skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, time to switch to decaf.

I'll address what points I can find, though. Note these, like those in the article, are personal opinions. Often these are given to help others understand a different point of view. I hope you take that into consideration.

I agreed with pretty much everything in the article. I'm often forced by non-optional social convention to spend time with others. Frequently I find their chatter incomprehensible, irrelevant, content-free, trivial, or some combination of these. There is an occasional gem, but on the whole, the return is pretty poor.

I'm sure these people are doing something they find useful and rewarding, but I feel that I shouldn't be forced into the position of having to tolerate it. Why should their preferences hold over mine? Why shouldn't I be left in the peace I crave, and let them chatter with others that appreciate and benefit from it?

No, I get forced to join in.

I don't think or feel that it's below me. Perhaps it's above me! What I do know after years of being forced to endure it is that it doesn't benefit me, and life's too short to do things of such poor return. This isn't a judgement of their worth - it's a recognition of my traits.

I'd guess you're about 18 to 20 years of age and have your whole life ahead of you to figure out what works for you and what doesn't. You should make sure you get a wide range of experience. I, on the other hand, probably have around 10,000 productive days left, and I really don't want to waste them.

Please, don't make me.
It might be interesting for you to look at the rating system that's used on the site RSDN.ru (Russian Software Developer Network). The site has been around for quite some time and they've formulated a very balanced approach to rating.

On that site one has 7 buttons to rate a message: 1, 2, 3, '+', '-', '+1' and ':)'

1, 2 and 3 affect score (=karma) of the message and its author based on the level of the person who rates it (i.e. 2 from a 5th level person would add 5*2 = 10 etc)

'+' and '-' show that you agree/disagree with that comment, but do not affect the score.

'+1' adds 1 point to score independent of rater's level.

':)' shows that you find this comment funny.

I translated rules from this page
http://rsdn.ru/forum/Info.aspx?name=info.forum.rating
and as you may see, there are more rules that help to prevent excessive you-rate-me-I-rate-you behaviour, keep score up-to-date (your level depends only slightly on your all-times score but greatly depends on the marks that you've got during the last month) etc.

If people are interested, I can translate the rest of the rules.
Quicksilver.
Cyberduck (ftp - http://cyberduck.ch/)
Adium (IM - http://adium.im/)
I usually cook up a pot of rice, prepare half of it to eat immediately, and stick the rest in the fridge. Later on, I fry it with an egg and throw anything handy into it.

Cheap, easy, and healthy roughly in inverse proportion to my supply of MSG, salt, schmaltz, and cheese
I can't comment much on the article itself; I gave up on it pretty quickly because I found the author's attitude condescending.
The obvious answer to that is "probably Mac users, and nobody else."

As a non-Mac user (at least lately) -- I'd MUCH rather they work on everything but that, really. And yes, I do realize how selfish that is, but it's probably not that much more selfish than your wants.
7 grams a serving is plenty of protein, as you've suggested.

Recommended daily protein intake depends upon a person's height and gender, as well as a few other factors that tend to have small effects. For most adults, the theoretically ideal amount will fall somewhere around 40 to 50g of protein per day, with less for shorter women and more for taller men. Getting less than this can cause severe problems due to amino acid deficiencies (particularly when you always consume the same general protein source and it doesn't contain significant quantities of one or more of the amino acids you don't produce on your own), as well as muscular atrophy (exacerbated rather than improved by exercise, as an insufficient protein intake will prevent the microtears in your muscles from healing properly). Getting significantly more than this increases stress on your kidneys (although it has not been shown to solely lead to kidney failure) due to the larger quantities of nitrogen present in protein than other forms of food.
I see a lot of people recommending virtual pc but does anyone have anything to say about vm fusion? A buddy of mine was going to hook me up with a copy. I've used virtual PC on linux quite a bit but I was always frustrated with the lack of ability to bridge the networking.
I'm glad someone wrote this up. When I was reading the book I started to do exactly this, but then it was such an interesting read that I couldn't tear myself away after each chapter to write the summary. The lessons have proven very useful both in my start-up and in personal life.

The best thing IMO is that the authors are all about playing it completely straight. You probably wouldn't guess that from the title of the book. But in fact, each chapter ends with advice on how not to misuse the technique you just learnt.

I highly recommend that you read the book rather than just skimming the summary. The reason is that there are numerous case studies in the book (drawn from actual scientific studies) of counterintuitive human behavior, which the authors then explain. The examples will make the material stick in your head a lot better.
A one-wheeled vehicle is hardly useless on it's own.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Wheelbarr...
You're right about the proofs, there should have been sources included. The book might be more thorough...

I think you're oversimplifying a field you're not familiar with though, it's like a non-hacker saying that all you need to store data is to set up a microsoft Access database, and you're good to go. It's correct, but misses a lot of problems and subtleties.
I eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Superduper Slow Jar Command (embarassing bug in the jar code)
We should note that Vipassana is a form of Buddhist meditation, which takes as its base observances the four noble truths. The first of which is: To live is to suffer.

Perhaps if the author tried a form of meditation that isn't based on such a fundamentally negative philosophical basis then on his journey to enlightenment he may find a more enjoyable and charitable viewpoint.

My first encounter with meditation was with a Tibetan Buddhist tradition. I fully respect what I learned from their teachings, particularly about cultivating compassion, but I was put off with this negative base assumption. Later on I learned a form of meditation whose philosophical approach characterises life as a glorious struggle to expand ourselves in every possible dimension of existence, and along the way overcoming our flaws and weaknesses.

To some, struggle might also seem negative, but struggle is NOT equal to suffering - just ask all those struggling to get their startups off the ground whether hard work and effort are suffering?

That's not to say that suffering doesn't exist - of course it does, but I personally don't accept that it is the fundamental condition of humans.

Once you take a different philosophical basis then many of the observations of the condition of others also take on a very different hue.
Looking at our history of financial debacles, it seems like people are learning from them: namely the perpetrators! It's like the S&L crisis was just a rehearsal for the recent Ponzi Scheme Economy.
Case Study: Optimizing Matrix * Vector Multiplication for SSE
What about "@run-at document-start"?

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=4478#c5
MacFUSE w/ sshfs, and MacVIM.
If I understand correctly, it is newsworthy because it provides a method by which you can automatically go to a particular session and/or shell in that session by running just one command on your local machine in which you specify the Screen title of that session/shell.
I don't place much stock in the idea that the wheel/axle concept is useless without draft animals. Any society that hauls food or supplies will get a LOT of mileage out of a simple wheelbarrow. And that's as easy as making one wheel, a short axle, two forked sticks, and a basket. Easy but not at all obvious, of course.
Rice Cooker! Yes. I put my gumbo, jambalaya, chili, all that stuff on rice. Great filler. Has 19 amino acids. It's cheap and good for you. Very nice suggestion.
From all the raw cookie dough I've eaten over the years, I'm convinced that I have built an immunity.
Others mentioned here are great. In addition, check these out:

http://perian.org/ - adds native support to QuickTime for many video formats

http://www.fluidapp.com/ - Fluid, SSB (site specific browsers)

http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/ - LittleSnitch, Monitor and block outgoing internet connections

http://www.skitch.com/ - Skitch, screen capture and sharing

http://derailer.org/paparazzi/ - Paparazzi, Full screenshots of websites

http://www.sequelpro.com/ - SequelPro, MySQL gui (I like Querious, but that's a paid app)

http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html - The Unarchiver, unpacker program handles almost every format

http://freeverse.com/apps/app/?id=7013 - Think, helps you focus on a single app

http://www.heliumfoot.com/mercurymover/ - MercuryMover, resize, move windows with keystrokes (If you're OCD about window sizes like me)

Other honorable mentions: Coda, Transmit, TwoUp, Typinator, UnRarX, CSSEdit
> why do some societies invent and adopt things and put them to all kinds of use while other societies either don't invent them or invent them without ever adapting and applying them

This may also be why:

http://www.uwgb.edu/DutchS/PSEUDOSC/WhyAntiInt.htm
I eat pretty good food on < $10/day.
Jared Diamond mentions something interesting. He claims that in the mountainous, llama-ridden regions where wheels are largely useless, the people had already invented wheels. But they used them as toys for children.

In the lowlands less than 100 miles away, ideal terrain for wheeled conveyances, they had no llamas. They also had wheels, albeit tiny wheels attached to toys.

It wasn't that they were astonishingly stupid to not understand the wheel- they had wheels, for their toys. It was, instead, that they had no other use for it.
More personal recollections from the man's associates:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/f3b93140c2...
I think it's great (trouble-free for me). No problems with networking and almost seamless. Though, I rarely use it for more than a few minutes each week. Just to test web pages out in IE. Which MultipleIE is great for:

http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
These guys, as horrible as most of their content is, know how to sell ebooks very well: http://www.warriorforum.com/
Though if you ever make your own cheese, paneer, etc., you can cook with the whey. It's good in bread.

I'm not expecting you people looking for quick, healthy food to eat while working on your startup to take the time to make your own cheese, but I love to cook. Paneer doesn't take long, at least: ( http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Paneer-%28Indian-Cheese%29 )

Making your own bread isn't too time-intensive, though. It's just a few short steps over the day, and working dough with your hands after spending hours up in your mind can be a very grounding break.
What is "intrinsic?" What is "value?"

Value seems to be pretty contextual. The relative value of a letter written by Leonardo Da Vinci and a used life preserver change in the middle of a flood. One can see this as intrinsic value asserting itself over perceived value. (In your example, the $5000 suit may find itself much more valuable than the $50,000 baubles if the city has been destroyed by a flood, it's very chilly, and the suit happens to be made out of wool.)

My sister has a saying: Unless someone is going to lose a life, or lose a limb, it's really no big deal!

Intrinsic value has its basis in our experience of living. It is based on biological needs and our psychological makeup as determined by the particulars of how our minds happen to work. All the other value is an elaboration on this.

Also note, that psychologically based needs are also highly contextual. There's also no clean demarcation between physical and psychological needs.
Saudi files for 'killer' tracking chip patent
Wolfram and Lisp Recollections
The book is well footnoted and uses as its examples the actual experiments performed.
Nah, Salmonella in eggs is actually pretty rare. Plus few people would die from it even if they got it.

And if you are really worried you can get pasteurized raw eggs.
Jump Into The Stream
Mostly because that's what the diet for the program has me pegged at for my weight
If nothing else, it's really nice to have good olive oil and some za'atar on hand. It's an herb/spice/sesame seed blend that goes remarkably well with most kinds of bread, and you can usually get a big bag for a couple bucks.
I'm reading this book now but prefer Caldini's _Influence_ (http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Busine...) because it takes a more systematic approach to understanding what persuades others. For example, a chapter is dedicated to "social proof" and relevant experiments showing its power and subtleties are discussed.
Just look at your CPU spike though... not so good for netbooks or phones.
Wolfram's Beta
Dont’t use Transmit. It’s slow and they haven’t released an update for months (years?).

Yummy FTP ist the fastest and feature-richest FTP-client for the Mac. It’s synchronization feature is really good. (I bought both)
Interesting. Can you cite that point about Kellogg?
Perhaps a useful tool for an IT shop. Nothing shocking though as there are few safeguards when an attacker has physical access to a machine. Thankfully, the author isn't implying security vulnerabilities. A good hack, for sure.
Ask HN:  "Dumbing yourself down" around your peers?
To what extent do you do this and why? How has it affected you, and your relationships with people?

I've been doing it my whole life (I'm 30) because I felt that it would be easier to fit in with most people. So when I hear people confidently repeat urban myths like "we only use 10% of our brains", or "you'll drown if you don't eat an hour before swimming" etc, I don't bother trying to explain why I think they're wrong. Some people take it too personally (because of their ego, perhaps), and if they think you do it too often they tend to avoid your company for various reasons. Then there are times I avoid discussion of a topic completely because it tends to happen at a very superficial level or from a very narrow perspective (maybe because of things like lack of understanding or confirmation bias). I find that when I try to expand on certain areas of discussion I just get blank stares. So I usually just stick to topics like gossip, sport, women, cars, or I let other people do most of the talking. Obviously all individuals (and my relationships with them) are different to a degree, but these are some of the things I tend to see and do.

Anyway, I'm 30 now and I think "dumbing myself down" (at least on an intellectual level) has really taken it's toll on me. I never really had a big problem with managing relationships with people but it's getting to the point where I find conversations with my friends unbearable. eg. Last night I was on my phone reading HN and reddit while a group of us were in a lounge at some club (we had just come from a strip-club). I've vented occasionally about how I felt about this to my mom and she always says I should get new friends. The problem is that part of trying to fit in is emulating the behaviour of your peers. When I was younger, I was hung out with the street-thug type (avoided crime and drugs though). Then I left that for the clubbing and partying scene (took me a while to adjust). After leaving college I found there are very few people with my interests and lifestyle. They usually tend to fall into one group or the other. To put it simply, the one group is smart but boring, the other group is exciting but being around them is a mind-numbing experience. I've tried having two sets of friends but it didn't work out that well. I could also try changing my social circles again but where to next? And I don't really feel like changing my lifestyle again. Perhaps balance is the key, but finding people with the right balance is not that easy.

In the meantime I've resorted back to my (unhealthy) hacker nature. Dark bedroom, bright monitor, and 20 tabs open in a browser.

Anyone else going/been through something similar? How do you cope/are you coping?
Years ago, my grandmother got one of those original hand hammered woks from china off an infomercial. It was shiny as a new nickel when she got it, but she never used it so she gave it to me.

Now it's black as night. I love it.
Home and End Key Fixer. I found my machine to be nearly unusable without it.

Quicksilver, to avoid the terrible GUI as much as humanly possible.

(I have my MacBook because it is the only non-Windows notebook with fully working suspend mode and peripherals. Why did you buy yours?)
You're right, it doesn't stick.
I was expecting something like Gizoogle when I first saw the word "computizzled"

I hate to say this, but this was even more disappointing than the real Wolfram|Alpha
Chinatowns are the least expensive places to find groceries anywhere I've been. I've shopped them in Oklahoma, San Francisco, Vancouver... The west has a lot to learn from the east...
> Mathematica isn't too bad a thing to have on your resume

But Dr. Wolfram does not bill himself as a mega-entrepreneur. He edges close to declaring himself the next Newton. Do you agree with him?
IIRC, (it's been a few years), this might help Seth and others:

http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry...

Otherwise, you might just go crazy!

Personally, when I want to buy something, I always try to purchase the best available I can afford.

By afford, I mean something with credit I can pay off without worrying too much. This was mainly learned from my buy and sell routine with guitars. If I had just purchased that PRS right off the bat, I could have saved a lot of money :)

By best, I mean based on ratings and features important to me.
The existence or lack thereof of God. No matter which way you believe on that, there's a large portion of society that feels the complete opposite way.
carbon emacs
It does, but the version that does costs more
I hear ya. When I was in San Francisco, my car battery died all the time because I didn't drive enough. I loved walking.

I went in for a checkup once and my doctor asked me, "Do you exercise?" I said, "Not really." He said, "What do you do?" I said, "I walk to and from work everyday. It's two miles from Russian Hill to Market Street up and down a few hills."

He said, "I think you're doing fine."
How many times does the new york times need to write this story?
boundlessdreamz covered a lot, here's a few more (mostly commercial but still awesome):

1. Things - Awesome task management - http://www.culturedcode.com/

2. Mailplane - If you use GMail this is a must. - http://mailplaneapp.com/

3. AppZapper - Remove everything about an app - http://www.appzapper.com/

4. LittleSnitch - Filters and prompts on outbound ip connections - http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

5. Undercover - Stolen Laptop Recovery app - http://www.orbicule.com/undercover/

6. Fugu - SCP/SFTP App - http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/

7. On The Job - Time and Expense Tracking - http://stuntsoftware.com/OnTheJob/

8. Versions - Awesome SVN client - http://versionsapp.com/
I was thinking of posting another link to that book, but I had just done so recently in another thread.

Another interesting idea: Barry Schwartz's _The Paradox of Choice_

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/lang/eng/barry_schwartz_o...

Sometimes trying to maximize is more trouble than it's worth. "Satisficing" is a good way to economize. Save your maximizing behavior (and thus your mental resources) for the choices that matter the most.
Hack Firefox to Run it Faster
Hack Firefox to Run it Faster
Fusion works great for my needs.
I recently saw no. 2 put into practice ("... the message mentioned that majority of the guests who stayed in this specific room chose to be more environmentally conscious and reused their towels") almost word for word. It struck me as so obviously manipulative that I left my towels in a crumpled heap on the floor, which I don't normally do, as a matter of principle.
To back up raquo here, Coda (http://www.panic.com/coda/) is my current editor of choice for most things. It's got great collaborative editing, a very nice UI, good syntax highlighting and plugin support.
I have to do this fairly often to both Windows and Linux machines. The only safeguard is to encrypt your disks.
WWSGD?

What would Summer Glau do?

Dumbing yourself down is like hacking off a foot to fit in with a leper colony. It's a change that'll be hard to reverse later on, whether you want to or not.
His book, "The Natural Diet of Man" started it, but his corporation perpetuated it.
Indeed, it is really basic. I guess I could see value in aliasing that to save typing. In my case, I have a "Screen" menu in fvwm with menu entries like this:

+ %terminal.png%"caspian" Exec exec xterm -geometry 80x25+30-28 -T "screen : caspian" -e ssh -t eki@caspian.vying.org screen -x -R

I have menus for local screens as well, with entries like:

+ %terminal.png%"dorothy" Exec exec xterm -geometry 80x37+30+60 -T "screen : dorothy" -e screen -x -c $HOME/.screenrc-dorothy -R dorothy

I usually create a new screen config for each project that launches shells in the right directories, etc. For example, here's my .screenrc-dorothy:

chdir $HOME/projects/dorothy/lib/dorothy
screen -t lib 1 zsh

chdir $HOME/projects/dorothy/test/dorothy
screen -t test 2 zsh

chdir $HOME/projects/dorothy/ext
screen -t ext 3 zsh

chdir $HOME/projects/dorothy
screen -t irb 4 zsh
at irb# eval 'stuff "irb -r dorothy\015"'

chdir $HOME/projects/dorothy
screen -t zsh 0 zsh

hardstatus alwayslastline "%{rk}%H %{gk}%c %{yk}%M%d %{wk}%?%-Lw%?%{bw}%n*%f %t%?(%u)%?%{wk}%?%+Lw%?"

That gives me shells in the directories I'm likely to be working from, and starts an irb session in another shell.

I guess this is only newsworthy if you're not the type to customize your environment to your liking. Well, that and the fact that gnu screen is somewhat difficult to learn and researching it is a pain because "screen" is such a poor, generic name for a project.

I'd love to see this turn into a thread of neat things that can be done with gnu screen.
HA! The irony of this being on TechCrunch...
If post A and post B are equally convincing and interesting, but B is twice as long, then A is clearly superior.
"This article is wrong. Microsoft doesn't want you to use PAE, because it's crap."

Then why do they still sell Windows?

/me ducks

BTW, PAE has been working for me under Linux for what seems to be ages. It's a kludge, sure, and no replacement for a 64 bit CPU, but remember the x86 did not enter the 64-bit world until there was a viable OS and software for the AMD64.

And some may even consider the AMD64 a kludge of its own.
Opportunities in next generation media
Look for more friends, just because the rule is that one group is smart but lame, and the other is dumb and fun, doesn't mean that there aren't people who are both.

There are plenty of people who are smart and fun, and plenty who are dumb and lame.

Sure you'll have to work harder to find those people, but it should be worth it, to keep your identity
This has some calculations showing the speed of a swallow:

http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/

The speed calculations are based on the Strouhal number
http://www.style.org/strouhalflight/

http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/theories/