skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I call them "insights" because very little of what's said in Sperm Wars is backed by hard science and the rest of it is just surface level observations from evolutionary psychology, i.e. women prefer the best genes for their children but they want dependable partners to provide for those children but like everything else in life women can't have their cake and eat it too.
I've loved Linux for a while, but needed to stay in Windows for the Adobe apps (Illustrator, most notably). I just made the switch to Ubuntu about a month ago. Now when I need to run Illustrator, I just fire up a VM and boot Windows. I'm using Virtualbox for the ease of use and its "seamless integration" feature. The Adobe products are a bit slow reading from/writing to Ubuntu shares, but the gain in productivity I get from having Linux for everything else more than makes up for it, and I can dedicate 4G of RAM to the VM so Illustrator & Photoshop can still run fast side by side without slowing the primary OS down a bit.
I know that there are a lot of mixed feelings about Twitter and it's value. But I think that this book does a good job of explaining various uses, and style/structure guidelines for what I personally believe to be an exciting new protocol.

Most books about Twitter are full of complete bullshit, but this one caught my eye at Borders. I read it, and was pleasantly surprised by it's coherence. Suggested.

(Twitter account: @thebook)
Here's another one for this list: everybody knows that five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth).
Doesn't the article contradict this strategy? FTA: People who are in a relationship seem less happy compared to married folks
I've been using Ubuntu Netbook Remix on a Dell Mini 9 as my primary setup for over a year now. UNR is dangerously close to being mass-market ready, and it's certainly ready for developers and power-users. Virtually everything 'just works', and the Netbook Remix UI is far preferable to Windows or OS X on a small screen.

The most remarkable thing is that you never have to drop to a command prompt, unless you want to. All of the linux infrastructure and tools are there, but it's all been abstracted away with a nice clean GUI. For the first time in my life, I actually prefer using X over the shell for managing my machine.

It's also amazing to look at how rapidly Canonical is improving Ubuntu. Every six months, I get more functionality and new software, with an improved UI and fewer rough edges. I'm anxiously awaiting 10.04, and I know that 10.10 should be another big improvement. That kind of predictability is nice.

I jumped ship from Linux to OS X nine years ago, when OS X 10.0 came out. I hated wrestling with X, battling device drivers, and constantly missing basic functionality. All those problems are finally solved, and I'm back on board. 'Desktop Linux' may never happen, but 'Mobile Linux' is definitely here, and it's pretty darned cool.
Install wine with macports and you should be good.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application...
That post was deleted, linking to this I presume: http://blog.styleguidance.com/post/391922539/stackoverflow-g...
Facebook has no shame. This is a complete ripoff of okcupid analysis.
Public perception of crime is not based on the murder statistics (though of course the occasional senseless killing during a robbery raises more outrage than the garden-variety domestic violence murder). Perception of crime in my neighborhood (Centennial Park/Marietta Artery) is based on the ability to walk down the street without being accosted by a beggar, or to park your car without having it broken into, or to walk the sidewalk after dark without fear of being robbed. I'm in a fairly secure condo building so fear of a break-in is not that great, but in surrounding neighborhoods of free-standing houses, break-ins are rampant.
Just as you met my statement of reality with more references to statistics, the police and the city government here continue to give each other pats on the back as the populace grows ever more wary based on what we see on the streets out our windows with our own eyes, not based on the media or the official stats. We don't have a math problem--we have a police manpower, quality of life, and law enforcement problem.
If you want I can talk your ears off about the Demand Media model, but one very smart thing they did was jump ahead of the curve by buying under-monetized sites aimed at middle American ladies which had existed for a decade, and then started building them out. StackOverflow, by comparison, has no decade old links because it has not even existed for two years yet. I don't think it is necessarily a question of link richness of the audience or linkability of the content there (as a matter of fact, I'd guess that StackOverflow probably accumulates links much faster than eHow -- like, order of magnitude faster, despite the fact that eHow has 40 times more monthly visitors).
StackExchange certainly doesn't make any money, and they've promised their customers that they'll have 45 days warning before they start charging.

Even then, almost none of their SE customers could afford the proposed fees based on their current income.
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What do you think about starting working in a startup before founding one?
What do you think about starting working in a startup before founding one?

Thank you
I think they do multiple passes, and some passes are rejected - or the car could have been on its way somewhere else. I've seen the cars numerous times and never fail to stare dumbly at them but as far as I know none of those takes were used ..
One thing I'd like to see more on these kinds of data-mining analyses are some sort of error bars, variances, etc. They tend to just report group averages, like A=5, B=2, but there's a big difference between (using, say, 1 stddev as the bracket), A=5 +/- 1, B = 2 +/- 1, in which case they really do seem to differ, and A=5 +/- 15, B = 2 +/- 25, in which case you've got mostly noise.
Terry Pratchett has Alzheimer's, and is becoming an assisted suicide advocate.
yes that was it.

Apparently my blog got permabanned on HN for outing that Techcrunch intern.
Optimal Waist-to-Hip Ratios in Women Activate Neural Reward Centers in Men
I like that expression. It pretty much sums up what they do. It was fun at first but grows old and worse it begins to act against them. Now even if they make a good point against the VC approach I'm less inclined to take their argument for what it really is.
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I don't think many VCs let you "take money off the table" in the Series A. It has been done, but it's rare, and it's a sign that a founder doesn't believe in the business prospects that they're asking everybody else to invest in.
The only "easy" rich text solution on iPhoneOS is a UIWebView

The ePub format is based on XHTML, so it stands to reason that it will use something more like this.
That is a flawed puzzle. Warning, partial spoiler to the bogus solution included here.

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The solution proposes that for the first question, I turn to god A and ask "Hey, A, if I were to ask you 'Are you Random', would you say 'ja'?"

Either A is Random or is not - we have those two cases to consider. Let's consider the case where A is, in fact, Random - only I don't know it yet.

The problem, as stated, says that since A is Random, for each question posed to him, he "mentally flips a coin" and then answers as if he were Truth or as if he were Falsity. So while we're considering the case that A is Random, we have two sub-cases to consider: that he will answer as Truth or that he will answer as Falsity. Let us consider the sub-case where A, although Random, will answer as Truth.

Finally, we have sub-sub-cases more: perhaps 'ja' means "yes" or perhaps it means "no". And so, we'll consider the sub-sub-case where 'ja' means "yes".

So A is Random, has chosen to answer my first question as Truth, and 'ya' means yes. My question (in the bogus solution) is:

"Hey, A, if I were to ask (in your current mental state) 'Are you Random?' would you say 'yes'?"

God A (who is Random and who will answer this one question as Truth) reasons thusly. He thinks to himself:

"If this guy had asked me 'Are you Random', since I have decided to tell Truth, I would answer 'yes' ('ja').' However, that was not the question put before me - a different question was put before me.

Random (that's me, A) flips the coin once per question asked. If he were to have asked 'Are you Random' that would have entailed a coin flip separate from the current coin flip. That other coin flip could have gone either way and so, really, I might have answered 'yes' or 'no' ('ya' or 'da').

In other words, we made it clear to this guy that he was supposed to ask a simple yes or no question and instead he asked a question to which the only True answer would be 'dajadaja' [god-speak for 'maybe']."

At that point, god A would produce from his sleeve the Magic Wand of Heyting (which was manufatured during the god-wars recorded in the book of RejectingTheLawOfTheExcludedMiddle) and smite me for failing to ask a yes/no question after being clearly instructed to do so.

In other words, with the proposed (bogus) answer, should A happen to be Random, and his coin come up Truth, and should 'ja' happen to mean 'yes' -- then I will go to my grave never knowing which god is which. (Similar analysis probably applies to other sub-sub-cases.)

Very badly framed puzzle (but one that would be hard to frame soundly without giving away the intended answer).
Farmers are the original pioneers of "renewable energy." Their main energy source is sunshine, converted directly to foodstuffs by some amazing works of generic engineering (a.k.a. "plants). Biofuels? Yeah, they've been burning corn and vegetable oils for decades. Robots? How about biological labor aids -- horses, herding dogs, chickens, etc.

Regardless, there's a reason you seldom hear "comfortable" and "subsistence farming" in the same sentence. Growing enough food to feed yourself is a full-time job, even with modern agricultural tech. Yeah, there could be a singularity-style event that makes traditional farming obsolete, but RepRaps and Roombas ain't it.
All anyone knows is what Joel tells them, plus what they can speculate. Joel has made a career for himself by inviting the public into the inner-working of his software company, I mean, we even know what color the tiles are in the Fog Creek shower room, for goodness sake, so I don't think there is anything wrong with DHH's post; it's probably exactly the kind of thing that Joel wants.
Charge people money!
Why do you think it seems less user friendly?
I used to play high limit poker and it is quite common in the poker world for the best players to "share" themselves in a tournament or, more likely, in a game where the stakes are huge.

Being able to self-fund isn't always reason enough to self-fund. In this case, Joel may want to expand into 10,000 niches, but may worry whether the venture will be profitable. I'm just speculating. If there is VC willing to take some of the risk with him, for an equity share that he accepts and thinks is a good deal, is it still wrong for him to accept it? I don't think so.
No only in USA, it is like that everywhere.

I am from Brazil, and it is even worse.

My wife is German, and the rich in Europe simple change their home to Monaco to simple don't pay the income tax at all.
Would it feel more relevant if you were familiar with the author's credentials? James Duncan Davidson, among other things, wrote Tomcat and the Java build tool Ant (and got both donated from Sun to the Apache Software Foundation). He wrote or cowrote a number of O'Reilly books on Cocoa and OS X, and contributed a chapter on deployment to the well known Agile Web Development with Rails. All that prior to his budding career as a photographer.

Having that information might make it feel more appropriate in this forum, but I would hope a topic like this, which will affect everyone at some point in their life, would be fair game on HN.
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In line with creating new needs, you may have noticed the recent increase in popularity of "organic" foods produced by less-automated farming techniques. Cost is not the only differentiator between competitors. Organic farmers can't always compete on cost, so they focus on other areas. There is a similar trend in clothing -- hand-made designer clothes carry benefits (status, quality, perfect fit) that compensate for their high price. To conclude, I appreciate the perspective offered by your extreme scenario, but I highly doubt that ubiquitous automation will result in the production monoculture you predict.
That's called "banner blindness". It's important to keep in mind that banner blindness applies to things that look like ads, not just ads.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/banner-blindness.html
Mobile phone infrastructure costs less to deploy than landlines. It's true that high end handsets are more expensive, but for many people they are also replacing a camera, PDA, MP3 player, USB stick, and Gameboy. It's also true that we have been employing about the same number of people for a long time, but much of this is simply people reducing their labor rate until people will employ them again.

I like many people on HN are at the extreme edge of the bell curve and can easily find work. My point is simply that the need for a highly skilled workforce seems to be shrinking. Starbucks could probably replace 1/2 their workforce with automation and produce better coffee. They don't do this for several reasons, but mostly because there is such little demand for their workers.
I question the notion that Greece would collapse if not bailed out; and I question even more strongly, the notion that if Greece did collapse, the Dutch economy would go "along with it" as you say.

I think it is a bit of fear-mongering thrown about to get people to acquiese in massive, questionable government backed financial schemes. It reminds me of George W. Bush asserting "if we don't pass this bill, the whole sucker could go down" or the member of Congress who claimed that if the 700 Billion dollar bailout was not passed, "your ATM machine will not work Tuesday morning."

Let's think through the worse case senario. The Greek government defaults on it's debt, and a variety of people around the world discover that the Greek bonds they hold are worthless. Some investors will have bought funds that are mixtures of all the EU country's debt, and those investors may dump those funds, thus making it expensive for the Dutch government to borrow money for a time - say, a year. Exchange rates will also shift, but that always brings good with bad no matter which direction -- likely the Euro will drop, making it easier for other people to buy Dutch products, and helping Dutch exporters but making it more expensive for you to buy imports.

Perhaps you could take some advantage of the situation by being stingy and saving money, not buying imports, and instead buying high-yeild Dutch bonds, for a year or two. But even if you didn't, by three to five years from now the difference in your personal wealth would be tiny.

A collapse of the market in Greek bonds does not break dikes or light fires in Holland. No "real" wealth will be destroyed in your country.

Now let's consider what happens if you bail out the Greek government, and by extension, whatever unlucky stooges Goldman Sachs saddled with those bonds. The Euro will see some inflation, dropping its value, but the effect is more long term than the "collapse" senario. Goldman will hawk the bonds of Spain, Italy, Portugal, and any other shaky government as having an implicit backing of the hard work of the honest Dutch, and those goverments will borrow more because of it.

So I don't agree with your argument of "comparitive hardship" to 11 million Greeks vs. "economic misery" to 328 Europeans.

In some ways, this is just a preparation for what will happen in the US with the State of California, whose default will be larger than Greece's. Is it in the best interests of the whole USA to assume the obligations that California undertook ? If California defaulted on it's bonds, it would surely cause some financial turmoil and hardship, but it's not clear that financial turmoil and hardship would be avoided by guaranteeing their bonds. Backing those bonds decreases the already shaky credit of the US as a whole. On the other hand, states that need to borrow may not be able to for a period, and many retirement plans and pension funds will suddenly be shrunk.

I'm not in favor of either bailout. The cost is a general undermining of the world financial system as a whole, and I don't think you will get the short term good effects that are hoped for.
I do believe the puzzle stated that the Random God would only flip his random coin once for the session - ie he would lie for the 1-3 questions put to him, or he would tell the truth - not flip the coin for each session.

This is in fact quite clearly described in the section Random's Behaviour about a third down the page...
I was going to install this to a site but breaking the back button makes this unacceptable. ;(
I don't think distortion at the edge of the screen has to do with tuning in the hardware, but a matter of how software converts sensor data into a point location.

When not at the edge, the finger touch area is typically a circle, so it is fairly easy to interpret the location as the center of the circle. The finger shape at the edge is harder to interpret.

I guess is that Nexus One's capacitive sensors is larger than the display screen, that's why the edge performance is so good.
Myth? Keynote alone makes OS X a necessity for me. I can spend 1/3 as long and come up with something that looks 5 times better than either Powerpoint or Impress. When Open Office gets Magic Move, let me know.

(Actively uses OSX and Windows. Also long time Linux Debian user.)
Googling for "Customer Buying Hierarchy" shows no other references to this, other than this blog entry & related videos. Can you provide some other pointers to where others might use this concept?
Not if companies own most of the arable land and IP on harvesting machinery.

Intellectual property laws are based on the concept that ideas and goods are scarce. If automation makes physical production as cost-free as digital production is now, then all IP laws (not just copyright and software patent laws) will have to be revised to accommodate the fundamental change in the nature and abundance of goods and ideas.

Plus, as they say, there's more than one way to skin a cat. Someone can design a harvester based on old technology, or a radically different design.
I don't want to be uncharitable so let me make sure I'm understanding you. Are you embracing the same rhetorical sequence that others often use to argue that mandatory vaccination is a bad thing? I.e. are you arguing that people's fear of a thing ought to be as significant a consideration as the real benefits it brings to them and others around them?
Are you building for Google or Facebook?
I believe the lack of edge sensitivity on the iPhone is a feature, not a bug. It's something that's caught me out a number of times when using the Nexus One one-handed - I reach across the screen with my thumb, but the effort often causes the base "pad" of my thumb to just brush the edge of the screen. Thus, some of my "swipe" attempts get interpreted as pinch zoom, as the screen has detected two points of contact.
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It's unlikely that any bankers lent Greece any of their own money. More likely, they convinced pension funds and other sources of cash to buy Greek debt, and took fees from the borrower and the lender for setting up the deal.

Similarly, while Greek bus drivers may get steep cuts in pay, it is unlikely that Greek politicans and financiers will suffer as much.

Therefore, while a failure of the Greek bond market may have some good effects, it is not guaranteed to find all the guilty.

Do you also believe that Madoff should have been allowed to simply stop paying his "clients", and that their subsequent loses would be enough to stop future frauds while Bernie sailed away on his yacht ?
<sarcasm>As a result, all non-participants will die off, and those remaining will form a fully-functioning and harmonious society. The end result is the same: everyone who's left is happy.</sarcasm>
Have you tried Google Docs presentations? They have some great looking templates that I think might be just as simple and beautiful as what you get with Keynote.
Is it the real jonathan?
> It has been done, but it's rare, and it's a sign that a founder doesn't believe in the business prospects that they're asking everybody else to invest in.

Fred Wilson (avc.com) disagrees. He thinks that letting founders take money off the table is a great idea in several circumstances.

You don't want founders looking for/taking an exit too soon.
this is exactly the contrary of what I would expect to read in an "hackers" community. What's wrong with commenting a public post? After all Joel wanted to share with the world why he thinks it is a good idea to get a VC for stack overflow. This was promoted in HN, and is not just free promotion, also exposes you to other opinions, so the only sane way to reply to the 37 Signals post is with counter arguments, if you got some.

There is a value in the 37 signals post that is really not about stack overflow itself. For instance, because Joel is considered to be a business expert, other people running services that are similar business-wise could think it is a good idea to get a VC for the same reasons. This guys deserve to hear another bell (and many others if possible).
Sounds like they fear the outcome of a 99designs.com type world - and legitimately so. But, why wouldn't they just refuse to pitch to clients who do this? Alternatively, as they suggest, they should spend less on pitching - but my guess is that if the prize is big enough they'd do it anyway.

A strike seems like a silly response that could also be interpreted to attempting to reduce competition in a specific region and in effect form a cartel - a cartel that would seem to be counterintuitive especially when the barrier to good ideas is no longer limited within borders.

I have to wonder if "major players came together to design rules of the game" in the US in any industry group that it wouldn't be considered to be anti-trust.
Terry Pratchett - I'll die before the endgame (August 2009)
wow i thought i was the only one.

yes i'm glad that my starcraft addiction is well and truly behind me, and that warcraft III "just didn't do it" for me.

i am however, secretly anticipating starcraft 2, and at the same time somewhat glad that it hasn't gone anywhere in the last god-knows-how-many years.
It's good that Terry Pratchett is advocating for this (although it would be much better if he was healthy).

This article reminded me of an Op-Ed he wrote in the Guardian last year, which I posted as another article (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128224)
Any of the Millenium Prize Problems could equally have been appropriate (with the possible exception of the poincare conjecture), but most of these require deep mathematical knowledge.

I would expect this problem to be accessible to most people with a basic grasp of logic, hence the generic title.
Strange, Google asked me what feeds I want to include in Buzz and one of the feeds was Gtalk Status, so are you sure you didn't select this one (for me, it was unselected by default). If you didn't, then it become really serious.