skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very imbalanced blog post. At least the author is up front about his biases ("Unfortunately, I doubt that this group dominates his readers. Instead, I assume...") but stays far from acknowledging that it is just a tool, and any tool can be used for good or evil. I can build a home with a hammer, or I can bash your head in. I can live a long life of copious but fleeting, shallow entanglements - or I can use my knowledge to deepen and secure one life-long relationship. (This makes me question his claim to being a hacker...isn't such a view about tools rudimentary?)

Anyway, no essay that claims to explore the morality of these techniques is complete without an honest acknowledgement of the ubiquitous & accepted industries geared towards helping women misrepresent themselves so that they can hack the simple automata that are the masculine visual and olfactory processing systems.
Is Backblaze fast? I use Mozy and it really sucks. It's slow, the Windows app takes FOREVER to show me my files and the web-interface is just plain bad. I'm looking for an alternative but I don't want to switch to yet another app that's just as bad.
I'm one of the few people from Portugal.
More like "All the more reason to create your own retirement fund". I live in Canada, but I don't trust that the CPP will be around when I'm old enough to qualify. I have my own retirement plan started, and frankly, I expect to die coding anyway, so I might as well make money off that till the end.

I don't really understand how people can trust these systems to begin with. People have this mistaken idea that the money you pay in just gets set aside for you later -- that's rarely the case. You are often paying for retirees right now, and young people will be paying for you later.

I don't know what the makeup of the Canadian government will be in 5 years, let alone in 30+. It seems foolish to trust a public pension program.
IMovie Video Converter - How to import video into iMovie
One of Amazon's SNS devs seems to be hanging around on reddit willing to answer questions about it.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bnn60/amazon_in...
What about interviewees who don't drink (for personal or religious reasons)?
With Alexa data your results will be skewed because you will only count visits from people with the Alexa toolbar installed. For whatever reason, people in Kyrgyzystan are more likely to have the Alexa toolbar.
What good MLB teams are good at
That makes about as much sense as athletes who believe their winning streak is caused by their "lucky socks" or some such.
By that logic, the lack of review process in the Android market has also had a flawless record of keeping out malware.
Shadows in the Cloud
Why I don't use bug tracking software.
"There is, scientifically, a most profound break between the living and the non-living. Now life may be the spirit; the animals may be the forms of spirit and matter, in which matter predominates; man may be the highest form, the crown and final goal of the universe, the form of spirit and matter in which the spirit predominates and triumphs. (If there’s any value in “feelings” and “hunches”—God! how I feel that this is true!)" — Ayn Rand.

I don't think she seems that rational; adjectives like dogmatic, idealistic, romantic, manichean seem more apt. It is admirable to try and ground ethics in reality, but I think Rand claims much, much more than she accomplished. I can't put together her dogged insistence on a benevolent universe, the grand exaltedness of capitalists and individualists, the nonexistence of instincts, the objective life-affirming value of cigarettes, etc, etc — with the idea of sober, honest reasoning. Yet these features are actually what I like the best about Rand. I think her attitude shows someone who could have been a good poet of individualism — like a more austere and condemning Whitman — if she hadn't gotten tangled up in the business of philosophy.

(Richard Rorty's "Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity" to me shines brightly with a kind of humble yet very discerning rationality, almost saintly honesty — yet he and Rand are completely, utterly at odds philosophically.)
>There's nothing wrong with promiscuity. Sex is good - if you want to fuck hundreds of people, do so and please use a condom every time.

Don't forget that condoms won't protect you from all socially or sexually communicable disease nor are they a guarantee against pregnancy.

>Now, you've made yourself as attractive as possible.

Women are often attracted to selfish bastards (and I don't use the term lightly); the sort that would effectively rob your grandma to make a sale. I think you're over simplifying too much.
Great post... Repeating theme here is "... I decided I couldn't afford the time/cost of [insert scalable marketing option] because our price point was too low."

This is something 95% of b2b startups don't consider (we certainly didn't). The epic win in b2b software is finding a SCALABLE way to generate leads. Word of mouth and PR are awesome, but they don't scale in the sense of "insert $1 in marketing spend here, out comes $1.10 in profit". It isn't sexy, but the scalable stuff includes cold calling, list buying, adwords, etc.

My gut tells me Feedback Army ought to raise their prices so there is room for them to still make many when they pay for leads. If they want to grow FAST, that is. Word of mouth can fuel pretty solid growth-- but you can't scale it on demand.

Related: $15?! That's crazy low. The author needs to A/B test pricing and read http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
There's no such thing as "hacking" women. If you can be attractive to a woman then you are attractive. I mean maybe wearing an earpiece and having somebody else feed you lines would be hacking a woman. But the good 'pickup' gospels basically just tell you how to become an actually attractive person. This is necessary in modern society since modern society is so comfortable with its xboxes and dorritos men have no impetus to ever leave their houses and therefore do not learn how to be attractive naturally. I think inasmuch as the pickup meme gives men the courage to go outside once in a while it does more good than bad.
Gaming HN is so easy!
Hey, I read The Game - I even tried it out for a while. :D

There is useful information in there; but it is obscured by the idea that the ultimate aim is to sleep with lots of women, get pissed and not really care about anything else.

In actual fact when I read The Game I felt I was looking into the mind of a lost individual who found a process to attach himself too. Im not sure if Neil actually learned anything during that time period but it reads like he may have done. Sadly the book only touches on those aspects.

(your analogy regarding Lions/Antelopes is something I'd agree with though)
Can you use cast iron on an induction stovetop?
I'm a 24 year old bachelor and have been looking for these kind of tips as well. These are the things I've found and used.

Cooking utensils:

-George Foreman

-A bunch of those throw away plastic containers

Breakfast (Takes 2-3 minutes):

-Get the All Whites egg whites and pour some of it in a small plastic container and throw it in the microwave for a minute and a half

-Throw that egg on a wheat tortilla with some salsa and spinach and you have a breakfast burrito.

Lunch (~3 minutes to prepare, ~3 minute to cook):

-Black beans + Chunk chicken + spinach + salsa + guacamole + hot sauce + (whatever else you want for flavor) all into a bowl and toss it in the microwave. Quick and tasty.

Dinner (~10 minutes to prepare, ~5 minutes to cook):

-Chicken breasts grilled on the George Foreman. I generally cook a bunch at a time, store the rest in the fridge and then heat them up at a later date. Throw whatever you want on top of them for added flavor.

-Boil broccoli or some other bagged vegetable in a plastic container in the microwave

-Black beans, pinto beans, some other good beans.

Snacks:

-Nothing beats baby carrots for me. Grab some hummus for some extra flavor.

-Bananas, Apples, Oranges. If you're dieting try to avoid too much fruit, but don't neglect it either.

Notes:

-This is for a super healthy diet, so if you're not looking for really healthy switch some of these things out. However, I generally split my lunch into two meals making all 4 meals about 4 hours apart a piece and I never get hungry between them, even with exercise. Not being hungry definitely helps kill cravings.

-This follows the slow-carb diet, all except for the wheat tortilla in the morning
Kleiner Perkins - they did ask for people to get in touch. It's tempting in a very very long shot kind of way.
Resizable text areas would be great! Safari on the desktop has them, where it's a "nice to have" but they'd be far more useful on MobileSafari... on the desktop, I almost always resize textareas UP whereas on mobile devices I'm always wanting to resize them down to make them fit the screen better.
"he wants to appropriate the word freedom for his own purposes"

That's a crime shared by about anyone with political opinions in the US.
How does SNS differ from RSS and Common Alerting Protocol (CAP):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Alerting_Protocol
Ask HN: How does one get certified as an ETHICAL hacker ?
I am a fresh graduate and not much of a programmer.
I love the Unix environment though and have been hacking

around with the likes of Solaris and Ubuntu poring over the
plethora of documentations available. I seek to attain a
certification in say Solaris 10 and also probably Red hat
which is more commercial. But I have come across these ethical
hacking certifications which I found to be rather expensive.
But I need fellow hacker opinions on how I should go about
these certifications. Are these legit and do they have
placements ? I intend to make a career in network security.
Please advice
Currently I use a BackupPC system on the LAN to do nightly backups of all my systems. My mac mini is backed up automatically via Time Machine as well, and I do a nightly backup of the MacBook with SuperDuper. Setup of rsyncd on the one windows laptop is a bit of a pain, but it works well.

My current concern is off-site backups. I have none, and need something. The problem is that I can't backup the BackupPC pool (~700G of backups) and since I'm horrible about determining what to save and throw away I end up keeping everything. I think I'm hosed :)
Another Irish person here!
Me too. Don't assume we are only a few. That's a very Portuguese attitude to take :)
Homomorphic Encryption (Private Cloud Computing)
Automatic judgments like the one you described should be analyzed. An action (or inaction) isn't moral because lots of people automatically think it is true.

Suppose that pub was in Saudi Arabia, and instead of a kicking a dog, the man outside is gay and kisses his partner.

"Now, do [the Mutaween (moral police)] need to discuss what in scripture forbids such an act? Do [they] need to question whether [their] Kantian faculty for moral reasoning rings true when it signals the evil of such an act? Or do [they] just immediately agree that "That ain't right" and perhaps step outside to [arrest] the man what done it? Is anything added to [their] obvious and gut-level reaction by additional discussion of where, in principle, that reaction comes from? Or can [they] just stipulate that it was in fact wrong to [kiss the man] and that almost certainly [imprisonment and stoning] is called for?"

You claim that "we know right from wrong when we see it laid bare."

The Mutaween don't. Neither did Nazi German soldiers, slave owners, kamikaze pilots, Islamic fundamentalists, and countless other examples throughout history.

You have to think about your automatic moral judgments, and make certain that those judgments are based in reality. If you don't, you'll merely adopt the moral standards of those around you. Ultimately, those moral standards are decided by philosophy.
If someone starts earning Rs 25000 (~$550) per month after college, generally it is almost equal or close to what most middle-class parents earn themselves.

Being an engineer always provided a possibility of getting a decent job, but the trend was accentuated after the advent of IT Services companies thriving on outsourced work. This in conjunction with a large number of private engineering colleges setup in the 1990's, meant engineering became an easy ticket to getting a decent paying job. And at the end of the day, money matters especially in a poor country. (Btw I'm an Indian living near Delhi, before someone thinks I'm just trying to bash the country.)

On the positive side, things are changing for better. Post economic liberalization in 1991, there are plenty more opportunities for young (& old) people to earn a good living. Overall, economic development coupled with information revolution are paving the way for this and the future generations to take more risks and do what they want, rather than worry about basic necessities of the life.

I was around 10 in 1991, and I have literally seen things/attitudes change in front of my eyes. (May be everyone thinks the same ..). I am very hopeful and optimistic that more people would now start getting in to different things/professions.
Japan: 'Lonely Deaths' Rise Among Unemployed, Elderly
Looks similar to messagepub.com and their message broadcasting, although with subscription verification, and groups, but minus twitter, google talk, AIM, etc. Will be interesting to do a comparison of similar services.
I see this thread draw many clever and dynamic people. I'm afraid I can't help in any way since many have already given clever, inspired, positive advice.

Anyway. I'm 28 and I have been struggling almost forever to find something captivating. In recent years, solving useless problems helped (http://www.caesum.com/game/index.php in case you'd like it) but oddly enough I don't manage to play this more than one week a year. Generally speaking, I try to get interested in some things but I soon feel indifferent to it. (I guess I'm just describing a depression symptom.) Anyway this doesn't make a living.

I've read people around here (including PG) writing they were poor employees and it reassured for some weeks since I really am a pitiful one (to say the least). But since then I came to realize that comparing myself to this kind of people was outrageously pretentious. I may not be stupid but I can no longer do anything. I have long liked to blame school and parents for this since it was not the same in my early childhood. But blaming does not help.

The most awful thing I sometimes come to think is exactly what people suggested to you: it's what adulthood is like, you are through some age crisis. If that's how life is, I should have hanged long ago. (But that's not good karma. etc. -- Nicely put.)

I guess, like others suggested, a key point is finding something valuable to do. Anything you feel rewarding. Especially if it may have measurable success, I would say. Helping others is good provided either these people do not overlook your efforts or you are confident enough to value your efforts by yourself. Actually, do anything you can achieve now with the energy you have in store. I can testify that the more you wait the less energy you have. (But this doesn't prevent me from still waiting.)

The best would be to find a field in which your efforts can add up. Founding a startup may be captivating and hence a therapy. But how could people like me (I wouldn't ) show the needed strength? My last effort to be on topic shamefully fails. Anyway, I took for granted that your problem comes from your job which is far from being clear.

Sorry for the English (or for telling nonsense (which is almost the same in my case)).
I'm also in the Great White North, Kingston, ON to be more exact.
> 1) Join a gym. Workout a lot until you have big muscles. This won't take you more than half a year.

I'm sure you're being sincere with this advice, but I think there's a major pitfall to be considered with joining a gym. If you're joining a gym to make yourself more attractive so you can meet people, you are already on the road to hell.

What is the difference between big muscles and a hair implant?

I see happy couples who are short, who have acne, who are obese. I myself have a serious receding hairline that is merging with my bald spot as we speak. Join a gym if you don't like your body for YOUR reasons, not because you think it will increase your chances. You don't need a 'nice' body to meet people.

On the other hand...

If you find a sporting activity you enjoy, do it 3-4x per week and don't worry about your body. It will morph itself into something fine. And you'll enjoy yourself, and that enjoyment is infectious. People of both sexes naturally gravitate towards people who are doing something they enjoy.

Co-ed activities like Tennis, Surfing, Ultimate, Rock Climbing, and so on are all amazing ways to meet people if you are sincerely enjoying yourself. Climbing gyms are redolent with sexual tension, you could cut it with a knife.

And after six months, just look at yourself in the mirror and tell me you don't like what you see!

The key is to keep looking until you find something you sincerely enjoy. You'll meet lots of other people who sincerely enjoy it to and you won't need any "game" or "rules" to meet someone wonderful.
This is what happens when deferred "defined" benefits spanning decades are controlled by political machines that operate under 2 or 4 year election cycles.

Unfortunately, politicians get elected on the pork and candy they hand out NOW, not for the fiscal health of state pension funds 30 years from now.
Evolutionary Psychology Bingo
PragPub #10 (04/2010)
OtherOS Supported on "3.21OO"
There have been "self-help" books out there along these same lines for years. Most of them are written by guys, largely with the perspective of how to manipulate women into bed. While this is an attractive proposition, particularly for young guys with raging hormones, it's not what most people are looking for in any long-term sense.

There was one book that was popular a few years back, "10 Secrets to Success with Beautiful Women", written by a former supermodel, that I thought actually had some good stuff in it. It dealt with basically the same subject matter without any of the egotistical BS.
These Warriors Use Stealth and War Skills to Write Computer Code
I wouldn't count on your daughter having a wonderful math teacher. I suggest teaching her yourself in addition to what she learns in school. My daughter isn't old enough yet (7 months), but I plan on teaching her daily.
Not John Carmack, but what about a junior dev? What about the QA people? How far down the chain do you go with who gets to take a copy home?

On a large operation you can't rule out the bitter ex-employee factor either.
Also from Canada, but moving to Chicago. So I am a North American; literal on two counts.
Johnson's response is

“I wasn’t suggesting that the island of Guam would literally tip over I was using a metaphor to say that with the addition of 8,000 Marines and their dependents an additional 80,000 people during peak construction on the tiny island with a population of 180,000 could be a tipping point which could adversely affect the island’s fragile ecosystem and could overburden its stressed infrastructure. Having traveled to Guam last year, I saw firsthand how this beautiful but vulnerable island could easily become overburdened, and I was simply voicing my concerns that the addition of that many people could tip the delicate balance and do permanent harm to Guam."

quoted on http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWRlZjY5MDRjYzY3NTB...
but without a source.

Also

"The subtle humor of this obviously metaphorical reference to a ship capsizing illustrated my concern about the impact of the planned military buildup on this small tropical island."

http://hankjohnson.house.gov/2010/04/rep-johnsons-statement-...
'Spacetown' counts down to an uncertain future
Idea for an enterprising entrepreneur: create an app that does a multi-site/format backup. You decide which folders/file-pattern go to the cloud i.e. Dropbox and which go to your external HD. I have almost 300GB of videos and pictures of the kids that I don't want backed up to the cloud (too expensive and too time consuming). However I also have ~500MB of text files, word docs, tax forms (pdf's printed from Turbotax online) that would be perfect to backup to the cloud since that wouldn't take any time at all.

Then this software would automate this so that anytime I add new pictures/videos, it would automatically go to the external HD. Anytime I create/update a word doc it automatically gets uploaded/synced to Dropbox. Perhaps the backup software could watch certain folders and automate the backups for me so I don't even have to think about it. Heck I might even pick-up C# and learn me some Windows programming.
EDIT: Clojure is easy to get up and running with! This was written before I got some excellent feedback in the comments below. Apparently I've been following an out-of-date Clojure tutorial.

I just got Halloway's book, and I have to say, getting started with Clojure isn't as seamless as it could be. I mainly want to write web-apps with it, so I thought I'd get going writing an app using compojure. Well, it turns out that I to do that I need:

1. Java
2. Clojure
3. Clojure-contrib
4. Ant
5. Maven
6. Leiningen

And there's no equivalent of CPAN or gem to fetch all this for me, IMHO, a huge pain in the ass, doubly so because a lot of this stuff involved mucking around with env vars like JAVA_HOME and CLASS_PATH. Is there an easier way to set this up than just downloading the individual packages? Something like WAMP for Clojure? I'm not looking forward to going through this again.

By comparison, in ruby I could just:
1. Download the ruby installer (Windows)/ apt-get install ruby-full (Ubuntu Linux) 2. gem install sinatra

And you're done.
Drobo Finally Announces NAS Drive
In the larger picture, it very much seems that Youtube's decision to stand firm on the DMCA takedown of the Mccain campaign videos was the right thing to do.
"Hopefully such occurrences are rare and can be considered a special case."

What if it's both high-priority and hard? Like you find out that a fundamental part of how your product works causes data to be miscalculated in a certain scenario, and rewriting it while maintaining backward compatibility is a multi-week task? During which you will get more high-priority bugs...

This article sounds like a fantastic sentiment, but even a small project of a few hundred thousand lines will completely fall over as soon as it's released into the wild. And if you had a medium-sized project you wouldn't even make it past the point where internal testing is doing large scenario evaluation.

That said, if it works for your team, go for it. Never throw in more process than you need, but don't assume that what works for small teams scales. Unless you're trying to sell a book or consulting services, of course :-)
tritto
Europe (Euler, Gödel, Erdos, Hilbert, Einstein) and America (von Neumann, Shannon, Feynman) have comparably long traditions and cultural icons. I don't think lack of them is the cause.
It claimed math/science pedagogy is the same, but other pedagogy is different inasmuch as everything else is rote thus boring.

That was its core thesis.
Nepal, although I goto school here in US.
I love everything about it. The message, the presentation. Ugh if only I was taught this way, makes me jealous. This is how my calculus teacher in college taught. It was incredible compared to anything before that.
Sitting - a rant against meetings