skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of this is only true for Anglo-Saxon values of politeness, which many other cultures will see as insincere, fake, cold, manipulative and even downright insulting.

This may not apply to the author, who writes "I am often consumed with a sense of overwhelming love and empathy", but certainly to the vast majority of people who don't have such extreme levels of empathy but use the same tactics.

Yes, like many people I will fall for the "that sounds hard" trick, but if I see you pull that multiple times I'll file you under "manipulative cunt" unless I have a good reason to assume you're that one in a million who actually gives a fuck. Because most of us really, really don't.
I don't know if you are in on the joke, but this is how XRumer actually works. It has bots or other users provide links to their auto-posted questions, in an effort to avoid detection.
Google Trends does some of this - http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=microsoft. Letters on the chart are headlines. There's obviously tremendous room for improvement!
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Is colo space at the ISP an unlimited resource? If not, then it will end up priced out of the reach of the small guys.

I suppose the ISP could offer some kind of "virtual colo", where instead of putting your servers in the ISP data center for fast access they offer some kind of faster connection to your data center. This would have two big advantages over physical colo. First, it would not have the space limitations so it could be more widely available. Second, the price could be based on how many customers you are serving at the ISP so that even small content providers can afford it.

This now sounds similar to "fast lanes", which have been the major focus of opposition to the proposed approach to net neutrality of trying to regulate under section 706.

The problem I see is that in both the company specific CDN approach and the "fast lane" approach it comes down to a content provider is making an arrangement with an ISP to make that content provider's content better for its customers on that ISP.

Is that against net neutrality? If the answer is "yes", then I don't see why it should matter if it is done via physical boxes placed on the ISP's network or by prioritizing traffic from that content provider or by purchasing a higher capacity interconnect to the backbone providers that content provider's traffic comes through. This seems to me to be one of those things where it should be looked at as a black box, and net neutrality should be concerned with the externally visible behavior of the box, not the mechanisms within the box.
Yes, a diversified investment portfolio could perform like that in the past, when the gov't wasn't minimizing interest rates. Nowadays only with much greater risk of loss of principal.
Berlin bans Uber, citing safety converns and incumbent protection
So you're just going to keep 1000 private keys around to decrypt your old stuff?
> There is no reason to judge how they experience their job.

I wasn't saying that you should, indeed some of the most boring people I know find themselves endlessly interesting. The scenario I'm suggesting is closer to: You give people a chance to interest you, your interests don't align with theirs - now what?
I would love to see something similar about Europe. I've always heard Americans move around more. I wonder if it's true.
Per an engineer in the train industry [1], an essential requirement is effective mass transit in the cities where the high-speed rail stops. Without that, passengers can't reach the inter-city trains easily enough.

[1] The kind of engineer who designs trains (and related systems), not the kind who drives them.
I've written for traditional publishers for a number of years but earlier this year I self-published an ebook - The Profitable Side Project Handbook: http://rachelandrew.co.uk/books/the-profitable-side-project

It's earned over 10K USD at the current time, more than most of the books I wrote for publishers, where I would be lucky to get 50 cents per copy sold.

I wrote the book using Scrivener, and then exported to HTML from which I created the other digital versions. I wrote about that process here http://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2014/01/07/html-epub-mobi...

I'm currently writing a second edition of a book I originally published through an independent publisher, but I'm publishing the second edition myself.
I just checked, you can get a ticket from FRA to AMS and back for about 108 EUR (~ 150 USD) if you buy them a few days early and choose a favorable time-slot (full price, second class). I even did that trip some time in the last three years and the price is about right.

Train rides in western Europe are not that expensive and certainly not worth the hassle with airplanes over such short distances. Also, you can buy 25% and 50% discount cards for all tickets for a year for only a few EUR's. (25% for a year = 62 EUR, 50% for 515 EUR for inland travel in Germany).
That's why you don't put $2 million in a bank account.

This guy retired on $800k raising a family of 3 with $25k/year of passive income: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...
Or recognize that if they find what they do interesting, that is enough.

Exactly. I'd have few issues if the original author had used a canned response like "Oh, do you enjoy it?" or anything that didn't involve deception.
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If there's anything worse than the giant banner ads, it's the ones that trick you into clicking them.
I wrote an ebook on how to make HTML5 games with the Phaser framework. It's been pretty successful, making me over $12,000 on launch day.

My book: https://www.discoverphaser.com/
My sales number: http://blog.lessmilk.com/ebook-sales/
nice, how are you doing the detection. do you have to some logic specific to each of the major "news" sites, or is it more generalized than that?
how would you differentiate from: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=ebola

just more links to the articles?
histogram, https://github.com/ole-tange/tangetools/blob/master/histogra..., So you got this table and you are not really in the mood of firing up GNUplot/a spreadsheet/R but you would like a quick bar chart here in the terminal. cat data | histogram
I know Arizona is big for retirement. Mild weather, low taxes, lots of outdoor leisure activities like golf.
> Saying that governments are infallible and make perfect decisions or trend toward perfect decisions is simply not correct.

In that case, I'm glad only you said it -- I never did. Government is the art of the possible, and politicians generally know how to avoid being thrown out of office. Avoiding decisions that have no public support, choosing only those that have some public support, that's something politicians are good at. It's the political version of crowdsourcing.

> And assuming you mean democratic governments this makes even less sense.

You serious? Finding out what the voters want is even more important in a democracy than it would be in a totalitarian state. Political opinion sampling is why France and Japan have high-speed rail, and it's why the U.S. doesn't.
nautil.us is clearly spamming HN (quite effectively I might add over the last few days), I guess we can expect HN to get even worse now.
GTrends is more of a presenter in terms of providing the trends of a topic.. What I am saying is, say for example, If I search for Satoshi Nakamato it will give me a timeline of worthy news articles that covered that topic right from when it started to the recent one..
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If the bandwidth savings generated by the box exceed the cost of hosting it, then take it. Otherwise don't. But AFAIK Netflix isn't willing to pay ISPs to take boxes that save the ISP money.
in the US, at least, there's nothing really holding you back from treating your low-income employees illegally.

it's not like they can afford a lawyer, or even have time to find and/or meet with one.

that's an example of where unions are important.
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If author had put in an internal check for "do I really believe what I'm about to say" and came back with a "yup" every time before speaking, I'd have no problems at all.

However, as I see it, the pleasant lie baked into the original case is essentially "regardless of what I might genuinely think about what you just said, I'm going to give a response to make you feel good about yourself thereby making me more likeable."

*rephrasing
What I don't understand is how there can be so many simple spelling errors (not the there/their kind, but rather the theer or hte kind) when it seems like more or less every browser on every platform has a spell checker running. Do people simply not see the red dotted lines? Or do they just not care?
Exactly this.

Another advice from a book, which stuck with me: "If you have the desire to do something, do it, because if you wait too long, you will find that the desire has left you long ago."

I have done everything I wanted to do in my 20s.
I have a technical/developer background but left my startup career, with no job offer or backup nets, became a SAG actor, and a whole lot more. I even wrote and published a bunch of eBooks on this too.

BEST MOVE EVER.

I now have professional resumes in 3 different industries. Acting, Sales, and Startups. Great diversification. I even joined another startup years later doing something much more fun. The career gap came up, but I just told it like it is. You will find open-minded people who want to work with you.

Now I'm in my early 30s, happily getting ready to settle down. Just follow your heart. It's healthy and normal to yearn for great things. That is because YOU are pure greatness. Those who take action will distinguish themselves from those who don't.

What do I want to do in my thirties? Be a life coach to share my experience to those who find value. Be a great father/life partner. Learn to surf.
Congrats on finding a job that you like!

I got my degree in EE/CS, but have mostly done web dev these past few years. Unlike you, however, I want to do Image Recognition and the like in my day-to-day and largely give up on web dev. I also want to move from time to time and live overseas (I'm from SF/Bay Area).

I think you hit the nail on the head -- a "dream job" is an ever-changing concept. Some people get their life kicks from doing one thing they are passionate about every day for decades. They love diving deep -- so deep that they start to learn what few people know.

Others get their thrills from continuously doing different things that keep their horizon expanding. Learning this skill, working abroad, shifting industries, etc. I think you and I fall in that category. For those guys, "dream jobs" are temporary.
Great idea!

Installed.
Nah' I would only be showing off if I were to put it onto a real cartrdige and GameBoy, wouldn't I? ;)

- https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2332843/tuff.cartridge.j...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXNEeld8Lq8
Dressing nice, clean and decent is different from dressing according to the latest fashion trends. Get people to respect you for who you are, if they don't, Do you want to care about them ? do you want such people to dictate your life?
These kind of posts are always useful if it never occurred to you check for a keyboard shortcut - I think I would have had a miserable time getting along without Ctrl + L.

There are a few others I use on a daily basis in Firefox. There are plenty of others, but these are the ones that get me through the day.

Ctrl + T (new tab)
Ctrl + W (close tab)
Ctrl + Shift + T (undo close tab)
Ctrl + K (focus search box)
Ctrl + Tab (cycle through tabs)
Ctrl + Shift + Tab (reverse cycle through tabs)
Ctrl + Shift + P (private browsing)
Agreed. I use profiles to keep myself safe but have been struggling when I switch between different machines.

There are so many users on the webstore. Time to solve a BIG problem? (App monitoring service?)
Very uncommon.
It sounds very advanced but an assembler for a rather simple architecture like z80 is much easier to write like most (other) compilers for example.
what is the new news here?
When people say save, they also mean your brokerage accounts full of index funds.
White communities- is segregation? Seriously? Black people are more likely to pick/stay in high crime neighborhoods full of mostly black people, isn't this the same? Difference being, successful, hardworking, decent, honest black people will move away- usually in a primarily white neighborhood. Ask them why... they don't want black neighbors. This is not made up. I, with 2 other college students, conducted our own study for our social economics course, we talked to so many people from different races, wealth classifications, different neighborhoods, and their answers were dependent on their class and neighborhood, more than their race.
But hey I guess when you think about it, it's only racist, segregation, and wrong when white people do it.

Funny how illegal immigrants come over here with nothing more than the clothes on their back, work for $7-$100pcs an hour, pay taxes/social security/Medicare -but never get it back, and they more often than not, somehow achieve a good enough life to take care of their families, and still send some money back home.
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The small guys can use Akamai who already has many cache boxes in place.

My understanding is that private peering and caches are primarily a cost optimization and are not about performance (as long as the "normal" Internet isn't deliberately congested). This way of thinking makes CDNs compatible with net neutrality.
So why then large ISPs would refuse it, if it's free?
On the contrary, I'd argue that it's much easier for them to do those things because they have considerably more time, free capital, and flexibility than non-financially independent people.
There's an important distinction between simply being ambitious about achieving greatness, and feeling as though you were destined, or meant, to achieve greatness. The former accounts for failure, while the latter does not.
What did you do about proofreading bits of your manuscript that you couldn't break apart into randomised, individual units? How did you make sure all your punctuation and grammar was correct? For example, placing commas appropriately in a sentence that only a human can understand. Surely this is also part of the proofreading process?
Your other post (the one you edited) is dead because it was a duplicate of this one. You should delete that one and edit this one instead.
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That's good. It reminds me of a recent blog post by Yoni Freedhoff about nutritionists posting sponsored tweets. Often the disclosure is not at all obvious.

http://www.weightymatters.ca/2014/07/7-nutrition-hashtags-yo...
> A simple search box where you'll enter a news topic and it provides a timeline of incidents related to the topic.

Ask yourself whether your app will do this better than Google does. This is not to discourage you, but to ask some hard questions -- to succeed, your app would have to produce something that Google's search engine cannot.

> What do you thing of it?

I thing you need a better, more contextual, spell checker.
> unless I have a good reason to assume you're that one in a million who actually gives a fuck. Because most of us really, really don't.

I'd encourage you to re-evaluate that.

What if you just so happen to live in a world where most people are nice, kind, and caring?
when basic dignity for workers is 'just because', a business has lost its' way.

a business should produce three things, for three important customer segments: customers, investors, and workers, and all three are equally important.

too many businesses, most of the large ones esp, cater only to investors (or the interests of the owners) leaving both customers and workers by the wayside. i fully support exile for people who operate these businesses.
Close but with some important differences. We've tried that approach and it has some interesting potential applications but, when it comes to building a power plant that has to last decades, we think the engineering is just too difficult. Instead of pushing on a liner that then pushes on the plasma, we directly push on the plasma with magnetic field. The engineering, while still difficult, is much easier to tackle.
“oracle of omaha”
Money does correlate to happiness, so long as you have enough of it to live comfortably. Beyond that point, additional money does not increase happiness.
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The Universe is much bigger than you. Go with the flow. Have your ambitious goals as an intention, but take what you are getting now with peace. In the end, your achievement or lack of, hardly matters. Your living of your life with peace, matters. Be attentive and opportunities that suit your intention will knock on your door. Until then, don't sweat.
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I wish the government would enbrace git for more than just software, like creating law....
Does this whole thing depend on countries not publishing their registered companies online? And becomes immediately transparent when they do?
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> On top of that, the DOS market in that era always preferred to make the tradeoff in favor of higher color depths rather than higher resolutions.

I think I'd characterize it a little differently: I remember games favoring 256-color modes (320x200, ModeX, etc.) and productivity applications favoring higher resolution. At the time, having both high bit depths and high resolution at the same time was asking too much of the hardware.

To put it in perspective, for a while, my desktop PC was an older generation 486/33. When I say 'older generation', what I mainly mean is that it was one of the last machines that lacked a local bus of any kind. This put the video board behind an ISA-bus, which was lucky to sustain 8MB/sec shared across all peripherals. Just looking at the bus, it couldn't update a full 1024x768 desktop at more than 10Hz. (320x200 was well over 100Hz).
That's one part of a negotiation. There's nothing that says an ISP has to take any deal that's more than $0 net profit.
That's funny. This is the exact kind of lingustic stereotyping we mock as pop science in intro linguistics course (at least in the US the last decade I took them).
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Bump that up by a few hundred miles per hour and it'd be worthwhile. :)

80MPH doesn't save that much time!
Exactly!
Thanks so much for the input, these is exactly the sort of things that our team is thinking too.
Would love to hear more input of yours and chat - email maggie@play-tag.com
Ask HN: Is it time to say goodbye to the startup world?
There has been a lot of threads* with people becoming disillusioned with the startup world.

A prominent startup figure has mentioned that there is a lot of posturing, positioning in the recruiting process. Great people just want to work with one another, but, I'm finding the interview process more and more stifled and ridiculous compared to 9 years ago - when I first started working with startups - and even 3 years ago.

I just want to work with one GREAT company for 30-40 years and am starting to think such a company only exists in more traditional sectors (hospitality etc).

Has anyone here ended their career in high tech and not looked back? (You probably wouldn't be on HN if you didn't look back :-P)

EG.,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177259
There's no search function for me to pull up threads with the title "programmers becoming disillusioned", there was a bunch of them.

* Edit: To think of it, is this just with SF Bay startups? I interviewed with about 15 startups, and they are noticably more fickle than East Coast startups.
You beat me by 3 days! I must've missed the article on Monday, because I just created my own last night :P.
Stop believing agenda seeking black people about the media (Sharpton, James, etc.)- turn your tv to CNN, msnbc, etc., and watch it for an hour. They do not blame black people. They don't wait for facts. They automatically side against cops, and with our president. So you are right, they do report the news on bias, you just have their bias backasswards. When changes get made in the wake of these type issues, you still blame people for not changing... why change, why be fair, what's the point?.. when they still get blamed for not doing the right thing.
One of Carl Sagan's most pertinent messages for humanity
After my 10 year old daughter came to me and told me that one of her goals was to learn how to program a computer, being a Computer Scientist, I was very happy to hear my child wanting to learn some of the things I knew, and I immediately started to look for something that would help her begin the process of computer programming.

After an initial search, I could not find anything that seemed appropriate, and probably more importantly, would keep the interest of a 10 year old. So I wrote my own: C# Programming for Kids and VB.Net Programming for Kids. Both are available from Lulu.com and other places like Amazon.
Despite his points about politeness helping him, which I appreciate, politeness is still following rules, aka doing what other people tell you.

With social skills, as with any other discipline, merely following rules will make you a craftsperson, not an artist. Artistry comes from knowing the rules so well you can transcend them. I prefer the musician who knows how to improvise sometimes the "wrong" note, the quarterback who shines when the play falls apart, the chess player who develops new moves, ... you get the idea.

Personally, I'm more interested in becoming an artist than just following rules. For example, I prefer to find out how I can quickly create deep bonds, which you can do when you break some of the author's rules. I grew up with poor social skills and the geek scientist in me wanted to understand what was going on. Then the geek entrepreneur in me wanted to use what I figured out and develop it as far as I could. Then the business entrepreneur in me wanted to polish it so people would appreciate it. Now I coach people in it too. I feel like the guy wrote a story about how to play scales on the piano, though I enjoyed the writing style. Who wants to stop there?

My story about my friend and Jack Nicholson at the U.S. Open illustrates the social value in breaking a dress code (from my blog http://joshuaspodek.com/high-status-living-rules-jack-nichol...). There are a million other role models of people who shine in breaking rules, but I'll just tell that one story about him:

A friend who grew up in Queens and became the senior ball boy at the U.S. Open told me a story about his friend who worked there too.

One day he was working at the door to the U.S. Open’s VIP room enforcing the jacket-and-tie dress code. Jack Nicholson came by and started walking into the room wearing shorts and a t-shirt.

My friend’s friend, following the rules, in a nervous high school student voice, said “I’m sorry Mr. Nicholson. There is a dress code and I’m afraid I have to ask you to follow it.”

With a polite laugh, Jack Nicholson said “I don’t think so,” and continued in.

I'll bet Jack Nicholson didn't start breaking rules because he became a star. I'll bet he became a star by breaking rules -- not blindly, but intelligently.
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