skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paging SwellJoe and others to this thread...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=327518

Decide to take the hit on that Google stock yet?

Sucks for the DOW though, my portfolio is up 192% on a few Chinese investments over the past month. It was a bit of good timing though - one posted some amazing Q3 numbers which pushed it up 45% this past week.

Of course that's all on paper, but I pretty much shifted a lot of my portfolio out of US stocks (for the time being) into conservative securities but brought in some higher risk / more aggresive foreign investments. There's a time to sit and wait out the cycle, and there's a time when it's pretty obvious that the market is falling.

Right now it's pretty obvious and while I don't know where the market bottom is, there's no point in continuing to lose out on stocks when they can easily be repurchased at heavy discounts in the future.
I expected the article to say something like guys feel more confident when approaching fat chicks and are therefore more likely to seal the deal.
I also like the large section on people skills. Definitely useful for me.
www.newmogul.com
[Cosmic Variance] Elevator Pitch Contest
California to set up a $1B electric car network
No, it's just a really low value compared to where the Dow was a year ago. It's also around what Roubini predicted.
the only stock I have that actually went up today is Sirius. Of course its not as impressive as it sounds, since it lost about 99.96% of its value since I bought it. Went down from $4/share to .15/share.
OK, first things first: ew.

Now we've got that out of the way, why is it that every writeup of some social science research must have at least one glaring factor that's been ignored? In this case it's:

There is a significant difference, however, on whether they have ever had sexual intercourse with men. Overweight (92.5%) and obese (91.5%) women are significantly more likely ever to have had sexual intercourse with men than normal-weight women (87.4%).

Is this primarily due to the fact that women get fatter as they get older and hence the overweight/obese group is overloaded with the women at the high end of the (15-44) age range? Probably.

Also this bit:

When a man propositions a woman, she can respond in one of two ways; she can say “yes” or she can say “no.” When a woman propositions a man, he can also respond in one of two ways; he can say “yes” or he can say “yes, please.” He has no realistic choice to say no.

thankfully is not true. Yeech!

It is probably true, however, that women at the low end of the attractiveness spectrum have a much easier time of it than men at the low end of the attractiveness spectrum, thanks to the relative abundance of non-picky men compared to non-picky women.
I like that there is a link at the bottom which links to a well-written counter response:
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/lust-in-paradise/20081...
Even if the link title is "Is Satoshi Kanazawa the Rush Limbaugh of evolutionary psychology?" and the reply article title is (now?) "Is Evolutionary Psychology a Used Car?"

It is a little weird, however, to read an article calling out another article as linkbait, both hosted on the same site.
Mozilla Serves Its One Billionth Add-on
Ummm, yeah, I get the feeling the author might be trying to justify something to himself, here.
How to Search Twitter - the Advanced Guide
he would bundle an alternative energy source with the car and deliver it as one product. he would realize the dealers are the prefect distribution system to establish a standard. he would mobilize the retirees who still somehow love the company and make them an asset instead of a liability (to say nothing of the perpetuity the old, loved cars represent). he would make an opportunity of the customization trend that has been going on for years and listen to his customers. he would have one more than model of a brand like corvette he would....
Destruction: A Look at the Nokia Damage Test Labs
I think nobody cares about your logo. Unless it is either an anus or the Lacoste crocodile (a case in which the logo really helps sell merchandise) it won't make a big difference. Make it one of those details you'll spend a couple of hours on after you're burned out from hacking.
Debate: Has Google Violated its "Don't Be Evil" Motto?
Thanks for pointing that out. The response was better than the original article, except for this one bit:

Because sexuality is so entangled with power in American culture, it's hard to talk about sex without getting political. The two are nearly inseparable to Republicans especially, as has been demonstrated repeatedly in their opposition to "non-traditional marriage" (only a near-complete ignorance of the history of marriage could lead one to think what we have now is "traditional"), Senator Craig's "wide stance" in the bathroom stall, and their glee in bringing down Bill Clinton over his "unnatural acts."

which is just plain odd, because that's the one and only time politics is mentioned in either article.
Well if gas prices and credit crunch lead to people shunning big cars, then GM builds the wrong type of cars. I don't think you can blame the gas price on an evil conspiracy.
The author could have low social value, and thus be less able to choose his partners due to low interest.

He then projects this situation onto other men, and refuses to acknowledge his own weakness, to increase his own feeling of self worth.
Not a bug. It's documented in the formatting help (http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc)

Also documented in the FAQ:

How do I make a link in a question?

You can't. (This is to prevent people from using this method as a way of submitting a link, but with their
comments in a privileged position at the top of the page. If you want to submit a link with comments, just
submit it, then add a regular comment.)
it is, pretty much all gains in the stock market over the past 10 years have been wiped out. The only time in the last 10 years when the stock market was lower, was in October 02, when it was at 7528.40.
I have not written anything major in Python. DHH and Zed both have.
Stop being bitter and think of something :)
Would you mind providing a URL for the recipe? I'm a Firefox user, so that would solve part of my problem.

Thanks!
Thank you CNN.
Google SearchWiki Launches, Lets You Build Your Own Search Results Page
Rajesh Setty was handing out autographed copies of the hardback at a SIPA event 2-3 years ago as a part of a membership drive. I took a copy home and read it. There are several practical exercises and a useful perspective on networking in a slim volume. It's worth downloading and reading.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but SIRI ended down almost 14% percent today; it closed at 0.14 (down from a shade over .16 at close yesterday).
Seabed tracks suggest new origin of animal life
I changed the URL to have a ?s=hacker_news

I wonder how it'll register with their tracking software.
Tried three products and found none. Pack of Extra Winterfresh, Jawbone II, and Nestle Pure Life water.
don't be evil?
Yes. I second that.
yeah the feed just updated. I use that google gadgets sidebar, and have the stock tracker installed, but the thing only updates every 20 minutes
Exactly - I was actually very close to just ordering an iphone but then demoed both the iphone and BB Bold and went ahead and purchased the Bold - having had a BB 8700c for a couple of years, I was more comfortable with the BB OS and from a usability standpoint I preferred the tactile feedback of the keyboard. (The screen is very pretty too ;)
Yes, and it was under 10,000 points in your previous submission.[1] It was a "disaster" when it was at 8582 when someone else posted 42 days ago.[2] Also, it was down "400 points in 10 minutes" 52 days ago.[3]

I don't need you to be my stock ticker.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=325009

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328204

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=318627
This is where we should take Detroit's bailout and stick it. Nationwide please.
GotGame Releases Integrated Web Browser For Games
Cryo-Pet™ Ensures Your Animals Won't Mind Extended Travel
Doesn't mean to be completely altruistic.
As Somali pirates step up attacks, shippers consider technology options for defense
Official google.org Blog: Moving quickly to rebuild the economy through clean energy
Anyone see a theme they like that increases usability?
Turning virtual reality inside out
That's why this sentence was put first.

> They probably can't in any way that would make it usable to people.

No worries:)
Who are you nominating for the crunchies?...besides yourself that is
I live for this: The challenge of entrepreneurship
Why not have a slider from +5 Bug (red) to +5 Feature request (green) through 0 (grey or yellow)?
This post why I keep clicking on the links to him here. Every once in a while he really nails it - simply and effectively.
Mammoth, yes. Velociraptor, no. I'm with Randall on this one.
Superdirt Made Lost Amazon Cities Possible?
"As Detroit continues to shrink, many American jobs "lost" will be regained in this industry, and its American suppliers, as Americans continue to buy cars."

Americans are not continuing to buy cars, in anything like the numbers they have been. Mr. Will seems to be engaged in some magical thinking to believe that most auto workers laid off from American auto makers will find similar employment in the near future.
Boardwatch would be at the top of my list, though it's a bit more recently defunct than most of these.
Pregnancy makes women overweight and therefore overweight women are more likely to have had sex.
It'd be sweet if you had name forecasting--based on trends, what names are due for a rise in popularity and which names are at their peak.
There is no incentive for Google to take cases all the way through the court system just so they could set a precedent that helps the rest of us.

There's actually a disincentive for them to do that since precedents could help their competition and court cases have unexpected consequences.
this isn't evil. there's a very real chance that google will lose the suit if they take it all the way, so settling at least buys them the ability to go forward with their book indexing project and protects them from a potentially very large legal liability. it's not like google set out to strike an exclusive-right-to-copy deal.
No, I'm quite sure they signed under duress - it was sign or a strike. Usually contracts made under duress are invalid, but not when it's a union.

What makes it worse is that even the employees were under duress - even if they wanted to work, and were not interested in a strike, they couldn't.
The "Remember:" section is a truly impressive linguistic feat.
Overweight (92.5%) and obese (91.5%) women are significantly more likely ever to have had sexual intercourse with men than normal-weight women (87.4%).

The age range was 15-44, which is wide, and nothing indicates that these findings were controlled for age, the obvious culprit.

The numbers seem about right for my assumed age groups for each category. The fact is that sex is actually very easy to get (for either gender). Quality sex is somewhat harder to find. This is what makes this sort of study meaningless. Sexually undesirable people (not to say that obese women are necessarily undesirable, but that seems to be the null hypothesis) tend to have sex fairly often, just with lower standards.

When a man propositions a woman, she can respond in one of two ways; she can say “yes” or she can say “no.” When a woman propositions a man, he can also respond in one of two ways; he can say “yes” or he can say “yes, please.”

This is not true. I'm 25, male, and have never had sex outside of a long-term relationship. I've definitely said "no".

"Choosiness" is one of those gender-loaded traits where the differences within genders are larger than those between them. Duh.

Men may not be saying “yes, please” to overweight and obese women, but Kaneshiro et al.’s study clearly suggests that they are definitely saying “yes.”

This made me laugh, and might have justified the time I spent reading this otherwise horrible article.
it's not about being altruistic.. but about standing up for principles instead of capitulating to legal extortions. Too often what's 'right' or 'wrong' is determined by legal budgets rather than merits of the arguments.
They probably have. Which may mean that all the free stuff with little or no advertising value is a smart move as a PR campaign.

I agree that a brand name advantage seems easier to tackle then a technological one. Especially when switching costs are so low. But then this is a pattern followed by many technological products. A technological advantage, followed by a few years lead followed by equivalence where their product demands a premium, outsell competition, etc.

Take Sony (portable radios, portable cassette players) or Canon (bubble jet). Innovation that was quickly equalised followed by a long period of leadership. You could even argue that a long period of technological superiority (say because of patents, trade secrets or even faster innovation) might result in an unbalanced company that cannot survive once superiority is lost.
I'm sorry. Since when is the CEO the most important thing? That's bullshit.

The WORKERS are the most important thing.
Some programmers I knew in college could have used this paragraph. It seems crazy and out there, but it reaches a very small sect of the programmer community.
It passed the last such constant (under 9000) in October.
I'm loving Rogue, it's just so easy to use and hell, watching Family Guy while grinding in WoW? That's a no brainer.
Ask HN: Which Wiki to use?
I am looking to setup a Wiki for my startup´s API similar to: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/. However PBWiki is far out of our price range (4$-8$ per user) which free opensource (preferably PHP) or other lowcost solution would you recommend?
Wouldn't that also mean that if the Google brand was suddenly to fall out of favour then they would suddenly lose alot of market share.

Seems like a weakness to me.

Remember Microsoft at one time was one of the most respected brands around.
There's already a Chat pane in the sidebar...
php? MediaWiki.
plus, getting the right foundations of internet laws set will help google in the long run. Any settlement would just open Google up for legal extortions from places they wouldn't have imagined.
How Google Could Have Made Lively Work: No Sex, More Ads, Firefox (GOOG)
Hm, I don't care about the color theme one way or another, but when I clicked 'Sign out' a popup appeared and said,

"There is a request to the server pending. Are you sure?"

I know what this means, but even then I have no idea what that specific request might be. I doubt the average gmail user has any clue whatsoever about this message.

Not really something I'd expect from Google.
Live Current (Auctomatic parent) in trouble -- stock down 80% since purchase
Chart: http://finance.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chd...
In all species in which the female makes greater parental investment into the offspring than the male does (including humans and all mammals), mating is a female choice; it happens when the female wants it to happen and with whom she wants it to happen, not when the male wants it to happen or with whom he wants it to happen.

Doesn't really justify such a strong statement. Especially if you consider culture & the fact that we are a loosely monogamistic social species with complex social & mating habits. But I think the author was magnifying a realistic point. The relative abundance of non-picky men is a more accurate, but less funny. Similar social effects.
docuwiki is also

http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki
This is perfect for people that like to multitask like me! I can work and play at the same time!
The Faces of Mechanical Turk
I know, it's been a great help to me already in Northrend. No more alt-tabbing for me.
Copernicus grave IDed by matching DNA to hair found in one of his books
Is this primarily due to the fact that women get fatter as they get older and hence the overweight/obese group is overloaded with the women at the high end of the (15-44) age range?

I don't agree with your premise, here. You need to show any study that would demonstrate that women (a) really get fatter as they get older and (b) they get so much fatter that they would increase their BMI to the point of jumping up in the classification.

Also:
When a man propositions a woman, she can respond in one of two ways; she can say "yes" or she can say "no". When a woman propositions a man, he can also respond in one of two ways; he can say "yes" or he can say "yes, please." He has no realistic choice to say no.

You may be grossed out by fat women, but rest assured that not all men are. Combine that to your following statement about fat women being less picky, and you have a formula where the available mate population is far more favorable to fat women than to normal-weight ones.
Wall Street has Spilled Over into Main Street
I feel like I'm supposed to believe this a good thing. I am struggling though. I'd prefer a reformed WoW player.
Rogue is an awesome formula

Rogue=AWESOME!
Then they are even LESS deserving of a bailout, no?
I used the gmail labs feature to move the chat to the right side. Think there are other ones in there for moving things around.
It's somewhat hard not to stereotype them when the loudest among them behave like ill-behaved 8 year-old children.

I know there is a lot of very serious people using Ruby (and Rails), but the community that builds businesses around the technology needs to deliver a message to the kids: that they should behave or their toys will be taken away.
This is extremely convenient for downtime in games like CS(when you're dead) or grinding xp in WoW...definitely feeling it.
Yahoo CEO steps down: time for Nokia to pounce?
Monty Python goes on YouTube
Most people have lower than average social value, and fewer than average # of sex partners. This is because both tend to be distributed according to a power law.

http://vannevarvision.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/review-analys...

http://polymer.bu.edu/~amaral/Sex_partners/Content_sex.html
Your observation is correct, and you are missing the point. This is political, not rational - they need to appear to be responsive and understanding of the financial plight they are in. The average person sees a rich, cigar smoking CEO taking a $20000 flight to ask poor taxpayers for 25B.
And that is why Apple was doing so well before Jobs. You can argue it either way, and that's because both are important.
Don’t like Google’s search results? Change them using the SearchWiki
This is pure linkbait.

What high-profile cases has Google won (not settled)? I can't think of any off the top of my head.
Web retailers in U.S. are waging seasonal price wars
All of this 'meta' language talk is tiresome. Just build something and talk about that, please.
To read the linked GigaOM article, it looks like he's a professor whose field of study is internet law, and the people he plays Warcraft with are largely academics interested in the dynamics of virtual worlds (or so they say...).

http://gigaom.com/2008/11/18/obamas-fcc-transition-team-co-c...
I just like being able to easily click "Yes I'm still listening" in pandora without having to tell people I'm playing with "one sec".
Jobless claims jump unexpectedly to 16-year high
BBW FTW?
I don't agree with your premise, here. You need to show any study that would demonstrate that women (a) really get fatter as they get older and (b) they get so much fatter that they would increase their BMI to the point of jumping up in the classification.

Four seconds of googling turns up:
http://obesity1.tempdomainname.com/subs/fastfacts/obesity_wo...

see Table 3. The prevalence of obesity (as of 1999-2000) increases from 23% in the twenties to 42% in the fifties, and declines after that.
Looks like the $2 trillion bailout was well spent.
As of 2007, the Big 3's market share was 57% of the US market.

http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2007/10/us_automakers_los...

Unless demand has also dropped 57%, it's highly likely that more jobs will be created in the automotive industry.

They won't necessarily be hiring the people laid off by the Big 3, but automotive jobs will be created.
We plan on integrating mochi web to the erlang-web. So far, it handles inets and yaws. Adding mochi web is not that hard, and help is always welcome :-)
unexpectedly? in this market? really?
If you want to host source code also, you might consider something like Trac (http://trac.edgewall.org) or Redmine (http://redmine.org).
I use MediaWiki because I'm familiar with it and it's feature-rich. Really, you should use one that you know, understand, and like.
Can you extrapolate a little more for the business illiterate?
Dealing With A Downturn: Selling More Services
Apparently not included in the plan: building new power stations, or even any discussion of it.

Anyone got any good numbers on questions like: if half of California's cars were switched to electrical over the next ten years, how many more power stations would the state require?
A major coup. I called them up and congratulated them.
My friend tells me the 7500 mark is significant because it is a pretty strong technical support that was created in 2002/2003 and is currently being tested.
The Culprit Publishers behind InLinks.com - Look out, Google is coming for you
What do you think about crowdsourcing as a trend?
Author Jeff Howe has recently published a book that extends his classic essay on "Crowdsourcing". Clay Shirky has written a great book called "Here Comes Everybody".

What do you all think about crowdsourcing as a trend? Is it another "buzz word"? Is it Web 3.0? Is just Web 2.0 now having its social impact?
It depends on how much use they get out of each vehicle and which sort of vehicle they are. I calculated that about ten square meters of mirrors at a solar thermal station would power one average U.S. daily commute with an electric microcar. A low drag vehicle like the Aptera would require around 5 - 6 square meters, instead. Provided that we can get our drivetrain, engine, and regenerative braking as efficient as we think we can, then we can get that down to 3 square meters for a compressed air powered microcar, and less than 1 square meter for a compressed air powered scooter.
Whats the alternative? Supporting systems where unskilled workers can still earn $30/hour despite living in an increasingly knowledge based economy?
Entering “Your Home Town” | Fuel Your Creativity
Twilio: Powerful API For Phone Services That Can Recreate GrandCentral In 15 Lines Of Code
Voices from the Open Source Revolution
Dollars and Sense
I suppose you could do that with a bookmarklet, but how many people actually use bookmarklets?
I don't, and even though I want to have this functionality for YC, I probably won't take the time to figure out how bookmarklets work, install them on my different computers/browsers, etc.
Why hasn't this come out sooner?!

I've always wanted the ability to browse the web in game, this is going to it so much easier.
I love it!
They are still CEOs. Giving them less time is still costly.
Shai Agassi is one of the most inspiring post-success entrepreneurs.

I find this more interesting then blindly giving millions to charities.
Jotspot, now Google Wiki
http://sites.google.com/?hl=en&tab=w3&pli=1
allowing users to swap between their game and the web with a single hotkey.

Alt-tab, anyone?
UBF and VM opcocde design
Did anybody call the Big 3 and inform them of the standardized battery size and location?
That's more or less what's going on.
What's more important for typing? fingers or arms?
Brilliant. Love it!
Spider Minus a Leg Sells for Thousands on Ebay
Read This: The Library is Cool
On Monday, the CPL launched a new ad campaign from All Terrain/Chicago that attempts to convince young adults of post-college, pre-children age that their neighborhood library isn't only a repository for books and prim librarians.
If you're a startup (2 people or less) Fogbugz is free and comes with wiki software. If there's more than two of you, then if PBwiki is expensive..fogbugz is much more so.