skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(1) she's not dead

(2) she's not entitled to a success

(3) One hit wonders have always been a part of the music industry
> "Do ugly women get super offended when guys all want to date attractive women?"

I've seen it, so without speaking for the entirety of a gender: sure, it happens.

Getting excluded from the dating pool because of something you have little/no control over fucking blows, I can see why anyone would be pissed. Applies to anything - age, race, attractiveness, you name it.
To noname123: "I and my buddy go out a lot in Boston to pick up chicks, we get blown out 80% of the time right away, then conversation/interaction dies 80% of the time before we ask for number, then chick flakes 70% of time after text, then interest dies on first date 70% of the time."

This sounds pretty normal for the bar "pick-up" scene, though. You may have overinflated expectations of the success rates of others.
Afaik it's not that clear cut. If some kind of fault occurs in the device causing it to draw more current than designed then the lower power charger could be safer assuming it has some kind of current limiter or fuse. Ie high power charger would happily give faulty device more current possibly causing more damage (heating up, exploding batteries etc), while a low power charger could prevent that by tripping a fuse or limiting current.

Of course I'm not sure if this is applicable to USB chargers which all are relatively low power.
How you measure analytics for your app instead? We are using mixpanel on our Phonegap app. What's your experience with analytics on native platforms?
And you have done it?
...sometimes I publish ideas that I think have potential (at an early stage, of course) on my blog: if they get commented, then there is REAL potential...
I hear you, but believe it or not it's slowly but surely changing.

On the bright side, "Asian male" in the USA may mean a severe handicap (order of magnitude really) in the dating arena vs. "white male", but it's also a tremendous advantage over "black male", "hispanic male", and "south asian male".

All in all as an east Asian, not complaining too much. It could be much, much worse.
> USB specifies 5V, not the iPhone

Afaik USB specs are 5V+-10%, ie 4.5V-5.5V. So the iphone charger is well within the spec and all conforming devices should be able to handle that.
Why an exokernel
Wow - Teespring looks like a great service.

Here's my design that got taken down for copyright infringement on Zazzle...
http://teespring.com/yobamabama
I understand where you are going now. To be fair, your point about certain people selling on low margins comes up with us and we usually start those companies at $1/product/month on our pricing and go down from there depending on how many products they want to price with us.

We have been testing this pricing model to see if we will earn more revenue doing this.

I appreciate your continued feedback and your clarification.
Pretty cool, and made me try DuckDuckGo as my default browser again. As for the DuckDuckHacks site; i'm missing an exhaustive overview of which 'hacks' are already done/being worked on.. for instance; python is already live as far as i can tell but it isn't in the Fathead repo. So if i have some other idea how do i quickly check if it's not already being worked on or maybe even available?
> Is Microsoft really serious about challenging the iPad juggernaut with this kind of inattention to detail?

Not sure where you're going with this, but given the amount of effort and ambition around the Surface, I would say that Microsoft is absolutely serious.

As for Word, there was a limited number of things we could do and fix in a finite amount of time. Trade-offs need to be made.
Home-grown systems deserve a place in this discussion as well.

For my point I'll break up analytics into halves:
(1) collection and storage of data
(2) analysis and presentation

Splunk is an example of something that only does the second half, as collection and storage are done in your own application logs. The downside as noted here is that this requires much customization to teach splunk how to interpret your logs.

On the other hand systems like GA, Mixpanel, Omniture, etc. provide powerful analysis and presentation out of the box, but keep the data locked up in a proprietary format that's usually never available outside their systems.

My personal preference for start-ups is to follow both paths:
(A) implement some closed system like GA/Mixpanel that will work immediately
(B) simultaneously record all useful data yourself and implement analysis systems as is justified

edit - i guess you can't hack it to look like bullets with spacing
toilet paper space is easily saved just by not attaching the roll stiffening. obviously you can't hang it then.

johnnie walker originally started making square profile bottles to save space in transport and make them stick firmly to each other so less of them break. some time ago milk (and water) was sold in foil, too bad it all got replaced by plastic crap. I've also read somewhere calculations how much space in transport would be saved if coke bottles were of square profile, but can't find it now.
N64 Emulator The N64 premiered throughout mid-1996 seeing that Nintendo’s front side-blue runner while in the first next-age bracket gaming console wars. Is usually was obviously a better run unit when compared with Sony’s Ps3 or perhaps Sega’s Saturn, the N64 usually lagged driving around profits. Nintendo made a decision to advertise the equipment about the merits of its rapid-launching container program plus the small idea that the idea highlighted your 64-tiny bit architectural mastery – regrettably for Manufacturers, individuals were extra astounded by high-volume Mp3 mass media, with-video game dvd sequences and also before-documented soundtracks than rapid running and the sized your machine’s line.

http://emulatorzone.bcz.com/
Why isn't Albuquerque a tech capital when it has everything else going for it? It's not a cool place to be. Young whippersnappers taking on the world want to be around like-minded (read: young and educated) people, who congregate in big, cool cities like Boston, NYC, Seattle. Not Albuquerque.
See http://ideas.duckduckhack.com/
http://emulator4you.iconosites.com/
You can also use openssl's built-in utility* to see that the certificate has expired:

openssl s_client -showcerts -connect contracts.comcast.com:443

*You may also need to specify the path to your certificates using something like: -CApath /etc/ssl/certs/

To get the exact expiration date, it appears you have to do:

1) download cert:

openssl s_client -connect hostname:port > cert.pem

2) verify date:

openssl x509 -in cert.pem -noout -enddat
Tsunami Advisory for Alaska and British Columbia
On customer support, and doing it right
Apple ][+ in HTML5
Another view of incineration:

- it's environmentally open-loop. Life on earth is fundamentally closed-loop. Energy extraction is a one-way street. (I find entropy depressing.)

- it discourages the 3 waste r's (reduction, re-use, and recycling).

- the net energy recovery is always a small fraction of the energy that went into making the stuff, and less than the savings of the alternate 3-r's.

- organic materials should be aerobically composted, which prevents methane generation and truly closes the biological loop, or at the very least put through anaerobic digestion to recover some hydrocarbon fuel prior to composting whatever remains.
We live in a strange world where 100,000 people buying your album is considered a flop.

Of course if you define "success" as "being in the Billboard top 100" then almost nobody will be successful, and being successful twice - well that's almost impossible!
>> Her debut, Kiss, has been out for more than a month — and is fantastic, living up to all its inspirations and more — but as of Oct. 10, not even 100,000 people bought it.

Translation: I'm a self-proclaimed expert in music. When the public disagrees with my assessment of specific music products, it should be lambasted.
The self-proclaimed "tastemakers" hoped that the internet would make yet another bland, awkard autotuned pop song, and adopt it for the same ironic make-fun-of reasons Rebecca Black's "Friday" took off. It didn't happen, the internet didn't care.

It didn't kill her career, her career didn't take off, no matter how much they tried to force the song-meme. The "tastemakers" have little power over the Internet at large, thankfully.
There's also an attempt I made, https://github.com/theozaurus/jsurlify which tries to keep the usage as terse as possible. It would be great to see what strengths / weaknesses all these different libraries have and try to join efforts where sensible.
The article isn't really arguing that one hit wonders are something new, or that people are entitled to success. It's arguing that there is a new dynamic in play. Due to the fact that she exploded so quickly as a meme from basically obscurity, no one was invested in her as an artist. The argument is that as a result of new media and technology, it's possible for a song to skyrocket without anyone following the artist themselves.

If you read on, the author points out the album she put out could be a contender for best pop album of the year, but not enough people care about her as an artist enough to check it out.

I find that pretty interesting. It's almost like a new take on the 15 minutes of fame idea, but now your 15 minutes, for whatever you did, make you famous to EVERYONE, but that has no affect on you sticking around in people's minds afterward....
The square Coke bottle concept was designed by Andrew Kim: http://www.minimallyminimal.com/2010/3/15/ecocoke.html
It allows for 1-2 additional bottles in the space it takes to transport 4 round bottles.
"Isn't cooperation the real basis of civilization?"

Yes and no:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_theory

Human interaction and human civilization exist across multiple layers of abstraction, and different layers have different properties and operate on different principles. (To give what has to be the most vague and least useful answer possible.)
The WebGL version has some interesting results in Safari:

http://imgur.com/KYgM1
There is some discussion in science about us already being in such a world, and how it could be observed.

This is a radio clip from the BBC briefly outlining work that is already being done to test the theory. It requires build simulators of the real world and bizarrely requires a "matrix" to hang our reality on to "correct" it to be in line with things like Einstein's relativity.

All very spooky...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9763000/9763772....
Why would I? I said none of the implementations I know of do what you say. If you do know an implementation that does, then please tell me which one.
Given the low level of software quality and the abundance of software defects in the X-Plane product,no one should ever use this Autopilot in the absence of an FAA / EASA certification approval. A Certification process which is first and foremost based on the establishment of a safety culture of "life critical" product development which Laminar Research does not currently practice, and which is currently "ad-hock". Safety critical systems must never be developed with the "worse is better" mentality.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence
over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." Richard Feynman
This is a very early experimental project, requires wiping your nexus 7, the performance will not be good and it doesn't have a tablet interface, so it's for testers/devs rather than normal users at this stage:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

It might help improve desktop performance though, and provide an alternative truly platform to android for phone manufacturers in time, so an interesting move for Ubuntu.
Project "Founders at Work II" should be funded by YC. May it gets completed.
I have OCD about code cleanliness... No semicolon at the end of line 26? Please excuse me as I proceed to gag.

But me being a douche aside, I'm not sure why you needed to extend from/bake into jQuery for this.
>>"What understanding would my comment add?"

Agree - this should be the default in any comment. It would be interesting to see a "karma" score for those who hold their tongue when they have nothing constructive to say, but obviously, that's pretty much impossible in an online format. In a way, the karma on a forum encourages opinions whether vacuous or not.
It's as dangerous as plugging in a 60 watt lightbulb into an 1800 watt (15 amp) circuit
Ok, let's see

Based on your numbers I did the math, and this means that 1 in 277 girls will pass the filter

That number may look high, but it is very feasible
There is no new dynamic in play, this has been happening to just about every one hit wonder since recording was invented. Some stay, most go.

The idea here is that follow-through has to be made by everybody, artist, label and so on to take an opportunity like this and to turn it into a marketable brand.

I'm reminded of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOu0DuxFAT0

Which I'd never heard of before running into it on digg, it's musically mediocre, has a fantastic video but ultimately failed to convince me to go out and buy an album.

The internet can't be given credit for the success and it can't be given the blame for subsequent failure, it is just a tool and how you use that tool is up to you.

Caring about an artist means to go and visit their concerts, becoming a successful artist means that you're going to have to slog through the 'building a loyal fan base' trough of sorrow somehow and as far as I know outside of throwing huge marketing budgets after fan acquisition (talent optional) there are no short-cuts there.

By the way, a similar issue faces websites, you may be able to get that front page on HN with your new offering but that won't make much difference in the long run, you'll still have to have the staying power and the determination to see it through for a long period without being sure if it is going to work out or not. And if you do the chances of it working out go up.

Overnight success is not a right, and if you've been handed a free head-start you can't blame your tools if it subsequently does not pan out the way you intended.
An interesting variant of that variant would be Fog of War Chess, where you can only see an opponents piece if one of yours is attacking it.
The vast majority of that can be explained by randomness, the extreme variance of small samples and inappropriate use of the fundamental attribution error.

Minorities live or die not because of anything intrinsic - but merely because of prevailing environmental forces. The "Jewish-success", like the article's "Asian-success", is merely a statistical fluke, just as is the failure of other oppressed minorities throughout the world.

No group of people is better or worse than any other. They merely inhabit different environments. Thinking otherwise leads to fundamentally faulty thinking, inappropriate cultural stereotyping and general stupidity. Humans as a species are highly homogenous and population variances can usually be explained through environmental factors and random genetic mutation than by any inherent ability.

> Long and Kittles show that indeed, African populations contain about 100% of human genetic diversity, whereas in populations outside of Africa diversity is much reduced, for example in their population from New Guinea only about 70% of human variation is captured.

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_variation

> While biologists sometimes use the concept of race to make distinctions among fuzzy sets of traits, others in the scientific community suggest that the idea of race is often used in a naive or simplistic way, i.e. that among humans, race has no taxonomic significance: all living humans belong to the same species, Homo sapiens. Social conceptions and groupings of races vary over time, involving folk taxonomies that define essential types of individuals based on perceived traits. Scientists consider biological essentialism obsolete, and generally discourage racial explanations for collective differentiation in both physical and behavioral traits.

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(classification_of_human_b...

So I call bullshit on biologically derived differentiation across human populations by people with poor statistical and genetic understanding.

There are ~2 billion Asians - reversion to the mean works highly effectively in these cases as immigration pressures stabilise.

Race violates my rule that if it's vague, it's bullshit.

Hence racial/cultural/fuzzy explanations for differentiating phenomena are discarded for the crap that they are.
Honesty, the ActiveRecord approach is fine for the vast majority of use cases - just consider the number of sites built on Rail's ActiveRecord or PHP's Doctrine. This is one case where getting things done is more important than theorist purity, IMO.

Have you looked into SQLAlchemy's declarative extension?
I agree... that her album is the best pop album this year. Even better than Taylor Swift's new album Red. If there was ever a better definition of guilty pleasure, this is it. I think Turn Me Up would've been a better single to go with, however. 100,000 is still an impressive number. Seeing how she's on tour with Cody Simpson and Justin Bieber, don't artists make most of their money from concerts?
"If you read on, the author points out the album she put out could be a contender for best pop album of the year, but not enough people care about her as an artist enough to check it out."

So essentially, she has a few fans but did not make a very good pop album, let alone best of the year.
Amen - the launches of both Surface and iPad mini are to me terribly exciting events, and I am impressed with both Microsoft and Apple. One of my favorite parts of being a technologist is that I get to observe how people adapt the myriad of available technologies and software/hardware systems to their own unique needs, and this extends to even myself. I've been through Macs, Windows machines, and more Linux distributions than I can count, as well as handhelds from both the Android and iOS camps, and I've been happy each time I have switched setups.

As hackers, I believe we all subscribe to the old mantra that one should use what is best for the job at hand, and arguments about whether Microsoft Surface or iPad Mini or so on and so forth are the "right way" detract from the quest for knowledge in which all of us participate.
While there's some truth in what you say, the glass ceiling is mostly within yourself.

In my experience, it's been the case that if you are actually taking actions to pursue females be it white or yellow or brown or red, rather than taking a backseat to complain and/or victimize yourself, you'll get somewhere. Provided that you are self-aware enough to learn lessons and improve your game. Also, a lot of white girls by way of social expectations might say things like they are not into Asian guys, but very few of them will actually turn you down if you pursue them, have some game and are not a complainer - certainly no more than the number of rejections white guys will get trying to woo Asian girls.

Also, most Asian females are not automatically more attracted to white males - it's highly dependent on their upbringing and aspirations. But if you are mainly into the barbie-doll type of sorority girls, then it's not exactly a surprise that girls like that are shallower than average and are more into money, status and how things look from the outside - all of which are more easily associable with the dominant ethnic group of the country - whites. There's also another subtle detail which is the fact that as Asian Americans males, we've done our fair share of suppressing our women in an environment where they have alternatives, but I'm not going into that in this comment.

One last thing I'd also like to add: make sure you are actually Brad Pitt before you go in hot and heavy trying to sweep Angelina Jolie off her feet. Actually even if you are Brad Pitt material it's likely that you'll have to work your way up to Angelina. I've seen too many Asian American guys who were brought up with too much of an introverted ego such that they won't go for the girls who are at their level whom could be a good match but are not 8s, 9s, or 10s. As a result, they flop and flop and flop again and start to believe that they are cursed by their Asian American identify.

background: I'm a Chinese guy who came to the US at age 15 not knowing how to speak much English at all with a single mother who was busting her ass getting a Doctorate from UC Berkeley. My current gf of 3 years is of Irish, English and Italian heritage.
Nice project. Trying it out on my iPad 3. It can do 1 sec of emulated time in ~1.6 secs.
I've never understood what exactly Gitorious / Gitolite offer on top of your typical git deployment, which includes git-daemon and gitweb. The rest is handled by ssh and your OS' authentication/permissions system, whatever that may be.

The website for Gitolite is not exactly clear on this, either. 'Features' include 'fine-grained' permissions and groups, the ability to set git options... A pretty long-winded way to avoid setting up git properly, given that setting it up is very easy indeed.
Discovering meaning online: ditch abundance, embrace limitation
People should pick analytics according to what they want to solve. Is it some combination of monitoring or insight, pure insight? Are those insights the result of just aggregates, or is it user behaviour driven and requires cohorts and funnels, etc?

One of the questions that should be asked before you hear the answers people give is "What is your medium and what problem were you trying to solve?".

You can imagine that Stripe does a lot of business via their API and would want insight into usage and potential problem areas. Part of this may be solved by log file crunching, but part of the API may be considered to be a funnel if multiple calls are present... what solution did they use since they could not use one of the many JavaScript drop-ins?

Email marketing and push notifications have their own problems too... how are they getting their insight? Did they all use personalised tracking links, what was the best for this use-case?

The problem with "There are a lot of solutions to pick from" stems from everyone's problem being subtly different.

For the most part web analytics in a general sense is a solved thing (Google Analytics), but as soon as you start asking company/product specific questions about the behaviour of your users you may want to consider Mixpanel, rolling your own, etc.

I think most people's answer will add more noise to your decision rather than reduce it. I don't know how to start a poll on HN but it might just be simply to get a show of hands, determine the most used tools, and then go and take a close look at just the Top 3 or 5.

> I'm especially interested in hearing from the YC startups, since I figure there maybe a set of analytics tools that are suggested to you guys by the YC partners based on the collective experience of past YC classes.

I would think that YC companies and alumni actually try and help each other such that YC companies probably use another YC company product more out of shared benefit than a perfect match.

I would guess that part of the reason they would use Mixpanel is for this reason.
Well, I guess that depends on "best of the year" definition. In the article, the author is arguing it's best as in quality of the music, not best as in number of units sold...

It's obviously just his opinion though...
I can see what you mean here - my wife is my life partner, and she is a fantastic balance outside the support my business partner and I provide each other. But she has other things going on - her life is more than just waiting to hear about how Perfect Audience is going and having someone as focused as you are on your work baby, but in different ways, is useful.