skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But "succumb" is merely a pejorative for the decision to indicate that you (we) don't approve. It's not necessarily an inappropriate pejorative, of course.

I think there's a case to be made that if you think someone is making a decision irrationally, then either you are asserting that their brain is literally functioning incorrectly, or you aren't taking into account their preferences and goals. If you assume that people rarely fully disclose their preferences and goals due to fear of the effects of such disclosure, it removes a whole lot of irrationality from your view of the world.
"inspired by Io,
Smalltalk, Lisp and Ruby. " -- Nice, but is it just me, or it seems that almost all these new languages are "inspired by Smalltalk". They all look very similiar, with only some syntax differences between them. The truth is that they probably will just remain niche, or go nowhere. They are usually born from small frustrations with some syntax of their preferred language.

I'd love to see more languages that are NOT inspired by Smalltalk, or something that is already there. Maybe to create something really really useful, you have to break a paradigm or two.
Sorry that some of you did not like the article.
If I were to concentrate on preventing nitpicking, the "The central point" would not have conveyed.

I just wanted to say: Build something!
"The worst of it is that extroverts have no idea of the torment they put us through. Sometimes, as we gasp for air amid the fog of their 98-percent-content-free talk, we wonder if extroverts even bother to listen to themselves."

Listening to someone talk out of their ass is absolute torture. Honestly, it is something that I have a very difficult time sitting through.
In general, determining the quality of an article with any accuracy by looking at it is well more time-intensive than just looking at the comments.
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> Borrowing money is not income.

No, but paying for their losses does mean that whatever income they do have isn't offset by said losses, and that produces profit.

Goldman's counter-party risk was subsidized by taxpayers via AIG. If doing so really was a good idea, it should have been done directly and in public.
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Having been in attendance at various IETF committee meetings over the years, a standards committee meeting is a meeting that most everyone involved in related areas of nerdery should attend and experience. At least once. But that's another discussion.

Copyrights on standards documents can be permissive or restrictive, and can help or can hinder the acceptance of a standard. This is no different than copyrights explicitly or implicitly present on other documents. Having explicit copyright statements is almost always better than having no explicit copyrights; you know where you stand with respect to the contents of the document.
The kind of word a french speaker would utter if they didn't have a perfect intuition for "proper" english words.
I stopped reading at "_startups_ like Digg"
37signals is no longer a startup, its a lifestyle business
> Once you change it to the old-style theme, remove the nag screens, and delete the junk that comes pre-installed on most comps, Vista is actually quite decent.

The background indexing was also a disaster. What an idea. Make my new computer useless for several days so that some searches that I'll never do will be faster.
I've just time-travelled back to China of the mid-1940s, and returned with this top-secret intelligence report from their spies:

"The US is set to get an increased say at the IMF. It seems willing to put in the capital required to shore up the international financial institution, and so will have earned its place at the top table.

However, we question what the US will do with this new power. If events in Asia this week are anything to go by, we should be worried.

Clearly, the US is using its influence at multilateral institutions as a means of furthering its strategic and military goals. In this case, it is trying to force a democratic country (Iran) to relinquish its oil. We wonder what future bullying may be in store for the other countries of Asia (or the world) that don’t comply with the US’ political views on topics it deems off limits such as Cuba, South America or Moscow. Will countries whose private citizens invite Fidel Castro to visit suddenly find their banks cut off from vital financing?

To date, the US has generally been accommodating in its dealings with the West. We believe this is because it regards itself in a weaker position. When it comes to countries that the US believes are weaker, it has shown that it has no hesitation to resort to pushing its weight around.

The US’s ascension in the ranks of world financial institutions may be inevitable. But China, and the West in general, need to make it abundantly clear from the outset that such type of behavior is not acceptable.

If the US wants to be respected as a world leader, it needs to start acting like one."

CRAZY!
I've been rised bilingual (Catalan and Spanish) and now I think I'm fluent in English, and I find myself thinking in the three languages (mostly Catalan and English) in different moments.

What is more weird is that I'm more or less social depending on the language I've to use, being much more social talking in English than in Spanish or Catalan. I think it may be due to the fact that the English classes I took where very participative and I was usually forced to talk. I really don't know.

(And for the article, right now after 5 days of vacation, back at work, and after 6 hours coding I'm really looking forward to go out and socialize a little bit more (I'm pretty happy I have a very good environment at work), but sunday after spending all day with people I was eager to sit in front of my computer and code for hours.).
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The reason is simple: PG needs a middle size proyect to test his Programming Language (arc) and HN is the result.
> EDUCATE WOMEN

Actually, TVs are enough. I don't recall whether it's more effective to give them to men or women.
Here's John Perry's essay on structured procrastination:

http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
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I've heard of on-stage actors taking beta blockers in order to calm their nerves (lowers BP) and block sweating (one of the nice side effects of taking a BB).

Maybe some of these calming traits can be achieved through medication?
Exactly. When I visit my friends, or go to parties or bars, I can be social, but I can't do it seven days in a row. If I don't get a few nights to myself per week, I get crazy and hate my life (and other people's, too.)
No information, but here's some personal anecdotal data: I'm definitely an introvert, but I'm also a bit of a performer. Specifically, I enjoy giving presentations and lectures, and I always try to make them entertaining. I think the issue for me is interactivity -- I'm comfortable with noninteractive performance, but I find sustained interaction to be draining.
Why Cable ISP Capping is the New DRM, and Suck
i don't think there's much magic to it. i think it's simply that reflexivity for some people grants them more energy than interacting with the environment does, for whatever reason. it may be a chemical thing

Jungian psychology (such as MBTI) deals with introversion/extroversion on a psychological level. one thing to keep in mind is that introversion/extroversion are independent of one's affinity for people. if there is a psychometric factor for people, it would be the so-called Feeling functions. in other words, you can commonly have introverts who are people people and extroverts who are terrible with people
It was 15 years or so back, but the Diagonalization Proof and Godel's incompleteness theorem blew me away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument

The first time I grokked relativity is also seared in my memory.
I hope it doesn't come across as narcissistic, but what I'm doing with my startup.
I'm not generally in favor of speech-limiting legislation to protect the powerful from the people but if it results in comments getting turned off on Youtube, well, every cloud has a silver lining. Who do I have to donate to to get stupidly overreaching and almost certainly unconstitutional legislation passed in the US?
Internet access should become a public utility, since we've so badly screwed the pooch by creating monopolies by government fiat.
If we're not talking recently then quantum mechanics and Joseph Campbell spring to mind.
I had difficulty getting past the "my tribe is better than your tribe" stuff.

"If we introverts ran the world, it would no doubt be a calmer, saner, more peaceful sort of place."

"I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts."

Really. I suppose this might be true on average, but this makes it hard to take the article seriously.
Maybe we should wait until they have something genuinely interesting to write about, and then link to it.
Although not a regular user of digg (for many of the reasons this site exists), I don't see what's so vastly intrusive about it. For a site that aggregates links, it's not totally nonsensical to frame the pages it links to. Also, clicking the 'x' in the upper right corner kills it immediately. I like the thought of being able to digg up an article as I read it rather than reading it, navigating back to digg and digging it.
Crap, I think you're right! I took that seriously.
Ah, well maybe you shouldn't have been so general. Had you been more specific, I likely would have agreed.
you have it backwards, they are protecting the people from the government which passed a law requiring the use of real information to link accounts
Mostly the Sistine Chapel - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel_ceiling, but also a few other art pieces as well.

One guy, did that, in 4 years ?! Makes me want to work harder/smarter to do something amazing too.
Old news.Where is the thumb down button?
"Share of voice" revenue model: the solution for social networks?
I'd rephrase

"There is no recorded way to solve your problem means that you can solve the problem any way you want."

as

"There is no recorded way to solve your problem means that you can fuck up the problem any wrong way you want."
Ask HN: Use cases & user stories for a startup?
I'm interested in hearing how the development community at HN feels about how important it is for a startup with a small team of developers to just begin coding vs getting the proper processes set up.

How are you guys working in your startup?

Thanks!
I started out awkward from a young age.

Programming just suits me.
Haha, it has an RSS feed. I love that.
How could it be that you wake up in the morning and you're not still here?

Just wondering ...
I'm not saying that all diversity is bad. I'm saying that some/most diversity is useless at best.

Note that I'm also not saying that the humanities are useless or bad. I'm saying that it's quite possible that we could get all the benefits from the humanities and spend far less on them. No, that doesn't imply that we shouldn't let people study the humanities and end up driving cabs.
Looks like around 5: http://www.compdigitec.com/labs/2009/03/17/windows-7-clean-i...

7 scales down like Vista never did. I installed the beta on a 4-year-old TabletPC with .5GB RAM, and it runs as well as XP ever did. I'll probably upgrade my dev workstation when the RC is released.
Discussion over at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=561057
I could see this having a correlation with not finding your schoolwork interesting and wasting your time surfing Facebook. It's not that Facebook makes you stupid, it's that Facebook usage is a good metric for failing to pay attention to school.
Ridiculous. Should providers be able to advertise unlimited access and then limit access? No. Should limited access be illegal? No.
Disagree. Been a hard-core programmer for 43 years and an occasional manager. My friends think of me as being as social as anybody, as do I.
So the solution to these supposed monopolies created by government intervention is a monopoly created by the government?
The switch to internet cable/video is on the horizon. With services like Hulu and technologies like Boxee it is just a matter of time. Hopefully the cable companies will find a new way to make money, probably through on-demand content, and not have to actually start using this sort of bandwidth capping.
Ask HN: Best tools for managing AWS?
I'm using both Amazon's own management tool and ElasticFox, but both seem to be lacking professionalism and completeness. Are there other management tools for AWS out there?
> I'm comfortable with noninteractive performance

Thank you. As someone who can and likes to get on stage and do public speaking/tell personal stories to an audience, I think you've succinctly described why I like to do that and not mingle. Social hacking, mind hacking, and mingling techniques aside (which help), even in my most social, I gravitate towards deep one-on-one over being the entertainer in a loud, group conversation. And, yes my deep one-on-one smacks of being so lost in listening that the other person falls in love with talking to you (non-interactive again)

Makes me wonder if there are more mental hacks to be applied - e.g. if you think of the group conversation as more non-interactive than interactive will that help?

As an aside on group conversations (another HN discussion) - I find that I can handle group conversations better if I don't try to participate (e.g. non-interactive yet again). I could listen to conversations all day (I find the interplay fascinating). I can lose myself in other people's stories (to the point of my friends saying - are you having a good time? you're not saying anything - and I usually am.)
I both agree and disagree. I think computer science as a whole has changed (not hindered) social interactions. As an undergrad student I'm constantly whipping out of different social scenes -- from working and hanging around my fellow computer science majors to interfacing with the rest of the world. Naturally, there are a lot of jokes/social quirks sitting on either side of that fence. More and more I have found myself not caring/thinking to judge which side of that fence I'm on and as a result I, on occasion, spit out something that makes no sense to my present company. While I am constantly thinking of new ideas/solutions for various computer science problems, the computer science mindset is one that I am constantly slipping in and out of.
Here is what I use:
Google Tasks(not an application)
Kindle
Tweetie
TouchTerm
Pandora
Mechanochemistry, Mechanosynthesis, and Molecular Machinery
Do you have some statistics to back up your first point? What makes you think that's the case?

Also, the article was referring to bilingual teaching of babies (i.e. a conscious decision on the part of the parents to speak one or two languages to the child).
O3 or O2 promotable. So, everyone trying out is very experienced.
I don't understand the business model. Why would I proactively want to follow random companies?
Along similar lines... the proof of the Halting Problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem#Sketch_of_proof
I think that's probably too broad a generalization. In much of the world multilinguialism is the norm, and monolinguialism the exception. Most people in India, China and Africa speak 2 or more languages or dialects. This is also true for much of Europe and some parts of the Americas and Oceanea: there are probably far more multilingual people in the world than monolingual. If you look at a big sample I think it's very unlikely that the average American or Chilean (countries that tend to be largely monolingual) is less intelligent than the average Indian or Moldovan - they're probably the same.
That makes it sound rather subjective, then.
It could make you better at UID.
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/qm-and-identity.html
It's important to compare like against like. There's a bias in favor of startups because the relative positions are different; he's comparing being the owner of one against being an entry- or mid-level employee in the other.

Working for a company can be good if you do it right. The issue is that, in order for it to still be worth it to come in to work after about 6 months, you need to become someone's protege and get beneficial consideration regarding project allocation, career development, and responsibilities. Much of whether or not this happens is based on luck, not performance or even talent, so it usually takes 3-5 rounds before getting it to work. Most people conclude after 1-2 rounds that the game is just rigged against them and that jobs suck.
The state of many nations (China, North Korea) is quite scary. Anonymity is a requirement if the people are to be given free speech (without fear of their government -- although people should never fear their government).
Facebook Users Get Worse Grades in College
Right now, my product is notably different than your product. But, I think the natural evolution of my product, combined with the natural evolution of your product, means they will end up being very similar. There's lots of SLA software for years, but also I noticed a lot of new SLA software that is pretty slick. I think there's going to be a lot of "effective" competition soon.
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Well, it's not really unexpected: when FSF updated their Free Documentation License they made a change to allow a transition to CC just because Wikimedia Foundation asked. Personally I like Creative Commons more for non-software content just because the license text is easier to read, besides the diagrams they show on their site are very helpful.

Their CC-GPL badge is broken, though. Here: http://creativecommons.org/license/cc-gpl they wrote 'GPL 2 or later' and if you click through to human readable version the 'or later version' clause disappears: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/
Agreed. It seems as if the page has simply been re-engineered to put stories in an arbitrary number of columns. Readability is all but slain. My eye jumps all over the page before focusing on a single story. The only thing I really like from it is the display of the descriptions on the front page. A one-liner summary or something of the sort would really help (although I suppose my RSS feed already does that).
> I'd much rather be "pushed around" by 1850s England than 1950s USSR... let alone late 1930s Germany.

Really? So you say that British impearialism is all right then? The English was the first group to perfect the concentration camp (which was used on my people). There is really no difference between British impearialism and the expansion of the USSR.
Well, if it's recent enough, it will just upmod the original. But after a certain amount of time, the system allows duplicates.

It's not that huge a deal; at least it's a decent link.
Forrester Backtracks; iPhone Judged Enterprise Ready
If what you want to say is just 2 words then maybe a blog post is a bit overkill.
I think the joke is that suppressive, unconstitutional legislation is acceptable if a side effect is that people can't comment on YouTube -- a site which is notorious for its low signal to noise ratio.
Absolutely. I like listening to people talk when I'm interested in what they're saying and want to communicate with them, but when someone (like a co-worker) babbles on about their kids' baseball games or something, it is hell. I don't care! Stop talking!

This article spoke to about 90% of me. I've been introverted all my life (though less so in the past few years) but have always done pretty good with speaking in front of a group or acting in a school play or whatever. It's when there's a large group with many different conversations going on where I end up not talking to anyone and begin to feel like an outsider. One-on-one though, I can have a conversation with just about anyone. It usually takes the form of - They talk, I ask questions, they keep talking.
This article [1] conveys your underlying message ("not every problem has been solved...dig in!") better, I think. It helps considerably to have a strong example.

[1]: http://www.codekana.com/blog/2009/04/02/on-the-speed-of-ligh...
Sneak a Peek at the Next Version of Android
I think you're right to an extent - I don't think most parents speak multiple languages to the baby. Only when the baby grows into a child do they start learning multiple languages.
Heh, I just want a view of Hacker News front page that sorts the list of links by the topics that have the highest-rated comment in them.
MIT and the Constant Robotic Gardeners
"Reach over 200,000,000 active Facebook users."
Contrary to the article's suggestion, retaining copyright does "prevent bastardization of the standard by someone else who tries to publish a different version of it." One of the exclusive rights of copyright is the right to make derivative works (and to foreclose others from doing so).

The article claims that copyright is "designed to defeat" wide dissemination of standards. The author would be well-advised to reconsider this in light of open-source licenses such as the GPL, which rely on copyright protection to ensure wide dissemination of works through their viral mechanisms.
No, I'm using it because I'm imagining myself in their position. My references are milder - such as succumbing to hitting the snooze alarm again, doing less reps in the gym, or eating something that I know is bad for me.

I am not claiming people's brains are functioning incorrectly. I am instead claiming that normal brain function is more irrational than most like to believe. We are mostly irrational creatures; it takes significant mental effort for us to make strictly rational decisions. All of the research I've read on the topic supports what I'm saying.
Federated Identity Through the Eyes of the Deployer
As a former soldier - light infantry, or about as close to "special" you can get without actually getting the little badge - I'd opine that after a certain bit of selection, you can train everyone up to a sufficient level.

There isn't much to Army "training". Learn the specifics of weapons and kit, and then point and shoot, really. What separates a good soldier from a mediocre soldier is willpower. Good soldiers make the correct decisions more often because they can think clearly over pain, discomfort and stress - exactly what the article says.

SF training put a hyper-focus on this skill. So, to answer you question - pretty much all of it is innate. That has certainly been my experience. Some people are just better at this stuff than others, just like some people are better hockey players than others, even after years of training.