skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some recommendations for making it look more questionable:

1. Switch to .info domain name
2. Homepage should have more color and more gratuitous animation - maybe seek out Matthew Lesko's people?
3. There's a contact link at the bottom of the page - remove that so no one has any idea who the hell is behind it.
This is a pretty epic exploit, killing yourself on DL1 by kicking Wands of Wishing is a great way to show off.

I've been playing for a decade, but I only started ascending this year. Just a couple days ago I had a most pointless death -- "Killed by invisible Famine, while helpless (with the Amulet)" -- http://alt.org/nethack/userdata/blasdelf/dumplog/1235254709....

Nethack is ultimately an object lesson in humility and patience. Past about 1000 turns, all deaths can be avoided without too much trouble, and when you die there's a sinking feeling of "this is totally my fault". You always know exactly what you did wrong, and what you should have done to avoid it. The RNG exists to reward bravery with death.
I'd reckon it has to do with the person's ability to analyze the facts of a situation and apply it to decision making. I wouldn't want a dentist to look at my teeth and incorrectly decide that a root canal should be performed when a more accurate analysis of the facts would suggest a simple filling.

In the Tax Code case the person should be intelligent enough to know that they don't understand the tax code rather than pretend they do and continue to make poor decisions because of it. This personality trait may lead them to fail to acknowledge a lack of understanding when it comes to a certain dental procedure, but rather than educate themselves, they go ahead and make an incorrect decision.

I think the skill of general intelligence does indeed transfer from tax code to dentistry.
overall viewership is increasing every year

Are you sure about some of the claims you're making?

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2007...

^^^ This article seems to think viewership is down and I've heard that repeatedly over the last few years.
So what is my tax rate if I go from $249,999 to $250,000?

How much money in real dollars do I lose when I earn a buck more to make it to a quarter million?
Yes, at least Firefox on OSX does. And if the site/page has <link media="print"> or @media print in place, the printing CSS is used for layout.
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Pardon me.. but why is this on the front page?
... which supports a few other argumets Matt's making, because justin.tv is probably the most famous YC startup among my non-programming friends: we all watch live college football and european soccer games on it, re-translated by users with TV tuners.

I don't think this is something justin.tv is happy about because it kind of transforms "broadcast yourself" into "share your cable subscription with strangers" and inevitably leads to a conflict with Fox+ESPN+friends [and possibly with cable/sat. providers too]

It all comes down to bandwidth. It doesn't exist and the situation is not improving, I'm 100% with Matt here. Even ESPN's premiere 360 offering pretty much sucks, let alone Justin's streams: they're basically backups for people who don't have TV access (on the road, in another country, etc).

Security-minded, TCP-dominant, firewalled to death "Big Internet" is simply the wrong platform to stream live HD video. Having worked at an IP-based HD video surveillance startup I was amazed at how hard it was to reliably push high-def streams over TCP/IP even within a large local enterprise network. Most of our IP was all about bandwidth management. I honestly can't even imagine what would it take to stream even CNN to all their viewers, let alone superbowl.
The function key is completely on the wrong side of the keyboard! I can't believe i can't page down with a single hand. (And no, scrolling down is not the same - it slows me down quite a bit when I have to track where to continue reading.)
I think a much better analogy would be if someone were to run a site called "Craig's List," and had a section devoted to 'personals.' Would the webmaster be _legally_ responsible for those using that service for prostitution?

(again, not the site's moral responsibility to itself [craigslist cracks down on this sort of thing], but to the point of being able to arrest and imprison craigslist webmasters.)
thanks for the vote of confidence, funding deal fell through, but still with the big idea www.personalpediatrics.com
large chunks of code always suck huge!!
I wonder how people would react if one of the big boys would just put up a torrent tracker with TV shows, with commercials.

On one hand, commercials would be skippable. But then, increasingly, so are on TV. Would commercial-free torrents appear on pirate bay? I doubt it, no real incentive. Would people really skip them consistently? Some yes, some wouldn't. If the commercial is short and reasonably interesting, why bother to fast forward every time?
Useful but seems buggy. It disabled keyboard input completely in Opera.
I believe so. Just make sure that the Airport Extreme is running at least version 7.3.1 of the firmware. I personally use an Extreme and a WD MyBook as my backup solution and while I wouldn't say it's fast I've never had issues where it wouldn't work.

see also: http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/19/time-machine-now-works-wi...
Why did landscape painting vanish?
You say it like it's a bad thing. Obviously this is something people want, right?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

This should let you print to a PDF exactly as you would print to a real printer. The only difference is that you end up with a PDF file instead of a physical printed copy. As far as CSS goes, I think that it prints websites using the style sheets that are defined for printing, just as you would expect from a real printer.
'We present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine'
and icmp can get deprioritized on busy routers, yaddayaddayadda. pathchar (old old) was doing interesting things in measuring link health.
Hey be careful there. Last time I pulled this guy up for his bullshit my karma went negative. There are people here who thinks that he is some sort of rockstar ninja fighter pilot sniper beast of a entrepreneur who's twitter/craigslist mashup is going to set the world on fire.
That's just one more reason they're going to lose. That assumption no longer applies because I'm not going to watching something I'm going to watch or play or make something.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Also Northwestern University and Bethel Theological Seminary.
Noone that stupid would have the brains to make $250K a year to begin with.

All of these people are bullshitters. Pretty much on any site you visit you have someone claim that they are going to work less/close their business/shut down just to avoid hitting that 250K mark. Ever notice how its always a brand new member making such a post? The few times a long time member posted such drivel, it took a few minutes to find out that the person was full of shit.
One of the best descriptions of the piracy-has-the-better-experience phenomenon: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/06/26/piracy-lessons
I think there are some worthy arguments:

1. Lock-in. Not an issue with Amazon (except for bandwidth lock-in but this is easy to mitigate). With GAE one you wrote your app it's very hard to move it out of there - where would you go?

2. Monopoly formation. Not an issue yet, but may be soon.

3. If Google is trying to acquire you (ha!) they will have a bargaining advantage. Not an issue with your garden-variety web host.
The $1 gets taxed in the highest tax bracket.
You'll pay 4 cents more in taxes compared to what you pay now. Although to be fair, you'll probably pay less than you do now, since the lower brackets will get a tax break.
Niche-relevant ad networks are definitely going to be in demand these days...
Yeah, but using the printer-specific style sheets is exactly what I do not want. Which is why I find this tool useful. If I wanted to print the printer-specific style sheets, I'd use Adobe's PDF printer driver, which I already own.
Exactly TV "lost" in the same way Microsoft is "dead". Hyperbole used for emphasis and style. The discussions are about trends that have passed a tipping point (or arguably seem to be about to) and can now be called (even in advance) so new thought can be encouraged.
Listening to people talk is relaxing.

'Switching off the Brain' is a somewhat pejorative way to say it. You don't call a massage 'switching off your back muscles.'
Cisco IOS causes Internet disruption
On February 16th, SuproNet, a local Czech provider, single-handedly caused a global Internet meltdown for upwards of an hour today. SuproNet accomplished this feat by sending out a rather unusual routing update, one which a lot of routers did not handle very well. The result was Internet bedlam.

“What we think happened next is the Internet equivalent of a massive buffer overflow. While most of the core routers run by major ISPs fared just fine, processing the ridiculous path and sending it on, others choked. Perhaps they weren’t as well maintained or were running buggy software. These routers viewed the update as malformed and so tore down their session with whoever sent them the update. In other words, two routers that were happily exchanging traffic with each other just moments before suddenly stopped all communication. Traffic was lost, alternative paths were explored, and maybe the former cooperating routers recovered and re-established contact.” Earl Zmijewski, vice president and general manager at Renesys, wrote in the blog post.
Microsoft Planning Ad-Supported Model For Office 14
Well, he was advising our potential investors, so we didn't get funding and ran out of money. I've got a day job now that's pretty good. I'll get back into the startup thing once I'm back on my feet.
708 days. Has HN been around that long! Doesn't feel like it, and personally if he does have 1505 karma then I doubt the value of karma as a measure of 'worth' (or whatever the hell it is for).

The last ad was a drive by, in that he couldn't be bothered to answer the questions put to him, and I suspect that this will be the same.
I hate Lisp
I see your point.

However, I reworded the comparison a bit and some things don't look right even though they are.

Pirate Bay : Assasin Bay
Legal .torrent : .ad
Illegal .torrent : .target
Illegal Download : Loss of Life

Property : Life

The last analogy seems a bit inhumane. Then again,

> let's take it to an extreme
This is awesome, I've been looking for something like this for a while.

It'd be great to expand it to the Tier2 providers in a undirected graph format, so you could see latencies from the peering points of various ISPs/datacenters. That way you could check on the real-world connectivity between places you interface with -- AWS, The Planet, Verizon in NY, Comcast in the Mid-Atlantic, etc.
And if most of the bandwidth consumed "on the Internet" is used to transfer these illegal files, what is the actual function of ISPs/the Internet?
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I'm almost always available in the irc room if you really want to chat. I put up my contact details for a reason.
I agree with your point c...do you want to be associating yourself with someone who's legacy is a website that allows people to anonymously trash-talk their VCs?
Yes, it's actually become stronger in Qt 4. Though I don't know quite what you mean with it making them harder to extend. Unless you were planning on doing one of the "#define private public" hacks the "impl" would have been private anyway and not something that you could override.

In 10 years of using Qt, I'm not sure I've ever thought to myself, "Damn, if only that wasn't in the data-pointer." There have been times when something was botched or broken or needed to be overridden when a mechanism wasn't there for such, but that didn't have anything to do with them using a pimpl pattern.
I heard that the iterasiLite Firefox extension can save any page to PDF - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10879
At about 15:40 she talks about the issue that was discussed a few (couple?) weeks ago regarding the test about the number of search results, subsequent increased page load time that made people unhappy.

Fascinating talk and video. Thank you very much for sharing it.
Ask HN: What does motivate you to down-vote a comment?
Well,
I am very interested to know: What does motivate you to down-vote a specific comment?

What is your judgement criteria on a specific comment to say: Oh, this comment should be down-voted!
The result was amazingly bad on one trial HTML page; font (Verdana) was mostly far too small. This is a smart page that checks the display size and re-sets em measurements for DIV's and text to account for the increasing density of displays, so it's not entirely typical, but not weird either. But the resulting PDF is useless, whereas printing to PDF in the usual way works perfectly.
I guess there's some confusion as to whether this is a legitimate post. It's real. I'm really looking for a designer. Forgive my attempt at humor as that part may have come across as a real requirement. That's not the skill set I'm looking for, but css/html/js/ajax is.

Sorry again for any confusion.
Please forgive my ignorance about this, but how has Moore's Law been doing even in this decade? I realize the law was about transistor count rather than speed. However the subjective performance I get for the money doesn't feel like it's increased sixteen-fold since 2001.

Has the transistor count been doubling every other year? If so, what does that mean from the perspective of the user if performance isn't also improving at a similar rate?
Here in Russia students get money for having good marks at university. And education is free if you pass entrance exams.
Yes, coupled with a submission form action prefaced by www.reddit.com.
In response to 'a' and 'b':

http://www.adeoressi.com/about/
That is true. If I was a high earner I would rather work less days a year (or work in different countries). After you have a certain amount of money, the extra amount does not increase happiness significantly - so it is generally not worth working for that money.
If it is obviously factually incorrect.
Do you mean web designer or web programmer?

The skills you list are for a web programm and an HTML programmer respectively. Designer sometimes have HTML skills but are primarily oriented to creating the look of a site, often using photoshop images. Programmers implement an existing look. Html programmers create static pages and web programmers create dynamic pages. There some designers who will do their Html but most designers wouldn't put Html forward as their primary skill (I believe).

Just to help you clarify your search...
Yes, in London.
I had to re-read the posting a few times before catching the real skill-set listing at the end of the joke portion. For what it's worth the "is it a joke/real job posting" and follow-up joke replies has kept your posting on the first page for some time. I would consider it an accidental success.
I save bank transactions, confirmation numbers, login info, shipping orders, etc. for my records. Sure is more convenient than saving the HTML.
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I'd say it's fabulous for the purposes of printing. This is a simple, cross-platform solution to print out what a website looks like.
While I admire what justin.tv is doing, I think that in a way it's arrogant of the "Web 2.0"/Silicon Valley community to dismiss TV so quickly. Silicon Valley and the kinds of people who are adopting justin.tv are not the people who are watching TV in droves right now. I seriously doubt justin.tv commands the viewership in the tens or hundreds of millions that normal television does at its peak.
I remember when I applied for a student job in the computer lab at my university. My resume was loaded with skills related to Electrical Engineering and software development since that was the degree I was pursuing. In the interview, the lady asked "What software applications do you know how to use? Are you familiar with Office? Do you know how to use a scanner?" and many similar questions. I didn't get the job :(. Of course, I should've tailored by resume for the job, but I figured it was a given that I would know how to use Office.
What Entrpreneurs can learn from Thomas the Train
It could use more tweaking - I tried to read the latest pg essay with it, but all it would display was the image with the light "PAUL GRAHAM" text at the top of the page. I then tried to go back to the essay, but it looks like the only way to un-Readability the page is to reload it. I then tried to highlight the text that I wanted to read, but Readability doesn't take this into account when generating the page.

When you have a service that guesses what the input is supposed to be, there should be a way to gracefully fail and allow the user to manually specify it, and if that doesn't work it should be easy to disable the service.
I remember once a manager telling a fellow employee that a raise isn't necessarily a good thing as the employee would end up paying more in taxes.
Ah, but you're not countering my argument. I'm not counting bandwidth -- I'm counting people. If most people on the Internet spent their time downloading files illegally then sure, that would be the main usage of the Internet.
Won't fly. Can you not do it in 3 days? We need to launch soon.

Also, we can only afford $75.
I got pdfs from both services of http://www.google.com and they gave me completely different files.
1. What if there are tax credits for those earning less than $250k, while those credits are non-existent if you earn over $250k?

2. What if these people are trying to defer income to a later date when the income tax isn't as high?

3. Or the people can invest capital in their businesses now, get below the income tax increase by taking deductions, wait for the rate to decrease and then cash in on higher profits due to lower taxes and gains from investment in the business.

The dentist doesn't seem like an idiot to me. Maybe she never took much of a vacation before. Now she will. Then when tax rates decrease the incentive to work increases and she will increase her hours.
redditness

p.s. I would totally downvote my comment since it is stupid, on the other hand it is the most correct answer to your question.
I down-vote:

* ad hominin attacks with no substance
* unoriginal snowclone jokes with no substance
* "+1" and "I agree", if that is the entirety of the post
* if a post is vastly, enormously over-rated

I try to reserve downvote for the last resort. Well, second to last, now that we have flag.

Generally, I ignore the arrows. They are only there for things that make me say "I (dis)agree with this, and it is so good/well thought out/interesting I think everyone on HN should take the time to read it."
Yes, they are compatible. I have a 500GB drive hooked up to my AirPort extreme right now and it's recognized to work with TimeMachine.

Unfortunately I need to run my network in mixed mode, 2.4ghz Wireless N so transfers are much slower.
I'll consider a comment for a down-vote if it negatively affects the conversation. Usually this means it's off-topic for the conversation that it replies to (including insults and just plain meanness).

However, when I determine whether to down-vote, I first figure out what I think the score should be, and only down-vote if it's above that value. I've even up-voted comments that I thought were bad because I felt the author was being punished too harshly for saying something they obviously didn't realize would be bad.
Jokes and real job advertisements are a REALLY, REALLY bad combination. Remember, you are joking about the real prospects for someone's future...
If you can create a model of "general intelligence" that is a consistent predictor of cross-domain success (and not simply an aggregate or derivative measure, like "g" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_intelligence_factor ), then you could really make a name for yourself, not only in psychology but also in artificial intelligence.

It seems that the crux of your argument is "the dentist should have known that she did not know the tax code well, and was unqualified to make the decision." One of the most common failings of the human mind is to over estimate the skill level of the self ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon_effect )
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Meanness, especially when combined with mistakenness (which is not unusual).
Your question implies a lack of understanding of how our tax system works. You have several tax rates, covering different portions of your income.
Right, no one would ever want the prospect of humor in their future.
> we're not really entitled to escape banner advertising.

"Oh, really?" I type into my heavily modded Firefox browser because some computer graphics give me brain seizures. (Too bad I cannot log into HN from my Lynx browser.)

Last time I checked, the industry term for a browser is "user agent," and page rendering is under the control of the user agent. I can use whatever user agent I want, and so can you. I can fiddle with my user agent as I see fit, and so can you. That's what your browser's Options dialog is for.

Sorry I'm getting really testy here, but I get tired of pointing out to the world that it's the user who is in control, not marketers, not page designers, not Yahoo! CSS Reset...
Scientists Fear Visa Trouble Will Drive Foreign Students Away
Government? Try humans in general. Get a large enough sample, and there will be a portion of idiots. Sometimes they're even in charge, be it in a company or a government. Or they might not be in charge, but their actions will negatively affect other people in any case.
If a comment is logically invalid, intellectually lazy or cruel I sometimes hit the down arrow.
The people watching Justin.TV are not sophisticated Silicon Valley early adopters, believe me. And while nothing streamed online has the numbers of TV yet, I believe Justin.TV's numbers are as big as anything else online.
On your blog, you put this in comments:

"For all those saying that "all I need to do is ask (beg) Google for more quota, read this:"

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/81f1k/the_googl...

I read that and it seems like the person is talking about not getting a special free quota he had and that he was in negotiations for (but had not heard back yet)?

That seems like a completely different situation to me than a paying customer who wants to increase their quota.

Note that this translates to "give Google more money" so I don't know why you think this is something like begging.

On Amazon, they also want to make money and they happily increase quotas. They just want to know what's up, if you're a legitimate customer who's really going to pay them and not do a chargeback on the credit card the first month, etc.
The actual growth is steeper. I think few of their users have the Alexa toolbar installed.
agreed, any help is good.
Things that are false, mean, or devoid of content (things like: "thanks!", "I agree", or "haha"). Only exception is things already at -1 or below.

If a comment is none of those things and below one, I'll mod it up because I don't believe in burying someone you disagree with.

As for things that are blatantly trollish (linkspam, racist, stream of curse words, etc), I'll gladly pile on until they are too faint to read... and usually flag them as well.
At the University of Queensland you are rewarded with extra postgraduate scholarship money from the university depending on your undergraduate GPA.

This entices the best and brightest to stick around and do some research for the university. Seemed to work pretty well too. I can think of one example off-hand who stuck around and did some amazing research for CSIRO and the CS department. After finishing he was hired by Google Australia as the lead for the first release of Google Maps.
Interesting, any idea how this works?

Edit: doh, source here: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/js/readability-...