skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the papers conclusion:

>EP [Evolutionary Psychology] can provide a more parsimonious explanation, consistent with the evidence presented in Tables 1 and 3, that women have inherently less desire to earn money than men, and the sex difference increases as women have better things to do, reproductively speaking. From the perspective of EP, there is absolutely no reason to expect why men and women should have identical predispositions and inclinations toward earning money. Women’s evolved psychological mechanisms, adapted to the EEA [ancestral environment or the environment of evolutionary adaptedness], would not compel them to engage in activities that did not increase their reproductive success in the ancestral environment.

Just as earlier studies (Farkas et al., 1997; Herrnstein & Murray, 1994, Chapter 14; O’Neill, 1990) demonstrate that ‘‘discrimination’’ is not necessary to account for the race difference in earnings, my analyses show that ‘‘discrimination’’ is not necessary to explain the sex diﬀerence in earnings. Due to evolved diﬀerences in their preferences and desires, women should be less motivated to earn money than men, because resource accumulation did not increase women’s reproductive success in the EEA whereas it did increase men’s.

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Maybe instead of actively alienating people and getting rid of hobbies, you can find people who share the hobby of reading?
Digital Daily has the documents
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100302/apples-suits-aga...

Gizmodo has a summary of the patents:
The ‘331 Patent, entitled "Time-Based, Non-Constant Translation Of User Interface Objects Between States," was duly and legally issued on April 22, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

The ‘949 Patent, entitled "Touch Screen Device, Method, And Graphical User Interface For Determining Commands By Applying Heuristics," was duly and legally issued on January 20, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the ‘949 Patent is attached hereto as Exhibit B.

The ‘849 Patent, entitled "Unlocking A Device By Performing Gestures On An Unlock Image," was duly and legally issued on February 2, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the ‘849 Patent is attached hereto as Exhibit C.

The ‘381 Patent, entitled "List Scrolling And Document Translation, Scaling, And Rotation On A Touch-Screen Display," was duly and legally issued on December 23, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the ‘381 Patent is attached hereto as Exhibit D.

The ‘726 Patent, entitled "System And Method For Managing Power Conditions Within A Digital Camera Device," was duly and legally issued on July 6, 1999 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the ‘726 Patent is attached hereto as Exhibit E.

The ‘076 Patent, entitled "Automated Response To And Sensing Of User Activity In Portable Devices," was duly and legally issued on December 15, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the ‘076 Patent is attached hereto as Exhibit F.

The ‘105 Patent, entitled "GMSK Signal Processors For Improved Communications Capacity And Quality," was duly and legally issued on December 8, 1998 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the ‘105 Patent is attached hereto as Exhibit G.

The ‘453 Patent, entitled "Conserving Power By Reducing Voltage Supplied To An Instruction-Processing Portion Of A Processor," was duly and legally issued on June 3, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the ‘453 Patent is attached hereto as Exhibit H.

The ‘599 Patent, entitled "Object-Oriented Graphic System," was duly and legally issued on October 3, 1995 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the ‘599 Patent is attached hereto as Exhibit I.

The ‘354 Patent, entitled "Object-Oriented Event Notification System With Listener Registration Of Both Interests And Methods," was duly and legally issued on July 23, 2002 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the ‘354 Patent is attached hereto as Exhibit J.

http://gizmodo.com/5483632/apple-sues-htc-for-infringing-on-...
Actually, I bet that there are a lot of people out there who would be jazzed about a really well implemented 8MHz mobile. Especially if the batteries would run it for a month.

http://runagate.noisepages.com/2009/11/8-bit-touch-sensitive...
you know, the meld/p4merge style side by side diff views have always been rather confusing to me. i've been trying to learn to use vimdiff for merge conflicts lately and it's just not as intuitive to me as inline conflict markers. i'm really more of a fan of the inline diff for some reason.
Also, quality.
I do, in fact think this is critical.[1] And I do administer my own mail server (on a virtual server, until I buy a plug computer). I actually think everyone (including my mom) should be able to do the same.

The "type of behaviour" I was speaking of are actual. Google do analyse your email, and they do remember your search requests. this is not outright spying like with Facebook, but this is close.

[1]: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2010/feb/01/freedom-clou...
I dont know if this was meant as a quasi-sarcastic comment or not, but i have to say, i seriously agree with you.

For me, blogs are micro books. And i have daily "aha" moments, that i cant get from books at this frequency.

And if you start including video, (If the speech was converted to text), then lets just say my number is close to 2 or 300 if not more.

Ultimately it's about having many "i am smarter" moments
Why you've never really heard the "Moonlight" Sonata
Cotweet never charged their customers. This is a big missed opportunity for the twitter ecosystem. I might be mistaken, but have we seen a startup with venture backing turn a profit on twitter? Even the iphone apps?
I've found that simply setting aside some time every day or every couple of days for reading is sufficient. Once I start reading I have no problem continuing.
Aaron recommends isolating yourself from other people, stopping reading blogs entirely, and getting rid of other hobbies.

If your goal is to read a lot, obviously it's primarily a matter of finding time to read. Aaron's advice is extreme, though. Don't isolate yourself entirely -- from people, the world, or even social media like blogs. Each of those has value. As the saying goes, moderation is key.
In July 2008, I had recently been laid off and it was the midst of the Worst Recession Ever.

I applied to Fog Creek. I didn't get to the in-office interview. Now, I'd totally understand if they chose not to hire me after an interview. I'm pretty particular about what kind of work I want to be doing, and that makes me a poor fit for most jobs. Also, knowing more about the company, I wouldn't have been a great fit (no fan of Microsoft, and they use Wasabi, which I understand to be a VB dialect). So I hold no grudge that I didn't get hired-- just business, and very likely the right decision-- but I was pretty damn surprised not to get an office interview. I'm reasonably smart (top 100 Putnam) and I made it to the final round of DE Shaw's process shortly out of school, and had plenty of opportunities (even then, in 2008) to move back into finance. So it's pretty shocking that they didn't at least bring me into the office. Ok, but that's their decision and within their rights; they haven't done anything wrong, unprofessional, or embarrassing. Not yet, anyway...

Here's where Fog Creek begins to look bad: remember what I said about being laid off in the midst of the worst recession ever? After getting turned down for the interview, I called Fog Creek to ask why I didn't get it, wanting to make future applications, to other companies, more successful. No explanation. No tips or advice. Nothing. "We'll call you if we can release that information." No call. I tried again, 2 weeks later. Nothing. I'm sorry, but if you can't take 5 minutes out of your day to explain to someone who is down on his luck why he didn't get an interview, then you've checked your humanity at the door and crossed the line into sleazy corporate "neither confirm nor deny" territory.

To make it worse, I know that Joel is friends with my ex-boss. So Fog Creek's decision not to explain the rationale to me casts aspersion onto him. Not very professional. (Of course, I have no idea if Joel had anything whatsoever to do with this matter. Still, it makes the company look bad.)

Anyway, I rebounded, I've moved on and I'm doing well. In 10 years when I have a bit of success to my name and I'm hiring, I won't hold it against someone to have worked there. Even if that person worked in their HR department in the summer of 2008. But this is why I think Fog Creek is overrated. I'm sure they're a great company, and they have some impressive people, but they still have a touch of the old regime in them... or at least in one subsection of the HR department as of two years ago.

(TL;DR version: The "cool company" image of Fog Creek is overstated, as my experience attests. Still, their programmers are impressive.)
I'm Moving You to BCC
This seems to me like an example of a particular kind of myopia: because the author has been involved in the control-panel industry, he perceives that industry to be a more important part of the world than it really is.

the touch screen on the iPad is remarkably sensitive. Do you really think they did that just for gaming?

Well, no, I think they did it for the user experience of the device as a whole, but even if it was just for gaming: Videogames take in $10 billion a year. Crestron and AMX together make about $0.7 billion.
FogBugz has competitors, I think especially Jira, but it's hard to dominate the market if you only target 5-10%.

Isn't pg an entrepreneur who has reaped similar dividends from a similar formula of "blogging"? i.e. a book/essays addressing bigger issues, has indirectly promoted YC.
The 5" was a beta program that the users had to pay $400 to participate in. And oh yeah, nobody was told that before paying the $400.

Needless to say, not all the Amazon reviewers were too happy about that.

The reality is, Archos fixed the problems, and now that tablet is basically a desktop machine in terms of web browsing and video playing ability. You can connect a keyboard and mouse (for writing HN posts), if you want, and you can output and record 720p video / 5.1 channel audio. (And it plays real-world video formats, not just what Apple sells in its video store.)

Honestly, I thought Archos was quite clueless when they released the 5" device, but they are doing better now. I emailed them asking why their media player app couldn't display Japanese fonts, and the next firmware update had a Japanese font. Of course, I would have been a lot happier if I had write access to my own filesystem... then I could have added it myself. I would also like documentation / code for controlling the DSP chip, so I can write a media player app that doesn't suck. Archos has kept the same codebase on all their devices, and while the video decoding works OK now, the UI code is just horrible. I think the whole app is a bunch of if statements like "if( volume > 0 && headphones_attached && phase_of_moon == FullMoon && ... )". Sometimes they forget to cover all the conditions, and weird stuff happens.

(To be cynical, I doubt we will ever see the tools we need to write a good media player app, and that Archos will eventually be dead from buggy software and obscurity. If that happens, hopefully someone else will release a Linux-based music/video player, because I am tired of Apple dominating this market.)

Or... maybe tech-no-media just didn't tell me about all the publisher relationships that 'droid manufacturers have been developing (à la Steve Jobs since January).

Nobody is buying the iPad for the ebooks. You don't want to read a book on an LCD screen.

But oddly, it seems that Amazon is deliberately shunning Android with their Kindle app. It works on Windows, Blackberry, and iPhone... but not on Android. WTF, Amazon? How hard is it to display plain text on a screen? (My DRM-stripped Amazon ebooks work fine in the stock browser.)
Innovation and theft are two different things. Forget the hardware and architecture patents - I'm sick of design being treated as a commodity that's assumed to be freely copyable, simply because it's a user interface rather than a hardware element. Just as many hours and insights went into making the iPhone UI as it did the physical device.
Yep, that's all there is to it. iPhone OS took one guy about a week to write.
that's driving me crazy - the player keeps stalling and doesn't seem to buffer, so you can't pause and then play later.

this link appears to be the same file but with a player that does buffer - if you start then pause, you can later press play and see the film stutter-free - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcelzx_logorama_shortfilms (you can also jump backwards + forwards)
Do a "Ask HN: Where did your startup come from". I bet there'd be some cool answers.
If this had happened a day earlier I don't think I would have posted that RFS. Apple is inching ever closer to evil, and I worry that there's no one within the company who can stand up to Jobs and tell him so.
Creating versus Capturing Opportunities
And Android was written in a few hours, in a coffee shop...
In short: Do we need a modified definition of recession if our current definition doesn't address the nature of recent recessions?
The only thing I can say in response to this is that I see that my dad uses his iPhone to surf the web much more than he uses his computer, and he's interested in a bigger screen to do so. He's in his 60s, and he's actually not buying another desktop computer (his is 11 years old) because his iPhone does what he needs, and more, plus he's tired of viruses and spyware. (Yes, we know it's not a target yet, but a closed system does help prevent a lot of that.)

I see it as a step towards hurting Dell, who makes a portion of their money selling laptops and desktops to people who really don't need them, like my parents, grandparents, other non-technical people. It's also a step towards hurting the "PC repair" industry that charges these poor folks $150 to install and run freeware antivirus tools and "double your memory".

I think the lack of Flash support is going to hurt it the most, as the target market I'm describing are people who tend to use Flash a lot (think Facebook games and other online games.)

The iPad is aimed at that market of people - the people who use the Internet as another vehicle for entertainment. I've seen what the iPhone has done for average people, and I think this is Apple taking that a step further.

I guess I wouldn't say it's "revolutionary" but then again, I said that about the iPhone. ("it's just another phone, who cares?") And remember, it was pretty 'meh' before the app store.

I could be wrong, but I think it has the potential to be pretty neat for the average person. We need a revolution in that space.
Raising the realtime child
The Diary of the Tobacco Bureau Chief
A New Way of Working: A Two-Month Recap
I think I do understand what it takes but you don't understand a rhetorical question when you see it ;-)

I also think people draw the line where it suits their self interest.
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It's the first tablet device that will have a large library of tablet-specific multi-touch software available. We've never seen that before. It's also the highest density multi-touch device we've seen on the consumer market.
The only problem with all this nonsense is that Jason Calacanis wasn't the only one who knew. In fact I probably knew before him. He was just the one who Sam confessed to. Did that ever occur to any of you? In terms of this flaming email so what? So Jason sent me an email that I can't even remember which is probably due to the fact that it contained nothing I didn't already know. I don't get this whole thing. No emails of any kind were printed, talked about nothing. Here's my more theatrical response.

http://www.1938media.com/crunchgate-the-blame-game/#respond
Hang on: you read about 100 "particularly good and in depth blog"s per day?
Many companies are reluctant to say anything about why they didn't choose you because there is no upside and potential legal downside for them. I don't know what top 100 Putnam is or DE Shaw or how picky you are but I'm sure you are great.
Thanks for the reply. We're keeping afloat on consulting gigs right now, so I am spending a lot of time working on things that aren't contributive to a startup product.

I appreciate the advice, but I'm not spending two years in a batcave and I understand that these things don't happen by magic -- the annoying thing is that even after a lot of work, they still won't happen for me, when for many others who seem to have put much less work into something, there is a lot of money and success. I can't just work with no benefit forever ... it leads to this kind of discouragement, not to mention lack of money.

I'm releasing early and often. A few of my projects have been a couple days of work to get started. I start them and try to market them, but fail. It seems like people are pretty hostile to bootstrappers; communities disallow advertisement, people on top ignore all of your requests for help (even if these people are well-intentioned, their mail volume is so high that talking to them is useless), and I don't have much money at all for AdWords. I do try to market these things; the success rate is just so small that I get discouraged and stop.

I hate using blogs as a marketing device -- it feels really scummy to me. I don't mind blogging about relevant things, I just don't have that many relevant things to publish on a blog about my product, especially not when there's no one using it.

I have a product for bookstores. I pitched it to people, they seemed interested, but then they never followed-through with anything. I don't know what else to do. I can't keep harassing people, and I feel like putting the effort into generalizing that codebase is almost useless as I expect the same thing to happen there as has happened on everything else, i.e., unable to get any traction without significant money or significant clout.

If I had a popular blog or something, then I could promote these things and people would listen. As it stands, I just make stuff, release it, try to market in an honest, conscionable, viable, and cheap way, and the project just sits there unused and uncared, and I can't get anyone to even throw me a link.
Ask HN: Do you sneak workouts in at work?
I used to have a pretty active lifestyle, but due to work schedule and long hours, it's really hard to be able to devote a significant portion of time to training and staying in shape.

What sort of stuff do you guys do at work to sneak this in if at all. Also is it socially acceptable where you work. I know people who sit on balance balls at work (certainly not at my workplace), but I'd like to hear stories and what you guys do.
Branding is where I think android will win.

Google is better at marketing and branding than Apple. Also Android is cooler (sorry apple people it's true). Apple is now seen as mainstream, and boring. Finally android is technically superior.

A better media player is another reason why android devices will win.

Until the Troll (tm) comes out, and eats them all up ;)
The built-in Lisp mode for editing and the inferior-lisp mode REPL give you 80 percent of SLIME without the installation pain.
No, what i'm saying is. If you sum up the amount of text i read (incl speech converted to text) from blogs and video etc, then it would come to about 2 to 300 books at the end of the year.(in my estimation).
Chicago bloggers up in arms over Tribune blog network's biz model
No, just because they didn't tell you why they rejected your application does not mean they are uncool.

It just means you have rather unreasonable expectations of what other people should do for you.
Why designers should and shouldn't code
HP Compaq Tablet PC Tc4200 vs. iPad

• 1.3" thick vs. 0.5" thick

• 4.6 lbs vs. 1.5 lbs

You could duct-tape three iPads together and you'd have roughly the size and weight of one Windows Tablet PC. This matters a lot carrying one around a hospital. And this is to say nothing of the fact that all the exposed ports and vents on the PC prohibits its use in a number of contexts, while the iPad could easily be fitted with a sealed silicone case.

• Full desktop OS vs. specialized mobile OS

Yes, Apple's platform is tightly controlled. But if you're building a web-based application, why not deploy it on a low-maintenance, streamlined device instead of something with enough complexity to run Crysis while spreading Conficker in the background?
Apple has been evil since the first ipod when you had to use itunes to load music. They have locked people in with no cheap way out. Pure evil IMO.
Afterthought: The third age of math
The best way to read more books is to get a job where you have to commute. And by that I mean commute by train.

That's giving me almost 2 hours per day for pretty uninterrupted reading.
Not that I read 100 books per year but it seems that it's much more than my co-workers, so I guess I'm above average.

Because of that I actually enjoy commuting. :)
The point is there's more to the device than just the web browser.
it really is amazing what you can get a patent for...
The original devops manifesto
CoTweet does have a paid program: http://blog.cotweet.com/2009/11/introducing-the-cotweet-ente...
The network is the human being
Mobile devices is an incredibly patent-heavy landscape, where manufacturers are used to licensing technology from one-another and have been for years.

Obviously Apple and HTC have been in discussions (lawsuits are incredibly expensive and always a last resort) and the fact that Apple went ahead and filed indicates that these discussions failed. This means either HTC was offering less than 'market' in licensing fees, or Apple was asking for more. Which do you think is more likely?
Wow, are you really reading 30,000 good blog posts in a year? Could you please share what blogs you read? I find most blogs tiring and annoying, because there is so little new content and so much reposting and regurgitating of the same things going on over and over again.

I am rediscovering what a joy it is to read books. It seems it does take a lot of work to write well. Blog posts, almost by definition, are not meant to be well-written in terms of depth and succinctness.

But, maybe I'm just reading all the wrong blogs.
The job numbers can readily be understood as the combination of GDP with an accelerating long-term trend towards concentrating economic production in a small portion of the population, and wealth in an even smaller portion. When you combine trends the job numbers are going to look significantly worse than GDP.
Interesting concept. It makes the low cards valuable because they're more likely to be tossed, so you can pair or triple them up. There was a similar poker game I used to play with friends.

This is similar to how, in Gin, face cards can be useful because they're the ones that an opponent is likely to toss early because their deadwood count (penalty to you if unmelded) is so high. Kings are usually crappy, but if you have a pair and an opponent tosses one (which he will if he can't do anything with it) you now have a meld.
Sam being brave and trying to make the make the best of this is a positive example of responding to adversity.
Context: The Tribune Co. launched a site called ChicagoNow about a year ago and rolled up all the big city bloggers in Chicago to write there for $5/1000 local pageviews.

A year later, some bloggers are jumping ship and talking trash about how they were treated and whether the Trib ever had bloggers' best interests at heart. In the comments to this story, just about every local blogger chimes in with their experience working with the blog network, good and bad.