skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is broken in so many ways. Of course the music listened to by the largest number of people is going to correlate to a more average SAT score. The children that regularly listen to classical are those with parents who either intentionally expose them to it at home (which means that they are likely well-educated) or have them take music lessons (which indicates both a concern for their child's mental development as well as above-average financial status). So music and SAT scores are largely influenced by the same factors: education and money.

Also, as someone who spent over a decade of my childhood playing classical piano, I'd suggest that the vast majority of college-age kids who have Beethoven on their "favorite music" list are smart kids just trying to appear to be even smarter. Notice how no other composers, modern or classical, are listed; Beethoven is to classical music what the Beatles are to classic rock and Jay-Z is to hip hop: a generic name for someone to pull, the Java of composers. If I was listing what instrumental music I do listen to, I'd be putting up names that define the styles I like. Philip Glass? Branford Marsalis? Ludovico Einaudi? Sure. Beethoven? Negative.

The only thing I can possibly attest to is the lyrical / instrumental dichotomy. Sometimes it takes a certain kind of mind to appreciate some instrumental music; you have to be able to sit and analyze it, recognize the patterns / progressions, etc. That's why I could see popular bands like Radiohead, U2, and even RATM to a certain extent, doing better than other groups in their genre.
Could this be an early April fools?
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I've been using adwords for years. Never seen a problem with it. This is nothing new, it's been like this forever. It's pretty obvious how it works in the UI :/

Maybe it should alert you if you resume deleted campaigns and ask if you really meant it.
I think that their motivations are different too. Wanting to build companies that might one day compete with Google is unthinkable; so one must assume these are ventures that either do something totally different from Google's current businesses; or are somehow attractive as "experiments" Google doesn't have the focus to perform itself (the last obvious category is "companies Google wishes to acquire"; but smart founders who happen to have such an idea would not use Google Ventures simply because of the conflict of interest).

Btw, is this typical of corporate venture funds or is Google trying something new?
> Do you think the Prozac just distorted your perceptions of reality?

LOL. Let me get this straight, from your perspective.

This guy says that when he's on mind altering drugs he becomes telepathic, and you're sitting here asking him if it might be the drugs?
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Well i think you're quite wrong to put all languages on the same level here. I mean, as programmers we know very well than some languages are closer by spirit than others, even if their syntax differ greatly.

It's exactly the same thing for spoken languages. I'm french, and i learnt English, German, and a bit of Spanish. Once you learnt one, you can learn the others more easily, not only because of your mind adapting to other languages, but also because those languages share a lot, be it from a vocabulary perpective or from a grammatical one.

I'm no expert in asian languages, but from my past in linguistic and ethnology, i aquired the strong belief that theses languages are different enough to really "wire" your brain differently.

And you must also take into account the cultural penetration of the english/american culture into a country. Even if this penetration happenned everywhere, Western Europe has much more exposure to this culture than , say , China.

The bottom line is : French people will probably never need a french StackOverflow as badly as Chinese people.

The world is not flat !
> oh cripes can we just kill these stupid stereotypes already?

I mean, what do you expect from a thread where a guy gets upmodded for claiming that he was able to tell the future while being on Prozac?
> I couldn't do anything without having immediate karmic effects on people I knew who lived hundreds of miles away

Oh, christ. Maybe you should go back on the pills, buddy.
Well the chart shows people who listen to Garth Brooks as having higher scores than people who listen to classical music
Two thoughts:
1. You might want to tell the user of other books similar to the one she queried for (this could be a reason to call, simply because the user wants to see more books of th esame kind in the store).

2. There should be a reverse service too; which lets you browse books at the store depending on what you looked at Amazon from home.
> Maybe it should alert you if you resume deleted campaigns and ask if you really meant it.

Yeah, something like "you are about to restore these deleted campaigns!".
Why aren't you (really) good at graphic design?
yes, it is powered by joel, you really can't expect more.
Your example is not valid because he didn't state he was in the dick-sucking business in the first place.
Shortened the WWII by two years, exactly how?
And replaced it with the soundtrack to that dog movie.
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You: hi

Stranger: hi

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Your conversational partner has disconnected.

Not sure this idea will fly.
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that title is just mean. that reminds me to download that album right now.

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Another factor that comes into play is having regular periods of intense focus. We all claim to be focusing when we're doing work, but there are still all those microdistractions that come with the territory. You'll learn very quickly how to maintain focus if you down want to drop a couple hundred pounds on your chest.

There was a period of time when I wasn't working out, but I'd go for a drive late at night when I was stressed. Not a normal drive, mind you; I would blast up and down the side of a nearby mountain. The physical aspect of driving, combined with the focus necessary to not go flying off a cliff, had a very similar effect. I don't recommend this, as it was extremely reckless, but if you happen to live anywhere near a track, or even a karting facility, I'd strongly suggest trying it out.
I not sure I see the reasoning that the 90%+ people that use Microsoft also all like it. I know lots of people who hate Microsoft products but still use them esp. non-techy users. They just don't see that there is a viable alternative.

They see Apple products as too expensive (especially if they not in the market for a new machine anyway) and Linux is not a valid choice to them, if they have even heard of it.

The Xbox 360 has widely reported (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems), ongoing, hardware faults and is beaten in sales by the Wii. It also still loses Microsoft money despite entering this market in 2001, whilst the Wii makes a profit.
Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss talk about Startups, Angel Investing, YC and Traffic/Conversions
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Patch to fix RSS feed for News.YC
Does anyone else think that the shortened URL business is somewhat artificial and limited? I understand the benefit of fitting the URL into a tweet, but full length URLs have a lot of advantages: you can make a judgement on the likely interest or usefulness of the link before you click on it. And there are some links that I normally wouldn't touch with someone else's ten foot cattle prod, which I might click on because I can't do reverse-hashing in my head. (Obviously some of the more mathematically talented HN readers probably can :-)

If Twitter introduces a new way of inserting links then these businesses could disappear overnight.
A couple folks mentioned I should post it here, full details here:

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=9092

And this feature request:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92734
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You can already remote OSes with ease, and have been able to for years. VNC, X11 etc. It's not particularly fashionable, but PC hardware is so cheap you might as well buy a new one. You can easily spawn an instance on EC2 and connect to it, but those machines don't have state-of-the art GPUs.

The problem they're trying to solve here is that a new gaming PC can cost a couple of thousand dollars, and you have to keep it on the bleeding edge of expensive hardware to play the latest games. It's typical that even the most avid gamers simply can't keep up with all the consoles and PC hardware.
Disagree. Once deleted you'd also think that they would not be impacted by a resume command. Delete = never run again.

I myself wish Google offered a true delete to campaigns in AdWords. It makes for a confusing interface.
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I also run a Yahoo Store, and even in their Search Marketing group, customer service has always been excellent. Clearly there is a lesson Google needs to learn from Yahoo in at least one area.
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P.S. I found a O(n) running time for planarity testing - but not embedding.
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it's not really powered by joel. his technical contribution is roughly 1%. that's what it seems like from SO podcasts.
My question was answered within 5minutes. It's sick!
I guess I'm thinking of freelance sites etc. reselling SO solutions.
aaaand...? The site is cold and impersonal and gives no real details about their strategy or vision. I mean, c'mon...one paragraph + a few one sentence FAQs? It's almost like, yesterday, someone at Google said, "Hey, we should do that too.", and threw up a website for it. At this point, I'd much rather get funded by YC and have a good feel for what I'm really getting out of the deal, rather than just some $ thrown at me.

Also, and this might not be a negative, but Google is only throwing two guys at this venture? I'm just not convinced their heart is in this one yet. It doesn't seem well thought out for a "launch".
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You: This is 911, what's your emergency

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You: I'm sorry sir

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Your conversational partner has disconnected.
@PageRank: Doesn't Google already follow redirects? (Most of) those URL shorteners aren't doing anything else.
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Joseph Campbell said it best: "people want to feel alive".

And when you're exercising at the limit of what you're physically capable of, you do feel very alive.

Getting into and pushing through physical pain on a regular basis also makes it easier to connect to and overcome other pains in you.
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How to recoup the costs associated with long URLs and variable names
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Wouldn't a Dutch auction work exactly the opposite way?

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction: "A Dutch auction is a type of auction where the auctioneer begins with a high asking price which is lowered until some participant is willing to accept the auctioneer's price, or a predetermined reserve price (the seller's minimum acceptable price) is reached. The winning participant pays the last announced price.")

Or do you use eBay's definition of the term: "eBay uses the term Dutch auction differently, for a multi-unit auction for several identical goods to be sold simultaneously to potentially multiple bidders."
Hey, I have a set of data and pseudocode for generating a very large matrix based on this data, but I'm rather short on time here and could use an actual elite (or ok) hacker's help. I promise you that this is pretty easy in the scheme of things. Language is unimportant but python would be nice. This is not programming homework. I would be happy to compensate you for your time. Just send me an email.
The way he used Google AdWords to test book titles is exactly what I described here (http://www.jgc.org/blog/2008/11/testing-book-titles-using-go...) when I was working on the title for The Geek Atlas.
As you point it, there are different paths to doing business and it is nice to share your story with us.

Your writing style is nice but you should remove those "ho no, don't leave my blog" or "please subscribe" sentences.

If your content is interesting and if you're staying focused, people will come back or subscribe.
I would imagine that if you had the potential to be a world class bodybuilder, it's worth exploring ...

For some I'm sure, but not me. At the beginning of this year I began regular weight training sessions, three times a week. I have in fact repeatedly said to my friend that got me into it that I never want to look like those world class guys, the ones with the huge super tanned muscles and massive veins popping out all over the place. It's just not aesthetically how I would ever want to look. In a way I see it as being another expression of the "thin" culture that movies and TV tend to promote (mainly to women). These huge pro body builders have taken it to far in my opinion. The human body cannot reach that level of musculature without the aid of synthetic growth hormones. It's just as artificial (if not more) as a person who starves themselves to meet Hollywood's current ideal. Of course, it's their body and they can do what they want with it, but I'm just talking from my POV.

I think I would have the possibility to be a pretty successful pro body builder if I wanted to be as I have a naturally large frame. Even before I started going to the gym, people sometimes would think that I did. So even though I think there's a good chance that I would excel in this area, to me it's not worth exploring to the furthest extreme. My point being that I believe there must be many like me who do weight train but do not wish to ever look like Arnold in his hay day. Hence the common disclaimers that you mention.

In the 3 months that I have been training I have noticeably gained strength and muscle mass, but will never take steroids and will make sure that I never look unnaturally muscled.

I very much like the meditative nature of the training as it relates to concentrated focus on the specific task at hand, as mentioned by another commenter. And there are health benefits that I have already observed.

But as for the effect of weight training on confidence in social interactions, I can't say I've noticed any change whatsoever for me. My feeling is that those who do notice a positive change in confidence are possibly the guys who are a little on the small side and after training for a while and gaining some strength and mass, it makes a bigger psychological difference to them than it may have for me (as I mentioned, I have always been relatively big and tall). My second point being that - based on my own anecdotal experience - I would think any change in confidence would be more tied into the psychological than the physical.
Instead of a patch, could we have a separate RSS feed for stories in order?

(I'm being lazy here, as the change would break the News.YC twitterbot http://twitter.com/newsycombinator)
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+1 for the Mirra. Got a Mirra at home, Aeron at work. Mirra wins! Definitely spring for the adjustable armrests.
Well, the current feed is basically invalid. It's not structured the way RSS feeds are supposed to be, and I'd consider breaking the Twitter bot better than breaking all newsreaders. I've at least tested in Mail.app and Thunderbird and I've heard the same for Google's reader. I'm a really heavy RSS user and news.yc is basically the only news site I frequent where the feed is not usable.

If I were reading via RSS that'd also open up some options for filtering with Yahoo Pipes, which I do with a lot of my RSS feeds, since I'm not particularly interested in the mainstream stories that hit news.yc (NYT, BBC, Slate, Salon, et al)
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I work for a small Irish web startup (12 employees). We're currently trying to fill 2 new positions -- a PHP developer, based in Ireland, and an implementation consultant, based in our San Diego office.

(The implementation consultant is essentially a support specialist who would also provide web-based training and other services.)

Up until now, we've mostly recruited through friends/referrals, agencies ($$$) and some Irish jobs sites (jobs.ie, etc.), but I was hoping the HN community might be able to offer some better suggestions.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
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Shallow and depressing list, suitable for a tabloid magazine. There are few goodies but most of them are like "it helps the bloodflow so it helps your brain!". Okay true, but is it really _brain food_?

I could make a list of "brain clothes", like "brain socks" - they keep your feet warm so you can focus on thinking better!
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Most OS remoting solutions I've seen are only just usable. I can remote into my Mac Mini into the living room and even that doesn't feel quite right. A 3D shooter, with this kind of latency, would be almost unplayable. And that's just to my living room!

If they can get games to play well on the average DSL connection, they can get OS's to feel 100% local, not laggy, like the average VNC session. I'm sure there'd be a big market for that kind of technology, outside of gaming.
Since SO is "Currently offline for maintenance", here is the question from Google cache: http://tinyurl.com/csjjxg
I have a list of startup/tech stuff related job sites I've collected over here,

http://www.moondust.dds.nl/jobs.html

(No ads, static html, not a blog, etc).
I would love to see the rigorously controlled, peer reviewed research papers supporting these claims.

And I would love to know who funded the studies. I bet it's something called The International NeuroPolyphenolAntioxidantOmega3 Appreciation Society.
'FoneFu' - That's actually a pretty geeky name. Coz I've noticed scripts with the .fu extension (GIMP plugins i think have .fu extensions)

I too have such a domain name ending with 'fu'. sounds fancy but sometimes the kind of expansion you said strikes my mind. So I never used my domain name.

My app was supposed to be 'JaxFu' and acronym as Jax's Friend Updater but when i thought of that 'fu' part, i didn't take chances so i changed the name.

B/w this app has a lot of potential. I would choose to dial a few digits and enter the ISBN and get the price than to open my phone's browser, go to Amazon, search for the book and find the price (and then glance thru the page to find out which is the price for the new edition and a used book).
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It might also depend on the licence of the original project. For example, a project originally released under BSD could be re-released under many different kinds of licence.
I'm sorry I can only upvote you once.
If you want (as the article claims) a real Monpoly-how-it-should-be game, give Chinatown a try.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/47

It's about free-style trading much like Monopoly should be, except that it doesn't suck.
I find that "here's a paper I've written and would like to present" works pretty well, too. Or sometimes, depending on the conference, "here's the abstract for a paper I'm currently writing and would like to present".
Not directly related but Bob Brozman has some interesting thoughts on music -

"African-based music normally has as the fundamental meter: both 2 and 3 at the same time. This opens the door to syncopation, polyrhythms and musical creativity, which occurs on a more primal level in the brain than harmony. It is acknowledged that Europeans developed harmony further than any other culture; but rhythmically their culture is among the planet's most primitive."

"Put simply, marching (colonizing) cultures see the downbeat as something to follow, and the "marched-upon" (colonized) cultures see the downbeat as something to react to, using the backbeat."

http://www.bobbrozman.com/tip_rhythm.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oPXRWRxda8

Additionally, the majority of western music is now performed in equal temperament which adds to the blandness. As hackers you may find the math of music interesting..

http://www.kylegann.com/microtonality.html

http://music.case.edu/duffin/

http://www.larips.com/
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Dear PG, please allow reversal of upvotes.
The simple fix of allowing one to take away a previously given upvote might easily improve the signal-to-noise ratio here.
I guess the randomness is what differentiates it from thousands of other chat sites. However, the randomness also leads to the kind of conversations seen above.
I have a Stokke Balans Duo chair which is the most comfortable thing ever, and perfectly suits someone who both wants to move around restlessly, lean forward to type, lean back to think... used daily for 8 years and it's bulletproof.

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I'm not sure if they still make them, but maybe you will find one secondhand.
This link just sent to me, worth reading.

http://kjctech.net/blog/archive/2009/03/31/stackoverflow-is-...

Claims that Jeff and Joe were approached by the guys that built the China clone to StackOverflow and that Jeff and/or Joe didn't want a Chinese version. Their loss for believing the world is flat.
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I voted this up because I'd like to see a discussion, not because I necessarily agree with the article.

Certainly, I agree that the bar is high for graphic materials nowadays. However, I think it is often better to hire a professional to do this work. It's very easy to burn a lot of time on graphic design as a leader or developer only to produce designs which, at best, are 'rather good' not 'really good'.

Past experience: launched a website without a designer because we had a developer with some design skills. Result: we paid a great developer (at the cost of a great developer) to do average design work. Next time I hired a dedicated designer - the results were an order of magnitude better, we got it done at a lower cost and that great developer got to get on with writing great code.