skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Raganwalder is one of those lonely social phobics whose entire social life is a collection of blogs and forums. If your entire social life happened online, you might be tempted to try and improve the wall paper as well.

The simple fact of the online world is that people express their true feelings which are always harsher, more negative, more hostile than their offline polite/fake feelings, so the online world is a harsher, more negative place. Some people who live in it perpetually also want to fix it. As soon as they fix it, however, all the users will just flee to a more anarchic site because the human spirit craves freedom and the internet liberates us to express our genuine hostility and negativity without being socially punished.

People love the strong emotions of the Apple vs Android debate. The emotions are the POINT of the socializing. The strong feelings are the PAY OFF, and if you don't let people have their feelings, you'll just have a tumbleweed town.

Raganwald's online utopia will be a dead and boring place. Not even Raganwald himself would go there; there would be nothing to get all self-righteous about. Nothing to complain about on his dramablog.

If Raganwald actually wanted a perfectly sanitized experience, he would go to a forum that provided it. But actually he doesn't. His purpose in life is to find a forum without that sanitization and promote it on there. The promotion itself is a pay off for him: in terms of the feelings he gets from the socialization and in terms of the traffic he gets to his blog.
I don't think so. This isn't a right/left piece where everyone is going to come and comment based on their views and their opposition to the opposing viewpoint and be unswayed at all based on the discussion.
99% of users say "stop bugging me, computer, I just want my site" and click on "ignore warning".
>yet few hold Marx personally responsible or would find his face a repugnant symbol of death.

You obviously don't live in America!

By the way, telling someone to "calm down" makes you a douchebag.

And strawmen don't help either.

And let's not kid ourselves: she's in the image because someone in that company is an Ayn Rand fan. There is no shortage of Randists among tech people. Quite a bit fewer among literary types for obvious reasons.
Very thoughtful comment. I think this instinct comes out in spades with politics: people feel very "rah! rah! Go team!" about some articles, but in reality they just lead to flame wars.
I imagine Microsoft could have a very lenient policy with its employees speaking on behalf of the company's interests, but its very dangerous territory if you don't approach it with respect and sensitivity. Personally I think it's simply best to not speak publicly on behalf of the company you work for unless its your job to do so.
The IITs and IIMs.
I studied architecture (of the physical buildings kind), so I may be biased (its reasonably common practice to do this sort of thing), but I completely agree.

Whilst some things are fine to write on paper or in a web app etc, I think generally writing on paper still has a bunch of advantages because you simply have far more control as to what you are doing (emphasis, location, style, adding sketches, etc.) - people just tend to be afraid of it for some reason.

My set up is generally a small notebook (approx. passport sized, not too thick, stiched rather than ringbound) so it can fit into my pocket easily, along with a simple pen (0.4 felt tip). I like this because I can carry them around with me for use when the occasion arises (eg. lunch break, waiting for a train, at a cafe, etc.). Other people I know prefer big notebooks (carried in bags back and forth from the office) - depends on your routine and personality I guess.

Expensive ones (like Moleskine) aren't really any better than some of the cheap ones for my purpose, as long as the binding is solid and the paper is of reasonable quality.

Also, I agree that light dots (or light grids) are the way to go.
Windows 8: Does Microsoft’s Split-Personality OS Make Sense?
This is possibly the most reasonable and cool-headed analysis of an upcoming election that <I have ever read>.

-- Its astonishing that there is nothing in this regarding the US Debt. eg http://www.kpcb.com/insights/usa-inc-full-report [1]

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[1] Summary> http://www.businessinsider.com/mary-meeker-usa-inc-february-...
I keep all my Ideas in Gmail Draft with subject Name "I.D.E.A.S". I keep appending all my ideas into it.
>I know the warnings are in place for a reason, but why don't the affected people just bypass the warning.

Not caring about certificate expiration may be a sign of not caring about other, more serious, security issues.
The implication of that study is either that Asian men are really unattractive to white women, or attractiveness is less sensitive to income than people assume.
Find some potential VCs. Research the hell outta them to find their interests and what makes them tick. Then, when the opportunity comes to provide them value, be proactive about it. Give it time to build relationship until you can meet in person and go from there.

Alternatively, you can fly out to different conferences in order to meet them in person to kickstart the relationship.
I'd like to hear about usability as well. If it's decent to use could be an interesting tool
A lot of people have suggested additional chargers I should examine. To narrow it down, I've created a poll on the article page (upper left). If there's sufficient interest I'll take a look at your favorite charger, so cast your vote.
On [Coinbase's announcement yesterday][1], I was concerned that the top 14 root-level comments were all focusing on the security implications of the announcement; it was as if there was nothing else to discuss other than that.

In many other discussions it seems like one controversial sub-topic ends up dominating as well.

Perhaps downvoting controversial comments isn't always a bad thing? There seems to be a big fear of the downvote button, but in some cases, even if a comment is useful on its own, in the end it sparks massive amounts of arguing back and forth which could be avoided if it were just downvoted instead.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4703443
In Burnaby, British Columbia (where I live), there's a waste-to-energy facility (WTEF) that has been operating since 1988. From their fact sheet [1]:

"Each year the WTEF turns 285,000 tonnes of garbage into steam and electricity. The steam is sold to a paper recycling facility, while the electricity sold to BC Hydro is enough to power 15,000 homes."

"Metals are magnetically removed from the bottom ash and sold to a recycling company to produce reinforcing steel."

More details are in the fact sheet:

[1] http://www.metrovancouver.org/about/publications/Publication...
Japan's future?
I reject this claim and submit Bughouse as a favored variant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughouse_chess
Yeah, basically it sucks. As another commenter stated, it's just the nature of the game. In this arena, for females, being asian is often an asset, but for males a liability. There's sometimes an elitist air among asian women that they can do "better" than settling for an asian man.

At least in my experience, it gets better with age. When women begin favoring stability over excitement/looks, the things you can control become more of a factor such as career, maturity, interests. As long as you're financially stable and reasonably normal (no basement full of blow up dolls) you stand a good chance, I think.

Also, this is a tough area for asian guys, but you're going to have to find a way to exude confidence. This is somewhat circular since society is not really reinforcing your self esteem, but it's up to you to break that cycle. In my case, I pretty much gave up on relationships and then they started happening. I guess people seem more secure when they don't care? (Oh, and don't be bitter. Bitter people suck to be around.)

I'm married now (to an asian girl) and even though women cannot be blamed for having a preference, I still can't help feeling injustice at this predicament. Anyway, I said "you" in this comment a lot, but I mean it generally and it's written just as some offhand advice for my asian brothers out there. But for you personally, I just wanted to say "I feel ya, bro".
Splunk is a great tool for any sort of logs, and that includes user events and so forth. Basically, if you log it, Splunk will index it, and then you can find ways to search it, correlate it, reverse-analyze it... the whole nine-yards. However, as another user mentioned below, "Log every single action, decision, call, message, visit, and fault in detail. Log it with structure." If you don't do that, Splunk won't be that useful. I can think of a few example at work where missing details in log lines quickly deflates my Splunk enthusiasm. So, log everything and carefully, all the time. Then Splunk becomes your friend.
Is the probability density actually uniform? Once all million numbers have been processed (which is the only case that matters - anything with <1M numbers has a strictly smaller encoding than it would if you tacked a bunch of zero deltas on to the end to reach 1M) , you're guaranteed that the 'average' delta value will be <= 100.

This means that even in a worst-case input set, "low" delta values will be substantially more common than "high" ones.
I use workflowy primarily.. Basically what helps is anything that you can always have quick access to.. Like I use workflowy on my android mobile coz I can scribble on it anytime.. on bus.. while in class.. while jogging..
I use a document in Dessk, autosaving and its a really nice blank canvas to work with. Easy to assign to tasks and share with other people to brainstorm
Bill Gates was in the empire business.
@kamaal, it's the same story everywhere. I think you haven't understood it at all.
I agree with your Moral, but the rest of what you've said here doesn't quite hold with history.

1. The majority of the cost (the war in Iraq) was initiated in the first term; a better president with better advisors (IMO, Iraq II was all Cheney and Rumsfeld) would not have gone to war in Iraq with the flimsy justifications presented. Thus, the continuing cost of that war would not have happened during the second term. We may have seen an expanded conflict in Afghanistan, but there was substantial international support for this, which would have spread the costs around. It's a fair cop to place the whole cost of the Iraq war on the election in 2000.

2. The financial crisis was enabled by four primary factors: loosened mortgage rules from before 2000 (e.g., under Clinton), irresponsible tax cuts (reducing real stimulus available to the government), the war in Iraq (reducing real stimulus available to the government), and increased and accelerated deregulation of financial players at a time when it was known that there were some systematically bad players (see Enron and others). Given that all four factors happened in the first Bush term, it's also fair to place at least a large chunk of this on Bush.

I would fault Norvig's evaluation mostly on his view of a non-Bush presidency. It is highly unlikely that Gore would have been revenue neutral. On some aspects, it is almost certain that he would have been revenue neutral (no war in Iraq, but possibly expanded action in Afghanistan). Even so, the cost of 9/11 outside of the Bush context would be impossible to determine. I suspect that the TSA as it exists today would not exist; I fear that it could have been replaced with something more expensive (although hopefully less disdainful of civil liberties and the Americans they supposedly protect).

There are other things about the cost-benefit analysis that don't sit right with me as I'm reading them (the way of thinking of a vote as worth 600,000 vs pennies; it seems that more rational math would still be 600,000 vs 20,000), but it's the weakest part of the article to that point. I know what he was trying to do—but I don't think he made the case that it's patriotic to vote based on a financial analysis. (I think it is patriotic to vote, which is why I do vote.)

Everything before is a good summary and pointers to other people doing solid analysis.

The remainder of the article is fully political and can be treated as such (even though I personally agree with him).
Paper or plain text files. If neither is available, then I email myself using my phone.

Paper is the best option because of the limitless possibilities. I can use pencil, pen, color pencil, watercolor, scotch tape bits of junk to it, rip it out, fold it up, and burn it.
Bill Gates was in the BASIC interpreter business.
Notes file on my phone. I need backups! :)
I keep them in a page called Notes and Thoughts: http://kibabase.com/articles/notes-and-thoughts
Glad to see USD/BTC exchange getting easier again. With mining GPU requirements continuing to rise, it is becoming less feasible for most people to mine for bitcoins, and purchasing them will be the only feasible way of acquiring them, especially if difficulty levels continue to rise.
How the Internet Affected Carly Rae Jepsen
There is a big problem with generals with battlefield experience

An interesting datapoint, historically is Churchill. If your read his history of the world wars, he was the 'sea lord' or somesuch and head of the royal navy. in advance of wwi, he actualy revolutionized the fate of the world in the 20th century, by preparing GB for the next war (WWI). In particular, the switch to the use of diesel vs coal, to increase the range of the Naval fleet. This is the source of the WWII battleships example. And also the origin of the politicization of the Middle east. This supports your notion (becaue he wasn't a general), but undermines the idea that you cannot act with foresight. He also had battlefield experience. [1]

[1] Also, your last sentence is curious, as I think you missed the example of Hitler conquering europe from russia to the english channel, inventing the Blitzcrieg, and the various dry-run live-fire experiments, eg Spanish Civil war.
Right, this is the RTM Win 8 Pro, not IT enterprise
Evernote and sketchbooks. (I'm a graphic novelist.)

Sometimes big projects end up with a sketchbook pretty much devoted to them. More often they just sprawl across all the books I use during the course of the project.

Also there's a pile of index cards with a core dump of one story I've been carrying around for a long time. I made it shortly after losing a bunch of sketchbooks in a hurricane because I wanted to preserve every bit of that story I could.

Also my advice is to avoid Moleskines, I find them overpriced and the paper sucks for the way I like to draw. I like the similar form factor books from Hand*book. And softcover books from Cachet. And of course the classic black hardcovers.
> "So quickly, in fact, that I can outrun Microsoft Word on the Surface. I get the feeling that the Surface RT’s CPU or Word code just can’t keep up with my typing. Here’s an example video:"

I'm on the Word team in Office and I'm coming into this thread incredibly late, but FWIW the slow typing on ARM was something we couldn't fully address in time for the preview release. Word RTM (ARM and x86/x64) has much better performance.

One of the challenges we had was that for a large majority of the product cycle we didn't even know about the Surface. We were looking at ARM early on, but the hardware we had was prerelease hardware from MSFT partners that had varying levels of performance.

Even now we don't know a whole lot about the Surface. It's a little frustrating, since we (Office) hit RTM we're eagerly awaiting the point at which new Surface RTs will have Office RTM baked into them. The preview release is seriously many many months old from the RTM release, and it's painful to think that this is what customers are going to see from Office when they turn on their shiny new device.
"I hate playtesting"
And yet I'm writing tons of code in it very quickly. I don't know how it missed HN, but Go also now powers Google's download infrastructure (Chrome, etc)
Actually you can use Mixpanel exactly for that. We're a B2B company and have exact same use case as yours. We provide some Javascript code that our customers add on their sites. We don't require our customers to have Mixpanel account and we also don't load our Mixpanel JS to our customers' site.

What we do is - we send requests to our server from our customers' site with key information that we want to track, and then we send those events to Mixpanel through server API (e.g. PHP) calls.

It works really well for us. We're measuring how our customers' customers are using our Javascript based widget, and are able to improve our performance, engagement, etc.

Hope this helps.
Not reflected in the title, and doesn't seem to be in the beginning of the article.
I read a book recently called "Cradle to Cradle" (http://amzn.to/Y9iRqm) and it argues against the existing, linear cradle-to-grave lifecycle of consumer items. That instead of taking the "reduce reuse recycle" approach to sustainability, sustainability needs to be achieved from the most basic foundations of design.

It asks the question, what if instead of avoiding waste, we could “eliminate the concept of waste” altogether? What if instead of “working hard to be less bad,” we could create things with completely positive intentions and effects?

Muji is going the right direction with small and achievable design changes to address "high hanging fruit" that actually create substantial impact, though more importantly, they invite the notion that we can live in a sustainable world without reducing our ability to produce and consume to the fullest extent.
What genius decided RT was a good name? Honestly.
I also like to use Splunk for all sort of logs, from nginx to python process logging.
Sample of reading nginx log: http://cl.ly/image/1G2D0v3i1b1K/Image%202012-10-27%20at%2010...
I would be interested too to see a comparison with jsuri.
I was about to say that jsuri is not maintained anymore but looking closer on http://code.google.com/p/jsuri/ I saw that now the project is active on github: https://github.com/derek-watson/jsUri with the latest version being 1.2.2
One could also go with the premise that the "conquer world market" option actually disappeared a year ago, when Apple released the product, then improved on it with almost no competition in the game.

If Microsoft thinks that it can release a product with software that's not ready for release on just price parity with the market leader, they're delusional.

Apple spent the better part of 2011 (ie, last year) proving that iOS doesn't need a daddy OS around anymore - why is a USB host feature in a tablet meaningful for users? So that I can upload my picutres? Why not I just stream them to your photostream? or push them into your google drive or dropbox?
http://www.quora.com/Air-Travel/Why-is-airplane-boarding-alw...

Disagree. That's outwardly more efficient, but it turns out that when we're tasked with sorting and arranging ourselves, we do this whole boarding a plane thing pretty efficiently (especially when we have a vague sense of our chances of finding a convenient spot for our bags or a good seat).
If you said, "I love when shit like this happens, because I've made the same mistake a million times and it makes me feel better seeing the big players do it" you probably would have even received a few upvotes.

HN doesn't really tolerate straight up mean comments.
You're comparing apples and hamburgers. Consider a single day in WWI. More casualties in <24 hours> than the <decade> you reference. The opening day of the battle saw the British Army suffer the worst day in its history, sustaining nearly 60,000 casualties. There would go on to be in excess of <1 million> casualties related to just this single battle, at Somme, western front.[1,2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualti...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme
While it's certainly challenging times, it's nonsense to project even 5 years out. The article states the population is going to fall to a third by 2100? Ridiculous. You can't take a few points and draw a line, and claim it's a linear function. The birth rate is down because cost of living is so high, and the older generation has entrenched itself at the expense of the young. Similarly the economy is down because of massive de-leveraging - it won't be a straight line down forever. At some point both imbalances will be corrected. Maybe not in the next 10 years, but certainly by 2100.
This is probably cultural rather than any objective reason for it.

If you go to Asia, you shouldn't have any problems. But here in the West where most people are white, and what's portrayed as handsome and sexy in the media, arts, and culturally significant works like movies will predominantly be white people.

I theorize that the reason Asian women will fair a little better is because the society here is still patriarchal and therefore the males are the dominant force in relationships (and they obviously will be much less likely to pick Asian males). This is probably why you see White male - Asian female couples being portrayed more often. A TV show or movie will most likely have a white male protagonist and he will then have his pick of women.

Women in the West like to be tanned. Women in the east like to be fair-skinned. The perception of beauty or handsomeness appears to all be subjective.

Here are some Asian Male white Female cases:

Bruce Lee and his wife

Jackie Chan was in a kung-fu movie where he ended up going out with Jennifer Love Hewitt at the end.
I think in the worst case it can be uniform: you can have an average delta value of 100 where the values range uniformly from 0 to 200. I think that case is fine, as you can still encode 200 in less than eight bits, but I'm worried that some worst-case number spacing will waste bits in any encoding scheme chosen, and that wastage will be enough to ruin the result. You have to pick an encoding scheme in advance but you don't know the distribution. Say you encode using 8-bit words. When the high bit is not set, the word ranges from 0-127. When the high bit is set, what follows is the full 27 bits. This will fail for certain distributions. For example, say a quarter of the numbers are spaced 257 apart and the rest are spaced 47 apart. You'll go over budget. Perhaps an adaptive scheme can be proven to work in all cases, but I don't know what that scheme is. Or maybe there's a simple scheme which can be proven for all distributions.
I was going to suggest the magical spell to summon a person on the internet -- say their name three times in a high pagerank location with your eyes closed, of course -- but it only works for people who haven't yet tired of googling themselves.

In this case, the guy has 50 titles to his credit, some of them quite big blockbusters, so I suspect he's not going to notice. Maybe he'll have a nephew or other connection who'll let him know his input is urgently needed on a matter of great importance.