skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carrying a lively conversation, possibly one with lots of laughter, actually involves paying a lot of attention: to the things people are saying, to their body language, to their feelings, to your own feelings, to the appropriateness of what you're saying, to the way that you're saying it, to thoughts that you have that you want to express but perhaps can't, and to the timing of things, particularly in the case of making jokes. It hopefully even involves paying attention to whether or not you're annoying people who aren't part of the conversation.

As someone who prefers absolute solitude for reading and writing, I can be very introverted, and I completely understand wanting things to be quiet. However, I think it's mistaken to assume all noisy people don't have any train of thought to interrupt. I think it's just as possible to be mindfully extroverted as it is to be mindlessly introverted. As for percentages and stuff, I'm at a loss; my bias is to assume mindlessness is more common than mindfulness regardless. I guess the difference is that mindless extroversion tends to be more obvious than mindless introversion.
Interesting app.

I noticed some components were displaying the weather - is that current conditions, or are you showing what the weather was at the time the photo was taken (which would be more interesting).
I read this article in the printed newspaper at a coffee shop today.

The "message" at the end of the article was a graphic of a finger over a pair of lips. Presumably from the description in the article it is Amtrak's "Quiet Car" logo.

No idea how or why it ended up the way it did online.
Q: “How much does an app cost?” A: “About as much as a car.”
At least Chrome 24 has the option to disable images. See Settings / Show advanced settings... / Content settings... / Do not show any images.
From what I've heard from friends who use Gandi, it's a little more expensive. Do you think it's worth the higher price?
I'm convinced it's a matter of getting out there and building something. Building or offering something, that someone is willing to pay for, will make you a wage maker versus a wage taker. Tech Crunch, Inc. magazine, etc all kind of romanticize and promote this kind of thing. But, like a lot of things in life, reality is much different than what you think.
Ah, quite similar but not the same.

The BIG difference is the lack of visual indication. You get a red X over the icons in iOS, and holding down app icons is a means of interaction throughout the OS (and you're given an introduction to this on first login).

The way to close apps in Win8 is not visually indicated and relies on an action that the average user most likely won't discover on their own, or will only by sheer accident.
The trains have WiFi, right? Setup a local text chat room / irc channel
Yeah, I was expecting something about the technical process behind making Twinkies.
I literally died and met Death. (PLEASE read)
GDC Vault - Classic Game Postmortem - ELITE
Considering the headgear the blower operators wear, they must know it is horrible, but they don't care, because they need/want the money for the job. Or they have gone deaf.
It is showing the historic weather data of course! ;-)

Pulled from http://www.wunderground.com/
How does work if Apple forbids managed runtimes to exist in iOS?
Agree with the sentiment but how do you account for the noisy ones being smart (processing their thoughts) if

they don't have any train of thought to interrupt

is true?
obnoxious guy #2: his Bose noise cancelling headphones are.
Don't keep bearer bonds at a street called water. Clue is in the name.
If the headphones let you finish a project worth six figures, you could justify them being worth far more than 12k...
Classic Shell is free and open source. No need to buy Stardock.
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/
Pentadactyl lets you browse the web from the keyboard in a way that mimics vim, and does so using Javascript. So ... kind of.
The story of this company is that management and labour are in a pissing match. There's nothing technical in here and nothing insightful on the business side either. This is just PR spin, but its sort of irrelevant. Company has been a financial disaster, and its a dying business regardless, so it sucks for everyone.

No winners. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-hostess-failed-hedge-fund...
QuickUI: Web UI controls in Javascript (and coffeescript)
This diversity of opinion about what is and is not hard to tune out is fascinating.

Also 26 here. One of the great shortcomings of youth is not being able to understand that other people can be fundamentally different. Not better, not worse. Just different. This is something I'm only truly beginning to appreciate lately.

I had never realized until this thread that people could find typing annoying. Well, theoretically I mean I understood you could think "Oh that's annoying" and get on with life. But not the overwhelming, consuming pathos here.

Maybe the problem is less a lack of self-awareness and a serious problem with entitlement. Maybe the problem is this:

Their awareness of self leads them to different conclusions about what is and is not annoying. They don't see themselves as doing anything more entitled than breathing, because other people's typing bothers them about as much as your breathing.
I have a theory that the necessity of ambient noise is directly dependent on your inner calmness (which is or is dependent on your emotional state).
While a lot of people might be annoyed at the lack of technical content, it is a reminder to all who are employees that the cause of Labor is far from secure.

For those of us who wish to be employers one day, it's a good example of what not to do.
Some machines do crash; see page 19 of: http://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-11/Dinaburg/BH_US_11_Dinabur...
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Github is a prominent example of a company that changed course on the funding / no-funding and exit / no-exit strategy. I'm sure history is littered with examples of such a change of course.

Further, there's the possibility of Treehouse raising more money in the future (let's say we have another crash in the market, or because they start facing really tough competition), and Ryan Carson is left with less than 50% of the voting rights. In that case, the founding CEO can just be pushed out so that the investors can pursue a strategy that maximizes their returns.
My approach for international flights is a pair of circum-aural[1] noise cancelling headphones, with disposable foam earplugs inside them, and the music playing just loud enough to distract me from anything that gets past both the earplugs and the noise cancellation.

Where I am (Australia) OH&S regulations say workplace noise louder than 85dB averaged over 8hrs requires the employer to provide hearing protection[2]. The cabin of a 747 in flight is often louder than that, and for me it's usually a 13 or 14hr flight, so not using some form of hearing protection is almost certainly doing damage. But the best reason to wear protection is that I get off at the end of a 12+hr flight much more relaxed than when I don't have earplugs.

[1] big "DJ style" headphones with the cushions that surround/seal around the entire ear.
[2] I've heard, but never seen any actual evidence, that airlines operating in Australia have negotiated exemptions from the standard OH&S rules which would require cabin staff to fly wearing hearing protection.
Why don't they just let it die?
Interesting, there's a similar thing with wine tasting and sucking it through your teeth for aerating (random googling: http://www.welikewine.co.uk/TipsonWineTasting.html)
I've had the exact same experience on Caltrain. Although Caltrain does not have a 'quiet car' per se, most of the every day commuters are aware of the unspoken conduct of silence. Although there are a few folks who just cant get off their phones and like to yap about non-stop. The worst part of it is that most often, I end up being the asshole telling them to keep it down. I dont know why some of the other folks dont speak up, even though they are equally annoyed as I am
First off, I think we need a more interesting way of compiling photos-especially focusing on trips-so this is a very interesting idea.

Two things:

1. I feel like collaborative album creation is one of the most compelling features you offer yet it is premium only. Would all collaborators need premium accounts or just the one setting up the shared album? Regardless, this is a very important feature which allows people that go on a life-changing trip together to share their collective memories. I want to be able to see the great photos my friend took in Venice after my iPhone died. I was there when he took them so they are as much a part of my memory as they are his and this means they deserve to be part of "our storify"

I think collaboration could be the key feature of the entire site.

2. Beaten to death already but you must change the name. You cannot just add two letters in front of a popular site name and claim it as your own. Also, I don't feel "mystorify" tells me much about what your site does. You can do better or find someone else to help.

These two (rather important) issues aside I really like the idea and am excited to see where it goes.
Hi,

Author of the article here. Was happily surprised to find it linked on the front page of HN.

I can try to answer any questions that you may have have.

I'm also in the midst of writing another blog post, this time talking about the bit-error distribution in the DNS query type field. Spoiler: its not uniform.
Scuttlebutt pimped UI
As a white guy, I think any conference struggling to attract female speakers, probably should be canceled.

It doesn't mean the conference itself or its organisers are explicitly racist or sexist, but there has to be some reason why either the topic, or the community or whatever seems so hostile to women wanting to participate. Essentially it is a symptom of a deeper issue.

The fact that no women wanted to speak at the conference is a fairly clear indicator that something is sick in the community. It is just not normal. In Saudi Arabia maybe, but these days any healthy community in a modern western country should be able to attract a couple of female speakers.

We have known for a while now that parts of the programming community have issues with sexism, especially the ruby community, and if it takes a few conference cancellations to get the issue discussed than that is all good.

Here is an idea: The organisers should organise a Ruby Girls event or something.

Main thing is, lets not pretend there is not a serious problem here, and lets do something to address it!
Most of the problems with Windows 8 are typical Microsoft errors. This may be the most radical example of them but basically it fits into the same patterns. The UI revamp on the desktop side was almost entirely unnecessary from a user's standpoint. It only exists to promote Microsoft's own self interests by promoting Windows phones/tablets and attracting developers to the new platform. It’s the type of move that would have worked quite well for Microsoft in the 1990s when users had very little choice. With more competition now any bit of friction you introduce can drive users away. Either by switching to a competitor’s product or not upgrading.

The other big typical Microsoft error was rushing out buggy/slow software and betting they would have plenty of time to fix it later. This worked fine for decades but user expectation’s have increased as often happens. If someone re-released a 1950s era automobile consumers would be horrified at how unreliable it was. Totally acceptable in the 1950s. Totally unacceptable in 2012. For its size and complexity I don’t think Winodws 8/RT is unexpectidly buggy/slow it’s more that the competition had the luxury of a 5-6 year head start slowly evolving their operating systems. Microsoft had to do it in 2 years. So you get all the pain of bugs upfront instead of spread out over a more tolerable time table.

Ironically the biggest mistake is very atypically the type of error Microsoft makes. They rushed people into this new platform quickly without doing much to soften the ground or ease users over. Retaining the classic desktop UI was a big hedge on the Metro bet but only offers an escape not a bridge. Generally Microsoft has to be dragged into the future kicking and screaming. This is a rare case where they actually moved too fast for user comfort. If they had made Windows 8 more of a bridge with the new UI features and other major changes taking a less in your face presence they could have moved forward quickly with Windows 9 as a bigger change.

All that being said I don’t think it’s a total diaster. They just need to quickly walk back a few bad choices especailly for desktop users. They need to make a few concessions to usability in the Modern UI style. Mostly they just need to accept that business practices that worked when you were a giant monopoly don’t work when you are the new comeptitor challenging the big established players.
You are really changing the subject from aggression, but...

Let's say we have a dispute. You say I stole your house, and I say I didn't. Do you think a good way to resolve the dispute is to take pot-shots at my kids? Does it make it a better idea to take pot-shots if I have a machine gun and you don't?

As far as I can tell, defending Hamas is just insane, even if you really, really think Palestinians are abused by Israelis.
>Are they really worth $12,580?

I hate to be the other obnoxious guy that responds to the self proclaimed obnoxious guy, but I see the quite a bit lately, even paraded in XKCD. Is there a significant group of people that absolutely abhors all rhetorical figures of speech? Or is it only specific ones, such as metaphors and hyperbole, with simile being mostly OK? Just curious.
>We hypothesized that they do this for a higher turnover.

I can (anecdotally) confirm that many places do this. One place where my friend worked adjusted the background music volume based on the wait time, and I know of several restaurants by me where the waitresses will say that the music goes up as the place gets busy to persuade people to leave after eating.
And the ads. Don't forget how long it showed you ads.
Whether your code will run well on a phone depends on which browser(s) you test in. The entire apps stack is also being implemented in Firefox for Android (it was Firefox Aurora as of September):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Apps/Apps_for_Andro...

In other words, Mozilla is already dealing with plenty of devices today. I'd expect that, in the majority of cases, if an app works well in Firefox for Android, it will work well on Firefox OS and vice-versa. After all, the whole point is to enable apps that are portable to any device/browser combination that implements the relevant APIs.
He's not trying to reimplement vim. He's doing a new thing. Part of vim's cruft is in its design. An important part of a clean break is a new interface. Obviously, getting traction with other devs will be difficult, exactly like any other tool.
Why are there no software unions, or engineering unions?
The article notes: "In his recent treatise on this subject (its title regrettably unprintable here), the philosopher Aaron James posits that people with this personality type are so infuriating — even when the inconvenience they cause us is negligible — because they refuse to recognize the moral reality of those around them."

Out of curiosity, I searched for Aaron James and found the book whose title could not be mentioned: Assholes: A Theory.[1] From Amazon's review of the book:

What does it mean for someone to be an asshole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often personally stuck dealing with people for whom there is no better name. Try as we might to avoid them, assholes are found everywhere—at work, at home, on the road, and in the public sphere. Encountering one causes great difficulty and personal strain, especially because we often cannot understand why exactly someone should be acting like that.

Asshole management begins with asshole understanding. Much as Machiavelli illuminated political strategy for princes, this book finally gives us the concepts to think or say why assholes disturb us so, and explains why such people seem part of the human social condition, especially in an age of raging narcissism and unbridled capitalism. These concepts are also practically useful, as understanding the asshole we are stuck with helps us think constructively about how to handle problems he (and they are mostly all men) presents. We get a better sense of when the asshole is best resisted, and when he is best ignored—a better sense of what is, and what is not, worth fighting for.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Assholes-A-Theory-Aaron-James/dp/03855...
The trackpad "CLUNK" on an MBP is pretty loud and annoying, and incredibly random if you're not the one doing it...
I haven't had to deal with any support issues with them yet but, for the sake of a couple of bucks, it's worth it to me to avoid the constant up-selling and misleading sales tactics employed by some of the other registrars.
I am surprised no one has brought the topic of working from Coffee shops. This is one of the things that I have tried but never worked for me.

Worst yet, me & my friend were consulting for a startup, whose co founders worked from a coffee shop. One day some discussion was required around certain design elements and we had a Skype call scheduled. when the call started, there was unbelievable noise from their side. I asked them to call later. 3 times this happened and there was always tons of noise. Somehow it was perfectly fine for them, but we couldn't hear anything. I tried politely asking to give respect to hours we are spending for them.

It is odd, how people ignore effect of noise.
I believe there are some in Sweden. Something like 85% of their workforce is part of a union if memory serves.

-- EDIT --

Here are some stats: http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryId=20167

Apparently Sweden used to be around 80% unionized in 1999, but the numbers have fallen pretty sharply since then. These days they sit a little below 70%, which is still remarkably high.

My understanding is that engineers and other technical people are often unionized in Sweden, but that could be as outdated as my 85% number above.
Because investors know that no matter what people say, everyone has their price. That's just a human reality.
The UX is broken, but adding the start button would only break it more. I don't have much confidence in their design team, but I think they know there is no returning to the start button.
If I'm taking any side in this debate, it's that the conference organizers should have put more effort into finding speakers from different backgrounds. That said, I feel obligated to step in and defend free speech.

If we didn't have strong protections for free speech, it would have been far simpler to shut down the civil rights movement, the gay rights movement, and feminism. Because back then everyone "knew" those things were wrong. <sarcasm>What was the point of even allowing people to spout such dreadful nonsense like letting women and black people vote?</sarcasm>.

Do you not understand that the powers you want to use against people you disagree with can be used against you? I get your point that it hasn't happened in your country yet, but history is rife with examples where suppressed speech eventually leads to atrocities. So yeah, I think "free speech absolutism" is a worthy cause. Do you think you can change the mind of a hateful person by arresting them for talking about what they believe? If you want to combat hatred, maybe you should just speak up.
yeah, or as much as a building. Ranging from the dog house to the new Freedom tower
The headphones-over-earplugs strategy works great. I don't use it at work (I like the background din of my office), but when I'm trying to watch a movie on a long flight this is a lifesaver. The earplugs cover up all the background sounds of the engine/people talking, but the sound from the headphones comes right though it.
SO .. where can I find the windows menu? That's how I launched apps. And normally by name by typing.
Sad but true that there are workplaces (quite popular open-floorplan "collaborative" sardine-packing spaces) where concentrating on your work is unkosher.
So what about users who discovered things with a mouse? Are they just banished to Metro, never to return? Every time I read some defence of Windows 8' it's always "Oh everything is the same, just use all these keyboard shortcuts you never knew until now, and have never once seen causal users use".

If you have to touch the keyboard and simply know a comamand and there is no easier way to invoke it, it's bad, non-discoverable UI design.
Here’s to the quiet ones. The rebels. The troublemakers. The ones who see things differently. While some may see them as the quiet ones, we see genius. Because the people who are quiet enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
How is it possible that Winrar can repair any volume with one .rev file?
They don't, they only forbid downloading and executing new code after installation.
As does OSX since Lion. I remember my windows friends trolling about it.
While I agree that it should be easy to change, in reality it works out to be 5 minutes of Google and 1 reboot over the lifetime I have the OS installed. Since Window 7 I don't re-install the OS very much these days so its not that big an issue.
I live on the start menu. It's how I launch all apps. And by typing their name. What part of moving to Win8 required that it no longer fit? I've installed a third party app now, though it's sub-optimal and I'll probably go hunting for something better.
How long? I never saw (edit: don't remember seeing - as it was showing ads then) ads in Opera and I was using it from about 2002(3?) to 2011 when I switched to Chrome. I seem to remember that back then Opera's main selling point was that it was insanely fast and had small memory footprint while having many new and useful features.

So I think it showed the ads for about 6 years? Just curious.
What not to buy on Black Friday: Windows 8 PCs and laptops
Windows 8 seems to working for well for Nokia - http://www.smartcompany.com.au/information-technology/052980...
> Opera has also option to show only cached images and option to load selected image.

Right, I forgot. One question: isn't loading of selected things used for any element, not just images? So I could disable loading of header div and such?
A suitcase?
There's nothing like the quietude of considered thought - sometimes it was one's only escape amidst gunfire...
My thinking is that many developers will build their mobile apps starting with just Firefox (and the Responsive Design View). Once they really start digging in to some of the APIs that exist in B2G but not yet in Firefox, they'll switch to the Simulator.

There are some differences between B2G Desktop (used by the Simulator) and Firefox today, not to mention the ability to check out Gaia (the user interface of B2G). My hope is that everything needed for the Simulator will roll into Firefox at some point.

I know you were likely kidding, but I thought I'd try to clarify where the Simulator fits in the development process for people building targeting Firefox OS.

(I'm the product manager for the Simulator, among other things)
What threat would cause a particular officer to do something against their oath is beyond my imagination. It just should not happen.

Of course that's an idealists view and in practice people will be guided by other things including their personal interests.

Caste is likely an important factor in this particular case.