skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"anti-social means that a person does not conform with what authority says."

Simply incorrect, both etymologically and logically. Authority is hierarchical; society is peer to peer. Authority is hard power; society is soft. When you're anti-authoritarian you're defying hierarchy and force. When you're anti-social you're just being a jerk to your neighbors. Not the same thing at all.
Frownie said error-free compilation, not error-free in all possible aspects.
The thing about Microsoft tools in general is that their default UI is too busy, but they can easily be customized to make them nearly as clean as you want.

My setup for Word 2007 is every bit as clean as the Office 15 example shown. Just selecting "Minimize Ribbon" gets you most of the way there already. Then select "Customize Quick Access Toolbar" to remove most other icons. I have a feeling the main difference is that Office 15 just hides the ribbon as the default.

You're left with basically an empty window with a sheet of paper.
Lost me right at the start. There's nothing 'immoral' about her philosophy. It doesn't require (or even suggest) that you kill anyone or sleep with your neighbor's wife.

It is, however, amoral. It doesn't care about morals at all and treats them as irrelevant to itself. You are free to be as moral or immoral as you like.
GuruPlug type wall-socket based server for home use. This would require a casing that takes wall-socket power and modifies it for the USB-based power the unit requires, and an adapter for ethernet-to-wifi, or to support ethernet-over-power.
"This is why I LOVE being depressed. I feel like I'm living in reality."

That feeling of access to reality isn't unique to depression. You can feel like you're living in reality when you're not depressed. All of the advantages you claim for depression can be had from other emotions, like happiness or enjoyment, with few or none of the disadvantages.

Calling your perception reality and someone else's fantasy doesn't make your perception reality and theirs fantasy.

"Would you rather a live a lie and be happy or know the truth and be miserable?"

I'd rather not live in a false dichotomy, so I don't.
I'm 24 and I'm very politically involved. I find that not getting involved leads to helplessness, getting involved leads to stress, and getting involved by finding the right skill-set to navigate the lies and damn lies often leads to greater satisfaction.
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What if you're living a lie and being miserable?

Are you objectively sure that miserableness is "seeing the world for what it is" not "seeing the world how in a biased-the-other-way view"?
Ask HN: Event or Data Driven Email Service
I'm trying to find a way to send out nicely formatted email to a single user based on an event or data change. For example, send a reminder when a user's trial period is 10 days from expiration. I could roll my own, but right now I believe my time is better spent on functionality for my application. Down the road I would like to automate the process of sending out such emails, but for right now we have very low traffic, so I can check for events and send the messages myself. I've looked into options such as MailChimp and Campaign Monitor, but those seem to be tailored for newsletters or sending to lists. I am hoping there is a service where I can create a template, fill in some user specific data, and send the email manually (an API for later automation would be great). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I think its very wrong to attribute the level of furor to her gender, and not to her words---misunderstood, and out of context as they may be.

The level of furor would be the same were she a man, though the content of the flamewar would be much different since presumably males are insulted by different things than females and thus trolls have to tailor their speech for maximum impact.

Anyways, the reason I choose to frame this as PR struggle is that Bioware can take the highroad and have her publish another statement that clarifies her current thoughts on gaming.

The other option is to flame their own customers as misogynistic and leave FUD in the air about whether or not their games will be gutted for action content. I'd much rather they treat this as trolling, than as a civil rights crisis.
So when is the class action for recovering all the licence fees for what amounts to unpaid UX testing on a worldwide scale?

Why pay for beta software? :P
I'm not really suggesting that people self diagnose, I just thought it might be interesting for non-professionals to read the diagnostic criteria to get a sense of how easy it is to be diagnosed on these bases. Unfortunately, due to the way the american insurance system works, I can't see DSM ever being rolled back to a semblance of sanity (with pun intended)
I couldn't agree more.

I can demonstrate that time passed and population create a common trend line, but it's absurd for me to state that time is responsible for creating people.
Oh if it weren't for Reddit I'd still be a Christian Extremist waiting for the rapture. It's got its pros and cons. For me the cons began to outnumber the benefits I was getting from it and I left.

"Equating harassment on the internet with middle eastern acid attacks is baffling and offensive."

I don't. I find it very relevant to my theory actually. Hate and resentment takes place in many forms, from subtle to extreme, and tying it all together isn't baffling to me at all.

"as someone who's actually had sex I can attest that there are actually other reasons. It's fun and makes you feel closer to the person you're doing it with"

So you're a nice guy then. Maybe I was just surrounded by men who are assholes. Every job I've had the guys just fuck around for the sake of adding another "bitch" to the list of women they've "conquered and dominated". From taco bell to universal studios I knew all the places the employees screwed in and with who and why. The ones who didn't get laid were looking for a quick and easy one night stand just to get it out of the way and feel like they too have something in common with the alpha males. I've worked with really immature young guys and very mature older men and they all seem to have the same mindset. And it sure isn't to feel closer to the person they love. I normally would give humanity the benefit of the doubt and say there's lots of men like you but sorry. I'm all out of hope this year, maybe next.
If you are more informed and less happy you aren't doing something right. Information doesn't make you unhappy, you thinking about certain information is making you unhappy.

Whilst I've been to college, listen to NPR every day, keep up-to-date on the lastest news in my field via Hacker News and various blogs I can still be happy. I do this in the face of NPR telling me people are dying in Japan from radiation, my clients walking in and complaining all day about random x feature being broken when they simply don't know how to use it (even with clear warnings and arrows pointing to unfilled out fields).

It's a matter of what you choose to think about, I choose to focus heavily on what I love such as music, StarCraft 2 and creating beautiful software. If I decided to focus on suffering in the middle east, or how my programming language of choice simply doesn't perform as well as "x" programming language of course I'm going to be unhappy or unsatisfied with what I do. I know this information I just don't focus on it all the time. It's something for me to bring up in a conversation with people to discuss rationally and use in my job to better my work but not dwell on and make myself unhappy.
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Not true - the more you know, the more you realize how little you know, so...
I share the author's general sentiment, but arrived at the conclusion a bit differently. I remember as a child and even a teenager thinking that all of the "adults" knew more than me, were smarter than me, and could solve all the problems in the world. It was up to me to become as smart as them.

But once I got older and saw first hand how clueless the "adults" were (in the financial sector, in the travel industry, in software development, in politics) - I began to long for the days when I thought everyone else had the right answer and all I had to worry about was to make sure the teams were fair for football at recess. When you're young(er) and not aware of how things really work and the problems that exist out in the real world, life is good.
Considering they are announcing the windows 8 consumer preview right now and possibly other new cloud related features not good timing at all.
I'm not exactly sure why I was down voted. I am open to criticism, but I don't see anything overtly negative nor misleading. If you don't agree, please state why.
makes you wonder how many insane people are just victims of bad chemistry. and question the nature of consciousness
JS doesn't really support threads so that's probably a big part of it.

Traditionally JS applications have never been very "heavy" so it's never been a problem as you could just use the other cores to run JS for other browser tabs etc.

Of course now both cores and JS usage are increasing so this will have to change.
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Nope.
>> "Our brains are not really wired to accommodate such a proliferation of bad news, regardless of it happening thousands of miles away. One disaster after another compounds, and increases feelings of helplessness. "

I, also, have noticed a lot of the older generations growing up without the internet to have this idea that the world is going to shit.

But whenever you ask someone who's been used to this epic proliferation of any news since early childhood, the compounding bad news doesn't really seem to have an effect. We see a tsunami happening and an earthquake and a ship sinking and new riots rising and we don't think to ourselves "Wow, the world really sucks" instead the thought process seems more like "Oh cool, that's interesting. I wonder if there are any new lolcats"

You might say we've become less sensitive to people's suffering, but really we've just learned that not all news is our news.
I am really disappointed about their choice of distributors. Neither Farnell's nor RS Components subsidiaries in Germany and Austria ship to private individuals, you have to be a corporate buyer in order to be able to order from them. And since they "have" local subsidiaries, the "international" sites of both companies don't ship to either country.

In short: in Germany or Austria, you cannot buy the Raspberry Pi unless you go through an intermediary. This seems to be a really bad choice for a platform aimed at education.

And judging by the Twitter comments, at least (potential) customers in Sweden and the Netherlands have the same problem.

http://twitter.com/#!/Raspberry_Pi/status/174752572194824192

http://twitter.com/#!/Raspberry_Pi/status/174779094783897600

I guess what bothers me is how they don't seem to care too much about not being buyable by private entities in a number of European countries, or how they at least didn't bother to check up-front...

Still, I hope I can get one of the next batches somehow
Then instead of regulating wage and hours shouldn't we focus on providing affordable healthcare (including coverage for preexisting conditions). If healthcare is the barrier to fluidity on the supply side then this is where we should focus our efforts.
Could be worth it for $50. But I think in the next few years our own smartphones will be used as consoles. All you'll need is a controller, and for some games you will only need the phone itself (mostly the accelerometer based, etc)
well, he was trying to make a joke (people need to lighten up around here). You can't deny the fact that there are a large percentage of scams coming out of Nigeria.

I have personally phished 3 email accounts from scammers in the past couple of years (and shut them down) and they were all Nigerian.

Many say they are from the UK, China, Indonesia, but IP addresses don't lie. Neither does the money trail.
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I guess you could also reverse the idea: if someone is offended by every cultural difference, maybe one should refrain from... living in a multi-cultural world?

What is "public consumption" anyway? I don't want to have everyone communicating through death threats but I also want even less for everyone to sound like a PR representative.

Maybe the solution is to simply understand the cultural differences?
I'm not disputing your major points here, I think many of them are quite valid. However, you're not comparing apples to apples in your comments about spending lots of time with otherwise exclusively male or female groups.

Regardless of how you perceive yourself, you are a man, and this almost certainly affected what women said while you were present (even at a less conscious level). Thus, you may be judging men too harshly.

That being said, I have spent a lot of time in both male and female groups, and both groups have a commonality in that they pick on the other group, in subtle and not so subtle ways. Many people are aholes, some are not, but the a-holes often tend to be louder.
On the front page of my website where I display a mailto link, I also have GMail and Yahoo specific compose links:

"Email: mymailtolink (Compose with GMail/Yahoo)"

https://grepular.com/

I wrote some JavaScript code a while back which would automatically detect if a visitor was logged in to GMail, and would replace all mailto links on my page with GMail compose links instead. I never put it live on my site though as the process of detecting if a user is logged in to gmail is pretty dodgy. In case you're interested in the code, or the detection process:

https://grepular.com/Abusing_HTTP_Status_Codes_to_Expose_Pri...
I didnt say anything about specific numbers; I just stated fact that the numbers are falling. I agree with you that each monitoring company comes up with totally different numbers. on the top of that, companies do revamp their websites - use more or less ajax, change approach to pinging back theirs servers for updated data, etc, and numbers can go sky-high or plummet and still it won't be a reliable read. but AFAIK this "problem" does not affect rather stable design of HN.

> Did you see how they collect their data? ("Representative consumers in the US")

Again, if I dont look into numbers, but only simple chart, I read it that: representative consumers in US that use hackerNews website declined. thats it.

Now, someone else pointed: does it even matter? It depends who we ask.
You're essencially valuing your own experience as more real than everyone else's experience and saying that although we may all look at the same situation, you are correct simply because you know the correct way to look at the scenario.

It's pretty circular to me.

Now, speaking about your experience... isn't it possible that your female friends would soften the way they talk about men around you? Despite being as you say a 'feminine little guy', you're still a man. Any reasonable person would tone down their language to avoid offending their friend.

Anecdotal evidence: I have a female friend who will swear that women are worse than men but I believe she's suffering from the same lack of perspective you are: no man would speak so freely around her and thus she thinks men are more gentlemanly than they really are.
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I thought I'd share my latest project: FolioSpace.me

It's a little similar to geekli.st or swym, in that it allows you to show off a portfolio of what you made. It's a little different in that it focuses on adding everyone who contributed to a project (designers, engineers, producers, etc). It also helps you find media (images, music, video) to add to each project.

I'd love to hear what you think before I make it a public beta.
Demand for £22 Raspberry Pi computer crashes website
The assertion is littered with flaws. It may have been an enjoyable story about life outside of our offices, computers and techno-lives... yet littered with logical flaws.

The micro scale doesn't represent the macro scale. The relationship has not been proven. Long-term and short-term impact were not explored. Motivation models for happiness were not explored. Multiple repeatable cases where it was indeed information and not just "Bad stuff happens, here's a bunch of it at once" was not explored.

An underlying theme here is that knowing of less than favorable events in the world impacts your quality of happiness, and that people strive for happiness through greater consumerism and status. I flatly disagree with this whole premise. It's a lovely read, but it's (and I don't use this word often) total bunk.
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Is raspberry pi a mid-life crisis?
Google+ Users Spent Less Than 5 Minutes on Site in January
This is why so many men find "getting laid" very important in their lives.

I hate to be That Guy, but speaking as someone who's actually had sex I can attest that there are actually other reasons. Like (and I can't believe I'm typing this) it's fun and makes you feel closer to the person you're doing it with.

While you'd be correct for people who are in a relationship, or actually have sex, the OP was talking about people who haven't had sex. The standard pissing contest of the average male in high school or college is based on someone having sex, or the amount of times someone has had sex, which is what he was referring to, and frankly, many people past this demographic continue to use the scale (think bros, Jersey Shore, etc).

We as a species tend to find sex important regardless. That's why when we see an attractive woman, we don't say "man, I'd like to sit down and have an intelligent conversation with her!" It's usually something more along the lines of wanting to tap that. It's primal nature, really.
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Still USB 2.0? Surely that wasn't a new industry standard that they found too difficult to implement?
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tl;dr - I shop a lot on Amazon. Therefore we no longer need shops. We have the internet. Therefore we no longer need universities.

The nice thing about "in the future" kind of statements is that they are impossible to disprove - especially when it is not specified how far in the future we are talking about. However, I think we are a long way from having gasoline delivered to your door and I always need to pop out for eggs, bread and milk. I also might need a hair cut in the future. Clothes are unlikely to be optional. My wife and I like to go to the movies. The kids like all kinds of shops...

Sure, the internet is affecting retail sales and education. To what extent is very difficult to predict but it is unlikely to be as drastic as the OP suggests.
Windows 8 Consumer Preview released.
This is an odd wording: "Allow ... [No] [Use Gmail]". This may confuse people who will think that in order to use Gmail, you have to click this button.

Oh, I should submit a bug report instead of posting here.
I think there are 2 levels of being informed: informed about global events, and informed about others better off than you. The first is generally harmless, but the 2nd can lead to comparing yourself to others, and negativity. You can even argue the first makes you happier since you hear others are worse off than you.
I agree that survivorship bias is something to watch out for. Stories that tend to do well on HN are the ones that end well.

However, I don't think that should hold back someone who is in the same position I was (a longtime lurker trying to break out). For me, a primary takeaway from this experience was the small downside compared to the large upside of each of my decisions.

Worst case: your post goes nowhere on HN, the person you reach out to ignores you, or your conversation turns up nothing fruitful.

Best Case: your post pins it on HN, the CEO agrees to meet, and it turns into a job offer.

For 30 minutes of effort - that calculation is a no brainer to me. It just takes getting over that lurker inertia, and a lot of patience for failure!
This all applies to me, except s/patrick@/cperciva@/, s/patio11/cperciva/, and s/Central Japan/Vancouver, Canada/.

I'll add another tip, though: Make sure that you say something which tells me why you're emailing me. I've been getting a lot of "I got your address off HN" email lately and most of it looks like it was probably spammed to every account they could find -- those emails go straight into the junk folder.
Why is HN (2 articles so far) calling it "Raspberri PI"? Even when linking to its official website? Am I missing some sort of reference?
Thanks. I will look at it.

As an update: I tentatively have a place to go temporarily if transportation can be arranged. We are working on that end of it.
I know that there are ways. There is apparently also an intermediary i Austria. I'll have a look at that forwarding site.

I just wanted to point that out, since it gets drowned a bit on Twitter and I didn't see much posted about it.
I think you misunderstood my analogy. My point is, that obnoxious loud talking at a restaurant is as difficult to avoid as an interesting sounding link on a major tech news aggregator.
Not so hot in Safari 5.1.2:

TypeError: 'undefined' is not a constructor (evaluating 'new Date.getTime()')
Javascript supports web workers which are effectively threads with the exception they don't share the application memory, but communicate over postMessage().

This makes possible share the calculations across the cores, but since postMessage() serializes each transferred object the effectiveness of this might not be that good.
I hope someone takes you up on your offer Colin. If it was somewhere in London I certainly would.
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To be fair, I haven't seen a good solution to this anywhere. Even on Apple's site, you'll sometimes be scolling down a page, and then the page will stop while an embedded frame scrolls sideways.

The pinch to zoom would work fine, but Safari intercepts this. Modifier key+scrolling to zoom would be fine as well, but not so discoverable. Apple should add some of the iOS multitouch events to Safari, but it's not a good fit since there's really only one visible pointer in OS X. Google Maps would really benefit from this.
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I wished the author would've made explicit distinction between 'being informed' and 'influenced by mass media'. Being informed to me means being educated and aware of the world around you – how the clothes on your back is made, the resources that are used to make your fancy gadgets – of course anyone would be depressed.

But it's different than to being sucked into a 'lifestyle', the mass media throws at you as stated in the article for obvious reasons. I wished the author made this distinction.
I fail to see which one is public and which one is private in this case. They're both public in my opinion, but I could be wrong.
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For those interested the API it's using is navigator.registerProtocolHandler.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/timers.html#custom-handlers

http://updates.html5rocks.com/2011/06/Registering-a-custom-p...
Thanks, pulling at my max speed right now (~2MB/s).

Live coverage of the preview event here.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/29/live-from-microsofts-wind...
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Chinese startups do well in China because they don't get blocked (as they either have "connections", or just know the rules better), and Chinese is hard for most people to work with.