skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading Scott Adams almost invariably just makes me irritated. A number of semi-plausible speculations coupled with intellectual smugness that's (dishonestly, in my opinion) protected by virtue of being explicitly just a guy's opinions.

It's more of the same here. Attractiveness is not universal and is often _tied_ to the opinions a person holds--so people that disagree with arguably attractive people will think them _ugly_.

The other big problem is that no one really cares about a pretty face repeating words they don't understand. Pretty faces might get famous just for being famous, but they don't get respected, only thronged.

The hell of it is, this could _work_. It wouldn't work by the mechanism he declares, though--it would work because we connect with real people, and it's fun to experience people in short snippets with no obligation. The problem is that we've just described Chatroulette, only decoupled from the present time--and sharing the present time is what makes chatroulette interesting.
Some are even "improved". I love molokai http://winterdom.com/2008/08/molokaiforvim .
It can be argued, and I wholly agree, that CapsLock should be mapped to Ctrl even if you have Vim. You can always get out of insert mode by using Ctrl-C or Ctrl-[, plus, putting CapsLock as your Ctrl allows for an easier array of shortcuts instead of Escape.
This is an amazing visualization, but I don't like using the term "bloat." What would you take away? Keep in mind that Chrome's architecture is purposefully approaching that of an operating system.
Ask HN: What do people of a particular profession search for?
Hi guys,

Perhaps a bit of a dumb question...

If you wanted to know what people who work in a particular industry search for on the internet, how would you guys go about answering that question?

Preferrably you'd want to know what they search for in a professional sense, not their own private browsing but both would be useful.

I ask this because I imagine there are market research companies out there with some data but I wouldn't know where to be begin or whether it's worth it. Also there could potentially be other tricks I'm not aware of :)

Or is it all just a matter of brainstorming keywords and researching their search volume yourself?

Thanks!
I was getting a bit tired of seeing/reading a blog post by a random convert to vim/emacs every week but this one is very good.
It's probably higher than most people think (which is scary for their retirement prospects, but otherwise great).

If you're 70 in the US right now, you're a favorite to see 80. http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/table4c6.html
Last time I did it was with a customer service issue with InDinero. No one replied, so I canceled my account.

Also, I started consulting at age 11 and incorporated at 15, so I think I have the right to call out young people in business when I feel like they could do better.
After helping people with Windows issues I typically suggest to them that their next machine be a Mac.

I don't like them myself (a point I try to avoid when recommending them), but for what non-geeks like to do a Mac would work well with fewer issues.

Possible downside: they have a need for some Windows-only application. (But that's when I tell them about Parallels ...)
None of my grandparents were in a position to work after 70. If you're able to live independently at that age and not in a home, you're doing pretty well. I'm not going to plan on being healthy enough to work.
I'm an iPhone developer and the majority of my searches are:

1) checking to see if a product idea already exists or is on the way.

2) market research, would it be viable?

3) HOW DO I FIX THIS DANG BUG?!

I think that's what most professionals do, just changing the subjects for their respective industries.
Please feel free to send me a message (just put my linked in my contact details). Ideally speaking I am looking for someone who has direct experience in financial modeling
Interesting - I wrote pretty much exactly the same code for chapter 2 of Hello Python, except I build a tree first (by adding each cave in sequence at a random point) and then add some random two-way connections, rather than trying to find islands later.

http://manning.com/briggs/ if you're interested in checking it out. I follow a similar route - teach programming by jumping in on something cool (eg. a game) and explain things as you go.
Fox, NBC, MLB and others look to squash Seattle startup ivi Inc
Not So Fast On That HTML5 Canvas vs. Flash Demo
Hey - I don't see much info about you either on your profile:)

Anyways, I put my linked in info - feel free to contact me. IF you do not mind giving me contact info of folks at HN who are interested, please do so. Thanx!
I installed this the other day, and despite it's shortcomings I like it. As others have pointed out, you can achieve the same effect with several apps, but it's simple and easily configurable, with minimal friction to productivity. It fills a little gap in the steps I take when starting work on a project (tail various logs, start a compass watch process, kick off a mysql session etc).

Two changes would make it even more useful to me:
- The ability to specify an arbitrary config file location (I'd like to keep it in config/ in my projects)
- The ability to specify the tab names in that config file (I'm on Leopard and I know this isn't as straightforward as it should be)

All in all though, I'd say congrats to the authors on a nice little idea.
Scientifically tested tests
Evelyn did. Fast forward 5:56 in.

I'm basing the word "routinely" on the Hacker News thread (which I'm sure someone can find) where Jessica admitted to copying another site's design wholesale. That's copyright infringement. She apologized for the mistake.

Everything I have to disclose is disclosed. If you'd like to try to poke holes in the TechCrunch interview I did with Evelyn a few weeks ago, feel free.
I would estimate the majority of users on jailbreak aren't very technically savvy--the most of the emails I receive regarding the software I have hosted on Cydia are about on par with YouTube comments.
Yea - there's a great project using this for parametric 3D design in the browser: http://CloudScad.com. Has the ability to produce 3D printable files too.
Looks promising! I've actually been developing my own Sinatra clone in PHP5. I've called it "Slim". It has RESTful GET, POST, PUT, DELETE routing. It has before and after callbacks. It has Page Not Found handling, halting, helpers to set custom response codes, and easy-to-extend templating (use Smarty, Twig, or whatever you want). See more at:

Documentation:
http://slim.joshlockhart.com/

GitHub (with Download):
http://github.com/codeguy/Slim

Still very much a work in progress, but thought I'd go ahead and get the word out.

Enjoy!
Josh
Speculate with HN: FB phone might come with *free* dataplan?
Remember http://0.facebook.com? If you access(ed) it (not sure if they still run it), you weren't charged dataplan charges in lots of countries, because they had deals with phone companies. If they can provide that to go with a possible Facebook phone, that would be a deal even I couldn't resist.

Crazy?
Have you noticed that all of the recent press seems to be for vim? It seems like every month there's a new "I switched to vim!" post, but never a similar emacs version, or even a mention of emacs in the switch article.

Note: I am not attempting to argue emacs vs. vim.
Is Windows Mobile 7 really a threat?
I think a lot of the threads missed what Scott was talking about. In general we like to look at other faces, no matter what they look like - the Dilbert comic is exactly that. The attractive part is where we will listen to / believe them more.
The distance to Jupiter varies between very far and very, very far.
Some good analogies with the main business of hacker news, here. It's worth thinking about some of the connections, especially:

1) Working in places where you will learn and acquire respect subsequently, if you care about that sort of thing. Yes, you can get more doing chintzy jobs, but there are plenty of high-paying jobs in computers that are the equivalent of Bourdain's 'country-club kitchens'.

2) Coming in with the right attributes (e.g. not being fat), and not mistaking attributes of people in at the end of their careers with the ones that you can get away with when you are young.

I have seen many, many people who have decided in computer science to emulate some famous guy who is wildly opinionated and a bit obnoxious and have it work out far less well for them than it did for the Grand Old Man of computer science.
What inferences can be made from this?
Many of the states that seem to be holding out have low populations so the real picture may be far more bleak than it appears...
see a population density corrected map here: http://www.pnas.org/content/101/20/7499/F1.expansion.html
Most of the people I've hired in the last five years have known oneanother socially before they worked for me, so if the first guy had a bad experience, it's likely that nobody else would have touched me.
Is Innovation In Education Technology Lacking?
> Taxes should not grow with income - if anything, they should drop.

Why wouldn't richer people want better schools, better infrastructure, better law enforcement, etc?
It seems like if they're so much cheaper they can't have as much redundancy.

They probably don't have the same amount of redundancy as S3 but then redundancy is a subjective thing.

A backup service might claim that your data is only stored in one place (ie no redundancy) but that it's very stable.

Amazon S3 might be more diverse but it's also volatile - Amazon claim that they cannot guarantee not to loose data.
I've always stuck with du | xdu. Except for the primitive rendering it is rather reminiscent of webtreemap (or vice versa, i guess) -- click to dive down, top to go back up.
If you say why Gedit was faster perhaps us vim fanatics can help you understand us.
The 'designed for mouse interaction' thing is total nonsense. This has been debunked repeatedly, but people still believe it because Steve Jobs said so.
Great read. Among other things it made me dig deep into the heart of my Vista machine and find whatever font was making your site (and others) utterly unreadable. The answer is shitty Palatino fonts installed by HP, presumably as part of a printer driver.

So there you go, if Steve's site makes your eyes bleed then go and kill the HP Palatino fonts on your machine.
Quite a fascinating graphic. If it shows anything, it's that this recession is deep and wide, and far from over.
Spend a week on Mojolicious. Poke around. Ask some questions in the IRC channel.

Then do the same with Catalyst.

The experience you have will make up your mind for you - I'd be surprised if you're not sold on Mojolicious after only a day or two.
Is 'The Social Network' the Scathing Portrait of Zuckerberg That Facebook Fears?
I second the comment about open-ended computer science questions. I like to ask candidates what happens during a thread switch. Their responses allow me to probe other areas of computing knowledge. What are the performance implications of locking? How can we make a networking application event-driven without threads? That really gives me a sense of whether the candidate keeps up-to-date with concepts like epoll() and libevent.
Ah. I cant see us building a facebook UI in 10-14 days. Of course as you say. We could start off with the core items - but even then we need min 1 month. In fairness. So is it best to do just this or get the mobile much simpler server running so we can test the service - get some feedback?
If it's directly overhead on midnight (over the equator), it must be a Sun-Earth-Jupiter alignment, which makes sense as it is the closest distance between both planets in the Earth year.
Same for me. It also loads more slowly than going to the web page directly.
Bill would give Justice Department power to shutter piracy sites worldwide
One thing about PARC that has always struck me is that it was essentially the product of photocopying patents. Without that mountain of cash generated by a photocopying monopoly, no PARC. The irony is that the PC, more than anything else, is the biggest foe of the photocopier. I haven't used one in years. It's a fascinating story.
Please stop repeating that canard, it got old years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=297297
Haha :). Has the internet always been as bad as it is now?

To be honest, the library I was at (Yep, right up the street from xbean), seemed to be very well funded, clean, in outstanding order. I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with the execution of libraries, just that I would love to see what I believe is the idea behind them expanded to include more than just books (and movies, and magazines, and music).
Hmm, perhaps I should change the font stack.

Is your shitty HP font named "Palatino" or "Palatino Linotype"?

If it's "Palatino" I'll need to insert a Windows-only font at the front of the list.

If it's "Palatino Linotype" I'll need to insert a Windows-only font as the second element in the list.
I would stay away from IRAs of any form at this point.

It is quite clear that even if you manage to hold on to your money, there will be additional sales taxes which will be imposed.

As well, the times that people I know have cashed in or taken a distribution were times that they were not earning much and thus they didn't avoid a high tax rate.

I am saving for retirement in the form of actual physical items such as silver and other property I can hold (and possibly some real estate later), and my emergency fund is a number of $100 boxes of nickels - tough to steal, immediately liquid, but just difficult enough to cash in that it forces you to only use it if you have to.

A business can serve as a great way to prepare for retirement, which is what I am focused on at the moment.
Ask HN: Start up school application questions
probably stupid for me to ask so I created this throw away

For "What software tools do you like" does that mean the language or the program/editor you use?

and for "If you're out of school, where do you work, and at what? " even though I am still in school and I still put what I do?
Wait, you didn't eat the leftovers?
You can get a pretty interactive treemap of the linux filesytem using http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/

[screenshot] http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/img/gdmap-preview.png

You can also see a treemap of the kernel although it is static http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/millionvis/Treemap_Visualization_...
The kevincolyar account does nothing but spam HN with links to his application. I am sick of seeing him post spam each time a VIM article hits the homepage.
But there's fairly objective standards that are correlated with attractiveness in any study of the phenomenon, eg. facial symmetry. Physical attractiveness, of course, which presumably is what SA was talking about.

From my own observations about how people react to amateur video productions on the Internet, eg. "omg who is that lecturer she is so cute!!", I think Mr Adams is onto something.
Alas, then many good women are all the wrong women then. I don't know why, but diamonds have a tight grip on many feminine psyche.
Good grief, I can't even spell it!
That is certainly a valid way of looking at it. I have a different perspective, though.

I have been in the past, by nature, a shy kind of person. I was not into parties, I let things slide by that dug me in more deeply, I became what others wanted me to be.

Somewhere in high school, I learned the lesson in this article, and I am going to say some related things. How did the bullies, stupid as they were, gain followers? What was it about the way they acted that the strong moved with the strong instead of butting heads?

It's pack mentality. We have it, as social creatures. The posing makes a difference. Whatever you feel inside, you can move and shake things with the illusion.

Then, somewhere along the lines, you believe in the illusion, have molded yourself into it. You pretended to be an alpha, and then you became it.

Will the babes start liking you? You know it; many studies have shown a relationship between confidence (not necessarily over-confidence, not feigned confidence) and attraction.

Getting into the habit of a particular mindset CAN change you. Forcing a smile will eventually result in a real smile. Sure, your self-esteem can rise, purely on this.

And it does not have to be a practice of one-upping. Real alphas do not need to play that game. ;) We can respect the presence and domains of other alphas. You are talking about the yapping pups.
It's why we have a military even though war is bad.
Why Our Schools Suck, The Movie
Addendum: ugh, it's not even in the damn FAQ.
It would be interesting to see this with migration rate, too.
The marginal tax system that we have works, and is probably the best way to maintain stability and distribute burden. What needs fixing is the rates on cap gains and dividends. Needs to be a marginal rate too.
Well put. That being said, I'm happy to have put in the effort to find out that my genius idea was not. It caused me to have the right amount of humility.
Why won't Google imlement search for the Android market website?
Nice move! Pun intended...
Ask HN: Advice for those in high school?
Hi HN,

My brother referred me to this site. I'm in highschool right now (Junior), and am interested in learning programming. I'm trying to figure out this space right now. I've learned some Java on my own, but want to upgrade my skill set so I can (eventually) be a part of a startup. I'm wondering what languages are valuable to learn, and what the best resources for that are.

Overall, I'm just looking for some guidance to propel me into the same space as some of you guys. I was inspired by that Ferross story recently, and in general want to dedicate myself to learning all the skills necessary to be in a similar position in a few years. Advice from some of the veterans on here would be appreciated..
I'm the author and submitter of the post and for what it's worth I don't mind his comment at all.

It's relevant because OS X Vim users would probably like to use Vim movement everywhere. I know I would.

It's certainly more relevant than the "use emacs lol" comments that inevitably show up.
I map mine to Alt/Option on the Mac. It fucking rocks!

Caps lock is useless. The only downside is that whenever I use someone else computer I find myself toggling Caps.
I had a similar experience with Gorillas. I started exploring the code and noticed a variable called banana. I didn't realize changing a game was so easy, so I changed the variable to baby. Unfortunately, it wasn't so easy, and inexplicably the gorillas continued to throw bananas.

Understanding why is what got me hooked.
nobody can claim that they 100% won't loose your data. (I mean, they can claim that, but everyone has problems from time to time. Bad things happen. Magnetic storage is fragile.) Amazon, from what I understand, has one of the best documented systems; and with six (6!) copies of your data, well, that's better than any other storage system I know of, and their price is pretty good.

Now, amazon is pretty expensive if you access the data often... but beating their prices for archive storage (with six copies!) is damn hard. I've been looking at competing with them for a while, and it looks like what I might end up doing is selling space with a significantly lower level of redundancy (2-3 copies) at a lower rate, with a significantly lower network transfer charge.

Even so, the amazon system is really nice.
iStockphoto points, it's stricly a one-way street where the photographers get an automatic payment based on the number of credits worth of stuff that got sold

That's what RubyPay describes here: https://www.rubypay.com/pages/points. If I sell 7500 points worth of whatever, I get $50. The only difference between the two is that RubyPay lets you prepay for an arbitrary service, not just stock photography.

They're not going to go and re-use their credits to buy other stuff.

On iStockPhoto, you can use the credits you earn to buy other items. RubyPay doesn't make it clear whether points you earn can be used to buy other services or whether they have to be redeemed for a check. iStockPhoto looks more like a wallet system than RubyPay actually.
"Richer people require fewer government services"
They do require less government services but they probably became rich because of the U.S. economy and the opportunities that it presents. You can be smart and ambitious, but if you're born/live in a third world country your chances of success are significantly lower.
Because once these services become good enough, there is little advantage to spending more on them. If you already have virtually no crime, why bother spending more money on police? If the roads get you where you want to go, what is the advantage of building more?

I can see the advantage for politicians and public sector unions. But not for taxpayers.
The point isn't to avoid accidents, it's to avoid wasting a valuable spot on the keyboard.
To be a bit more specific, I'm currently interested in creating some mobile apps for the various platforms (android, iphone, win7, etc). But I want to develop a skill set that will allow me to have a general understanding of the whole domain (sort of like a liberal arts education but in the scope of software development and programming). General resources, as well as advice for somebody just starting out in this field are all appreciated.
it seems more like a management problem to me. I mean, if I had someone working for me who bullied my other employees into doing things that harmed the company, I'd tell the guy to knock it off, and if he continued, I'd fire him (or her... I don't think this is a gender-specific problem.)

The problem is that in most companies, the people who own the place, who feel the actual profit and loss are so far removed from any decision making that all you have left is the personality of middle managers trying to advance personal goals.
Instead of lamenting that your library isn't a Hackerspace, you should rejoice that you have a Hackerspace in your area...http://www.heatsynclabs.org/
Joining my local Hackerspace (http://www.thetransistor.com) has been one of the most enjoyable things I have done.
...and yet it includes header files. curious.

Looking at what's there, it looks like it can compile and run C (in nativeclient?).
How a "College for All" philosophy leaves everyone behind
That chunk of "third_party" stuff is a pretty tempting target.

Instead of using shared libs - like those that you've probably got on your system already - Google appear to like slurping everything into the one blob to solve dependency/versioning issues.
There are so many directions to go and so much advice out there. To cut away all of the fat, I'd say 'Make Something'. Decide on something you want to make and finish a piece of it today. Eventually you'll find a technology stack that works for you, a niche you can serve, etc., but start today with just creating something. Learning involves a lot of consuming, but above all you need to learn to be a maker.
careful, being broke is fine, but being broke and sick is miserable.
You're going to be trusting the government either way. Put your money in the bank, and it's FDIC insured, and you have to trust the bank and the government. If there's a financial crisis, the bank is more likely to collapse than the government, and if the government collapses, what good are US dollars anyway. I'm assuming you have gold bricks and a very large mattress?
Learning From Lizards (Geckos and printing Electronics)
The Tech Canon
Why You Should Stop Using the Go Button for Search
Write a simple Android app and you'll start gaining experience in software development. If you want to balance that by studying some computer science, there are a wealth of top notch textbooks freely available. How To Design Programs is probably a good place to start.
Crime will always be a part of society.
Roads fall apart and need repairs. An increasing marginal tax system maintains stability.