skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the first list:

e) the bi-weekly post about how the site is going down the toilet, how it just ain't what it used to be, and how the new users just aren't gettin' the vibe, man.

To your credit, you did post some good suggestions. Most people just complain and skip that step. The good news? You can fix it. Start posting more of that kind of thing. Make a little effort to find stories you'd like to see and post them. If the site wants to be as you would like, they'll quickly rise to the top. Just care and post, you're halfway to fixing it.
Not sure why you were downvoted. There is life after page rank. Just imagine "real AI", only million times faster - could make for some good search engines.
How did Alexander fight dirty? In all the biographies I read, it seemed his "advance" was to use clever tactics, rather than to fight dirty. Would love an example of this.
I thought the general recommendation is to use such "exercise chairs" only for short periods of time, not all the time. I also used to have one and gave it up.
Interesting to know AIDS and STD prevalence
among these people.
the both use the cloud.
I've been doing a ton of research on this over the past few days and put it at this:
Freelancers: $40/hr-$75/hr
Shop / Agency: $100/hr-$250/hr

Just wish there were more developers out there. I've been scoping projects and looking for resources but its tricky. Its such a different world than web that you almost need to find Mac software engineers really.

Since there were only so many mac engineers out there to begin with, its about getting old dogs to learn new tricks which is slow and painful, or college kids breaking in, which is where I'm looking...
He had no regard for his troops' lives - something like 80% of his soldiers that went with him died, and he conscripted new guys everywhere he went. So he'd conscript, shock attack losing a lot of guys, then conscript from the newly defeated, and repeat. He did make advances in strategy and technology too - I believe his major military innovation was actually much longer spears than opponents, and he moved fast enough that that technology wasn't diffused and adapted.

He also executed, assassinated, or otherwise brutalized his own supporters fairly often when it would advance a goal of his. Alexander's romanticized in the west, but he didn't have much respect for the lives of his soldiers and people.
Good read. Skype is a scary application -- but then, running anyone's code on your computer is making a big leap of faith.
Apple are the new Microsoft. Conversely, Microsoft are the new Apple.
IMHO something went wrong in early 90-s.
Quadra 700 looks better than 800.
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I found this article post very useful for the search engine optimization basics, while I begun optimizing my brand new website. I hope other newbies get benefited too.
(it's perfectly acceptable to disagree with a posters point by downvoting or upvoting. If it wouldn't ruin some of the site's simplicity it would make sense to have a 4 way arrow for agree/disagree and good/bad, but the system we have works well enough)

Yes, his character didn't impact his philosophical work, at least not for the purposes of us evaluating the text. I'm just not sure I'm comfortable with people like him being listed on a list of great/influential people. Maybe his character flaw is enough to necessitate an asterisk next to his name on lists like this.

I would compare Wittgenstein's legacy to Fritz Haber -- a great man, inarguably greater than Wittgenstein. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber However, the same scientific discovery of his that averted a Malthusian catastrophe also led to Haber becoming the "father of chemical warfare."
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Going the other way around - can anyone think of an open source project that could benefit from some assembly optimization, and isn't? I'd love an excuse to play with this stuff in a useful fashion.

(I love what I do, but my twelve year old self would be disgusted that I'm not writing games.)
Hacking iPhone to make a Zooming video camera
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People are still playing C&C: RA2?!
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This seems to be basically a "legalize it!" bent to rehashing an earlier Fortune / CNN Money article:

http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/11/magazines/fortune/medical_ma...
Facebook know more about their average customers than Google does (keeping in mind most Google users don't use gmail).

Facebook use this to move into search. So when I search for 'cappucino book', FB knows I mean the web framework from the context of my discussions with FB/Twitter friends.

FB encourages users to make FB their first destination, users do this because it's search and their friends in one place, and why would you want anything else, when, in this scenario, FB's results are always better than Google's anyway?
The problem is that you used C, which doesn't have any syntax to represent meta-information about the problem you're trying to solve. When you write out C code to, say, add a list of numbers, it's hard for the compiler to optimize that. But it's very easy for the compiler when you tell it "sum this list of numbers".
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In short:

"I want something else, so everyone else should change their behaviour to give me what I want."

Yeah. Ok.

I'm not saying you don't have a point, but it's really quite poorly made.
I was approached by a friend who wanted to do a dispensary locator app for the iPhone and my thoughts were: "No way Apple will EVER let that through!" - he called me the other day to tell me about an app that got through...
Scientists use computer to 'read minds' on screen
Scientists have discovered how to read 'the mind’s eye' using a computer that can replicate what humans are seeing or recalling by monitoring their brain activity.
None of these earns the bonus for being free, but perhaps you could take a closer look:

* Microsoft Visio - I've never actually used it, but it used to be the de facto standard back in the old days when nobody ever got fired for buying anything Microsoft :)

* http://lovelycharts.com/ - this is an online diagramming app built on the Flash platform (I can't help mentioning that :), very cool stuff. However, I've never used it for anything but the simplest diagrams, I suggest that you try it yourself.
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> In an online press conference with his younger supporters, the first question was about whether legalising and taxing pot would be a good thing to help raise revenues.

That was Reddit.

It seems insane that our last three presidents admitted to smoking weed yet thousands upon thousands of people are languishing in jail for doing the same thing. Cognitive dissonance much?
Everyone already accepts shitty speeds and shitty customer service from telecos. Mentally Google is a different ballgame.
It does though - Bing has gone on to capture an absurd amount of market share in just the few months since its launch. Users will use whatever is in their title bar - and for most users on IE this will be Bing.
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Bioinformatics and the Semantic Web
Yeah.. seriously. If you want something else, go make it. Even post it here. As long as I'm learning something, be it web design, c, startups or anything interesting at all, the site is doing fine according to me.

Please come back and whine, when there are "lolcats" on the frontpage.
Why you should contribute to open source
Sharing notes I put together for a talk I gave to some students
Um, you have to use the iTunes store? Why does everyone always assume that as soon as one uses iTunes, music is also bought that way? I used iTunes for a long time without ever buying anything there.
Lower fertility is changing the world for the better
I don't think that Wittgenstein's observations on "language games" has been absorbed and taken for granted. His interest in games was part of his exposition of the nature of universals (forms, essences). Considering that for at least 25 years students in the humanities (social sciences, media studies, literary studies) have been force-fed a simplistic 'anti-essentialism' as a political doctrine, I'd say that's proof that Wittgenstein's work is almost completely unknown outside of Philosophy Departments.

Sadly most of philosophy is unknown outside those walls. Ludwig may not have found that so sad - he saw philosophy as a kind of mental disability, and himself as the doctor.

Probably the best introduction to Wittgenstein is Janik and Toulmin's "Wittgenstein's Vienna". Even if one decides that philosophy is a fly in a bottle, there's fascinating stuff in that book on forgotten greats like Karl Kraus.
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This is a community driven forum.
I get the feeling that many of the people who tout the iPhone/Tablet as an eBook reader have never tried a Kindle or something with e-ink.

For awhile, I had both a Sony Reader (e-ink) and an iPhone. While sitting around and reading linearly for an extended period was much better on the Reader, I found that the iPhone was worlds better as an eReader for reference material. This is not so much because the iPhone is so great as a reader -- really, with its small screen size and backlit LCD screen, it leaves a lot to be desired. However the iPhone is so much more interactive. And when using reference materials, one is very much interacting. (Searching, flipping, zooming)

I keep waiting for someone to produce a device for me to compile my own content in the form of reference materials. It has to be large enough to read comfortably, interactive enough to enable quick "flipping" and searching, yet light enough to carry everywhere. It should also be an "instant-on" device. So far, I've not found a device to satisfy me.

As for Om's analysis, I think the best way to judge a pundit is to hold some specialized knowledge about an obscure but interesting corner of programming. Then you can see if they have real insight, or if they're just selling a bill of goods that the mainstream will buy.
Primer explained ...
Site is not the same as when I came here. As I always say we are getting more and more normally distributed everyday.

But Just believe in natural selection. When HN start to really suck there will be a replacement that would work for sometime.

For the moment I have just a little to complain about.
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Much of the web is databases with a thin layer on top, and the whole point of the SW/LD architecture is that different sites don't need to agree on ontology; it just becomes an alternate, aggregatable database view, in a sense.

I think a lot of the SW hype's overblown - and I've worked in the field - but you're attacking something which doesn't exist.
Come on, people are playing all kinds of games!

I'm sure people still play Master of Magic, a strategic game from 1994. I've been playing it on and off since it came out, and I began to think - is it something wrong with me that I like this old game so much? I mean, surely there must be newer games that are better. I showed it to my teenage brother in the mid 2000's and he loved it too. I had my non-computer-gaming friends blown away by the original Heroes of Might and Magic (1995).

I think the world needs better means for preservation of old computer games.
I work in virtual machine development, so a portion of the interface code for hardware virtualization I wrote in straight ASM. This is not (exactly) for speed reasons, though; it's just impossible to touch the hardware at that level in C. :)
I'd never heard of the film "Primer," but during my usual check-up of the XKCD site I found the above graphic. The plotting of "Lord of the Rings" was, to my mind, brilliant. I'm a graphical thinker at the best of times, and this is an excellent representation of the travels, alliances, and action.

So then I saw "Primer" and I thought - that's my kind of film/book, so I've gone to find out more about it. There are explanations on the web, but now I want to see the film.

Obligatory connection to hacking/web: Would your web site benefit from a diagram like this, to assist those whose thought processes aren't the same as the sheeple? Is that niche market worth worrying about? Your early adopters might think in that sort of graphical manner.
This rot always annoys me :(
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> BUT the W writes specified by the requested consistency level do have to be to the right nodes or everything falls apart.

The paper doesn't say this. The passage you cited explicitly says that if W=1 any node in the whole system could take the write, contradicting your statement.

Even then, it wouldn't make sense to apply your rule. If W writes have to happen on the first N nodes in the preference list, then I wouldn't need sloppy quorums at all.
I went to a military academy as a high school student, and we had lots of military instructors who were in Vietnam. One of them was a Staff Sergeant in US Army logistics. Though they were logistics, they occasionally had to defend themselves. According to this one instructor's account, US logistics personnel would deliberately miss the enemy, and would instead try to almost hit them in order to scare them. The logic was this: as logistics, you don't want to fight them -- that's not your job! You just want to get out of there in one piece with your supplies. So you try to get the machine-gun bullets to go right past them or right around them. That should scare them into taking cover. The last thing you wanted to do was to kill someone's best friend and have them go super suicide commando on you.

I told this to an acquaintance who was an ex-marine from a family full of ex-marines, and he just commented that this was what was wrong with the Army. Apparently, a lot of people in the Marines are definitely there to kill the enemy.
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I meant to say that USA is probably the only country in the world with the road network of that magnitude and quality, which can enable the use of RV's. I live in Russia: our country is big, but the roads are not that well developed and the good ones are rare. And you need a serious off-road vehicle if you hope to go around the whole country (renowned designer Artemy Lebedev tried to do it and his Land Cruiser turned out to be not serious enough [1]).

To think of it, maybe you can go around Europe in RV? The thing I meant to say, RV only make sense in large country with good well-developed road network, of which there are not many.

[1] Artemy Lebedev's Ethnographic Expedition '2008

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Startups need marketing/business guys as much as they need coders and they need them from day 1. The idea must be pitched, refined and sold BEFORE you get too far in product development, as it is crucial in choosing direction for development.

However, this is somewhat of a blind spot for technical founders, so you first of all have to pitch them :)
Microcontroller firmware. There are many examples of AVR code in assembly on the web. I learned assembly this way. It really makes sense when you're working on bare hardware with no abstraction layers in the way. Also, it's useful for time-critical applications such as creating video signals or audio processing.
Using Network-side Scripting to Deal With Microsoft Smart Quotes
An interesting explanation of why discussion forums remind me of fashion and why HN's time is ticking:

Both systems can be modeled as a few cool types trying to stay away from some clueless followers. They move someplace else -- and are followed by the clueless. So they have to move again. And again...

I guess I qualify at least as a clueless follower here. That is better than fashion, where I'm not even a clueless follower. :-)

Ah well, it is a stark reminder. I'll take responsibility and just read in the future, unless it is a subject I know quite well.
Ask HN: Why do people use hibernate (or any ORM)?
I dont get it. Why is the everybody so keen on extending the development time of a project by using Hibernate? what are the real benefits of hibernate? Please dont say 'database independance' because this can be acheived simply with Spring and JDBC - along with connection pooling and transactions management etc.

Why do people think the concept of a foreign key is analgeous to class relationships? Why do people want their database/storage/persistance layer to bleed into their domain/application layer?

AND would we be doing things differently if database vendors supported a 'standard' SQL?
The Release charity in the UK has a campaign called "Nice People Take Drugs", which aims to change drug policy to harm reduction and remove the stigma associated with drug use. One of their promotional tools is a deck of cards, each featuring a politician known to be tough on drugs, subtitled with a confessional quote of drug use from their youth:

http://www.release.org.uk/nicepeopletakedrugs/deck-of-cards/

(you can click on each card to see the quote)
> Wittgenstein was a terrible person who hit children, hard, on the head:

That old bugbear - horrible as he might have been in person, his philosophy is distinct from this side of him. We might as well insinuate that Feynmann's work is worthless because he was a womanizer.

> Not having any philosophical problems one is interested in or finds fruitful is completely understandable

How is reasoning about the problems of philosophy itself not an interesting philosophical problem? You are entitled to your own opinion, but when you slate someone who was considered by other big philosophers as a giant, you need to make a stronger point than that.
Here's a link describing the sort of "convertible note" that gtm mentioned: http://www.entrepreneur.com/money/financing/startupfinancing...
> Or want to cite a fruitful philosophical problem Wittgenstein did have, to contradict my view?

That burden is on you, since you made the original assertion.
Funny that The Times are running anti-prohibition articles during this whole furore about the sacking of David Nutt. They can't be a happy bunch at the Home Office this weekend.
An SBA loan must be personally guaranteed by the borrower, so I don't really see a difference between an SBA loan and running up credit cards, except for the interest rate.

Personally, I would try to suffer through the Valley of Death. Here are some ideas I would try:

* Can lloydarmbrust sell for an extra hour by taking a two hour lunch and spending an extra hour at work?

* Can lloydarmbrust sell via email during the workday (assuming he can stay on top of his regular job)?

* Can jnovek can do some of lloydarmbrust's work so that lloyd can get more time to sell and/or survive at his current job?

* Can jnovek learn to sell, at least to the point of identifying prospects? For instance, a lot of lloyd's time may be spent trying to find out the decision maker at, say, the NYTimes. jnovek might be able to offload some of that "find the client" work, even if he weren't comfortable enough to "sell" the prospect he finds.

Finally, $2.5k in monthly recurring sales sounds extremely low for a b2b sale that can add 5-8% to the bottom line. Have you considered raising prices by 10x? If your customer has $1 MM in revs, saving them 8% is $80k a year! You should be capturing a big chunk of that.

Forgive my forwardness, but it's my sense that you don't have a financing problem, but rather, a pricing problem.
But we can never imagine what's next. When they said, "What's the worst that could happen to IBM?" No one would have been taken seriously if they said, "A tiny little computer that sits on your desk."

Google is king of search as it's done now. I've personally seen a startup that can do a very new type of search. Who knows if this will be the "little computer that sits on your desk" but what we do know is that something is most certain to come along.

Disruption is never "if", it's always "when".
I'm not sure that's an effective argument.

Politicians occasionally break the speed limit also, but it's not a great argument for increasing the speed limit.
I'll second Hacker and recommend his Wittgenstein's Place in 20th Century Analytic Philsophy as a reasonably accessible starting point.
Too bad Carl Sagan did not live enough to see it happen.
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Even lolcats story can be interesting (imagine how interesting will be to predict number of votes a lolcat picture will get by analyzing the picture for determining cuteness and analyzing the caption to determine funniness)
Twitter partly solved the spammer problem as well. Nobody will follow a spammer. The only thing I hate about Twitter is too much trivial RT's

But there's a problem with Twitter's model, if you join twitter too late, you don't know where to start, too much fresh ideas to understand how twitter works quickly, and you have no friends to get attention to.
Don't beat him, I think it's useful to reflect on HN now and then. Still, I think the system still works basically ok, and it is only an issue for all of us to make better submits.
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Its the age-old question of being able to maintain a high signal-to-noise ratio. The bottom-line is that the more "democratic" a forum/board/discussion media gets, the more clueless it becomes. There doesn't seem to be a way to get away from that.
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At first when I looked at this I thought... "who wants to carry that big thing on top of their iPhone?"

Then I realised that the target market for this is Flip users... and for them, it's pretty smart. Turn your iPhone into a Flip camera that can also upload footage immediately. Neat.

Also on TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/01/owle-hacks-the-iphone-t...
And what is the correct size ball? I can only seem to find them going up to 75 cm in diameter in my local sports stores - is that sufficient?
I know this is off-topic, but bemmu, you need to paypal me $20 as per our bet made in #startups on IRC. You haven't showed up in the chatroom lately. If you had won the bet, I certainly wouldn't have reneged. You can send payment to the email in my profile.
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