skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yup, me either. Thanks for confirming I didnt have spyware :)
I do this too. I basically am a non-functioning writer unless I am on a computer. I guess I'm lucky I was born when I was.

Side note.
Neal Stephenson wrote the Baroque Cycle out long hand. This post (http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2009/01/the-entire-terr.html) was from last month ago but I also remember 3 other pictures from several years ago.
http://www.nealstephenson.com/photos.htm

I was completely dumbfounded when I first saw that stack of paper because I can barely manage to write a one line note to my wife without scratching something out. To undertake something as large as the Baroque cycle trilogy is really beyond my comprehension.

I don't know if he wrote Cryptonomicon this way also but my first edition is full of typos. Something I imagine could happen if you turn over several hundred hand written pages with edits to a typist.
This really does work. On a cold day my inclination is to stay underneath the covers. I've even gotten my laptop and read e-mail from quite often.

It may also be biological. Rising temperature indicates that the sun is coming up and the day is starting. On the same idea light helps. Turning on the lights can wake me up, but natural sunlight coming through the blinds is even better.
though it's common for a user to submit many stories from one site...

Hmm, looks like 15 of my 21 submissions have been from my blog.

... the evidence suggests nearly all of them are doing it to drive traffic...

Ouch. Any chance that I can convince you that I honestly think that the articles I submit are of interest to hackers? After all, I don't submit all of my blog posts here... just almost all.
This is pretty funny because I am in a similar situation, and have been wondering how the hell I am going to explain the last two years of my life. Could anyone in HR really understand what it is like to start a company?
We each have as much power to stop the motor as we have to fix it. When it comes right down to it, politicians have surprisingly little say in how things turn out.

They can make up dollars till the cows come home to revalue the wealth they think they have, but they can't make any more of it. We can.

Given the choice to go hide in Colorado or actually try to fix this crap, I'm picking the latter. I liked Atlas Shrugged, but it was, in the end, 1500 pages of "I'm taking my ball and going home".
I learned I was part of a community of people like myself, and that the only thing that matters here is what you can create and how dedicated you are to doing it.
Me too actually. When I first started coming here I had barely written a line of code and was rapidly discovering my chosen career path of aerospace engineer was boring the hell out of me and not what I thought it would be. Then all of a sudden I found myself reading about programming non-stop, a good hint that a change is at hand!

So I was able to talk my way into the software development team and have been learning like mad ever since, thanks mostly to this site.

Even though I had little experience, the sheer variety of technologies and points of view I've seen here has made an enormous difference in getting me started.
easier and more accurate.
Boffin: "...scientists, engineers, and other people who are stereotypically seen as engaged in technical or scientific research. American equivalent is 'egghead.'"

Just in case anyone had no idea what a "boffin" was and figured it was some kind of flightless bird or something.

Not that this happened to me or anything like that.
You must translate this Wikipedia article to French before you can go on a date with them
That's an extremely low starting salary even though you said 'at least'. I made over $10,000 last summer as an undergraduate intern at a not so big company. Full time graduate jobs I imagine would start you with at least $50,000. Despite it not being the dot com boom, it's the time and age where companies realize that technology is needed to increase efficiency. Therefore CS majors are in quite high demand in my experience. Companies come recruiting for us, we don't really come to them (with companies like Google as the exception).
i guess this is how one 24 year-old impresses another one

see: blowing smoke
UK Quacks Cry "Bulltwit" About Twitter Users
Can you do this with any piece of writing on Etherpad?

Anything you write with it now you will be able to play back like this soon. Etherpad is already saving all the keystrokes. They just haven't released the player yet. (This is a one-off prototype.)
That's actually a really good idea, even if all it showed you were successive drafts.
Heist: A Scheme Interpreter Written in Ruby
It's so hard to guess. I remember it taking about 3 days, but not working all day. I know there were 5400 half-second intervals when I typed at least one keystroke (that's what the numbers at the top mean).
i didn't have to uninstall anything when i installed CS3.
Can this be used to detect TrueCrypt Hidden volumes (the ones it stores in the free space of other TrueCrypt volumes, for deniability purposes)?
I think more before writing when it's on paper. The medium has more friction. But I haven't written anything for publication on paper since 1991, when I finished writing On Lisp on a stack of legal pads.
A few years ago I stumbled on a wonderful art project where people used a similar technique to record world class poets as they wrote for 15 minutes. The site is still live at http://quickmuse.com/ if you want to see a poet laureate or two write poems. Robert Pinsky's poems are particularly fascinating to watch because he never makes a single edit or mistake.
PINJ? That's a good name for a language. Googlable too, unlike Arc :-)
Paul, brilliant essay. You've eloquently put forward a solid argument about why Foxes are better than Hedgehogs (see: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/12/05/051205crbo_books...). People's predictive ability (and judgment) seem to diminish proportional to the strength of their belief in some ideology.

Avoiding identifying too much with any worldview seems to be the best path to wisdom. A good resource is Berkeley academic Philip Tetlock's work in this field (http://fora.tv/2007/01/26/Why_Foxes_Are_Better_Forecasters_T...).

Chetan Chawla (chetanchawla@gmail.com)
A great deal of information about running a startup. Also the latest things on the web.
Have young children.
For those who don't drink coffee: Taking even just a single sip of a carbonated beverage right after turning off the alarm has worked well for me.
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I got the same email too. A new twist on an old scam.
Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with submitting your own stuff. It's only a problem if it's offtopic.
"To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making."

-- Otto von Bismarck.
Everything I've posted online has been examined pretty thoroughly since about 2001, first on Slashdot, then Reddit, and now here. So I take it for granted now.

I think it's good actually. Now when I'm about to publish something, it's second nature to go through and look at each sentence and ask "Is this false? Is this the sentence that someone is going to tear apart and make me look stupid?"

That's why when someone is dissing me in vague terms in a comment thread, I'll occasionally ask them to quote a specific sentence or passage from the essay they believe is false. Because I've already checked.
It would be nice if more people acknowledged that we should be seriously addressing the problem of natural climate change as well as man made climate change.
I've learned a lot about the nature of opinions. There are as many ways to approach a subject as there are people. I've read several comment threads where people were countering each other and yet I couldn't help but upmod both sides because of the excellent points that each side made. It's refreshing to see the different but valid perspectives. It adds color and breadth to understanding. It's also a tad bit intimidating knowing that no matter what I think, some smart person out there can poke holes in it if I try to generalize.

I've also learned to react to others' opinions in a more thoughtful and objective manner. The culture here encourages me to consider how people may interpret what I say. People here will listen to you if you speak calmly and rationally, even if you're misguided.

It's one thing to read comments written by people who know more about a subject than I do. It's quite another thing to read comments that are crafted with more emotional maturity and wisdom than I would have. That kind of experience just does not happen to me on other social news sites, and it is why I keep coming back here.
I learned that everybody's different, that there's no magic solution for doing any one thing. I learned that most stories and opinions have more than one side to them, and that there isn't necessarily always a right side.

I learned that it's important to learn how to speak civilly and clearly - even if you're like me and enjoy being mad at people, there's a time and place for it, and it's rarely when you're talking to people online.

I learned that the absolutely most thrilling feeling in the world is making stuff, and that the second-most is talking to somebody that has. I remember, early on, saying something dismissive about Delicious and having one of the programmers respond directly to me. I love meeting the people behind things. I still get a thrill when I get into a conversation with somebody who's built a web site or runs a blog.

I think that's also what I learned, which goes with what you said: I learned that the thing I value most in others is what they build and how passionate they are about building it. That's a really useful thing to learn about yourself, and to some degree about others.
I don't really understand the obsession with getting up in the morning. When everyone else is awake, they just distract me into not working. When everyone is asleep, it's dark out, and everything is closed, there's nothing to do but work.

I can't think of one useful thing I've ever done during the day, actually...
Clustrix is still in beta, I think. But I probably should put them there.
Apple shareholder meeting dominated by politics
How did the author 'almost kill facebook' if Zuckerberg was 'unphased' by his argument in this single conversation they had?
These help me with early wake-ups (3:00am):

* My pre-alarm goes off 15 minutes early. After this alarm, I start thinking and worrying about what I need to do. When the real alarm sounds I'm ready to jump out of bed.

* I don't use the bathroom in the morning when I'm sleepy. A full bladder helps me stay awake.

* I nap whenever I can't work.
#2: "Till you know that you're wasting your time."

Until you know that...
What's really interesting, is that you presume anyone actually would write on paper anymore, how old are you?
101 Economic Positives
What exactly about this makes it the most surprising thing you've seen in two months?
I remember reading that top karma earners get invited to startup school...I can't find that anywhere.

But here is something close:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=136837

Karma is taken into account when you apply. That is incentive enough to attempt to game HN.
I love that feeling. I want success, but I'm more motivated by the prospect of making something that I want. When I see something I could have made, I write the guy who made it, congratulate him, and talk with him a bit, because I've just found somebody who might make a good friend. Then I get on to working on another madcap adventure.
I envy you.

On the side, 3 and 8 work incredibly well. I sleep on the top bunk and so I have to jump out of bed just to disable an alarm, or else my roommate starts kicking me through the bedsheet. It's a motivator, all right. And I wake up much faster on a day after a work-out session. I've been doing P90X for a little while now, and while it hurts like hell, the next day I wake up bursting with energy. It's great.
aren't there BSD licensed solutions to this plus prior art?
I'm pleased to hear that you're interested in the problem of attractive/addictive distractions. Important, interesting problem. I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts.

Here's a relevant thread from Overcoming Bias. It is more about modeling the problem than looking for fixes, but you might find it interesting:

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/a-tale-of-two-tradeoff...
Would be a lot better with some sample javascript.
Welcome to Silicon Alley Insider.
How would the spell check figure out that you meant unfazed instead of unphased? They're both properly spelled in the sense that they're not a mangled collection of letters.
For that matter, there's been a surprising number of people that put "it's" where they meant "its". I've noticed that this is trending up lately, as well.
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I've learned how incredibly efficient I can be at wasting time and wiling away hours when I don't want to work.

It's been a real eye-opener for me.
What helped me most was having food easily available. I always have oat-shakes ready in the fridge to minimise the amount of time between the alarm going off and having enough blood sugar to think rationally.
Is VoIP communication being Abused?
'Letting' students use the internet while they're writing essays? I think I'm missing something. I've never written an essay anywhere but on a computer with regular stuff around, including a web browser, etc.
I’ve learned that I need community more than I thought I did.

I have a blog, I get comments and e-mails on that blog. But what I’ve started to realize is that there’s a "blogger penalty" to the conversations I can have there. No matter how hard I try to make people comfortable in saying anything to me the fact that it’s my blog still puts me in a perceived higher position in the conversation.

What Hacker News does for me is to give me an environment to debate where everyone is on equal ground. Sure there are karma points but unless you go out of your way to look for them you won’t know who is at what level. That puts the focus on ideas more than people and that is a great thing.

I still enjoy my blog and still post longer pieces to it. But I don’t know what I’d do without HN at this point.
Thanks for that. I built this same thing into Twiddla (to replay meetings), but never released it because I didn't like the interface.

I had always assumed that nobody would get it unless I built a silly little mp3/cd player timeline with sliders and buttons. This changed my mind. Simple works just fine. Gimme a couple days and I'll polish it up and throw it live.

Thanks again!
Spectacular! Reminds me of of Le Mystere Picasso eh, PG?
"geek merch empire", for now, thinkgeek it's, right?
Ah, clever! Thank you.
One thing that I'd find problematic with that is the inability to unplug to write. There are a lot of tasks (and as I recall you said the same in one of your essays) that I find I concentrate better with the internet unjacked.

...and even then I use WriteRoom, full screen green on black, no formatting options: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom
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The popular micro-blogging platform Twitter continues its explosive growth. Twitter experienced a 900 percent increase in active users in the last year, according to a recent blog post from Biz Stone, the company's co-founder.
This is amazing. I can't wait to have syntax highlighting for code. I am imagining this as a "live"/"real-time" paste2.org

This would make collaboration much faster.
B is the key here.

The problem is that number of hours is too often thrown around as a comparison between two different people.

I'd argue that arises from the more frequently asked question of "Is employee A more productive than employee B?" rather than "was employee A more productive on Tuesday or Thursday?"

Employers certainly ask the first question when they're looking for salaries to dump.
Louis CK: Everything's amazing, nobody's happy
When Google startup, many people suggested that there are too many search engines out there and yet another search engine will not succeed. However, after Google, there is no major search engine emergence. For SNS, maybe there will be a next Facebook, but the chance is much rare than before. In Orkut/Friendster era, not so many people daily live on social network. For now, everyone online knows SNS and Facebook. That is the most obvious barrier for new comers, people's custom.
Congratulations to raffi for launching. I enjoyed this piece, and it would serve its stated purpose very well I believe.

An impressive feat by an impressive individual, it seems. Wish you all the best!
I've learned about the Arduino, and bought one for myself. Just last night, I learned that an LED can be used as a photodiode. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=447770

I'm also participating in "HN Reads SICP", a SICP book group that started on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428248

I've also attended three events that I probably would not have heard of without HN.
I think this joking, but remember this anyways:

No one gives a damn about "I, I, I, me, me, me..."

"I did xyz... and I want xyz... and for me, I want... and I do... and I'm..."

People want, "...for you, can be done... value to you... profit to you... minimal risk to you... incentive-based, so you only pay me as work is delivered..."

People are persuaded by appealing to their own interests. If you give an I/me centric story to persuade a savvy business person to do something, you're instantly getting written off 90%+ of the time. If you can show someone that you can do amazing things for them, they'll choose you and you profit.
Is that a joke? The discovery institute is in no way a reliable source. They advocate creationism!
That music player is impressive. I didn't know he'd made anything before Facebook.
i don't think he's good at coming up with ideas

How would you know?
This.

Everything is cyclical and doomed to fail until something better breaks that repeating pattern. It happened with Amazon before Web 2.0, when everybody thought it was doomed to fail. I'd bet it happens with Facebook.

It deserved repeating, because I don't think some people get it: Friendster had a few users. Myspace had a lot. Facebook has every single college student and now it has every single high school student, and almost every person checks it at least once per day, and in the last 6 months it's been picking up in every demographic. Facebook is a part of life for those people, in a way that Twitter or Tumblr or Flickr or even a huge site like Youtube is not. It's not going down without a fight.
This is already on the top page.

Though this is the youtube link.
The law actually states that you own trademark once you use it. You can put TM anytime (better when you've filed), but once you receive it, you can use the (R).
This was extremely fun to read. I love it. It helps people to understand that working for a startup probably won't bring you riches, but it will make you a better person.
A similar project for sending email has existed for a few years, created by the MIT media lab. Check it out at http://www.fuzzmail.org/
Of course the mistake is not important. I'm just wondering about how it happens. If someone learns most of their words from books, you can tell because they will use a word correctly but say it oddly. I'm wondering what causes someone to use a word correctly but spell it phonetically. Are we speaking more and writing less? Hard to believe, no?
This essay is referenced in the book Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg.

(As a relative newbie to Python who has in the past coded in a bunch of other languages - including Java - I had actually been meaning to look it up.)
So is python java now?
I don't know yet. Certainly, it has given me a broader view of the world of computer science, which is edifying and has allowed me to speak intelligently with recruiters. It is also motivating me to do risky things (left a good job in finance to go back to grad school for CS, applying to Y Combinator this summer). Mostly, it has taught me that I am easily influenced by people I admire, and people I admire include entrepreneurs, scientists, and engineers.

Basically, I am what your children will become if you allow them to read too much sci fi growing up.
Being able to watch how I write. It's like seeing a photograph of oneself for the first time. I had no idea how often I restarted sentences, for example.

There's other stuff I want to see that should be even more interesting. When it's replaying, I want to be able to see characters that make it into the final version in one color, and others in another. Then I'll be able to tell when I'm writing well and when I'm writing badly.
How does it choose to organize the fonts? I don't know enough about how the fonts are stored on the system to figure it out.
Original link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494066
They are quite inspiring, about to break 1 million users. I think there is a clear divide though - Couchsurfing states in their philosophy that they are not a free ride alternative to a hotel. Airbnb currently operates/markets as an alternative to a hotel.
Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension
It seems to work when disconnected, at least for a while. I'd guess that if working offline isn't already supported, it will be eventually.
There is a very plausible line of causation in the downloads => music sales hypothesis that does not exist in the pirates => global warming hypothesis.

Please be courteous and refrain from using obvious straw men in your arguments. It makes the person you are responding to feel like you are not taking them seriously.
> because all the apps are moving online.

I think that pendulum has almost reached the end of it's arc. There are a number of trends that are starting to pull in the opposite direction. From concerns about privacy and security to the proliferation of mobile computing, intermittent disconnection from the cloud has it's uses.

Tools like Google Gears and the continued blurring of the line between desktop applications and web applications mean that it's easy to build applications where being connected enhances the experience considerably, but the essential functions are still there even if the network goes away.
To whomever is downmodding, your reason please? Basis of my perception:

http://www.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/6cxqc/top_10_...

http://digg.com/celebrity/Top_10_Jackie_Chan_Stunts_3
Extending Enterprise Applications
Couldn't agree more, although some of the suggestions make sense.

The best way to get out of bed, and to make it easier, is to have something decent to get out of bed for, and to know that the night before (point 6).

Flight I need to be up at 6am for? No problem getting up at 5.

Exciting day at work? Up at 8 no worries.

Also recognize your internal body clock's desired times (which I suppose is point 1). 1am-9am is my preferred sleep time, and although I can temporarily get around it, it's easier to adapt my schedule. Who wants to feel tired all the time?
Using Yahoo Pipes for the "enterprise"
My first article submission on Hacker News.