skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the article - I think there's generally a lack of discussion about sexuality in society, to our detriment. The article works around an assumption that pornography is acting as a feedback loop, expressing and evolving deeply held male desires; but I'd argue that the article might buy into its own myth by holding up pornography as a true mirror reflection of what men really want.

Perhaps the ubiquity of male domination in porn, might be more due to cultural hegemony and market-led assumption, rather than a true reflection of sexual mores.

If the bare structure of a purely sexual relationship is examined - pretty soon, two classic archetypes emerge; the dominant and the submissive. The roles might not be very clearly defined; but even if there isn't any explicit acknowledgement, I think there's usually an underlying tacit acknowledgement.

When it comes to who will fit which role - I don't think gender necessarily creates a predisposition. I think, to a degree, personality-type determines who fills which role; and in that respect, I think that people's desires are often quite deeply embedded in their psyches.

I suppose it could be argued that people consciously try to attain socially lauded ideals; and that a person's desire to live up to gender stereotypes might affect what they might strive for - but personally, I think there are a lot of competing factors that make the process of examining sexual identity much more complex.

Pornography isn't an interesting examination of sexuality - its a cheap shot, designed for cheap thrills. Perhaps, in much the same way that constant swearing reduces the impact of cuss-words, pornography's increasing need to trump itself, will eventually lead to it's downfall. Once this impact is lost - what will happen then?

Maybe honest personally-drawn narratives and characterisations will take the place of clichéd story lines and hackneyed acting - but then it wouldn't be porn, it would be on the road to becoming art.
This is what a 10-year-old can do these days in HTML
> For all the violence against women, there's equal amounts of violent porn against men. For every one debasing a woman, there's on debasing a man. For one humiliating a woman, there's one humiliating a man (I mean there's actually porn videos where there's a guy tied up and blind folded naked and a group of women laugh at his junk).

Do you have numbers on this? Because it is a quantitative claim you're making.
Do something completely unrelated to hacking. You might call it a hobby. Try oil painting, baking, sculpture, music, whatever. Anything that doesn't involve a computer. Preferably something aesthetic.
Unrelated to your blog post, but that sounds like a fantastically interesting technology you've got there.

It harkens to the sort of testing that Hollywood movies and television studios go through to see what the audience responds to.

Digital agencies must be banging down your door ... in testing designs for their new websites before they choose which mock to run with.

They could even run a test against their target audience, like women 35 to 45 etc...

I love it.
From the article: The granting of sex is the most powerful weapon women possess in their struggle with men.

I'm pretty sure I don't want to be having sex with any woman who views "granting" me sex as a weapon in her struggle with me. That's just wrong on a number of different levels.
Twitter's new official app for the Mac violates several of these display guidelines.
I believe it's working out 4 hours a month, not a week.
Wouldn't Apple be able to check this and then just ban your Apple account?
"They're going steal a hugely valuable ad market from Linkedin." Why? Facebook isn't known for career/jobs. It's for users to look at fun photos, chat, and play games. I contend it would be hard for Facebook to be known as a professional site (let alone have the credibility for advertisers to migrate en masse)

"Furthermore local advertising on Facebook is vastly under-utilized" If we both already agree that search converts better than social ads, why would local advertisers switch from Google to Facebook? If it's only about price, Google can undercut Facebook in an instant.

EDIT: If anything, the recent attempt to add job/career to profile page for Facebook smacks of desperation. Like trying to go after an established market.
I believe it's 4 hours a month.
Digikey is used for sourcing engineering parts and smallish runs for items that aren't as cost sensitive. It has never competed on price, in stock, fast shipping and lots of and lots of manufacturers. If one is going to build thousands of boards, you aren't getting your parts from digikey.
> Most indie Mac developers will tell you they don't really concern themselves with app piracy.

As someone who makes a hobby of cracking apps (I don't release anything, it's just for fun), I can corroborate this. I've never been able to find a trace of DRM in any Objective-C-based app. As far as I can tell, the state of the art for indie Mac developers is to have a method "-(bool)isAppLicenceValid" and another "-(bool)isAppLicenceOnBlacklist". Just hardwire YES and NO to those, and you're good.
"Tim Ferriss that self-righteous naturally, or does he do it on purpose to gain more attention?"

Your personality is just a strategy that was devised by your two-year-old self in order to keep you safe and get attention: http://vimeo.com/16260822

That said, once you're an adult and you no longer rely on others for safety, you get to start over and make whatever changes you want. Obviously if you want to be famous then you need to choose live a life and adopt a personality that will make you famous. The whole package isn't especially natural or fun for anyone, but some people naturally have bits and pieces of their private persona that also work well in public if you ham them up a bit.

It's like Richard Branson. Do you think that Richard Branson wants to fly to tahiti to go rock climbing every weekend? Of course not. Some weekends he'd much rather curl up with a pot of tea and read the newspaper. But he can't, because he's Richard Branson and that's not what Richard Branson would do. Does he enjoy being Richard Branson? I'm sure there are things he likes about it, but most likely his personality was only really developed after he made a bunch of money to spend on personal coaching and stuff.
Have you tried any landing page tests with ads?
While reading it, it read more like Freakanomics than an encyclopedia of "how to lose weight". Its more about heres some cool shit i/we've saw happening, heres what we did, try it out. He never advocates heavy drug use or any of that shit. He even mentions: "Medication = can give you weight loss, but trade off is long term damage to your body"

Now heres one interesting thing... if you think "eat whatever you want and you will lose weight" is bullshit, consider this: I used to love drinking soda. Drank it by the gallons. I stopped due to weight gain. Now I don't crave it, I am mostly repulsed by it, and am quite happy just drinking water, in fact I can drink whatever I want because I want water.

Over time your mindset will change, you simply got used to a lifestyle of excessive eating and thus... "I don't want to give up my donuts in the morning". Just eating fruits daily makes me repulsed by eating processed sweets (donuts and the like) because there is so much more and better flavor out there that is not due to just adding tons of sugar.
I agree with you, targeting on facebook is very poor right now. I can target those who has liked a certain page, while I would like to be able to target anyone who is a member of any group with my keyword in title, etc.
new facebook redesign encourages people to add more information that matters (like employers, languages you speak, etc. not what music you like and movies you watch) about them which will enable even better targeting.
advertisers will love this for higher conversion rate and users will love it(and less ignore ads) because they will see more relevant ads that are interesting to them.
Del.icio.us alternative that actually has a revenue model
I totally agree with you on this being a matter of prospective... I was on the verge of dumping PS3 for media playback from my file server since dealing with transcoding + the PS3 is IMHO a huge pain in the ass.

With the root key cracked and homebrew soon exploding I'm scheming a quality XBMC port to GameOS... sooner than never ;-)
Hey, I took an engineering degree and it was able to teach me how to be a person as well (despite it not being a liberal arts degree). =) My experience is somewhat similar to your experience. I went to college because I did not know what else to do and it was "the thing to do". And it changed my life. Lifelong friends, outlook and maturity.

Swapping experiences aside, I'm glad that someone is taking up the college side of the argument. I like to think of college as a purgatory for people who don't know what they want to do in life to hang out in. And hopefully, while they are there, they learn more about themselves to the point that they know what they want to do outside of college. To me college is one of the best places for people who are unsure of their life direction to learn about themselves (costs and other factors aside) because of the variety of new experiences and people that they encounter there. Once they learn what they want to do in life, it is trivial to analyze whether continuing with the college degree is worthwhile.
Sure it's gaming-specific, but more prior art: http://steampowered.com
Here it is, in good quality, courtesy Dan Kaminsky & vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/18417770
> You're never going to get Microsoft, Autodesk, or Adobe in that kind environment, at least for their flagship products.

Indeed, although it's maddening. Haven't MS/Adobe noticed that their flagship products are on piratebay already, so there's no point forcing DRM on legal users only?
thanks for pointing that out. I am new here and dont know how the voting works. I cant see downvote icon because I have low carma i guess.
I used Greenfax until I actually saw the faxes that were coming out the other end. They were unreadable garbage. I switched to http://faxzero.com/ and have been very happy with the quality of their faxes.
I worked at OkCupid for a bit and got to see OKWS in its full glory. Though it sounds kinda daunting from the documentation, it's actually reasonably workable. I was able to get a rough app up that talked to a bunch of different internal services via async RPCs within my first couple days (the first compile took forever, though...).

One of the coolest parts of the stack was that every function call you made was non-blocking unless you wrapped it with BLOCK{...}, and within a BLOCK code that was written sequentially got turned into callback-based async calls behind the scenes.

The other cool part of the stack was getting core dumps on segfaults. Heh.
Recent talks (often with PDF slides) of DJB @ http://cr.yp.to/talks.html (scroll to end of page for latest).
An agreement without a penalty is meaningless.

There is no way for goldman to enforce those agreements.

And if nothing else they can simultaneously short and hold the stock if they really want to sell it, but still stay within the letter of the agreement.
Designing a better, faster, secure, vastly cheaper airport with proto-robocars
Yeah but dey da boss. They get to be as hypocritical and arbitrary as they like.

If you go sharecroppin' on somebody else's plot of land, don't expect to be afforded any rights or respect by the owner.

Eventually people will figure this out.

Eventually.
>Philips goLite at his body in place of ingesting caffeine

So, he advocates using sunlight instead of drugs (such as caffeine). Why does that deserves a scorn in your opinion?
Come out to hack and tell: http://www.meetup.com/hack-and-tell. We'll have the next one at the end of January.
Well said bud.
Hmmm, I found this post underwhelming, and it didn't deliver on the title for me.

The observations up front apply to people in general, not just small business owners. People are busy, impatient, prideful, etc.

The recommendations are similarly lightweight. Be attentive, be nice, be patient. K, thx.
Can't wait until someone pipes this into a reprap.
Loved both the book and the review. Tim is damn crazy and his lunacy, but practical one is what makes 4HB distinct from the other average books claiming nothing new, nothing to make fun of.
The target audience of what? The app store? Each app? In Apple's eyes, their target audience is the entire computing population ... and it's not a stretch to think that an exploit like this will be simplified for the masses now that it's been identified.
Great Ideas vs Confidence:  Which counts more?
Having read some of his stuff, you are incorrect about not working hard.
Indeed, he claims he achieved his results by working out 4 hours in 28 days.

Even so, working out 4 hours per week without changing your diet or just working out in a "semi-competent" manner will probably not bring you the results he claims to have gotten.

You should at least familiarize yourself with the claims before denying them.
> Or at least, I would have while I was still playing it.

Ohhh nice burn. ;)
If you have a couple minutes, I'd like to talk with you about reptile oil. And a bridge.
In regards to your example, yes the data is warehoused in Facebook servers, but the publisher still has access to the raw data:

"Access to raw data: Query all comments via the comments.get API method or the comment FQL table."

http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/198
Just like the review
I posted this yesterday, but if this link is true, it'll be a whole lot easier to pirate apps than you suggest.

It'll be as easy as using the normal AppStore, except for spending money part.

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-apple-app-store-innovates-wit...
That's basically the extent of the copy protection we use. The idea is that pirates probably aren't going to buy your app anyway, and any significant time you spend trying in vain to beat them is time taken away from fixing bugs, writing new features, sales or support of actual customers. Since most of us are one person shops, the tradeoff is pretty obvious.
It depends on what your studying. Much of the early research into how high G's effect the body is based on a single test subject (John Stapp). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stapp

When he began his research in 1947, the aerospace conventional wisdom was that a man would suffer fatally around 18 g. ... In one of his final rocket-propelled rides, Stapp was subjected to 46.2 times the force of gravity."
Neither DNSSEC or DNSCurve are interesting if they're securing just IP addresses. So we both need code on the client, to link into certificate validation stacks and the like.

The difference is, when DNSSEC has code on the client, it can still leverage the caching infrastructure. When DNSCurve has code on the client, it has to bypass it entirely.
Ask HN: Inherent limitation of networks?
Isn’t there a mathematically proven limitation of networks, in that you can never be 100% sure that two clients are on the the same page?<p>I could send you a message, and to be sure you got it, I could ask for a confirmation. But are you sure I got the confirmation? We can confirm the confirmation, but then it’s confirmations “all the way down”, isn’t it?<p>What’s the name for this paradox?
How exactly do you do that if you are away, doesn't some one have to be there to give the guest the key to the place?
what is the 100k follow limit and why does it break your app?
I'd never call you a loser for building stuff in the world. Never. I think that's fantastic and wish you the best in your endeavors. Additionally, if you were to drop me a line and asked something I could lend a hand with, I'd do what I could.

I think weakness and mediocrity sucks, and it's worth fighting to transcend the weak/mediocre elements of ourselves that we all have. But I'd never look down on someone for building, I'd never call someone moving forwards a loser, never. Best wishes in your endeavors.
Oh, hi Tom :)

Was WONDERING why you were so quiet.
I never knew that. I always assumed that someone out there was paying for all these questions.

Good to know.
I looked over the shoulder of someone playing Angry Birds with ads. The paid version was worth every penny.

There is nothing on this earth more jarring to a game design than having some out-of-context ad pop up on the screen. Particularly when the screen is already half the size of a decent postcard.
Japan to Invest $6.4 Billion in Green Tech, Creating 95,000 Jobs in 15 Months
Right now I have the "shadow" role for the streaming API: see http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_methods

I requested "birddog", which provides 400k stream follows.
> I don't know how to be agile with a system like that

I think that they're implementing a lot of stuff in client side javascript because of that. A few days ago a redditor discovered that there're a lot of parameters of each profile right there on the page source, like the number of messages received today, last week and some attractiveness scale.
> Yeah but dey da boss
> go sharecroppin'

If this is a reference to something, I don't get it. If not, why are you writing like this?

Edit: Thanks alnayyir. I knew there was something I was missing.
I think you mean hack
Advertisers don't care if it's a professional site or not. Look at the Oracle ads in consumer news magazines. Companies will advertise where they can reach their target market.

Right now on my Facebook page I have two professional ads (one for a CRM system and one for a business IT news site) and two Facebook game ads.

On top of that Linkedin is truly awful when it comes to targeting. Their job categories are ridiculously broad, if you want to target Software Engineers or Aero Engineers, you can't. Instead you have to target "IT" and "Engineering" - categorizations which combine together barely related roles.

It would be very easy for Facebook to offer more precise targeting, that alone would be a killer feature over Linkedin.

Search has a higher CTR but not a higher eCPA, a well designed Facebook ad can convert much more cheaply than buying targeted keywords, you'll need to buy many more ads, but the end cost is what matter.

(Incidentally most local companies don't advertise online at all, it's not a case of stealing customers from Google, etc. but rather a case of persuading them that it's worthwhile. Hence the rise of local ad brokers who buy CPM and sell CPA, as it's much easier to convince a local business to advertise through you if they don't have to pay you until after you generate business).
> Any guidance there? No, just some handwaving about college either being useful or maybe not.

Did you read past the first three paragraphs?

I put down like ten books, 4-5 websites, another half-dozen authors, and 3-4 things you could try out conduct-wise.
Of course you're at their mercy. This is the nature of using a third-party API. If you violate their rules, you have to accept the risk that they shut you down in the future, even if their rules aren't optimal for your app's user experience.

I recommend that you alter your product to conform to their rules, even if it makes your product a bit worse.
Idea: An OTC Pill That Stops Mosquito Bites
with regards to the lack of approval, could it be that Twitter want to avoid app redundancy to save resources? 100,000 of these requests can't be cheap for them, so when there are already multiple apps do what this one does does it not make sense for them to say they're no longer supporting most to save money?

I could be way off the mark, but that's how it appears to me. Multiple apps with the same purpose that require lots of resources... makes sense to stick with one or two high users and limit the rest.
I'm amazed by the similarity between the way some people seem personally offended by the existence of Timothy Ferriss and the way some people seem offended by Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres. I wonder if they're the same people.
Access, however, is granted at her majesty's pleasure.
Open doesn't always win - check out Tim Wu's book the Master Switch. It traces the history of telephone, TV, radio, film (and the Internet, though I haven't gotten there yet). Theodore Vail and AT&T essentially created a massive closed network and David Sarnoff at RCA/NBC did the same with radio & television. They eventually lost their grip on their monopolies, but the government was involved in both. While this isn't a perfect analogy, the imperialist nature of their founders sounds familiar :)

One interesting question: If Facebook and Twitter are NBC and CBS, who will be the cable provider for social networking?
MmmmmmcMaster-Carr next?
Yes, but as been amply demonstrated by the demise of the IBM buckling spring keyboard, we don't need the "best" method, just a "good enough" method.

One interesting thing to me is that, even though most people don't use Model Ms anymore, there's still a robust niche that does, or that seeks out weird and alternate keyboards. I write a blog that's chiefly about books, but by far the most visited post of all time is this review: http://jseliger.com/2008/05/07/product-review-unicomp-custom... of the Unicomp Customizer / Space Saver, which are modern Model Ms.

The other question is: how common will generation of long form text be?

Probably common enough, especially in school settings. I tend to agree with the OP: unless we see some kind of neural interface (which doesn't appear especially likely to me, although I'd love to be wrong), I don't see keyboards disappearing.
Ask HN: Review our web app
browsedit is a web application for designing web pages/web user interfaces directly on the browser. Currently supports firefox, chrome and safari browsers with other browser support coming soon.
Ok, that's just creepy.
Why is everyone umping to the conclusion that I'm justifying SEO spam? I'm only saying it creates value. (While destroying some for others.) This means that it can be co-opted.
I hate being at the mercy of another; that is why I have my own business. However...

I just had my first major rejection from the app store on a unreleased app (similar to an already approved app called Fresh Faces, which has been approved four times).

I got a phone call from Apple today telling me it was rejected because it violated section 18.2. I should have asked him to read it to me because I think he was too embarrassed to let me know what it said. He mumbled something about "social media" blah blah.

Well, I looked up 18.2 and was insulted. 'Apps that contain user generated content that is frequently pornographic (ex "Chat Roulette" apps) will be rejected.'

My apps allow users to upload photos of themselves and have others rate them. All photos are examined before posting, and I would never allow anything bad to be posted.

By this standard, any app that allows users to create and view photos should be banned.

Today I downloaded the Android development kit.
Contextual drop down? Not that common.
Even Safari does not have it.

Click and hold on the back or forward buttons and you get the drop-down.
OKWS came before OkCupid. It was developed by Max Krohn (http://www.okws.org/doku.php?id=okws:publications) of MIT/Harvard with DARPA funding (http://www.okws.org/doku.php?id=okws:sponsorship).
The world's smallest desktop computer?
The tweet box doesn't have "What's happening" and the user's name doesn't link to their profile.

The official app does the right thing, IMO, it just shows how silly some of the guidelines are. Particularly requiring "What's happening?" I bet most Twitter apps violate that one.