skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was always impressed by the grand scope of the project, but throughout it I never understood how it could happen. I would personally consider it a success -- when you shoot for the stars and only make it to the moon you've still accomplished something great.
Seems like a sensitive subject (among young hackers I suppose). Four comments have been deleted so far by their respective authors.
Good luck. I kid you not, I just got a response for a question I asked in November. Yes, 7 months ago.
Every time I read about these, I can't help but think of that scene in Blade Runner.

"The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long. And you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy."
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I can say this: if I was sure that a drug like this had no long-term side effects I would take it, at least sometimes when I was working on a hard project.

But since we don't really know the potential long-terms effects of these drugs I've made sure to stay away.
I'm a really noob coder, and not a web developer, so I don't know what functions etc are responsible for this, but couldn't you use the code governing the common "More..." link often used to truncate reviews?

(e.g. Sesame Street is... (More...) - > Sesame Street is a children's show.)

Also, each sentence could be an object of sorts with one value for the simplified version and references to other objects that constitute the detail of the simple sentence. The referenced objects could be of the same class, and, in turn, resolve to even further detail by reference.

The pitfall is, of course, that it would require some extra thought while writing to keep everything cohesive and sensible with varying levels of complexity on the page at the same time.
Well, no. If your blog software were properly written it would validate the user-contributed content before including it.

If browsers were more strict about these sort of things from the start then such bugs would be far less common.

But as soon as someone claims Postel's Law we start down the slippery slope, which ends with monstrosities such as modern web browser engines.
The Darwin Debate (BBC, 1998)
In many countries in the Southern Hemisphere, including Australia, New Zealand and South Africa the winter solstice starts on the 1st of June and the official day of winter starts on June 21.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter
Your comment reminds me of how much the stock market (supposedly) used to rise and fall based upon the thickness of Alan Greenspan's briefcase.

If Steve dies or retires, that's a risk to Apple. If he lives and works, that's a benefit. And the stock market relentlessly uses all information they can. The kind of private stuff you're talking about? That's insider trading, and that's why it's illegal for, say, Steve's doctor to short Apple stock based upon his medical examinations of Steve.
And this was of great value when decimal notation was unknown in Europe and even retained some value when it was known only by a select few elite. Now most people are as (or more, especially when equipped with a calculator) using decimal notation as they are dealing with fractions.

Now that the decimal system predominates the metric system is generally easier to use, once you get used to it. Moreover, it will bring us into line with virtually all of the rest of the world which simplifies international communications, not to mention that most technical/scientific work is done in the metric system anyway. This means that most school children are burdened with learning 2 separate systems of measurement and their conversions for very little reason now.

While this is completely off topic from the main article, I think that overall America would be best served by the metric system.
Thanks to Google's market policy we Android users have a wide variety of emulators to chose from including NES, SNES, Genesis, Scumm, C64, and more...
Not as low as Windows XP : http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm
> photography was mostly a factor of how much film and equipment one can afford

If that were the case my father in law would be world famous
Related anecdote: with our core product, customers choose a base website design/template (Flash-based) and then customize it with our cms. At one time we had around 25 designs to choose from. Some designs we thought were really slick hardly sold at all.

Recently we trimmed it down to just our best designs. Currently we are offering 9 to choose from. It hasn't been long enough to back up the article but sales are definitely stronger and there seems to be a more even distribution of chosen designs.
I was about to say something along those similar lines. . .since most customers have a hard-time rationalizing a set of choices without understanding the makeup of each choice. Most customers, in a sense, out-source the decision-making to either a salesman's pitch or a product's brand. Seems like most of marketing's job is to optimize their product according to their customer's profile, which, in short, I think means each product marginalizes their customer according to a set of values called culture.
I do also use ies4linux. It's quite good for testing how IE handles CSS layouts, but it doesn't render fonts the same way IE renders fonts on Windows (presumably because the fonts available differ on Ubuntu).
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and look what is happening in Iran now!
I actually tried it for a month or so a few years back (bought the book). I couldn't get it to work - the primary goal of appetite suppression didn't work for me. YMMV of course.
Ahmadinejad Ignored this Blogger's Twitter Advice
and look what's happening
> I'm now trying to retrain my hands to keep the mouse closer. I find that I naturally end up keeping the mouse in about the same place as always, far to the right of the keyboard.

Ha ha. Irony of ironies. Keeping your hand farther away from your body is actually good because it guards against cubital tunnel syndrome: http://www.eatonhand.com/hw/hw007.htm
Boring. All these problems have already been solved by JSON.
Well if you listen to the Venture Voice podcast or the start up success podcast then you will encounter a tons of start ups that are not huge yet are successful to some degree.
And windows mobile has had these for years.
Why do people keep developing for the iPhone? What's the point in wasting a year of hard work on an application that will just get rejected out of hand?

This is stupid. This is beyond stupid. Apple is going out of their way to alienate developers and they keep going right back to the platform like the stupid sheep they are.

This is disgusting on every level.
Even if there's a 0.1% chance it will trigger schizophrenia or something it wouldn't be worth it for me. A healthy mind is the only thing more important than a healthy body.
Ah, but isn't it worth risking a closed, healthy mind for an open one?
This and other sales tricks are explained in Cialdini's "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion".

I really like that book because it made me feel more conscious about those tricks, even though it's mostly stuff "everybody knows".
I doubt they ever tested a minimalist UI.
Barry Schwartz on how more choice makes people less satisfied:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_par...
I don't care that much how people perform in exams. I don't hire people when they need drugs to reach the work level they claim to be at. Should I send the guy to a consultant job and on expenses then pay for the drugs he needs to do his/her job?

Here is what I do to improve mental performance: I go jogging with my co-workers in the morning. It is well known that sports like these also increase mental capacity + it also has lots of other positive effects.
Of course you can have complex thoughts on the matter. That's why I said "typically". I didn't make any kind of judgment. From my own experience I know that if I have an opinion but don't have the supporting arguments readily available my opinion is either wrong, or right only by coincidence. These arguments don't do well in sound-byte sized chunks though, I grant you that.
you can open your mind by watching the nature.
I wish I could tell other people how to gain control over their food-willpower so I could write a bestseller. I think I'll give it a try. http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2006/09/15/how_to_write_a_...

Somehow, I did gain control over my food-willpower. I absolutely love food, healthy or otherwise, and I basically eat whatever I want, more protein than anything else. I've taken to drinking large amounts of fruit juice to make up a caloric deficit if I haven't eaten much. I figure fruit juice is the healthiest source of empty calories.
I understand if you hold the WSJ in very high regard, as do many people, myself included. But they have not published in which way they've obtained the information, not even in vague terms. As far as we know, it is completely unsourced.
I expect that use is way, way more prevalent that is commonly believed.
Do you mean naively pessimistic instead of optimistic?

The interview indicates that he has a negative view towards the use of technology to replace traditional media.
Wasn't this already posted once before ?!
Registration forms that were built in the 90s, agreed.
"…case when you loose the ability…"

How could I do it again?!
From the article: "He adds that there are cognitive trade-offs in taking Ritalin, with a loss of creativity"

So it would seem that this particular set of drugs would actually server to close your mind further. If so, I'd be surprised if they didn't actually reduce your effectiveness at a creativity-driven activity such as programming.
Couple of years back I read that Google Home Page was designed in such way that it should not display more than 7 features.
I was simply providing another quote from the same user the parent quoted.
The trend towards describing drugs like Adderal and Ritalin as "mind-enhancing" is troubling. It seems more like a marketing strategy than science or medicine and it implies that they make your mind function more like that of a naturally smarter person, rather than the actual effect, which is to make your mind function more like that of someone who has taken cocaine or meth. That may not be a bad thing per se, but what will happen to a generation that is so sold on the idea that they are "mind-enhancing" that they can no longer tell the difference?
I like eating very large salads. 750-1000 calorie salads. It's extremely satisfying and it's very easy to change aspects of it to keep up variety. Here's how I do it.

Half of a bag of cut and washed lettuce. I usually go with Trader Joe's mixed greens. Bonus points if it doesn't come from a bag.

More vegetables, whatever you have around. I like carrots, green onions, and all kinds of peppers.

8-12 ounces of chicken cooked and seasoned to taste, pre-cooked frozen chicken is fine as long as it is actual non-nugget type chicken.

Cheese. I like Jarlsberg.

Croutons or any other type of crunchy carbohydrate. I like bagel chips.

Homemade Italian dressing. Google up some different recipes and keep playing until you get it perfect. But any dressing you make yourself with olive oil will beat the mass produced Italian dressing with sugar needlessly added.
The article is a bit optimistic. If there is anything that scares me about mind-enhancing drugs is students of all ages abusing them. But I do agree more openness is needed, and more studies on long-term side-effects in their use as mind-enhancers.
html version: http://google.com/search?q=cache:www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/ha...
Since the only way (from what I can tell) of retrieving your password is to contact pg it would be nice with contact information somewhere. I'd like to have the password reset for my account nop, to the email I put down in the info of that account.
He also give a one hour talk at Google in 2006 on the same subject. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy8R5TZNV1A
Networks differ massively on these points.

EFNet for example was more than happy to setup WEBIRC. So are hundreds of others. For Mibbit, it's the cleanest, least hassle solution. It needs no management. The networks own security handles everything. That is why it's recommended.

I'm really skeptical that abusing trust would be a good thing to do - if trust has been broken, networks can just ban you easily.

#3 I disagree with strongly. I have tried extremely hard to have an open dialog with freenode, to get details of any abuse, to get any email reports to abuse@mibbit.com or PM.

I'm working on new anti-abuse features for non-webirc networks that will hopefully help here.
How can he trust you'd pay him?
The model M keyboard I'm using right now actually came from the trash, all that was wrong with it was some ribbon cable being loose (very easy to fix). The fact that this keyboard is actually older than me just shows how durable they are.

Also it is pretty loud, I'm used to it, but whenever I'm talking with friends over voice chat they begin to complain about it.

I recommend it whole-heartedly.
I think you'll be fine. The main thing is to choose your research area/field carefully. If you choose one that is very crowded then you won't have as many people banging down your down as if you were one of only a couple people in the field (believe me, there are many such problems).
I dunno but either way it's worth reading once for sure.
Starting Up, One Year Later: The Downward Spiral
I think source of this problem (Apple abusing developers) lies in Steve Jobs's personality. Many a time, the company develops a culture based on its leader (or founder, etc.) In this Steve Jobs's personality seems to have a influenced the Apple culture heavily. If any of you remember, Jobs is not one of the nicest guys is the world. He is well-known for his arrogance, anger, and lack of respect for his coworkers and fellow human beings. We're talkign about a guy who even refused to pay the child support fees for his own child and a father of a bastard. Jobs also has an intolerance for anything non-american (or non-western) which is probably why he charges upto 6 times the price for the iPhone in India (a good thing; loosers in India who buy it deserve to get their money stolen by sucha crppy product). In any case, Steve Jobs is famous for his incredible anger, he has been known to hit people, throw them on the wall and other stuff (before he deservedly got fired in 1984 for his incredibly unethical behabior.) He is in essence a control freak. This control freak in him, is why the App Store also acts like sucha control freak, destroying months of effort develpoers put in with a simple rejection letter. Hopefully once the nutcase Steve Jobs dies from whatever disease that has been holding him from work, some sense might get into Apple. As personal advice, I suggest every abstain from touching, thinking or using any Apple product until Apple steps ups its ethical standards, removes all these DRM-like/based restrictions from their products and ofcourse, start showing some repsect for developers.
I'd be really curious to see tales of failed startups.

It could be called "Founders Out Of Work"
> And somebody will probably submit it to Hacker News and get karma, so it isn't all bad.

done.
Maybe there is a difference between containing an emulator and emulating stuff you download from the internet. I don't know the SEGA stuff, but I suppose they just use an emulator internally.

Perhaps with some repackaging that C64 emulator could have made it into the App store, too: just claim it is an app that can run a lot of C64 games (that would have to be bundled with the app). Remove the part where it can run games downloaded from the internet.
I take offense at that. Do you have enough data to make that judgement? Out of the millions of people using Mibbit, you've done a survey and measured? Or is it just more likely that you'll notice if someone causing abuse is using mibbit?
What do you mean, my generation will no longer tell the difference between adderall and cocaine or meth, or that everyone will be medicated so often that "mind-enhanced" becomes the norm? also, for the record, there's a large amount of biological and statistical work proving their efficacy, granted only on controlled, specific tasks.
That is far too much. It's better that he's dead than expressing his views about programming on usenet? Wow.
You sorta picked a crappy time. Mostly only people wound as tightly as me are awake and reading Hacker News right now. I hope you get more than 5, otherwise I will have to write something with pictures of cats to make up the "good cheer" differential.
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I still can't decide, if it is in a genuine good-will to make it "look" familiar, but in any case, in practice it created an illusion of a cheap XP knock-off, which certainly didn't work like, and wasn't Windows. What is certain, is that they have signed a patent deal with MS, so I guess it was very much in consideration.

This is why I went Acer instead of Asus.

Could it have been just Intel behind the scene, to force MS into accepting reality, that most people don't need Microsoft Windows Vista Home Ultra Basic Premium on their P5 class Atom, which it wouldn't run decently anyway?

Creating a world-wide desktop distribution is tough: RedHat gave up, SuSe is an MS proxy ["Keeping up appearances" series comes to mind], and Ubuntu is still the only desktop that has some traces of passion to drive it (its wallpaper always makes this point readily apparent).
By now I have read a lot of criticism of fruit juice, though. Basically it just contains a lot of sugar, not that much better than drinking soda drinks (what are they called? coke and lemonade?).

There also seem to be a lot of cases were people just eat insane amounts of fruits to still get their sugar shock. I'd be wary of the fruits.
Networks differ massively on these points.

Of course. My intent with that post was not to get into a discussion about why Freenode was right or wrong in making their decision - like I said, I'm not a staffer, and I have no access to the information they presumably are making their decisions on.

My intent with that post was to point out that Freenode's reasons were significantly more nuanced than you claimed in your parent post, and to address your response to one of them using arguments that they, again, outlined while you were in the channel.
Surgeon Atul Gawande found that 65% of people surveyed said if they were to get cancer, they’d want to choose their own treatment. Among people surveyed who really do have cancer, only 12% of patients want to choose their own treatment.

So, if you ask your customers if they want extensive choice, they will say they do – but they really don’t.

That's a huge non sequitur. Research on cancer treatment preference does not imply anything about 'amount of choice' preference. Not even when combined with research on 'number of sales' as dependent on 'amount of choice', because in that case no one was asked how much choice they preferred.
I'd say its highly (negatively) correlated with age. everyone knows that college students, especially at elite schools, are taking it like candy and that very few 50 year olds are being medicated for ADHD.
The monopoly has been the game of "education" all along. Educating justice, regulators, business partners... How many can StrongARM the DoJ, FTC, whole countries (in this case Taiwan) and always have a get-out-of-jail card ready each and every time just because of "education"? For one thing, they do have backing [goog://"economic hitman"].

"I think it is absurd that the lawsuit is taking so long and that we are educating the third federal judge on the case. I am pleased with our work on this case. Our view that we will almost certainly prevail remains unchanged."

[...]

"I hope we can quickly educate the FTC on our business."
Look at the United
States of America, with its depressingly moronic units instead of
going metric, with its inability to write dates in either ascending
or descending order of unit size, and with its insistence upon the
12-hour clock, clearly evidencing the importance of the short-term
pain threshold and resistance to doing anyone else's bidding. And
now the one-time freest nation of the world has turned dictatorship
with a dangerous moron in charge, set to attack Iraq to revenge his
father's loss. Those who laughed when I said that stupidity is the
worst threat to mankind laugh no more; they wait with bated breath
to see if the world's most powerful incoherent moron will launch the
world into a world war simply because he is too fucking stupid. But
what really pisses me off is the spineless American people who fails
to stop this madness. Presidents have been shot and killed before.

This is a fine example of the nastiness I guess, but it kinda makes sense in a weird sorta way !
Article dating back to eight years ago:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/09/health/in-weird-math-of-ch...
I would like to experiment with very low does of LSD to see what that does to my focus and concentration. I think it'd be interesting to see what 5-10 micrograms feels like.
Maybe if students find it necessary to take these drugs to succeed in exams it highlights something going wrong there!

Are we pushing these kids too hard? Or letting in students who don't have the capabilities to succeed?
Well, in some elementary schools you may learn to play a bit of the flute - Also we sang sometimes but the focus was clearly on music theory and music history.
There's no medecines without sides effects. All medicines I have took on my life have sides effects and sometimes dangerous.

For me the "drug" is a disaster, because it confirm that people don't work for WORK and don't study for KNOWLEDGE but for EXAMS and work for MONEY which is the biggest problem.
'All the stuff "normal" folks do to unwind and interact with the world outside of their jobs -- go to the gym, read a book, go out to dinner, watch TV, play a game, etc. -- I either won't allow myself to do or feel guilty over doing.'

This encapsulates exactly how I feel most of the time. It's really hard for me to get past the guilt of not working on the startup. Even things like eating breakfast in the morning, I don't want to do because I feel like I'm wasting time, so I end up starving myself until lunch.

It's weird because it one of those things that you KNOW you shouldn't do, yet you somehow find yourself in that downward spiral.
TechNation Australia has just started a series called "Success in Failure" which does this.

There are only 2 posts so far - but there'll no doubt be more

http://www.technation.com.au/success-in-failure/
a link: http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/2008/10/14/personal-whats-your-...
Previously posted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639252

Not much discussion there either.
Quite an eloquent rebuttal. Such a knee jerk response really makes me reconsider the truth of the statement.
You're probably right, at least for most things. But justifying the English system is still worthwhile, if only to better understand its rationale in the first place.

I still maintain that Fahrenheit is an exceptionally good temperature scale for weather, though. It's beautifully simple.
Well, there are other timezones you know
I'm facing this same problem "I can't even sit in bed writing this without thinking, "I should really be working,""

It makes me always pressed and in hurry to complete things, and I can't control myself about this!

How can I change? it's really destroying my productivity
Sounds like he is describing my university years. I think the problem is simple: the most important thing in your life is something that can consume an unlimited amount of time. There's always more to do, to learn, to explore, so you never feel you've done enough. I think that is also the key to solving the problem: you have to set precise, reasonable, goals and disengage yourself from that 'most important thing' when you've reached the goals you set for the day, week, month. Otherwise, the maelstrom will take all your time.
Reminded me of this. No doubt posted before, but I couldn't find it with a search.

http://www.jokes2go.com/poems/11787.html