skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most girls still haven't heard about it or don't pick up on these things.

I actually spent last Saturday hanging out with a self-described pick up artist that mostly picks girls up during the day, in the street (he insists it's far easier than bars and clubs). The kind of stuff he pulled off right in front of me was mind blowing. At one point he literally had a girl he was talking to biting her lips and looking at him as if she was preparing to jump him then and there, and he got her to give him a neck massage right in the middle of a shop.

A lot of what he was using was routines. He'd tell a girl with a friend that she was so adorable and petite he could just pick her up and steal her away, for example.

Then he'd do it.

Without exception the girls absolutely loved it, and he'd joke with them about how her friend clearly wanted them to hook up since she didn't object when he "stole her away". In most cases their friend more or less turned into a cheerleader for him after that, and he got the girls number without fail in those cases.

Despite that, a lot of "pick up" has in any case transitioned into less stilted / scripted manipulative stuff and into "self help". E.g. companies like RSD that focus on being "natural" and improving yourself much more than routines.
Downvotes. I guess the talent is feeling particularly precious today. Kids: when you start hiring people, maybe you'll change your mind.

edit:
And checkout http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1197891 - this is your uber talent who deserves special treatment during a recession?
Looks good. I couldn't see anything about exporting as (say) HTML? That's one thing I really really really would pay for: I sketch, and the tool exports a basic HTML & CSS template. Probably best used for what you call "Masters".
Good to remember it's also not 'vindictive pile-on'. The people continuing to downvote the user in this thread when he's obviously confused and asking for help are, frankly, douchebags.
I think this is still on the front page because people want it to stay this way.
I'm not sure Google even cares. I don't think Google is trying to profit a great deal directly from N1 sales. I think they win in the long run by pushing android to be the best it can be and by making the entire mobile device market more modular. Google's vision is to have your choice of device divorced from your choice of carrier, which is divorced from your choice of phone number, and all of it divorced from your choice of applications to run.
I don't have any systems deployed to production yet, but am in the process of creating an internal app using Play and am liking what I see so far.

There are a few minor problems with the framework being quite immature, and I don't always think the creators have a clear roadmap of where they are going. However in a way this is good for me, because the early adopters can help drive things, but with the core team trying to keep the framework as light as possible.

Coming from a j2ee type background, running each instance as a standalone process, not inside an appserver was a little strange at first. But the process separation has turned out to be a good thing for me, just takes a little more management. But because things are structured in a REST/share nothing architecture, the ability to use a proxy with failover configuration and doing hot deploys via this is nice.

The team are very responsive with help on the google group, and bugs are fixed very quickly, you just have to be prepared to run with nightly builds to keep up to date.

One worry I do have is how the team/community will continue to handle if things do become more popular. I am worried about an influx of new developers clogging the current direct channel to the developers and feel the community will have to split into newbies/users/developers to handle things more efficiently. But they are doing a great job so far so long may it continue.
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All platforms pushing a walled garden with an excessively onerous approval process and a closed development toolchain restricted to a single overpriced platform.

OS X annoys me a little, but if people want to buy it / use it at the end of the day it's no skin off my nose really, it's just overpriced for what it is. IPhone OS based devices however will break the world if they become the dominant computing paradigm, and yes, I'm well aware my definition of "break the world" could easily be changed to "finally fix the world" if you're working with different underlying assumptions.
I target specifically Eclipse users. There are many advantages of having the tool integrated into the IDE: familiar and customizable interface (views, window system), use the same resource management (files, projects), version control.

Feature-wise it's more difficult to differentiate but WireframeSketcher has some distinct features like master screens and storyboarding. There are more subtle differences like the possibility to insert icons in any piece of text which gives a lot of flexibility. Take a look at this blog entry: http://tinyurl.com/yeuo3v4

Speedwise I'd say WireframeSketcher is as close to native speed as it gets considering that it's also cross-platform.
I can't imagine what would be like to live with such a baseless numbering system ... life had to be much simpler for it to work. Like you didn't pay your taxes this month? Your possessions are confiscated or it's off with your head because calculating interest is too much work :)

They probably used counting boards, and specific units for measurement ... like they knew the size of a legion in their army and said "we have 3 legions, with 2 other joining, that's 5 legions" instead of ~ "we have 12600 men, 8400 more are joining, that's 21000 men".
Looks great! Would be really fun to add this to a monitor or picture-frame which would auto-refresh every so often.

One suggestion: Add attribution to the XKCD images and don't steal their bandwidth. I got this one as a motivation earlier: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dreams.png
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You can export to PDF. Also take a look at storyboards which let you create something similar to PowerPoint presentations. Those can be exported into a multi-page PDF: http://tinyurl.com/yczskbh
I post frequently. Sometimes something gets 20 upvotes. Sometimes something gets no upvotes. Regardless of whether I was expecting upvotes, when I do get upvoted (especially for a submission), I like to know that I've been able to share with someone out there in our pseudo-anonymous distributed clan something that I personally find interesting - whether a story or opinion or simply a link.

Discovery and mini-recognition for sharing.

I can't remember how many times I've had a boring day and writing a comment or posting a favorite link has helped upvote my mood. Yes, HN is addictive but it is a community. Real people. Real opinions. Tons of wicked smart people and Renaissance men and women.

I lurked for a long time before even registering.
I agree with most of what you say; but, generally, statements like:

[people] are, frankly, douchebags

Are also discouraged :)
the one in Korea that successfully abolished Chinese characters there in favor of the phonetic Hangul

That's actually not true. Hanja (the Korean name for Chinese characters) are still used extensively by newspapers, in academia, and in legal professions. As in Japanese, it provides a method of distinguishing between homonyms, which can be particularly important when writing contracts and the like, where precision of meaning is essential.

Just like with Japanese, Korean has a large number of homonyms in its Sino-Korean vocabulary because while Chinese is tonal, Korean is not. Moreover, the more formal Sino-Korean vocabulary is in prominent usage in the aforementioned situations.

While hanja use has certainly declined over the years, and many Korean youth these days are incapable of recognizing even the most basic of hanja (largely because of fluctuating education policy that has at times entirely eliminated hanja education), that was certainly not the case prior to the last 40 or so years.

Ironically, the place where hanja would be the easiest to read/write - on the computer - is the place where it is almost entirely absent. Take a look at the Korean language Wikipedia for an example of this; Hanja are almost always used merely for the purpose of disambiguating a word written in hangul.
Here's this talk as a PDF:

http://github.com/nealford/presentations/blob/master/Rails%2...

... from this collection of Neal Ford's presentation slides on github:

http://github.com/nealford/presentations
the InfoQ article is missing the "(Enterprise)" qualifier from the original presentation's title.
edw519 already noted once that it is cyclic, and that the cycles have their 'lows' when YC has their application round, we're in the midst of that.
I can't help suspecting that part of it is using their supermarket business to fund their moves into things like alcohol and petrol.
Japan is very short on young people; how easily can it afford to waste a decade of their career?

Productivity growth. Which literally means "every year, fewer people are able to produce more stuff".

There's also the problem of the global economic slump. Which literally means "we have lots of things that could be done, like fixing hundred-year-old pipes and buildings. And we have lots of extra workers who could be doing things. But they are compelled to sit around twiddling their thumbs in their Japanese corporate cubicles, or their American parents' basements, or whatever, watching stuff crumble, because the economic equilibrium is stuck in low gear".
Guys, I hang around a few forums where posters tend to be young or inexperienced in the internet arts. HN can be even more arcane than those places.

Generally you get a better response by being nice in threads like this - karma bombing the guys responses isn't going to help much. A 0 seems fair for some of the comments; but -4 (which some of the comments are oscillating to) feels a little OTT.

Maybe dial it off a bit; and hopefully sambeau will start to figure things out and in time we'll have another solid member :)
I think the Eclipse integration is a very interesting way to differentiate.

One nit: I'd put a space around the "&" in the page title for SEO.
Reminded me of fortune , so I typed it into a terminal and got:

Q:	What's the difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish wake?

A:	One less drunk.

On St. Patrick's day of all days :)
Well... hopefully R6 will pull things together a bit.
Personally I'm not a real fan of cpan. The qualilty is sort of hit and miss.

I like python's approach better. The standard library is robust and broad enough to handle most things.
Oops. I confused URL and text field. Sorry.
For those interested in this type of problem, I signal the existence of libev which might be of interest too.
State-threads documentation seems very good.
"Stale coding practices. The application development environments don’t leverage any of the new ideas in software engineering, like Ruby on Rails with its built-in unit/functional testing;"

Well since Ruby on Rails is a web application stack I'm not sure how this applies. And both the Android and iPhone SDKs include unit testing...
Still the default on Slackware.
Summary: Don't overserve your market. If you only offer "enough" you can segment more effectively.
I just don't see where you are going with that text in the context of Creatine production. Vegetarians HAVE Creatine in their system, fully produced by the body. They just don't have the same amount as the meat-eaters, __because red meat contains Creatine itself, as a form of Creatine supplement__. Ergo, vegetarians are fully capable of producing the necessary amount of Creatine they need, by the ingestion of the required components. (otherwise there'd be no Creatine in their bodies.)
The GP isn't saying people should want to look like a bodybuilder, he is saying that we all have something to learn from people who are able to affect such drastic changes in their own bodies (bodybuilders).
it can sometimes still hurt your career. After all, the company failed.

So? Every for-profit company I worked for from early 2001 through 2008 failed. Who blames the programmers for the failure of a company? In my experience, virtually no one.
Love the simple, clean design without any distractions. Great idea too.
Are you manually adding the quotes/vidoes?

If it's possible to do it in a very subtle manner (footer?), maybe a small tweet icon would be nice (for quotes add the quote to tweet, for videos add the video link)
If you haven't read Muller's original book "Nemesis: The Death Star" you should do. The first chapter was posted here a little while ago if you want a taster [1]. As I mentioned then: one of the best pop science books written.

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=920317
It's time to link to Peter Norvig's article about reading research studies again:

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
Is that $75 million we'd pay for the drugs in the US? Or would it merely be the $5 million they'd pay for the drugs in Canada? Headline should probably read $2 million in drugs stolen. :-)
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I'd like to see some evidence or more of an explanation about the skipping breakfast thing.

The accepted wisdom and fitness/nutrition and breakfast is that until your first meal of the day, your body is in sleep mode and won't start metabolizing yet.
Plenty of non-english speakers find english transliteration good enough (or hindi, or arabic transliteration). It takes getting used to, but once it becomes standard, it works.

I suspect the only reason I had trouble reading your post is because I'm just not used to the spelling system you used. Is there a fundamental reason why romanji can't be used, or are people simply not used to it?
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I live and work in Olathe. It is a great town, no doubt, although I'm likely biased by the fact that I grew up nearby in Overland Park and have lived in this area for most of my life.

Nobody on the Garmin Connect team or here on Hacker News needs to give me a reason for not wanting to relocate here. In a way, the place where you want to live is a very personal thing. Different people have different reasons for what they do and they don't need to justify their choices to me, just as I feel no need to justify my choice to them.

That said, I definitely think there are people blindly saying "Kansas sucks" without having lived there or even traveled there. I sympathize with the Garmin Connect team, as I would not want my employer to try to force me to move anywhere. However, I also resent the attitude that they seem to have taken toward Kansas and the implication that no one would choose to live there. (I admit that perhaps I'm reading too far into it.) To me, it would be enough to say that Garmin asked them to move and they didn't want to.
From the same person writing on the same blog last year:

"Some observers question how a company can contribute to open source projects while, at the same time, insisting on respect of its intellectual property rights by its competitors. In fact, these two things are not inconsistent, and striking a balance between them is one of the key things every commercial technology company must do in order to compete effectively in a mixed source world."

[http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2009...]

Whilst I'm not convinced that Microsoft is entirely above using software patents against OSS projects, this guy doesn't seem particularly 'war-like'.
It isn't fair to not have the option to delete my comment
For the first post, about Chavez, I suspect that it was downvoted because it wasn't negative enough about him. People will often downvote a comment they disagree with regardless of its merits.

(Although on the plus side it's already received a couple of upvotes since you posted this link.)

The second one I'm not really sure. I think the reply to yours got a boatload of votes because it speaks to the consensus here at HN.
I think SimFinger is the app used to represent touch.

Atebits has a nice iPhone demo tutorial: http://blog.atebits.com/2009/03/not-your-average-iphone-scre...
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Oh and I, generally, know. Bit of a non-general case here, though, so I figured spending a few karma points on calling some douchebags douchebags is worth a brief deviation from the How to disagree catechesis.
I think threshold are useless in HN, since submission Karma and Comment Karma are mixed. Send two good stories that you steal from Reddit or track a popular blog and you'll get 100+ points quickly.
Google can afford to iterate, or fail. It's actually quite liberating, as some experiments/acquisitions manage to make some respectable headway over time (Android) while the others are left to languish (Knol) or are cut when it's clear the product or the market aren't promising (Lively).
The difference between a confident stud, and a confident creep, illustrated (sometimes comedy is the best way to make a point): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBVuAGFcGKY
Oddly, this leaves out the most important way to make a conference pay off - meet lots of people face-to-face, and follow up when the conference is over...
Nice. And added to my little inspiration collection :)

http://inspiry.tumblr.com/post/454443506/minimotivation

And of course thanks to HN for most the content there.
You might enjoy this story about the unremarkable beginning of The Onion.

"The head writer of The Onion recounts his slacker twenties and the life-altering moment that shaped his personality. Todd Hanson is the head writer of The Onion, America's Finest News Source, where he has worked since 1990 and been paid since 1997."

http://feeds.themoth.org/~r/themothpodcast/~3/392365799/
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I think the Pandora handheld is much more exciting.
http://www.open-pandora.org/
Specifically this- "But the most interesting part is probably that it isn't designed by a large company, it was designed by the suggestions and requests of hundreds of people on the gp32x forums."
The form factor is very impressive considering the sheer volume of physical buttons and i/o options. Even more so considering it was design-by-committee. Could have been hideous.
> There's also a selection bias in your comment

Please share all the slam dunks I'm unaware of.

> leadership needs higher level political intelligence

Subscribe to Foreign Affairs. The idea that you need a multibillion dollar agency to sound out the geopolitical landscape in today's world is absurd.

Let's be honest that their primary function is global agitprop and covert ops. Analysis is a bolt-on, and not better than what you can get in the private sector.
definitely a possibility (currently), though my phone crashes more often than my laptop, and in general I have far less trust in my phone's programming than my Mac.
Ask HN: How should I approach buying my ideal domain name?
The problem is simple: the domain squatting company, http://www.buydomains.com/, owns the domain that I really want for my idea. Whois records show that the domain is set to expire on May 26th. It looks like they renewed it last year so I don't hold out much hope that they will let it expire.

The real question is, how should I approach this kind of negotiation? Do any of you have experience with this scenario?
Spotify has 320,000 paying subscribers – and is making money
But if you asked them to list cell/smart phone providers, they'd probably list Nokia before Google.
Considering this thread is essentially asking the best way to behave on HN leading by example seems a sensible response :)

But fair enough.
This is coming from the confused part of my brain. 45k transactions a day isn't that much and processing 300kb xml files should be trivial. What am I missing? Was it tongue in cheek?
Could cost you more than a few points. An old account of mine was banned for calling another HN user a douchebag. Careful now.
iPhone apps have unit testing support with OCUnit, however it is a huge pain in the butt and practically nobody does it (even people that want to unit test)... so there is kind of a point there.
> Vegetarians HAVE Creatine in their system, fully produced by the body. They just don't have the same amount as the meat-eaters, __because red meat contains Creatine itself, as a form of Creatine supplement__. Ergo, vegetarians are fully capable of producing the necessary amount of Creatine they need, by the ingestion of the required components.

That's quite a logical leap there. I 'HAVE Money in my wallet', so ergo, I am 'fully capable of producing the necessary amount of Money I need'? (You should know I dream of living like a billionaire.)

Humans can produce vitamin D or omega-N oils on their own, yet, it's established fact that many humans are persistently deficient.
I don't think Google is in any way in a hurry. They'll just want to see where it's going first, while cumulating momentum. A sudden disruption in the smartphone market wouldn't be feasible nor useful: similarly they kept Gmail invite only until they felt confident enough that they've learned enough from the early users.
Clever idea，however the compression ratio doesn't seem to be enough to make a real diﬀerence; try㏌g it a few times，this will only save you few characters.

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It's my fault and people like me.

Reddit's quality has been dipping significantly lately (there's been 3-5 front page self posts on "are you smart but too lazy to do anything with it?") and so people like me are subscribing to HN again to get that 'old reddit' feel.

Keep the focus on immediate actionable steps rather than armchair pontificating and you'll drive off the non-constructive layabouts.
It would be great to be able to adjust the font size...?
Good job!

I've set it as my startup page in FF. It's a good way to start work/browsing.
Actually, Raven's isn't supposed to be speeded if you care about measuring IQ rather than, say, processing speed or WM control. This is one reason why the Jaeggi 2008 study (showing that Dual N-back boosts IQ) is somewhat untrustworthy.
Man, there are a lot of these "Balsamiq-esque" apps lately.

I've started wondering if it has anything to do with Peldi's financial transparency. People saw what a cash cow it was and decided they wanted a piece.
Odd that fully 1/2 of those relate directly to the operating system, not any apps. Not to say I'm defending that half, just that this list has little to do with apps and much more to do with OS / infrastructure.
Computers compress everything, including the time it takes to feel like an old fart.
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