You still have to say "thirty seven", or mentally say "three times ten plus seven", before you do the calculation.
truebosko, Thanks, that video was much better and I included it in my post. Much clearer.
mhb, thanks, I included a link to the hi-res file in the post, it is the best video I've seen of this thing. Still doesn't approximate the real life experience, but close.
How is .NET doing on the web? It seems that many people want to deploy on Linux...
"And almost without exception, organizations are run by people who want to protect the old business, not develop the new one."

Even this alone is enough for a smart startup to succeed in the field of horrible and established competition
Disgusting.

* The Economist (more often than not missing the point and failing on preditions.)
* No link to original research.
* Lack of signs of peer-reviewed research
* Missing analysis of opposing view.

This isn't science or unbiased journalism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Broken_Windows#Critics_o...
To deal with emails like "cake on my desk", how about a "not relevant after $TIME" tag?

I know the cake won't last, so why I would tag it for automatic deletion after 3 hours. Anyone who misses the email won't have to waste time deleting it later.
C'mon pg. Imagine if you had polled the community before changing the name of Startup News. They'd have said no and we'd still only be reading about venture capital and where to incorporate etc. Consensus almost always favors the status quo. Lead the way, shake things up, close the site!
I have been wanting this functionality for my mailbox since quite sometime.

I managed to get a very small fraction of it done in Thunderbird through tagging and filters. I pretty much generate a Todo list out of the messages by tagging.
But I want more: reminders for these items; setting a deadlines and the amount of time it takes to finish items so that they will get auto-arranged and they present themselves when I have to pay attention.

It should not be that hard to get this done by integrating calendar right into the inbox. I have thought of doing this as a Thunderbird add-on, just haven't gotten around to doing it.
Something fishy about Yahoo
Some new stuff about about Yahoo!

Yahoo! is using Twitter for it's Hackday updates. http://twitter.com/brhackday

And is BrandConnect going to be a new yahoo service? (brandconnect.com.br). Just found that they used the
http://hackday.brandconnect.com.br/ site for their Hackday registrations though the main site just has a big logo which just reads 'The BrandConnect'.
Good call -- I'll send customers a little "Welcome to my site" email after the process is done.
I've setup a hosted payment solution (i.e. the customer is redirected to the provider) for a minor e-commerce so I have some experience on the matter.

My recommendation would be to select a provider that:
1. is based in Germany. Having a provider that has the same business hours as you and to whom you can actually phone and talk in your own tongue is very important. When - not if - you get into trouble and require support, you need to get it ASAP, not wait for an email many hours later.

2. Provides the features, technology and support you require. You'll need a solution that accepts major credit cards, but this is raraly a problem. Equally important and often neglected, is how good the solution is techniqually. Can you work in any programming language (you should)? Are you provided with good documentation, examples, needed graphics, etc?
Interesting article overall, but I found the following a little spurious:

>For fractions, we say three fifths. The Chinese is literally, 'out of five parts, take three.' That's telling you conceptually what a fraction is. It's differentiating the denominator and the numerator.

It's not obvious to me that one is better than the other, and he's not providing data to support such a claim. Is it just me, or is he just playing with semantics here?
The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway
In many African countries, nutrition is probably the dominant means of transmitting IQ from parent to child.

Childhood malnutrition lowers IQ, and family income lowers childhood malnutrition. Hence, family income and IQ are highly correlated.

What country is this, anyway?
India is re-outsourcing to...Cleveland?
Ah yes, another hack who believes math is all about memorization and fast arithmetic. Who cares if our 7 year olds can add slower? We all add the same speed once we lift the calculator ban. And once you start doing real (abstract) math, this memorization advantage becomes completely useless. I'll believe the "Chinese Math Dominance" story when I see it.
Ask HN: Do social sites with karma need a decay function?
If karma in a social site is a reward for good behavior, it seems like it always becomes harder and harder for new users to "get ahead" compared to those who have been around forever. Perhaps this lessens the incentive to good behavior over time?

Do such sites need to implement some kind of "karma decay" system, to prevent the leader-board from becoming more static over time and encourage new users to behave themselves?
Revival of U.S. steel industry offers lessons for automakers
An interesting side note: many people greatly inflate the halting problem. My software engineering professor for example, has stated that it is impossible to prove a program will halt by formal verification. The truth is, while it is impossible to write a general solution to the halting problem, there are a great many subcases where it is possible.
Sounds fishy to me. In german, numbers are logical but excruciatingly long to say in words. There's no huge lag in german math skills because it takes a little longer to say the numbers than in english.
[new member]

I read a wonderful article about Price in National Geographic sometime last year. The most important feature of the NT article, which is overlooked here, is why Price's 'personal' memory is faultless while her memory, in general, is average.

One psychologist suggested it was because Price had an intimate and unrelentingly interest in herself, as her extensive diaries suggest. So, if you enthusiastically submerge yourself in an area of study memories come.

I think there's an important lesson here: above all else love what you do.
Not if they're growing.
Right now I'm at The College of New Jersey. It's an absolutely top-rate public school, and my parents are paying for it. It's a good college, but it's mind-numbingly slow. I already have a general idea of what I want to do, so a lot of the introductory classes seem pointless and dull. I also feel really guilty about using money that's not mine to take classes that I don't feel will affect what I do later in life.

Right now, I'm in that sort of "isolation." I have friends, and a bit of a social life on campus, but the whole of it really doesn't interest me. The problem that I and my cofounder have is that we both attended handpicked programs a summer ago, with an absolutely top-notch set of students from across the state. (I went for the arts, he went for the sciences.) Both of us are finding college a let-down after the intense 8-hour-day programs that those were, hence us starting up.

As for college: I really don't think leaving and never returning would be a good idea. But we're applying to YCombinator this summer, and we figure that one way or another it might be worth a year away from college to try our hands at entrepreneurship. We've got a good idea and a good product; worst comes to worst, we'll go back to college after a year much wiser and much more understanding of what we want to do with our lives.
The Marijuana Potency Data