skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here (tho I load the links vis Bloglines).

I also have (in Firefox) assorted tabbed groups for various tasks or interests. For example, I have a group for the Sunday NY Times that opens up tabs for Arts & Leisure, books, movies, a few other pages, that are easier to skim through if all opened in tabs at once.
My use of the word "irony" referred, in particular, to the hipster phenomenon and the general "fuck it" attitude toward life and other people.

I'm in the midst of hipster friends. That's not how it works. First off, the "fuck it" attitude stems from nihilism. Some people are nihilist, some are idealist, some are a mix. Nihilism has existed for a while: see Sex Pistols for an instance of great art stemming from nihilism, and that was before the 80s.

The idea of "hipster irony" comes not from jerkoffirony, but from a real dislike of social norms. I dunno if I've seen this stated before online, but this is how it works. You get very standard attitudes towards things. Liking Power Rangers becomes lame once you're in, say, middle school. Or listening to ABBA. At some point, a certain sort of person (I tend to identify it as the thespian crowd) decides you're allowed to say you like whatever you want. Some people get inspired by this to be honest to themselves. Other people do it ironically.

It's like the punk movement was. Then, people ripped clothes and lived like animals to oppose society. Now punk is an accepted means, and hipsterism becomes the rejection of typical bounds. That's why hipster bands so often are acoustic or electronic in callback to the 80s, why many hipster artists sound really awful (Kimya Dawson, f'rinstance). It's because 80s sounds, while lame, still sound really catchy, and sometimes a bad singer fits the song. So think of it as new-generation punk.

Hipsters wear t-shirts because they like the slogans on them. Eventually people do it just to look hip and so it becomes lame and overused, but the intent is to just do what you want to do. People miss that just like they missed what punk was about until it was accepted.

So my friends wear corduroy pants and t-shirts and big jackets and listen to Fleet Foxes and the Decemberists and even read Pitchfork. We all occasionally say things ironically. It's not this wide circlejerk. It's a bunch of smart, witty people who think it's more fun to constantly be verbally dueling than it is to spout movie quotes like the Monty Pythonites do, and who like a wide variety of stuff because it all sounds good. Hipsters are good fun people who aren't ruining society. They also have less casual sex, so that's a good thing!
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Added a freedom and cause (for alain94040) options
Say you have a democratically elected anti-democratic party. Or even a large minority party. It's usually not so straightforward because democracies & demi-democracies normally disallow these. But they do exist. Currently theocratic movements lead the trend.

If you allow these to run, you get a theocracy. If you disallow it, you no longer have a democracy. As long as they're small you can suppress them in the name of defending democracy. But defending democracy against the demos really ends democracy if it is in any way substantial.
That's not to shabby.
Craigslist is successful because it's awesome.

The author of this article complains about the "lack of any sophistication in the search" - well thanks to their dead-simple and very functional search available as an RSS feed, I always know instantly when something I'm looking for is locally available in my city.

absence of any form of user reputation - who cares when you are dealing locally, in cash?

the unavailability of map views - nobody cares; craigslist is centered around urban areas, and when urban people look for apartments they usually know the neighborhood. Plus a map is 1 click away.

lack of an API - nobody cares. Not every website needs an API. The author claims that no one can build services on top of craigslist, but that's not true. They have RSS, and that gives access to practically all the data they have.

To anyone who wants to build a Craigslist competitor, I wish them the best of luck; if you build something better, it truly has a chance to succeed. But to claim that Craigslist is a non-functional monopolistic website that's holding back progress in the world of online classifieds is a bunch of BS.

One other thing: If a company did come along and build a site that killed craigslist, you can bet that as soon as CL is gone, the new site will start to become more aggressive with their marketing, put banner ads everywhere and start to do spammy things. I think it's a blessing that the biggest classified ad site in the US is run by a guy who cares more about user-experience than money.
Wall Street Executives.

I mean, who else, right?
I wrote a couple related posts recently:

Lack of financial freedom discussion on HN

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=455233

Poll on purpose for doing a startup

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=455335

Others from awhile ago:

A little research I've done on becoming financially free

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122341

Asking who gives away financial freedom

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60793
If you haven't noticed, there were 70,000 layoffs this week.

In Tucson, people are scrambling for jobs. I'm in a position where my employment is ending in March and the jobs I see are extremely competitive. I'm in a good position relatively (strong savings, a competitive skillset for enterprise applications) but I'm extremely concerned.

(And yes, the plan is to attempt to generate revenue through some sort of startup if nothing comes along. This, of course, is the benefit of being a creator. My concern is that no one seems to be buying right now.)
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I do not think this thread is a good example.
"I am basically failing to see the difference between meditation and sitting on the couch and watching empty space for a couple of minutes."

For me, they are the exact same thing. Just relax and stop working on anything for a while. Just sit there. Think about work, think about people you know, or don't think about anything at all, it doesn't really matter. Time passes amazingly slowly when you're not doing anything. I find random thoughts start naturally flowing through my head when I do this.

I've also known people who seem physically incapable of doing this. They sit for maybe twenty seconds, then some neuron fires in their brain, and they're off running again like a hamster in a wheel. Those people never seem to do well in the long run. Don't be a hamster :)
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IMF says in 2009 world will have slowest growth since 1945; UK worst hit.
True, I can think of a couple, but no killer app ideas. I have considered integrating it into another idea, though.
Oh look! Another blogger cashing in on the Arrington echo chamber!
Please don't use the term "eyeballs". It makes you sound like an aging marketing exec.

The thinking behind "getting eyeballs" is the same as "Techcrunch is our marketing plan". It's not about how many people see your product, its about the right people seeing your product at the right time.

Pulling stunts might get you coverage in the tech blogs, but unless those people are your ideal users, it won't be much help.
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Very similar to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=442059
who's the arbiter of merit?
Point taken. They do seem to be using worst-case numbers.

I'm curious, though, where you got the 1% number for Coke HFCS content? Elsewhere in the comments there is a link to an About.com article that says that most soft drinks contain about 10% HFCS, and I'd be surprised to see Coke among the less-sweetened drinks. I can't find other references online beyond guesses, which seem to indicate around 40g per regular can. If your estimate is off by a factor of 10, your proposed all-Coke diet would give you 50% of your EPA reference dose, which is a little more worrying.
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Also, I know I worded the title a bit strongly, but I wanted to attract attention. If you have a better suggestion, I can change it.
"Here, the people earn millions of dollars with bonuses that are astronomical," said Dorlen, who is also the public education coordinator in New Jersey for the American Psychological Association. "There is a demoralizing aspect to having a huge salary and a huge bonus and then having to look for a job that is going to pay much, much less."

Why would you need too look for a job if you had earned millions of dollars? Do you really need to live a 2 million dollars a year lifestyle the rest of your life just because you're used to make 2 millions a year? Gosh.
Lifting is good.

I took a blacksmithing class the other day, and that was excellent.
So, slash is really 'or'?

Oh, my head.
fuck karma. fuck all of you. nothing personal.
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I do this too! Only sometimes I confuse myself and end up looking like an idiot.
I find many people are against "fake politeness" just to have a reason to act like jerk when they know they can get away with it. Contrary to your opinion, there are plenty of people out there who are genuinely nice.

Plus, there is a difference between disagreeing with someone and spitting in their face or threatening physical violence. In the context of this article, I don't think the idea is that we need to avoiding offending people at all costs. It's that we tend to reward the "hate" to the exclusion of other forms of opinion and that we are quick to judge people at a superficial level based solely on what someone else heard from some blog they stumbled upon.

So basically, this isn't about political correctness at all, and looking through the article, I'm not sure how you thought it was in the first place.
So cutting out criticism is the way to fix people being spit on? That's like chopping off your head when you've got a headache. The rules slay me even more:

1. So everybody is magically going to stop being anonymous in a medium that heralds anonymity above all else? Okay!

2. So we shouldn't make fun of people we don't know? Right. I make fun of people I do know, and I'm not even one of the "spitters". This one ain't gonna happen.

3. Yes, because a 1:1 ratio of nice to mean things balances out the Universe. This article is stupid; unalone, I like your hair. I mean, I can't see it, but you probably have nice hair. HARMONY!

4. Make your own judgements but trust my judgement on these rules!!

5. End the violence; kill yourself!
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If karma didn't matter to most posters, the board would not work. The whole philosophy of voting is based on the idea that karma matters, both to the reader of the article and to the submitter/voter.

Now whether or not the board is "working" -- whether or not a simple up or down vote means anything more than a herd mentality knee-jerk response -- is a completely different question.
To create wealth which is one of two noblest things you could do as a human being the other being to replenish the earth with your kind which i am not at all interested in.
I don't think I have a firm grasp on what you're asking.

Why is there more complaining than praise? That's just human nature. Also, paying attention to the bad is more productive than to the good. People are always looking to improve.

Why the seeming disconnect between doing things you love and start ups? A start up, with its associated (hopeful) monetary stream not only lets you work on what you love, it also frees up time from doing what you have to in order to stay financially afloat. So, just having interesting hobbies is very sub-optimal.
There is a startup located in Connecticut that's found a reliable, one day turnaround transcription and medical filing service. It'll probably get a nice, fat Obama boost soon.

http://www.imedx.com/
I wish I could upvote your comment twice.

Excellent idea.
On the first retreat, yes, because I wasn't prepared for such a radical transformation. Some of it was pleasant, and some of it was very unpleasant. Yes, you can get bad trips.

On the second retreat, no.

You could purposely slightly change the instructions to take detours into all kinds of things, and it seems that most people do, but it probably isn't safe and it isn't the point at all. The faster you can get over the "wow, I could do that without any substances?!" stage and focus on actually watching the layers of your psyche unfold as your mind calms, the better off you'll be.
Oh, and then the followup... "Yes, the key is invisible."
How they approached it was due to his blatantly lying about it, in the rare instances in which he addressed it at all. He chose to make it tabloid-like. He could have ended it at any point by simply being upfront. Remember when John McCain had a team of Mayo Clinic doctors examine him and publicly announce the results? It was because he knew that if he were elected, his health was our business. People may have joked about his health, but there wasn't the tabloid-like obsession with digging up dirt.

Instead he treated AAPL owners largely with contempt (pretty much the way he treats everyone from the sound of it) by not speaking about it, or saying one day that he's well and a week later that he's not, while 10s of billions of dollars are on the line.
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he's got the positive mindset, and that's more important.
"Make a bogus/cute little app that might not relate to your site like that 'Is Hillary Swank Hot?' app that was here a week ago."

Except that gave me a poor impression of the people behind it, since the notion of it being an "app" struck me as disingenuous.

It's easy to get attention, less easy to get good attention (begin debate over "there's only one thing worse than being talked about ...")
I think this is awesome and terrible at the same time. Awesome because I wanted to do it myself, and you knew it was only just a matter of time. Terrible because even though Arrington deserved it, Kathy Sierra didn't. Attacking people because you disagree with them, that's a really awful trend.

For Arrington to be surprised that this happened, though, jesus. That's ridiculous. Go to my blog and google "Arrington." Got at least five links to him spitting in people's faces online. Probably many more than five. And that's not even going anywhere near the politics, power-playing, manipulation, or his claim that promoting his own companies means "journalism is evolving." He's a horrible human being.

I'm against the idea of randomly attacking bloggers, but if you had to pick a blogger to randomly attack, you couldn't find somebody who deserved it more. And if this incident shuts down TechCrunch, we should find the spitter and give him a medal for helping the tech community scrape that thing off our shoes.
Yes, in good old Blighty, for one (or, should I say, for zero).
New to Backtype. My contract recently ended, am invloved in my own job search..it's tough out there. Please reach out to the friends, business associates and colleagues that are struggling through these difficult times,help find there way. Remember what they did to help you in good times. Sometimes just listening helps.
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The book Branding Only Works on Cattle has some good observations along those lines.
This is off topic.
I just voted on 3 options.
Are those options not mutually excluive?
Can polls have mutually exclusive options?
there is a difference between being positive and ignorance.
BTW, this attack came from the same ip address the user hk (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=453545) was using, 124.168.142.184.
Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!
[Scottish army cheers]
They need an API, badly. Very dumb of them not to have one already. It would be a huge value add to their service. I don't know what's the problem. Either they dont have the technical resources (unlikely), or they've made a conscience decision not to provide one.

I think the biggest problem with Craigslist is they seem like they don't give a shit about their own site. May or may not be true, but it's definitely the perception of a lot of entrepreneurs who envy their success, and are frustrated by their lack of innovation.
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business
and if you're not having (much) sex, you should do that third.
> its about the right people seeing your product at the right time.

Or people remembering your product enough to think, "Hey, I think I remember the guys who did that Is Swank Hot? had something like that," when someone asks #lazyweb on twitter/identi.ca. You can't forget that "crowdsourcing" is in.
This reminds me of "kenneth whats the frequency"

Spitting on someone is wrong and cowardice. However, I would not lose sleep over it.
still, it's like 1 or 2 units P/NP, so they only count really for the overall 120 unit requirement (though things may have changed in the past 7 years, who knows). when I was at cal, the hardest thing for me was making sure that I didn't go over the max unit limit (if you had > 8 semesters and > 200 units you were booted). luckily, I finished my degrees in four years so it didn't turn out to be an issue.
aka
124-168-142-184.dyn.iinet.net.au
I realize that 4x increase in pixels doesn't mean 4x increase in the file size, but I was discussing in terms of filesize. Unless you have absolutely insanely higher metadata stored per image than we do, your metadata probably amounts to under 2.5% of the image data for hypothesized 2MB files, so maybe 2.05 goes to 10.05 which is basically still a 400% increase. Part of the metadata is on fast (DB) disk, so your costs don't scale absolutely linearly, but bulk cold disk is still scaling up 4x.

To a large extent, I have worked through it for our application (I run IT for a top 100 e-commerce site that does a very substantial amount of uploads in the holiday season; we choose to self-host several dozen TB and have an emergency overflow possibility out to S3 if we fill up our in-house storage).

I can't see how storage costs are meaningfully sub-linear, and bandwidth costs can be due to bulk pricing, but are still first-approximation linear with upload size. (You might argue that you can use 95/5 pricing to work around that by forcing users to schedule their uploads for an off-peak time, but then you could do that in the base case as well.)

I would love to hear more about your surprises in the model, either on HN or privately, as this represents a substantial portion of my budget, and if I'm missing something, I'm not too proud to change course. :)
"kill yourself" is hardly a nice thing to say, under any conditions.
So suppose the cops arrest him. He is unlikely (statistically speaking) to be held without bail, so he's out in a day or two. Then you have a trial. Suppose you have people like me on the jury -- I know that morons threaten to kill each other all the time on the internet, in person, and on CB radio and via snail mail and every other means of communication man has invented. I would likely acquit unless you can present some serious evidence of actual intent, and owning a gun having a previous a felony would not cut it.

So now what ? Is the situation better or worse ? It better be LOT better, because society is collectively out of quite a bit of money by the time all that is said and done.

I don't think Arrington is necessarily over reacting to the threat, either. Without knowing the details it's impossible to tell, and even if you knew the details you might be uncertain. There is a very wide zone between something that will justify society's all-out response and what makes you feel creepy.

There is probably no way for society to make everyone feel warm and comfy about all their interactions with each other. Think about if we had a general policy of jailing people based on a definition of "threatens physical harm" that was that lose. Think back over every bad relationship you ever had . . . are you absolutely sure that some disasterous former manager or former employee could not have gotten you jailed ? Absolutely sure ?
You are right, but it doesn't feel the same as for example using freemarker instead of JSF or whatever. My point was more, if you start using some non-MS projects and you want to look up more information about how other people use it, that information might not be there or you will have a hard time finding it. If you are new to .net this can be a quite anoying. There are always exceptions for everything, but I wouldn't recommend someone new to .net diving straight into these alternative things.
So, while I would ordinarily agree that it isn't news, Unfuddle was becoming pretty unusably slow for me (or I've become unusably impatient... take your pick) for awhile now.

I know of a couple teams that either moved or were contemplating a move from unfuddle, so maybe this will help keep/regain those users?
To do something I'm really interested in and make connections in that industry.
unfuddle is a really great service. The free version is awesome.
the porn industry (notably cam4.com) proves this to be utter bull. The question is if you can make it pay, sex makes a good bit of money so that's where you'll see tech that is 'not feasible' years before the mainstream catches up.
Ask HN: How much of the web is just a race to the bottom?
The recent arrington attack, along with comments about the swank app, the spitting incident, and the point of karma in general has got me to thinking: what's the point?

You try to form a startup to make the world a better place, to provide something of value to somebody. Maybe Joe can keep track of his friends and what they are doing. Maybe Sue can manage her trip itineraries online.

But take a look at the average board, the average user, and the average comments, and I can't help but wondering if ugly doesn't sell. Crude, ugly, disgusting, pandering, pornographic -- you name it. Whatever appeals to the bottom of society is what people reward.

So how about this: a site that takes recent celebrity photographs and has people say disgusting things about the people in the photos. Users could then rank which comments were "best" according to the usual karma system. Or a site that has crime scene photographs, complete with people adding one-liners and rating according to how funny they are?

I'm just venting a bit, but sure as heck looks to me sometimes like the more base, the more animalistic need you fill, the better your site stats are going to be.

Comments?
Me too, only it's easier here because 1c and 2c coins have been removed from circulation so you round to the nearest 5c.
Pedantry and a penchant for terse and obtuse responses.

Wife: Have you seen my handbag?
Me: 404 not found
Wife: Can I take £10 out of your wallet?
Me: 403 forbidden
Why do I work so hard?

Because I friggin' love my job! While there are parts of it that suck (like any job), on balance it's so completely enjoyable that I have a hard time relating to people for whom work is a grind.
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The post isn't really well structured, but the key points here are:

* Expertise isn't an achievement, it's how we define a certain number or quality of achievements.

* Becoming an expert on a skill is about learning that skill's vocabulary so well that you can express yourself in it as you wish.

* Your metrics for expertise in a skill should be put in terms a non-expert can understand, if you want to be recognized as an expert.
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