skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say awkward, I say me and my efficient friends will have faster communication, tighter feedback loop and outcompete you in everything. :p.
>"Can I marry your daughter?" "Sorry, no" or "Sorry, no, she's already married" isn't less polite inherently than a 30 page screed about how you would rather just give her a shotgun to kill herself instead of torturing her like that, etc.

Counter-examples aren't a very good denial of correlation though. Sure, you can come up with examples of long replies and short replies where the longer reply is less polite, but that doesn't say anything about the general trend.
My Internet Problem
Yeah, I felt bad because you had better comments, so I was considering deleting mine too, but I'm trying to hit #63 on karma...
Here it is : http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcointip
Depends on where you live; they're everywhere here in Japan (where they were invented).

This is probably due to the evolution of Japanese phones, which have had a crude mobile internet and built-in cameras from about 2000 onwards. Given the limitations of the devices and networks, QR codes were the easiest way to move data between phones (because there was no way in hell NTT would allow you to run apps on one).

These then got used for coupons, and with the shrinking economy and people wanting to save money, people quickly internalized how QR codes worked. Likewise, phones come with QR capability as a builtin -- it's not a separate app.

I imagine you might see the same sort of use case in developing nations where computers and smartphones are too expensive, but that window is rapidly shrinking due to the low cost of Android devices.
It just seems crazy to me not to acknowledge the role of investigators in all of this and chock it up to luck

People do crazy things when they have made up their minds before the story even begins.
I use Alt-numpad keys. In my case it works quite fast:

" Decrease height / width
nnoremap <A--> <C-W>-
nnoremap <A-/> <C-W><
" Increase height / width
nnoremap <A-+> <C-W>+
nnoremap <A-*> <C-W>>
So, this is an attempt to add something organically. It's optional. If you would find a VSR an affront, don't say VSRE. The whole point is a declaration that the sender won't find it an affront. It says you don't need the emotional state transmitted like that.
The (enterprise) software developer's way.

• define a XSD
• define a XSLT to generate HTML or something similar

• write your procedure in XML files and keep it under source control
• transform the XML using the XSLT into HTML

The schema should allow to define tasks and dependencies and the transformation can then perform a topological sort and bring the tasks into the correct order. And you probably want a good XML editor with schema checking and autocompletion. An alternative to HTML would be LaTeX. You could also further process the output to generate a PDF.
Stop complaining about the news.
I'm not really strong in micro, but it seems logical that all 3 parties would pay some share, with the highest share being paid by the seller through reduced demand.

Also, has anyone created a sales tax management company? That seems like it would reduce the burden significantly on small businesses.
Interoperability is very highly valued. I just went through some government training courses on incident response, and interoperability was stressed many times.
You can have them forwarded to real email, which doesn't announce that it's been read.
Haiku OS Package Management development reaches new milestone
Just download Missing E or XKit. Both enable you to reblog yourself. XKit seems to have done a better job of keeping up with the tumblr changes, but I used Missing E for a while. Both get the job done.
I was wondering this too since tomorrow -- 4/22 -- is supposed to be an Internet Blackout day to protest CISPA. But it seems only some Anons are doing this. I don't see the groundswell from others.
> Every mother participating in the study spent enough time with their kids to develop the skill tested, while just about half of the fathers did

It seems like this data explains that stereotype. Mothers are often "better" at it because they often spend the time with their kids to develop that skill.
Of course that's standard operating procedure, but after being treated like that why should sellers campaign on behalf of Ebay?

Sellers will be responsible for paying this tax, not buyers.
Which, despite the "VSRE," would probably still come across as douchey. I don't think the op's idea would actually even work in practice, because the recipient still isn't communicating that what they are saying is polite. For all the sender knows, they could still be saying it gruffly.

Smilies can accomplish what the author intended.

"Can't, busy this week"

Becomes

"Can't, busy this week :("

If you don't mind looking like a wuss.
That's something I learnt the hard way: to customers, and internally between services, the less you write the best position you have.
Well for one Go beats Ruby in every benchmark that I am aware of, and generally by quite some distance.

Also realistically 60-70% of all libraries created for other languages are bitrotted to junk or pointlessness by this point.

If you can't see why an app that fits within the worked problemspace of Go (and even with the current libraries plenty of things are wholly doable in Go) and will require much less server resources might be a good fit, then you shouldn't be making those decisions, because that is the thought pattern of a zealot.

Look Ruby is well supported, established, and proven, but it is also slow. For a lot of things that is fine, but if you are dealing with something that requires a lot of serverside work on low margins it will kill you dead. Horses for courses.
Really cool idea, and great implementation

I think the things you have references for right now already have pretty good documentation, but if you take some of the things that have relatively difficult documentation (and some of the frameworks that documentation is more actively sought for), you would have an even better tool

for example, adding Django docs would be a life saver, because search on their official site is horrible.
Ask HN: What's my next move?
As a SV/startup outsider, I would really appreciate any help the benevolent members of HN care to offer in figuring out the best next steps in pursuing my goal.

I have an idea for a social media app that will help people explore truth together more effectively, which I've been brewing for about 10 years. I have an initial demo now, but there is much more to do. I have thought through many many design issues, so it is not simply a general idea but many specific ones combined.

Ideally I would like to work on that app, or a product that fulfills the same goals. It doesn't have to be my own company, but I would like to be able to influence the product direction if I have something useful to add. I would also like to maintain a high level of user focus and intellectual integrity, not sacrificing these just to eek out a little more profit.

I applied to YC and wasn't accepted, so now I am trying to figure out my next move. I could:

1. Apply to Launchpad LA and other YC alternatives

2. Try to get VC funding

3. Find a company doing something similar and try to get a job there (Obvious Corp may be doing something similar, but I can't even find contact info, much less get hired. But they seem like great people.)

4. Take a job building something else, try to establish credibility in the SV community, and look for future opportunities. Along with this, I could also work on my project on the side, and possibly try to launch small and grow organically.

As my idea is novel but possibly unpatentable, I am uneasy about sharing all the details. How much detail must be typically shared to secure funding or incubator acceptance, especially without inside connections?

Those of you who made it this far, you are very generous. Thank you in advance for your thoughts, they are much appreciated.
I came to the comments hoping this would be here. "Expected", well, seems to place an additional expectation on the recipient, whereas "Welcome" merely invites an additional option.
Source Sans Pro is another great open source font, and it's by Adobe.

http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/08/source-sans-pro....
XML and CSS and a standard source management tool. The biggest problem with Word for something like this is that content and format are completely intermixed in the tool.

Word is designed to hide XML from the user and introduces significant complexity in order to do all sorts of things that this project doesn't need.
Anecdotally, when my son was a baby, I definitely knew his cry, and it felt instinctual (although in truth, it's probably just subconscious recognition).
BTW. Since we're talking about efficiency down this thread, here's a very nice example of optimizing communication:

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Crocker%27s_rules

I wish this concept was more widely known though.

EDIT: original description (http://www.sl4.org/crocker.html) is dead but I found it's contents in cache, so I'm quoting it below:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Declaring yourself to be operating by "Crocker's Rules" means that other people are allowed to optimize their messages for information, not for being nice to you. Crocker's Rules means that you have accepted full responsibility for the operation of your own mind - if you're offended, it's your fault. Anyone is allowed to call you a moron and claim to be doing you a favor. (Which, in point of fact, they would be. One of the big problems with this culture is that everyone's afraid to tell you you're wrong, or they think they have to dance around it.) Two people using Crocker's Rules should be able to communicate all relevant information in the minimum amount of time, without paraphrasing or social formatting. Obviously, don't declare yourself to be operating by Crocker's Rules unless you have that kind of mental discipline.

Note that Crocker's Rules does not mean you can insult people; it means that other people don't have to worry about whether they are insulting you. Crocker's Rules are a discipline, not a privilege. Furthermore, taking advantage of Crocker's Rules does not imply reciprocity. How could it? Crocker's Rules are something you do for yourself, to maximize information received - not something you grit your teeth over and do as a favor.

"Crocker's Rules" are named after Lee Daniel Crocker.
I'm going to use it, and I'd love to receive emails tagged as such.

So, submitted to the Urban Dictionary!
Plus Facebook gets high resolution pictures of people's faces, and asks for confirmation. It doesn't get it right every time.
Local Variable Debugging with see.js
Personally I think karma should be based on comments only. I have bookmark's for agl, rdl, tptacek, etc's comments, not submissions. If it is any consolation there are a few people ahead of you on the list that are essentially link spammers. Anyone can submit links all day and accumulate karma. That someone was first to file a story does not signal a lot of information in my opinion. Keep up the good comments and I am sure that you will continue to move up the list.
I've read through the article and can't determine what the downsides of this technique. Lack of browser support?
Surely all you need to do is start an agile startup and throw some Ruby on Rails at the problem?
Migration and interoperability, IMHO, are very minor problems. Software needs very minor changes to support IPv6 addresses (the socket interfaces are not affected, only the address input string, which is handled by an OS library...). The problem is 1/3 hardware/software (a lot of firewalls and NATs) and 2/3 political: most ISPs began as telephone or cable providers with a vested interest in creating or maintaining media distribution monopolies. NAT is the best thing since sliced bread to them since it largely breaks end-to-end routing/global addressability. (VoIP, P2P, etc, are all much harder through NAT)
Hacker News doesn't need to be like Reddit. =)
What desktop environments use fewer resources in Linux?
No law can prevent all such tragedies. But failing to have prevented this one doesn't make the law stupid, or worthless. It does successfully prevent other cases. What happened with your sister is certainly horrible, but you can't generalise from that to every case.
So like GPGPU, but with specialised parts of the brain instead? That's pretty cool.
We merely assume that it is a maternal instinct

I've noticed that our society seems to overrate the whole category, perhaps out of deference to the women who bear the brunt of having children, perhaps to help reassure young women considering children.
Hi, I've been thinking recently about something similar, as a way to "tip" people for good posts but more not just limited to HN, like a widget people could embed into their site that people could click to tip.

Give me a tweet if you'd like to bounce some ideas - @jklp :)
As far as I can tell, yes exactly that. Needs testing and the CSP issue as well.
I agree as a developer wholeheartedly we need a better way of adding in multiple versions of an image for the plethora of resolutions and pixel density's out there, but this technique feels a little hacky to me. I am a big advocate of SVG (I use SVG extensively for icons and logos especially) but cramming media queries and image tags within to save a few bytes at the added cost of complexity and browser quirks to debug doesn't feel like it's worth it.

The only solid fix for responsive imagery is a HTML5 tag that allows you to set breakpoints for different sizes. The proposed "picture" tag which is similar to that of the video tag does what we want, but we most likely won't see any action on this tag until 2014, possibly 2015 if this W3 bug ticket is any indication: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18384

This jQuery script adds in the functionality for using the proposed tag now though, I can't speak for how well it works, but it looks promising: http://jquerypicture.com/
Necessity is the mother of innovation. This sort of thing might invite competition in that price range. Spending millions of dollars at a hospital that's in no danger of going out of business is a lot less likely to lead to innovation than a hospital that's got to beat another one's price point that's directly sensitive to the consumer/patient.
Bitcoin would be pretty useless if you couldn't break it up into smaller pieces, especially at the current prices. =) It is divisible up to 0.00000001 (8 decimal places) and the total number that can exist is 21 million (which hasn't been reached yet).
I've definitely observed this effect at work. Those too incompetent to be trusted with anything get to play Sudoku for half the day.
Perhaps. But should the government be doing that evaluation for you ahead of time?
IPv4 works just fine, the problem is growing it. If you already have service, you've already got an address. No problems.

Alternatively, ISDN/dialup gateways just don't support IPv6 because they were all designed in 1995.
Is there any reason you didn't use CodeMirror? You'd have gotten completion and syntax-highlighting for free then.
These are awesome trail journals! I think one of the things I regret when I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2010 was not taking a picture of every shelter register entry I left. On the AT, pretty much every shelter has a notebook that people write their thoughts in for the day (at campsites without shelters, check the privy).

I debated taking a journal, but so much of the trail culture is in the registers that it seemed like it would be almost churlish to not share my thoughts like everybody else does. Not that my writing is up to The Hiker Guy's standard (nor is most anybody else's). It's still nice to read an entry from somebody who you haven't seen in a couple weeks and hear their triumphs and frustrations in their own voice.

With storage for digital cameras being so cheap and with smart phones being almost ubiquitous, snapping pictures seemed like the obvious compromise between participating and journaling, but I never really got in the habit.

Incidentally, if you find yourself wanting to keep a journal on a hiking trip, I highly recommend the Rite-In-The-Rain [1] soft-cover journals. The paper is wonderfully waterproof; they'll survive immersion without falling apart (the covers of the hardcover journals will warp, however). The only downside is that they don't take ink as well as normal paper. Pencil works well, but will smear like on normal paper, but I have yet to find a ballpoint that works really well, although the Fisher Space Pen [2] does well enough and will write on the pages even if they're soaked.

Lastly, I'll leave you with a truly entertaining blog from a current AT hiker [3]. I'll note (thank goodness) that most people don't find themselves in nearly as much peril as this crew. The author is a friend of a friend, and I do hope their luck improves!

[1] http://www.riteintherain.com/

[2] http://www.spacepen.com/

[3] http://trailkit.blogspot.com/
Who are you? Around here, ideas aren't very important. Everybody has ideas. They're easy to come by, and they're usually not as huge as you might assume. The most important aspect of a startup is a founder that can get things done.

Do you know how to build it? Then build it. Else, find a cofounder that knows how.
Until this thread I honestly thought I was the only person who spends time agonizing over the wording of simple replies.
I'm going to guess it's because people in India are allowed to practice medicine and produce equipment. If I were to start practicing medicine and producing equipment up here in Canada I'd be arrested in a heartbeat. (Unless I went through all the hoops, and I again have a hunch there's many more here than in India)
One super-lazy approach for HTTP is to put Cloudflare in front of your server. That kinda feels like cheating though.
Seriously? Anything less than $1 million is already exempt, and they're still complaining?

I've been happy not paying sales tax on Amazon for years now, but when I heard there would be a law forcing them to collect, I didn't freak out. We had a good run of having to pay nothing. I didn't expect it to last forever.

Do people really want to avoid putting money back into the country at every turn? This is still America, and it's still great to live here. Taxes let it stay that way. Sure, we may not always like what they're being spent on, but that's a necessary part of being a citizen.
> This study has precisely no meaning until it has been replicated

Why would one replicate it if it has no meaning? Might as well try a new experiment.
My point here is really only of interest to hackers-who-hack-with-images: mobiles suck; Get any, ANY DSLR for your imagery.

When you want to do anything with the photos other than look at them, a mobile phone camera is a complete joke. Today, people use photos for a lot more than pretty pictures to illustrate link-bait.

Imagery for 2D & 3D textures is one, and a growing use is 3d reconstruction. (Disclosure: I develop 3d reconstruction technology.)

Images taken with the lowest entry DSLR are an order of magnitude higher quality in almost every measure than the highest quality, most expensive mobile phone camera. The greater quality translates into higher precision information recovery from its photos. The difference is the size of the lens and the greater information it captures - information beneath our perceptions, but not beyond trained and plain-old human-written algorithms' perceptions.
I wish there were an easy way to see things I'm not supposed to see:

1) I'd like to be able to actually see the URLs of "dead" submissions; sometimes they're awesome and have been autokilled due to sites being blacklisted, which I don't support

2) I'd prefer if "showdead" weren't so hard to read. It's just the wrong color on Chrome to be readable when deselected AND even worse when selected. I'm fine with it being hard to read when deselected, though.

3) Maybe allow people with karma > certain amount to turn off the low contrast color, too. I realize I can do this in the browser but it's a pain on mobile browsers. I like high-contrast.
I am not an authority on hardening linux, but I would bet that disabling IPv6 is recommended simply because in most applications it is unnecessary extra complexity. All your careful IPv4 firewalls are meaningless if you forget to also configure ip6tables.
So, you are saying i should switch my kids to aspirin? What's the worst that can happen?
One study [1] gives these annual numbers: 56,000 emergency room visits, 26,000 hospitalizations, and 458 fatalities. They further estimate about 75% of the fatalities are intentional overdoses, and 25% unintentional. Though I recall reading elsewhere that the majority of the non-fatal cases are accidental overdoses, e.g. from unwittingly taking multiple products that have acetaminophen as a component.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16294364
That seems like it might be a good policy; reading a lot of primary sources (in English, though, or translations) and decent-analysis news sources (Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, etc.) is kind of silly given that it doesn't directly affect my life anymore (other than as a citizen/voter).
> Aspirin one of the safest drugs known to man, has a much longer history than Tylenol

I think cocaine and opium has a longer history too.
Cyberattacks a Huge Threat to Start-Ups, and Their Investors
I'll interject one more 'done it' anecdote. The document processing system I've been working on for several years had several libraries in C. Very few issues compared to the general logical bugs. Integrating the Judy arrays library was a huge performance benefit in a number of areas.
Can you not use NAT with IPv6?
ABFlatSwitch: library to customize UISwitch
Open Sans like all the other Helvetica replacements (except Arial) are only cool the first few days. After that it's like, nah, gimme back Helvetica (which have been cool since the 70s):

http://helveticafilm.com
The only thing I'd change with this is 'E' to 'O' for OK. "Expected" is just a bit too pushy. What if I don't want to reply at all?
Indeed.

Think about that carefully.
I've done it too, and I think most of the responses to the GP are missing the point. Can it be done? Sure. But it's a pain in the ass. It's not nearly as trivial as people suggest. It's basically only worthwhile when you know you have the resources to build an infrastructure of re-usuable fast modules that get coupled with a scripting language interface.

Even when you give up on writing true "hybrid" code (i.e. "just write modules for the slow parts in C++", which is a gigantic pain), and instead try to write driver code that calls standalone compiled applications, you find yourself having to write a lot of duplicate code to parse/validate I/O on both sides of the language boundary. It sucks, and there's no way to make it not suck.

I'd go so far as to say that for problems where processing speed is a known requirement from the start, you should just give up on interpreted languages. Fast interpreted languages have been right around the corner for long as I've been writing code, but they sure seem to be taking their time.
I wish email came with a YES/NO embed button. Even a RECEIVED/READ button would be useful. Recipient can hit those buttons and move on... Sender knows the status and can move on.

I know you can embed Google Forms, but don't know if they work for all email clients. Anyone use them?
> In the end it was mostly dumb luck

Flamebait. Anything people point out, you just define as luck. Luck that LEO found evidence, had pictures of the perps, etc.
Fair question. I had 2000 characters, so I had to cut some stuff out. I will answer each question separately, so we can keep some order.
Underground bunkers?
Words like "there is something more important for me than my life" can not be thrown around without some kind of proof baking it. This one point makes the whole essay not worth reading. Sorry.