skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author explains it very well in an essay 'an unbalanced and negative page':

And then it's easier to be negative. The language seems primed for complaints. Anagram programs always turn up ten times as many insulting phrases as compliments: there are simply more words with negative connotations. This is probably because when people enjoy something, they want to experience it rather than natter about it. But whatever the reason, the result is that it takes a lot less effort to be snarky. Praise, unless you put a lot of work into it, tends to get dull and a bit samey.

Praise also makes you vulnerable. Negativity is like a shield: you can keep throwing barbs at things without ever exposing yourself to attack. But praise is different. It's difficult to like something a lot without investing some of yourself in it, and without it becoming part of you. To praise something in writing is to reveal some of yourself, and face the possibility that there isn't much to reveal. And to praise something in public is to risk the ridicule of people with snarky websites.

In other words, he spends his time criticising people because he's afraid of criticism himself.
I could very well strip all comments and distribute just pyc files. Those can be reversed to commentless source, but it's not exactly as useful as the original source code. And honestly, anyone could clone the product just fine even without the source code.

If you really want to fork the project, go for it. That's within your rights as per the GPL license. Just as long as you continue to abide by the license yourself. If your fork turns out to be better than my code, and more people end up using it, then you probably deserve any users you "take away" from me.

If, on the other hand, you're just forking the code to be surly, then that's within your rights too.
You can also add * to the ignore file and explicitly specify what to track, either by hand or by "hg add [fname]" in some sort of script.

I track/sync my home directory with mercurial, and did that to keep it from scanning most of my drive for updates. (You can probably do the same with git.)

(For the archives as much as you, though I hope it's useful.)
I'm excited about FPGAs, too! I think FPGA co-processors will be very useful in servers. There are a lot of software and OS problems to solve first.
"Running Windows as a standard user and/or Vista's UAC mechanism seems to provide the same functionality."

This isn't true under Windows. It's not true under Linux or OSX either.

Think of your software security boundaries as an onion. In the middle you have kernel mode, then system services, then the administrator user land, followed by a common user. Application virtualization adds one more layer to the onion. Not only are applications insulated from your system, but they are also insulated from other applications.

The ultimate model is much closer to that of a web browser with domain restrictions on cookies and the like. This is the next logical step in fighting malware.
I thought they did. Are you sure they don't? Otherwise is there an API to google analytics, maybe you could track it through there?
Indeed. The title should have appended: "...dramatically."
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It all depends on when you wake up in your sleep cycle.

20 minutes is usually that period where you get max rest before entering deeper sleep. The average full sleep cycle is about 90 minutes, so at that point you're usually in light sleep mode again.
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The article is a lot more fun if you read it to yourself in the movie trailer guy voice.

"In a WORLD where ONE MAN holds the KEY to the entire INTERNET!"
How did you guys get these large clients on board to try the program? Do you just have to already have connections with big companies?
I wonder why one can't go to Amazon directly instead of going through Feedback Army ?
http://maps.live.com/

Just as clean a page as Google Maps. It's one of the few things (that, and image search) Live does better than Google. Live Maps does local search better, the map labels are better, and Bird's Eye view is impressive.
"I might agree that what qualifies as 'interesting' probably is subjective"

Baillargeon, R. (1994) How do infants learn about the physical world? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 3, 133-140.
No, because insightful isn't relative to a person's innate aesthetic preferences, but rather it's relative to the cognitive models they use to understand the world.

In the same way that one mathematical object can objectively be larger than another mathematical object, one mental object can be objectively insightful in relation to another mental object.
They also portray Kaminsky as a pathetic nobody working out of his lonely apartment, when in reality he was already well respected before the DNS flaw discovery.
Not working for me. I am trying to access it from the Philippines so it can be just me though. Other websites working fine at the moment.
Just realised this is effectively a dupe [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373900]. I should have checked if the direct link had been submitted.

Looks like a lot of people missed it last time around, and it yielded some different comments so seems it worked out ok.

Kinda interesting to think people can get quite different experiences of HN if they're in different time zones or browse at different times of day.
lots of work, well over 9 months. our network and existing connections certainly played a big part.
Yes, but it can be objectively subjective; or rather, it is subjective, but in a different sense.

To illustrate, the phrases "The audience finds this interesting," and "The audience finds this insightful," are both subjective in the sense that their truth-value is dependent on the subject (different speakers likely would have different perspectives,) but they are objective in that, given a particular subject, they are either true or false. So: ojective in the particular, and subjective in the universal. The difference is that the later can depend on factors that are external to the subject, are objective and can be shared.

A phrase (or whatever) can be insightful with respect to a particular context if it adds something that was not previoulsy present in that context. So an analysis of Hitler (for example) revealing him to be a raving ego-maniac would have been insightful in the early thirties when most people had rather more benign opinions of the Nazi party. Released today, the same analysis would be rather less insightful. Given that when people use the word 'insightful,' they usually are speaking from a particular context (usually shared with the listener), the word can be said to be used objectively.
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The difference is that there's a physical reality to size. Insight is subjective by default. Even if you make a standard for monitoring it, your standard is going to be subjective.
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I disagree with the blanket statement that "spending 10x more on hardware will give you roughly 10x more value", especially in the context of this article. You only receive 10x value increase IF your software will scale to use the better/more hardware AND your software is rate-limited by hardware AND you receive value based on the speed of the software. Those are pretty big predicates. Of course, there are sensible ranges and strawman ranges. That's true for programming talent, too. But the article wasn't advocating for hiring more people.

The idea of the article is that footprint matters and needs to be reexamined periodically. This is true for programmers (sadly) as well as hardware. "Hardware is cheap" is not a sustainable growth substitute for efficient solutions. We see the same thing with outsourcing, where a company discovers that ten programmers for the price of one does not always yield the desired outcome (faster, cheaper, better).

Because of course everyone wants to be in a position to use your math (10x more on hardware == 10x more value), but you can not be confident of that unless you know that your solution has a hardware bottleneck. And you don't know that until you drain the swamp (or stress test extensively).
Typical tasks may go for $.02-$.05. I pay the workers much more than that. I experimented with different levels of payment prior to launch and had to offer more than I expected but my customers are receiving quality results, very quickly. To make this happen required paying up. My goal is to be a requestor the Turkers want to work for. This community outreach is a whole other side of what I'm doing that people don't see on the front end.
The problem, as I stated before, is that the idea of "humor" is in itself subjective. There's an objective basis for "cognitive expectancies," but that isn't the only aspect of humor as we define it with language.

For instance, there's slapstick humor, which derives from being over-the-top. There's absurdist humor, which relies on the unexpected. There's clever humor, which is funny because it requires effort to understand it, and so there's a congratulatory aspect to it. There's dark humor, which - at points - doesn't trigger any laughter at all, but which still must be included under the umbrella.

I'm certain that you can measure certain parts of humor. But at the same time, while there's a physical part of us that derives humor, that does not make humor itself objective. The fact that every single person has different objective reactions makes humor inherently subjective, even if there's a physical element to be studied and torn apart.

It's like - I said this in another thread - the testers who try to analyze creativity. There are certain ways that you can identify a creative person. The problem is, none of those ways are perfect and all of them are thwarted by different studies. While you can test creativity and create an objective model, you'd only be fooling yourself.
As I said in the other thread, if we somehow (javascript?) could get click data on Google Adsense ads with its parameters (colors, size), we could genetically optimize them, which would be tremendously profitable.
Hi there, I address this on the site FAQ. I'm delivering value by making the process to post a request simple and making the results easy to get via an RSS feed. I also do this for a low margin. If someone wants to go to Amazon directly and pay workers what I pay, depending on how they value their time, they will be losing money.
Dropbox is the shit. I have all my programs for my grad-research in it. I sit at school on my linux box and work. Then I come home and open the same file and work. Then I go to school and work. I NEVER spend a moment thinking about the file or syncing or emailing myself something. Its made my life quantifiably better. Kudos to the dropbox dudes.
Okay. So, objectively when regarding a large mass of people.

My only objection to that would be that again, an audience can vary wildly in different conditions. My professor gave an "enlightening" lesson on Delicious to my class, that the audience (college freshmen) on a whole found insight from. But the same lesson to, say Hacker News, would be far less insightful. You could get two different objective readings for the same material. Or am I missing something in what you said?
> It sounded like something that Robert Ludlum would write.

Or John Markoff?
Live Search also tends to have better results. (Somebody on HN told me this, I didn't believe them, and I checked for myself - it's true.) I don't like Live because I think it's overdone in a lot of ways, but it's my favorite Microsoft product.
The device of having a despised outsider turn out to be a hero is extremely common not just in sci-fi but in heroic tales generally.

What were the odds I'd get to say that twice in one day?
Oh, please...a guy expresses a critical opinion of your favorite version system, and he's automatically irrational and wrong? Are we debating religion or technology?

I've taken the time to explain my opinions, and they're fairly well-informed: I use Git daily, for real work, and I used Subversion for many years. Moreover, my opinion is fairly measured: I can see the value of Git -- just not for most types of non-distributed development. My direct experience with the system trumps whatever theories you have about the quality of the approach.

Maybe my experience is due to the way that I use version control; maybe I'm just not a "power" user. I don't know. All I really know is that if you can't a handle a civil discussion of a version control system without resorting to emotional retorts, then you're WAY too invested in the debate.
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I was worried about this too. I honestly had no idea what to expect when I first built the software. Then I ran it against my own sites and I started seeing very thoughtful feedback. This is when I felt I had something.

I also posed questions directly to the Turk community about what I could do to make the process better and get results quicker. They spoke, I did what I could, and I'm really proud of the results my customers are getting. I'm not just saying that either.

I'm a researcher by trade and have absolute sales call reluctance. I won't sell something if I don't feel it is worth the persons time to hear me or money to invest into the product.

While this little project may only go so far, I'm not afraid to put my name on it and say I'm giving people something of value for what I'm asking.
It is a dupe but you have no idea how much I love you for it.
Tim does a good job at highlighting some key tech held by Sun. But there is no clear thesis that even if there is significant adoption of these technologies that Sun makes money.

I do hope some of these technologies keep moving forward. I do not see a great way for Sun to profit from them.
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The idea that the media is biased in general is decried only by conservatives. I've yet to hear one person claim that there's a conservative bias.

Conservative TV and radio networks use it to play the ref. They get a segment of the population to watch them that way. Orson Scott Card should be smart enough to know better.

I wouldn't even mind if he pointed out factually accurate examples (though that's still mistaking anecdotes for data) but his article is riddled with blatant inaccuracies that can be disproven on YouTube in a few minutes.
But all of the different types of humor you listed rely on something being either novel or broken or both. The only difference between the different types of humor is the degrees of novelty or breakage, as well as the emotional valence, timing, and delivery.

Also, I understand that humor, as experienced, is subjective. But if you look at a piece of text it is also possible to objectively say whether there is something novel or broken relative to a given set of existing mental models.
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Ask HN: Implementing Auto-Copy
I've been scratching my head and Googling the last couple of days looking for a way to implement auto-copy into a project. We've tried using the clipboard implementation which basically uses a small flash file to copy, only problem is that it breaks in Flash 10.

Need some help from the hackers, I'm all out of ideas.

EDIT: I wasn't that clear, sorry. Basically I have a url shortening script and I want someone to be able to shorten a url, be redirected to a page and have that short url they created auto-copied to their clipboard - so they can just close the window and paste the link easily.
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No, that's about it.

I just annoyed when people are too quick to insist that something is 'subjective' as a means of dismissing it's relavence or importance, so I tend to be picky about it.
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I think HN people just aren't your audience (or they'd be on digg, reddit, etc.) so I don't think you should take this particular feedback seriously.

On the plus side, I think its has potential to be another nice social hub on the internet. Have you thought about what kind of community you want to foster, and the impacts of what you're making them do? For instance, if you're making them flame each other over whether zelda or mario is better, make sure you enact some policy that forces the community to do so politely! Also, keep searching for how your users talk to each other, and add functionality that enables them to talk more easily.
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Have you posted to Turker Nation at all? It might be a good idea to start developing a "brand" for your questions so that you start to have people actively seek you out and prioritize your HITS. As it is, the Amazon search interface lists 1 hit available per website which is getting FeedbackArmied and it might not be obvious to the Turkers that requests for feedback on A, B, C, D, and E are linked so if you had good experience (had an enjoyable task and got paid promptly) on A and C then B, D, and E are right up your alley.
If the information in an email were accidentally copied onto a hard drive, that hard drive would have to be completely erased, Vixie said.

Ridiculous. I doubt Vixie said that.
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The only good thing about this review is that it reminds me that I don't remember the book very well, and should read it again.

Check out this guy's other reviews -- he whines about everything. Just another Internet troll.
Fortunately, the products with such restriction I find to be irrelevant. Sorry to hear you need to publish benchmarks against something so restrictive. These moments should become fewer and fewer over the years as those products and their companies simply evaporate.
That's fair enough. I only did it in this case because the argument is so specifically about objectivity.
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Not all those types of humor. Dark humor doesn't require any of them. Have you ever read Beckett? A lot of his humor comes not from the unexpected but from understanding: his characters are so incredibly detailed, and in such a dark world, that the way they talk is darkly funny because you have sympathy for their situation. It's not humor where you ever once laugh, but it's still humor.

Nabakov's style in Pale Fire similarly defies description: it's never once laughable, but it's certainly humor. The comic Achewood has moments like that, also: you find yourself laughing but there isn't any quick analyzable reason. It's not always about a broken situation.
Does anyone have a link detailing the exploit? I'm not a DNS expert, so something easily consumable would be great.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/19/yieldbuild-will-try-to-...

they seem to do what you're talking about with adsense
> The software side is shackled by the fact that they need to move in a direction that is going to erode revenue from the hardware side.

Unless they move into the cloud domain - in which case, their expertise in both areas (software/hardware) will be complimentary and useful.
Wow, GIT fanboys are almost as smug and condescending as Apple fanboys. I wish I could un-read this post.
I had a few people ask if they could photocopy my WWDC 2008 badge (twas sold out, all about iPhone, et cetera). I can't believe how trivial it is for some of the conferences I've been to either. I could easily see that happening, but I wonder just how many people actually do so.
Objectively... funny? As in, if the entire human race disappeared and no other beings capable of abstract thought existed, certain things would have the qualities of funny?

Expound.

Also, "there are certain words that are used differently than what they actually mean." Huh? What is the inherit meaning of a word? Do words exist somewhere, true, pure, fixed in meaning, waiting to be used- and they are used, horribly, by every passing stranger, growing uglier and more cynical each day as they begin to believe the lies about the true nature of their "meaning?" (Yes, I just conflated linguistics and prostitution.)

I think your distinction between objective and subjective is really the distinction between popular and particular. For example, I know the Mona Lisa is popularly meaningful, and I acknowledge that, but I in particular am unmoved. It is a perfect way to avoid argument. Who tries to avoid argument on the internet? You are no sage.

However, your use of the word "funny" in the first paragraph to mean "humor," and then in the third paragraph to mean "a little off" is actually quite clever, as you were discussing novel breakages and the unexpected ways in which words acquire new meanings. You cunning linguist, you ;)
Sorry to hear that. If you have a moment, please give it another try and let me know if you run into trouble again. Be great to know if we're are having access problems from certain locations.
As a fellow DNS non-expert, I found http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/iguide-kaminsky-dns-vuln.htm... to be pretty clear.
"these guys did not give me a job, they suxxors! Don't go near them!"

No sir, that wasn't my intention at all. :) JTV's interview was extremely rigorous, and they all seem like great hackers. In that regard, they r0x0rz. Unfortunately, their investors may have the final say as to whether you are hired or not, which is what I wanted to tell everyone.
I suppose so, but I really appreciate all of the feedback that’s been given nevertheless. The weird part about this project is that our users continue to surprise me--coming from all walks of life. As such, and suggestions we can get are helpful!

“Nurturing” the community is something we’re still really struggling with. We try to stay out of the way as much as possible, but do have to pop in every once in a while when things are taken in the wrong direction. It’s a pretty organic process, and we’re certainly not “there” yet, but I think we’re learning some things as we progress with this.

We do have a fairly loyal group of users who are taking a lead in keeping an eye out on behavior, and we’ve urged them to ask people to just be decent. It seems that we’re building a good relationship with a lot of the users, and it’s nice to have them working with us to make the environment a positive one.

I like the idea of finding better ways for them to interact. We’re working on a chat system that I think might work well here. It’s a feature that I find intrusive on something like Facebook, but we think will work better here as the users don’t have other more traditional means of communicating. (i.e. I’d rather talk to a close friend on the phone than chat on Facebook, but I might have a brief question that I’d like to ask someone I don’t know as well on MakeFive, without the bother of sending an email.)

As noted, we really appreciate the feedback. If you have an opportunity, please do join up and tell us what you think of the site--particularly the parts you find to not work as they should. :-)
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