skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I dislike about these kinds of "evolutionary" arguments is that they tend to assume that the differences between the genders are genetic, even when there's no evidence for that. Even as late as the Victorian ages, several of the traits we now think of as immutable part of being male or female were swapped around. For the Victorians, blue was for girls and pink was for boys, and all women had the potential to become insatiable, incurable beasts for sex, one reason it was so important to keep chaste. This model of sexuality fit what the people experienced in their daily lives, just as ours does to us, and they had their studies that revealed women who enjoyed sex far more than was proper. Compare the here-and-now with every other culture in the history of the planet, and most of our "innate" traits turn out not to be. It makes it very difficult to take the "innate" people seriously.

I don't think it's that surprising that so many women are opposed to the idea that we're essentially designed to live out our whole lives hidden in the private sphere. Especially when you consider the 1950s, when (white, middle-to-upper class) women were "free" to do just that. They were miserable. I know I would have been miserable too. There's a reason the Feminine Mystique exists, and the 50s housewife who drowns herself in a bottle of booze is a cliche. For most people, that's just not enough to make a fulfilling life by itself. Even women today who are SAHMs have other things going on than taking care of their household, husband, and kids. He implies that it's somehow detrimental to our survival if women like me are free to create lives that don't make us deeply unhappy. If this arrangement had been as cooperative and nice as the author claims, how does feminism fit in? If we were happy inside the home, why did women look up and think, "I want to be a CEO" in the first place? Why did they not all look up and say, "I'm glad I don't have to do that, it looks stressful"? Given that it was their job to take care of the CEOs and other assorted businessmen after they came home stressed from work, it's not as though they didn't realize the drawbacks. Vacuuming is just not meaningful work.

Guys, if you lived in a time where your choices were to latch onto a woman for financial support or pick a low-paying unskilled job, because everyone believed you were genetically incapable of doing anything better, would that be OK with you? Or would you find it personally offensive? What if they said you were incapable of making art, and labelled any creative work made by men as not art in order to reinforce that? (In the case of women, that's tapestries, embroideries, and pottery, for a start.) What if our default model of "real" sex was stuff women liked more than men (random, probably inaccurate example: doll up for us, dance for us, an hour of groping, grinding, and oral, PIV at the end optional), and "all men were frigid" because for some reason they found it less interesting than women? Come on. Women are people, like you; empathy applies. The old ways were awful.
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Ask HN: Recommendations for PR firms for startups
I'm a member of an early stage startup, and just wanted some advice on good PR firms. We're developing a crowdfunding model for civic projects and could use someone with relevant core competencies.
> When encouraging people to follow their dreams, shouldn't there be a concomitant reminder that employers deserve some consideration, too?

No, there should be a clause in the contract specifying a mutual minimal time of notice for ending the employment. Also see this great post http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/07/08/business-psychology/
I've never seen this. Any concrete examples?
That's only part of the picture. You could just as accurately say that the government should not exist to serve the interests of the unions. Taming the banks would not make Greece's problems go away, nor would aligning the interests of the Average Greek with those of the elites.

The population of Average Greeks doesn't maintain economic productivity sufficient for any kind of significant export economy.

The population of Average Greeks doesn't pay enough taxes to finance the government at even a basic level, never mind the more luxuriant indulgences like a bloated military.

To the extent that it's unionised, the population of Average Greeks values job security for themselves above overall employment and economic solvency.

You are right that the average Greek will be on the losing side of any sales of national assets. But from the looks of things, the average Greek is unwilling to consider the structural improvements that that are the viable alternative.
Does anyone know if it supports authentication using SSH public key instead of another password?
I've been using C++ almost exclusively for over a decade. C++ is wonderful, powerful, ugly, and dangerous. It's entirely dependent upon the developer, and it varies with popular trends. Just when you master something like Boost, you move to a new company where you aren't allowed to use it. Everyone preaches his own religion of whitespace, best practices, and patterns.

Lately, I've found the ugliness inescapable and deeply irritating:

for (std::vector<mytype>::const_iterator i = myinst.begin() ...

The repurposing of the 'auto' keyword in C++0x can greatly reduce this ugliness:

for (auto i = myinst.begin() ...

But, of course, people will abuse auto and have "auto n = 5;" (a 'foreach' makes this even cleaner, but the above syntax exemplifies other situations as well)

I've recently been doing a bit of C# coding again. I'm stunned at how quickly I get get stuff working, mostly because .Net contains all the boilerplate I would either write myself, or have to track down in 3rd party libraries. I wrote a page scraping tool the other day in C#, on my Mac, in vim, with the Mono C# compiler. I had it done in under an hour, and it runs on both platforms I use. My productivity increased by about 8x (clearly not universally applicable), and my enjoyment increased even more.

So, no, C++ probably isn't the future. The future probably looks like Python and Javascript on the web, C# in business applications, and plain C at the bottom.
>To make a long story really short, the British did ridiculous amounts of good in their colonies.

Uh, okay, so... I'm bad at explaining things, because that is the point of what I wrote about the British. The British were successful not by being cutthroat but by being fair. The author characterizes such 'cooperative' strategies as ineffective, and says that they don't tend to succeed:

>The essence of how culture uses men depends on a basic social insecurity. This insecurity is in fact social, existential, and biological. Built into the male role is the danger of not being good enough to be accepted and respected and even the danger of not being able to do well enough to create offspring.

>The basic social insecurity of manhood is stressful for the men, and it is hardly surprising that so many men crack up or do evil or heroic things or die younger than women. But that insecurity is useful and productive for the culture, the system.

>Again, I’m not saying it’s right, or fair, or proper. But it has worked. The cultures that have succeeded have used this formula, and that is one reason that they have succeeded instead of their rivals.

The Empire had lots of 'morality' and 'fairness' provisions that the societies it conquered did not. It could be said that this sense of fairness led to the loss of the Empire -- but Britain is arguably better off now than 80 years ago, whereas Mongolia is... not rich.
If you liked/needed this post, you'll LOVE The Now Habit: http://www.amazon.com/Now-Habit-Overcoming-Procrastination-G...
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Moral of the story: Next time you're in an elevator, don't hold the doors for the females. get off first... unless you're holding it for a possible mate
Good advice in general, but not sure that these would make one more creative. I'll add my favorite all-time suggestion on the subject, this post on structured serendipity:

http://www.edge.org/q2011/q11_2.html#zweig

In summary, read outside your area of expertise, and do it in new places.
Ask HN: I'm starting a service to send ads via sms. Your thoughts?
Hi, I'm in Kenya. I want to start a service where;<p>Users who would like to to receive sms ads can sign up. Users in turn receive mobile phone credit per sms ad that they receive.<p>Advertisers can then use my service(from the website) to target users with relevant ads. I'll then send this ads to the relevant users via sms.<p>I'll charge advertisers a constant service charge, profit margin plus cost per sms ad sent.<p>Questions
1.As an advertiser what things would you like to know about users in order to determine which users to send which ads to? eg age, marital status, gender etc<p>2.As a user would you be willing to join such a service. If yes, on what conditions<p>3.Any other advice, in biz or your thoughts are welcome.<p>anything,
> skype declares my bug as "minor issue", but skype doesn't handle domain scope properly, hence it is possible to own victim's machine

https://twitter.com/#!/noptrix/status/91910866538217472

And the HN discussions about the previous vulnerability:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2522466 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2522453
Very neat standing waves.
The author expanded his original essay into a book:

http://www.amazon.com/There-Anything-Good-About-Men/dp/01953...
The problem with a lot of dating sites is the spam factor: people with fake profiles, scammers, etc. Why can't dating sites use a SMS-based verification system to filter out the riff-raff?
Blyk did that, somewhat unsuccessfully (with a massive student market, well targeted advertising) [1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blyk
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I saw something similar on here a few days ago and I would love to do this as well.

I have been doing ruby on rails for about 1.5+ years and I am looking to expand my portfolio with some projects and I currently have some time to do freelance work.

This could be your minimum viable product(MVP). This could be what you link to in incubator applications. Just a web application that closely matches your basic vision.

I would be able to do very basic design based on mockups you give me.(Mockups, sketches and any graphics and copy text you want me to include)

I am willing to work 1-2 weeks per project so that I can build out your basic idea/prototype.

Let me know if you have any questions/ideas or just message me @ hnprototype[at]gmail.com

Price range for projects $800 - $1500
All heritable behaviors that lead to men or women not reproducing don't stay in a population very long. It's not so much slave to genes as it's a boundary condition.

That doesn't take away from your daily experience as a human. You can still do whatever you want, day to day, year to year, not giving much thought of your genetic viability and still be a happy, healthy human being.

Just because you know how a rainbow works doesn't take away from your visceral human experience of one. (double rainbow!) In fact, I'd argue that knowing how a rainbow actually works adds to your appreciation of one.
This wikipedia entry only very briefly touches on some of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer_Wars#Controversy_and_signi...

But saying only that To make a long story really short, the British did ridiculous amounts of good in their colonies. is VERY simplistic. No sentence describing the British empire should start with "To make a long story short".
I've been using Rapportive for a while now, and it's wonderful. I have some attention issues, and often I forget who I'm emailing (this isn't a troll) - especially when it's not someone I usually communicate with. Having the profile right next to my email gives me a quick refresher, and brings me back into focus. Having the LinkedIn right on the side also lets me add people and browse quickly, without having to open a new window myself. The only annoying part, is when I'm following up an email, and I hit reply - it shows me, instead of my contact.

I wonder how they plan to monetize this.
I'd love to know a bit more about what your contract looks like. I've had real problems with getting clients to agree to pay 50% upfront in case I vanish (I'm quite happy to admit mine is a tiny, 3 person, company) and I'm guessing you must have clauses in there to put their mind at ease.
Affiliate revenue might be even more profitable than advertising on a financial/stock site. There are many financial services companies that pay $30-$60 commissions. That can add up really quickly.

If you have a very successful site in that category you really don't have to worry about being able to monetize it. That will be the easy part.
Actually you don't even need photoshop. Firebug would do.
140 is a feature, not a bug. But anyway, hashtags have nothing to do with the character limit, and everything to do with search and conversation. They make it easy to find people all talking about the same subject, with no group setup or other configuration beforehand.

I know a lot of nerds hate Twitter because they think it's "for the cool kids" or whatever, but this is silly.
>About the closest I could find is that cultures who disproportionately use their men for high-risk roles are more successful than those who do not; but I don't see how this differentiated the British from the Mongols.

Oh, they both did -- no question about that -- but the Mongols did it a whole damn lot more, i.e. warrior society as opposed to civil society, and were arguably less successful, long term.
Can you break down your case for brass? The zerohedge folks don't tend to speak on it...
So what if the Mongol empire lasted only 100 years and left Asia in ruins? It was pretty good for Genghis Khan's genes if a sixth of the world is related to him.

You're fundamentally not thinking about genes and evolution the right way. It's not an individual thing. Genghis Khan probably didn't care how many children he had. But in an evolutionary sense, his genes were extremely successful.

Genes "wanting" things is simply a figure of speech to make the whole thing more understandable in colloquial language. They of course do not have desires, but because of the way the system works it makes things clearer to think of them as if they did have an agenda.
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The book "On Intelligence" does a decent job explaining for non-neuoroscientists a theory where all parts of the brain (imaging, hearing, speach, cognition, etc) use the same pattern matching algorithm.

It has a pretty decent looking website too here: http://www.onintelligence.org/
Any project on github. Put yourself in the shoes of a user that doesn't want to donwnload source. He lands on a github project page and just gives up.

For a regular user (where "regular" depends on the type of software and the technical skill it requires), this is going way back to the days of source sharing on Usenet, way before the open-source term was mainstream (or even coined).
Gandhi was a pacifist, but what he did wasn't exactly peaceful.

I think you're missing the larger point by focusing on specifics and minutiae.
Interesting idea, but the following warning scares the hell out of me: "It can access: Your data on mail.google.com".
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I think the biggest computer security problem today is not a technological problem. It's us (and the way we use the tools we already have). We have created some pretty fantastic solutions to protecting and obfuscating information from each other. (Language being the oldest one I'm currently aware of.)

A good example of my point: The recent problem with MtGox (a marketplace for trading cryptographically secure currency) tanking was a human problem. (FYI, a guy who had access to the MtGox databases allowed his personal equipment to become compromised with MtGox backups on it. These databases had a poorly designed security implementation.) Until we can create completely intuitive security (hard), create idiot proof technology which protects itself from the user (harder) or appropriately educate people on their actions at the time they are making them (overwhelmingly impossible to do well at scale); we will have problems which are arguably much more important than solving any other problem.

(This depends on your point of view and what your metrics are that describe something as a "problem".)
I just got invited to G+ , and found a few friends in there. I noticed that all of their status updates were in the first day or two of their joining G+ ; after that, silence. So people are joining G+ due to the novelty factor; but they seem to go awfully quiet pretty soon after. If this continues, it doesn't bode well for G+ .
I think this is why there is such a huge opportunity for Amazon - they are the best in the world at selling stuff, and if they can leverage that experience with apps (reviews, search, recommendations, etc), the whole interaction of buying and selling apps will be a lot better.
Did you read the article? The author gives several examples that completely counter your underlying argument.

It isn't about ability, it's about motivation.
If genes do determine the bulk of our behavior, do you think it's worthwhile to fight against it?
Where is Greece?
That's the problem with Google Code, in my opinion. It tries to be both a landing page and a project manager for my software when I'd rather take care of the former myself. It ends up sucking at both, unfortunately.
> To make a long story really short, the British did ridiculous amounts of good in their colonies. is VERY simplistic.

No, it's not. By pretty much any reasonable metric, the British Empire has contributed more net good to humanity than any other nation in history.

Plenty of bad, too. But overwhelmingly more good than bad. Much of the good is taken for granted until you realize all the mess they cleaned up that isn't talked about. In a number of their African wars, they were destroying cities that had altars of human sacrifice where the blood was made to keep wet - constant non-stop human sacrifice. I forget the chief's name and Wikipedia isn't helping me, but he claimed credit for over 180,000 sacrifices before losing to the Empire.

The Boers are interesting. I kind of sympathize with them a little philosophically as rough individualists, but they were nasty motherfuckers as well. Brutal slavedrivers and merciless during ambushes in wartime. Again, I've actually got quite a bit of admiration of their good points and they were tough as nails, but they could really be sick bastards sometimes. (I think most of their modern descendants would say that's a fair description, and might even smile at it.)

This is before even getting into all the science, culture, law, engineering, infrastructure, and technology that British culture fostered. Yes, they did more net good than anywhere else in history. That's not even a particularly bold statement to make.
I'm not sure that's any better. If I'm loyal to 5 different companies, 2 of them basically get me nothing, not matter how good they are. The fact that I get nothing, when others reward me, will eventually cast a shadow on them... And it's no fault of their own.
I had no idea that the dominant view today was that women are better than men. It is my view and I haven't dissected all the reasons why I think that, but a lot of it comes from seeing so many men at the bottom. Biology wasn't kind to a huge percentage of men.

I do find it true that men seem to try harder to be different, to entertain, to exceed and to impress. The top is dominated by cocky people and there aren't a lot of cocky women.

Now is that biology or society? I have no idea. Is there a society on the planet where women have to impress men to get any attention? Do lesbians rise higher than straight women because they have to impress other women to stand out?
I also have noticed this philosophy ( or I guess worldview, as it encompasses multiple disciplines) gaining traction (especially on sites like reddit), but I haven't read many rebuttals or articles even mentioning it. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places. Anyone got good links?
Now that I go back, I see that it's a transcription. I missed the transcription bit the first time around.
Though clunky and perhaps not entirely well thought-out, it does get at the question of how to meet the literally like-minded.

I will now reveal my super secret method to meet literally like-minded people:

1. Find a group engaging in something you like, perhaps a fantasy book club, or a frisbee team, or a wicker furniture building class, anything you have a real interested in.

2. Join that group.

3. There's no step 3.
>It was pretty good for Genghis Khan's genes if a sixth of the world is related to him.

Genghis Khan's genes don't care. They're genes. They just exist.

> it makes things clearer to think of [genes] as if they did have an agenda.

Not really. The Price equation doesn't really bring agenda into the issue.

>It's [genetics] not an individual thing.

Of course not! Life is an individual thing. Where you trail off into the aether is when you say Genghis Khan benefits from something happening today. Genghis Khan cannot possibly benefit from anything happening today, because he died a long damn time ago.
Sorry, WTF ?

The Republic of Cyprus is a sovereign state, it's not part of Greece.
> But, because our food sources no longer in jeopardy, that evolutionary urge which led to our survival in the wild now leads to the vice known as procrastination.

and to obesity.
Don't ever do this. We've got spam problems enough without getting more rubbish SMS spams. If you do this, you will earn the hatred of the entire populace who gets abused by it, because someone WILL abuse it.
Exactly. For something like ereg, it was a lot easier to just deprecate it and go from there. For mysql, it's such a commonly used extension that a softly, softly approach is needed, no matter how much it would be nice to get rid of it immediately.
What does "However, now when searching in our application category, we are result #227." mean? When listing top paid apps in shopping, you are second, and in top free you are on the first page. https://market.android.com/apps/SHOPPING
"slaves to our genes"? Hardly. One of the most commonly forgotten things about evolution and DNA is it describes the system, not the individual.

In other words, it's kind of like statistics. When I roll these two dice, I could get any combination of results. The past has no control, the future has no control. But if I take it beyond one trial, and execute many trials, I will find the system tends towards statistically predictable results.

DNA and evolution is like those statistical predictions.
Ad blockers can block those, too. It's not just blocking calls to the Google ad engine; it's monitoring pages for (user defined and shared) ad divs.
Hmm, Cal is the only one who has pinpointed a very real, seemingly unexplored phenomenon. The problem is, he's just one person and seems to really struggle to grasp this phenomenon. Not struggle like he doesn't have any clue where he's going, but a kind of grappling with the essence of dp. So, his theories sort of feel like hypotheses that hes refining over time. This is very much how I read Cal, as if I'm reading a log of his ongoing research and suspicions