skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that would help. I think that would be sufficient if this were a BlackBerry or something where people expect it to look utilitarian. But one of the major features of the new iPhone was it's stunning looks. To then be told you have to put a big rubber bumper on it would be pretty disappointing.
There was also a developer version of the G1/Dream -- http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/12/18/Android-Di...
There's a lot to say on this subject but basically it comes down to this:

What you think of as fashion is designing or observing women's high fashion and not something like traditional tailoring, watchmaking or other more male oriented fashion. There are straight men even in women's high fashion, but generally in higher positions. You also have straight men in all parts of outdoor clothing or sportswear, which is more utilitarian but most of the time still has a higher price point than fast fashion. Why men's high fashion is more conservative than women's is another story.

That being said. While women's gender role are stricter, men's gender role is much less questioned. Probably because of the disadvantages being less measurable.
Things could have been much, much worse:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBScript
Sure it did. I checked the logs and it is registered and ready to serve your posts as soon as you publish them.
We have an unlimited plan. Verizon really can't decide to start metering it now without a re-write to contract which would allow consumers to break their contracts (presumably).

Unlimited data on Verizon is awesome btw.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1508609

resources for learning maven, classpaths, autoboxing/primitives, all that stuff. HTH
+1 but this is also the tentative date for http://twitter.com/camgeeknights/status/18117498983
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It's great fun and all but:

Kansas’ Mustang Public School district isn’t taking the threat lightly, and sent out a letter to parents warning them of the new craze. The educators have gone so far as to ban iPods at school, in hopes of preventing honor students from becoming cyber-drug fiends, News 9 reports.

And of course this is sensational bullshit reporting at a 6th-grade level, but while we're at it, that's what led to Reefer Madness as well. Take this kind of lunacy as a serious threat, and if you meet someone who seriously believes this shit irl, I humbly suggest you punch them in the face.
Other crazy factors involved:

1. You can't smell the product when you're in the store, so you have to know more about the product either through brand awareness or referral.

2. Like cologne, the smell you give off from a deodorant is about projection. Who you want to smell like is probably going to be more of a priority to potential customers than what you want to smell like.
Actually, I think the phrase comes from the Neal Stephenson novel 'Cryptonomicon'. Two of the characters imply that it is the amount of money that allows you to (when necessary) say "fuck you" to The Man, and go do something else with your time.

"We look for places where the math is right. Meaning what? Meaning that pop. is about to explode---we can predict that just by looking at age histogram---and per capita income is about to take off the way it did in Nippon, Taiwan, Singapore. Multiply those two things together and you get the kind of exponential growth that should get us all into fuck-you money before we turn forty.

This is an allusion to a Randy/Avi conversation of two years ago wherein Avi actually calculated a specific numerical value for "fuck-you money." It was not a fixed constant, however, but rather a cell in a spreadsheet linked to any number of continually fluctuating economic indicators. Sometimes when Avi is working at his computer he will leave the spreadsheet running in a tiny window in the corner so that he can see the current value of "fuck-you money" at a glance." - http://www.cryptonomicon.com/text.html
You can probably contact authors through artima.com (I'd like to know the answer too).
Ask HN: Why should I care about Clojure?
Everyone seems to be all up in arms about Clojure latley. Isn't this just another language? I have to admit I have not done any deep digging into what makes it so newsworthy which is why I am asking here...What am I missing?
That the minimum they should do, and if that's all they do people will be like "Meh. That's an alright deal, I suppose..."

They need to go above and beyond to create confidence going forward - something that'll actually make people happy with the resolution. Throw $50+ of store credit in to apologise for the concern/confusion they've caused, or similar.

Everyone makes mistakes. It's how you respond to it that makes the difference.

Apple wants people to walk away from this thinking "They messed up, but they really went out of their way to make things right. I'll trust them with my future purchases."
I hope you come and visit often. I'm sure a lot of your customers and potential customers hang here. Lots of good ideas, lots of talented people.
That's ridiculous. To make the over used car analogy, this is if you were to replace the engine on a brand new car you bought with a different one, only to have the car destroy itself, and the new engine you just put in it.

It's one thing to not support the new engine when it has problems. It's another thing to destroy property that someone bought from you after the sale if they use it in a way you don't approve.

I understand it costs more to support an open platform. But it's a choice to support that open platform, and Motorola doesn't have to do that, they can hang up on Joe Average who did installs the mod just like a dealership would do so on anyone who screwed up putting a completely different engine in their brand new car.
Have you looked at JUP (http://github.com/fernmicro/JUP)?
Isn't every sales person paid to endure your company? Maybe I don't really understand what a booth babe is.
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what about companies that never IPO but grow and become successful private entities (and hence, are never acquired)? that seems like a good place to end up
So folks - tell us about what you're making! Or bring a laptop!
I was thinking the discussion on the Hacker News thread would make this link worthwhile.
So is your suggestion, based on 30 year-old anecdotal evidence, that they are strippers now, too. If not, why do you think the current approach (using a non-stripper as a BB) is dishonest? Do you think all attractive females used in advertising should be strippers for it to be honest? Should Danica Patrick change her profession?

Sorry, maybe I come across too strong but the BB ~ stripper analogy just gets to me. You are doing the same sin that you are condemning, namely judging people by the cover.
Interesting point. But don't you instantly void your warranty when you do this stuff?

I'm assuming your main point is the cost of customer contact/handling after they've done something dumb?
Disregard the motivation problems, that's just bad phrasing.

I'm wondering how well it would work for the senior programmer to explain a very small, 5-minute task to the junior, then work on something else while the junior guy finishes the task, then check the work, and repeat.

I'm more interested to hear if anyone has ever actually tried this, and if there were any surprises or if it didn't work, why didn't it work?
Music can alter your mental state, and even if these kids are tripping to good tunes, Should we be worried? Then again humans have been using psychotropic drugs for millennia and we think they are bad. Music and Drugs have been a normal part of human culture since we started this whole culture thing. What changed?
". . .Mongo have seen issues from many people with data loss"

Have any citations for data loss happening in a release version of mongo, with the recommended configuration (at least 1 slave)?
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Of course not. It is not possible to put it on iPhone (without jailbreak at least).
I have to say, the reason why strip clubs exist in the first place is because many (most?) men have the opposite reaction.
I'm assuming your main point is the cost of customer contact/handling after they've done something dumb?

As well as the intangible costs of what customers think and say after things go wrong. Look at how Mac application developers respond to things like Usanity's Haxies.
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Given that the whole capital structure is in a state of flux right now with the reality of deflation (the exit of money from the system) while massive inflation is going on at the same time (the creation of new money not the increase in prices) why should we expect much of anything good to come out of the next ten years?

I think that a lot of people will take their ideas and implement them on a smaller scale and grow organically instead of getting big fast. This site is filled with people doing or planning on doing just that right now. I'm not optimistic about the next ten years but I think that we'll end up leaving this decade with some rather nice companies that will really contribute something substantial to the ten years that follow this decade. I'm assuming the next ten years will be like 70s with stagflation defining our experience and mainstream economists having nothing useful to say about why it is happening.
Whatever they should do, they will announce tomorrow what they are going to do. Meanwhile, it's just a phone.
Apologies for the threadjack, but I'm moving to Sydney soon and am looking for work. I saw Atlassian and was very tempted as it looks like an awesome culture, but the there aren't any jobs that are really a great fit for me.

The tech and entrepreneurial scene looks pretty good in Sydney with barcamps and hacker spaces, and what seems like plenty of tech jobs. Would anyone be kind enough to get in touch (email in my profile) to help me identify the other good companies and resources?
I find it fascinating that Zen/Tao "teachings" for thousands of years have focused on what seems to be one of the most difficult areas of human existence: "man vs. himself".

Modern cognitive therapy seems to be an institutionalized version of the whole Zen thing which I find amusing. Personally I've never been happier once I realized that the world is literally what you make of it, that is, it is all up to your internal interpretation.

Once you realize that your mind is constantly interpreting everything, you can learn - through practice and meditation - to just be however you want to be and be in complete control of yourself.

Because in the end... you're just being... unless you're not and then it doesn't matter.
The commercial sector has learned that certain product segments are filled with people who are not "into" the product (e.g. a lamp is a lamp). Thus, Wal-Mart-type stores rule. Most people buying these products do not make their decisions based on longevity or ease of repair.

Motorola has actually been honest enough about this to tell you to buy from someone else.
Strip clubs and lap dances are legal in plenty of places.

Heck, even escort services and prostitution are legal in some places.
Plain old HTML form and table would fit nicely here.

Also add all previous spreadsheets, white pages, contractors, projects, etc in one place so we know where to go when we need any hacker info.
Really!? Then, you definitely have not been around (or maybe from outside the US where mileage may vary). Just go to any big tech company campus, e.g. Google, Apple, Microsoft, sit on a bench and observe. My guess is that 10-15% of any large company's tech-heavy departments (labs, etc.) are women. Now, that is more probable than a diamond falling on your head.
I'll have to disagree on "there just aren't more than a few people estimating the future earnings potential of an individual"

That's what we do in the mortgage and insurance business, when giving long-term loans or underwrite policies.

The last company I worked for (a branch of Equifax) had a full-time Statistician just for that kind of work.
Releasing a beautiful product that needs a plastic cover to function properly (without this being made known at launch) is no way to restore brand image. That's actually a great way to become a laughing stock and make the early adopters feel like chumps. I think that woud actually be worse than doing nothing--it admits fault.

Apple has never hosted a press conference like this, I doubt it will be for something as simple as a free bumper.
a design chosen by Apple executives

Ding!
I know that negative criticism can hurt, no matter how insignificant or pointless. So to people like Steve Yegge, Joel Spolsky, the 37signal guys, pg, and many others who put part of themselves out there for the benefit of others, I suggest putting things into perspective with this handy formula:

Let n = the number of people whose lives your writing has effected.

Let m = the average magnitude of that effect.

Let e = the distribution effect of your medium (for one on one, e = 1,in a room of others, e = 2, print, e = 3, popular blog or forum, e = 4, etc.)

Let z = the sum of all the negativity of those who don't matter.

Then if the net total effect of your writing is A, we can say:

A = (n*m)**e - z

So, for almost any value of z, A will remain positive. Keep on writing. Please.
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I think a lot of people get caught up in the word 'cold', however what's most interesting about calling potential clients is the warm part of human nature and emotion. These elements of a sales pitch are learned in the form of raw feedback with the client on the phone. You can learn a great deal about human nature talking to people and selling them things. As a matter of fact I find that learning human psychology from books, or basing decisions purely off of numbers to be the 'cold' method.

I think that the article itself is pointing out that cold calling is useful not simply for sales, but many other areas that will benefit your business. For example, strategic business partnerships, advertisers, public relations and surveying your customer base.

In my experience cold calling, the people who only care about price are the tough nuts to crack. They usually ask the question within the first call as a 'time saver' and this can usually be side stepped with a qualifying question. Some sales people even think that these types of clients are not worth time spent on them, but I think handling the price objection is essential to progressing in your skill as a sales person.

A few of the types of clients that prospecting uncovers that buy are clients who have a genuine need (easy to sell, sometimes hard to service), information gathering 'tire kickers' who are converted with the benefits, and personable people who prefer service to price that are converted to a sale with personal touches.
Indeed, this is just a rhetorical turn of speech.

The information presented demonstrates that human beings often do not act rationally. But "people are not rational actors" isn't a causal explanation, it's just a description of a situation. Arguing against such an "explanation" makes no more sense than using such an explanation.
Motorola doesn't have to do that, they can hang up on Joe Average who did installs the mod ...

Cars aren't phones. The cost of installing a new engine is very different than the cost of installing a phone hack, the set of people likely to do so (and the associated cost to the manufacturer and other vendors) isn't the same, and there's going to be a lot more consumer awareness about what they're doing by replacing the engine. And really -- modern cars are locked down.
Perhaps negative-contributors. Regardless, while it's all gone doesn't Google have some sort of versioning/rollback in docs? This should really be protected with a contact email for additions.
I agree. Perhaps the set of men who are heterosexual and don't enjoy lap dances is small.
Is it a web-app, where the client is a browser, or a desktop app with a Linux client? If so, and you have a Linux box handy, it's dead simple to record screencasts in Linux... just use XVidCap. http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/

If it's a desktop app for Win or Mac, I'm not sure what the best option is, but vnc2swf might work for ya. http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/
In short, a local newspaper (not the Guardian) will charge your credit card a one-off fee of 99 cents if you post comments to its site. By doing this, you agree that your real name will be used alongside the comment, and you are responsible for its content.
Damn it. Just cancelled my order (placed yesterday). Funny thing is I was switching from AT&T to Verizon to get it, so now Verizon has not only lost my $200 but my future monthly fees as well.

Now I'm considering the Nexus One, but then I wonder when the Nexus Two might come out? From a hardware standpoint (aside from the 8GB internal storage, HDMI out and bigger screen) the DroidX doesn't look that much better.

Thoughts?
How do you get unlimited data on Verizon? The largest plan I've heard of is 5 GB/mo.
I really appreciated you setting up the meetup. Unless I'm mistaken, you were not there, while a total of ten of the local HN participants were there. I learned a lot from the conversations, and I hope we do meetups regularly, moving them around the metro area to try out different places to meet.
Honestly, I don't think it would kill them to include a basic rubber case in the color of their choosing (probably black). It's not like Nintendo Wiis were less popular because they had to put that big rubber cushion on the hand controller. After people were breaking TVs and getting concussions.

If anything it made the controller more attractive since adults could finally hold it.
Are you going to buy a business? I've been considering this route as I'd love to aqquire a passive income stream but can't seem to gain any traction on my own projects.
well, clojure certainly rocks. it will take awile for it to become mainstream though. hope ruby people will help out with that. actually ruby did bring some fresh air into our world :)
In normal life I don't hang around on the campus of Google or Microsoft a lot. Of course people you meet there are likely to be more tech-savvy than the average population.

If you go to a diamond mine, odds of stumbling across a diamond are probably also slightly increased.
What do you mean by longevity? The ability to reflash phones with the newest releases long after the hardware can't support them? C'mon, everyone jumps to the next shiny thing every 6 months or whenever their contract expires, especially the hackers.

What you mean by "ease of repair"? How is the ROM getting busted up that you need to reflash the phone?
Of course this was brought up. Apple generally does a 10-3-1 design process - 10 different fully working prototypes are made and they let the designers go crazy. From that they further develop 3, then go with the best one. I've been in some of these meetings as an external contractor and no detail is left out - we made custom screws for them and did about 50 different design iterations for one application.

Surely they had different antenna designs in the process - internal and external. I think the pros outweighed the cons in the decision: Higher reception signal than any internal antenna and a dual use, high strength steel case exterior. The one caveat being that if you cover the lower left, the signal will drop a bit, 10-20dB max. I agree with that logic and as a consumer, if Apple offered both an internal and external antenna iPhone, I sure as hell would go with the external - iPhone 4 reception (unscientifically) is far better in my office than my old 3G and the steel won't dent or crack like 2 black plastic ones I returned.

Now putting glass on the back... the jury is still out on that one.
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We Like SOPHOs for Safe Web Browsing, eh
-1: I agree with you up to a certain point, but there's reasonable counter-measures and totally off the wall ones, of which this one is an example of. Encrypting the boot loader as was done in Milestone is a great approach, but actually bricking the phone? I'll go somewhere else.
Unless, you know, they actually were hired from the local strip club near the conference.
Regarding point (i) above: personally, I'm not terribly impressed by advertisers who attempt to sexualize things that are not inherently sexual in order to get my attention. Beer ads, Go Daddy and Evony banners are all equally skeevy in my book.

Axe is a bit more understandable-- their marketing premise is that their fragrance will make you more attractive to women (which, while most likely false, is at least on the verge of plausibility).

However, I really have to object when you lump the Old Spice Twitter/YouTube campaign in with that. The fact that the actor in the Old Spice commercial was buff and topless was only a minor factor in the overall scheme of things. With Go Daddy and Evony, if you remove the breasts, there's nothing much left. With Old Spice, there was still a whole lot of win.

As for point (ii): it's been well over a decade since I've been to a trade show, but back in the day, there was no pretense that the "booth babes" had any knowledge of (or interest in) the product. They were there to be eye candy, pure and simple. Any other skills on their part was purely fortuitous.

(For the record, I didn't downvote you, btw).
That's a great argument. But I think his point was that from the VCs point of view that doesn't look like the kind of fast ROI they're always after.
Do you like lisp(s)? Do you like the flexibility it provides?

If no, you probably shouldn't care too much about clojure. There are other languages which can help you with the same problems as clojure.

If yes,

do you find that Common Lisp is carrying too much legacy baggage?

or

that the various lisps lack the libraries you need?

or

that you can't use lisp for the jobs you want to because the infrastructure is considered too esoteric by those you answer to?

If yes to any of those,

clojure runs on top of the jvm and can be installed in a normal jvm infrastructure which many companies already run. It interoperates quite well with java so you have a vast array of existing libraries. it removes a lot of legacy burden that many lisps have.

that would be my quick primer on why you might care.
Lots of people regard lisp language as toys or "scientists" languages that isn't usable in the real world to solve real problem. (It might not be the opinion on hacker news, obviously). So, then, come clojure which is a lisp based language that is smartly integrated with the java platform.. so now, you get the power of lisp with the usability and friendliness of java.
25% gold and 25% cash? I'm not an investment expert. But this seems like a pretty bad idea to me. For one thing, just holding currency is pretty much a guaranteed way to lose money, given inflation. And I always understood gold to be a sort of hedge against currency failure, war, and that kind of thing---which makes it odd to keep just as much currency as gold.

Non-expert investors should basically just buy index funds and hold them, transitioning them slowly to less volatile bonds as they get older and are more vulnerable to risk.
It could be a reasonably fast language that is pleasant to use and that has lots of libraries (via the Java world), which is a rare combination.

Also perhaps if you are stuck in Java land, it might provide a means to escape.
I appreciate that Motorola is honest. It is still a PITA to tell a distant in-law/customer/acquaintance that I can't fix THEIR phone because of some dumb thing the company decided 2 years ago and has since replaced and forgotten about.

The Moto decision is just a tiny thing that probably won't affect much in the grand scheme of things. I just have an issue with the fundamentals. It's a hot button issue for me. ^_^
The energy to do deep digging?

Seriously, clojure.org includes a rationale for the language. Maybe you should give that a look. If you care about any of the points in the rationale, and if Clojure delivers on those points, then you may be in the ballpark of caring about Clojure.