skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upon reflection, I recall a period of time, earlier in my life, when I engaged in fairly intense, daily exercise. My social comfort increased significantly, as well as my overall ease with myself and "comfort in my own skin".

Unfortunately, a rather serious injury from which I never fully recovered, eliminated my ability to continue engaging in that or similar exercise. But I would definitely look at personal fitness as a course of action. The trick is that it needs to be something you really enjoy and not just a chore. For me, that was cycling. I'd ride for 2 or 3 hours, get home, and be ready to do it all over again -- I liked it that much.

Following up on my "meditation" comment. For me, the closest I got to meditation was perhaps my state of mind while cycling. I found it much easier to reach such a state while engaged in the activity of cycling. I'm not sure meditation need mean sitting in repose. And the cycling definitely encouraged attention to breath and the like. It encouraged an active, engaged attention to my entire body; simultaneously, the ability to "be in the moment" for extended periods of time.
Other countries put important scientific and cultural figures on their money. The Bank of England puts Darwin on its £10 note and is going to put Adam Smith on its £20. Why can't we do the same? Along with Ben Franklin we could have Herman Melville, Marian Anderson, Richard Feynman...
The Aristo PSDs should be a treat for folks like me with no real Photoshop training but with the ambition to make things that don't look ugly.
ha for your revenue model you can charge people who want their tweet to be removed from your site.

I say this only half-jokingly.
Current US currency seems to. :( US bills look more and more like the newsletter your dentist puts out with every revision.
When I clicked the link my expectations lead me to believe this was some kind of re-evaluation for monetary exchange. This is a cute idea but I was expecting something bit more ambitious given the title.
Yeehaa. And their beliefs reside in yesterday's rubbish - and always will until the new order comes.
Going borderless like that is extraordinarily striking for US currency, but I bet that would be the first thing to go, as it's expensive to reliably print borderless designs in sheets and then cut them up, unless the designs tile perfectly.

That and other nitpicks aside, if these were our new dollar bills I'd be perfectly happy. They represent a great amount of boldness and brushing away stodginess while still being totally reverent to the heritage they're supposed to represent.
Here, maybe this will help, and judging by the vocabulary aherm some folks are using to describe social situations here... they probably learned all this the same way I did:

1. If you're going to make conversation with someone, commit to doing it. i.e. don't mumble or make a half peep attempt at saying hi. Look at them, pause, smile, and say hello or something exciting like that.

2. If you want conversation to keep going... ask open ended questions. These are questions that can't be answered with just a yes or no. When you ask such a question be sure to answer it yourself. "I hope to take over the world one day. What are your dreams?"

3. Talk in terms of feelings. "I feel it is a nice day today, I love the smell of freshly cut grass" not "It is 80F this is the exact temperature I'm calibrated to like".

That should put you on the path. Good luck.
Design + technology * people = culture. (My new blog - comments please)
Also notice that the account was created at the same time as the comment (1 hour ago) and this is his only comment.
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pack up some small anecdotes that are a lot of fun and that also expose your interests. Make sure they're not super-geeky - most laypeeps will enjoy a story from fmylife.com or rickrolls or /b/ gaming Time Magazine or whatever but not about star wars or iphone apps or functional programming, Sounds obvious but I personally definitely have to do a filter through my stories and file them in OK and not OK bins in my head. Showing off cool new iphone apps is ok too. It's okay to be geeky as long as you are interesting.

Switch between those and open-ended questions and you should be ok. About 1/3 ppl who I chat w like that chat back. 1/3 you could force it (and sometimes forcing it is worth it, since this is how you build up the game) and 1/3 are plain not down, but ignore those fools or switch to a more advanced game.
Other than having a crappy camera, where is the G1 lacking?
Considering Nolan has managed to tank a number of startups over his lifetime post-Atari, I'm guessing he has experience from the other end. Anyone still holding uWink stock out there?
i am not sure if you think i was saying something else, but i agree 100%. this is extreme foolishness.
Ask her questions about herself. Demonstrate to her that you are interested in what she has to say. The end.
Quite possibly. But at least it makes spamming less convenient. In my experience, most spammers are lazy, so if you make spamming your site even marginally harder than spamming the somewhere else, they go to someone else. Granted, this might only apply to "long tail" sites and not giants like twitter.

The other advantage is that there is probably a black market for twitter spamming scripts. This might break a few, at least temporarily.

The most determined spammers will probably always find a way through any automated system, but making it inconvenient is good if it is easy enough to do.
There are plenty of posts on HN that directly "contribute to the discussion," but still get voted down. I think it's more accurate to say a post is down or upvoted on the basis of whether or not the post contributes to the discussion the voters want to read.
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Ooh, that's awesome. Yeah, it's still hard to touch-type on, but not having to hit the FN key for brackets would be a lifesaver.
No it's not. Sort them upon entry into the wallet.
For those who don't believe me, here's an explicit graphical rebuttal to the article:

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/ycnews/nonsense.png
I think it's a little to early to say that Android has missed the game. I agree with your argument for the most part, but I'm waiting to see how the launches of Android phones go for the other major providers. Last I heard, Sony Ericsson and Samsung were both going to launch Android phones this summer.

Android may be a flop, but I don't see any reason to nail the coffin shut quite yet.
Wow, are you making a bomb or something?

"if you've done nothing wrong, you've nothing to hide" isn't going to work, is it?
actually, TTH uses the purported Hacker News algorithm, so i'm not sure if Digg would be the best comparison.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/reddit-stumbleupon-delicious-and-...
there is a distinction about drawing a valid conclusion and "abuse". If you can back up the claim of jerk then fair enough but if not, it's defamation - and the writer doesnt do so.

Also as it is a prominent picture obviously deliberately doctored for this purpose Im sure it wouldnt go well for TC :P

EDIT: personally dont care either way, I suspect they are right ;) but it struck me as amusing in the context of the article.
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Motorola A1600 is a superb option for all multitasking consumers across the globe. The phone provides you best of opportunities to capture all types of information at a quite pace. It comes with a 3 megapixel camera that allows you to click excellent photographs.
While I agree that simple contrast accounts for much of the effect, I'm not sure this is totally bogus. I've heard similar advice in the pixel art community that suggests cooler shading and warmer highlights. I think it's the same concept at work.
Wow, that's a whole lot of non-info.

As some of the comments sort-of point out, a major part of bandwidth pricing is loop costs and density. $2,000/mo buys you a lot more bandwidth in a big colo facility than it buys you at your off-net office park.

Like many other things, bandwidth gets cheaper per/MB when you commit to higher rates and amounts. Just like real-estate, buying 100 acres of undeveloped land is far less expensive than buying 100 individual undeveloped 1 acre parcels.

And to carry the real-estate analogy further, there is a "location" aspect. Not all pipes are the same, there are Tier-1 carriers and Tier-Shit carriers.

So, the ultimate answer is: "It depends. A lot."
See if there is something about the person to see if there is a nongeneric opening. If she is holding a book, ask about the book. If it's a romance novel, talk about the difference between girl books and guy books. If she is carrying a newspaper of magazine ask whats interesting today.

If these are a little difficult practice on people who dont count. By that I mean people who you dont care if you never see again. The elderly are often a bit lonely and love to chat. Or a girl you would never ask out. (You could be wrong about that.)
Why is the alphabet in any (never mind some particular) prescribed order? Obvious (to me) answer: to make it easier for kids to memorize. It's working, too. Notwithstanding its inscrutable origins, ABC order as we know it now has survived more or less intact for upwards of 3,000 years.
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I actually find the original palettes to be more pleasing than your reconstructed ones due to the hue shift. I can't help but go with what my eyes are telling me.
You know, out of all the things a new start-up has to worry about, picking the right colours is down there with ensuring scalability to amazon levels in terms of priority.

I've been around the web for close to 15 years now, and all I can say is that the only constant is you will not get consensus on matters of creative taste.

This is a fruitless exercise to occupy your time with, IMO.
You just shifted the overhead from removal to insertion. Having different sized notes removes the overhead entirely.
I agree to the extent that the article argues that a higher quality product deserves a higher value.

I think the article is actually quite sympathetic to journalists

One of the reasons I said the article was confused is that it's not clear who the target audience is. If it was sympathetic to journalists, then why the accusatory title and overall tone?
Yeah, I've heard this one before. A few authors do have decent speaking gigs (often for keynotes and things like that) but they're the exception. And those who can make money this way are already doing it. The whole idea that there's some huge untapped pot of money in live performances (for reading, music, or whatever) is pretty silly.
Another way to say this is, "How to cater to the lowest common denominator".
I don't buy this for a minute.

No matter what your mental horsepower, a high-level language will allow you to accomplish more with a given amount of effort.

You are essentially arguing that tools don't matter, that a steam shovel ultimately offers no improvement over brute strength. Several millenia of human history beg to differ.
thanks grandalf.

I'll give it a go.

Also found this site - http://highscalability.com/

Very good resource.
If the goal is to show that, then the experiment should be set up carefully to equalize the value & chroma, and then test the hypothesis that such hue shifts make a difference. Any effect they have pales in comparison to the value/chroma effect. The explanation as given in this article is unscientific, and shouldn't be taken as serious advice, especially not by "color newbies" looking for wisdom from experts.

(The chromas have arbitrary relation to one another, the hue shifts are non-uniform and essentially arbitrary, and as I showed the values are exactly selected so to "prove" the author's claims. Setting up this experiment with attention to human color perception wouldn’t be that hard.)
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Actually, I had just came up with an idea for an iPhone application (check out http://fairsoftware.net/public/project/634)

I'd be interested in finding a developer and an English major to turn this into something real. I think this app has potential.
Sure, I only swapped the values and not also the chroma information. But the point was to refute the original article, not to set up my own controlled experiment.

As another example... if this hue shift was the main thing that mattered... well, I took his "ugly" combination and flipped the color information vertically, so now the hue shifts in the opposite direction from before. Does the new combination on the right really look better? http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/ycnews/nonsense2.png
So are you not going to edit the book? Or just have a friend do a cursory job for free? How are you going to promote the book so people know about it? Of course, you don't have to do any of those things to get an ebook out there but getting a quality ebook out there and marketing it are something else again.
Nope. It's Windows 2000 which is locked for admin and can't be updated. I have trouble even getting Acrobat and Flash updated.
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Well, the tickets where y'all fill in the bubbles with pencil to choose numbers and the form can be read by an optical scanner are surely not randomly generated. People will draw pictures, play birthdays, and attempt to choose layouts that "look random", none of which result in a uniform ticket distribution, which is what most people seem to mean when they say that something is "random".

The takeaway is that "distributed uniformly at random" is not a great assumption at all when inputs are generated by a process. It's one of the relatively few things I did learn in my graduate algorithms class.
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The original idea is that the ones on the left are uglier than the ones on the right because of their brightness. The rebuttal switches the brightness levels, which results in the same progression, from ugly to less ugly.
In my opinion, the goal of "smalltalk" is to find what you both have in common with each other. ("Are you a student? --Me too! Major? --Really ... I was going to go into that, but <insert joke here>") Assuming you do in fact have things in common, the rest should follow.
Why wait 2-3 months to merge everything back into master? Why not do it every day? Or better yet, do it whenever a good bit of functionality (a story) is completed, which can be several times a day?

It's better to see where the dependencies are up front instead of waiting until the very end of the iteration.

Here's the ideal Git workflow, described by three different people but all pretty much recommending the same thing:

http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/2008/12/18/agile-git-and-the-...

http://gweezlebur.com/2009/01/19/my-git-workflow.html

http://reinh.com/blog/2009/03/02/a-git-workflow-for-agile-te...
I think it's the hierarchies between the journalist and the consumer that deserve lower (not low) pay. The journalists are doing all the work, they should be paid more.

The problem with journalism is that the customer of the journalists' publishers are not the readers of the articles, they are the advertisers that fill the publication. It is this mindset that has pushed news from one of providing information to the reader to one of providing entertainment.

Journalists then work for entertainment companies, not news companies -- there is a big difference. The Economist is a news company. The evening news is entertainment. This means news competes with every other form of entertainment and news just doesn't doesn't stand a chance.

Why? Because the news is supposed to have a standard. Look at what happens when standards are lost (cough, fox!). Look at how the Daily Show is more popular than the evening news -- because it is more entertaining, because it doesn't pretend to strive for ethics. These lies are transparent and the consumer knows the news is not the news, but one big advertisement for prescription drugs, politicians, and mega corps.

The journalists aren't making the decisions that are shaping this theatre, the bosses with the big wallets are and they are controlled by the advertisers.

How many journalists have been told to modify their stories to be more appealing to the ad market? How many embellish to win more viewers?

The downfall of journalism has less to do with changing technology and more to do with faltering ethics and diminishing focus on the end user -- that is, the reader or the viewer -- and more focus on the advertising they sell.

When the news industry begins to understand the product they are selling, things will change.

For the record, the ad based revenue model is failing on the internet too. Are we going to blame the internet for that?
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How many bills do you carry?

I live in Canada, the land of the debit card. It's rare for me to actually even carry cash anymore.
She’s got a DNA "thermocycler" bought on eBay for $59

Putting that in quotes signifies that you both don't know what it is, and are afraid of it. For $59 off ebay? I'd guess it's something evil and scary like a "warming plate".

Well, my dear, the fact is

Yes, why don't you who tell her what she was doing, hmm? You clearly have a good understanding of what it would take to engineer ecoli into the black death 2.0 if you can judge that she was "one mistake" away from doing so.

A calm, measured, thoughtful response to biohacking would be to run around madly in one’s underwear screaming “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” It is impossible to overstate this threat.

What can we do about it? Probably nothing

...
This might sound silly, but it's butt-ugly.
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Zeta isn't the last letter of the (Greek) alphabet; Omega is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega. However, your latter comment about the word alphabet being derived from Alpha + Beta is (kinda obviously) somewhat correct: http://www.quinapalus.com/gr0.1.html.
I like your idea, but sorting on insertion is O(log(N)), which is faster than searching an unordered list and just as fast as having different-sized bills.
Yes, that's the prior probability, before you observe the first outcome. This is a common gamblers' fallacy; past events do not affect future events from which they are independent!

I'm assuming that you and/or the GP are assuming that everyone can win and everyone's ticket has a random digit drawn separately. However, if we assume that you know what number you picked, you don't know the result of the lottery, you know that the person in front of you won, and he chose his digit uniformly at random, the probability is still 1/10, because it has already been decided that he and the lottery chose the same digit.
thanks again for the feedback. you definitely know your flex (this was the project on which i learned flex from scratch).

1. good advice on the enter key stuff.

2. the uploader actually does more than just upload... it fingerprints songs. i'm sure it could be done with flex. however when i first tried to do so i started running into a lot of security issues. and so i ditched it and went with something more familiar, with the justification that a user only uploads a handful of times. but, yes, this needs to be redone in flex.

3. good advice. one thing that i haven't been able to figure out (and it looks like your example doesn't have it either) is how to let the mouse's scroll wheel activate the scroll bar. any ideas?

4. no i'm not. thanks for the tip
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I really never heard anybody really into mobile space every saying that seriously. Most articles you will find of that time are saying that Windows Mobile has a very uphill battle, as manufactures and carriers are very wary and un-trusting of Microsoft. This is in 2003-2005 when MS was making a large push into the space, and people were still afraid of Microsoft.

Android changes the game differently. Open source, pretty good, customizable, and fits in many kinds of hardware, and probably will be a gateway for ARM netbooks.

I think android will be the way Linux actually wins. Few normal/average users thining about ditching Windows for Linux. But with android starting from the bottom (phones, then netbooks), it will prove a huge challenge to the Wintel architecture.

Android has the promise of cheap, yet very slick and usable interface (still work in progress), plus hundreds or thousands of apps being built for it.

It gives users less and less reasons not to start switching from windows.
I am saying this is not so right now, but few years from now, the space will look very different.
Give me that and an Amiga with video toaster, and I'll make you a mid-90s sci fi show...
Continuous integration should help to get rid of your merging headaches. I would merge way more often. The moment a developer has implemented and tested a bit of code -> Merge and resolve conflicts. 2-3 months are very long iterations. I think you should break your problems down into smaller parts.
So if environmentalists hate capitalism is the opposite true as well. Do capitalists hate the environment?

I'm not serious of course, but the idea that people could seriously think either of these things is the same kind of black and white logic that leads to everything wrong with the world.
(1) Good small talk is usually personal, in the sense that it's about the people talking. "I'm a morning person" is not inherently more interesting than "What a nice day!", but it creates a stronger bond between the people talking.

(2) Think of the conversation as an exchange of information: you're telling each other things about yourselves. If you just ask questions and don't volunteer anything about yourself, you seem creepy; if you only talk about yourself, you seem like an egotist. If in doubt, try to get her talking about herself more than you're talking about yourself, but not by too much.

(3) Don't try to show off your knowledge. It's good to be insightful or witty, and it's fine to introduce a relevant fact if it moves the conversation along. But in a casual conversation, people are not looking to be impressed by your knowledge of e.g. their major or yours.

(4) If the conversation stalls out, ask a very general question: something like "Are you having a good day?" or "Looking forward to the weekend?" or "How are your classes going?" This makes it easy for them to find a subject they're comfortable discussing. If someone replies to a question like this in a closed-off way, like "Yup" or "Fine," they're signalling that they don't want to continue the conversation. You can smile and say "Cool" and let it drop without any embarrassment. Not everyone likes talking to strangers, and everyone is sometimes in the mood to be alone with their thoughts.
It's a sick trick by the ozone generator manufacturers. Ozone generators should never be used in an occupied building.

http://www.lungusa.org/site/c.dvLUK9O0E/b.1024637/k.3083/Lun...

"Avoid using air cleaning devices that emit ozone. Ozone has not been found to clean indoor air, including mold problems. Ozone can harm lung health, especially for children, the elderly, and people with asthma and chronic lung diseases."

http://www.alaw.org/air_quality/indoor_air_quality/ozone_gen...
How can you not click on that link... ;-)
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How convenient of him to remove "In God We Trust" from the currency without even so much as a mention.
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Seriously, I'm impressed that the monkey (rta) only pushed the button for a mere 16 hours a day :-)