skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The feminist script she describes is 1990's notion that a couple can obtain a satisfactory sex life through a process in which the woman overcomes the mans negative sexist conditioning by using a verbal contract to stipulate her limits. There some provisions made about people with no respect for women like date rapists and people with the "frat boy" mentality.

The example she gives is of a man who is by external measures an enlightened guy - wealthy, polite, and educated. We are given no reason to believe he is disrespectful of women generally speaking. But when it comes to sex he is unable to get it up unless he is explicitly pushing a woman beyond what she feels comfortable doing. For emphasis: this is a part of his sexual experience and not a part of his general attitude to women.

The fact that this single event occurred is sufficient to demonstrate that the 'How to have a mutually enjoyable sex life' script does not work universally and so requires revision for a full explanation of the world. It proves the unpleasant fact that dominance beyond enthusiastic consent can form an integral part of a mans sexual identity.

In this section she establishes that a breach in this perception of sex has occurred. In the rest of her article she uses online pornography to argue the size of the breach.

tldr; lolz bitches hate logic right bro?
Except they are making an iPhone app but the only coding the do appears to be on a PC.
That's not what I was getting at.

You said '[people on] welfare are often people who have paid into the system' (emphasis mine). Right? What would you guess the ratio was of what the majority of people on welfare paid in as opposed to what they get in pay outs? (I am getting to an important point; stick with me; please and thanks.)
i've hosted my own e-mail for over 10 years and provide imap hosting to my customers. my main reason for doing it is having control over my own data, backups, and logs. my customers use it because they don't need an exchange server (my servers do caldav for calendar sharing) and don't trust google.

i do complex server-side filtering with procmail to keep my inbox clean (so all of my devices polling my mailbox will only alert me when something important comes through), automatically archive all email in an "allmail" backup folder, and do things like rewrite e-mail headers for certain conditions.
Generally posts don't link to pay-walled sites. Even when they do, they include a fairly good synopsis of the content,
I would be interested to see who voted this up.

Anyone want to post with a publicly verifiable source? Props to Rose if this is true.
My server seems to be choking... not sure why, since server load isn't particularly high, I'm messing with caching to try to get it under control.

And yes, you are absolutely right - the game is based on that video.
Precisely. Everywhere you go in the real world, someone sends you a form to fill out and they tell you where to "submit" it. This is why Internet forms started off saying "submit" - because it makes sense.
I have to agree there is no such a need when you just started. Just go over to Google Apps and its done. Unless your service is build around or require email such as Posterous.
"sheeple" Oh, you're just trolling. It's more fun if you keep it subtle.
He doesn't seem to draw any solid conclusions but instead has started a blog to keep the community updated with actual numbers. The title is "Day 1" even - unlike some articles which are trying to draw out grand conclusions on the App Store.

It is interesting to see the type of numbers the developers are seeing. They tend to be promising and I look forward to analysis as more and more users update and Lion is released.
Ruby-Core Speaks on Ruby 1.8.8, 1.9.3 and 2.0
ah, confused for a second. by #1, you mean the first company in the slide deck, patientslikeme not the one labeled #1, airbnb, i'm assuming.
I don't have access to that information, and haven't known any studies to have been done.

Assuming the statistics would fit your expectations, what would your point be?
The Sad Life of A Programmer Trying to "Make It".
One of my dear friends sent me this email the other day. I thought it was the most hilarious shit I've ever read... so I decided to anonymously share.

We'll change the world one day :).

--- Start Email ---

Subject: Rock Bottom.

No money in the bank account, accounts in overdraft, credit cards maxed, spent the last money I had on groceries, have to wait till next week to get a pay cheque, girlfriend wanting to go do something, never bothered to get her a gift since I don't really like her anymore and secretly just want to get rid of her, been staying up to 4am every night programming completely disconnected from reality, big work project deadline coming up soon, could have been done a lot faster if I didn't procrastinate but project finally coming together, working on another work project but R&D style which will soon reach a milestone at which point we are going to ask for significantly more money to continue or walk away, which means I'll either me making nice loot or be having to suck dicks to support my weed habit, all while trying to finish this big school project where I have to do all the programming work, fuck my life, it will be a New Year soon...

--- End Email ---
I don't think people should look at this as an all-or-nothing debate. I think there is an importance to following an HIG as a basic guideline and stray from it as it seems appropriate or for the sake of creativity. It's when it strays too far from it when things can become problematic.

Just like with traffic laws, not coming to a full stop at a stop sign is not equal to speeding down a highway going in the opposite direction of traffic.

Apple straying and introducing a metallic patten does not equal the extent of an Adobe Air application forcing me to hit an icon button to access preferences rather than through the common menu bar location. One is aesthetic while the other is functional. And basically, one irritates me way more than the other.
Atrix 4g: turns a dead laptop with only a battery into a computer using a phone
Verizon sends invites for special Media Event next Tuesday
I think my biggest gripe is that naming scheme. Is it really worth abbreviating "client" to "clnt" or "service" to "srvc". And single letter variable names, seriously?
This is definitely a concept we'll explore for DjangoCon (assuming it's as successful as I expect it to be), the one issue is DjangoCon only had 2 tracks last year, it's a lot harder to have 50% of your talks at any given time dedicated to "very advanced stuff" then it is to do 20%.
In case anyone else was wondering, the PDF appears to have been generated from HTML using "Prince" http://www.princexml.com/.
Charts, stats and reflections on blogging at jasonshen.com in 2010
IPhone Apps on The Big Bang Theory
Wow. I think that programming articles, like modern mathematics, can't be distinguished from the ravings of a madman, except by a very few specialists in the field.
A bunch of reviews that state screen area and DPI would out this crappy practice. Hardware reviewers and magazines should take note. Reviewers have more of an influence on people's buying choices than one thinks. It's sad that many if not most are just brochure copiers.
Sorry, there will be no disruption in personal robotics for many years. There have been articles proclaiming the year of the personal robot for at least a decade. The biggest problems in personal robotics are not computer hardware or software, but mechanical components and actuators. It still costs too much to build something that doesn't get boring after a week of working with it. Look at the Abio. It was beautiful but it got boring after a week because it couldn't do anything. Why not? Because it was too limited mechanically. If it was simply a matter of more computer power, there'd be people people hacking on more powerful processors and more memory, but there aren't. People want there $10K personal robot to be able to do something more useful than running a demo program. That requires power and robust and flexible mechanical system that can mimic what people can do. It may even require new materials (muscle wire, anyone?). Just my 2-cents.
Making money is about exploiting economic opportunities. "Value" is an almost meaningless word. The garbage men who take the trash off my curb provide more value than a lot of white collar management, in my opinion. If you're either intelligent and skillful, you'll certainly have a better chance of identifying a desirable economic niche to fill and being able to work your way towards it. But is it right that many of the hardest working people in society, doing undesirable jobs, are compensated so much less than "knowledge workers"? Do you really think an 8 hour day sitting at a desk deserves twice as much pay as an 8 hour day digging a ditch? What the fuck is value? The compensation of a ditch digger has more to do with what a ditch digger can be offered to sustain himself than with any intrinsic 'value' of his work. That's true of a lot of shitty jobs, and it's bullshit that the people who have figured out how to exploit these shitty jobs to generate 'value' also somehow deserve respect, while the exploited are denigrated for their moral failures (such as laziness).
I posted our sales stats here (alongside stats from other Unity-made games): http://blur.st/sales-day-1

Units sold for us, all of these are $2.99:

452 Blush
128 Off-Road Velociraptor Safari
101 Crane Wars
13 Time Donkey

694 total units, $1,452 revenue after Apple's take.
Except that the essential description of a runway is its direction. It would be a lot more painful if you had to look up the direction of every runway.
I was rather surprised that the energy transfer loss is only 10% in batteries, but 15% in flywheels.

Unrelated, but this led to an interesting thought for me. When flywheels fail, they shatter into explosive shrapnel fragments, killing everyone nearby. When shipping containers full of LiIon batteries fail, they blow up and leave a crater the size of ... well, big, probably.

Why such energetic failures? Because that's what they do, concentrate a lot of energy all in one space. Electricity and explosions are both energy.

I know this is obvious but it made for an interesting few seconds of mental dialogue so I thought I'd share :)
None of what he has is new or revolutionary, it is just that he has gone through research and experiments to distill the key 2.5% of what you need to do for your body and poses everything as "try this as an experiment" instead of traditional books telling you to adopt their entire philosophy (Atkins, South Beach, etc.). It is much more actionable self help.
What I think is interesting is, they go through the normal thoughts of becoming rich from the app. store, even though their idea is very niche and overly complicated [solving differential equations by taking pictures of them].

Penny's simple idea would have mass appeal and probably do quite well [taking pictures of shoes and telling you where they can be bought]
Submit buttons are bad UI to start with. All content should be directly editable. You don't see a submit button on word processors.
Google Apps uses Go Daddy for domain registration. Would that be why there are similar number of Google Email users and Go Daddy Registrars?
If Gizmodo does not get invited, then we'll know for sure if it is the iPhone announcement.
Aside from bills, maybe also consider some kind of personal renting app? For example, if my neighbor wants to borrow my lawnmower, your app could help set up the due date, automate the reminders, and maybe even take care of compensation?

Along the same train of thought, if someone owes you money, maybe have this handle the amount, terms, and reminders for the borrower (small amounts)?

Personally, I'm not the type of person to hound someone for either of the aforementioned items. I think that'd be a neat service.
Paid applications has a higher rate of reviews per downloads. When you pay for something you want your voice to be heard.
Scientists: Triceratops May Not Have Existed
Rich collection of public data sets, mostly financial
I also suspect — can't prove, but suspect — that there's a higher percentage of "experienced" PyCon attendees than DjangoCon attendees. Most Django developers are fairly new to the platform — heck, the platform's fairly new, relative to Python. So I think there's greater interest in beginner/intermediate material at DjangoCon than at PyCon.

Just a guess, though.
Great to see godaddy successfully disrupting the ripoff ssl certificate market.
> But I wonder, with all the creative possibilities in the universe, why would someone design a game around abusing kittens?

They didn't. Maybe you should actually look at the game sometime.
From all the comments and what I have noticed it sounds like a good question is "Is it better to have false positives or false negatives" in the spam problem. I personally think that its better to have false negatives then positives and a lot of the comments here seem to reflect that.
WCF Data Services - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/bb931106
PHP Cheat Sheet: Strings
I completely agree.

On the other hand, I think it's also important to actually keep MAKING things, even if the ideas aren't yet amazing. It'll give you the knowledge and the self-confidence to tackle the really good ideas more decisively when the time comes.

Choosing small projects that can be finished before you get too bored or distracted can be a good way to do it.
Just curious, did you develop it using the playframework?
Domain names are about 3% of the "product". You could just as easily make IsDue.by the premier place to buy and sell used parts for vintage Snapper lawnmowers, provided that there was a market for such a service.

Similarly if you invented groupon you could have probably also used the domain fuckmeintheassandrapemydog.com and you'd STILL have midwest housewives DDoSing your servers everyday.

A domain without an idea is just a random collection of letters.
Make Your Hosting Socially Responsible: 25% of Revenues Donated to Charity
HE is a pretty nice colo facility and backbone; not many people use them for hosting directly, but instead for colo/dedicated servers. Other hosts using their colo facility may be listed as HE. They're also one of the more well known proponents of IPv6, offering free IPv6 tunnel brokerage services, so if you need to support IPv6 or would like an IPv6 address block, they can help you out.
It's nothing more than a buzz word now. In the commercial they say "To the cloud" and then he uses remote desktop. This is something that could have been in a commercial 10+ years ago but is only appealing now due to the word "cloud" ("to the internet" isn't nearly as cool).
Have you read Malcolm Gladwell?
Yeah too bad, it looks perfect..
I lived just above the poverty line in graduate school, and I've spent half my entire adult live living in either low income neighborhoods or neighborhoods with many low income residents [1].

As for mutual aid, perhaps you can explain to us why Peruvian peasants seem to figure it out all by themselves, but poor Americans can't. Is it because the American poor, sitting on their couch with no job, have it so much harder than the uneducated Peruvians waking up at 5AM for the 1000ft climb to reach the potato/coca/corn fields they work on?

[1] Harlem no longer qualifies as low income, but plenty of the people there have low/no income.
Read this great blog post from Vincius which aptly answers your question:

http://viniciusvacanti.com/page/2/
CES: Analysts grow skeptical of iPad competitors due to iTunes
Not only that, but the selection committee asked for clarification and gave extremely detailed feedback on the talk proposals; I think my proposal went through two major edits/reworks. Hopefully this will mean better talks all around.

Other conference planners take note!
Hey, I don't want to come off like I'm just shilling for my company, but what you are trying to do may possibly be more easily done with a video hosting platform with an API.

By taking this approach, you won't have to worry about tuning encodes yourself, dealing with problem videos, etc. while also getting access to many other features that the client might be interested in (playlists, analytics, video SEO, etc.).

If you want to talk sometime and discuss various options and pros and cons for each, I'd be happy to help out. You can reach me at ben -at- wistia -dot- com. I'm the VP of Engineering there.
Cloudjolt is the company's name: http://www.cloudjolt.com/
200,000 Credit and Debit Card Holders Double-Billed
Honestly, just reading through the help system in general is fascinating.
I lived just above the poverty line in graduate school, and I've spent half my entire adult live living in either low income neighborhoods or neighborhoods with many low income residents

That's not really the same for many reasons.

why Peruvian peasants seem to figure it out all by themselves, but poor Americans can't

That's partially true, but understanding the complexities of why that is is what I'm trying to suggest you discover for yourself. I can guarantee you that the situation is not reducible to such a simplistic charge of laziness.
I've collected some of my favorites at http://vimtweets.com, pushed through http://twitter.com/vimtips Monday through Friday. I would judge most of them as "more advanced", for lack of a less judgmental-sounding term, but I hope you'll find them useful, anyway.
I once worked for a company that hired the way Facebook does and it is a recipe for disaster in the long term. Two things brought an end to the practice but it was too little too late:

1.) Employees were agreeing to hire people who weren't as skilled as they are because they were afraid of newer and younger competition. As each generation of new hires were brought in they were successively worse than the previous. The most senior employees saw the degradation of overall talent level and eventually left for greener pastures. The company slowly ended up becoming composed of people who were barely qualified for their positions and several years after I had left they were bought out for pennies.

2.) They were sued for discrimination, it was a ridiculous accusation, but the company had to settle. The reason was that without consciously trying we had all hired people who were of similar backgrounds to ourselves in many regards. Apparently "One of our team members wasn't sure about her" doesn't cut it in court.
Ask HN: Need help on design and call to action with developers as the target
I originally started this Illuminations project as a way to fix some of my pain points with ExtJS. Debugging tools just don't give the high level view of what you are working on, so I went to fix that, at least a little. Not to mention it could server as a resume of sorts, and make some constructive use of the time I have volunteered for the Firebug project.<p>Anyhow, I'm at a point where it is good enough and needs to ship! And generate revenue! But I need to get the site with the call to action, etc. up and running, and am hoping some HN readers can lend a hand! Here is the site:<p>http://www.illuminations-for-developers.com/<p>Thanks for the help!! I'm a Gmail fan, so you can reach me there (same account name there as here).<p>-steve--<p>PS: For those interested, a longer term goal I have is to setup a site where you fill out one form and then it registers a new domain name for you, sets up a website and PayPal links for purchases, and creates a skeleton extension for Firefox and Chrome (and Safari?) that automatically tracks if the user is a buying user or not so your trial can turn into the real deal.
> You're resorting to some tired early 2010 material here.

No, he's resorting to looking at what happens everywhere that iPhone and Android phones compete head to head in the same stores.
Yeah, and given what Mr. Cook does, that is probably about where he should be. The Apple stock price went from 210 to 322, so it was a very good year.
Unreliable SMS? How about a browser that corrupts forms? (FF bug #394782)
Yes, the reason that poor people are poor is that they're lazy.

And the reason rich people are rich is because they're hard-working and deserving.

It has nothing to do with educational opportunities, wealthy parents, or anything like that. That 50-year-old housekeeper who almost graduated from high school, but couldn't because she had to work after her mother lost one of her two jobs? She's poor because SHE'S LAZY, never mind that she spends 9 hours a day scrubbing toilets. And the CEO who got the job because his father is a Senator and works about 10 hours a week? He's rich because HE DESERVES IT.

> http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2007.pdf (This report shows that most of the poor consume leisure.)

It shows nothing of the sort. The word "leisure" isn't even in that report. In fact the report says that the working poor are usually screwed by circumstances beyond their control - layoffs, involuntary part-time work, pay that is illegally below minimum wage.
I'm FB valuation agnostic because I don't have enough information to properly value it. We can talk about PEG but since they are not yet a public company they don't issue guidance.

Also, if revenue was based solely off userbase, then GOOG (for example) would not be at its current valuation. Does the current valuation of FB look less sky-high if we assume ARPU grows by 30% annually for 5 years?
Don't know why the paragraph tags got in there. Original:

I originally started this Illuminations project as a way to fix some of my pain points with ExtJS. Debugging tools just don't give the high level view of what you are working on, so I went to fix that, at least a little. Not to mention it could server as a resume of sorts, and make some constructive use of the time I have volunteered for the Firebug project.

Anyhow, I'm at a point where it is good enough and needs to ship! And generate revenue! But I need to get the site with the call to action, etc. up and running, and am hoping some HN readers can lend a hand! Here is the site:

http://www.illuminations-for-developers.com/

Thanks for the help!! I'm a Gmail fan, so you can reach me there (same account name there as here).

-steve--

PS: For those interested, a longer term goal I have is to setup a site where you fill out one form and then it registers a new domain name for you, sets up a website and PayPal links for purchases, and creates a skeleton extension for Firefox and Chrome (and Safari?) that automatically tracks if the user is a buying user or not so your trial can turn into the real deal.
This is pretty cool Joel! Small nitpick - Zerigo is spelled incorrectly as "Zeroigo".
Posting this for llimllib, whose comment was for some reason [dead]ed:

Or the Rev. Sylvester Graham:

> Grahamites, as Graham's followers were called, accepted the teaching of their mentor with regard to all aspects of lifestyle. As such, they practiced abstinence from alcohol, frequent bathing, daily brushing of teeth, vegetarianism, and a generally sparse lifestyle. Graham also was an advocate of sexual abstinence, especially from masturbation, which he regarded as an evil that inevitably led to insanity. He felt that all excitement was unhealthful, and spices were among the prohibited ingredients in his diet. As a result his dietary recommendations were inevitably bland, which led to the Grahamites consuming large quantities of Graham crackers, Graham's own invention. White bread was strongly condemned by Graham and his followers, however, as being essentially devoid of nutrition, a claim echoed by nutritionists ever since.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Graham
I think something must have changed since that post. As displayed to me, I'm at 495 karma as of the writing of this post, but I don't currently have the ability to down-vote comments.
tl;dr: Don't work on an "idea," design a "product."
Interesting concept, but what exactly is a volunteer cyber-soldier supposed to do?