skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have no idea what my religious beliefs are, douchebag.

My objection to this sort of behavior isn't religious. It's that I value the preservation of civilization, and I have a real problem with a bunch of self-absorbed thugs who are trying to fuck it all up. It took thousands of years to get to a society even approaching one where men and women could relate on loving and mutually respectful terms, and the casual sexers want to throw all this progress away within one generation.
From the study you linked:

"Even when romantic love is not linked with reproduction, this passion can provide a teen or young adult with some exceptional personal and social benefits, including exhilarating joy, increased energy and optimism, feelings of intimacy, self-esteem, inclusion in health-giving social groups, exercise, social and personal support, and crucial practice in the skills of building a long-term partnership—skills they will need to make the most important social contract of their reproductive lives."

Oh yeah man. Pwn'd all right. Self pwn'd.
Honestly? No. You've already run the score up against yourself without my help. It would be mean-spirited for me to visit any additional harm upon you, emotional or otherwise. I'm done with this dispute.
your opinion is that a PhD is not necessarily bad, but (based on your experience with a few people) that a PhD in computer science makes a person useless

Nope.

Hence the "being misinterpreted" statement.

Seems like you want an argument. Go have it with somebody else.
They are not literally operating side-by-side on the Internet. There are many differences. Perhaps you need to live in China (not Hong Kong) for a while to appreciate them.
C'mon, don't wuss out now.
What a load of bollocks. Stop trying to dress up your crass superstitions in the clothes of learned sociology and demographics - they just don't fit. And your assertion that casual sex is something that only appeared in this last generation is laughably, provably wrong.

Give it up already, you and your stupid beliefs have been utterly trounced.
I had actually sen the pepsicozeitgeist bit...very cool! It reminded me a bit of http://www.wefeelfine.org/
edit/erase:

I just read the rest of this thread and time_management is an idiot that probably SHOULD be seeking therapy.
The average user doesnt know or care what Chris or Mark spend their time doing. They care about the experience. Though I hate the site, I still go to Myspace when I'm at work to listen to tunes. Though I prefer Facebook, as a personal user, Myspace is making way more off of me. (Through my business though, my apps are generating Facebook millions of ad impressions per day.)

Also, ask any app developer where the better ecpms are. We just launched our Myspace apps 2 days ago, but I'll try to give some exact numbers when we've had some more time.

In the end, I think the winner in the monetization wars is going to be the one who provides the better platform and monetizes it better. Though their platform is maybe more painful to develop for, Myspace has a lead there.
"Even when romantic love is not linked with reproduction, this passion can provide a teen or young adult with some exceptional personal and social benefits, including exhilarating joy, increased energy and optimism, feelings of intimacy, self-esteem, inclusion in health-giving social groups, exercise, social and personal support, and crucial practice in the skills of building a long-term partnership—skills they will need to make the most important social contract of their reproductive lives." (Emphasis mine.)

You missed that inconvenient detail, didn't you? Romantic love and casual sex are mutually exclusive. (I'm railing against casual sex, not all premarital sex; if the latter, I'd be a hypocrite.)

Women may be particularly vulnerable to falling in love with a casual sex partner because seminal fluid also contains dopamine and tyrosine, a building block of dopamine (Burch & Gallup, in press). Although these chemicals do not pass across the blood-brain barrier, elevated activities of dopamine and tyrosine may affect brain physiology through other complex interactions. In fact, people report that sex can lead to romantic love. The natives of rural Nepal even use an off-color term for this phenomenon, saying "Naso pasyo, maya basyo," or "the
penis entered and love arrived" (Ahearn, 1998).

Once again, this biological link between lust and romantic love is not direct or simple. Athletes who inject synthetic androgens to build muscle do not fall in love. When middle-aged men and women inject androgens or apply testosterone cream to stimulate their sex drive, their sexual thoughts and fantasies increase (Sherwin & Gelfand, 1987; Sherwin, Gelfand, & Brender, 1985). But neither do these individuals become enamored.

Nevertheless, the chemical interactions between testosterone and dopamine and the chemical changes that accompany sexual arousal suggest that those who engage in sexual intercourse are more likely to fall in love; their threshold for this passion is lowered. And women who engage in sex without a condom may be even more susceptible to romantic passion. Hence teens and young adults who pursue
"casual sex" with a friend or stranger can become enamored with their sexual partner even when they have no intention of beginning a romance.

Lust Can Trigger Attachment

Sexual activity can also trigger the brain system for attachment. In humans, orgasm elevates the activity of oxytocin and vasopressin (Carmichael et al., 1987; Young
et al., 1998); and these neuropeptides are associated with attachment in people and other animals (Wang, Ferris, & DeVries, 1994; Williams et al., 1994" Young et al., 1998). ' B Hence, teenagers who engage in casual sex can trigger the brain system for attachment (as well as that for romantic love), leading to complex, unanticipated emotional entanglements with psychologically and socially unsuitable mating partners." (Emphasis mine.)

In other words, casual sex hacks the brain system, by aping at least some of the biochemical signature of romantic love. Of course, in most cases, it's not romantic love but a shallow infatuated attachment. In any case, it's not good for you.
It looks like it's slightly steeper than flat. At least so far. Growth should flatten out at some point.

It's hard to predict social phenomena. I just try to react quickly when problems arise.
I didn't start this thread. If you sincerely think I misinterpreted your words, you're more than welcome to explain your opinion with something more insightful than "nope".

You may not have meant to say what you said, but that doesn't mean that my summary was wrong.
"It took thousands of years to get to a society even approaching one where men and women could relate on loving and mutually respectful terms, and the casual sexers want to throw all this progress away within one generation."

Dude.

They were saying that in the 60s -- 40 years ago when I was three.

And they were saying it in the roaring twenties when my grandma was twelve.

Hell they were saying it in the 1880s. The Victorians were convinced that the end of arranged marriages and free courting meant chaos and destruction was upon us all.

Just when is this easy-sex-kills-civilization event supposed to happen? I'm only planning on living another couple hundred years or so.
>Why are you so afraid of women?

Women have the power to hurt him.

In this day and age, outright threats to our survival are rare unless we choose to seek them out. Food, shelter, and other basic necessities are easily within the grasp of nearly the entire population. Desirable sexual partners are not. Due to our nature, the majority of men and women cannot get the partner they want most of the time.

The pain of being betrayed or discarded by that one you thought you had found is considerable. Not only that, but it's visceral. It's hard-wired into our physiology that that will hurt in a way few other things can.
Please, take the "Work" out of networking
"if the latter, I'd be a hypocrite"

Funny, I could have sworn otherwise.

"Romantic love and casual sex are mutually exclusive."

You speak for yourself and no-one else. Most women would consider being boned by James Bond for one night only to be a highly romantic proposition.

I'm not James Bond but I do my best. I've never had any complaints. At least I have some experience in such things. You are just making shit up to support your wacky beliefs.
60 minutes just ran a story on Ghostnet. It is a terrible development-- these networks undermine online trust and e-commerce everywhere.
Wait - how do you know if something is a problem if you can't predict it? Problems are defined by their effects, right?
The original article is here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/29917512

But I sorta liked Megan McArdle's summary better.
Token Ring.
The passwords say a lot about each site's userbase.

singles.org users commonly use passwords with religious meaning, like "jesus", "pastor", and so on. Apparently this is a site that appeals to the religious folks.

phpBB has things like "phpbb" and "password". Their forums force people to create an account they don't want, so they pick a dumb password. (I had to ask a phpbb question once. I think I used 1234 as my password.)

Finally, Myspace is Myspace, and has commonly-ocuring gems like "poop" and "nigger1". Ah, high school kids...
Delimitdesign.com are using wordpress with WooThemes' "The Gazette Edition" premium theme:
http://www.woothemes.com/category/themes/page/2

They removed the credits from the footer and the css file, so I bet they stole this too (Torrents for this theme are available).
PG - any chance that you guys are planning on releasing quarterly high level reports from HN? I did some searching for it, but couldn't find anything in the past (I'm a fairly recent user, but couldn't find any references). It'd be interesting in a navel-gazing sort of way to see what the HN crowd looks like.

Also, a lot of HN discussions are self-referential (esp. when discussing user testing, etc.). It would be really helpful to have some data to add to these discussions.
Yes, I believe that he was trying to say something along those lines. But that doesn't change the fact that it's a crass generalization to say something about a "PhD in Computer Science", as if they all shared the same brain.

If you ask me, PhD holders have demonstrated themselves far more capable of dealing with scut-work than your average human. Every PhD I know earned their degree only through years of drudgery and perseverance through vast stretches of boredom. They tend to laugh bitterly at those people who suggest that they're impractical dreamers, incapable of doing "real" work.

For my part, the only impractical dreaming I got done in graduate school were the bits where I imagined that I could make money with my skills when I graduated. :-P
That completely misses the point of why people vote, or buy green products, or help the homeless, or donate to charity, or do anything civic-minded.

It's true that one person basically does not make a difference in the grand scheme of things. However, it makes a big difference to that person. It's all about identity, and self-image, and all the intangible self-esteem thingies that you can't reduce down to rational behavior.

Same as with any branded behavior. Why do people pay $5 for Starbucks coffee when they can make it for pennies at home? Why do they pay double for Macs when you can get an Ubuntu machine that works nearly as well? Why do they live in gigantic McMansions that cost a fortune to heat when they'll never use all the rooms? It's all a way of saying "I'm cooler than you", and people will pay a lot to be cooler than their neighbors. Personally, I think being green or civic-minded is a lot more productive expression of your self-identity than mindless consumerism.

Same reason that the Prius succeeded in the market while the Civic Hybrid and various diesel cars failed. The Prius just screams "I'm cooler than you", with the sleek body, separate brand, keyless entry, electronic transmission, on-screen computer display, etc. If you really want to be friendly to the environment, get a Jetta Diesel or a motorcycle or bike to work. But those don't announce that you're being friendly to the environment the same way that driving a Prius does. (Except at Google, where biking to work is one step cooler than driving a Prius, because everyone has a Prius.) So they fail in the marketplace, which is all about "What can this do for me?" rather than "What can this do for the environment?"
> We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each of the cans."

CONS
I tried it on a small scale and it totally failed for me. Actual cold calls, if targeted correctly, can work and did drum up some good leads, but it's tedious.
Donating to charity is different because even a small donation can make a difference to someone (e.g., keep him/her alive for a few days).

Voting/buying green products is all about showing other people that you share their views. That's all it is. If you are independently-minded, maybe you wouldn't want to do that.
Oh, those silly pious folks and their predictable passwords. Jesus may save, but he certainly doesn't protect very well.
thanks for the above two posts. You guys made my day. I'm in the the final throws of trying to make a good site look "acceptable" on IE6. Your experience helps my isolated decision process. I hope this threads runs further.

Particularly, I am wrestling with this: My site is mostly text. Typography is king here. Its easy to make it look nice on OS X. But both Firefox and IE6 on WinXP look like hell. This is mostly a WinXP core fonts problem. But the same font between Firefox and IE6 on WinXP looks different and I can't find an acceptable balance. Let me add to that: I can't find any "readable" core font on WinXP. What do you do?
I always recommend http://www.artificestudios.com but like many other comments, I'm going to have to ask you to define "not too expensive".

http://www.artificestudios.com/blog/business/walmart-prices-...

(Disclaimer: Antonio is a good friend and godfather of my little girl)
"Pretty much universally" is not a universal quantifier

Wait, what? I'd say it pretty much is a universal quantifier.
Should've known that putting "David Moon" in the title here will get you at least twice as many votes...which will get you more votes in turn...
You gotta be kidding . . .
That's the hardest I've ever laughed reading hacker news. Wow.
Subsuming Packages and other Stories
Apparently the vocal minority among the vocal minority cares. Hence we get to read about it...
What they Used to Teach You at Stanford Business School
A simple item based algorithm which has been reported to work quite well is Slope One. The advantages are that it is easy to implement, can be updated on the fly, and it works well (enough) for sparse data sets.

http://www.daniel-lemire.com/fr/abstracts/SDM2005.html

There's also examples using python, java, and PHP/SQL.
Seems like a really good option for individual logos, but what about overall site design?
>> The Federal Reserve, for example, could have punctured the housing bubble at any time by saying loudly and forcefully "this is a bubble, you have to stop now". The results might not have been pretty then but they even uglier now...

> The fed isn't a regulator of financial institutions. Instead, it is supposed to handle monetary issues.

Whatever its official duties, the Fed is considered a central bank. Centrals banks as a rule have been considered to have wide latitude for action on the economy in general, by policy makers, by their heads, by the financial community and by the public at large. Certainly, we can see the Fed taking wide action today.

Just consider - I'm sure you know the William McChesney Martin quote that the job of the Fed is "to take away the punch bowl just as the party gets going". This means looking at the economy as a whole.

> Note that crashing the market (via raising interest rates) wasn't politically possible, and regulators only do what is politically possible.

This is indeed true. Politicians may sink to the point that they only follow immediate popular options. CEOs may lie, cheap and steal due their pathological greed. Doctor may do a bad job due to habitual incompetence. In each case, it might indeed be true that nothing was possible at the time that it happened. One nonetheless must point out what these people ought to have done, whether they really could have done it or not.

I would note that the rise Greenspanism/"market fundamentalism" itself, starting in the 1990's, certainly made it much more politically difficult to stand against Wall Street's further partying in the 2000's.

> And, to the extent that bogus-type transactions were occurring, crashing the market wouldn't have stopped that. They'd have just gone down in proportion.

This is pure speculation on your part. I could equally speculate that they would have gone down as a proportion given that the total supply of loans was now down and honest deals are more desirable than dishonest deal. Further, actual bogus loans were only the final straw which broke the back of house price inflation. At wasn't the fundamental problem. We can see a huge number of ordinary loans which are coming undone at the moment (and without the massive intervention of the Fed, there would be even more).
If you consider Obj-C and Ruby interchangeable, you haven't programmed in at least one of them.
Because why settle for a crappy file format when you can get a crappier file format that is also its own filesystem!
This is nice looking. On the computer, this would be a shitty UI, but on a phone it seems quite usable.

One quibble:

You cannot have more than one picker at a time, so the SpinningWheel object is unique and it is created as soon as you include the JS file.

This bothers me. You are missing the point of object-oriented programming if you can only have exactly one of something.
I'm a Mac guy too, but have also spent years developing sites on Windows. One of the biggest giveaways that tell me a site has been developed exclusively on a Mac and probably not tested much on Windows is the fonts.

This is a pretty recent chart of font availabilities: http://www.webspaceworks.com/resources/fonts-web-typography/...

From personal experience, stay away from Lucida. One of the most common fonts across all platforms is Arial. I usually recommend using this for your general copy font. The attempt to render Lucida looks really crappy on Windows if its missing, and you can never tell which computers have it and which ones don't. That being said, Lucida is a nice looking font when its available. If you are you looking to use Lucida, read below.

This is a solution that's been promoted for a couple years, font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

It was talked about here: http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/luci...
There is an updated posting from this year that you should also read:
http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2009/02/18/luci...

Its definitely a good idea to do some cross-platform testing. Another idea is to use the SIFR technique, although it relies on Flash(not my favorite recommendation).
Why do you assume your grandparents did something right in their marriage that divorced or unhappy couples didn't? Maybe they just happened to marry a person they were able to live happily with, for reasons they didn't understand at the time.
Because both crappy file formats are used in most companies and universities. Just because something is "crappy" doesn't make it any less useful.
Might be an interesting white-hat idea to have a service that gets into a social network and spiders out, collecting thousands of user names. Then attempt library login attempts. In the event they are successful, the service contacts the user and warns them that they have a weak password.

Unfortunately this is so similar to standard phishing attacks that I'm afraid the good would be offset by the bad of reinforcing user behaviors that its ok to click through on 3rd party notices like this.
You look at the effect.
I probably won't be sharing torrents any time soon, yet, right or wrong, I admire tPB's unflinching dedication to the cause of legitimizing torrent technology.
I built a clone for .NET programmers and launched it right before MIX http://managedassembly.com

Explanation for why it was needed: http://john-sheehan.com/blog/introducing-managedassemblycom/
Why aren't these sites storing salted hashes? Plain text passwords are bad news...
This is also likely illegal (as in: jail-time illegal). Talk to a lawyer before implementing anything like this.
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Burns Statistics - Spreadsheet Addiction
Thats a good point, almost like testing with users that are power users for your software. This would be fine though if your target users have the same experience as the turk users.
I was asking for something like this in #startups a week or two ago. I found this as a possible solution, but unfortunately, it only works on mobile safari. Would be great if there was a cross-platform version available.

I posted a question about this on StackOverflow a while back if anyone is interested. I'm going to end up coding my own solution, but I likely wont start for a few weeks. I have a lot on the table right now.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/652857/iphone-like-slot-m...
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IPhone Accounts For 50 Percent Of U.S. Mobile Web Traffic; Android At 5 Percent
Yes. Long term growth and profitability, vs. quick and easy returns.

Myspace choose maximum return, and their userbase is leaving.

I bet you facebook could turn their site into %80 adds, and make lots of money in the short term, at the prospect of loosing their customers and future growth.

In early 2000, GM had the cash and the chance to invest on new and more effient cars, but they decided to go all the way in SUVs. I mean, why should have? SUVs are so much more profitable right now!?!

And look at how the foreign automakers are eating their lunch. The VOLT is about 7 years late, (the insight and the prius were released almost a decade ago).
And Toyota/Honda are not the bankrupts ones.

Some things are simply long term business decisions. I have to bet my money on who will still be around in 5 years from now, myspace is not the one to bet. It is dying, and rightfully so.
No. The good ones hold out for better men. There was a HN post about it a while ago.
Wind powered car breaks speed record
I agree that the project is done in good faith and is a completely worthwhile project. See my original comment that started this thread.

I think the proper way of attribution would be a link (or message) in the footer or, at the very least, on the about page. Maybe I'm being pedantic, but if I need to search for the attribution by going to the developers blog or viewing the source code, I don't think that's enough.

This is beside the point, because I agree that the other forms /are/ attribution, but I don't consider the creative commons link a form of attribution at all.
The Conficker Worm: What Happens Next?
Good thing that...heh...my password is totally...um...not on that list.....
This brings to mind an add-on question. Have any Slinksets become important hubs on any domain? I haven't really seen any with a sufficient number of comments & points to "qualify" as HNs. Strange considering how well it works.
"Mark Zuckerberg practically lives at the office. Chris DeWolfe spends half his time chasing starlets"

and you know that because...?
i suggest looking on elance.com put out a proposal, and let some people bid on it. You can see examples of work, and get recommendations. The good thing, is you will be able to find talented people all around the world.
Where did you get that impression? Not from the linked-to article, from my reading of it.
Cash is not king
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