skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that bolded part is critical--most people, when making the observation that women are more passive, don't realize that they're using a male standard as a basis for judgment.

Thist is an important insight, but one should be careful with it. Taking it too far leads to the exact same kind of backwards thinking where (taking race instead of gender) reading books is "acting white". If one group in society (men, whites, etc.) is dominant, and society continues to function, then obviously the dominant group is doing something right, and forcing or pressuring the oppressed group into doing something wrong. In the racial case, that "something" is education. Whites oppressed blacks; whites were educated while blacks weren't. The answer is to educate blacks and stop oppressing them; it isn't to tear down education itself as an artifact of white oppression.

Back to your example, sometimes someone in a traditionally male occupation has to be assertive. It's hard to imagine a passive salesperson or a passive Prime Minister being very effective, male or female; agree or disagree with them, Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meir were not passive women by any stretch of the imagination.

(Thatcher and Meir may have certainly been bad PM's in the sense of doing bad things, depending on your political views; I don't want to argue it either way. But they were certainly effective; if one agreed with and wanted to pursue Thatcher's agenda in the UK 30 years ago, Thatcher would undoubtedly be the best candidate for PM. Likewise, one can be an extremely effective salesperson while selling useless crap no one really needs.)
The point is that your previous post does not imply what you thought it did, whatsoever. The original assertion was that by reading peer review journals you would be more qualified to preform medicine than a doctor. You have yet to provide any supporting evidence that shows that doctors don't read peer reviewed journals as well. The only thing that it indicates is that if information isn't published, then doctors are unlikely to know about it. What a fucking shocker.

I can't really say I'm surprised to encounter inexplicable lapses in critical thinking and logic here though.
This error means that something is wrong with the username. Note that you can use only lowercase characters in username. I agree that there is unclear error message, I'll fix it.
Wow.

>Here’s a better analogy: “The 4-Hour Body” reads as if The New England Journal of Medicine had been hijacked by the editors of the SkyMall catalog. Some of this junk might actually work, but you’re going to be embarrassed doing it or admitting to your friends that you’re trying it. This is a man who, after all, weighs his own feces, likes bloodletting as a life-extension strategy and aims a Philips goLite at his body in place of ingesting caffeine.

Just... wow. The book sounds ridiculous, and the review is fantastic.
And the tipping point is reached :-) Congrats and hope the virality ensues!
"Some of this junk might actually work, but you’re going to be embarrassed doing it or admitting to your friends that you’re trying it."

Truer words, never spoken.
I don't mean "distributed protocol" in the same sense that you do.

What do you mean, then? Facebook's graph api is definitely not distributed, it's very centralized.

now they'll just have to be facing a "major challenge" from one by 2015?

I'll gladly take the wager that they'll be using an open, distributed protocol by 2013/2014. How about this, $2 for that, $1 for a major challenge by 2015.
The graph they have is a poor way to represent the 'domination'. Here is a pie chart (with values eyeballed from their graph) of the various app categories:

https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=p&chs=500x200&...

Yeah, it's not really dominating at all.
> Yet, if you watched any porn these days, the males are always agressive and the females almost always take the submissive role.

There is tons of male submissive porn. Google "femdom", "mistress porn", and so on.

There are several genres, including male-sub BDSM, cuckolding, tease and denial, and so on.

People sexualize everything, so saying "there's no {x} porn" is false for almost all values of x. (Google "balloon porn" and "clown porn" for examples.)
Nope. Being a human is not the magic algorithm for finding global optima. We aren't anywhere near that smart. There's no methodology for finding the global maxima, period.
In two years, Microsoft will probably be competing with...

...maybe the second or third-generation iPad?
...maybe the forth or fifth-generation iPhone?
...maybe Mac OS X Lion, or later?
...whatever might follow the A4 SOC?
...and whatever else Apple is baking in the Cupertino product ovens.

Not to mention Android Saltwater Taffy, and Ubuntu Peckish Pixie, or whatever...

And then there's HP and their WebOS, RIM, and the various other vendors that are already in or are seeking to get into the ARM and phone and tablet and related markets.

And then there's the inherent delay before folks can or will adopt the new Windows platforms. How many folks that are still on WXP and thinking about W7 and WP7 (as good as those are, too) are going to leap onto WARM, after all?

Microsoft need to aim way past the existing iOS and Android and WebOS environments here and way past WP7, and they're going to be encountering a massive amount of (new) work as porting can inherently delay or derail parallel new feature development. And then the third-party vendors will need to add support.

And then will the existing customers then want to buy WARM products in quantity?
I agree with what most other people have said here about doing it in your spare time and then going in full time when you know what you're doing. Give full time effort when the business requires your full time effort, there's no point in doing it full time when you have no users and no application to support.

Books I recommend: Rework, Lucky or Smart, The Art of the Start

Languages: HTML, CSS, and Javascript are a must (jQuery is a great JS library to use). I recommend Python and Django for the server side, though what ever language you choose you should use an MVC framework (Django, Rails, CakePHP).
I've sent to you an email.
I appreciate the post, but in the end it just isn't that useful. It's like "I did all this stuff to sell MacBooks and didn't really make any money, so I started this startup."

Obviously you can't do it for long if you're not making coin, but either a more in-depth analysis of how many you sold for what prices, or any success / fail stories, would make this a more useful post for readers. Instead it's all the build-up of an objective study with no real payoff.

Hopefully this comes across as a useful critique and not something that's personally attacking. I like the idea, I just want something more out of a post like this.
Thanks for the info.
Yeah, it's confusing. On the Username input I was also getting the error, but the example shows:
http://tagmask.com/yourName
Which has camel case that's invalid. :)
"This encounter proves an unpleasant fact that does not fit the feminist script on sexuality"

The fact that the author chooses to generalise a 'proof' from a single personal encounter shows what sort of low standard she has for evidence.
The only interesting thing that I got out of the 4-Hour Work Week was the idea of traveling somewhere long-time to learn a new skill. Hardly groundbreaking, but a new idea to me.

The rest of the book varied between obvious, sleazy and cheating. So I'm not surprised that the new one is pretty much the same, only this time with health risks instead of financial ones.

Not that this is particularly new. It's basically Charles Atlas in the age of twitter and ADHD. The review is pretty fantastic, though.
Skype Beta for Mac’s Usability Failings
A note on the upper left hand 'control' buttons. Using the graphite theme there are no colours or controls obviously visible, so i didnt even notice the difference.

It took a comment on this blog post for me to notice that iTunes has vertical buttons. I hope that is a fair indication how often I even look at those buttons.
There will be LEGO employees flying in from Denmark for this, but they'll be very obvious (and simply excited to spectate!)

LEGO is thrilled about doing a feel-good-project with breadpig (uncorporation) and the geeks of New York. All of the mindstorms left over from the Hack Night are being donated to a notforprofit we work with down in Jamaica (Lego Yuh Mind) that uses them to teach schoolchildren about engineering. http://www.hallsoflearning.com/
Watched the video, its definitely interesting. Looks like a super commercial version of http://www.couchsurfing.org/.
Shapeways should run a service when you send them a part or two and they scan it to turn it into a 3D model ready to modify and print.
Salesforce.com scoops up Dimdim for $31 million
Comments like this are common for most any website/product. Remember everyone including tc mentioned that twitter was pointless. Wait for few years, as long as they stick to their game, people will find use cases.
+1 for "underwear" car.
Many more than you would think: http://groups.drupal.org/government-sites
I would prefer to see an X Window style alt to drag system, makes life moving windows much easier.
> I, in my usually procrastinating ways, put these off for so long that replying to the person at that point would be rude (imagine getting a rejection email months after applying to a job, when you’ve all but forgotten about it)

It's happened to me before. Yeah, it's a bit rude and bewildering. But once a few months have gone by, it's difficult not to move on. After that point, it was kind of a cute thing I'd mention to my friends ("They finally told me they weren't going to hire me a few months after I applied. Isn't that crazy!")
What's a fax? Is it kind of like a pdf?
Andy Rubin: Google has your back - Google 24/7 - Fortune Tech
I read it as well and thought that deep down it was really just a rip off of other studies and advice, just done in a quirky (and sometimes downright crazy) way.

For example, his "diet" is really nothing more than a suggestion to cut carbs and "anything white," eat a few square meals a day and take a day off once a week to convince your body you are not on a diet. I've read that same advice hundreds of times before. Disappointing (not that I had high expectations going into it).
Open alternatives exist; they have not replaced the proprietary alternatives. "Replaced" is the key word. AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve are dead. There's still a company with the AOL name and I guess I can't quite guarantee there isn't some AOL-subscription-only service left somewhere, but they don't matter. AIM, ICQ, MSN messenger, Yahoo Instant Messenger, QQ, and Facebook chat all matter.

(Global penetration of the various services are very uneven; if you're an American you may think ICQ is dead but it's still big in Russia, for instance. Yes, I know ICQ and AIM are basically the same thing but the brand is still separate. Everything I mentioned is indeed still a going concern in at least one major region of the world,. You can of course add IRC, and depending on your mood you can add Google Talk; it may be XMPP and perfectly capable of XMPP federation but almost nobody realizes it, so in practice it's more isolated than you might think.)
I want to be able to dump out the photos from all the albums which contain photos of me. The API doesn't let me do this without a hack involving walking all my friends albums.

EDIT: and a full realtime read/write XMPP-style interface for all the data going in/out of my profile please! :)
Considering they've avoided breaking the 500 investor mark to this point so they would not have to disclose financials (hence the whole Goldman Sachs silliness) this IS news worthy.
First would be an API to export all of a user's data in a common format. The current solution, where you email a large file in HTML format is not an acceptable solution. Good for archiving, bad for data portability.

Most importantly, though, a clear change (or clear guidelines) to the Terms Of Service which would guarantee that moving your data to a competing service would not result in cancellation of the account or deletion of the new service's API key.

As for a distributed protocol, take a look at the functionality in Appleseed's QuickSocial and StatusNet for an idea of what a distributed protocol entails. I should be able to login to facebook with an external identity, and add someone as a friend on facebook, without having an actual facebook account.

If Facebook is interested in these things, you can have some representatives join the Federated Social Web mailing list, and you can support the W3C working group on federated social networking, as well as supporting the Data Portability Project.
Google’s New Attack on Apple - Quentin Hardy - At Your Servers - Forbes
That's not how it works. :P
Software development process
If the book is half as entertaining as this review, it'd be a great buy.

"Timothy Ferriss .... is an unusually beguiling humanlike specimen.

:-)
oops, accidentally upvoted

From the submission guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
As soon as I have four hours available, I will pick up a copy and a roll of duct tape.
Ask HN: Can I write all my doco using markdown?
OK. I'm tired of having to use Word, Pages, whatever the word processor is when it just seems to get in the way of getting words and information down.

I coding and website land I have pretty much transitioned to using markdown everywhere thanks to (joDoc and Jekyll, Django's markdown support is helpful too), but when it comes to writing doco for clients it's back to word processors.

How can I be free from this enslavement to GUI tools and use markdown and <insert your favorite text editor here, so as not to spark debate> to author these docs?
Honestly, it's hard to say. I don't think I'm driven much by obvious and immediate peer influence, since I can't remember the last time I bought anything... mp3 player, car, clothes, etc. based on any influence from a close friend. I have pretty specific tastes in each of those things, and I tend to buy what I want based on my own criteria.

Now how much my tastes - in general - where shaped by the influence of others in an indirect sense, is hard to say. For example, the last portable music player I bought was chosen specifically because it was the biggest device the local Best Buy had in stock that supports Ogg Vorbis. I favor patent unencumbered formats like Ogg, and am trying to get away from using mp3s in general. So, how much did my friends, colleagues, etc. influence my stance as a free software, open standards, open source, etc. ideologue? I have no idea.

Same for my last car... I bought a Mazda RX-8 because I like fast, sporty little cars; not because any of my friends have RX-8's (ok, one friend has one, but I didn't know it when I bought mine.) But who's to say why I like fast, black, sports cars? I look at it more as a matter of accretion, over the course of decades, and the influence of many sources... not something I can pin on any specific (small) set of immediate influencers.

Clothes? Hmmm.. I don't dress like anybody I know, since I like to wear waist-coats and cravats with jeans. It's an eclectic taste I glommed together from bits & pieces of various influences.... being a Doctor Who fan, liking the Steampunk genre, Victorian era fiction, etc.

Now is any of that purely rational? Hell no. There's definitely a peer influence, "glommed together from bits over time" aesthetic. But there is (sometimes) a rational aspect mixed in. Like choosing a certain music player because of it's format support and storage capacity, or choosing Mazda because they have a good quality reputation, etc.

I guess that was a lot of words to say "I don't know," but that's kinda it. It's hard to isolate the different factors that go into these decisions.
"For one, that would be against their fiduciary duty"

This is completely untrue.
claiming that online porn demonstrates how the male psyche is fueled by the need to hurt and humiliate women sexually

I don't see a contradiction, since I don't think she is making this claim. This would be hard to determine by textual analysis, though, since I'm sure my own context for the article is just as subjective. I'll write her and ask if she'd be willing to comment, but of course then we're into postmodernism, and the intent of the author being irrelevant to your interpretation.

In the meantime, I think that Vargas-Cooper is coming more from a 90's feminist-backlash position than the earlier 70's 'men are evil' view. Or maybe it's slash-backlash: "He answered, almost without thought, 'Because that’s the only thing that will make you uncomfortable.' This was, perhaps, the greatest moment of sexual honesty I’ve ever experienced—and without hesitation, I complied. This encounter proves an unpleasant fact that does not fit the feminist script on sexuality: pleasure and displeasure wrap around each other like two snakes."

I think her point is that we need to acknowledge the forces that exist (including a desire to degrade) without giving up or pretending they don't exist. But I don't think she feels that this is exclusive to males, nor that this is the primary fuel of the male psyche. And I think her point is that two players are needed to maintain the illusions, and that not all illusions should be thrown out. She didn't smack him across the face and pay for her own cab ride home, rather she took the honesty as a compliment and stayed.
Yes, but will it blend? errr, I mean will it actually be invisible to SAM batteries?

Copying the general shapes and design aren't going to get you very far if you don't get the details right, or work out your own. My guess is they actually did put a good deal of engineering into this.
Ask HN: how to estimate users per server
I know this is highly dependent on a lot of factors, but is there any rough estimate for how many servers you need for x amount of users? I'm trying to estimate my future costs.

I'm using an Nginx front end server, Apache with mod_wsgi for serving my Django app, and PostgreSQL. It's all hosted on Rackspace Cloud using the latest Ubuntu.
Not a word about Hentai? I'm surprised.

But if there is a genre which fulfills everything you speak of and more, it's the japanese erotic Visual Novel. I never thought I'd ever treat any form of porn with reverence until http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate/stay_night

I wonder if it's a lesson in this. If people can make so successfully animated movies, why so few live ones? Is there an inherent limit? I'd venture to say we're very turned off by any form of pretense in sex. The most successful forms of live porn seem to be either pure amateur, or porn actresses who are basically acting as themselves. If that's the cause, no amount of money or skill will fix it...
Homeless man has "Golden Voice" - Youtube video lands Him Job Offers
I can't quite guarantee there isn't some AOL-subscription-only service left somewhere

AOL still has 5 million paid subscribers. Dead is hardly ever truly dead. Facebook in 2020 might still have 500 million users, but the game will be very different.
The Agonizing Last Words of Programmer Bill Zeller
Intel did bother to make ATOM soc's.

They enabled other companies do an ATOM soc using 3rd party fab. nobody took them on their offer.

At the same time , they did there own SOC's. for example the CE4100 ,which is especially fitted for digital tv's and includes graphics(powervr) + memory controller + dsp + hd decode on chip.

It has took the place of tegra in the boxee box, because the tegra wasn't able to decode high profile H.264 HD streams.pretty disappointing for the tegra after all the hype.

But still , the power consumption is high : 11.2W for the boxee box(it's common for streamers to have half that). but intel claims it hadn't done sleep mode on the ce4100.

Edit: sony will also use the ce4XXX(sodaville) for tv's.
Drop me a line. My email is in my profile
I'm sorry to hear that you don't want to register. I agree that usernames are frequently unnecessary, and for other sites that I've created I avoid them.

However, I think it's useful for this website because you get a profile page with a URL that uses that username. For instance, here is mine:

http://curiousreef.com/kday

Sure, and email + alias could work also, but I really wanted people to have their own vanity URL, and this seemed to be the easiest way to do that.
http://www.myfax.com/free/ It is the same thing but free.
I'd be very surprised if Google does not already implement this in some form.
2011 prediction #9: Apple’s Carolina strategy
Sorry, but that is how it works. It is just not how it is supposed to work. :-P
Social Media: Most Dramatic Change in Twitter Culture in 2010
Looking for a good read? Follow these directions:

1) Go to amazon http://www.amazon.com

2) Pick your genre

3) Sort by reviews

4) Pick the books with the most number of positive reviews

5) Read a few of the negative ones

6) Go out to Google and search for the books you selected

7) Pick up reviews from other non-book-review sites, like hn
or reddit

8) Confirm selection by comparing notes from various sources

9) Get the book to read

Or you can just go to http://hn-books.com and let somebody else do all of that for you

EDIT: It occurs to me that perhaps you're making a snarky comment which I'm ignoring, but just be aware that the biggest problem in finding great books isn't piss-poor search strings and frustrating google search results: it's fans who love author X and are going to give him/her positive reviews no matter what they write. It makes it difficult to use review systems. I don't think that in a net of a billion people and a trillion web pages you're ever going to find a simple method for locating a good book to read that's going to stay the same over any length of time. There's simply not enough description in "good book to read" to have any meaning. There's a huge amount of implied context that is relevant but not supplied.
Comparing Quora to Twitter is massively premature. Quora's not even better than Stack Overflow, or even Answers.com. Riddled with annoyances, the only thing I ever hear about Quora on Twitter is something that drives someone crazy.
Has anyone tried the link system? A quick try gives a link that can only be opened in another instance of the mac store, call be naive, but I was hoping something similar to pages on apples site considering iOS links.
It would be fine if google just increased the the threshold of it's p value for spam-status.
This sounds fun! I look forward to figuring out where it is :-)
I'll just leave this here:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Good-bye-Depression-Constrict-Ever...
I wonder if Mz. Vargas-Cooper is related to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Vargas .
90k+ Paid Chrome Web App Store Users and growing 5k/week
BOING
Coming from a psychology background myself, I would say yes, we definitely underestimate how external factors affect our decision-makings. Peer pressure is one obvious influence, but I would personally say the biggest influences come from factors we're not even aware of. Some I can think of at the top of my head are the way we're influenced by:

- our fear of loss
- our first impressions (which usually influence all subsequent decisions/habits)
- our sense of ownership of an idea/opinion/product
- our self-fulfilling expectations (something you expect to be great will usually be great)
- and so much more we're usually not aware of

For more on the topic, a very readable and engaging book on behavioral-economic influences is Predictably Irrational. At his blog, he shares some of the book's interesting ideas and findings about different factors: http://danariely.com/the-books/
SAP inks patent licensing deal with Intellectual Ventures
Certainly. Every time I see a major iTunes update I'm surprised they haven't fixed it. The pimple's ready to pop.
Implementation of REST service with ASP.net MVC