skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I do notice: I'm already much less frustrated at comments I'm reading here. If somebody says something I disagree with, I can't see if half the site has voted them up, to me it's just a typical comment that I can either ignore or respond to.

Similarly, now dcurtis and I are arguing upthread, and I'm not anxiously wondering if he's been voted up more than me. We're just in a normal argument where neither of us will be proved by the community to be "more" right than the other. That's good.
Can the Right Kinds of Play Teach Self-Control?
Seconding the Spreeder recommendation. Smoother and better-looking and it looks like more customizable as well.
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If the numbers are changing you get accustomed to it quickly.

By the way, my original comment has an absurdly high karma count. I think that is a direct result of hiding the count.
It was posted about 30 times the first day, and all the copies were auto-killed.

I kind of hope this thread stays, since I'd like to know what people here think of what 37s is saying.
The automated scanning system in Tescos UK weighs items as you scan them. You can only scan one item at a time, and must place the item in the "bagging area" before you can scan the next item. It only takes one person to oversee 8 or so scanning machines to provide the human theft disincentive.
I've often felt they drop the new employees in the express lane as the reason it seems to go slower.
Yea. I would be fine if it popped up and said "Restart Now." as a modal dialog box that had no other option than "Yes".
Network security with ants
I really hoped this headline meant that Google Voice had prompted AT&T to offer a similar useful service to its customers. But no, it just means that both players are lobbying congress for regulation favoring their particular business models.
StackOverflow does this for free.

If you post a code sample and don't properly indent it, someone with high rep will correct it in within minutes. Such nice people.
So I looked at the NSS Labs methodology and how they define a successfully blocked connection:

The resulting response is recorded as either “Allowed” or “Blocked and Warned.”

• Success: NSS Labs defines “success” based upon a web browser successfully preventing malware from being downloaded, and correctly issuing a warning.

• Failure: NSS Labs defines a “failure” based upon a web browser failing to prevent the malware from being downloaded and failing to issue a warning.

So if malware was blocked, and the user not notified, this would imply that the test failed.
The store where I shop here in the Netherlands works like that - no interactions with humans required for the whole process, which I appreciate. I believe there's some sort of sanity check heuristic at the checkout - I once did forget to scan something, and a friendly store employee walked over to me with a different scanner and scanned a couple of items until a light went green.
Usually when I choose to go through the express line it is because the line is around the same length or barely greater than the other lines and there is a clear advantage because the normal lines have people with groceries filling their carts to the brim.

Something confusing me was the pleasantries exchange and cash is faster than debit. People do say hello and ask if you found everything fine and whatnot but while they are saying that they have already scanned 3 or 4 of my items I haven't ever had the trouble of someone talking and waiting for response before scanning items.

In response to cash is faster than debit there are always people fumbling with wallets to get cash out and such while with a debit card you just slide (most of the time before the checkout is even done) and enter pin/ sign receipt and you are on your way, you don't even need to wait for someone to count out change back to you.
Who are you? Why does it seem like you're angry all the time?

I pointed out an observation. Your response used the word fuck and then called me lazy, which is extremely rude. Would you have said that to my face? This isn't personal, dude. I just get the same feeling now when scanning comments that I get when I am looking at products on Amazon and can't see the price.
In this related page http://www.triz-journal.com/archives/what_is_triz/ they write that "Somebody someplace has already solved this problem (or one very similar to it.); Creativity is now finding that solution and adapting it to this particular problem."

I think this is a good method. See for instance this book From steam engine to search engine http://www.amazon.com/They-Made-America-Centuries-Innovators... listing 2 centuries of innovations.
Troll posts will be modded down and deleted. That's not really a problem.
It still seems excessively ad hominem to me.

I don't know about the specific people named in swordmanship but generally in sport the best teachers, coaches and managers will not necessarily be the best at the actual sport. Maybe that doesn't apply in the martial arts though.

And that's at the top level. For ordinary folks I'd suggest that the advice given by a legend may be inspirational, but that pragmatic advice from a standard teacher which is aimed at their level (e.g. "walk away from bar fights if at all possible") may be more appropriate. So I have no problem with methodology suggestions provided by the less than leet.

Also, your reply suggests you unit test, you just don't write the tests first. Which means, compared with the average programmer, you're like Greenpeace complaining about PETA and while you see a big difference the 'average' person just lumps you in together under the general heading of "extremist weirdos".
Good article.

Paypal, Amazon Payments and Google Checkout should all be in a good position to dominate the mobile money market in the US, I would think.
Awesome! This would go well with RecordStream, which has tools like sort, grep, and join for JSON:
http://code.google.com/p/recordstream/
Why should a system update ever require you to restart your computer, though?
The target demographic is not exactly rolling in cash but an interesting, socially conscious idea nevertheless.
Build a projector for presentations that doesn't require you to plug in a computer. Instead, you just plug in a USB disk or SD card, and it will give you a list of PDF files and let you show one as a presentation. (No more fiddling with laptop video dongles, mirroring modes, resolutions. etc.)
I'm not exactly sure about those particular mixes, but I know I end to get good results mixing genres in Pandora by using the "Add Variety" feature. I also find that keeping the window open and just pausing it stops the repetition, they tend to only repeat songs you really, really seem to like, or they will only once per page load (per station).
http://images.google.com/images?q=seven%20spoke%20wheel&...
Netscape had quality issues long before version 4. Navigator really felt like it never left beta. Version 4 was just the point where the accumulated technical debt had become so huge that it proved impossible to recover from - and at the same time IE matured as a credible alternative.

The <img> tag was a nice pragmatic solution, but from there it went quickly downhill. Already around version 2 Netscape was adding badly thought-out features like <font>, <frameset> etc. which have taken a decade to get rid off. Rendering bugs and inconsistencies were never fixed.

They could probably have recovered and consolidated by stepping back and focusing a bit more on quality and sound design for a while. But they didn't.

It seems every single project Netscape developed was either abandoned or turned out so buggy it was unusable. Clearly no single programmer can be blamed for that, and I believe Netscape had lots of brilliant developers on board. (And I don't doubt that JWZ was a brilliant programmer.) It must have been the overall "duct-tape" mentality that was to blame.

Some of the other replies blames various parties like Collabra, the "business people", strategic mistakes, Microsoft and so on. Sure Netscape made some strategic blunders, but it is still one of the few examples where genuinely bad code quality was a major reason for the downfall of a company. (Quark would be one of the few other - like Netscape they squandered a near-monopoly by releasing increasingly buggy software and pissing off their users).
In some studies, self-regulation skills have been shown to predict academic achievement more reliably than I.Q. tests.

Observing an individual's ability to self-regulate works as a good predictor of character in all kinds of situations, interviews being one of the more useful applications. Although justifying your subject judgments to your colleagues could be tricky -> "He answered the concurrency questions better than average but kept slouching down into his chair - I don't think he's going to be able to meet deadlines".
Museum Day links to admission for 2... Your favorite museums ?
I don't know what kind of time you have available in an average day, but I can tell you that I don't have the time to go research what every yahoo with an opinion has. I don't mind being wrong, but if I say something, I am saying it because I think I'm right. Just because someone disagrees with me doesn't make me think I should go spend the time trying to prove their position.
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I would rather have the critical system files locked while Windows is loaded. If it was a server, I would understand allowing those files to be changed, but on my workstation I run lots of code that other, not necessarily trustworthy people have written. Keeping the files that Windows relies on most safe from editing (while the computer is on) seems worth having to restart every couple weeks or so for updates.

I would put this forward: If you run on a system where it gets slower the longer it is left on (which is almost universally from programs running on top of the OS), you should have to restart for any update which changes any critical part of the OS (which I would roughly define as any piece of the OS required to get to a desktop/terminal window).
I'm an art student who is very rarely angry and doesn't think swearing indicates emotion. I also believe that it's better to have to spend time thinking about what to read, how to spend your time, than it is to be offered an easy way out that risks devaluing what people are saying. (I further believe that being called lazy usually isn't an insult.)

In person, I'd probably be doubly critical. Don't think of it as rude; I think criticizing what somebody's saying is a sign of respecting them. To quote a guy I'm in the middle of reading: "The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself."

If I were being rude, I'd ignore your comment and not call out what I thought was stupid/wrong about it. As it is, I'm debating what you said because I think there's a discussion to be had. For instance: Why would you feel the same reading comments as you would buying things? There's no harm to reading a few extra comments. You lose nothing but your time, which you're already spending on Hacker News.
Hacker News -- now with less information?

I'd say, "Hacker News -- now with less data"

Less data could = less information.

Less data could also = more information.

We've all dealt with users who become more empowered to do their jobs once we "adjust their view". Now we're the guinea pigs.
I like the "Ask me again in 20 minutes" option. Sometimes I'm in the middle of something and would like it to go away for a little while. My preference would be two options: "Restart Now" and "Nag me in 10 minutes".
I agree. The version here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Pi-unrolled.gif appears to move slower. I think it's better.
This has been posted twenty times this week
I'm a big fan of forced anonymity in online forums. I wrote a very long article about it (which was previously covered on HN) here: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000
Trippy Zune HD introduction video
This is one of the most treasured shows from my childhood. I wish it were still around for my younger brother (and indeed for my future children). I wonder if DVDs are available.
There's a regedit/GPO that should be applied on any system like this. The key is in Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update (under GPO), and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate (Some place in there, I'm on 7 right now and can't find what it would be on XP).

It is particularly strange that it would happen over the weekend. Updates should be downloaded and installed only on Tuesdays, unless you set it otherwise. If your scripts are running every weekend, why not set the machines to update on Mondays?
"It still seems excessively ad hominem to me."

Fair Enough. You have a right to form your own opinions.
Asking for proof of competence is not "ad hominem", especially in a context where that competence is what is under discussion. But yeah,, whatever.

I think most agile guru can't code for nuts. If you have difference of opinion, show me some great code these agile gurus wrote that in your opinion gives them the "level" to teach us how to code. Or a wildly successful project they managed(No the original XP project at Chrysler that failed doesn't count! ;-)) to the point they can give us the rest of us lessons.

"So I have no problem with methodology suggestions provided by the less than leet."

I don't either. But I do have problems with people who can't put one foot in front of the other masquerading as martial arts teachers. A teacher should know something beyond the students they purport to teach.

Shifting form martial arts to music, If someone doesn't know how to string a guitar and sets himself up as a "master guitarist" , should we all automatically respect him as a maestro just because he calls himself one?

Programming like music depends on quality of the output, not what title is on a visiting card. if someone can't sing "Jingle Bells" in tune, he is hardly a "musician" no matter what he calls himself or how much he blogs/tweets/writes self promoting pamphlets. Likewise for the programmatic equivalent of what (agile "guru" Ron Jeffries's attempts at TDDIng a Sudoku solver are. Please do a web search for "Ron Jeffries Sudoku Norvig" for the gory details).

A master musician is someone who can play very well. A music teacher should play much better than the untrained/untalented, if not at superhuman levels. There is a minimu,m bar of performance where it is criminal to let such a person "teach".

" your reply suggests you unit test, you just don't write the tests first."

I use what works.

But your vague Green peace/PETA analogy doesn't hold. You have your history mixed up.

You imply that anyone who uses unit tests is different from a an Agile Kool Aid drinking, propaganda spouting full time TDDer only as matter of degree. So Unit tests = agile to some degree !

Yeah Right :-).

Unit (and other) tests were used much before the agile weirdos came on the scene and blew it up into some ultimate design method (which I don't believe in - I've stated what I believe in - I think the Agile movement is largely inhabited and sustained by consultants and "scrum masters" and people who write books but no/very bad code.).

Using unit tests is not supporting Agile/XP/whatever. Drawing an occasional UML ish diagram on the whiteboard doesn't mean you support the RUP methodology salesmen.

FYI. I am done with this thread. I have no intention of going back and forth with you on a long and tedious thread. The PlinkPonk Thread Depth Alarm just went off. If you are really interested in discussing this offline, my email is in my profile. Else, well met and have a great day.
I got one, Lisp machines! Has that been done yet?
I think the conflict arises from a confusion.

If we accept that Free Software is an extreme subset of Open Source, then Open Source is not bound by criteria of Free Software.

RMS is welcome to set rules and conditions for Free Software but he has no business what so ever to dictate limitations to the Open Source, even if he despises it so much.

No one is traitor, if everyone knows their boundaries.
You have stumbled onto my all-encompassing Theory of Service: people love getting comped. No matter how cheap or silly, if it came for free people will remember you fondly for it and give you their business in the future. And they will probably blog and post on HN about it too :)

If I ever open a restaurant I am going to randomly dispense free appetizers and desserts. If I ever run a (freemium) startup, I am going to randomly give away free accounts. Not to everyone, not so much that it hurts the bottom line, but enough that the buzz and goodwill generated outweighs whatever loss I'm taking.
like astyle? http://astyle.sourceforge.net
Electric car company
So much coverage... yet may be skewed toward MIT and other schools. This guy got better pictures as CBS reported. Some how, wanted to point out and give this guy a little coverage. And give a pat on the back to those keep it simple. Without formal training, this hacker has a different point of view. We all benefit when we participate and try...
Pandora is great when I want to set it and forget it, despite the fact that it repeats the same damn songs over and over again. I've spent hours hitting the "don't play this song for a month" button and still never really hear a new song for that channel.

That said, GrooveShark is my new love affair. Any song any time, custom play-lists, and the interface just rocks. I really should be paying them.
You're awake for sixteen hours a day and you can't spend five minutes looking up what somebody's talking about? Research nowadays doesn't take a long time.
I may be off base here, but perhaps HN isn't being designed to make skimming easy. Having only a light or superficial engagement with the content, and then voting on that content, is probably what the site is supposed to be avoiding.

PG wrote an essay which discussed the 'fluff principle' at work in other voting-based aggregator communities, in which the most superficially sensational content usually rose to the top, beating out longer-form but more intellectually substantial content: http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

I think this move by PG is aimed at reducing the herd mentality of voting, and reducing the ability of readers to engage in voting without having engaged the content first.

However, I think your scheme of highlighting comments by quintile is probably a good one. It gets us away from thinking about raw scores, but also serves to reward and reinforce good commenting contributions/behavior by setting an example for others to follow. In order to stave off the herd mentality of 'piling on' upvotes or downvotes, perhaps votes made subsequent to highlighting (or greying out in the case of negative comments) should have half the weight.
To the OP, or anyone else who may have insight on this:

Was there something significant about the linked section of this article?
I was going to suggest the same thing. Most polls do not show you the results before you vote, this could work the same way.
Google isn't the postal service and has no contractual obligations to its email users. The judge might well think anyone who allows his livelihood to depend on a freebie that Google can withdraw any time it wants is an 'idiot'. Who could blame him?
Also consider reminding such colleagues that there is a definite, well confirmed negative correlation between conscientiousness and intelligence: http://www.ist-world.org/ProjectDetails.aspx?ProjectId=74c83...
I agree. As an administrator on Wikipedia since 2004, I have to say that, while Wikipedia is not perfect, I do appreciate their skeptical stance toward voting. Especially where points matter and pseudonimity allows for multiple accounts, voting runs into awful problems. The Wikimedia foundation has codified some of their thoughts on the negative effects of voting here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Voting_is_evil
As far as comment-scores are used to filter one's reading, there is an inherent contradiction in the system:

* the reader wants some filtering, so they can just read the good stuff

* the filtering is done by the readers, which requires they read more than just the good stuff

So the filtering can never be extremely effective, i.e. showing everyone only the good stuff, because then the filtering would not get done at all. I suppose it is a weakness in all public-contribution-based systems.

The work has to be done by someone. Perhaps there are other, better ways of allocating that work. A first thought: lower scored items appear stochastically -- lower score, less frequent random appearance. That might help by making it seem like there is less 'work' to do . . .

It seems the whole subject would warrant a fair amount of pondering and experiment (although it looks basically economic) . . .
It's not a mystery. Why is country X good at Y? Because Y is popular and has better support/infrastructure there.
Cool thanks. I might give it a try. Though prefer last.fm's toolbar (fire.fm) as no site needs to be open, there are play controls at the bottom of firefox, as well it tells you what's playing. As I code/test within one Firefox window I prefer not to have to switch tabs to control music, learn who is playing, as well heart or ban the track playing. Though maybe Pandora has similar toolbar?
High end pet feeder.

A microphone that's always streaming to the internets.

A robot to clean my roomba.

Turn a roomba into a cheap telepresence robot so I can roll into meeting rooms.

A really small bluetooth phone ringer/vibrator that can be easily concealed cause I wear clothing with no pockets, or tight jeans, and my cell phone is always in my pocketbook and if it's the slightest bit noisy around me I never ever hear my phone ring, especially when I'm out in noisy bars and people are calling me wondering 'hey, where are you? we're supposed to meet up an hour ago' but I never heard the call because I'm wearing clothing that is not cell phone friendly. Despite all of this I am always surprised I have 10 missed calls.
What's your shirt size? We'll send you a t-shirt (or a few!) if you're willing to try our service. And actually, I'll extend this offer to any HN reader/user.

Chris from Grooveshark.
ArXiv: Astroinformatics: A 21st Century Approach to Astronomy
I would like to see some interesting links to where AI and astronomy/physics combined
I kind of miss the lack of comment scores. I do think they allow me to be more selective about the comments I read, based on the wisdom of crowds.

Is there any chance we could have two style sheets, one in which they are hidden and the other where they are visible?
I was at the one in Union Square (5 lanes express, 3-4 normal) and I've noticed that frequently the express lines will be totally full (10+) and on the other side of a small barrier the normal lines will have almost no one in them. Once I don't think I had any wait at all by not using the express checkout.

I sometimes wonder if people at the Whole Foods think they have to use the express if they have fewer than 10 items.
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The target demographic is not exactly rolling in cash...

Not necessarily. I know a lot of millionaires on medicare. I've always wondered about that until I realized that that's exactly how many people became millionaires: by taking advantage of every financial opportunity.

Also, don't forget that in the incestuous healthcare market, there's is lots of cash. You can do very well even if your consumer isn't the one paying.

I don't fully understand the requirement here, but if it scratches a big enough itch, there's probably a great opportunity, financial and otherwise.
I really liked ActiveDesktop. I made my desktop a web page with links to common places I went on my computer.