skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you still seriously trying?

(I am currently in the 20s with women phase.)

> I'd almost do anything to get a woman to want to spend time with me and appreciate who I am, [...]

Anything? Like moving to another country? Or learning how to play and instrument or sing? (Lots of people learn to play to guitar to get laid. I don't know whether that works, though.)

> but the one thing I won't do is suppress my distaste for bullshit enough to try speed seduction techniques.

I'd give it a try---out of interest. But I'd probably not stay with it.

Please pardon my probing questions. If you want to answer, but not in public, you can find my email address in my profile.
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hotmail is the most popular web based email in the world, internet explorer is the most popular browser in the world, bing wich also powers yahoo accounts for about a quarter of searches in the US, and ten there is windows live, azure, skydrive, etc. Much bigger than most significant web operations imo
Wow talk about brand confusion. I thought it was going to be a music player.
Looking for a serious developer to help with an idea for equity in my company
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OK, it may not be an appropriate metaphor for science purists but it is extremely useful to have links to all APIs in one place, grouped visually by topics. I had enough trouble keeping up with the myriad APIs that Google provides and wasn't even aware of many of the ones linked to, so I applaud the effort.
I thought so, too. But Almaviva's comment might be worth it.
Your claim that I was analyzing is quoted at the beginning of my response. It is your statement:

"The game's up for organized religion as soon as people see that there's more than one, and that those other believers aren't evil."

By referring to "as soon as people see that there's more than one" clearly indicates you are asserting that people are unaware there is more than one. To claim otherwise is disingenuous as it leaves your entire argument without foundation.
That would also be missing the point. Simply ordering the cells by code weight doesn't give you "periods", which is the main point of a periodic table.
DuckDuckGo Challenges Google With Strong Privacy, Cool Tools & Quackpot Name
I think it's funny that they use the term "Propagandists" when refering to Al-Queda, but "Think Tank" when referring to the USA. Maybe there's actually a difference between a think tank and a propagandist. Can someone elucidate me?
From Yelp Monocle to the Matrix on your phone: Come help us. (a photo essay)
Paris, France - contract web programmer
High frequency trading
Forth is almost the complete opposite of Lisp, and thus very similar.
WordPress display list of only subcategories
It's not a joke (does it make you laugh?), it's just bait.
"Front-end? Back-end? Content delivery?"

Pun intended, I assume.
<AOL>ME TOO</AOL>
Even though the secrecy around Honeycomb doesn't compare to the iPad, Google still does Android development in secret. Privileged hardware partners get to participate in development of the next release before it's revealed to the public (or even to other handset makers).

Aside from secrecy, there are other reasons (like product schedules) that Honeycomb may have been developed on a branch, concurrent with Gingerbread development. Previous releases like Cupcake and Donut were developed on long-lived branches, with frequent merges from the AOSP mainline. The end result could be the same, even if the rationale is slightly different.
And CRM Online! :D
If you're an extravert (which I don't doubt), then you may have a problem with judging people based on what you see on the outside and not digging any deeper. There isn't necessarily anything wrong with that. It's just that sometimes you have to appreciate depth as well as breadth, especially when you're dealing with a field that tends to attract introverts like programming does. This may or may not be you though. I haven't met you to figure it out though.
They'd probably be fine. But debt (or lack of savings), as Jessica points out, limits options.

Failure to save also results in a lifestyle inflation. Cable bills, expensive hobbies, etc. It's hard to step out of that tarpit once you're in it.

Your CS undergrad would be LESS fine if, at the last minute, they realized they wanted to start their own company.

My understanding is that (until very recently) household debt tended to go up every year. That seems to indicate that most people are pretty bad about judging when and if their ship will come in.
I didn't cover that because the person I was speaking with was not a programmer, however I think what I said still holds up: within the scope of programming haskell vs PHP is pretty huge, but I don't think they're particularly different cognitive modes in the larger scope.
Thanks for mentioning Instapaper's Kindle conversion option - I'd never heard of it despite using the site every day for the last few months!
So instead of shipping one executable with code X + Y they should ship two executables: one with code X + one with Y + Z, increasing the overall complexity of what they ship and adding the inevitable "bloat" which would come from extracting DNS code into a deamon and additional code to communicate between Chrome and that deamon (the Z part).

That doesn't sound like a sound engineering practice.
For (1) look at OCaml's P4 (very integrated) preprocessor for some macros in a non-homoiconic statically typed language.

For (3) look at how Haskell defines new operators. I find Haskell's use of completely new operator-squiggles plus type classes for something faintly similar to C++-style overloading, much more sensible than say, C++-style overloading.
I would not have been surprised by this, at all, given the relative ratios in Environmental Engineering (don't quote me on this, but I perceived it as about 60:40 in favor of women) as compared to Computer Science at my alma mater (that was, ahem, not 60:40 -- closer to 4:96).

Edit for context: major American research university, 2000 - 2004. The bulk of people I knew at university would be late twenties or early thirties now.
I think this is what they are getting at:

I buy a book and get a unique URL which I can access the book at. Since I do not own the book, I assume it costs x dollars per month for continued access. While I am paying, this unique URL does not change thus I could send the URL to my friends to read the book on my dime. But as soon as I stop paying the unique URL no longer works.
A little background:

I applied for YC summer of 09. We made it to interviews but didn't make the final cut. That summer I ended up working for Yelp instead and created Yelp Monocle - the first US Augmented Reality app to hit the app store.

After working at Yelp for a while I decided that there was probably more where this Augmented Reality stuff came from and so I quit to start Bubbli, which has just received insane attention from everyone who's ever seen it. So send us your resume and maybe you can join in on the party - jobs@bubbli.co .

Moral of the story: rejection from YC is not the end of the world :)
Ask HN: Favorite software and/or guides for graphing/charting/visualizations?
What's your favorite software for making pretty graphs, charts, and visualizations?

Also, any good guides on doing so?

I feel like I've seen a guide or two come through HN that was decent in the past, but not finding anything on SearchYC. All suggestions very appreciated.
Seriously, is the specific and quite "strange" disposition of the periodic table really adapted here? Why not a simple table-based layout, with no useless holes?

Here on FF 3.6 on a 1280x1024 display, some of the labels are truncated...
> All I am saying is it would still be possible for me to buy a Android device whose maker doesn't implement any DRM at all.

Assuming you can find one that satisfies your requirement. Wanna bet? Hint: DRM is part of newer ARM designs.
yours truly ;)
Presumably you'd still need to earn a living, somehow...
"First, the use case for T4 is fundamentally different than language macros. You would't use Lisp macros or C macros for what you'd do with T4. For example, I've seen T4 used to do some elaborate documentation generation."

I don't think you know anything about the use-cases for Lisp macros. It's a standard practice to use them to generate documents (most CL HTML generating libraries are just sets of macros), configuration information (SQL schemas, XML) for other systems, and programs in other languages (for example, this is how Parenscript compiles Lisp to JavaScript).

"rather that you can't do macro expansion w/o the context of the full program, i.e., within the context of the build system -- yet the effect is global."

I don't understand this.
OFFTOPIC: That zany version of Tux the pengiun looks awful yet gets used everywhere. The original one is much more tasteful.
I used keypass for about a year (on a windows machine). I now use 1password: http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/1Password

Not as buggy and works with chrome.
What if you want to read offline?
As a user, logging in with OpenID is a huge PIA compared to normal login procedures.
If after disclosing the felony conviction you can discuss it intelligently, I doubt it would be a deal breaker. Although someone might use it as an excuse to back away, I doubt that a conviction half a lifetime ago would be the main reason. Particularly if you are part of a strong team.
Now, what if they were automatically reflected on the tenants account balance and all notifications were handled, etc. Also, if they didn't pay on time, they'd get an automated reminder email letting them know they are late, auto assessment of late fees making the system the scapegoat and in turn increasing your on-time collection ratio, etc. We think that's worth a few bucks a month...
No. They give them a competitive advantage over other OSes by offering a faster Internet experience on ChromeOS. They stick with classic DNS resolving on Chrome the browser, no matter the plateform.

The complexity and bloat is having Chrome, Firefox, Opera copying DNS cache features and not gathering their knowledge together in this area.
actually no, but with that topic, it's a bit hard to ask anything without peoples fantasies go crazy.
Twitter Etiquette for Business Users
I have prior committments on Friday evenings, but if anyone else works around the Kearny Mesa area I'd be happy to do lunch with some folks?
What happens if your support is bad? Turnover increases and finding new tenant is not cheap. There is always a flip-side.
You must mean "lifestyle business"? (kidding)
Increasing the sloppiness makes this way cooler. +1
I don't understand why people are impressed by HTML Canvas demos. It's like getting impressed by a calculator adding two numbers together. Or being impressed by a for loop statement in a language. Or being impressed by an fopen statement to read files.

A collection of drawRect, drawCircle and setBrushColor calls isn't impressive just because it's done in JS. That's what graphics libraries are supposed to do. Maybe I'm missing something here...
Ask HN: Best books or resource for writing copy for the web?
We (http://connex.io/) use Protocol Buffers quite heavily, and Python implementation was the performance bottleneck in many places.

I was working on same thing, CyPB, which is 17 times faster than Google's Python implementation.
https://github.com/connexio/cypb

This one seems more complete though at the moment. I might just mark the ticket in our tracker as closed and switch to fastpb :-/
It looks like there is interest in trying a mid-month, mid-week meetup next month. Stay tuned.
My understanding is that not every Android device can participate in the app store anyway. Am I misinformed?
If you look at the right places online, you can find such books.
You're right. What I should have said is, this is a situation where the discrimination could be prosecuted for being discrimination based on religion which is currently against the law. Of course in some cases where the discrimination is religiously based it may be hard to prove and in other cases, people could lose even when they weren't really discriminating on that basis.

In a way, making discrimination illegal is a form of a thought crime, as it requires determination of the thinking process on the person charged with discrimination.
I think it's the free updates that get WooThemes at least part of their loyalty. While some like the subscription model, many more want to buy a theme and know it will always work. With WooThemes, they can. In fact, they can buy a theme and know that it will keep getting better. That makes a big difference to many.

Then, if they like the theme and keep being impressed at the updates and added features, they're much more likely to recommend WooThemes, buy another theme from them, or upgrade to a subscription model to get all the themes.
I've heard good things about 1password, but we'd have to buy a license for everyone in the office (all 9 of us!), so that $30 adds up a bit. Definitely worth looking into though.
One last plea for Hudson/Jenkins vote
Any large chain bookstore such as Barnes and Noble or Borders will probably have several Head First titles in stock.
We would love to meetup with fellow San Diego HN folk, but unfortunately going the Laker game Friday. How about another mini-meetup sometime soon?
"It's importance has ebbed and flowed over time."

Are you talking about the importance of Lisp macros here? That's what you appear to be doing. I don't see a decline in enthusiasm for use of Lisp macros among Lisp programmers.

"It's importance has ebbed and flowed over time. This is natural of language features. It was a decade ago where all the rage was template metapgrogramming in C++. Now, outside of a few library writers, most people don't touch it."

The reason that few touch template metaprogramming in C++ is because it is a painful, limited, and in pretty much every way sucky experience. Many of the simplest tasks you wish to perform are either nearly impossible, or often drastically increase the amount of code you have to write. Many of us tried (present company included) and moved on because we figured out what a waste of time it was.

Lisp macros, on the other hand, are a very powerful tool that can reduce the amount of code you have to write (and provide new abstractions to do useful things with, and probably at least a dozen other things I haven't mentioned). They are not perfect, and they can be abused, but they shouldn't even be mentioned with C++ templates in the same breath (unless you are talking about how much better Lisp macros are :-D ).

I see your ammended statement/prediction and raise you with this one: I predict that Lisp macros will continue to be at least as important as they have ever been (at least to Lisp programmers) in the next ten years.
http://www.highcharts.com/ seems pretty nice.

Unfortunately their developer license seems to have increased by $100 since the last time I checked.
I thought it did that, but not everywhere. I found out by plugging it in, hearing a "Pooffh". The computer went black, and so did the external hard drive. I did not use excessive force to get it in. The "pin" inside must have been a little loose to begin with.
A community around these small handhelds such as the GP2X Wiz and the Dingoo A320 [0] has sprung up over the past couple of years. These small devices are cheap (about $100) and typically made in China somewhere. They are almost exclusively used to run emulators for classic games.

The OpenPandora is basically a response that the existing solutions (such as the GP2X Wiz) just aren't that great (which is true, I have a Wiz and I really don't like it). The OpenPandora will almost exclusively be used to run emulators, a smidge of web browsing, and that's about it.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-33IdcH3Wb8&t=6m36s
Prohibiting users from opting out will likely result in less 'likes' for corporate products. I find it puzzling that Facebook seems completely disinterested in incentivizing users to partcipate in their sponsor coaxing schemes. Moves like this would likely be better received if users were treated as affiliates (i.e. compensated for their product endorsements) rather than walking data aggregates.
High school teacher creates microfluidic devices using a photocopier
Why are you sperging about this so much? It's just a cutesy geeky reference. I don't think anyone is under the impression that it actually leverages the layout of the periodic table in a useful way. What a curmudgeon.
What aspects of the actual behavior of loop are unspecified?
if it's your first dui, it's probably not a felony.
Have you looked into the possibility of having it expunged?
Sure, but you don't have any paper trail proving that you made any of these requests, unless you actually make your own paperwork, make copies, and submit that.
"Why You Shouldn't Be An Entrepreneur" Honest Tea Founder/Yale Professor
Get on the StartupBus
The Great Misallocators: What Barack Obama and General Electric Have in Common
Serious congrats newhouseb!

I've been working out of the same space as these guys and they're not kidding when they say they got some seriously exciting technology with a lot of potential!
Or "hey buddy, spare some change?"
Well, my grandmother can operate a wireless home phone, so the pick-up and hang-up are OK. And she can probably just ignore the switches on the side. So the only hurdle for her would be to remember to charge it.

Maybe we could get her to drop it in her keychain bowl when she comes home, and outfit it with one of the charging pads.
The Battle to Define Mental Illness (2010)
Same thing I mean by startup being all-enveloping. A startup fully takes over the founder's life. A pregnancy fully takes over the expecting mother's life.
This is baseless conjecture, bordering on conspiracy theory. Nothing you've said is remotely plausible, it's all hyperbole.

Who keeps voting up your comments? That's the real conspiracy here.
When you create laws to regulate an industry, the first thing that will happen is that the law itself will be brought by said industry.
Still doesn't explain why I can't get a phone which is 4mm thick.
The age bracket is a dicey one, personally I wouldn't fret about it too much but I would definitely be the one to disclose it to my co-founders, no need to tell the world.

Typically getting to the state where you have contact with VCs and are fundable is the harder problem to solve, I doubt a 'name' VC would be overly worried about this unless it was something very recent and major, though it probably does not help any character assessment.

If there was doubt it will tend to reinforce that doubt, if there was no doubt then my guess is that it would be taken in stride. If you spent two years in jail that would be a different matter but the way you present it here it seems as though it was more of a slap-on-the-wrist style thing.

Play it down, plenty of people have done dumb stuff in their youth (I used to run a pirate radio station and built a whole bunch of transmitters for others for example, highly illegal at the time, but I never got caught) but make sure that if they're going to find out that they find out from you and not from a another party, and make sure that you realize that if you do not tell those the work with, depend on you and fund you that you're setting yourself up for blackmail.
Compare it to the historical forecasts of local/national tv 'weather guessers'; rank them by accuracy and publish the results.
How do you use hacker news?
I have never really made any friends online and very rarely have meaningful back and forth with anyone online. So my question is how do you use hacker news? For instance, do you spend more time reading comments or the stories... Have you ever made a meaningful friendship from hacker news or reddit or any other sites like that? do you interact mostly with people you already know in the real world? I feel like I'm missing something.
It's common to use checkboxes to allow users to select items instead of opening items. You really need to fix this ASAP; it's nice that you want to accommodate power users, but you've essentially made the site useless to everyone else.
Well, I'll say "Google is not censoring any search results" but it is censoring any search terms, right?
Well I for example am doing third round of consulting (several months each) to fund my thing and not become crazy or bankrupt. I'd say - it teaches patience over other things.
Why isn't there an option for students?
I consider this totally cheating:

$ python quine.py
import sys
print open(sys.argv[0]).read(),
A quick analysis of Amazon Cloudfront costs
Nginx Stop Image Hotlinking
Reminds me of the tiny phone gag from Zoolander:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallkennedy/856357878/
Android lags often, especially with games, animation, video and such. They are sure not "doing fine" in this regard. Apple could settle for that kind of performance, but they chosen to get that extra mile out of the phone.
Trendocean.com
wow new and cool social network, it calculates people's trends
How my handwriting has changed since Kindergarten
Nifty. I've passed it along to the appropriate folks.

Google uses SWIG-wrapped C++ proto bindings in Python pretty extensively, so I'm not sure how much this gets over that approach. I checked out the source; it's basically using Jinja templates to autogen Python/C API calls. Basically like SWIG, but not using SWIG.
You should join the mailing list and ask that there.

- an SDHN member emeritus
It doesn't appear to actually be open source:

> # Copyright 2010 Greplin, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Where's the license?

I think the term you want is "publishes", and not "open sources".
This is entirely true, but I would like to point out the existence of a Periodic Table of Desserts that does not omit the periodic nature of the table:

http://eblong.com/zarf/periodic/
not necessarily. startup founder with any number of employees may be more likely to read the site than his/her employees.
For a long time (much longer than I expected it would take) I've been working on a protobuf implementation in C that does not use Google's C++ implementation at all. I've been through about three rewrites and I finally have the interface right. I'm hoping it will be usable with Python soon (weeks).

https://github.com/haberman/upb/wiki

(if anyone's looking at the code, I'm working on the src-refactoring branch at the moment)

The benefits of my approach are:

* you can avoid depending on a 1MB C++ library. upb is more like 30k compiled.

* you can avoid doing any code generation. instead you just load the .proto schema at runtime, so you don't have to get a C++ compiler involved.

* Google's protobuf library does have a dynamic/reflection option that avoids my previous point, but it is ~10x slower than generating C++ code. My library, last time I benchmarked it, was 70-90% of the speed of generated C++.
Spy agency wants video game to teach spooks to think straight
A credit-card-sized clamshell that is 4mm thick. (Or 3+3 mm.) Should be good for many.
I just don't see how they are going to attract developers to make games for this. The GP2X suffered similar problems.

Sure, this will attract emulator crowd but why do I need a separate device for that when my smartphone will do it (there are even emulators running in javascript/html5 which circumvent any Apple iPhone store issues).
I am out of town this weekend, but would be interested in a mid-week meetup soon. Unfortunately I am usually busy on Friday nights.
I didn't know there was precedent for the moronic positions of most university tech transfer offices. Ah, humans: making the same mistakes, over and over again.
Maybe the employees aren't on HN whereas the founders are.
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