skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fairness, it's not all that uncommon for Starbucks to be full of people talking into thin air to no one (blue tooth cell phone headsets).

The (theoretical) advantage of voice recognition is that you can speak _much_ faster than you can type (except for a few exceptional cases) [1].

On the other hand, I don't think most people would be comfortable with speaking all day either, but things other than voice recognition could still replace the keyboard.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Words_per_min...
Read the fucking HIG
Not sure myself. But it might involve the TV remote control.
Hackers find new way to cheat on Wall Street?
Eat your own dog food instead.
"Why apples will never be as tasty as oranges."
Sometimes I fantasize about strangling my boss. Do I want to actually strangle my boss? No. Not because I'm worried about the repercussions, but because there is a fundamental difference in the way we process fantasy and reality. In almost all cases, porn is about fantasy and should not be considered indicative of what men actually want.

(disclaimer: I don't actually have a boss)
Ask HN: Looking for a tech co-founder
Hi guys,
Im an entrepreneur currently living in Buenos Aires, Argentina and I have spent most of my time trying to find a good technical cofounder.

Im a decent designer (some of my web designs were featured in webcreme, designshack, etc) and I have a pretty good knowledge about biz development, marketing, pr, seo, domaining and user experience.

Im trying to find someone with the same energy I have for building things online or starting my own startup.

I love markets like dating, classifieds, domains, sms, etc.

If you love coding and building awesome stuff for the interwebs drop me a line at nicogarcia at gmail

Nico.
Electronic waste goes to China
Not always with v1. Apple UIs generally get better with age. They're still iterating large on things like iPhoto and iMovie.
Thanks for showing some actual data.
If Skype decides to do something you don't like, you have fewer alternatives. As an example of the types of things Skype could do, last year Skype announced plans to charge money for Skype-to-Skype calls over 3G. To their credit, they didn't implement the plans after a huge outcry.
"the information isn't making its way to internists because it is not been published in journals or other sources often reviewed by internists"

Implying that doctors do keep up to date with peer reviewed journals, and that if all you're doing is trying to read journals with none of the medical background require to understand them, you're certainly not going to be any more informed than your average doctor.

Gordon Guyatt, MD, of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who is credited with coining the term "evidence-based medicine."

You quote him, yet you are so quick to discredit all evidence that you don't agree with.
Perhaps the spam just got better at getting past the filter, and not necessarily more numerous?
Awesome. Much better. Just one question, what's up with the Yes I agree, Nah!, I don't agree? Surely just a "Post opinion" is a better aspect?
NY Hackers: Breadpig & LEGO are hosting our first Hack Club on Jan 14
T - Command-line todo list manager for people who want to finish tasks
The author makes that sound like a criticism. A site or service can be valuable without being "big". The thing that I like about Quora is that its easy to identify notable people, which is lacking from other sites. I think Quora could actually become a pay service and do OK.
the class is always filled with people that learn at different rates. does the teacher present the information at many different rates to deal with that? Wouldn't they need to do that every year?
Shouldn't you mention (albeit generically) what you're looking at making? :)
The characteristic stealth shapes and angles are clearly based on the F22. Their cyber-espionage appears to be paying off.

'The J-20 has a canard delta layout (like Chengdu’s J-10) with two canted, all-moving vertical stabilizers (like the T-50) and smaller canted ventral fins. The stealth body shaping is similar to that of the F-22. The flat body sides are aligned with the canted tails, the wing-body junction is clean, and there is a sharp chine line around the forward fuselage. The cant angles are greater than they are on the Lockheed Martin F-35, and the frameless canopy is similar to that of the F-22.'

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/jsp_includes/articlePrint.jsp...
IMO though, corporations seem to like taking steps to make that sort of work harder (e.g., utilizing encryption to ensure "blessed" hardware/software can only be used).

I've given some thought to this, and I don't think that it can mostly be blamed on the corporations. Sure, they're part of it, but I think the ever increasing complexity of technology is mostly what causes things to be harder to tinker on. There's far more to understand than in older technology, and it makes tinkering/hacking on things far more difficult.

It's kind of like classic cars vs cars today. Older cars were much more tinkerable/hackable/etc, but newer ones have certainly benefited from the increased complexity in the form of better gas mileage, safety, etc at the cost of hackability.
It's really well written in the sense of flowing well and constructing narratives, and as an exposition of the author's point of view it's pretty well constructed.

Unfortunately, the quality of ideas is a lot more uneven; while I can readily accept the idea that male sexuality is typically dominating and aggressive, the article is otherwise filled with the type of crap you'd write in school to make a banal thought about The Great Gatsby stretch out to ten pages.

Sometimes the article reveals more about the author than about the purported topic:

Hard-core porn...is undoubtedly extreme. But how is sex, as a human experience, anything less than extreme? ...the sex that occurs in between relationships—or overlaps with relationships—where the buffers of intimacy or familiarity do not exist: the raw, unpracticed sort. If a woman thinks of the best sex she’s had in her life, she’s often thinking of this kind of sex, and while it may be the best sex in her life, it’s not the sex she wants to have throughout her life—or more accurately, it’s not the sex she’d have with the man with whom she’d like to spend her life.

...

Never was this made plainer to me than during a one-night stand.... He couldn’t stay aroused. Over the course of the tryst, I trotted out every parlor trick and sexual persona I knew....in a moment of exasperation, he asked if we could have anal sex. I asked why.... 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.

And it gets even worse when she starts talking about male desires:

ONE OF THE most punishing realities women face when they reach sexual maturity is that their maturity is (at least to many men) unsexy. Indeed, we now have an entire genre of online smut politely called “Lolita Porn.”

...

Indeed, porn stars no longer look like porn stars. The image of Jenna Jameson, America’s most famous professional porn star (and a best-selling author)—with her comically huge breasts, overextended blond extensions, and artificially tanned skin—has been supplanted by the new face of pornography: a pale, naughty, 19-year-old with A-cups and a bad haircut, her face illuminated only by the bluish glow of her Mac.

If you actually look at the most viewed or top rated videos on a porn aggregator site, the actual evidence doesn't bear out her assumption here. Yes, there's a wider variety of porn available. There's a wider variety of everything available; it's remarkable enough to write about that, even though the subject has been thoroughly covered by now. But the minute you've hinged your article on the argument that men don't like big tits anymore, you've disengaged from reality entirely.
This stuff is non-trivial. I'll guess that I have spent in excess of 50 hours working on just the UK data in the last couple of months.

The problem is this. Although there are hundreds of websites with UK area code lists, almost all of them are either incorrect, out of date, full of typos, or are generally unreliable. Even lists from "official" sources cannot be relied on with any degree of certainty. The obvious errors are easy to find and correct. It took a long time to find out there were many non-obvious errors and there are likely more errors still to be uncovered.
Sorry, but no way. By 2014, Facebook will BE the distributed protocol. Look how many sites already use Facebook as their primary (or only) source of login. Next up will be allowing people to pay for things using Facebook credits with a single click.

Aside from that, what's the real benefit to an "open distributed social network" for normal people? Comparison to email isn't quite right, because email was still taking off back in the AOL days, but everyone is on Facebook now. So there's no need to worry about whether someone is on FB. Additionally, using FB doesn't wall you off in the same way that AOL did vs. the normal web. You can use some niche social network AND Facebook. I just don't see the big deal, and the vast majority of Facebook users don't either. There's just not a pain point that these open "solutions" solve.

I applaud your dedication to openness, but just because other things have gone open doesn't mean that social networking will, and definitely not in the next 3-4 years. Two things could kill Facebook: long-term technology trends, and Facebook itself. The former will take forever, and the latter seems unlikely, given most people's disregard for their own data privacy. In either case, FB will still be on top in 2020.
It's been done, people hated it:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i53.tinypic.com/e...
maybe it was repurposed for Operation Payback?
> ...is like thinking that an endless succession of awful movies from Hollywood reveals that people secretly want a poorly scripted sequel to the last blockbuster. What it reveals is that making good movies is difficult.

I can't see how this squares with box office returns. There are many bad sequels each year, a few great movies (as defined by critics or whichever elite), and lots in between. And the bad sequels tend to make orders of magnitude more money because way, way more people want to see them.

Further, from movie studio's cost perspective, isn't it easier to produce a good movie? For the cost of a single vapid summer blockbuster, they could hire several dozen acclaimed directors to each make their own dream film. But they don't do this because those films would not be nearly as good as an investment.
Create a Heat Map of Users with Google Charts API
Precisely, and itunes gets worse with every version, so another counter example there.
And kids will be the first to abandon keyboards if there are viable alternatives. There's a learning curve to QWERTY, too. There are people that are faster using T9 than using a keyboard, just due to the practice effect. And remember, 500 words is a common essay length in school. That isn't short form text, but it's not particularly long form, either.
I don't. That was, in fact, my original point: did you see the comment I was originally replying to? tommi explicitly named Growl notifications of new tweets as an important feature of desktop Twitter clients as opposed to just using the website. I, on the other hand, find Growl notifications to be an anti-feature more often than not, and disable them for all kinds of things (IM clients, Firefox, etc.) I actually do want to use.
Well, jQuery.com says 179KB. Yes, it gets minified and compressed to less.

My point is that there's nothing impressive about it:

• it's not novel. Circular UIs are old. DHTML and rounded corners are old.

• it's not some advanced code. Rotating equidistant circles is basic trigonometry, not a rocket science.

• it's not even a clever hack. JS1K contest had whole games in half of the size, without jQuery to help.
Is it a sure sign of the effect hacker news has had on me that my first thought was "ooo... a hole in the market, I wonder if I could write something to fill that niche"

Meh - spam email has too many legal headaches. I'm sure you can make money doing it, but I tend to think it's a bit more trouble than it's worth.
That woman is ignorant to everything that I have observed my male sexuality to be.
"There are probably easier ways to steal cars," - yeah by lifting the key probably.
Generally, in the context of gender studies anything that results in another person to making an economic decision will be regarded as 'aggressive' and reinforcing male 'hegemony', especially if the group in question is known to make really poor decisions when confronted with that question.

For example, lets say men are known to take more risk in their investment portfolios. Investments that have high risk and hence create higher returning male portfolios would then be regarded as reinforcing male hegemony.
I agree with you esp. when it comes to GWT - going from Java to JavaScript is going from a terrible language to an ok one. There are two reasons why it has become popular:

Java programmers don't want to learn JavaScript
It comes with good UI building tools

If GWT didn't have good UI building tools, Java programmers wouldn't have any excuse not to learn JS and program normal web applications. But here's a tool that lets them use their existing Java knowledge to build halfway decent web GUIs.

This is just another example of how technologies are chosen by considerations other than objective technical merits.
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Is there a common library that's being used which causes this behavior?

I've encountered it elsewhere, and it's amazingly annoying. Nothing says fun like having to reset your password 4 times in a row because the website is silently modifying it.
I rent an 1-bdrm apt in a small building (about 16-20 tenants) in Los Angeles, CA. It might be obvious if I am having a "guest" over every weekend I'm gone--or for longer trips (like 1-6 weeks traveling).

Would I need to get my landlord's permission? Or is it my right according to CA tenant law? Or somewhere in between?
I don't see how this is relevant. In my experience, women are sexually aggressive on occasion as well. The presence of some minute level of "aggression" (which is a pretty large brush by itself) is not enough to say that male sexuality is characterized by it and therefore dangerous.
Twitter can be useful (or at least they want to use it) to billions of people, the service is what you make of it. The same can be said of Facebook or Tumblr, but Quora? Not so much. It has no mainstream appeal. The fact that this article needed to be written is surely enough evidence that everyone is clamouring to find the next social media darling that they'll grasp at anything that shows a hint of being popular and try and force it.
I'm personally not sure if Quora will ever be bigger than Twitter, but I do think they have a potential advantage in the fact that user who ask questions are looking for answers when using their service. It's similar to the difference in value of search ads vs display ads. Getting an ad in front of someone who's searching for something specific is a hell of a lot more valuable than putting that same ad in front of someone while they're browsing. Most usage of Twitter is browsing, while Quora users (at least the ones asking or researching questions) seem similar to searchers, so that portion of their traffic may be much more valuable, depending on how successful they are at monetizing it.

One problem with this theory is that some of Quora's traffic right now (don't know the proportion, but I'd assume it's high in terms of page views) is users answering questions or browsing updates from friends, who fit more into the browsers mold than searchers. I think they're going to have the same difficulty monetizing that portion that Twitter is.
Just as Call of Duty and other violent games are teaching a generation to act violently?
My question is why stackoverflow hasn't banned efreedom yet?
Use Moment to schedule HTTP requests
I'm getting a 404...
Caching is already pre-configured (in default settings) to use GAE's memcache in djangoappengine/Django-nonrel. The session app is also pre-configured to use cache+db. Django's mail API also is pre-configured to use GAE's mail API via a special backend. Even file uploads work with FileField if you use django-filetransfers. A large part of Django already works out-of-the-box and it's easy to write fully portable code.

With django-dbindexer you can even use QuerySet features which are not natively supported by App Engine. At some point django-dbindexer will even support JOINs via automatic denormalization (or via in-memory filtering where desired) and maybe also simple aggregates and scalable counters (via QuerySet.update()). This will simplify complex DB code a lot (compared to App Engine's model API) and by reusing Django's ORM as the abstraction for common NoSQL patterns you can not only move between NoSQL DBs, but also between SQL and NoSQL (at least to a certain extent; the goal is to provide a better high-level NoSQL API and only implement scalable features, not build a SQL emulation layer that wouldn't scale).
Our New Year’s Resolution For Hiring
No. I would keep the 300k job, you will regret it. I had a 230k job once and quit it to start up my own consulting firm, and although I had a lot of passion working with technology, the stress of dealing with clients who didn't want to pay ontime -- or pay half -- for a solution, or want to play games made it not worth it and I wished I had kept my 230k job and invested the money for 10 years.
Selling to small businesses is damn hard. Here’s How.
There's an ongoing effort to add 3D reconstruction into the OpenCV library:
http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/EffortFor3dReconstructio...

If you're not already familiar with OpenCV, it's a rather good (and well documented!) open source image processing library. It's written in C++ but has bindings for a bunch of other languages too.
But users can still see that an app is open because of its dock icon indicator, and also when they close the window, the application's menu is still visible in the menubar until they enter another app. So that helps.
Just tried it. What I don't understand is this:

To manage apps on my iphone/ipad/ipod I use iTunes. In iTunes I go to an app store if I want to install a new app on those devices.

To access what I perceive to be essentially a form of the same store but for Mac software, I use a dedicated application that now forms part of the Operating System's update management. This makes no sense to me.

Does this mean that we'll start to see iphone/pod/pad management moving towards the mac app store and a (hopefully) slimmer itunes?
A code review tool is used to propose changes to the code and metadata and to review and comment on proposed changes.

When everyone is in agreement, the internal Google version is updated with the proposed changes.

Once testing is complete, the java code and metadata is pushed to the public version.

The final steps are to produce the javascript port, and on a less regular basis the .jar file in the "downloads" section is also updated.
The hard part is coping with the ramifications of turing completeness. Doesn't look like they want that far here.
I've read 4 Hour Body and think it was terrible. Self indlugent, misleading (at best) and dangerous (at worst).

There were numerous 1 star reviews on Amazon.com that summed up my thoughts pretty well, so I'll not drone on here about it... I do however wonder about all the legions of 5 star reviews that are in there.

I wonder if Tim tore a page out of 4 hour work week and outsourced an indian marketing firm (brickwork?) to write a large number of 4 and 5 star reviews.
You may find section 2 of http://blog.wepay.com/2010/03/11/5-things-i-%E2%80%9Cknew%E2... to be very enlightening about why you are having trouble finding a technical cofounder.
Once I have some money to hire a marketing guy, I'm sure I'll have a blog.
The males are usually aggressive because in general both women and men are turned off by the presence of weak men. Related: The actors are almost never horribly disfigured.
"Implying that doctors do keep up to date with peer reviewed journals"

This implication, assuming that really is what they are trying to imply, is nothing more than speculation. But if you have better information then by all means post it.
I wrote this, then decided that you must be trolling and thought better of it. Then I thought better of thinking better of it...

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There's something that we need to understand about depression, suicidal depression: a depressed person can commit all their intellectual powers to rationalizing the awful feelings they have about themselves and the future. Someone sufficiently sharp can make an almost impenetrable cage out of these arguments. Their ideas can have the force of fact, of truth itself.

We find what we look for. Even the arguments we make to ourselves have their stakes and motivations. Mr. Zeller's written a great defense here of the futility of his own existence. He was apparently a smart guy; had I been there myself, I doubt I'd have been able to refute him. However, that he wins the argument doesn't mean that what he believes is true. It doesn't mean that he gets to have me respect his decision.

This is a hard thing, and ever so important for people dealing with someone who is depressed to this degree. Depressed folks can be very sharp, so we shouldn't let this kind of logic take us in. There is something deep and fundamental about life or death that an argument cannot sway; if my friend just can't go on and I can't find a problem with their reasoning, that doesn't mean I have to respect their decision. I just haven't found why they are wrong yet.
Scratch is starting to take off. It is a pretty powerful paradigm not just because of its visual nature, but also because of the ease with witch you can "play" with your code, and see, in real time, the results. Here is an example used for design: http://designblocks.net/ .

Taking the fear out of programming, making it tinkerable, is hugely valuable. Not to mention the emphasis on creation and story telling that it is designed for. Breaking it out into the real world is a wonderful way to make the computer more than just software.
"The main feature of Tagmask is that you have the ability to see only the information that you want to see". Does anyone feel like they want the opposite, that the value in reddit, HN and others is discovery of new things, not more information on old?
The reason why Microsoft wins consistently is they take things like "printing" pretty seriously.
The problems with cloud computing
I suspect that "lots of buttons" is really just a consequence of the available interfaces. I think something better could be designed.
Connect real world sensors to your Scratch Projects
OKWS, the Ok Web Server (behind OK Cupid)
What she doesn't mention is that the guy was Charlie Sheen.
In some respects it sounds like you are building a programmer-centric version of Quora.

Great idea. Would definitely recommend doing some user testing. I found the Feed 1 and Feed 2 tabs quite confusing, especially as they seem to have identical content.
The most interesting writing I've seen on this subject came from McSweeneys: "The Conflicted Existence of a Female Porn Writer". You can find her first column here: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/pornwriter/column1.html