skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not talking about pick up artists: they explicitly target those kind of girls, and they've developed techniques tailored for that. I don't even know about that stuff, honestly, all I know comes from The Game.

I understand your disbelief: I didn't believe it myself before trying it first hand. I know very well that going out alone hitting on strangers requires a lot of motivation but, if you ever feel like that, I can only recommend the experience. After that you will judge by yourself.
It doesn't matter what's acceptable from a legal standpoint. The overwhelming perception in Europe is that hosting data in the US is a risk. That perception might not be entirely grounded in reality, but it has a very real impact on the market.
I have absolutely no idea how it works.
X.Org is available on several different operating systems too, but I assume you don't think that Microsoft should have been prevented from shipping a GUI with their OS.
But then again, wouldn't that prevent PHP from being run as well, since it is server-side?
Oh yeah, it's a marketing problem. Let's just start with the Mexican drug lords, who run their own little armies to protect their profits. "Hey Mr.Drug Lord, have you thought about nonviolence? Wouldn't it be nice to stop the fighting? You could give up your mansion and harem and work an honest job. You could build an orphanage instead of getting kids to sell meth for you. Whaddaya say?"

People aren't violent because they don't understand that peace is nice for everyone. They're violent because they DO understand that power is nice for THEM. And they don't give a rip about everyone else.

And that is what Christians call "the sinful nature of man." You can't solve that with marketing.
The Making of Candystall
Ask HN: Any Successful Startups using Microsoft Dotnet Stack?
I am going to start a personal web project and professionally I am an Asp.Net(MVC) programmer. I have been trying Django which is nice and want to learn and use it. But sometimes I am too inclined to just start using Asp.net MVC.
Obvious benefits to use are:
1) I am well versed in Asp.net (MVC) and Dotnet framework.
2) I have MSDN license so access to all MS tools.
3) Visual Studio is an awesome IDE.
Some reasons not to use:
1) MS lock in.
2) Expensive hosting(??).
3) Not so cool :)
If you'd like to see the final product, check out http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=31522 . It's nice to see a breakdown of such a cool project. Being a demoscene newbie, I'd really like to start seeing more of this.
This article goes through the front-end part of the discussion... If you don't know what your tools can do, if you're not using the capabilities of your tools, if you're not fully using your tools, if you're measuring the wrong activities, then you can end up with confusion and mayhem (bad data, manual processes) and might well get yourself sold on big and expensive migrations. Know your ERP tool.

But not so much with the back-end stuff... Around why nobody noticed that the tool made this difficult, what could be done to detect the bad (default) data input, what processes are in place within or around the ERP tool, and why the feedback and the manual processes got deployed. That same "every ship date is the default" setting and it's screwing manufacturing and delivery and satisfaction should have stood out somewhere. Which makes me wonder what other parts of this ERP or this corporate entity might be misfiring.

Knowing about and fixing the error is nice.

Avoiding a repeat is even nicer.

And while this article is about an ERP tool, most (all?) of us have witnessed the same myopia around bug tracking systems and any number of similar large-scale running-your-business tools. Even with compilers.
Why More Immigrants Are An Answer to the Coming Boomer Entitlement Mess
True. I was too black and white. Good points. =)
Google Merges Startup Visual Search Engine Plink with Google Goggles
The "smug superiority" is a necessary part of the pick-up scene - it is what makes a pickup artist successful. People don't like the "dirty tricks" (read: faking narcissism/arrogance) because they reveal truths which people like to deny.

Simpler tricks (e.g., a pushup bra) do work on men. But since no one denies that men are superficial and like big boobs, revealing this fact doesn't make anyone angry.
Oh don't worry he has that covered:

"Anyone who has loved has learned the value of compromise. These people can too."

This article is rubbish. His claims are not backed with anything more than well-wishing and culturally-relative naivety.
> I would hope MI5 would have higher requirements on their cyberterrorism-fighting employees.

I think this is the whole of MI5 not just the specific cyber-terrorism units (just for context).

That whole quote is just silly though... I'm not sure why the BBC called on him but what he said seems entirely irrelevant to the issue :P
Ask the attorney: How founder friendly is FF stock?
No... server side would be fine. But there's no way Opera could be running page Javascript on the server. Javascript is too tightly integrated with the browser. For example, you can't implement a page element "hover" event via server-side code.
Nice idea but only about 1% are worthy of sticking on a machine. Seriously, who is sticking a Drupal sticker on their laptop??
Apple Should Pull the Plug on the iPhone (2007)
You ask a good question. My understanding is that 80+% market share is not a barrier to entry even when there are strong incentives for developers to develop for iPhone.

The barrier to developing for other platforms will come down to the question of whether banning Flash apps and/or compiling Flash to Objective C effectively monopolizing applications.

I personally do not think so, but I am not a jurur.

As long as Apple permits the time-honored method of writing an application in C with #ifdef iPhone sprinkled throughout, there is no obstacle to writing one application that compiles for two or more platforms.

What they are trying to prohibit is writing one program that compiles for one platform (Flash) which happens to run on two or more mobile operating systems. They are not raising barriers to developing applications on multiple platforms, they are raising barriers to creating a new application platform that commoditizes their hardware by turning it into a rendering device on equal footing with its competition.

The difference between #ifdef and writing for Flash may seem small, but it comes down to information hiding. Flash insulates the developer from Apple's API. A FLash developer is free to know nothing about an iPhone or Android or anything else. He is a Flash developer. If Flash doesn't support some feature like detecting when the phone is shaken, the Flash developer may be blissfully unaware

A #ifdef programmer learns two or more platform APIs. Such a programmer is an iPhone developer. Even if they consciously try to avoid using features that are not present on all the platforms they target, they are probably aware of them and how much better their iPhone app could be if it used them.

I appreciate that you hold an opinion that Apple should be legally barred from trying to force people writing applications that happen to run on iPhone from being iPhone developers in the sense I describe, but I certainly can't fault them for trying.
Well, if you're looking for fodder for future fun and games, remind your mark that all sorts of interesting stuff can be recovered from the disks that are often resident inside mid- and upper-end printers. And remind your mark that printers actually can be infested with stuff; it's a good spot for malware to operate on a LAN, too.
Not sure I catch your meaning, but, since it's server-side, the iPhone OS never runs it.
Not-In-Silicon-Valley Startup Tour Needs Startup Experts to Evaluate Contestants
you can't seriously argue that it's "quality" that is driving this decision. I've downloaded far too many apps that turned out to be absolute garbage to believe that it's a factor for which apps they approve. it's about controlling the apps and the devs, not the quality.
America needs women and minorities to become scientists and engineers
That said, I think the formatting is impressive for a typewriter :-) I admit I haven't seen many typewritten theses, but to me it demonstrates Knuth's commitment to good formatting (as far as good formatting goes in math, of course).
No, thats not what he is saying at all.

Micro-finance only helps people if its done carefully. The MFIs need to have pretty stringent requirements for giving out loans, otherwise they just put people in more debt. The fear is that the IPO will lead to a more profit driven company and therefore to giving loans to people who maybe shouldn't get them and forcing them to pay it back when they can't.

There are instances of pressure put on clients causing things like suicides, which causes problem for micro finance as a whole.

I'm not necessarily against the IPO, but I think your're misunderstanding his argument.
Do you have a link or anything? I would be really interested in reading about that.
It's all about the framework
I haven't owned a computer that came with stickers on it for about 3 years now.

I certainly have no intention of polluting my MacBook Pro's perfect exterior with a crappy home-made sticker now.
There are a lot of trashy women of all ethnicities and social classes (and, likewise, men). There are also a lot of married creeps (again, both men and women) who remain "on the market". This is nothing new, and it's not very surprising.
One area where WebOS is still miles ahead of even iPhone OS 4 is notifications. I was actually a little stunned that Apple didn't even address the issue last week: Notifications in iPhone OS are incredibly primitive; they exist only as modals with no history. You get one, it interrupts what you're doing, and if you get ten, you only see the last one and there's no way to review the other nine.

WebOS, on the other hand, displays notifications peripherally and in parallel, it consolidates and organizes them by application, and even has two levels of hierarchy for initial and persistent alerts. It's an order of magnitude more powerful, yet elegant enough that it would be at home on any Apple device.
Immersive Augmented Reality or bust!
Are there companies that don't do this and are even moderately successful?

This seems like common sense; that old 'the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly, and expecting different results' quip comes to mind.
That was an exceptionally well-written review - '[S]muggling gems of empirical knowledge across the literary border...' is a wonderful phrase. Book sounds great. Ordered.
I'm not talking about Apple being right or wrong here. I just noticed that the Apple fanboy's are fans because of the quality of Apple products. And it learned me a lesson...
This isn't related to the grandparent's post but on other platforms Opera Mini does only support a limited amount of Javascript and it runs on their servers.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini#JavaScript_support:

Opera Mini has limited support for JavaScript. Before the page is sent to the mobile device, its onLoad events are fired and all scripts are allowed a maximum of two seconds to execute. The setInterval and setTimeout functions are disabled, so scripts designed to wait a certain amount of time before executing will not execute at all.
After the scripts have finished or the timeout is reached, all scripts are stopped and the page is compressed and sent to the mobile device. Once on the device, only a handful of events are allowed to trigger scripts: onUnload, onSubmit, onChange, onClick
Am I the only one that thought of the Plink the Putty companion?
How do they know what tools were used to create the app?
Apple's trying to use its near-monopoly of the handheld software delivery channel to perpetuate its near-monopoly of the handheld software delivery channel. I doubt this is illegal and I don't think it means anything to say that its somehow "right" or not in any universal sense.

But it pisses me off. (It pisses me off because, a priori, I don't think business should be done that way -- but the reason why is sort of beside the point.) And if I can help make even a tiny amount of trouble for Apple over it I'm definitely going to.

The end.
"Fault tolerant" and "Twitter" in the same sentence?
If anyone is trying to follow along with the Quickstart, a simple virtualenv + easy_install Flask didn't work for me -- I needed to install Werkzeug tip (easy_install Werkzeug==dev) and install Jinja2 from tip as well (hg clone http://dev.pocoo.org/hg/jinja2-main jinja2).
0to255
Google's Chromium project ported to N900
Last.fm adds Spotify, MOG, and Hype Machine streaming links to track pages
Up voted, cause its news to me. I would like a review of .NET 4.0 or an overview of new features in VS 2010 sometime.
Use GeoJSON-like geometric objects as matplotlib paths and patches
Hindsight, as they say, is 20/20...
> lock people into developing for the iphone

You're saying that Apple is preventing you from developing for Android?
Frankly, RIM should buy them. The blackberry is getting woefully outdated and WebOS could help it jump into the 21st century.
Not sure I understand the backlash by developers to Twitter.
>Now compare that effort and overlay the mobile handset business. This is not an emerging business. In fact it's gone so far that it's in the process of consolidation with probably two players dominating everything, Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc.

I don't use any Apple products, and really don't like them at all...but I applaud Cupertino for doing whatever they want despite critical opinion and, sometimes, logic.
A six year old (or twenty two year old) doesn't have sixty years of accumulated observation of human nature and the intuition that comes from that.
Well! I wasn't aware of that. So it sounds like the TOS issue is not a problem for them.

Unfortunately, it also means it's a completely crippled browser. Why anyone would WANT to use it instead of something fully functional (like Safari) is beyond me. The days of squinting at tiny mobile versions of websites on a 2x1 cell phone screen are behind us, and good riddance. It would appear that Opera Mini is already obsolete on the iPhone due to its very architecture.
Vault Boy approves of this foolishness.
Android Tutorial Blog
I know I repeat myself but the thing that scares me to death is that this is not about j.random college slut or the housewife looking for adventure. Or about any specific group of belonging.
No. There are a lot of really great women out there who don't respond to silly displays of dominance and who won't leave you if they discover someone more "alpha". It's not even that hard to find a great girl; it just takes a lot of time and patience.

If you want to consider basic social skills to be "game" then, yes, everyone is receptive to it, but that's not what I mean. Some bits and pieces of "game" are general social skills that everyone would benefit to know (and 85% of people have already learned) but the worldview itself is a self-perpetuating mess.

The only genuine benefit of studying game is to develop social skills; it's just important to stop there before you start believing all that horseshit (most "evo-psych" is the 21st-century analogue of the four humors). There's no harm in reading it and being aware of the ideas, but letting this culture of runaway hypersexuality poison your view of human nature is a bad idea.

Good: developing basic social skills, making friends, and developing the confidence to pursue women you like.

Bad: Tailoring your personality to the lowest-common-denominator type of person who seeks sex in a bar or nightclub. If you let that filth into your mind, the enemy has won.
Web Laureate Insight, "Bebo | AOL"
While that's true, the cause of this is a salary that compounds faster than inflation. If you make 10% more each year it's almost impossible to retire anywhere near the salary you had 5 years ago without saving a huge percentage of your income.

EX: Ignoring inflation, if you get a 10% rase a year and get a 10%ROI on your investments every year then you need to save 40% of your income to for 35 years to retire on what you made 5 years before you retired. (Assuming you can live safely on 4.5% of your capital / year)
I found that quote particularly hilarious given the article in which it is embedded. The article would make a good reference for the wikipedia article on cognitive dissonance.
In an idealistic way, I agree with this article. Though we would have to get people to want peace more than they want money and power. The problem isn't that violence exists, its that those who are violent are rewarded.

Bam, headshot!
Nice tool, although the way the colors are displayed can distort perception. Always remember to test and pick colors in context. If you are using a white background, don't pick colors in a black app, and vice versa.
I think this was an April Fool's joke: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2010/4/3/april-1st-post-mortem

edit: In response to the downvotes - it appears that it was an April Fool's joke, but because of the response he got, Armin decided to try it out for real. Yeesh.
Is there anyone that puts more stickers on a laptop than Sony? I count seven of them.
I think it comes down to people / companies are more willing to continue to work with people / companies who had faith in their future.
The costs of Windows hosting has come down a lot over the years, so it's not the hosting costs that will kill you. More likely, it will be the expense of hiring additional .NET developers. The company I work for runs 200+ sites (most through acquisition), and when we inherit a new site that's not LAMP, it's not long before we migrate it to LAMP, just because it's cheaper to maintain. We have a handful of .NET sites, and a few Ruby sites, and I'd bet that the salary of the 4 or 5 guys who work on those sites is more than the combined salary of the other 50 PHP devs.

That said, if you can get the project profitable enough on your own, maybe you can afford to hire additional .NET devs.
The Gradual Disappearance Of Flash Websites
Socio­biology, as a unifying theory of behavior, is profoundly more nuanced than any simple construct about men and women. But sound bites have consistently over­simplified it and raised the ire of a public ever eager to mistake an observer’s statement of “This is” for a moralist’s “This is what should be.”

What is the current landscape of this area of thought?

nature vs. nurture

determinism vs. freewill

behaviorism vs. moralism

and so on...

I would be interested to know how to categorize what I believe, and know what camp that puts me in.
Ask HN: Review my project, The Bus Ride
I created The Bus Ride as a way to share collections of links in a sequence. These "routes" provided guided tours of the internet.

I'd love to get some feedback regarding its utility, usability, design, and any other thoughts you have about the idea.

http://thebusride.com
Nice timing; I was actually just playing with Duby + Android last night, it's just about perfect. Just be sure to get the latest git of Duby, and not the one in rubygems.

Here's a token Hello, world! app: http://pastie.org/915727

To get it going all you need to do is edit your build.xml to add a new compile target before the </project> (thanks to technomancy for this):

<target name="compile" depends="-resource-src, -aidl"
description="Compiles project's .duby files into .class files">
<exec executable="dubyc" dir="src">
<env key="CLASSPATH" file="${sdk.dir}/platforms/android-7/android.jar" />
<arg value="-d" />
<arg value="../bin/classes/" />
<arg value="." />
</exec>
</target>

You may want to change android-7 to whatever platform you're on (and make sure sdk.dir is correct, it should be in your local.properties).
Here's a clickable link: http://thebusride.com
I had three stickers on my HP laptop, which I promptly removed. This is more a curiosity than something I'd actually stick on my computer, though the Stallman sticker in Book I is rather hilarious.
Can anyone describe how the Visual Studio 2010 IDE compares to 2008 IDE performance-wise?
I suppose there could be someone out there willing to put a Drupal sticker on their server...
No removable stickers please, they're déclassé, just the glowing corporate logo thanks.
I think comparing "not being able to use your favorite language" to "children doing grueling factory work" is a little bit over the line.
I haven't heard a good case that developers are born with an inalienable right to write any code they want for any platform they want. It devalues the very concept of rights you're arguing for when people claim anything they'd like to do as a "right".

Whether Apple's recent move is a good decision or not is totally up for debate. As is whether the change is distasteful or offensive. But whether it's a "valid business decision [because it violates some God-given right]" is not.
Farewell, NPAPI Google Chrome's internal Flash plugin now on by default
Are you talking about troff? ;-)
I believe most serious iPhone developers are fairly pragmatic and reasonable but we tend not to see those articles because they don't make good news once the main point has already been made. (including my own blog post on the topic)
Not disruptive, and proud of it
Since it’s by the same author, this is probably inspired by or related to Armin’s April Fools’ Python micro web framework:

Denied: Python Micro-Framework (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1237412)

April 1st Post Mortem (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1239438)
The funny part is that they had at least one product running on NeXTSTEP (Illustrator I think).
Hmmm, express editions are not yet updated.
Thanks a lot, I do appreciate this explanation and it does make way more sense to me now.

That said, she-burning-him-down for her own poor investment judgment isn't pretty enlightened or compassionate herself, no? Why doesn't she "take it lightly", in a Zen sort of way?...
Opera mini does a good job of reducing the number of bytes that need to be sent to the phone to render a page. That is very useful for those times when you have a very slow connection or, perhaps more importantly, when you are paying per byte.

Granted neither of these cases are exactly everyday occurrences for your average iPhone owner, but for those people who find themselves in the above situation, having something like Opera mini to fall back on would be very handy.
Too much choice I think. "0to255 is a simple tool that helps web _designers_ find variations of any color." Designers already have offline tools to explore full color spectra.

Tools that turn color theory into recommendation algorithms are much more useful. Illustrator introduced a "Color Guide" palette for this and it's great. Would be even better as a free online tool. Doesn't necessarily need to be user-contributed like Kuler.
What % of the market was Apple at the time for Adobe? Total market % is a pretty poor indicator for speciality apps.
Who needs Flash when you can do this in jQuery:
http://www.spritely.net/
Okay, I'm intrigued. What can this possibly be doing that requires so many individual Flash items?
Can I have a CUPS sticker to put on my sticker?

[Insert Xzibit pic here.]
A New Way to Fund Entrepreneurs
Thanks for the compliment. As helpful as I want my interviews to be, I think we need to meet in person too.

In person, you can build more meaningful relationships.

Also, people will open up to you in person in a way that they can't do in an interview.
Okay, just removed all of them. I guess in the year I owned this one I never really noticed them until this article. Once I noticed them they started driving me crazy.