skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ayn was echoing the modernist critique of architecture - she probably agreed with it but it would be in Roark's character to argue the point. Modernism is/was at least in part about using materials honestly, letting the structure reflect the construction and not just continuing a deception by putting a non-structural greek facade on everything.

For a good peek into the modernist mindset, I recommend Towards a New Architecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toward_an_Architecture) by Le Corbusier.

As a contrast, I recommend the post-modernist view in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Venturi).

These days I have NO IDEA where architecture is now that we are post-post-post-modern.
I use cellmapper.
If you look at the linked raw data, the ones they chose seem to be the ones with the most sales, e.g. Aqua Di Gio which IIRC is the #1 seller for men.
You're right, and I think they are starting to sense it. This presents an interesting parallel universe in which Microsoft actually starts to channel some of that famous "underdog" energy that Steve Jobs himself channeled.

Lately I've actually heard sympathy for Microsoft in areas that used to be viciously anti-MS. It seems some of the hatred for MS has been transferred to Apple, and to a lesser extent, over to Google. But that's probably my subjective experience. I do think to the extent Microsoft can go lean, hungry, and humble, it will go better for them in the years to come.
Andy depicts some pretty badass scientists.
Do we need an open source techmeme?
Ideas about idea-having [video]
I think the indefinite article adds emphasis. (I’m definitly not a grammar expert but I’m German.) He not just somehow happens to be a Berliner, he affirms to be a Berliner.

(I have an alternate hypothesis: like all Germans I heard that sentence a few dozen times, saw it again and again repeated on TV. Maybe the sentence just made that usage correct by sheer force of its existence. I would say that’s unlikely, but it’s possible. What I’m sure about, though, is that everyone who listened to JFK knew what he wanted say.)
By that logic, so does Google docs.

* My projects are stored in the cloud at github. My servers are often too.

* I have to use different editors (or no editors at all) on different laptops and phones.

* Having multiple checkouts of my data seems a bit skilly when I could have one.

Appreciate there's a need where the aforementioned exist, just wondering if there's a cloud ver.
An open / distributed alternative. Facebook today is like some initial proprietary version of email. Sooner or later, an open standard protocol for "sharing" and "social networking" (EMAIL + FOAF?) will take over. (And it has to be distributed, like email)

That's what we're building at the mo :)
I just learned what "straw man" logical fallacy is:
http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/fallacies.html#Straw%20man
Do you imply that I put words into someone elses mouth that they did not say?
FarmVille players are real, ordinary, normal people. If you want to develop software that impacts real people, target the FarmVille audience and ignore readers of Hacker News, TechCrunch, etc.
I am an the OP, and you've covered it nicely. :-)
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What about a well funded startup that allows developers to port existing Facebook apps with little or no modifications?
Even OKCupid, I think, will be pointless as people learn to leverage Facebook for dating.

The swinger-ish nerdhemian folks I know who like OkCupid seem to use OkCupid as an alternative Facebook. One where they don't have to worry so much about their parents or not-so-close coworkers.
Worse is better in e-book formats
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Reeder for iPad is great, too; really fast UX.
You are right, sorry, I'm new to how this list works, I meant to editorialise but it didnt quite work out.
Reception issues? Not in Steve Jobs' reality
It's taken me 6 months to land a first date.

What do you mean by that exactly? Are you saying you've been talking to one person for 6 months before the person decided to meet you for a date? Or are you saying that you've simply been on the site for 6 months before connecting with someone for a first date?

If it's the former, you're doing it wrong.

If it's the latter, you may need to do some additional work on your profile. There's a dramatic difference in the success of good profiles versus just "ok" ones.
Free tip if you want to write a better RSS reader: research Usenet newsreaders like trn or tin. Many of the problems with RSS that everyone is grappling with now were solved (to varying degrees of success) decades ago. Usenet news and RSS aren't 100% analogous of course, but they are similar enough that there's a lot of man-years of thought which can be reused.
I also used OKCupid to augment my offline dating attempts. While the offline approach landed several more dates with a wider variety of women, the online approach landed me with my current Fiance. We've been together 4 years now and are getting married early next year. YMMV, but it worked for me :)
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As for the big picture: this thing is roughly where
the Macintosh was in late 1984. Which is to say, a lot
of people don't get it, and think it's a toy — and in
truth, there's a lot of stuff it doesn't do properly
yet. But it's an astonishingly promising toy.
Strange. I have a 3G and 4.0 feels slightly faster compared to 3.1.3. Did you jailbreak it and enable multitasking + extra animations?
A few more:

http://www.amcharts.com/ has an extremely comprehensive stock chart in addition to decent flash charts

http://www.rgraph.net/ is an html5 charting library you might want to look at.

I've worked with Fusion Charts for a while now, and their charts 1) have a very comprehensive API 2) are plain beautiful, especially the 3D charts.

JS charts look very promising, and I'm really excited about Highcharts and gRaphael.

If you're looking for something similar to the map component that Google Analytics uses, take a look at http://www.ammap.com/ or http://www.fusioncharts.com/maps/

@dacort - Thanks for pointing me to protovis. Expected it to be more of a hobby project (from the url), but was blown away by how comprehensive it is!
Cheap/expensive is relative. More importantly, insulin is only a tiny cost of the care of Type 1 diabetes. Diabetics need to check blood sugar levels anywhere from 3-5 times a day, sometimes more if ill or for other circumstances. Test strips can cost a patient as much as $1 per strip.

Also, insulin requires a subcutaneous injection for delivery. That means a new syringe 3-4 times per day depending on the therapy. Or, you could get an insulin pump at about $5k and pay for insets, tubing, reservoirs and other miscellaneous supplies. Those need to be swapped out every three days.

Want to add continuous glucose monitoring to your therapy? Even more supplies. Add it all up and treating T1 diabetes is nothing close to cheap no matter how deep your pockets are.
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I took the recommendation for OKCupid from a hacker friend I have in Palo Alto (I'm in Austin), and I met the woman of my dreams.

This was over a year and a half ago. We are engaged, and we close on our first house on Friday. OKCupid was great, I met my girl within the first 2 weeks, and we couldn't be happier.

I've tried numerous other sites both paid and free and didn't like the mix of those on there as much as OKCupid.
Third question: 'save test.py' results in 'the current buffer is untitled, please enter a name' when I'm fairly sure I've just specified one.
Apple tries to push external solutions to expandability, i.e. USB and wireless (and failed with Firewire). This works for some stuff (hard drives), but it's still a big waste if you want to get a faster (GPU, CPU) iMac, but would be perfectly fine with your existing display. At least used Macs sell at a reasonable price…

And Mac Pros aren't consumer machines. They might look like medium to high grade desktop PCs, but Apple tends to see them more as the successor to SGIs and Sun workstations.

The problem is: Is there a real demand for a mid-range desktop? Even the normal market is migrating towards laptops. And they have the advantage that the power users see them as more disposable than laptops anyway, despite the price premium, and that even low-performance models are a good value for those that don't need the speed.

The only possible exception where I'd see some money coming it would be gamers. Steam is porting more and more games, so there'd actually be some usage scenarios, and the Mac hardware landscape isn't unified enough (GPU and CPU-wise) so that developers could gain much by optimizing one path only (as done with gaming consoles). But alas, the usual home-built gaming PC is almost on par with a Mac Pro anyway (or even superior), so what would Apple sell for that? And they wouldn't earn a lot from upgrades, as those are sold by third parties.

So as much as I'd like to see a bigger product palette from Apple, I certainly understand the reason why they're doing it like this. And it seems to work for them.

The bigger problem is that we don't have a good desktop hardware market anyway. There's no real competition. Linux doesn't sell hardware (in that range), there's no IBM/HP/Sun/SGI/Apollo Unix market, there's no Amiga, Atari or Be anymore. It's either parts, parts, parts or desktops/laptops not designed for one OS specifically – or Apple.
I've had a similar transition here - I've pruned almost all high-volume blogs from my Google Reader, and focused more on people whose opinion I value very highly, Twitter, or social news sites (HN/Reddit/etc.)

So far it's worked very well. I still seem to find out about everything I'd care about, but have a post volume on Google Reader of around 60 posts a day. I star anything longer I'm interested in for later reading on iPad/iPhone (either through Reeder or Instapaper).

I probably sort through several times more tweets, but that's something I'm far more likely to do when I have 30-60 seconds - so it's spread out throughout the day, and anything longer winds up in Instapaper for me to do at a later date.

In short: Try social filtering. Find people who share interests and blog/Tweet/etc. about them, and let them be your filter.
I haven't really noticed much of a slowdown with the apps and tasks on my 3G since upgrading, but it does seem to eat up the battery a little quicker.
Etymology of Freelance
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No code folding, syntax highlighting, etc. unless I'm mistaken.
Yeah, the social mores on FaceBook seem to frown upon random contact with lots of strangers. It's good for maintaining relationships, not so good for starting them.

I've noticed a bunch of friends either getting married or beginning serious LTRs after meeting online, though. They usually fall into two categories.

1. A set of mutual friends of them say "Hey, you two would be perfect for each other," introduce them, and then the relationship blooms through FaceBook or old-fashioned e-mail.

2. They're both participants at a "niche" online forum or social networking site, and then end up meeting in person eventually and take it from there.

I think the latter situation is way, way underreported. We pay attention to the big social sites like FaceBook and Twitter and the big dating sites like eHarmony and Match, but there's an enormous long-tail of niche sites that toss up a website and a forum and build a community. You can find a fansite for virtually every celebrity, every TV show, every sport, many of the more popular books, and even niche professional interests like startups and programming language design. Many of these grow very close, tight-knit communities, and when those communities are of mixed gender, it's very common for some dating to occur.

Heck, if HN weren't overwhelming male, I bet we'd see some Hacker News couples. There've already been a bunch of "Founder Dating" sites spun off from it.
I read it a while back from a gossipy book review, so it must be true (don't shoot the messenger). I think it was some time in 1990, a long long time ago. As I said, it was a story from a book about Bill Gates.
we use protovis for our graphs and it is pretty damn awesome. The cross-browser support (no IE) is an issue until IE 9, but it's pretty incredible stuff. I'm no designer but they make it easy to make pretty complex charts.
Try a full restoration, it helps.
My 3Gs internet stopped working after the upgrade and I have no idea how to reenable it.
>but it IS called the "Pro" for a reason

Exactly, the money you safe on hardware you'll lose on support issues. If I were still a student I'd probably be running a hackintosh but my time now is too valuable to dick around with such a setup and afaik there are no firms offering support for hackintoshes.
During the course of my freshman year in college (2005-2006), I received 2 or 3 completely unsolicited date requests from women via Facebook, all of which went well. Despite being single for significant portions of the remainder of my college career, I received none after that year. I've conjectured that people felt safer interacting on Facebook back when it was only open to college students.
How similar are any of these crises to Greece?

My home state, Illinois, is in one of the worst crunches of all; by the numbers, we're in worse shape than California. But the cause of our problems doesn't look like an intractable macroeconomic problem (unlike Greece's). Rather, the politicians in Springfield have been pilfering pension funds to effect stealth loans to finance other parts of government, and deferring contributions to pension plans, so that the budget process never has to come to grips with how expensive these plans are and reduce them or offset them with wage and headcount cuts.

Nothing other than politics appears to prevent Illinois from fixing this. Eventually it will have to, because we'll flip out if they raise taxes. Whereas there aren't many (tractable) political decisions that Greece can make to right itself.
I had no idea Walgreens was around from before prohibition, nor that they expanded 20-fold during prohibition.

But when was the last time your pharmacy had a milkshake night?

Well, I don't think there were doses in the milkshakes, but I used to go to drug stores in Indiana for a malted.
If you can't even reproduce the problems that people have apparently found in the Nexus One and iPhone 3GS and basically every other phone by holding their phone (in)correctly and shielding the antennae, then why would you further conclude that your failure to replicate an issue specific to the iPhone 4 means it doesn't exist?
I am not against government or rules. I am against the idea that coercion is the means. Voluntary cooperation, not the use of force, is the means by which we create solutions to all sorts of problems.

Health is no different. It suffers over the long term when people think the use of force to get some short term benefit.

Somehow we live our lives with the understanding that forcing those around to do what we want would destructive, even if it was somehow benevolent. But collectively, we've convinced ourselves that this cannot be the case.

Perhaps it is because the dominant opinion is actually propagated with our own money even if we don't agree and alternative perspectives buried by the mesh of financing and media access of government.
Walgreens is one of Jim Collins "Good to Great" companies; there are other interesting things about their business model to know too. For instance, they "pioneered" the "blanket every other major intersection with a retail location" model that Starbucks uses (unlike McDonalds, which is a franchise system, SBUX and WAG do this because there are logistical efficiencies they can exploit).
The Corporate Mind
Nobody would have funded many bad ideas. That's when you turn to government to do it.
Is it perhaps the same difference as between "I am English" and "I am an Englishman"?

Presumably you'd need to be a true bilingual to tell if they feel the same, and even then, your thought processes aren't going to be the same as either type of monolingual.
I use Fever for my feeds, I simply love it. I tried others but this is definitely the best one I found so far.
I made Grafico: http://grafico.kilianvalkhof.com it's an opinionated SVG charting library with excellent documentation and lots of customizable options.
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I wanted to be a scientist. :-(
My iPhone is currently running 3.1.2 - is it still possible to upgrade to 3.1.3 somehow?
Would anyone be willing to share their experiences with tethering on iOS4?
I'm not trying to be harsh, but you're doing it wrong.

I'm not particularly gifted in the looks department, but I can get about 1 date a week. How? Testing and speed. Here are a few tips..this advice isn't really making any assumptions about you..it mostly is a result of mistakes I've made and have seen other guys make.

Testing:

-Photos: ask friends to help pick the best ones, take some new ones, use OKCupid's photo-testing service, etc.

-Profile: I probably went through 5 complete rewrites, followed by a lot of constant tweaking. I think the biggest mistake most guys make is being way too serious in their profile. You've really got to keep it light and playful. Sure, be authentic and show who you are, but wait until after a few dates before getting all deep. Just have fun.

-Messages: Play around with the type of message you sent. Try some serious, try some playful, try some ridiculous/absurd. You'll see what tends to work more. I'm assuming you're doing more than just saying "hey what's up," that will just get you ignored.

Speed:

Don't write long messages implying you think you two are soulmates. The worst thing you can do is get hung up on hoping this one person with a great profile will reply. Getting into this kind of pattern will make you think way too hard about what to write to them for your first message. Look for interesting profiles, write a quick message, move on. You've got to get a good volume of messages out there, don't spend too much time on a particular profile.

EDIT: Forgot to mention one more thing, take it offline as soon as possible. Don't let the messages drag on..if someone replies to me I usually ask to meet up for a drink in the 2nd message I send.
Immaculate UI/UX. Whether in landscape or portrait orientation, there are many clever flourishes: it uses Tweetie's "pull up to refresh" mechanism for moving between articles in a feed; or you can swipe an article left or right to return to the feed index; or you can pinch the article/feed to return to all of your feeds. In a feed index view, you can swipe a list item to the left or right to either toggle the read state or the starred state.

The feed index is designed very similarly to the iPad Photos app: you can either pinch open a folder to view the feeds within it separately, or you can tap it to view all of the articles in a combined view; similarly, you can pinch open a individual feed to preview of the articles within it.

Additionally, Reeder caches articles and images for offline reading; and the top-level feed organization is pretty sensible, too... it's separated into 3 sections: read, unread, and starred. It's also extremely fast, having been rewritten to use SQLite instead of CoreData.
wondering why would someone ever go to a dating website, seriously, can't imagine that in my wildest dream. And do people pay for it? Seems it is a thing for the past generation. We aren't convinced.
You make a good point but as I thought on it for a while I came up with this question: Do kids want to be the same kind of adults as their parents?

In other word, I can see your point that kids want to be more grown up. But kids do tend to rebel too. So if both of those are true the only explanation I can come up with is that kids want to be better adults. They want to one-up their parents by doing things better than they do.

Which I think is consistent with my theory in that they'd be drawn to a new Social Network and abandon Facebook to prove that they found a new social network that is way better than Facebook

(Also keep in mind Facebook started as a youth movement among College students. That doesn't necessarily apply to 11 years old but it's worth a mention)
This one is pretty easy to fix.

Go to Settings>General>Reset and select Reset Network Settings.

Do that and a quick reboot and you should be all set.
I use and love Google Reader. I use the List mode (as opposed to Expanded) and my work flow is the same whether I'm at my desktop, iPhone, iPad, or Blackberry.

A handful of feeds I insist on reading everything, which means I hit J-J-J-J to get through them all. But most I merely skim the unread titles for things that look interesting, and when I'm done I hit Mark As Read to clean up the rest.

I like how I can do this at feed-level, category-level, or with all unread items at once.

And if I'm mobile and I want to see something from my desktop, I star it.

Admittedly, the last time I considered using a thick-client reader was way, way back in 2004 when I was still Windows-only, and I wasn't happy with anything I saw. I've used Google Reader since it was released in 2005, and I've had no reason to use anything else.
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If you're willing to forgo graphics, I find newsbeuter (http://www.newsbeuter.org) to be a great reader.

It has excellent mutt-esque key bindings, amazing customizability, etc.
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Is it the RSS readers that suck or the content itself? If you can avoid these sites that just aggregate content or provide second and third hand accounts of the same items it's easy to trim down your reading list.
Same, with both the upgrade and a full restore, and my phone is stock (no jailbreak.) A good friend had great success with his after iOS4, so it's not affecting everyone. I followed a guide online and manually rolled back to 3.1.3 and haven't looked back, and soon I'll pick up the 4G. It's not like most of the compelling features were compatible with the 3G anyway.
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I would say, practically nothing! FB already has a mammoth number of users hooked to it and don't forget the ever increasing population as well as number of internet users in countries like India. So there still are more number of people joining FB than leaving it.
I've had a pretty awesome experience on match.com, but I appreciate the advice.
sure, you could have multiple avatars. they would be chosen randomly, right now, not cover up a particular person's face with a particular avatar. we don't do any facial recognition yet. we'd have to train classifiers on our faces to do that. thatd be kind of anti-privacy, but might be worth trying w/e
Good call. Thanks for that.
We sent Contributing Editor David Rensin to Redmond to
speak with Gates. Rensin, who wrote our Bill Gates
profile in 1991, reports:"
* clicks through to article *

* clicks through to full text of the research *

* slams into paywall *

Gah! And how is one supposed to verify any of the information in such an article, without paying the gatekeeper? It strikes me as the epitome of ethical failure in science to block access to knowledge, or to only sell it, or to somehow ration it to specific people.
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