skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once read that "Baldness is a weakness, but shaving bald is a choice", or something like that. Women find baldness as unhealthy, not necessarily in a rational manner, but unconsciously.

So maybe you should try shaving bald and getting a bad boy look with a goatee. Women who dig that look will like you. There's a market of women that like that look on a man.

Trying to look good through other methods will help too, like going to the gym, and dressing well. Women associate strong bodies with health, and dressing well with success and self-confidence.

And don't act like this is affecting you, especially if you'll shave. Act like you did it because it makes you look very good, and others around you will start believing it, too. If you look at that Picard picture above, you can see that he acts as if baldness looks good on him, and his self-confidence is showing, which is attractive to women.
While i totally agree with the approach you suggest towards making UX Design Route choices, the priority of usability design shouldn't be as high as core-architectural design, simply because driving you're application from usability towards functionality can never be a sustainable solution to the design of any product. For instance, no operating system can ever be designed with its user interaction in mind. While it does have a critical impact in OS design, there are far more critical issues that UI has no say over! That being said, it largely depends upon the impact of Usability on your product's overall outcome. Correct me if i'm wrong!
It's not strange at all. Obviously Amazon makes money every time you buy Kindle content, even if it's crap, whereas Lendle threatened to reduce their revenue.
There are a lot of Canadian resources owned by American companies. Should we swap?
Do you think that final paragraph is somehow The Truth?

>> "It's also not possible to send any messages once your ticket has been marked as closed, meaning to dispute a decision you basically need to pray the maintainer reopens it for some reason."

Truth: There's a public discussion forum!

I'm disappointed that Alex Gaynor never mentioned that the first problem with his program was a bug in CPython, but instead kept that to himself for his blog.

I'm disappointed that Alex Gaynor never mentions in his blog that the next version of his program didn't work on x64 - it hung and timed-out after 1 hour.

Joseph La Fata contributed a Python pi-digits program the same week - his program worked first time on x86 and x64, on PyPy and CPython and Python 3 and only used ctypes to get to GMP.

2 days ago Joseph La Fata contributed a Python spectral-norm program - his program worked first time on x86 and x64 on PyPy and CPython and Python 3.

Do you see the difference yet?

What do you think the blog entry "My experience with Alex Gaynor" would be like?
s/Linux/GNU\/Linux
The metal harvested for your frame is also harmful to the environment in its manufacture and production.

This ultimately gets back to the allegation that the dust-to-dust cost of a Prius is less eco-friendly than that of a HumVee, which is a meme that was running around few years ago, and which was ultimately debunked based on a number of faulty assumptions, some of which you make in your argument.

- There is no resale market for Prii

- A Prius won't last as long as a more standardly built vehicle

- The Prius uses an extraordinarily large amount of nickel, which is toxic and/or unrecoverable.

As I said, these were ultimately proven false enough that no informed person can seriously believe that a gas guzzling Hummer is better for the environment. I'd wager the same argument holds true for an F150 as well.

As for the presence of radiation in neodymium, you probably have the same amount of radiation in your alternator, only your alternator isn't shielded, as it is in Prius batteries. Pepto Bismol is also radioactive, and has a half-life longer than the age of the universe -- it doesn't necessarily imply that it's unsafe.

Also, please, let's try to keep the drama down, pretty please? There is a great deal of rhetoric and emotion in your post that needn't be there.
What is it about issues like this that cause people (who generally have little direct financial stake) to take sides so heatedly and emotionally? It's bizarre, isn't it?

I know I at least always have a hard time deciding between top competing products. I anguished over the decision between iPhone and Android, but it was because of the different features represented, not any cultural thing. And I still readily recommend the iPhone to most people.

Is it pure tribalism? I heard John Siracusa talk at length in one of the early episodes of the Hypercritical podcast about Mac people having a sort of complex after watching the platform that they saw as clearly superior get crushed by Microsoft. But I see this manifest on both sides, and the emotional investment just seems really outlandish and disproportionate.
You don't know what you're talking about. Using something like Cython (I'm still using Pyrex) to make C extensions dramatically speeds development, if only because it largely solves the reference count problem.
Why The Tech Industry Needs Founder-CEOs
You need to clean your build directory whenever you change resources (i.e. add new images, delete old images). It makes the build take a bit longer but you'll have no issues. So i.e. just delete the contents of the Resources/build/iphone directory and then rebuild the app from Titanium.
Among other factors, this will probably increase the degree to which your twitter username represents your identity online. I'm not saying that's good or bad, just predicting it'll happen.
We moved to Titanium from PhoneGap around 5 months ago - PhoneGap was just too slow for many options and did not support the low level audio functionality we needed. It may be better now though, but we haven't looked. Titanium has actually worked really well for us so I'm a bit surprised by so many developers having issues on here. Our app is coming out in about a month and is fairly large, with a custom UI:

http://www.groovydisk.com/
I liked young Kawasaki better. Apparently, he does too.
Quora: The Stats Behind the Buzz
Well, it's only shared if you share it!

I guess it boils down to "don't use mutable globals". That's as true in threaded environments as it is in async ones.

If your requirement is that there must be system-enforced safety rather than safe practices and idioms, I'd say Python isn't the right tool (Haskell is) to begin with. As you know, Python is all about practices, idioms, and discipline.
Fantasies that someone will "discover" me and write me a check for say $100,000 so I can pay off my debts, quit my job, and spend more time trying to actively develop a means to effectively deliver the information I know about how to get well when doctors claim it cannot be done. And wondering how on earth I would explain such a development at work when I give my 2 weeks notice because I feel like most folks there see me as a "loser" -- my health issues have hurt my performance and few people there have any idea of the dramatic story behind my so-so/ordinary appearance.
Should have at least put a picture of the ad that preforms well.
TI to buy National Semiconductor for $6.5 billio
It is, however, short-sighted. If 99.9996% of the available eBooks are crap (like Sturgeon's law squared) then the e-publishing industry will die.
Canadian-backed report says piracy is a market failure, not a legal one
Internet user arrested for linking to other websites
I think I'd need a larger data set to know anything for sure. I'm not one to scold for humor and bits of play on the site, but I think what sets us apart from reddit and those God-forsaken 4chan users is that we do not have a culture of humor, but a culture of enjoyment in logical strength. Humor is fine, but only as long as it is left alone and doesn't affect the discussion board. But the way HN users compete for logical strength and correctness in observation seems to improve the general enjoyment and quality of HN far more than any humor could. No one needs a dry, lifeless site, but it seems HN accomplishes life by more sophisticated and fulfilling means than any other forum, and we won't resort to stupidity like others did.
Hacking for Freedom - Telecomix / Anonymous member shares experiences at Pycon
Likely he'll either transfer them when they're up for renewal (a transfer often costs roughly the same as a domain registration but comes with a few renewal) OR sometimes if you talk to a big registrar like fabulous, they'll make allowances to bulk-transfer names in at a significant discount.
Let me guess: you happen to be living in the US?
There are also women who are crazy about dudes with questionable hygiene, crippling addictions and spotty employment histories. I still wouldn't recommend it as a dating strategy. Pointing to outliers proves nothing. Nor, for that matter, does pointing out that some older men can pull off baldness when the problem affects younger men and women as well.
Should we trust .ly/local domains for our startups?
I just received an email from Letter.ly, the premium newsletter service founded by Sam Lessen. I'll paste the contents but essentially they can't renew their .ly domain.

It's really got me thinking about how registering a local domain such as this is risky, especially with companies like bit.ly relying on them for all of their business. I own a .io domain but have a .com backup which everyone should probably think about when buying a .ly or similar domain.

"hello letterly authors,

last week, the agency that we used to register the letter.ly domain was taken down as a side effect of the war in libya (.ly is the libyan top level domain). our domain registration expired, and we were unable to renew it. as the expiration propagated, the site appeared to be dead and emails sent to your subscribers probably bounced.

1) sorry for the hassle. it's amazing that a physical war has affected our service in this way.

2) we are now letterly.net. this means that you will send emails to secretcode@letterly.net instead of secretcode@letter.ly, and new subscribers should be directed to letterly.net/yoururl".
I don't normally have a set period of time in mind, I just do it until it has enough views/clicks for the difference to look statistically significant.

I probably should be doing actual statistical significance testing, but I'm lazy, so just do it intuitively.
That is one definition of a "lifestyle business" -- usually a boostrapped small company that reaches a peak that balances the founder's financial interests with his/her interest in free time.

Unfortunately, once you've taken VC money it's very hard to justify not scaling. They are looking for home runs, not bunt singles. If the company stops scaling because the founder doesn't want to scale any more, the founder will be quickly replaced as CEO. If the company stops scaling because the market is saturated, then some very hard conversations will follow.
Thanks for the positivity guys!
Just a few points - we report on and work closely with the start-up community in Australia. To us, there is no 'outside', only collaboration and support.

Secondly, nothing is being sold on our site. All the information is free and doesn't require any sign-up. If you don't want to read it, fine, but many people find the info we publish very helpful. I'm sorry you don't, but I'm not going to force you to read or buy anything.

Thirdly, Andrewstuart, constructive point, but if you've ever been on Freelancer.com, watched TV or a movie on Fox or read a newspaper any time recently, there's a good chance you would've seen the work of 'massively successful' Australian entrepreneurs.

Fourthly, how about discussing the point and the issue in hand, rather than pointless backbiting, eh?

I know a lot of Australians look at this site and I'm sure they'd love to get the perspective of a country with a more switched-on start-up culture.
> it feels to me that the landscape needs a new "creative computing" competitor.

If you're looking for a creative hobbyist computing platform, I think you're looking for Linux. I used Apple from Apple II to original Mac up through the early PPC systems and then switched to Linux because it has the hacker culture that originally lured people to Apples/Macs.

The creative potential is not limited just because Linux -can- look just like a mainstream desktop OS.
Eset Nod32 Username And Password [ 5 April 2011 ]
On this one, if the date you registerred the LLC is before the registration record was created (do a whois on the domain) you might be able to file a UDRP complaint (Uniform DOmain Name Resolution Policy) claiming that the current owner registerred the name in bad faith, with the expectation that they were going to extort you for the ownership of the .com.

This sort of stuff happens all the time. As far as I know, it's not usually passed with respect to LLC but rather Trademark.

Regardless, if you really want that name you could have a fighting chance at it.

Look up UDRP to learn more. Better yet UDRP lawyer. There's one who advertises a lot on some of the forums I read. Let me know if you're interested and I can put a bit more legwork into tracking down a name for you.
Interview with Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix
Baldness is considered something in need of a cure because it can hurt people's self-esteem and make their lives more difficult (particularly women and younger men, though it's true for older men as well). The fact that you either don't care about appearance or happen to like the bald look does not mean that everybody shares your viewpoint.
Last time I tried to get into Blackberry development, I could not get the SDK or development environments to work at all. If they can't be bothered to make a quality cross platform SDK and development environment then I can't be bothered to code for their platform. Ever try to code for Blackberry OS with a Mac? Sure you might be able to get the SDK running but when you launch the emulator... wait... what emulator?! Oh you need a Blackberry Torch plugged into your system to do any sort of testing! You need a huge investment in money and time to even fiddle with the development environment and see what you can create.

If the developers don't have your back then you don't have a platform - you have a crappy handset with mediocre software that no one is excited about.
A visual git reference
Crowdsourcing disaster response, What we learn from Japan
That still doesn't mean their current pricing strategy will turn out to be successful.
Soooo different
Just curious, do you actually think that the author or any of the people here don't recognize that the libc and coreutils (for most distributions) come from the GNU project? I don't understand why people insist on being so pedantic about the GNU/Linux thing.
Thank you HN, I may have an answer: http://blog.imranghory.org/facebook-ads-the-cheapest-traffic...
"As it turned out, Jobs didn’t need much help."
As long as it's not Java, right? :P
I'll be honest. The ad that performs best is a little cheesy, so I'm a little embarrassed to post it here where people actually know me :P

The image I used was a shrunken down version of this comic:

http://theoryofgeek.org/post/4050407389/the-optimal-brownie-...

It did 50% better than this one:

http://theoryofgeek.org/post/4291096322/date-date-revolution

It did 100% better than this one:

http://theoryofgeek.org/post/4205909563/the-social-networkin...

And about 200% better than when I used the profile pic image that I use on the Facebook page (from what I've heard on the grapevine company logos while great for branding tend to have very low CTRs):

http://www.facebook.com/theoryofgeek

(these datapoints aren't in the image I show on my blog; I tested them after I wrote most of that article and took that snapshot)

I should also point out that in CoderStack's ad campaigns cartoon images performed worse of all the images I tested, for CoderStack the best performing images were photographs of people. So there's no "one-size-fits-all" solution.
Does the TCP over TCP problem occur with socat tunnels?
> any charisma he has comes from his behavior

And his movies.
I notice this was the result of testing stress relievers on [stressed] mice. It occurs to me, it's very likely that this "cure" would only work on stress related baldness, not necessarily genetic baldness.

PS. I also feel compelled to mention previous experience with stress related baldness in animals. A few years back, I adopted a ferret from a friend who was heading off to the marines and wouldn't be able to take care of it. The ferret in question was bald along it's tail due to stress (my friend also owned two dogs that would harass the ferret). In only a few weeks of taking ownership of the ferret the hair had returned to his tail. In other words, it would appear that stress related baldness cures itself in when stress is relieved. So again, I don't really see this medication as any actual direct benefit for balding men. It may perhaps work wonders in relieving stress but the hair regrowth is not a result of the drug its a result of stress relief. A subtle but important difference.
It might actually do better if it were marketed that way. Make it whatever standard form factor will fit inside the plastics and spend the rest on an Ubuntu theme.
Google bids $900M US for Nortel patents
I am sorry they are not online now. By pocket I mean ideas we haven't tried out yet.
I imagine the mobile app version to have 3 separete functionality, and we only covered 1,5

1. "I would rather sit" Is a streetview walkaround with predefined routes.
2. "I want to stay in this room" Is an AR version where you walk around in your room and place the words where you want.
3. "Let's go for a walk" Would give you new words when you stop somewhere in the city.

Of course there are other task and opportunities, like testing, spaced repetition, linkwords etc and unfortunately the team got separeted now (both in space and in thinking) so I am not sure if I would make this project hight priority...

Still I would love to hear your toughts.
May I ask if you're actually bald yourself?
I was a C64 and Amiga user until 1995. In 1995 I switched briefly the Windows 95, and then, already disgusted and bored by Windows, switched to Linux.

I found that nearly everything I had loved about the Amiga and C64 culture was stronger and more vibrant in the Linux and Open Source world. The only negatives were that the graphics and sound capabilities of Linux at the time (and still do, honestly) lagged behind Windows significantly, making it difficult to think of it as a creators system, unless what you were creating was software. I suspect part of the reason I moved more and more into software development and IT-related work was partly because the system I loved to work with was simply not capable of doing music and audio on a professional level (and still isn't, despite near-heroic efforts on the part of a few developers; if the kernel can't maintain an audio stream that doesn't skip and sputter, it's impossible to ever produce great audio).

Anyway, Linux and Open Source is definitely the heir apparent to the Amiga and C64, and I know many people from those communities ended up in the Open Source world.
I'm really of two minds about submitting this, especially after pg's post yesterday about the downfall of HN submissions and comments. On one hand, there's a lot of Gen-Y readers here, and many of us were raised on the slogans Sam de Brito attacks in this post. On the other hand it's not really about hacking, entrepreneurship, or technology.

Does it "satisfy one's intellectual curiosity"? Maybe. I honestly though the discussion on Hacker News surrounding this post would be more interesting than the post itself.

Any HN readers with accounts older than 1000 days want to set me straight?
Mozilla Messaging team (Thunderbird) to integrate with Mozilla Labs
Please stop upvoting insider gossip like this. This is not interesting at all to anybody outside Google.
No super-scraggly comb-over.
Federal officials charged 32-year-old Bryan McCarthy of Texas with one count of criminal infringement of a copyright. He allegedly posted illegal streams of the UFC, NFL, NBA, WWE and other sports programming.

According to today's release, McCarthy made more than $90,000 in profits from online merchants who paid him to advertise on the site. Since it was seized on Feb. 1, the site has received 1.3 million hits.

He wasn't indicted simply for linking to other websites. You, upon passing around a link to a copyrighted Youtube video, are not a potential felon. Here's the issue:

§ 506. Criminal offenses
(a) Criminal Infringement. —
(1) In general. — Any person who willfully infringes a copyright
shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18,
if the infringement was committed —
(A) for purposes of commercial advantage or
private financial gain;

Note last sentence.

It is still perfectly reasonable to disagree with the prosecution (I don't, but I respect your right to). But it's still incumbent on the FSF not to be deceptive.
One option, depending on the type of chart your looking for, might be the Javascript InfoVis Toolkit: http://thejit.org/
George Costanza was no slouch in the dating category. Just sayin...
For anyone who missed it, that case ended well enough. I muscled them into giving a $10,000 donation to the Red Cross and after making it they transitioned off my servers. Best of both worlds as I never felt right about making money off it as I was screen scraping Drudge's curated links in the first place.

http://www.jongales.com/blog/2011/03/18/hacker-news-comment-...
I upvoted it, then read your comment, thought better of the upvote and flagged it (and upvoted you.) I have no idea what sort of net effect that has. :)
Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea
This is fantastic. Git can be complicated to learn at first, and even though I have a grasp of how to use it, there are still things that I forget or find hard to understand. This helps immensely as it gives another 'dimension' being that the visuals help explain how things work sometimes better than text ever could.
When are you going to send pg the bill for your participation here?
Yeah, I still have my Color 64 BBS boot disk, which had a bunch of custom games, graphics, and other stuff I made when I was about 12. I'd be amused to see that stuff again, though I also suspect it's probably long gone, since the disk has been passed from bookshelf to garage to attic to storage, etc. over the 20+ years since.
I never made any of the allegation's in your bullets. The simple fact is that producing a Prius is bad for the environment and buying a new one every few years is a hell of a lot worse for the environment than buying a 10 year old vehicle and driving it another decade.

That, along with an ignorance for the environmental impact of the materials used in a Prius was my point.

Also, please, let's try to keep the drama down, pretty please? There is a great deal of rhetoric and emotion in your post that needn't be there.
Even a 1 hour recharge is not bad. After driving for 350 miles, I wouldn't mind stopping for a nice lunch. While you're having lunch, the car's batteries get recharged, for much less than the price of the lunch.
Thus giving it legitimacy.
most women find bald men very unappealing

Unless the man is black. In which case being bald seems to not be a net negative at all. Unfortunately, becoming black is probably harder than getting hair.

But for future offspring, if your hairloss is genetic, you can have a half-black child and put them in a better position. Although society tends to view blacks less favorably in general so the tradeoff here is still not a no-brainer.
I don't know. It's not a bad article really but it bumps more Hacker worthy news off the homepage.
I wish you'd said all this up front rather than all the rhetoric so far!