skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few tips from a female hacker to your girlfriend:

* Start using open source software -- the easiest place to start is developing on something that you already like and use, and which has an established developer community. Use lots of different things, then check out the communities and try a few on for size. Something will stick.

* DO NOT use your boyfriend or anyone else as your proxy to avoid jumping in the deep end. When you put someone else between you and the communities you would like to participate in, you give up most of the benefits of participating in a hacker community, such as creating relationships that help you grow and learn, seeing what others are doing up close, and so on. We like newbies, and we don't bite.

* AVOID GIRL GROUPS. Don't fall into the trap of joining "$technology Women" groups. They limit more than they help. I blogged about this effect here: http://binaryredneck.net/node/55 -- it's a bit long to discuss adequately in a comment.

* Scratch your itch. If you show up to get closer to your boyfriend or have more in common with him, walk away now. If you don't care about hacking, you won't be good at it, and you'll both end up grumpy. Trust me, I see it frequently. On the other hand, if you have passion, you'll find your niche, I guarantee it.

* Don't be afraid to break stuff. This is one place guys have an advantage over us -- the strategies traditionally taught to women (at least in my experience) are comparatively conservative. That is, guys don't read the directions, even if it means spending twelve hours doing something wrong before they've built whatever they just bought. Chicks often feel they need to really understand something before they attempt it.

The healthy response is somewhere in the middle of course, but failing that, the reckless guy who doesn't read directions will, in the area of software at least, outperform the chick who is waiting for understanding before she does something. Make use of available documentation, but don't be afraid to try stuff, knowing that it may break. It's software -- the worst you'll have to do is restore from backup, and you learn more by doing than by listening/reading.

* Dive into hacker culture and the hacker community. [Hacker culture has a purpose](http://binaryredneck.net/node/170) -- it makes our communities run smoothly. We love to share what we know, we love to learn new things, and we really do like newbies when they are well-behaved (by which I mean that IRC, Stack Exchange, any hacker venue you visit will have its own codes of behavior -- do your best to observe them, take corrections with grace, and never, ever be a [support leech](http://binaryredneck.net/support-leech).)

If you haven't gathered by the egregious number of references to my own blog, I'm very passionate about helping new hackers grok hacker culture and find there niche in the community so they can code and build awesome things. Feel free to drop me a line if you want -- my email is (same as my HN user name)@binaryredneck.net
Wouldn't that hold true for regular rental cars too? I have never heard of this being a problem with rentals.

Maybe TheSkeptic (brand new account) is a competitor?
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I agree, though the author says others may not may who Netscape was, it doesn't seem the author has a clear idea. Netscape wasn't the classic bubble company at all.
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Many would say the same about athletes... What professions do you think play such an important role that they should be judged for their personal political views rather than for the biproduct of their professional work?

While I agree that Card's views on homosexuality are disturbing, stupid, and quite shocking considering the considerable depth with which he appears (from his fiction writing) to understand difficult moral issues around demonizing members of a group, I think this is a dangerous precedent to set. Sure it'd be nice, but I think the consequence is inevitably that we are disillusioned b/c of some skeleton that is revealed (Tiger woods) or we prop up untalented hacks who happen to express all the right views (like Stephen Colbert, whose comedy is at best a crude sort of clowning).
As the HN community grows, it seems harder and harder for these meetup posts to make the homepage at all. While I can understand why YC might not be quick to "endorse" or link to any particular local HN groups, is there some possible middle ground? For example, a monthly post which somehow lists all of that month's upcoming local HN meetup events around the world? I think a lot of people don't realize that they can just do a web search for [city name] + "hacker news", and something like that might at least make it periodically apparent that such local gatherings exist. Other suggestions welcome!
Maybe TheSkeptic (brand new account) is a competitor?

Ugh, that's a shitty attitude. I think one of the good things about HN is that people here usually give each other the benefit of the doubt and assume good intentions. Lobbing accusations of bias around are a good way to kill that friendly tone. Unless you've got actual proof of bias perhaps you could keep your accusations to yourself next time?
I'd almost agree with you, but as you describe it, the result would just be deus ex machina. It's not fair to just pull a resolution out of your butt, that couldn't possibly have been predicted.

Better to have all the facts there, but not in your face. Commonly, a film with focus on a key point, or dwell on an image, to ensure that the viewer gets it, and I think that's a mistake. A good example of a movie that gets it right is Silence of the Lambs, in which all the information is there, but the viewer needs to separate the wheat from the chaff.
I would probably be interested in everything.
I'll switch to scala or any other language if it will abstract away SQL cursors with minimal overhead.
Ah, makes sense.
I assumed it was intended to be evangelical.

Also, the slice backed by inline array is a pretty great thing. It's cache-friendly, avoids extra allocations, and is pretty easy to use safely. Aside from D, I don't know of any other usable garbage-collected languages that can do this so nicely.
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If I worked at LinkedIn, I would spend a lot of time thinking about what to do if Facebook ever decides that you can have both "friends" and "business contacts."
depends on where you live. Here outside of dental it's all covered. And the local CoC offers full dental/prescription coverage for a decent amount per employee.
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Right now it looks like they're requiring Facebook accounts to rent cars, and so they can (presumably) use the Facebook social graph as a rough proxy for trustability. Personally I sorta hate that policy (I've not got a Facebook account...) but it's a fairly good idea, I think.

And, of course many, many said similar things about AirBnB -- "couldn't a thief just book a room for the night and then make off with the TV?" -- and that's proven not to be much of an issue in practice.
Nice to see that the tradition of comic book product launches is still going strong.

http://correlate.googlelabs.com/comic
Try reading the yc application and thinking about how it applies to you.
http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/may2011/articles/artic...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+abandons+qr+codes

Not saying it's an accurate summary, but I don't think you were actually very curious!
This writeup confuses me.

Firstly, it's very nice that we have put an upper limit on the nonsphericality of the electron. But was there ever any reason to suspect it of being anything other than perfectly spherical? Not last I heard, so is this really a "surprise"? (Not to pooh-pooh the experiment, it would certainly be an interesting surprise if it were nonspherical...)

the electron differs from being perfectly round by less than 0.000000000000000000000000001 cm. This means that if the electron were magnified to the size of the solar system, it would still appear spherical to within the width of a human hair.

OK, thanks to the fact that journalists assume we can't read scientific notation (wasn't this covered in primary school?) I had to count up all those zeroes. And I think there's 26 of 'em, so we're talking 1e-28 m. But last I heard the electron doesn't have a radius, so what's this radius we're blowing up to the size of the solar system? If it's the "classical" Compton radius then that's about 3e-15m, so blow that up to the size of the solar system and our 1e-28m variation is about 0.5 m, not the human-hair-thickness implied in the article. We're off by about five orders of magnitude.
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Cool site, I'll be trying it out with my kids tonight.
I was sort of thinking the same thing myself. I was hoping one of the housing search sites would have an API/affiliate program I could utilize to list places for rent. Unfortunately this isn't the case. I'll have to think this one out a bit more to figure out if it's feasible.
I love the idea of IdeaPaint. However, in practice, things aren't that simple: IdeaPaint just doesn't compare to a quality white board. A quality standard white board does better in almost every important aspect; a smoother surface, better erasing, no "burn in" (if we left something up on the wall for too long, it would become nigh impossible to erase). Sure, IdeaPaint is cheaper, but I find I'm never disappointed with quality, even if it costs a little more.
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You don't think a cabbie using Uber knows that there is an electronic record of them picking up a passenger? If anything, Uber is safer than yellow cabs.

But lets suppose this really were an issue. There is a simple solution: charge each taxi a flat $10k/year license fee (with no cap on the number of licenses issued). Use the proceeds to hire full time undercover taxi inspectors.

That gets you about 1 inspector for every 10 cabs. Assuming each inspector rides 10x/day (i.e. 5 hours/day riding, 30 min/ride), each taxi will be inspected every single day on average.
A sort of "I'm feeling serendipitous" button.
It's good for renters though, and there's a vibrant rental market in NYC (with forced yearly turnover)
Recall, that at the time of the Netscape IPO (1995), Netscape and even the Internet was relatively unknown by most non-technical people, thus the ensuing hype and gold-rush mentality. This time around, the Internet and social media is in the mainstream. Millions of LinkedIn and Facebook users are fully aware of the capabilities and limitations. There is clearly room to grow and LI has some excellent opportunities, but I don't think the same sense of excitement and awe exists around the LinkedIn IPO as there was for Netscape.
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I'm developing websites for clients and it would be significantly cheaper for clients to bundle sites onto one server (and restrict/regulate FTP accounts) rather than purchasing separate instances of hosting for each client. The never need all the resources anyway... This might be as simple as a service.

What's the best way to collect recurring payments from customers/clients?

What do you use?
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The fumes from it are seriously intense (when it is wet), they used some in my office and I had to leave for the day because they where to strong. Otherwise, it seems to work pretty well,
by the way, this made me think of another idea.

Vacation Discovery....like StumbleUpon, but shows awesome places you can go within a certain budget..

maybe categories
"Castles"
"East Asia"
"Tropical"
"Waterfalls"
"Jungles"
"Deserts"

It would have to be:

1) Very picture-oriented, so you can fantasize and browse (escapism)

2) Able to filter by price easily, and include airfare

Good business model, fun to use, win win win.
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Interesting that they're reducing the emphasis on native look and feel. The thing that's put me off all the native-mimicking JS libs like EXT and Sproutcore is that making web apps imitate native desktop apps seems like the wrong move in many cases. The web gives us a chance to rethink a lot of those old assumptions and newer, cleaner interfaces like Github etc. suggest that some of those old assumptions can be abandoned.
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I work in a coworking space that has IdeaPaint everywhere. It's awesome. But you're right: it's lower quality than a typical whiteboard. The surface is bumpy and doesn't erase as well.

I personally don't mind the negatives and enjoy the extra real estate, but it's certainly not for everyone.
I think that was exactly the problem with SproutCore -- it was essentially inseparable from it's UI toolkit.
You can write game logic in pretty much any language on modern hardware. The only things that need a highly performant language are the 3D graphics engine and geometry, and any deeply nested AI computational stuff. Your standard game logic of object movement, collisions, physics, is orders of magnitude less demanding than that.

Games are no exception to the standard rule of software, that 95% of the time is spent in 5% of the code. You can use whatever language for the other 95% and not see any meaningful problem with performance.
Cool product and I love the marketing story, but not as good as a whiteboard (too hard to get smooth) and VERY expensive:

http://www.amazon.com/IdeaPaint-Sq-Ft-Kit-Whiteboard/dp/B002...
$175 for a 50 sqft area - $3.5/sqft... a lot more expensive than the cheap tileboard that many startups on the cheap use:

http://www.lowes.com/pd_61082-46498-31023248_0__?productId=3...
$10 for 10 sqft - $1/sqft

Another cool idea (that I've never seen/tried) is Whiteyboard
http://www.whiteyboard.com/
$35 for 20sqft - $1.75/sqft

Incidentally, we decided to hell with all of these things and that it was worth it to spend $400 on a kickass whiteboard and ended up with this http://www.amazon.com/Quick-Ship-Deluxe-Reversible-Markerboa... (but paid closer to $400). It is awesome - rolls around and flips

Does anyone know why whiteboards are so damn expensive?
All good points. Maintaining a current and high quality index is clearly not free in terms of development time, bandwidth, storage or a host of other factors.
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Hateful and discriminatory seems like a decent line to me

To me, you sound like the thought police.

In my moral code, we're entitled to think what we want, and nobody has any business condemning us based on our thoughts. The line is our actions: if we do something to someone as a result of our thoughts, that crosses the line.

I've said to a few gay friends that I personally think that homosexuality is gross; but I also think that broccoli is gross. The fact that I feel that way doesn't have anything to do with the way I view them as people, and certainly not how I treat them -- not any more than my distaste for broccoli affects my relationship with eaters of broccoli. And everyone I've talked about this attitude with seems to think it's a perfectly reasonable one to hold.
First, we have to look at the game. Let's say I'm one of the participants, and we are all told there are 1000 of us which will play a winner takes all coin toss game. There is one coin and each pair of players walks up to the coin, decides who will be the caller then watches for the result of the flip. We must all play until one person holds all the money. The first thing I'm going to do is casually head to the very back; that way I don't get eliminated until I reach the last person holding everyone's money, minus mine. At that point, if the coin was fair at 50/50 I would be happy to allow fate to decide whether I won very big, or lost my small stake. However, if the coin was biased at 60/40 favoring heads, and me being the astute observer I am noticed this tendency while awaiting my turn, when I reached the coin I would be sure to be the caller and firmly call heads. If I won, yes, I would give myself substantial credit for knowingly tipping the results in my favor.

The shorter answer to your question boils down to whether or not the winning caller used known information about the bias to his advantage. If he did, yes, he deserves some amount less than full credit -- fate will ultimately decide -- but more than zero credit, which would be in the case of a non-biased 50/50 choice. Also, I feel compelled to say I do believe Warren Buffet made the majority of his investment decisions on a mental certainty of far greater than 60% (unless the stake was quite small). One of the things about Warren Buffet's strategy is he buys for the long term, so, even if he's wrong in the short term, he won't sell. The company would practically have to go out of business for him to lose. The chance of that for companies he invests in is very slim.
I agree. I have it at our office. Actually i was the one who found it and painted it on the wall. The packaging hat it came in was really cool with a lot of thought put into it. The instructions turned into a "wet paint" sign.

The surface is bumpy, but it works. It it currently being used as a giant project calendar.
(disclosure: I used to work at LinkedIn and at Google, though not on Orkut)

I think Orkut provided a strong datapoint for your question. They supported a professional and personal profile when they launched, and the overall finding was that a single site supporting social + professional networks is a turn-off because most people want to keep those networks separate (since many of your friends have no interest in your resume, and since you don't want your boss to see your pictures at some party).

One potential issues is that there are really 3 groups of people: friends, coworkers, and "both". For each posting, photo, action, etc, you want one of the three groups to see it. That becomes a hassle compared to just keeping friends and coworkers in separate social networks (one pitfall, though, is that using two social networks makes it hard to send messages to friends and coworkers without having to write the message twice).

That said, Facebook has a ton of smart people, so maybe that can figure out something that Google could not.

One last thing: I think part of the perceived value of LinkedIn is that they have not deviated significantly from their goal of being The professional network. I remember it took them a long time to even add profile photos, because there was a debate about whether those were more "professional" or "fun". I think it would be as hard for FB to become a professional network as it would for LinkedIn to become a social network (while not losing its professional member base)
Maybe Card's definition of a hostile reading is different from yours.
I mean I am not going to lose sleep over people thinking less of me for disliking homophobes. I won't be persuaded to modify my opinions by warnings that the people I dislike (homophobes) will dislike me in return.
since I don't have a stackoverflow account I'll respond to your secondary question... IntelliJ / PhpStorm /etc allow you to enter a custom line spacing. (Plus PhpStorm is a great environment for web project development work)

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Doesn't AirBnB require the host to be present during check-in and key exchanges? I assume a person would be more tempted to steal something if the owner never sees them in person.
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Like.fm just released a "friend panel" that lets you chat and see what your friends are listening to:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mbnhjlkenpmankjjbb...

Except this works with whatever website you're already listening to music from.

Also, the features they explained can all be achieved via a conventional facebook canvas app. A spotify icon in the left side? Isn't that just the app bookmark?

I think the title is probably just mega-linkbait. It's most likely Spotify just adding more facebook integration.
In other news, three new versions of Ubuntu Linux expected between now and the end of 2012.
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Yeah, I saw that as I hit reply. However, since I consider that to be the finest example of English being pointlessly complex, I took a moral stand against editing it.
People with direct experience with the elements of the OP (Newegg's security or lack thereof) voicing their fully-informed opinions. Maybe a Newegg CSR or security admin. Everybody else is just piling bullshit on top of more bullshit, because we really don't know anything beyond the alleged experience of one customer with a blag.

It was said better in another recent comment thread (I forget where): HN comments these days are full of people trying to sound like experts when they have no idea what they are talking about. I post about twice per day, max, and I think that's already more than I deserve to be able to say. Maybe that's what could be enforced here, so that people would really think hard before wasting a comment on hypothetical asides or repeating the same thing ten other people said.
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I have the same question. I'd be interested in using this, but I need to have at least a rough idea of how the technology works in order to determine if it would be effective
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Okay, then follow the recursion back the other way. You should expect them to care as little about what you think as you care about what I think.

It seems either you believe your opposites have a more open mind than you do (so you can convince them despite your unconcern about being perceived as being like them), or you are writing opinions you hope your intended audience will like so they will like you. Perhaps you are writing for a judging God or people you consider to be your social superiors (people who can upvote.) You might reply that you write your opinions only for yourself, but because you wrote them here instead of a desktop text editor I think you want some other benefit.