skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other way to look at it would be to see the beauty in simplicity, and gather hope from it. Why is it so important that the human brain is especially "deep"? Does he imply that all "less deep" things have no dignity?

Personally I have for a long time now been fascinated by the complexity that results from simple computations - all of nature around us is an example of it, and who would claim that nature is not beautiful? As an example, I wonder what the world looks like for the spiders in my cellar. Presumably, the cellar is a whole microcosm that looks incredibly strange and alien, if we were to look at it from the perspective of a spider living there. Lot's of complex computations go on there, without an explicit brain being involved. We humans are completely oblivious to it. I hope some biologists at least have looked into such things, though. But there are so many "small worlds" that I doubt biologists can cover them all.

As for music, I don't think it is a god-given thing. Rather, I think it was a by-product of evolution. Because of the brains ability to draw analogies, sequences of tones invoke associations in the brain. It is only an example of the brilliance of evolution that it managed to use this by product for something useful.

Reading that article made me expect a future in which a musician will not be known for a particular composition, but for the algorithm he devised for creating music of a particular flavor. Could be fun, no?
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Why do we need pet sitters?
It is wonderful to have pets in our homes; they help us relax on stressful days. For some of us, pets are our only reliable companions. Our pet dogs not only will help us relax and provide companionship that we need, they also guard our property. There are so many other benefits in owning a pet. However, there are number of complications as well in owning pets.
> The contention that filming and uploading (and even hosting video of) a crime is a crime as well might not be valid, but given the very nature of live broadcasts, the issue becomes more complicated.

Is suicide a crime?
"people are always going to pick holes in whatever words you use"

That's precisely why you should have the boilerplate prepared by PR and law professionals.
OpenCL team delivers spec, just in time for Snow Leopard
"Are you really mad at the person driving the car for that event or are you projecting your other frustrations and hatred onto that person because they are a safe target."

Yes, that makes more sense and is along the lines of my own thinking above.
Huh, I think it's a brilliant idea. Every site (including here) using a voting system nowadays. And from data collection point of view it will possibly help google enhance its results. And unlike techcrunch author, I didn't find it annoying or complicated at all.. It's funny how people's perceptions are..
Dunno if you remember me, I'm the good-looking half of Sched - Taylor's friend. Always wonderful to come across your projects.
this is a community of smart people, not computers. what this incident did was demonstrate certain tendencies in our nature as humans--that is, the collective is still susceptible to certain modes of groupthink and, as rational and logical as we are/intend to be, we are still emotional beings. what i take away from this incident is nothing negative about tdavis--as swombat pointed out (and demonstrated), there were other comments that just as easily could have become the focus of HN's ire. instead, i see this is a reminder that no community is immune to the problems inherent in growth and longevity. so, let's recognize that fact, and simply double-check our motives before posting. i think it's necessary to take a step back in this case, as opposed to moving in closer for a better look.
#1 is like "would you rather kill your son or your daughter?" Yeah I know philosophers like such questions.

#3 has a simple answer: duh, yes, it is really a computer screen in front of me. I have proved it to you by writing this comment.
Filtering tags is notoriously difficult, though, because of the variety of encodings possible. Maybe you meant "properly encodes output"? That's the typical solution.
Those are pretty thoroughly unfunny...
As a startup founder, I see this as a bit worrisome. What if you got a digg bury brigade to start clicking on the 'Remove' button or posting nasty comments about your brand.

We'll be keeping a close eye on this.
Is the moral of the story that meetings are so boring they'll even make your doodles boring as well?
They say that all the time on those classical radio stations that play nothing but bach-to-bach Bach...
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> memo to self: stop using ticketstumbler.com

That this comment got modded so high is downright shameful. Rather than disagree and state your reasons you would choose to escalate this into an attack on someone's livelihood. This is intended to be a community where we can speak freely among our peers, and you and your little cheerleading posse have perverted that.

I'm really trying to understand where you're coming from. I don't know if this is simply a last resort because you're unable to articulate exactly why you so vehemently disagree or if this is a threat you intend to follow through with. I can assure you that if you do, in fact, intend to avoid doing business or associating with those you have disagreed with at one time or another you are going to be living in a very lonely world.
I think that the point the EFF article was trying to make: that Google is helping itself at the potential "expense" of others. But the EFF is an industry-wide advocacy body, so they have a vested interest in promoting the industry as a whole by helping to establish precedent, not just helping individual companies.
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"On the eve of this election night victory, I want to reflect on how we got here. I thought the campaign was over when I died. But, thanks to my team, I was brought back to life. I don't have a frog on my team, but I do have a girl with glasses, a girl with baggy white pants and a guy who floats when he runs. Oh, and a robot."
Oh yeah? well...

Morra di!
They will get a lot of training and assessment data for their algorithms in this way.
I don't see any problems with dark humor, much worse is said around my office. No one could possibly be serious when saying that sort of stuff.
heh, as a self educated hacker from mississippi, with over 12 startups under my belt, you talk a lot of sense...

(8 dismal failures, twice wealthy, once almost made the rainbow)...

keep it up...

you're almost my hero... :-)

(really hard to beat out my father :-)
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I think there's a more fundamental problem with any commentary (economic or otherwise) by mass media. It hardly seems objective these days.

There's also a self-fulfilling prophecy problem with media coverage of economic information. If you tell everyone things are getting bad, it would seem rational that they would sell their assets (making things worse). If you say there's no bottom in sight, not many people would feel like re-entering the market.
I'd never bet my company on a political shift happening exactly when I need it to.
Yeah, I've been getting a hunch that there's some significant market manipulation going on over the past year. Particularly the strength in the dollar and the weakness of gold.
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Feels like New Coke to me.

They're already using click-based metrics to tweak PageRank. I don't see how one additional data point will radically improve anything.

Worse, in stealing features it shows they're out of ideas for their core product even while it doesn't need them.

New Coke.
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Google adds customization to search with SearchWiki
"Just apologize for the comment, man. You're not going to change anyone's mind with a childish rant like this." +20

This turned out to be very insightful.
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Comprehensive? Maybe.

Short? No way.
Haha. He gives a practical use for divination:

"The multitude of available divination techniques are very useful for determining your own semi-conscious desires, as they each present a complete ambiguous and random pattern that your own subconscious will assign meaning to."

It reminds me of Douglas Adams' speech, "Is there an artificial God?"

"Apparently, we need to think about the building being inhabited by dragons and look at it in terms of how a dragon would move around it... This sounds like complete and utter nonsense, because anything involving dragons must be nonsense... Nevertheless... it may be there is something interesting going on... You figure out how the dragon's going to be happy here and lo and behold! you've suddenly got a place that makes sense for other organic creatures, such as ourselves, to live in."

http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/
jeez...

the world at large will find fault with ANYTHING ANYBODY says...

if you felt that way... so b it...

every person on the planet has a few rough edges...

(i'm still in awe of your intellect, and i've worked most of my life around geniuses)...

my vote is to accept rough edges for truth in facts, and forgive side effects...

:-) :-) :-)
I didn't downvote, but I didn't upvote either, for the simple fact that it wasn't funny. To paraphrase the pythons, humor is not the automatic gainsaying of the common sentiment.
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About Henry Ford: Could you provide a citation for this? I'm not doubting you, but it's a really interesting point, and I'd like to dig deeper. (If not, I'll search the next time I have a chance...)
It's the prezelect
What to do about Detroit.
These guys just need to get hit in the face with a copy of Atlas Shrugged.
I know Seth Godin often gets bashed on HN for lack of insight, but I think this post is surprisingly insightful.
using an IDE doesn't mean "dumping auto-generated piles of shit"
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This german article gives some good reasons: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,591783,00.html (in german, unfortunately). Maybe some people really are cruel, but there are other reasons (as with the shoutings of "jump already" if somebody jumps off the roof). People resent being manipulated, which a suicide does (just look at the pushy comments here, about what justin.tv HAS to do now). And by saying "so what" they make the suicide seem meaningless, which might help in some cases to prevent it - if the suicide candidate wants the attention but doesn't get it.
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At which point his lawyer would phone up and tell him what a pillock he was, how open it left them and to please use the damn boilerplates that the qualified lawyers wrote :)
From a pragmatic point of view, it would be really neat if I could input the songs in my Instrumental Hard Rock Radio on Pandora.com (http://pandora.com/stations/30edcc89cca783c32f86a5cddf5ee0c7...) into the EMI program mentioned, then vote on the resulting songs.
I guess in many cases the problem is that it is not obvious how to react to mental health issues. There are only theories on how to cure someone, but few certain measurements. Still, at least attempts at cures should be made (or at prevention).
The essence is this: connect.

I dunno. As much as I enjoy Seth's posts, I would prefer:

"The essence is this: provide value."

Yes, connecting can provide value, but it's a tough, extremely competitive way to go. Sooner or later, a lot of "connectors" will have nowhere to sit when the music stops.

Providing value with differentiating content or technology is a much more sustainable approach. And a much better approach for hackers like us.

For those who have difficulty providing value, connecting may be the only way to go. We hackers have better options.
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"Re-ranked search results, however, are only seen by the signed-in user and do not affect other people's results."

http://www.pcworld.com/article/154310/google_adds_customizat...

Nasty comments, well, that one does share.
I think before one can make comments like that you need ot have the FULL story.

Unless people here are parto f the community and new the guy (it seems he cried wolf several times) you cant really pass judgement on what was said (except in some of the cases...).

I also see (in the threads cache) people telling him it was a bad idea. I really doubt he was listening to any of them anyway....
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Crono himself pretty much can't become president. He never speaks, except in one of the endings.

I can definitely see Magus as a campaign manager, though.
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He is right about the effect all those regulations have on innovation. I remember too, about 10 years ago talking with some programmers from a major car company, they had to fill out 17 pages of documentation in order to change a few lines of code in their system.
That is pretty damn cool. The only missing item is a compilation of everything I highlight or leave notes on, but awesome none the less. Thanks.
meh. You had time to think about your op and already made a reply basically repeating the original sentiment. You clearly don't feel any differently about the op, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

But this just reeks of Jimmy Swaggart or Michael Richards. (On the bright side, you've successfully pushed the hivemind to the opposing view, although I don't think that was your goal)
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I find it interesting that a couple of people expressing distaste for tdavis' statements and expressing the thought that they personally would not spend money on ticketstumbler because of his demonstrated lack of judgment gets turned into a witch hunt and call for boycott.

As a side note, I have to wonder about companies that I've only ever heard of through reading HN. It makes me think that the founders are spending too much time in their comfort zone telling their buddies how great they are. In order to become truly great you have to go out into the wider world where people will make snap judgments about you and your company based on what you do and say.
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This is ridiculous.

I was in Detroit last week... I have family there. I also drive a car. And I would rather that the world doesn't melt and the economy thrive. So I'm uniquely qualified to weigh in on the automobile industry.

Which would make me uniquely qualified to weigh in on the intricasies of modern farming since I have family that lives on a farm, went there last week and use dairy products on a regular basis.

On a more serious note, there are some basic economic insights that Seth seems to have completely missed: Some industries are skewed towards a scattered market with a lot of small players. Others are skewed toward a few large players. One of the main factors involved in this is fixed cost vs. variable cost. The automative industry has enormous fixed costs that it has to incur before it has a product that is ready to sell. This is true even if there are suppliers that can deliver most of the parts. Safety regulations alone costs hundreds of million for each model. This fixed cost has to be spread out across however many cars you sell. This is why some industries, such as the automative, semiconductor and aeronautics industries, have a few large players. If you only sell 1000 cars your fixed cost would be a prohibitively high percentage of the final price of the car. So there are a few large players because there are significant advantages to economies of scale.

Other industries, like carpenting, consulting and software don't have high fixed costs before they can go out and sell a product. Which is why there are a lot of small players in these markets.

Seth should stick to marketing.
"I'd spend a billion dollars to make the creation of a car company turnkey. Make it easy to get all the safety and regulatory approvals... as easy to start a car company as it is to start a web company."

If it is ever as easy to start a car company as it is to start a Web company, then something is wrong. People can't drive their browsers into each other at 100MPH.

Also, there is no problem with the idea of big car companies. Big companies have increasing economies of scale and can offer significant savings to consumers. A poorly-run big company is a problem, not the size of the company itself.
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The new version of the SDK is now available for download. 1.56GB. I've never quite figured out why the SDK has to include a whole new version of the entire Apple developer toolchain with it, but there you have it.
Really? It seems to me when the FCC gets something done, it fines TV stations for offending someone, grants media companies bigger monopolies, or oversteps their authority by trying to introduce the broadcast flag. Do we really want them to get something done?
are they saying google is a perfect product such that innovation and progress are no longer necessary?

google obviously doesn't want to get leapfrogged in "technology" in the one area that is its proven moneymaker. it's going to continue to roll out "new" features to stay ahead (and stay relevant).

did techcrunch cry this much when google rolled out the autocomplete searchsuggest thing?
Before clicking I thought they mean Gmail.
This comment is so depressing that I am going to kill myself. I hope you get indicted for second degree manslaughter when I die.

(My point phrased less cynically: telling a commenter on a forum to kill himself should not be the same crime as flattening someone with your car.)
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Yes. This is a double-edged sword, though. The similar bubble happens if you constantly read that some assets are going to rise infinitely (eg, real estate).

See Soros' reflexivity.
Give me a break...an apology is wholly unnecessary. What you said may have been "inappropriate," but it was dark humor. Of course people would be offended.
Western banks spend 70% of their IT budget maintaining legacy systems
Exactly, and he seemed to limit his scope of car companies to American car companies. Since the Auto Industry is global one the number is much higher. And just because you have a lot of players in a market doesn't mean all of them are going to be innovative it just means there will be generally more innovation.
Gee, we're sure fortunate to have the sage Mr. Godin to lead us in this fog of uncertainty. His decades of experience in marketing will surely guide us through this industrial misfortune.

Opinions are like assholes...no, right now opinions about the economy are like assholes...
I agree completely! Spend money encouraging innovation and solving tomorrows problems, not keeping the existing oligarchies on life support. Congress should be considering investments and negotiating term sheets like VCs (but they won't).
The reactions are typical US behavior. People will rate you because of the one thing you did wrong and not even take into account the years before, where you did a perfect job. (Think about President Clinton and the Lewinski affaire...).
I don't see how that follows at all. If the biggest issues with Ruby are performance and memory management how does changing the language spec help fix that? If anything a stable language spec should help nail down the bugs in the engine.
I haven't found this to be the case at all. Who besides Zed is behaving this way?
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memo to self: start using ticketstumbler.com.

I'm glad the guy has an actual personality. I agree with his statement, too. Pills + webcam = boredom.
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Also, it seems you can't downvote replies to your own posts, or downvote anything older than a day or so.
Good point on industry dynamics, but I'm pretty sure he was being tongue in cheek.
Yeah, let's all be really nice and talk about how much we like flowers.

Seriously though, Zed's personality may suck, but it makes for great reading. As a blog reader, that's all I really care about.
Is it wrong to NOT mourn your father's death more than the death of some random guy in a hospital you never knew?

Just because most of us would, does not necessarily give us the right to judge someone who doesn't.
I think the statement is probably technically true. Some percentage of the population is a pedophile, some percentage of the population uses justin.tv. It is likely that there is an overlap.

I'm sure Slashdot, news.yc, and Reddit are all "riddled with pedophiles" also. Who cares?
Sometimes it really becomes difficult to see what the full repercussions of what we say can be. What might seem to be an interesting comment to make may not seem as intelligent just afterwards. I bet anyone who has ever tried to to dilute seriousness of an issue with humor has one incident to quote where their effort had an opposite effect.

So although I cannot speak of everyone else, as for me if it is 'forgiveness' you want, I forgive you.

Edit: After reading the comments, I realize this whole thing was a mock... and as some people have already observed, an apology is totally unnecessary. As for your friends, I am sure hardly anyone will have the time to look up and make any mental notes about what to do if he meets them. As for your business, if this episode has done anything, it would only popularize it. Why, if I lived in US I'd probably start using the service you provide if I weren't using it already :)

And on serious note, committing suicide on screen is a very stupid idea, and over that if it is done by sleeping in front of the camera it does become a little boring as well. I am not sure why you got down voted for pointing that out, as your comment was definitely not more disappointing to me than the actual news.
uhm. is he saying he wants to buy a car that's surprisingly innovative with its heated wing mirrors but lacks another company's life saving side collision impact distribution lattice?

these 1000 car companies all made innovations that COLLECTIVELY would make 1 decent car. why the hell would you want to buy a car with 1 or 2 of these critical features? eventually as a market settles, desirable features are consolidated, it's the reason why we don't have 1000 companies making PC operating systems and browsers...
Is suicide a crime?

Yup. Dead people don't pay taxes, after all.
I feel it diverges a little bit, actually. In many cases it provides the "C style" way of doing it and the "functional style" way of doing it. Thankfully, in many cases one of them is much faster than the other, but it's not obvious to the novice and they will probably use the "C style" for years in ignorance of the alternative.

Example:

mylist = []
for char in "foobar":
if char == "f":
mylist.append(char)

vs.

mylist = [ char for char in "foobar" if char == "f" ]

The latter is supposedly much faster, and as you can see, much more succinct, but I hadn't learned about it until about a year ago. I have been programming in Python since about 2002/2003.
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