skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think much of this stems from a conflict at the heart of the problems with modern higher education.

From the one side is the perspective that school is a burden. That tests, assignments, and homework are a trial to be endured until you are rewarded with your certification of official recognized smart-ness. That the student-teacher interaction is an adversarial relationship between authority figure and child.

From another perspective comes the idea that school is an opportunity. That tests, assignments, and homework represent the cobblestones on the road you must travel to acquire knowledge. That the student-teacher interaction is a cooperative relationship between mature, adult peers.

Increasing demand for degrees partly due to the rise in credentialism in the work-force combined with prolonged immaturity (professional, personal, financial) in young adults has combined to assault the quality of education from both sides, leading toward the former perspective becoming increasingly dominant. Through such forces the acquisition of knowledge transforms into the plodding repetition of busywork and finally into little more than a monetary transaction. At this point we are already well past the stage where the average quality of a college education has degraded to shamefully dismal levels, it is only now that the signals are becoming too obvious for us to continue ignoring it.
hey, they found a good online business model at last! ;-)
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As much as "the game" advice is fascinating and very convincing, the many followers of this are the ones that
repel me the most.

Everyone I met associated with this system, so far have been someone trying to make money off of it, or a misguided person using the system to justify lying, or someone truly dishonest to them selves.

I spent well over 18 months and thousands of Dollars on perfecting this system. I have not met someone who can demonstrate a convincing or awe inspiring performance or at the least a good personality. Most of it is the hype built around very normal qualities.

The introverts build hype for the socially talkative PUAs whom you might find very annoying at work or in classroom. The extroverts build hype for those intelligently speaking PUAs whose ideas might be very questionable. Some guys build
hype for the other PUAs who socially disrespect women. PUA is just a title that many of these folks are working hard to get to satisfy their egos and mask their insecurities.

One guy advised me to wear a huge bunch of keys around my pants, because women think you are in charge of something big. One guy advised me to own the room when I walk in. The other guy I met introduced himself as someone who goes to
university and also works in a big software corporation full time when he works at a small restaurant.

Most people who are attracted to this are the ones who lacked male role models in their lives and those from countries like India where marriage is the only way and life outside work is confusing still.

Like many other people from my background I felt cheated by the traditional system, which advised to be a good social norms respecting and social expectation meeting person and get a good education, good job, life security etc in exchange for abundant opportunity for sex(remember make love to me randy from south park). In fact the exactly
same things are considered a boring personality but if you are a romeo, not having a decent job, depending on friends and family, can have a full time duty talking to women every where, you are considered Romantic by women. Having seen my friend's wives leave their PhD husbands for a "leisurely life" guy, and reading a lot about cheating girl friends, "The game" opened my eyes. It gave a promise size of a Mount Everest. The results were not that satisfactory but at least I got some better parts from it like self improvement and being less socially awkward.
Like some one here advised, dating is really a numbers game and the rest is self-improvement
Ghosting The Machine
Hardware hacks: cassette-based drum machine/sequencer
How I Made One Client An Extra $500k a Year In 5 Minutes
If you plan on staying on to live in the valley, $20-30M. I have many friends who are worth $3-5M and they do not consider themselves even close to rich in the valley. Housing and schooling in Palo Alto are very expensive. $5M is nowhere near enough to buy a really nice house and then take it easy for the rest of your life - sad to say, but true.

At least in the valley, most people still live below their means. I find that on the East Coast and Southern CA that those with expensive lifestyles are usually heavily burdened by debt. There are many many wealthy people in the valley who live in simple apartments and walk everywhere, not needing the flashy car or flashy clothes to justify their existence and place in society.
I've been around a couple of the leaders of this community (one is mentioned in the OP, the other wrote a bestseller) who turned up on separate occasions at workshops I attended with a former student of Milton Erickson. Erickson, for those who don't know, was a psychiatrist who was the great 20th century master of hypnosis; he turned everything about the field on its head. Presumably these guys were there to pick up some hypnotic tricks to add to their game. Anyway, my point is: Holy cow, were they creepy. Creepy in a way that makes you want to stay on the other side of the room. One in particular seemed to have developed lizard-like qualities. Seeing them in person was, for me, something of a counterargument to their teachings.
Go and sin no more.
The problem is that "their life" is so much a part of "youe life" (for the poster above you). Good relationships with other people are a huge part of what makes life better. I've always imagined that if I ever get FU money that it would allow me to live closer to people I have good realtionships with.
Or the vuvuzela industry.
What does BHAG mean?
It's interesting to me that languages are still a bit primitive in their seeming indifference to modern software development methodologies.

People often talk about the "next" big languages, and bring up points such as speed, blending of functional/imperative idioms, cross-platform support, etc. But though a lot of this is good, important work it's also very much rehashing old ground. What I think instead we will begin to see within the next decade or so are languages which take the lessons of modern software development practices to heart.

For example, consider modular compilers and the ability to perform source control merges at not just the plain-text line-by-line level but at the parse tree level.

Or, languages designed with refactoring and IDE auto-completion/intelli-sense in mind rather than as a bolt-on after-thought.

Or, more to the point, languages which are designed around the ideas of TDD, BDD, and mocking. To where mocking falls out of the language naturally and effortlessly, or where TDD is as simple and intuitive as REPL. Instead of as it is today, where a lot of this work seems like fighting uphill.
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That's very very wrong thinking. All the best designers who were moving the web forward few recent years are also good with coding: Dan Cederholm, Douglas Bowman, Jason Santa Maria, Dunstan Orchard, etc.
Remember, design is "how it works", and you cannot do a good design without the knowledge of the surrounding parts. This knowledge helps to bring the most of your main area of expertise. Hire a designer who knows nothing about limitations of the platform, hire a programmer who cannot tell cyan from blue and you will spend the majority of your time trying to fit square pegs in round holes and acting as a translator between the two with little success.
And let's not forget that with the current move to more and more interactive designs doing static mockups makes less and less sense. There is some truth in "CSS is the new Photoshop". A designer who knows how to code that nice menu effect with css transition is highly preferable to the one who does not. Saves time and money too.
Linux: great for developing, terrible for consumption.
Well, consider what would happen if you did the opposite of each one. "Keep your number of products high" might work in some market, but "have an inconsistent and unpolished user interface"? I don't see what you'd get out of that one.
"Previous two-stroke designs were quickly banished as emissions standards started to get tougher. The design is such that unburned fuel and lubricating oils are released through the exhaust, causing emissions to be much higher. However, EcoMotors believes its design has overcome this challenge."

The article seems woefully vague on the details here. How do they overcome this challenge? Having lived in a country where there were some two stroke cars allowed on the road, believe me it is no fun. A two stroke subcompact used to generate more smoke and fouler smell than a freaking 18 wheeler (and yes I am talking about the Trabant).

So one would have to be extra sure that they have overcome this challenge before believing any of their hype. I would be very suspicious of any car that actually burns lubricant.
Indeed, but in my experience, students regard a problem as "meaningful" if and only if it will appear in the exam. Were they forced to work in a manner designed to stimulate their intellectual curiosity for the subject, many would complain that the course was too hard and the teaching methods were unfair, leading to fewer students enrolling for it. Low pass-rates and low take-up look bad, and the faculty administration would scrap the course.

I am generalising wildly here, of course.
The physical information on there is valuable to someone. For example, it's required knowledge for understanding memory latencies and BIOS memory timings (valuable information for overclockers). Even if programmers spend most of their time working dozens of layers of abstraction above the transistor, a rough understanding of where their work fits into the "big picture" can't be a bad thing.
It seems I can't reply to your post (max HN thread depth = 5?), so I'll do it here...

I believe the like:impression ratio for clickjacking sites isn't different enough from the (noisy) norm to make it a usable metric for identifying malicious sites.

We should detect clickjacking sites before you get a chance to goatse your friends. I'm pretty sure our the current state of things does that. At least in Firefox, you always have the option to disable third party cookies, which will disable the like button along with a slew of other, much sketchier, stuff that ad networks and the like tend to do.

You're right that it's possible to do the cross frame stuff without an extra ui-stalling roundtrip - that's what I meant to describe in the above post. I think the bigger issue in this case is determining in the parent page when a click is happening so you can determine if it's legitimate.

I don't believe it's possible for the parent page (or fb's javascript in the parent page) to screw with the button in the iframe - cross-domain policy forbids any access to its dom.

EDIT: Also, in case it wasn't clear, as soon as we identify a domain or url to be bad, it's impossible to reach it via any click on facebook, so even if something becomes bad after people have liked it, we still retroactively protect users. So as long as we've detected that something's bad, you can't accidentally goatse your friends with it even if you do get in a like before we identify it to be bad or before it turns bad.
There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself. - Alan Turing

Douglas Adams' version of Hoare's make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.:

their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws. http://www.otostopcu.org/yazi/h2g2/b4c36.php
Dude, the S line hasn't been meant to compete with M/AMG models for the last couple iterations. The S4 is a direct competitor to the 335i and is marketed as such and is priced much lower than either the C63 or the M3. The RS line of cars are the ones designed to directly compete with AMG/M.
I grant the premise that most modern mainstream news organizations would require subsidies in order to survive unchanged indefinitely.

I refute the notion that this is in any way a desirable state of affairs, however. The invention of the modern media institutions has been due to historically anomalous conditions and has largely been deleterious to the quality of news gathering and dissemination. I won't be sad to see these dinosaurs dead and gone, replaced with a cacophony of competing and contrary individual voices serving as mulch for cultivating the capacity for critical thinking and skeptical inquiry of the modern world's minds.

P.S.
http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
Couldn't agree more. This PUA stuff is just adding complexity to a very simple fact. We're incapable of attributing value to something unless we expend effort on it. There's no win unless you feel like you've earned it. Improving your lot in life through effort (GTL or w/e) will make you feel better about yourself and everyone you encounter will sense it.

Why would we even want a psychological trick? It would hold no value. My video game generation should definitely realize this. "up-up-down-down-a-b-a-b... well that's the last time I'll ever play this game."
1. Colleges contain a bunch of kids with rich, litigious parents.

2. Colleges are run by a bunch of administrators who cater to rich, litigious parents, and whose primary source of revenue is more of those parents in the coming years. They are thus rather sensitive about their brand.

3. In anonymous forums, people pick on those they feel unable to pick on otherwise (due to social norms, fear of retribution, etc). Rich kids often fit these criteria.

4. It's probably tough to find advertisers to want to have their content next to a bunch of hateful stuff.
A friend with weed is better.
Ask HN: What to do with this meme?
Hello,

I made this little web app - iwl.me, which is just a box with a button. You give it some text, it analyzes it and tells you what famous writer you write like (I won't go into algorithmic discussion for now), and gives you a badge for blog and a link for sharing on Twitter/Facebook/Buzz. It's up for 3 days now, here are stats:

2nd day - 12,000 uniques
3rd day - 100,000 uniques

It's spreading just like a perfect meme should :-) E.g. http://search.twitter.com/search?q=iwl.me

My question is, what should I do with it:

a) for monetary gain (It already achieved the SEO effect I planned, not sure what to do now).

b) for a good cause. I'm already thrilled to notice that people discover and re-discover writers and say "Oh, I write like [writer], I must read more of his works." What can I do to get more of this effect?

What do you think? I'm open to ideas or deals. Thank you!

PS Technical details: it's running on a single Rackspace Cloud instance with 512 MB RAM, Apache+web.py.
I would be excited to see an engine based on solenoid and using magnets as springs. Has anyone ever tried to make a cylinder whose piston is composed of a highly durable magnet at one end, which is encased in a coil. The bottom is basically a magnet which repels the piston, and a mechanical spring is also used to keep the process going.

When the fuel will ignite and expand there will be a huge change in EMF, perhaps that could be used to charge a capacitor which can then offload it more slowly into a battery. In this way mechanical parts are reduced and frictional losses are kept at a minimum since I am not driving a crankshaft, which then feeds into a dynamo with gearing.

I've heard about solenoid engines, but has anyone ever undertaken something like this? I am sure that tons of people must have this in their heads, but has anyone also used a tesla coil with a variable AC to control the motion of the piston? That is we can also remove the bottom magnet and the mechanical spring. This would be something awesome to make, and I wonder if it is feasible to do so.

One of the biggest worries would be the lack of appropriate magnets. Neodymium (NdFeB) start losing magnetic strength above 60 C and it becomes completely demagnetized before 90 C. So, one of the reasons why someone hasn't done this might be lack of an cost effective alloy which can remain magnetized at those temperatures. I really can't think of another reason.
On a side note, your last sentence has an amusingly ambiguous parse:

"(It takes a lot of training, willpower, dedication and willingness) to (fail to be successful) at this."
Clickable: http://iwl.me
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Good question.

I believe that passionate love ("limerence" as the kids call it) is always bad for me. My best relationships are ones where I'm not in love. Yeah, love comes with an instinct that makes us want more of it, but the same is true for heroin.
Yes, the soul of products made by Dyson definitely share that same sense of magic as those from Apple. The "fan" they put out a little while back is a perfect example - absolutely minimalist, not a single extraneous feature. But also like Apple, the products have an underlying technical prowess that just doesn't exist in their competitors. That fan - it's absolutely insane, there are no moving parts as seen from the exterior. It's like magic - does that remind you of another product?

I think products like this can only be created when it's a product person that heads the company. It's only when the product is the CEO's baby that enough passion is put into the product to make that magic. Of course, it also needs a bunch of money behind the CEO, because it's only with money that you can make decisions without having to worry about the bottom line during the design phase. Apple couldn't have done what they did without first starting with the Apple I/II. Those weren't magical products, they were just "good enough" to permit the bootstrapping of the Mac.
Again you aren't getting what it's all about. Being desperate or clingy is not always a manifestation of insecurity. It's possible to act desperate or come on too strong and not even realize it. But this is just one example. You seem to refuse to accept that someone can be perfectly capable of being in a relationship while not realizing that they may be doing things that are off-putting; things that aren't defining characteristics. Nothing I've said is about dishonesty.

And to be clear, my views here are primarily related to the very early stages (even if they still apply later on); literally just meeting someone and the time that follows. At these times, a girl needs a reason to talk to you over the 50 other guys that have approached her that day. There are countless things you can do/not do without being fake that might give you the upper hand.
Paris Puts the Bicyclette First
pirates spend more money on music than non-pirates

Without going into too much incriminating detail I just find that really hard to accept.
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How about then giving the user a list of works by that author via amazon? If the users really do want to read more of that writer's stuff, this might be a good way to get some affiliate business. You could possibly even point to specific works that they "write like". You might also take a look at the goodreads api (http://www.goodreads.com/api) for some possible social networking aspects? Maybe you could show people reading things they write like via goodreads or something along those lines.
If you think that's bad, you should see the MS Partner Portal. It's hopelessly broken in anything other than IE, and it's not unusual for it to throw 500 errors left and right even if you are using IE. It's par for the course with Microsoft, though. Their eOpen volume licensing stuff is just as backwards and byzantine.

When it comes down to it, Microsoft makes some genuinely great products, but the process involved with dealing with them makes me want to avoid using their products if I can.
Slight improvements - http://www.prettygraph.com/blog/some-ad-stats-for-bing-googl...
Unfortunately the article has no content whatsoever.

I expected reasons for why Scala is interesting, not the same opinions that fly around, like how Scala mixes OOP and functional programming with elegance (examples, please!) ... which IMHO, is quite far from the truth as there can be no elegance in a statically typed OOP language with functional features simply because you have a type-system mismatch.

I also take issue with this statement ...

> features like explicit sub- and supertype annotations, covariance and contravariance annotations, etc. which goes beyond what I've seen in other OO languages

... is quite false. Even if Scala's generics are quite advanced, they are still useless for offering anything resembling parametric polymorphism (unless you count Manifests from Scala 2.8, which are an ugly hack offering only limited relief ... but it's not like in Scala the features are orthogonal, so at least in that regard it has consistency).

You can paint a crow in so many ways, but it's still a crow.
This is also useful How To Be Remarkable #76: Learn from Steve Jobs (for busness savvy) http://bighow.com/news/how-to-be-remarkable-76-learn-from-st...
I imagine they spent a lot more on advertising their anti-"piracy" message. Compared to that, the ROI is probably pretty good. I therefore expect the lawsuits will continue, more's the pity.
How to be remarkable #43: Build Great Relationships
http://bighow.com/news/how-to-be-remarkable-43-build-great-r...
Living in Socal for the last decade, I'd have to say it's the top area for living above your means. One phrase I've heard several times here is "car rich, house poor", for example.

Having said that, there are an extraordinary number of genuinely wealthy people in Socal. It's odd at times.
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totally agreed; there is an abundance of research in the academic literature from the past 15 years that still have not been properly commercialized. technology transfer between academia and industry is often a slow and bumpy process, but eventually the good ideas will find their way into the mainstream, i think

(i don't know why you got down-voted for this comment; i just voted you back up)
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Is Game really just acting confident and being flrity? Ross Jeffries and other people like him talk about using Neuro Linguistic Programming and covert hypnosis to make a girl sleep with you. It sounds REALLY exploitative and I don't believe that it works because what he says to say are these LONG and really weird sounding things that you just sound like an idiot for saying. But SO MANY PEOPLE follow him that I don't understand it.
I have tried ever one of the clouds I can get my hands on, Amazon, BackBlaze, mozy, carbnonite, sugarsync, a few more I can't remember...

I am on OS X, and not one of them can handle the all the extended attributes, resources, and other much you get with Mac OS X Files. Now, most are not claiming to, most will not claim to give you a bootable backup at all. Some do, and they are sorely mistaken.

DropBox is the only one making efforts to, but they are also not even trying to be a backup solution.

Just pointing rsync with a patch on it for the attributes is not enough from what I have tested. Not that I am even shooting for a system level backup. This is more home NAS stuff, and I really don't want to stream a HD video down from a remote store.

Thanks for the comment though.
Discussion about direct link (I'm not sure which people will vote for, the site or the announcement of the site): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1514039
Discussion about the annoucement (I'm not sure which people will vote for, the site or the announcement of the site): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1514037

EDIT: Looks like almost all of the discussion is over in the other thread.