skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And for some people, someone looking you up online so that they can "casually" steer an initial conversation to a pre-researched interest is itself a signal that makes that person less attractive to them.

EDIT: I've known otherwise-attractive guys who've done things like that and provoked "creepy" as a reaction; I've known otherwise-attractive girls who've done similar things and provoked "desperate" as a reaction.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but in general the further you get past just talking to mutual friends for "research" the more you're risking coming off bad. The real trick is trying without looking like you're trying. "I dunno, fly casual."

The thing that gets lost in all these attempts to come off good initially is that just being able to talk to someone entirely off-the-cuff and carry a conversation is a very valuable skill—one that's worth practicing!
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Could an aircraft do it?
You should have your monitor adjusted such that looking straight ahead, you see the top of it. You shouldn't have to look down.
It is ADD for sure, but there is a measured dopamine response to this type of interaction. The easiest way to understand the history of any object is through a timeline, so when appropriate I do think you are going to see a lot more of it.

From my vantage all of the modern social networks feel like the newest incarnation of the blog model, which has always had that timeline model.

Nir Eyal has some nice thoughts on it:
http://www.nirandfar.com/2012/08/the-webs-slot-machine.html
One huge thing you missed is device pairing. Nokia already uses NFC to pair their wireless accessories (headsets, speakers, etc). With wireless charging, it makes docks obsolete http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upo-e692lRg
I would assume your guess is right. You have infinite room to scroll on a browser where you don't on a newspaper.
The answer to the problem of not coming up with the right answer for a perfectly reasonable query is 'Change your query'?

Apple apologists are actually making Apple lazy and entitled. Any sub standard stuff needs to be pointed out. Not hand-waved away.
I use loosecubes.com every time I come to the city to find a random coworking spot to work out of. It's a lot better than the cafe hustle.
Cool, looks like a useful library.
I can only imagine that "pick up artists" are even lower down on the list of people that girls want to talk to than facebook stalkers are.
I have used AMEX since the last 9 years, precisely for things like these. They are REALLY good at processing disputes and chargebacks, and in the last 9 years, there has never been a time when I 'lost' a claim against such fraudulent charges (I've had around 5 such claims).

On the other hand, both Visa and Mastercard are pretty much useless to 'protect' you against charges like these.
And that's before the user goes to File -> Print.
I respect you man. Not gonna argue with you. Just before the re-branding of Hotmail to Outlook, there was an article on TC, claiming it takes '14 seconds' for Gmail to load. And posts like that one are not rare on TC.
Salespeople that need to improve their skills are often found listening to motivational speakers. Try being Tony Robbins.
Sounds like it:

Our results reveal an evolutionary adaptation to an extreme environment, and may support recent biologically inspired research on robotic aircraft that might utilize albatrosses' flight technique for engineless propulsion.
>Or people who can't shell out the money for SSDs

I was talking about the SSD vs HDD decision. Not about people who don't have the money to do either.
IMHO the H1-B visa should have a scheme like allowing 3 months for every every year worked. Since many tech jobs are filled for 2-4 years, that would give people 6-12 months to find something new.

Out of curiosity, how much does it cost a company to takeover an existing visa?
Simple solution is check your CC statements regularly for discrepencies and request a chargeback from your card provider if you get scammed.

Enough charge backs and they lose their merchant account.

Most Credit cards users don't realize just how simple it is to run a charge back. It is literally one short phone call.
Excellent, the iTunes store is illegal, and the RIAA is a conspiracy with Apple to foist illegal technology upon citizens, lets bring RICO charges against the record execs. Someone who runs a record store somewhere must have committed a crime at some point, so lets run them through the presumption of guilt via a RICO charge. Lets also make sure they aren't using criminal funds to fund their defence and freeze their accounts.
We should have hints on titles like "Apple only" so we don't have to read for 5 minutes and then see that it was a total waste of time, having no Android version.
Certainly YMMV greatly on these things. Speaking for myself, if someone simply looks up public information on the net about someone else they are interested in, that's pretty normal and anyone who claims to have never done it is likely full of shit (or very old).

The creepiness comes in depending upon how they use that information. If they use it to lie and suggest their interests are aligned in ways they aren't or in other deceptive ways then yeah that's creepy but in a way that is actually independent of the so-called "e-stalking". It would still be creepy if they learned the information they used from a friend or whatever other old-school method.

If, on the other hand, the person sees on Facebook that you're a huge fan of some hobby and they too are actually a huge fan of some hobby and they mention that, I don't see that as being creepy at all, but again YMMV.
Most significant quote for me:

“Founders tended to be middle-aged—40 years old on average—when they started their first companies. Nearly 70 percent were married when they became entrepreneurs, and nearly 60 percent had at least one child, challenging the stereotype of the entrepreneurial workaholic with no time for a family.”
Well, it's not a big investment in time to check out somebodies Facebook profile. Besides you might not have an opportunity to talk to them face to face right away.

Besides if you check out somebody you might like and find that they are into Scientology or extreme right wing politics or whatever you might reconsider asking them out in the first place.
Here is a fork by github user ljos that includes OSX support:

https://github.com/ljos/selfspy

I am actively using it, and it seems to be pretty much like the original linux version.
If the weather is nice, you can work in Bryant Park during the day. Especially before lunch hour rush. There are tables, shade, and (some) wifi -- though 4G cell hotspot is probably better.

Also, the New York Public Library is right nearby, so if you get annoyed by crowds or weather, you can relocate to one of the most beautiful quiet workplaces in the entire city.
F# is so close to OCaml that it hardly counts as being "designed" at all.
All the use cases for swiping are also use cases for NFC, but obviously the added convenience of NFC will probably encourage adoption in scenarios where swiping would have been too much.
Not a cafe, but the Rose Reading Room at the 42nd St. library is the prettiest, most productive place to get work done. Also easy to move outside to Bryant Park when it's nice out.

(edit): Looks like it's nearly unanimous. Here's a picture for folks who haven't been there: http://nycpano.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/rose-reading-room...
Wow, I'd love to know how many people that has worked out for.

"PUA" is one of the most amusing internet subcultures, I'm very surprised that I haven't yet seen it used as a target by a comedian or comedy show.
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The main branch of the New York Public Library in Bryant Park.
Next in the series - "The joy of being kicked in the balls". A lot of things can be said about php. Being joyful is not one of them.
>Which one is more informative at a glance?

Wrong question. Which one are you more likely to click on?
That is what I think he's saying. I know, it's disappointing when it's not rage worthy. (And if I'm wrong and it is rage worthy, is there any point to reading about it besides getting all ragey?)

As for Aereo, I like what they're doing (and wish it were available in more places), but even so, I think they're navigating a fine line between the letter and the spirit of the law.
Being a northerner I'm not sure I agree with this. Around Lancashire asking for just 'Fish and Chips' would generally be replied to with 'Do you want cod or haddock?', with the popularity being 50/50. Most chippies wouldn't even serve plaice. I'd say the same is true around Yorkshire on the other coast. I agree though the the fish in Seattle is much, much tastier.
What do people think about making companies pay a significant premium salary (25%) to H1-B visa holders over US citizens? Seems like this would allay concerns over companies using H1-B visas to keep salaries down. Basically companies would use H1-B visas when an equivalent people cannot be hired domestically. If this approach works then maybe eliminating caps is possible, since it should be a somewhat self-correcting system.
An artist's recovery from novelty
In San Francisco, PayByPhone has put stickers on many (all?) of the parking meters, enabling you to pay for your parking via their mobile app. In addition to a unique number, the stickers are also NFC-capable, so presumably an NFC phone owner can wave a phone against it to input the meter ID in the app.

(I use an iPhone, so this is speculation on my part.)
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Secure sign on. NFC reader attached to your PC, touch and sign in. Already possible on Linux.
Really? I don't think nuclear war is more likely these days than it was during the 60s and 70s. If anything I think that possibility has greatly decreased given the interdependence almost every nation has on other nations.
Click on the link I provided and read the details. I even quoted the relevant numbers.

Of the 252 drugs that were approved, 118 were regarded as "scientifically novel" (not me-too drugs or minor modifications of existing drugs). They also did another cut where they looked at FDA "priority approvals", which basically means the FDA was willing to fast track the approval because the disease the drug was treating had no effective treatment.

As to your second question, over 60% of the scientifically novel therapies were discovered by pharma/biotech. They would have received no government funding for their research. The remaining 40% or so were discovered in university labs, of which a certain percentage were discovered via gov't funding (don't forget that industry-academic partnerships also make up a certain percentage of university funding).
That's pointless speculation, and you can play that game all day until you're arguing that nothing is safe. How can we really be sure, after all, that trace compounds from sea salt aren't causing slight DNA damage that will turn our descendants 150 generations down the line into eight-legged mutants?

The fact is that there is no more reason to believe that sucralose will have some as yet unobserved negative health effect than there is to believe that it will have some as yet unobserved health benefit.
As someone else suggested check out Loosecubes.com .

In Manhattan it can be a little challenging to find a coffee shop to set up in for very long. Seats and outlets are at a premium and many are policing wifi moochers these days. There are a few large starbuckses with a good amount of room though. I've also worked at the library before (not many outlets, and you can't take phone calls inside).

In Williamsburg there are a ton of work-friendly coffee shops. If you take the L train to the bedford, lorimer or graham stops, pop open Yelp and you'll spot at least 3-4 coffee shops in a 5 block radius of each, with wifi and (usually) seats...
I'm using Timesnapper and it's great. Not only it keeps screenshots for everything, but you can also filter by application while searching for an old website you saw or data that you forgot to save. It needs a lot of storage though. In 50GB you can keep 2-3 months of screenshots.
I've seen this myself. I was a seller last year and whenever I found a product to sell with a good profit margin, Amazon would eventually come along and undercut me.

Since they can buy in much higher volumes than I, they win.

I recommend that nobody ever sell their products on Amazon. Yes, it's a great market and you will get sales. However, all of their seller support is automated and if their automated scripts somehow think you are violating one of their rules, you get kicked off forever.

I was kicked off after selling for 8 months with a near 100% track record and great customer service. Why? Amazon couldn't tell me.

Their answer was: "Due to the proprietary nature of our business, we can't disclose the reason". They held over $5000 of my money for 90 days. It's lucky I had savings or I would have been in trouble.

The customer is also king. I had multiple scammers order over $100 in items, file a claim and get their money back without ever sending the item back to me. Amazon (unlike Ebay) doesn't allow you to ban a scamming user nor do they care.

I made them thousands of dollars in my time there and they couldn't even give me the decency of a person to talk to. I'm disgusted by their business practices.
Are you a salesperson yourself?
Have you ever sold anything?
you would need HTML, CSS (and probably LESS), JS (and probably JQuery + CoffeeScript + Backbone), SQL or Mongo and Ruby or PHP or similar just to do a simple form application

People are working on that. For example I've started to learn clojure and recently wrote a very simple web app using Clojurescript, Noir, Korma and a couple of helper libraries like fetch and crate. Using that stack I managed to write an entire web app without ever leaving Clojure. Everything felt like clojure and the borders between client-server-database was rather fuzzy.
I'm a fan of Think Coffee, and Ace Hotel's lobby
Despite Promise, 19 of 20 US Agencies Ignore Freedom of Information Law
it seems so! :)
SimpleChat built with Node.js, Socket.io, Express & Redis
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I wrote my own clustering algorithm in php and I use http://www.simplepie.org/ to parse the feeds. I will eventually open source it if there is enough interest. But the code needs cleaning up before I do that.
I agree, the guides you can read on /r/seduction [1] are so hilarious that I can't believe anybody who writes these would be dumb enough to actually try them.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/seduction -> sidebar guides
Does Simon Cowell know anything about entrepreneurship? Can't wait to see him berate tons of super hard working people on things he knows nothing about.
This looks pretty cool. At first I had the reaction that it was too simple. I didn't have patience to watch the video, so I just read the homepage.

I think you should at least mention the other "letters" included in the library on the front page. It goes in depth into 'p', which makes it seem like it's all there is. Maybe name some of the other letters, and link to the API docs.

Each individual piece seems pretty small and easy enough to implement, but the package as a whole seems more valuable, having all these little tools in one place.

Nice work
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Did computerworld have an advertising relationship with slashdot?
At least it's not made in China, think a bit about that! ;)
In the decades to come, a combination of infrastructure repurposing and good design will define the most livable American cities. Good to see the combination making more headlines today.
A panel of experts from multiple universities (including Duke, where the study originated) smacked that study down pretty hard: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19567260
None. And that's the point. The idea here is to stop granting monopoly on on these areas.

But that won't affect, for example, authors, musicians or marketers. It won't allow anyone to start screening movies without paying royalties, or a new social network called "Facefolio" or proprietary products based on GPL'd code.
being on the tv adds little to entrepreneurs success, compared to being a musician featured on tv is everything. So I am afraid that this show wont attract the right people.
It would be very nice if this was presented in an appropriate graphical format for easier comparison.
> I still can't find a reasonably good offline maps app for Android, for when access to the Internet isn't so easy.

You want this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ulmon.andr...
The Ace Hotel has a great lobby to work in. I work there for a couple hours almost every trip I make to NY.

Convenient outlets at most seats, free wifi, and a Stumptown adjoined!

Lot's of creative types working there, illustrators, writers and such. Can get pretty busy after 5pm.

http://www.fastcompany.com/1768472/ace-hotels-communal-works...

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Doesn't everyone invite everyone to stalk everyone now by putting their information everywhere online? Stalking your crush is the original purpose of Facebook according to that movie.

The main thing e-stalking reveals is how interested the guy is, and maybe how smooth he is (smooth guys don't do as much research, or they know how to hide it better). So if he brings up the horses, she knows he's into her and maybe a little awkward, but it doesn't tell her he's definitely a psycho- she'll probably judge his weirdness from his appearance and manner.

The creepiness of normal stalking depends on how attractive the target finds the stalker. If you're a hot, rich, 100 year old vampire, you can watch a girl sleep every night for months and she'll think it's awesome (but the vampire didn't admit he was doing it until after they were dating).

If he realized "horseback riding" was the key she'd used to encrypt all her passwords, then that'd be a serious red flag. So there's certainly a point where stalking becomes creepy no matter how hot you are, but looking at someone's Facebook profile isn't it.
Seems like in the building seurity case, that could be a huge afffordable improvement over RFID tags; I.e. Tap and get a key that you respond to wth a crypto function vs. RFID where any idiot can scan and replicate your tag.
If you read a little more deeply you'll find a lot of "thank you" posts like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/seduction/comments/10hx83/fr_so_im_f...

It's working for some people.
Weren't the arrest warrant levied on him while he was already in Cambodia?
I used Turbo Pascal and other environments even smaller environments (anyone remember Action! (editor + compiler in 16k and ran on a 48k machine, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action!_(programming_language))

That said:

* the machine I ran Turbo Pascal on had a 115meg hard drive which was large compared to my co-workers 80meg drives.

* Turbo Pascal could not edit or display Chinese, Japanese, Korean.

* The editor could not search and replace across files with undo like my current editor. Nor do I think it could do a regex IIRC.

* It could not tag 40k+ files and bring up help on any function in near realtime.

* It could not refactor code.

* The machine ran in 80x50 characters. No windows. I could not view both reference material and my code at the some time on the machine, I needed a book. If I didn't have the book I needed I had to either go to a library or find a tech bookstore. (I only new of 3 in all of both Northern and Southern Califorina).

* The machine I ran it on had no networking.

* I had to manually edit config.sys, autoexec.bat and move DIP switches when ever any new devices were added. There was no USB only serial and parallel.

* When my program crashes I often had to reboot the machine.

* There were no fonts, everything was text.

* There were no images except a few icons in my apps. No way to easily display a company logo or screenshots in docs.

* There were few if any libraries. If I needed to read an image or parse a file I had to write it from scratch. If I needed to draw some graphics I had to poke registers. If I wanted to play audio I had to do device specific stuff.

I'm sure we could go on listing all the things those machines did not do nor did Turbo Pascal do compared to today's environments with their large libraries and access to all the stuff we've built up today.

Sure I miss the time when I could basically own the entire machine but I'm happy that today I can just plug in a USB stick or a digital camera and they just work. That I can participate internationally in multiple languages. That 1-20meg images are trivial to manipulate and display. That mp3s, wavs, and other audio is ubiquitous, etc....

Those simple days were fun but a little reflection will show that today's supposed complexity has made it easy to take a lot of things for granted. In the Turbo pascal days. If you wanted to display a photo it would take hundreds or thousands of lines of code, especially if you wanted it to work for more that just your machine. Today it's step 1: copy file from camera, step 2 <img src="path/to/file.jpg" />

I'm not going back.
Thanks for the feedback. It is exactly what I needed to learn. You are right that without disclosing the product this is just spammy marketing. I do not want that. The idea itself is still pretty crazy, but given how welcoming you are I will go ahead and write a blog post detailing what it is that we are building.

Thank you.

PS. Blog post should be out once I have the early adopter invite system up (1 or 2 days).
Most slashdot posts are like that.
I have a galaxy nexus and I love the idea behind NFC. Right now it feels like a gimmick because there really aren't places that take google wallet where I normally shop, and not many friends have NFC enabled devices.

That being said, I am really excited for NFC to grow.

Someone should kickstart a project that is a usb NFC phone sync tool. I think HP just announced a computer with a feature similar (the spectre?).
Thank you for all the comments. I love checking in with the HN community before doing customer dev interviews. This has saved me alot of time.
How can this be an "evolutionary adaptation" is beyond my understanding. How can a genetic mutation lead to such complex flight strategy? Anyone can clue me out? Or is it just another irresponsable "just-so story"? [1]

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/09/17/12091...
I say the same thing about Ruby and Python. Forced white space? not fun!
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excellent read. thanks.
There's a lot of love here for the 42nd St. library, but I'm personally a fan of the performing arts library at Lincoln Center. Aeron chairs, tons of open space with plenty of outlets, and if it's warm out you can work in the Lincoln Center plaza for a change of pace.

If it's warm out and you don't need internet access, I'm also a big fan of working from the High Line. There are lots of shaded tables, and you can't beat the ambiance. If you need to duck away for power or WiFi, Chelsea Market has both nearby (although getting a place to sit at Chelsea Market can be tough if it's after 11am or so).
Not sure you can copy all RFID tags; NFC is often classed as a type of RFID.
That is basically it. Aereo is not doing any one thing you could not do yourself, but the conglomeration is a little gray.

As an admittedly poor analogy, the police can follow you around without a warrant. They can't, however, slap a GPS tracker on everybody's car and follow ten million people around simultaneously. The law is interpreted by people, and they consider things like scale, scope, automation, intent, etc.