skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can say, w\o hyperbole, that radical honesty ruined my life. Do not, I repeat do not believe that people are generally good, want to help you, will appreciate your honesty.

Now, I didn't do anything stupid like telling my boss that I'd like to sleep with his daughter, but, when he asked me where I saw myself in 5 years I did say that I wanted to start my own business.

Our relationship went from great to icy.

Over the next seven months my work life became a living hell. I went from "valued team contributor" to "does not function as part of the unit." My dedication was called into question and eventually I was told that the company had changed and that I was no longer useful.

I wasn't fired, but, I was left alone in my office, no new tasks were assigned, my medical condition was not accommodated, etc.

I eventually left my position, lost my gf because of it, ruined my credit after I couldn't find a new job, and have been unable to get loans to return to school (after leaving to help out my former employer.)

I often wonder what my life would be like if I had just said: "In five years I see myself working for you with only a slight raise!"

Don't try this at home.
> In this, Goldman is not special, though.

We don't know how the AIG flow-through worked.

There have been rumors that some firms (Goldman Sachs is usually named) are getting 100% while other folks are taking a haircut.
I believe a quote by Soren Kierkegaard is apt in this discussion: "I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself."

Funniest thing he ever wrote.
>The last thing I want is for legislators to decide how much my service providers can charge and for what services they'll do so.

You can't suddenly impose laissez-faire capitalism on an industry so closely tied to government regulation. Continued regulation is needed so that corporations can't take advantage of the infrastructure privileges granted to them. There's plenty of bandwidth to go around.

No one had a monopoly over dial-up, the difference with broadband is that there is a legislated monopoly.
Yeah, especially since it's arrogance in response to the hypothetical question "Are introverts arrogant?"
Mainstream evangelical Christianity. Traditional doctrines such as Jesus Christ as the Son of God, the Incarnation, the death burial and bodily resurrection of Jesus, the substitutionary atonement, Biblical inerrancy, infallibility, the five solas of the Reformation, the Trinity, the fall, the rapture etc.

For us to argue the existence of god, we need to define 2 things: What does it mean to exist, and what does it mean to be god?

As previous commentators have noted, 'god of the gaps' explanations have historically been disappointing for theists. If we were arguing 500 years ago, you'd say: "But we don't what causes lightning! It must be god!" (or the gods, depending on who you asked) Now we know it's electrostatics. "But we don't know why people get sick! It must be demons!" And then Redi and Pasteur kicked God out of that hole. "But we don't know the origin of the universe!" Well, not yet. But I know this: The same evidence that shows that the universe had a beginning ALSO shows that the universe is billions of years old, not ~6000 as the Bible teaches. So you can't have it both ways. And CS Lewis' argument from morality (Universal Lawgiver) is suspect as well: Before the fall, Adam and Eve had no conscience (knowledge of good and evil). Yet, they were "very good."
New tabs, top sites, and how you learn to not be a hater
You all miss the point.

I've been thinking "templating system" for the last week none-stop. After seeing that project I just could not stop laughing. Yea why not code...

O well back to templating :)
Earthquakes' Many Mysteries Stymie Efforts to Predict Them
"How does a rupture go from an inch a year to 3,000 miles per hour in a few secon" asked Ross S. Stein, a geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey.

No one knows.
>> Leaving that out

> To comment what I quoted as if it was new is the third misquote

Leaving that out makes it clear that it wasn't new.

The other "misquotes" were both fair and accurate even if they didn't work to your advantage. When you write dumb things, that happens.

Even if you are a unicorn.
Environment & atmosphere
> You can't suddenly impose laissez-faire capitalism on an industry so closely tied to government regulation.

Pretty much every time it's been tried, you get a ton of innovation and rapidly falling costs.

The US, ICC trucking regulation led to much cheaper trucking.

Telecom deregulation led to an explosion of services, cell phones, and drastically lower prices.

Airline deregulation led to a falling fairs, making air travel accessible to more than just the upper and upper middle class (and, because air travel is much safer per mile traveled than car travel, deregulation has saved tens of thousands of lives).

> this is just profit-mongering

Oh, horrors - we wouldn't want people to try to provide services in order to make money!
Product - what you're building & selling
> But hey, can’t be any worse than the current situation, right?

Sure it can - it can impose censorship. It can be even friendlier to the RIAA/MPAA.
It is well known that corn is a terrible way to get ethanol and further generation production will use bulk cellulose and plants like switch grass.

Corn was never a good source for ethanol, this makes it look even worse.
Technology - the tools (languages, frameworks, etc) you use
I've heard equally "interesting" things about seedcamp from other sources. Curious.

Did you get funding? Did seedcamp help?
I upvoted you because, as your anecdote suggests, lying is an important social tool. No matter how liberating it may be, telling the blunt truth hurts other people and yourself.
exceptionally hardworking
Do you know any other image hosting scripts competing with this one?
Count myself too. I skim text too much these days to read between lines.
It's not laissez-faire and it's not 'suddenly imposed'

If there's plenty of bandwidth to go around and existing providers impose caps, then new entrants will lease that bandwidth and provide residential customers with unlimited bandwidth plans.

Telecom regulations should prevent new entrants from being blocked from doing just that. If they are blocked (and the Canadian system isn't laissez-faire, so they shouldn't be), then you'll have an issue to gripe about.
I would say that "performant" is a narrower term than "efficient", so no, the two don't coincide.

This whole argument is silly, of course. Natural language is so heavily overloaded that you could never regularize it in the way people seem to be proposing, and if you could, you would ruin it.
When I was a kid, I accidentally sprayed wasp spray in my eyes, I had to wear a bandage on both eyes for a couple days and one eye for several weeks thereafter. I have distinct memories of lying in the ambulance with my eyes covered and later in the emergency room hearing the people go by. I didn't know I was practicing passive sonar at the time, but it has since become a hobby of mine to just close my eyes and see what I can ascertain about my surroundings.
It's really interesting to see the things you can pick up. If I'm sitting in a hallway, I can usually guess the gender, build, and style of a person walking by. Similarly, I've taken to closing my eyes while walking home, listening to the different cars go by and using it to locate trees.
I would recommend exercises like these to everyone - it really helps center you in your surroundings. You get a really good sense of how complex the world around you really is and how much you tend to tune out - either with your headphones or just selective hearing.
"Because of their implications for how one lives one's life, truth claims about religion especially should be examined."

Absolutely.

"Any respectable belief system, and Christianity is one of them, encourages you to look at the facts and decide for yourself."

I disagree. I grew up in church-my father is a pastor, after all. I don't remember anyone being encouraged to look at the facts. You were to believe it because the Bible says it, and disregard what "those intellectuals" and the 'secular humanists" had to say. I'm in Jamaica, but its quite similar to the fundamentalists in America.
And let's be honest: most people don't 'come to faith' because they are convinced of it's truth.
Health insurance, working with other smart and pleasant people who can pass the DIA test.
Ask HN: Please review our placemarking site - Amidst
Team, Geographical location, Environment, Freedom to experiment, Impact, Size, Equity, Technology. Most important I think is personal belief in the product or result. Especially if working on a startup. For example, If I love all of the above, but we're building a silly twitter app, a new todo management app, or a POSN (plain old social network), no amount of cool people will make me like my job.
I don't think parents in Europe are wary of bilingualism per se. I think they are wary of starting both languages at once. Many speak one language to their child until it speaks reasonably, and then start the second language (in pre-K or K years).

There are no right answers - either way, there is a tradeoff. Speaking two languages in the household makes it easier for the child to learn them; on the other hand, it does delay speech. My kid looked so desperate to communicate, I stuck to one language until she was fully verbal, and only started the second language afterwards, making it into a game.
> That it takes more expense to handle customers with higher bandwidth usage.

It doesn't cost any more to set up their accounts and bill them. It doesn't cost any more to run the wires.

There is some marginal cost for bandwidth. There are some third order router-cost effects. There are some fourth-order power effects.

Note that time of usage has a huge impact on costs. Someone who downloads 1GB/month at peak periods is more expensive than someone who downloads 250GB/month at off-peak.
ok.

_Comments, to me, are more than 50% of the value of HN._

give me a break, dude. the vast majority of discussion here concerns the etymology of "performant." there's no value in that, or at least very little for me, as I learned Latin and Greek in high school and this unfortunately gives me a permanent lifelong head start on damn near everyone, when it comes to etymological discussions.

I'll tell you how detrimental comments are for me. I started writing a point-by-point rebuttal for you before I came to my senses and realized that I don't have time for that shit, and anyone who disagrees with me about typography is an idiot anyway. study Jacob Nielsen, for fuck's sake. you can prove this stuff like math. your opinion doesn't mean a damn thing when it's up against science, so fuck off and die.

_No way. Suddenly I have to scroll through screens of large-font nonsense instead of just getting it all within about 1.5 screens._

I guess your machine must make scrolling harder than mine does or something.

_I don't need to read the same thing again. Visited links can be invisible for all I care. I visit them less than 5% of the time._

by all means work with what works for you. but this is just completely different from how I use Hacker News. there's a lot of shit on here which doesn't mean a damn thing to me and never will. there are a few interesting things which I'll read, and then want to re-read, or quote, or link to, or compare against something else. for my use case, turning visited links near-invisible is a very irritating obstacle to usefulness.

_It's hard to skim._

I guess skimming is the incredible talent I have and I never realized how amazingly good I was at it. OR I guess you haven't figured out how to hit the space bar.

_I beg to disagree - see below._

Keep begging. You're a fucking moron in my opinion and the whole reason I built this thing was so I wouldn't run into idiots like you ever again. Obviously it's not solving 100% of that problem, but it's certainly about to make my life much, much better.

bye!
You should really be using the poll feature for this: http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll.
"Interestingly, while I was a Christian, I came to the conclusion that some genuine, sincere Christians were genuinely and sincerely delusional."

I think I should clarify this. By delusional, I don't mean in a mentally ill sort of way; rather they dogmatically believed things that simply had no Scriptural support. Any attempt to show them otherwise would be met with an accusation of 'trusting in your own intellect', rather than 'being led by the Spirit.'
Ubuntu 9.04 includes native ARM port
183283363 invite me

Up and coming level 13 started about 2 days ago... Pretty legitimate.
good call: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=562111
I knew I'd seen this before, along with some other instances of near WWIII: http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=913#more-913
What do people think about paying for virtual gifts / goods?
I often find interaction tiring. The one exception for me is highly intellectually stimulating conversation.

I've noticed that my I/E orientation differs based on who I am around. Around good friends and generally intelligent people, I am more E. Around people I'm less familiar with, or people I assume I will not be interested in, I am much more I. If I've done a lot of socializing in the last few days, I am more likely to be I.
There's nothing wrong with "performant," you ridiculous dipshits. Learn English.
“Stealing MySpace” and my personal experience monetizing MySpace ads
MeliKerion: open source online web UI to train and visualize Self Organizing Maps
Though perhaps we should question the increasing (IME) emphasis on grid systems in web design. Sure, using grids is easy, and we shouldn't be different just to be different, but who says there is no more effective way to present a site than a load of rectangles with a bit of space between them? A lot of the Web is becoming rather cliched in this respect, just like frames and table layouts before.
Funny video about this guy's attempt to run for congress.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx-OVdTkwvA
I eagerly anticipate the first port of Ubuntu to the iPhone.
1. Search function, so i can search for a story-- over time, not just on a single page
2. please explain how the point system works. do the points go with the author or article,and how do some articles have more than others?
The problem is that they aren't deregulating the industry. Providers such as Comcast are legislated monopolies in certain areas, and do not lease out their lines to anyone else. There isn't anyone else to go to when these providers begin instituting caps.

I believe what rms is saying is you can't apply laisse-faire capitalism to a government instituted monopoly. You either need to remove the monopoly and allow capitalism to do its thing, or you need to institute regulation to prevent them from ripping off the customer.

> Oh, horrors - we wouldn't want people to try to provide services in order to make money!

As everyone has said, there's plenty of bandwidth to go around, so why are they doing this? They're doing it because there is no competition to prevent them from doing so. They certainly aren't hurting for money. They're simply taking advantage of the lack of competition provided by government mandate.
this isn't AI-mediated, homie. that's my May miniapp, maybe. I've already got proofs of concept that solve the low-hanging fruit in your objections with enormous success for very little effort.

however, there is no way in hell I will ever add links to HN discussions. I'm only here because somebody commented on my blog with the link. I HATE THE COMMENTS ON HN. I have stuff to do with my day. I deleted the blog comment and I think the absence of the discussion links is a MAJOR feature. for every mechanical fish there's a billion whiny little nimrods blaming Paul Graham for the fact that they can't get a job. I don't see how filtering your way through that kind of sludge could ever be a win.

although, I do have a (very simple) AI system for distinguishing intelligent and unintelligent comments. it would be trivial to filter all HN discussions through that on Hacker Newspaper. but it would also consume a lot of resources, computationally speaking, and it's the opposite of the 80/20 rule: huge effort for minimal gains. there's no baby in that bathwater. at the most there's some jizz. I don't need to save the jizz.
Sure! There is now:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=562045
My friend and I have been working on this site for a little over a year, and decided it was finally time to pull the trigger and go live. So, HN, you get to look at it first. :-)

The concept is basically "Delicious for places". It's a social placemarking app, meant to make it easier to keep track of the places you like, want to go, etc.

Rather than encouraging long-winded reviews of places, ala Yelp, we want to encourage people to just keep notes on places. Also, ala Delicious, we want to make it as easy as possible to get info into and out of the system via RSS feeds, an API, etc. An iPhone app is on the way.

Suggestions and feedback would be greatly appreciated. :-)
"I know he is a linux user and I worry he will hack me."

For this I must share with you: http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html
It is a scary world we live in. I am always worried about some linux user waiting a dark alley to break my windows and steal my identities..
Poll: What matters most when considering a job?
environment/atmosphere
the product itself
technology & tools (languages, frameworks, etc)
health care & benefits
challenging work
responsibility & impact
I find this interesting because I myself have had a great improvement in my relationship with my dad and some of my friends just by being able to communicate more directly.

My dad actually told me a few days ago something he had learned from a friend, that anything that you say to another person with absolute sincerity and respect is, in fact, a gift to the other person. And I'm starting to believe him.

I would be very interested to hear what got you started with radical honesty, or was it just in that moment with your boss that you were excessively candid?
Interesting that you threw the whole thing out. Why not just throw out sola scriptura? There are lots of really smart Christian scientists who don't believe all the stuff other Christians do.

I guess what interests me is the entire fuzziness of the debate. "Christian" means to follow Christ. That's it. There are Christians that believe all sorts of things, from Zen Christianity to Agnostic Christianity to Charismatic Christianity.

Heck, for all I know you can be an atheist and a Christian. After all, many of the first Christians were put to death for being atheists.

Yet we lump all those hundreds of millions of variations all into some cartoon conglomerate and then poke sticks at it. Talk about straw man arguments. Why the oversimplification?
The politics behind open source Java
V.10 - iRules and the after command
Didn't expect there to be this much of a response this quickly. Some responses:

1) I want to do projects alone, without a designer in the loop. Why should I use a template when it's wrong for me? This lets me go faster. Therefore the workflow argument is useful, since this is hacker news and not designer news.

2) It's not a new idea. I have seen a bunch of similar libraries, although they tend to use datastructures, more than code directly. I think the small novel bit is that the object mutators return the underlying objects for further mutation (read the code; it's scary)

3) It's not a DSL. It is the language itself. The template programming languages are awful; as soon as you want to do something that they don't define, you are in hell. And the ones with embedded code are a nightmare to look at and format (delicious was in HTML::Mason.)

Markaby is pretty close to what I wanted to do. The other ones I saw for python were not so much.

4) I haven't seen anywhere the notion of context-aware encoding. Unfortunately, I managed to nuke that bit of source while cleaning up and renaming things before sending it to github.

5) I apologize for my code. I am still new to python.
I'll look at "with" -- I'm still finding my legs on python.
Interesting study. I think that design is hard to read.

I would like to offer up a raw php "feed" of hacker news and let anyone redesign it with their own css & domain.
The problem is that the ISPs' approach has little to do with passing their costs on, and more to do with holding back new forms of media distribution. Price/GB should be nonincreasing, with a nonnegative connection cost. I've seen pricing plans with $50 for 250GB, but $1.50/GB overage. Clearly, the fixed cost is not -$100, but is intended to punish heavy users rather than selling them what they want.
If modern training methods can be shown to quantitatively effect killing ratios, as he relates, I'm not sure why it is such a stretch to believe that continual bombardment of imagery or role playing (i.e. video games) would not have the same - although perhaps lessor - effect.

I realize this is an uncomfortable theory for many of us who believe we are masters of our environment, but it holds water.

You are right though, there is a difference between media and reality. The problem is that it doesn't manifest until after both situations have occurred. Ergo PTSD.

Post media saturation but pre-real life drama is a very unstable time for individuals, as the likelihood that they will confuse the media outcomes for the real ones is the highest. I think this is essentially Grossman's point, and I don't find it that far fetched.

Your environment affects you, whether you choose to believe it does or not. (Note that this is not to suggest that the same environment affects people in the same way).
Thank you for saying what I meant to say.

(Josh is my internet comment argument ringer)
I was just going to ask the same question. We (QuantRunner) are coming from NYC and would like to see the SV equivalent of the New York Tech Meetup. The NYTM is the biggest tech/startup event in the city, most people in the community attend it or have attended it, we would like to compare and contrast cultures.

Are there any other get-togethers that weekend, any kind of mailing list for the invitees?

We are looking forward to it.
Design: Ten Questions with Hartmut Esslinger
that's a good point! there's an awful lot of complaining from people who want to get in on the iphone gold rush but don't have a mac and iphone to develop with. this way, you could do most of the work in nui, then borrow somebody else's mac for the final stages, which might take only a day or so.
It is really a flaw of me, but if it's not challenging I don't care about it and I am incapabable of doing a good job.

Luckily I am in a position wherein I can choose my jobs.
There are many things many people would never learn if no one criticized their behaviour.

A corollary: there are many startups that would never have gotten of the ground if friends of the 'owners' hadn't criticised their ideas. Criticism is informative. It informs you of weak spots you easily overlook, it forces you to explain your idea and think about it much deeper than you ever would if no one criticised you.

Don't condemn or complain: maybe. Don't criticize: that would really be very wasteful.