skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this just because it was announced here, and is that likely to continue? One of the key problems with IRC is that in a world where anyone can participate, the cool places to go are the places everyone wants to be, which means that you need advanced moderation mechanisms, which in the IRC ecosystem translates to numerous channel and user modes, bots for automated moderation, and network-wide services for overall control. I don't see Convore being well positioned on any of these fronts.
I'd like to know why my comment pointing out the inherent flaw in the GP's argument (this advice works equally well for married people of either gender) was killed.
> hiring more than a couple of people that know how to use
> them turns out to be a very, very tough challenge

That's tackling the wrong challenge. Almost none of engineering staff at foursquare had used scala before starting here. But they're all talented engineers who can learn new skills and thought that learning scala would be interesting. We've had very few problems with people picking up the language.
Oligarchs in Russia and the Middle East, perhaps.
7-9B for Zynga isn't that unreasonable. The valuation for Phillip Morris is 107B, and they sell rolled-up tobacco. Starbucks is 25B, selling coffee. Simple things that are highly addictive basically give you a license to print money, and are valued accordingly by stockholders.

The warning signs for the first dot-com bust were when businesses whose only competitive advantage was that they lost money on any sale got funded. Things like Value America, or Pets.com, or AllAdvantage.com. When you strip away the "here, we'll give you money to use our product so we can gain market share", there was essentially no reason to use those over existing alternatives. Giving away money is not a sustainable business model, hence bubble.

By that standard, the only major e-property I'd be worried about today is Bing...
"Android? Can't differentiate in that space."

I've yet to see an explanation for any way in which they can differentiate on WP7, that they couldn't do better and more easily on Android.

Say what you will about Open Source development, but when it comes to differentiation, there's simply no way to beat it...look at the variety of Linux distributions, for an example of differentiation gone wild.
Internet search is a completely different domain than this sort of language lookup. Also, look at the hardware required to run this!
Add "Ask HN:" prefix to your title.
When you click to the second page, it includes "...a representative of Kuwait Airways at the event did confirm...have a 747-8 Intercontinental on order for 'head of state transportation.'"
/s/string theory/quantum mechanics/g

Einstein had a difficult time accepting parts of quantum theory, but I don't think you can say "the world passed him by". He was generating fruitful scientific ideas well into his 60s, if not until his death 1955 at age 76 (and some would argue, as would I, that his contributions to ethics and political thought much later in his life were as important as much of his science).

For example, in response to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, Einstein, Boris Pololsky, and Nathan Rosen devised troubling thought experiments into the late 1930s (the "EPR paradox"), which, while surprisingly not coincident with experiment, led to such famous results as Bell's Theorem...called by some among the most profound ideas in science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_theorem

I don't believe many of Einstein's biographers accused him of hubris...or of simple ignorance.
I'm sorry for starting an interesting thread, and then not being available to continue it. But FYI in interviews since switching to this format I've found during the interview that CTO/CEO types at the place I'm interviewing have actually read the entire thing. Then followed off and read stuff linked from there (for instance the A/B testing presentation).
> "If I had a nickel for every time you told me to take out the trash when I was about to do it..."

This actually happens a lot... and then you don't get the credit for doing it, because she told you to do it :/
Either all articles are high quality and there's no room for esoteric knowledge, or the entire system will collapse under the weight of misinformation? That's an obvious false dichotomy.
Not at all, I am contending that there are far more complex social dynamics going on beyond the simplistic ape view that others are espousing. The fact we evolved from apes so our social brains are rooted in that make up is significant, however others seem to be treating it as significant to the exclusion of all else.

My original response to the whole "treat em mean, keep em keen" comment in fact makes a reverse argument using evolutionary biology. That is that this sort of behavior actually precludes building a successful relationship as the woman doesn't get the security she needs to raise her offspring.
Internet Explorer Standalone .exes for Windows
My thought is you should consult a lawyer who has experience with intellectual property law before you do anything else. Bring your employment contract and employee handbook with you (if applicable).
Both you and yummyfajitas are making the classic error of falling for cynical pop-science just so stories. This evolutionary psychology and biology stuff applied to humans is still pretty new and pretty far from "well established biological fact", and it comes with all the caveats of human behavioral research plus the added trappings of being a scientific fad.

In particular, there is plenty of room in evo-psych for pair bonding and long term relationships. Historically and across diverse cultures these relationships have generally been the dominant method of producing children, so I'd say it's a pretty OK evolutionary strategy. The 'scientific' evidence is all around you, evolved bag of meat.

And in long term relationships, effort is not optional.
After reading that blog post I checked out the company and saw... another bookshelf icon?

http://spreadsong.com/

Tried to find more info, but the Spreadsong blog seems to be MIA without a direct link to a specific entry.
You are missing my point. The comment isn't about me. It's about men who have these old-fashioned expectations of women, but don't reciprocate by fulfilling the traditional role for a man.

That is, if I have to sit quietly, look pretty, and clean house, what am I getting in return? Not much these days.
I didn't say consumers cared. I am annoyed to see people upvoting you since you are replying to something I didn't say or attempt to say. The grandparent said developers would have a difficult time keeping up, and I was replying to that. If you have a decent consumer-facing Linux application, it is easy to port it to Meego since it's basically the same thing, with maybe a few extra integration hooks to add in. Especially if the app uses Qt anyway. This, indeed, is a positive for developers, which is what the OP addressed. It trickles down to consumers, too -- if I can run normal programs with few or no changes on my phone, I'll have a lot more choices that already exist available to me.

Also, as I stated, a normal Linux userland means normal Linux applications and things work -- you can use Mono or Wine if you want to run a Windows or .NET application.
Ask HN: Web startup trade shows?
I'm in my university's entrepreneur program. For it, I need to "attend a trade association of your industry." Are there any good web startup trade shows in southern california in the near future? (What are HN meetups like? Would those count?)
Plan B: Fire a couple of execs and keep following the strategy that got us to this point.
'port install emacs23-app' works well

No need to use Aquamacs. The great advantage to using regular GNU Emacs is that I can keep the same config on Linux as on OS X with a couple of cond/if expressions e.g.,:

(if (eq window-system 'ns)
(setq default-frame-alist '((width . 132)
(height . 60)))
(menu-bar-mode nil))
It is much easier to fork programming languages than to fork countries (espetially when the language is open source like Python).
Bee-vee-cup, but here's the thing - in two years of it being in beta this has never come up as a real issue. I guess this can impede a word of (physical) mouth to a degree, but the assumption here is that few people are going to need to actually pronouce the name.

Consider Dribbble, Forrst or even XKCD - having an immediately obvious phonetic form does not appear to be a firm requirement for the name as long as its predominant usage is online.
ehow.com, ezinearticles.com. I'm sure there are many others, but those piss me off daily.
A Cool Free Way to Share Prototypes and Get Feedback
It's a cool idea and I think you're on the right track, but the interface leaves a lot to be desired:
a) Most of this information is on LinkedIn, where's the integration?
b) Not everyone lives in the USA, why would you impose that on your users?
c) The edit resume interface is cludgy to the point of being unusable in Chrome.
MeeGo smartphones and tablet devices will offer overwhelmingly superior experiences and applications than iOS and Android based competitor products

That is one bold statement. I don't know if I'd bet the company's success on a claim like that.
House passes Patriot Act extension, battle shifts to Senate
I remember reading a theory of such a planet before, hmm.

It's orbit would probably be a bit erratic, I would think just as there is little light out there, there also would be far less gravity from the sun's gravity well?

If it's larger than Jupiter, it would likely have it's own moons and probably be a failed star?

Ah, it's called "Planet X" and they've been looking for it since 1978

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_beyond_Neptune#Further_...

Also from the article:
http://i.imgur.com/AwCC8.png
I think it's kinda sad. The marketplace shrank with this development, and a major powerhouse in mobile device development has been transformed into a commodity OEM. Nokia has suddenly been emptied of all of its unique value to consumers, leaving only an irrelevant shell of a brand without a vision or purpose.
Yeah, when I was in Thailand last year 3G deployment hadn't really started as the government hadn't issued licenses yet. Glad to hear that's changed. Have they instituted bandwidth caps? That was the nice thing about the 2G connections; I could run a solid 50 kilobytes per second whenever I wanted off of a DTAC Happy SIM, buy a week of service at a time, and not worry about running out.
Posterous adds "Like" button for posts
A logo can be beautiful (appealing) just because it is clever (well designed), but it won't necessarily be clever just because it is beautiful.
Thank you for your feedback. I'll clearly have to do yet another proof-reading pass.

My intended audience is the manager, and people higher up in the company. If I get to an interview with an engineer, I'll have plenty of chances to prove my technical chops. But to get there I need to impress people higher up. And the way that I aim to do it is to convince them that I both have technical skills, and understand what provides value to the business.

Note that since switching to that resume format, I've been offered substantially better jobs. (And I've landed another good one.)
The UI on seatgeek is almost identical to what rdio provides, I wonder if rdio is using it.
Disqus vs. Proprietary?
Which do you prefer when on a new site that you do not have an account for? Does using disqus change the way you interact with the site at all?
I'll bite, I'm in Canada tell me about what you're working on? Based on your personal site and Funky Monkey it's tough to discern what you might be up to.
Does it make a difference if you're

1) entering on a 30-day landing permission (for TH) or 90-day landing permission (most other places)

2) performing work for a company based in another country

The tourist visas require signing a document that you're only in the country to spend, sure. But that's mostly designed to make sure that money flows into the country, not out of it.
To oppress races of people that we don't like so much?
Yet others are using it to recommend and justify the behavior.
The game sporadically decides to ignore all my keypresses. It looks good until it becomes impossible though.
It would be nice to see the Nemesis theory confirmed (or eventually disproven). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_%28star%29 for more.
Having fun together rather than parsing out your problems is the key to success. Sometimes you have to do the Talk, but if it becomes the norm you're doomed.
Live Broadcast Tomorrow: Python on FSU's High Performance Computing System
there's this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/custom-google...

but for cross-browser, it's best to roll your own:

http://radleymarx.com/blog/better-search-results/

Personally, I'd prefer Google change the Google Custom Search pages to be more like traditional search. If I could have image and map links, I'd probably never revert back to regular search.

BTW - my personal filter has 172 sites so far...
I would prefer a world where people take risks attempting to forge their iconography with meaning at the expense of stylistic visual polish, to one where hollow aesthetics are seen as an alternative to ugliness.
No, there’s no proof of a giant planet in the outer solar system
http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/02/14/n...
This post seems to miss three important considerations: trademarks, domains & "spellability". With respect to trademarks, it's worth taking a few minutes on uspto.gov to understand the trademark landscape of your potential name. Secondly, with respect to domains, it's worth assessing how much your desired name will cost you. It is very rare to find a half-way decent name that has not been registered, but many are either not being used or in the hands of squatters. For a few thousand you can get a decent name. When your desired name is in the hands of squatters, and you don't have the cash, I suggest using something like "getDESIREDNAME" or "DESIREDNAMEapp".....if the service succeeds you will have the cash to purchase the domain. Again, you want to ensure going in that your desired name is not already being used in the same manner that you intend to use it. On the final point, if someone can't spell your name after hearing it, it's a fail. Flickr is not the exception that disproves this rule.

Looking at Bvckup then w/ these considerations in mind, yes the trademark is available and so was the domain, but on the third count it fails. My 2 cents.
You're right. It still would have been a moment of diamond-making buttocks, though.
SF Rental Listing Twitterization
23 is the seed s/he's using for the hasing function it seems.
Awesome work guys! I really hope this type of UI becomes more widespread. On a side note, I've always thought the guys over at www.glyde.com execute it quite well.
The vast majority of women marry for social or financial status, but it's an unconscious mechanism. In the end, it's all about optimizing genetic fitness and resource availability. Our genes do this automatically, and it's not limited to humans.

Are you saying that the book cites research to backup these extraordinary claims? While I'm little more than a dilettante, I can't see how I could completely avoid hearing that a social behavior as complex as marriage had been pinned to genetics.

What I've heard is that surveys have shown women will find a man more attractive if they believe he's wealthy. I have not seen it shown that this is wholly unconscious, let alone genetic (rather than cultural). And I have not seen it claimed that this effect dictates why women marry particular men.
Products - Spiral Stairs
Out of the gate WM7 is quite different from Android or iOS so there's that. I think maybe the bigger implied message here is that Nokia was not confident in their own software development teams to handle this transition. Look at what they built on top of MeeGo -- it's not very impressive. Would having Android underneath there make any real difference? I doubt it. They basically want to outsource their OS development.
My first impulse is to say "backup but replace the a with a v". If you tell someone bee-vee-cup they still don't know how to spell the domain name.
Certainly, it's a well-known method. My main goal was to illustrate the actual flow from a set of words through associations to the name.

As for its unpredictability - at least it provides certain framework that generally speeds up the convergence, as opposed to just sitting there and brute-forcing the vocabulary:)
I can only speak personally, but once you actually make the commitment, you personally feel more of a responsibility to work things out with your partner. Prior to marriage, you aren't necessarily 'tied down' and you could easily just break-up over something that could have been worked out if one (or both) of you decided not to be so pig-headed.
> Consider Dribbble, Forrst or even XKCD - having an immediately obvious phonetic form does not appear to be a firm requirement for the name as long as its predominant usage is online.

I'm not sure how your examples there help you at all. Each of them have clear pronunciation: dribble, forest, XKCD each letter spelled out.

bee-vee-cup is not intuitive at all. If you show the logo to me I would have guessed "Backup" with an inverted capital A.
I feel like I just got a new upgraded Internet.
I knew this would be the proper answer :-)

Im just curious if anyone has similar experience in dealing with this common scenario.
I think gst's point was not that Apple contributes back to the open source community or not in terms of code, it's that Apple reaps the benefits of the open source software and community and then attacks open source projects and contributors with patent threats. While they are good citizens on the code contribution front, they are not all around good citizens on the plays-wells-with-others front.
Definitely misread that as:

ExpertSexChange
Don't forget http://proudlymadeindc.com to see all the MANY different active startups in the DC area.
MS is #4. iOS, Android, and RIM.
"Out of the gate WM7 is quite different from Android or iOS so there's that."

That's only really a differentiator because no one wants Windows phones, so there aren't as many in the hands of users. I'm not sure that's the kind of difference Nokia needs right now. That's just lack of familiarity...not really a positive differentiation.
There's a selection bias at work: we only hear about the success stories (whether success means raising money or an exit). It stands to reason there will be a heroic tone to it since succeeding is hard. If the press wrote about every founder, the myth would be less heroic and more foolhardy.
Well, Plan A seems to be hitching their wagon to the horse that's seemingly in last place by a large margin. So comparatively, Plan B isn't that bad.
Yup, that’s why they added hyphens to their domain a few years ago
First two points - fully agreed. I should've mentioned the domain name availability, it is indeed the first coarse filter for rejecting name candidates.

> if someone can't spell your name after hearing it, it's a fail.

Practically speaking - why is it a fail? Who are the prospective users that I am going to loose over this?
But LEDs are not light bulbs. :-)
You're probably right. I think "hunny" is derived "honey" -> "hun" -> "hunny" though.
That entire website is a <table> tag, and I'm OK with that.
Should I store a user's birth date?
Tell your congresscritter that New Neutrality matters
A lot of you are getting caught up in stereotypes. When I read this article I didn't see it as being specifically written for men or women-- shouldn't both parties be doing these things?
The biggest strength of Forrst is their community. I was really impressed with the skill of the members as well as constructive criticism they shared. They certainly embody the "Iron sharpens iron" mentality.
Link to the actual article:
http://m.gizmodo.com/5759865/the-mystery-of-the-giant-planet...

Note: From a fast reading of the article and the linked source, I think that they don´t have strong evidence of the existence of the "planet".

Edit: Copying a comment from 0xdeadc0de ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2219621 )

No, there’s no proof of a giant planet in the outer solar system

http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/02/14/n...
Isn't anyone else kind of bewildered by this?

I mean this is kind of like if a kid pissed all over the floor in wal-mart, and when you notified an employee about it they gave you a mop to clean it up yourself.
Great that you are learning Python 3. :)

The issue is if you need to write something you may need 3rd party library and few great ones are not available for Python3. It kind of cripples you.
In case anyone is wondering, I just did this on my almost four-year old pair of HD555s and you can definitely tell the difference.

Sure glad I bought the cheaper pair now.
I like their developer plan. Focus on two areas of main development and eliminate a lot of the waste on the PM/Manager level.
Well played, Google.

Not only did you just make your search engine 50 times more valuable to me, but you've just ensured I'll be spending almost all of my browsing time inside Chrome.
i'm REALLY looking for remote work [a least], i've developed web applications with :

- python: django, tipfy

- javascript: dojotoolkit (including widgets/dijits), nodejs

- java: struts, jboss seam

- mysql/postgres/oracle (been reading couchdb book)

- linux/sysadmin (managed server's for SMB's without them burning up)

can pickup other stuff with learning on the fly (no PHP, C#, Windows environments; computer says no)

cheap!

zemanel at zemanel.eu / skype: matrixownsyou
I just know you’re going to get downvoted for being unappreciative, but I love the analogy (for its color). And you’re right, it’s a striking “solution.”
> So yes, you really do need special apps.

Do you really? All you've stated is that MeeGo needs an AppStore.
Neovella: Instantly co-author stories with your friends
I'm don't think we really know yet what the energy requirements for these processes are.

Ever had something plastic melted (and burned) by the dishwasher? Why not just melt all of it and avoid dumping all the energy in that steaming water down the drain?
Yes, but that's not the question. The question is, "how different is a Nokia WP7 phone from, say, one from Samsung or HTC?"

If WP7 is a success, then by the time Nokia ships (late 2011 at the earliest), they will be entrants in a crowded field --- and so far, Microsoft is requiring most WP7 phones to be near-lookalikes, to get consistency of user experience across the platform.

(Of course, part of the deal here may be that Nokia gets to differentiate their products in a way that nobody else does --- but if it is, then the other vendors may be ticked in a way that causes long-term problems for the platform as a whole. Contrast to Android, where vendors have complete freedom to reskin it right now.)
I think a couple of things are obvious, from knowing some Nokia employees:

a) These 9 are young, and likely Finns — who are generally proud people and who are guarded against outsiders (like Elop)

b) They are software developers. Most of their Plan B focuses heavily on Meego and keeping development and R&D in-house. With Meego 'out' (or close to it) and WP7 in, software development resources at Nokia are likely to be slashed, and so of course they'd want to contest the decision.

The biggest problem I have with their plan though, is this:

> Return the company to a strategy that seeks high growth and high profit margins through innovation and overwhelmingly superior products with unrivaled user experience.

Return? Nokia & Symbian might sell a ton of phones in the global market, but they certainly haven't had high margins nor growth over the last few years. They can't 'return' to the way things were, because that strategy is no longer viable in today's market. To carry on as if Apple & Google aren't kicking your ass is a sure-fire way to lose everything.
Thanks for the spoiler. Very kind of you.