skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because there is no reason to believe that the % of men who have true ED matches up with the amounts of Viagra sold; because I've known many young men who talk about getting drunk or high and taking it, and because their companions agreed or in the least were not surprised; because the market for it online seems to be mostly young, healthy men who want to have greater stamina, not who have anything dysfunctional to begin with...

Etc.
Somewhat OT, but what's the difference between solipsism and solopism?

Solopism is a misspelling: http://omploader.org/vNHJtZA
Huge companies can still make huge mistakes. Ask BP and their $250B in revenue.
This article asks some interesting questions, but provides few numbers. The big question isn't "are paid dating sites dying". I think the answer is clearly yes, but quite slowly.

The real question is about free sites like okcupid.com and plentyoffish.com , sadly, they have no numbers about these sites.
Explanation: "decimate" is to strike down one in ten. To decimate 100% signal strength would be to reduce it by 10%. Hence the lovely pedantic comment above. :-)
You are making a lot of sense, a little bit of unnecessary attitude though. :)
I think there's another age-effect for new technology, that young people will learn that, rather than enhance their skills in an existing technology.

A test: if this is true, then fields with faster-moving technology (eg. silicon, software, internet, gene-sequencing) will have a higher proportion of young entrepreneur than in other fields (eg. earth-moving equipment, iron processing, civil engineering, fast-food). Of course, the faster fields will also have more entrepreneurs in absolute terms, because they'll have a greater number of disruptive opportunities, but here I'm just considering the proportion.

Statistically, there's also greater tolerance for risk in the young because no spouse, no kids, no mortgage.

Neither factor is intrinsic, and needn't apply to a particular entrepreneur.
Speaking as someone who just recently started using match.com (after the end of a string of long relationships), it seems to me that:

1) dating sites are the perfect example of the benefit of pseudonymity for allowing people to choose how much to reveal about themselves while still being attractive

2) dating sites rely on geographical favorability. I live in DC so as a single guy it works EXTREMELY well. But I hear it's not as great for DC women. But DC is known for having far more highly-educated single women than any other city. But would a dating site work as well in smaller communities where people marry out of high school and generally keep their social circle their whole lives? Is NYC too much of a social cauldron for dating sites to work?

3) Facebook hook-ups seem to work mostly if you are being hooked up with a friend of a friend, so the initial relationship is being built upon referral instead of semi-blind dates.
Roll-Up Computers and Their Kin
Thats like asking why not dig ditches with a spoon? Sure its possible but any one who has tried a Shovel or a back hoe is going to hate it.

see this slide: http://www.slideshare.net/c9s/perlhacksonvim
I try to flag the worst of the entries (like the big pharma not interested in curing diabetes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1465116 ) but don't use flag as a replacement for downvotes.

I don't fully understand the ramifications of flagging on HN so I'd rather not abuse it. If someone can tell me what the effects of flagging are, then I might use it better. Does each flag of an article show up in a stream for mods? Do x% or x# of flags per article alert a mod? Is there an automatic "hide" or "bury" when a flah threshold is reached? Do flags work just like downvotes? Since I don't know what happens, I use the 'flag' option only when I'm certain its justified.
They're going to have to hire more people who can increase their "social" DNA.
Do Sport Bars and Gels Provide the Energy of Sports Drinks?
"Pow­ered air­craft pilots prac­tice engine-out sce­nar­ios as part of emer­gency train­ing. A check­list is brought out that usu­ally sets a good glide angle and starts the pilot think­ing about a place to land.

How­ever, glider pilots per­form that skill every flight. From the moment of release and through­out the flight, they’re con­stantly plan­ning ahead, think­ing of where the land­ing spot will be (and some alter­nates) and what flight path will get them there."

http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5750/comment-page-1#comment-1178...
I tried 4.0 in a VM upon release, and that scared me away from the 4.x series until 4.2. Even in 4.2, I had a lot of issues because of my heavily customized setup. I'd say that if you're happy with 3.5.x, stick with it as long as there are no major security holes.

I got tired of basic functionality being broken even in 4.3, and left for greener pastures (Openbox). I only briefly experimented with 4.4, so I can't really comment on it (though from what I did see, I was not enamored at all).
> They've got the #1 machine (by games sold, the metric that counts)

That's not quite true, unless you're talking about games sold per console (which isn't that interesting when you're getting outsold by 30% overall)
Unless all your potential clients live in the same city, you have this same problem, don't you? Or do some people only work for Bay Area-based clients or whatnot?
I liked the before drawings better, it appears that the kids image of a scientist was replaced by an image if a regular person, that somehow made the drawings more boring. Just check the contrast(this is the best artwork IMO):

http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/nick.html

It appears to me that the second one was done with a lot less enthusiasm.

edit: The feet are drawn sloppier in the second one, also theres less detail in the face, no background, i think the kid just didn't know how to portrait a scientist anymore, so he did a generic person drawing, and since these are boring, he did a sloppy job at it. My 2c.
I'm sorry, it's my first post here.

I've edited the headline to "...sucks" due to the fact that I myself as a part of community would be interested in such kind of content.

I can edit the title to match the original if it's really needed.
Search engines would have statistics on market share of public web servers.
Both office and windows are still massive cash cows for Microsoft, I guess Facebook could do the same thing, slowly become less relevant while still controlling a massive market and turning massive profits.

Of course Facebook still seem much more nimble in their space, maybe they will be able to jump in early on the next big thing.
Really? I get downvoted for providing an alternative that the Milton Friedman crowd doesn't like?
Google Docs works for a couple of those.

Emacs, and I'm sure other editors, can do the last one.
That's pretty cool, but everyone knows the second hand on the iPhone moves discretely with a little bounce rather than continuously!

Kidding aside, it'd be awesome to have a tool that converts images to their css equivalent if there would be space savings for that particular image.
A social network, that relies on its good privacy options to attract visitors, would definitely not compete with Facebook. In fact, i'm pretty sure most people on Facebook don't even care that much about their privacy.
Well I've got ESPN 3 through AT&T with just internet service, so that's incorrect.
Considering where OpenOffice.org is today, and the use it's already getting in small companies and even various government departments around the world, it would not be hard to imagine it making a very significant dent in Office profits for Microsoft over the next five years. That's not even getting into the cloud options, however successful those turn out to be on the corporate desktop.

Off-topic, anyone know of a good open source web-based office suite project? It would be nice to have the collaboration benefits of web-based productivity software run from a centralized location, combined with the data security of being hosted on private equipment on the LAN.
Honestly I don’t think Facebook will be that hard to kill because at its root it is a social movement and all social movements die based on two basic facts.

1. Kids rebel against their parents and don’t want to use the same things their parents use. Ironically this issue will be exacerbated by Facebook’s desire to force people to make everything public (“I’m grounded because my Mom saw those pictures you took at the party last night”).

2. The young are still building their social graph and can be more open to new things. So all those things that tie people to Facebook won’t be relevant to kids growing up today.

So new generations come into the market both inclined and able to pick new movements and hence unseat the existing ones.

Right now Facebook looks invincible because they have no real competition. They did a very smart thing in creating an API. In doing so they’ve tricked startups into making Facebook stronger with apps rather than creating competing solutions. So all Facebook has to do now is fend off the pathetic attempts at competition from large companies who aren’t agile enough to compete. So they have no real competition and kids have no real alternative.

But if an industrious startup with innovative ideas comes to market targeting the youth demo I think they could kill Facebook pretty quickly among that group and become dominant as that group grows up.
Investing cash will create new jobs, spending will preserve existing jobs and saving cash will destroy jobs & the economy.
Ask HN: Google Analytics Charts
What software do you use to create beautiful charts?

As for example: Google Analytics charts, how would you do that? What other web apps do you know that have beautiful charts?
I would be very wary of spending money on paid dating sites. There are just too many stories about fraud: http://forums.plentyoffish.com/datingPosts2493442.aspx (Google will find you many more)

okcupid and plentyoffish are much much better options.

And Yahoo Personals and Match.com definitely aren't the only ones. I've heard of other paid dating sites doing the same. Of course these are only rumors which is why it never gets very far in court but it's enough for me to never want to spend my money on paid sites. The incentives to move into fraud in paid dating are very very strong.
That's exactly right. Jailbreaking is perfectly legal as it change's one's own device, but distributing intellectual property (in this case the Apple code) without the creator's permission is not.
Assassin’s Creed II for PC
International privacy regulations.
The fact that he says "stay tuned" makes me think that Apple will be releasing a grand solution soon.
are these frequencies excluding common stopwords? site doesn't say...
Facebook was good to keep track of friends but as friends and applications are increasing, I am seeing high noise to signal ratio.
I think if Facebook doesn't manage that part it is going to be like Altavista of search. Lots of people used it but they didn't know what they were missing until Google came along.
We need something that adds value in peoples lives along with entertainment and socialization.
Facebook killer would not be something having more features and something more shiny than facebook but it rethinks how people should socialize. Not just serve as platform for viral marketing and time sinking games.
Right, they don't care right now. We're in the infancy of the internet age.

Once the culture matures, we may see more predators preying on this information at which point privacy will become a hot button topic (for a while). This could be con artists or the "facebook serial killer" or whatever.

Also, the users that care about privacy (e.g. me) aren't on facebook...
It's hard to see how you can reconcile privacy paranoia with social networking anyway.
In no particular order: http://g.raphaeljs.com, http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis, http://highcharts.com, http://www.fusioncharts.com/ (Flash)

[edit] Some commentary:
I've used Fusion Charts in the past (on tweetstats.com) and it provides some good looking and easy to implement charts. That said, it's Flash but it was the best looking option around when I implemented it back in late '07. Since then, there's been a nice rise in JS charts. gRaphael is amazing, but somewhat buggy and lacking documentation. Highcharts seems very complete and well-documented. I only came across Protovis recently, but it seems pretty darn awesome.
Well, it is not really secure if someone could find a way to poll the address space of your random URLs, which (without much thought) does not seem difficult.
They use Flash.

http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gall...

Open flash chart ,an open source project:
http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/
Ask HN: Why do RSS Readers (mostly) suck?
I've had a long love/hate relationship with RSS. For something with 'simple' as part of its name, I feel like it really hasn't lived to its each potential.

I've used Google Reader (horrible) and NetNewsWire and a plethora of mobile RSS-readers. I read a lot of news from a lot of sources (68 total sources in my NNW?) and as much as I do want to go in and read EVERY single article some days, other days I'm just tired by the 2500+ articles that pop up.

Pulse seems to be on the right track to do something. Anything else going down that path?

What's wrong with RSS Readers today? Why do they suck?

Is the solution to a better RSS Reader something more visually appealing (ie: Pulse) or something that simply filters the news (diggv4 or HN)?
I like your points but I'm not sure FB is just a "social movement". We are on the 2nd generation of mobile phone users. My 15 yo daughter didn't forsake a cell phone because I have one.
web-based text editors feel like a solution in search of a problem, in a world where TextMate, Notepad, vi, emacs, ad infinitum exist
GSM A5 Realtime Cell Phone Interceptor
http://zitstif.no-ip.org/
There's a number of angles of attack available. It's certainly hard to top Facebook purely on the social graph (as you mentioned, everyone is on it). But I think you can attack Facebook on areas they lack and areas they've fallen down on.

1. Mobile. Facebook does have one of the top mobile apps on the planet, with its iPhone app at the top of the download list for quite some time. But I think it's fair to say Facebook doesn't really care about mobile; the iPhone app languished with overt bugs for half a year before they fixed some of them recently. They have no iPad app. They no longer innovate in this arena (more on that next), and while that probably won't be the case forever, there's a great opportunity for a network with a best-in-class app to take the lead here.

2. Innovation in social. Take, for example, geolocation. Foursquare and Gowalla have definitely found some new niche that will be here to stay: people like to know where friends are, where the currently happening thing is. I've tried those services three or four times each and, while interesting, still aren't compelling enough. Facebook has done nothing here. Yet.

3. Out-facebooking Facebook. I'm a member of the initial Facebook group: my school was something like the fifth school on the site. Things have changed dramatically from those humble beginnings. It's much harder for me to cut through all the Facebook app bullshit today and actually find out what's going on with my friends: status updates, photos, events, that sort of thing. Things that actually matter. People still will want to play games, but I think there's a huge part of the population that just want a clean, social network again. I've expanded on this on a short blog post last month, if you're interested in reading more (and I apologize if you're not): http://zachholman.com/2010/05/rebuild-facebook

While I don't think Facebook will die a Friendster death in a poof of magic scaling sprinkles, I do think there's opportunity yet for a small outfit to out-innovate them, out Facebook them, or just otherwise carve a lucrative niche for themselves in the market.
Campus Party Colombia begins tomorrow -- is anyone else here attending?
I think there's a big difference between being bored with your friends and being bored with Facebook. I'm bored of Facebook. It's sole use for me at this point is to track down people I can't find otherwise (e.g. people I haven't talked to in a long time)
I doubt you will find the community of HN in other languages easily. If she's into Technology news, however, I do know that a few of the top Tech Blogs do offer a French version:

http://fr.techcrunch.com/
http://thenextweb.com/fr/
http://fr.mashable.com/
And when it fails (as it will), there will be immense political pressure to "maintain" or deny technical shortcomings, and we'll be right back to where we started.

At least with someone like Microsoft or Apple you can constructively threaten publication of cracks, and it is their interest to fix things. If it's the government, they send people with guns after you, and to some extent those folks' employment /depends/ on the existence of cracks.

"There's nothing wrong with the Secure Internet. But we need more funding to catch all these bad guys..."

It's what I call a recursive ecosystem trap, where the rosy picture (things truly working) is subverted by people who can make money by repeatedly patching what's broken, and there is no incentive to make real fixes. It's dirty, and it works; the US prison system is good example of this.
How to cheat on video encoder comparisons
Looks like this post has stirred up some of the "You kids get off the grass" crowd. Olson's post echoed Poe "long I peeked through my fingers, with enormous trepidation, but when Mr. Fried ventured upon a pernicious lack of respect, I knew I had to have my revenge.." and so he takes up his trowel.

Enterprise SAS indeed, we know little about Olson, but he wants us to know he's climbed up the corporate latter the right way, and he's probably a devout resume reader, and as such Fried is destroying his carefully cultivated world reality. He likes to drop titles like "CEO", and yearns for the corner office, fat pension and gold watch perhaps.

I admire Jason in that he retweets these critiques, whereas the criticizer (Olson) does not allow comments - that's what I expected. Dish it out, but can't take it back?

I wonder what they would think of Mark Zuckerman's hiring practices? According to Ben Mezrich, Mark would have the applicants drink shots as they completed each section of a coding contest. Resumes would be pretty meaningless.
Pope Lashes Out At Belgium After Church Raid
Not all countries are impaired by the inflated legal power of a EULA; they are entirely void in most of Europe.
Creationist Software Development, by John Walker, November 1993
Total sales guy, I figure.
I don't agree with point 1. As a teacher (aged 11+), I can tell you most of the kids I know deserted myspace and bebo for facebook. Perhaps they want to be more grown up - kids want to be adults. And I am sure kids are way better with their privacy settings.

Point 2 - agreed - Facebook can be beaten. Some young upstart will come up with something kids want more. I doubt finer privacy control will clinch it, or more openness.
They have been trying - see orkut and buzz.
The most obvious thing is that they don't do enough to help you filter the wheat from the chaff. The sheer volume of news that's available is too much for anybody to consume... it is almost literally like trying to drink from a firehose.

So our readers need to do a better job of helping us figure out which stories are relevant/interesting to us, give us ways to skim and summarize without reading the whole article, filter out "dupes", etc.
tl;dr: The boring old corporate behemoths aren't growing anymore, therefore online dating is dead.

They might as well have written an article about how TV is dead because nobody buys tube TVs anymore.

Match.com is an awful, awful user experience. It's a wonder that they're still able to fleece so much money out of people.
as far as I'm concerned, nothing Belgium could possibly do is "too much".
There are no OS X serial numbers, nor serial keys. There are unique Mac platform identifiers, but these are not used by Apple for anything today. Nothing is required of you to start developing for the iPhone, except the obvious of downloading the XCode+iPhone SDK package from ADC (which is free).
Usually we do this for one time authentication only.
thanks for the links.

She's more looking for a community though, even remotely similar to HN.

Most entrepreneurs forums we have found so far are filled with paperworks advice :/
So it's.... how to use facetime without wifi by creating a wifi hotspot with your laptop? How is that not using wifi?
I wouldn't declare victory against MS just yet. Here's a skeptic:
http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/kuwait-wastes-m...

And some patients report that it didn't help.
http://www.thisisms.com/ftopict-12463.html

The jury is still out, at best.
man on the moon: government
BP's business model is based around taking calculated risks.

Apple's is based around creating beautiful products with innovative new features. They have definitely done it again... but whether or not the external antenna feature in particular will be seen as innovative.. I guess we will have to "stay tuned".
I'm a Canadian dev/designer in Colombia for six weeks or so, and my trip just happened to coincide with this conference so I signed up. I recently left my last company and am now focused on (1) improving my programming skills and (2) meeting possible collaborators for future projects/companies. If anyone wants to meet up in Bogota, shoot me an email.
I put this up as it poses an extremely interesting question; how far does dogma dictate a public institution?

We all have our own theories about that, but this is a real live experiment unfolding in front of us.
funny.
Mobile phones/contracts aren't social graphs in a similar sense that Facebook or IM networks are. If Facebook can become a utility in a similar sense that email and mobile phones are, then it can survive the generation problem.
Some readers cannot detect duplicated posts.
Check out Yahoo Pipes. This under-appreciated tool can help you be more selective in the news you actually look at.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
I vote ssh + (vim|emacs) for most of those situations.
Try http://kodingen.com/ - it seems to hit all your required features.

Edit: They say they support git, but I'm not seeing options for it anywhere. Blah.
a business would have to do the same thing. so i'd argue this factor is net neutral
In my mind it's an issue of "Enabling Device" vs "Venue". Put it this way. Say your hang out as a kid was a bowling alley you used to drive to every weekend. As you grew up and had kids you took them to that same bowling alley for Family Night. When your kids become old enough to drive they'll probably still use a car but they probably won't choose their parents' bowling alley as their hangout.

Same here. Kids will still use Laptops, PCs and Cell. Phones but probably won't use the same sites as their parents when going on the web. Because the PCs are enabling devices that get you some place while the sites themselves are venues that you go to.
Aesthetically (to this English-speaker), the rhythm of "Ich bin ein Berliner" seems more pleasing than "Ich bin Berliner."
Yes,

Facebook is a terrible platform for meeting people because it impels you to reveal too much, reveal it too broadly and doesn't let you control the order in which the revelation takes place.

Dating reveals the chink in Fb's conception of the single identity. Since at least the mid 20th century, sociologists were described modern society as resting on a single-person/multiple-roles system as opposed to simpler societies resting on single-person/single-role. We've only going further in this and Internet sites eventually have to facilitate this rather than forcing a single identity on people (something that Facebook has apparently made part of it's agenda).
Well, especially when the same news story, say Yahoo getting $37/share from Microsoft, is reported on by TechCrunch, Mashable, TNW, RRW, SAI, etc.