skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not trying to describe 100% of all humans, walking around, with my own little pet theory

Neither am I, I'm just trying to describe the majority of humans, based on my own experiences.

> The enormous hidden assumption is that 3 billion+ people can be jammed into your tidy little binary choice.

And you're assuming there aren't traits that are common among most of those 3 billion+ people. But I think this marketing video indicates that there are certain common traits, which marketing is designed to appeal to.

> Jonathan Conway figured it out.

I'm not the first person to make these claims.

> nobody asked you to "shut up and put up just because [you're] a guy."

Fine, not here, but on many other forums (e.g. feminist) that's what I'd be told in an indirect kind of way.
It works in the Chinese court system, unfortunately. I guess we just don't have the laws to allow these yet.
Finance and the American poor
Yes it is, if you're hiring them for shoving shit around. If you hire for an engineering position (what was this Edison guy doing anyway?), then those fancy writing and math skills and whatnot might be quite necessary.
Its an interesting proposition, but fundamentally broken. Lets say you build it (and frankly I think a better course here would have been something based on the app.net model rather than WP Engine model) and its "successful" what does that mean to you?

Here is the challenge, there are too many scenarios where you don't want to be.

#1) "SPLOGGING" or some random thing becomes the new thing which all the cool kids are doing. You've got just enough customers to keep you in Ramen so you're committed to working until you're 70 and can augment your income with Social Security to honor this commitment to those few.

#2) You've spent 20 years maintaining the service, answering the same questions, fighting the same fires, dealing with the same sort of "Chrome v286 can't display tri-graphs properly without mime support from the replacement for nginx" kinds of problems.

#3) Its wildly successful and someone offers to make you a billionaire if you sell it to them?

In contrast I like the foundation idea. Foundations don't get tired, they don't get tempted, they just execute against their created principals. A foundation with an endowment that runs a service which supplies a voice for bloggers for a computed value which is not to exceed 15% of the operating cost of the service. That is a durable kind of construction, the people in it are just employees, they turn over like students in a college or wait staff at a restaurant. Its a chunk of money, controlled by a legal document, implemented by a management structure, to create a service in perpetuity.

Don't build a business and promise not to sell it, build an institution that is self contained.
There's nothing wrong with selling out. I assume Posterous was founded to make a profit at some point and selling out allowed them to do that. I'm actually 100% okay with that. I was merely calling out that "never selling out" is a strange proposal coming from someone with a track record for selling out...on the day that this former sold out service announces it is shutting down forever.

It might just be bad timing to announce the next project more than anything.
Unfortunate side effect of decreasing the barriers to (e)book publishing?
In other words, you're a spammer.
The cofounders of Posterous. They don't need YC. They were in YC.
I open/hold doors for other people, regardless of gender. It's just good manners. Anyone who comments on the door-holding habits of others without being directly involved, is not being chivalrous, just a busybody.
Financial education has had disappointing results in the past
Keynesianism used to be the consensus after WWII. Keynesian economists did, though, lose influence in the 70s due to economic stagflation.

The crisis of 2008 and its response didn't necessarily cause Keynesianism to "switch over" into the mainstream; in fact the reason that the US response to the crisis was to have a stimulus package and quantitative easing was because Keynesianism is and was part of the mainstream. Keynesianism certainly did become more prominent after the crisis.

Ben Bernanke, believe it or not, is a monetarist [1]. Monetarist ideas and Keynesian ideas are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

[1] http://reason.com/archives/2009/09/01/friedman-economics/
THE average Swiss watch costs $685. A Chinese one costs around $2 and tells the time just as well (see chart.) So how on earth, a Martian might ask, can the Swiss watch industry survive?

The average Coach bag costs $500+. A Chinese one costs around $12 and holds your junk just as well (see chart.)So how on earth, a Martian might ask, can Coach survive?
No need to speculate. I don't have a relationship, and I've never really had a proper relationship.

This isn't something I'm ashamed of, because I don't base my self-esteem on other people's judgements of me.

Especially not on womens' romantic interest, which in my opinion (based on my observations) has a lot more to do with pre-determined evolutionary subconscious emotions than conscious, rational judgement.
Why the heck would GitHub take $100 million in investment and still push for earning a profit every quarter? Does it make any sense to you? Now you can see why I'm confused.
Office 2013 retail licensing change ties suite to specific PC forever
State of Touch Typing – Fleksy campaigns to Apple
How do you propose implementing a netbooted infrastructure with laptops?
One exam might not be a make-or-break event, but why miss an opportunity? Besides, I usually find tests (particularly challenging ones) fun, contrary to the prevailing sentiment of dread or resentment.
Now you are just smoking crack. The web is hands-down the most widely used application platform in the world, and you're going to claim it's not a robust platform for application development? I don't know what planet you live on.
I would purchase a product I needed or wanted, that satisfied the need/want in a quality way at a reasonable price.

Arduino under the hood would make the product somewhat more attractive; I can hack it to do whatever I need it to do.
> Swiss watchmakers – An industry ripe for a shake-up

Quick, quick. Someone, start selling luxury watches $5 a pop. That'll show 'em, pesky cheese-eaters!
A billion dollars over three years is a bit different. That may be the number, I have no extra information here. It may also be made up, I don't really see any useful sources.
Is this just about being able to reuse components beyond the original use case, or also being able to split the product and let hackers drop in existing Arduinos we have laying around?
The Awkwardness of the Skype Job Interview
In the original link, I didn't see any claim that Edison was looking for correct answers, or that Edison knew the answers. Only that he looked at the paper for a bit and then dismissed the candidate.

For all we know, he was looking for people who deliberately ignored some subset of questions as irrelevant, or who demonstrated some quality of judgment such as questioning the appropriateness of the quiz verbally before starting, asking to take it in a quieter environment away from the arguing people, helping mediate the argument instead, stopping and asking for their first few answers to be checked to see if there was any point in them continuing, or ... anything at all, really.
> and you then left and moved onto other projects

And now he wants to work on something like Posterous again. His priorities don't seem so shifty.
It's a general purpose OS.
> Our software license is permanently assigned to the licensed computer

I wonder how they define "computer" - what if you buy an identical hard drive and restore a backup to it? Or what if you move the hard drive to a new unit?
JSON is traditional: dictionaries, arrays. OO languages have built-in syntax to deal with those, via [] and dot notation, and the array objects nowadays have ways to do map() apply() grep() etc. on the collections.

The main thing missing is that XML has attributes, so you can query against those.

I won't say that the JS stuff is better, but it's one less thing to learn, and what you learn is directly applicable to writing apps in JS.
The transmission sounds similar to the Steptronic or Tiptronic automatic transmissions. You can shift up and down all day long with the paddles, but you can't downshift into a gear that will redline the engine.
> PostHaven has made a great start by killing any acquisition value from Day 1 by making their defining feature a promise never to sell.

Just like OkCupid's intensive, well-researched, data-driven post on why online dating needs to be free scared off Match.com from acquiring them?
Handling session state with my own code let me
improve the UI/UX.

Yes, with the session state store as just a simple
program, actually just a console application,
communicating with just simple TCP/IP sockets, there
is a wide range of options for having many Web
servers sharing several session state stores. So,
get a 'scalable' solution with some options for more
in reliability. And don't need 'session affinity'
from a front end Cisco box.

The collection class I used was

SortedDictionary(Of TKey, TValue) Class

as in

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f7fta44c
EFF wants software patents to include working code
Yes, but women get to choose WHO TO (positively) sleep with; whereas, as a man, you generally don't have that choice, unless you're extremely famous/wealthy/etc., which you generally don't have control over.

I am bitter and confused about heterosexual relationships, because they seem to contain big contradictions which I can't work out.

I've tried to form a theory that explains most of what I observe in straight female attraction: women are attracted to men who are tall and socially powerful (i.e. popular).

This theory seems to generally hold. Yes, I know there are a multitude of OTHER qualities that women at least SAY they're attracted to.

But I think height and popularity are baseline requirements which are common to most women, regardless of what other requirements they choose stack on top.

Yes, I speak in terms of requirements. It's true.

Dating a woman is like going to a job interview. Any man who's honest knows this.
Chalk me up as unreasonable then, as I had never bothered to remember that rule.
since you're posting here, you have a grocer's apostrophe on the home page... it's "URLs", not "URL's".

second, can we auto-migrate somehow from a posterous backup - my wife runs a blog on posterous and is really worried that she needs to migrate. if i could tell her that she just now needs to pay $5/month and not rely on me to hack something together w/octopress and github she will be so excited.
Maybe visit some places first.
How I read this: Einstein would have approved of candidates using Google.
Well for one, you probably don't want them to be apt-get in terms of installing binaries. We had that with Fink, etc. and it sucked and was outdated quickly. Homebrew is pretty solid though, probably better than what Apple would come up with. They actually helped make what you would like a reality partially by releasing the Command Line Tools so you don't have to bother with Xcode.
How do you develop on multiple monitors with your VMs? That's always kept me back.
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=php
Universities don't make a huge amount of money from patent licensing, but it's non-trivial: http://chronicle.com/article/University-Inventions-Earned/13.... Northwestern is particularly aggressive about pursuing patent licenses, and licensing brought in $191 million, relative to $485 million in research expenditures. But for the 155 universities in the survey, total licensing revenues was just $1.8 billion for $54 billion in research expenditures.

However, universities are a piece of a larger system that includes big corporations in capital-intensive industries, federal/state government, and scientists/engineers themselves. Would universities keep doing research if they couldn't directly make money from licenses? Probably. Would the system keep working if the pharma/petrochem/aerospace/etc industries couldn't protect inventions? Those post-docs doing research at NWU aren't doing it for their love of humanity. They're there so they can get a job at Pfizer, Exxon, Lockheed-Martin, etc. Pfizer, Exxon, etc, certainly aren't in the game for their love of humanity. Would Pfizer keep hiring post-docs if some Chinese manufacturer could flood the market with cheap clone drugs within months of Pfizer bringing a drug to market? The government would keep investing, of course, but would they have to invest more to get the same output if they couldn't dangle the patent licensing carrot in front of researchers?
People who cheerfully exploit mob dynamics to intimidate others don't have a claim on the honesty of those they attempt to intimidate. That argument reminds me of bullies who complain when they meet an unexpected defeat that their intended victim was not 'fighting fair'. The willingness to initiate force, whether individually or in a group, does not confer any sort of moral authority whatsoever. Indeed, the physical authority garnered from the exercise of force is often sought as a substitute for the lack of moral authority.
This isn't fair at all. Posterous was very responsive to user feedback and reported bugs. Posterous engineers spent much of their time answering support emails directly and finding solutions for users. As a matter of fact, support emails go directly to engineers inboxes. Perhaps the problem was that there just weren't enough engineers.

Posterous may not have found a way to make money but the site was definitely meant to improve IMHO. Email, Groups, Spaces, slideshows, sharing to multiple social networks -- the list goes on.
I actually started wearing a watch regularly a couple of years ago after thinking a cellphone was enough for a long time.

There are a couple of advantages: it looks good (maybe the only male fashion accessory acceptable in a conservative professional environment besides a wedding band), and also it much easier to glance at and allows me to not check my phone throughout the day--especially helpful in conversations and meetings where it'd be rude to pull out your phone.
>Can you do a writeup/tutorial for your setup?

Actually, Flask tutorial uses a blog application as example

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/tutorial/introduction/
I had a professor once (for modern physics, i.e. relativity and quantum mechanics) who said that if anyone could get 100% on his test, they'd saturate the "sensor" and make the measurement less accurate; he wanted to see the bell curve centered low enough that it didn't get clipped by the maximum score. He calibrated his tests so the highest scores would typically fall in the 50s or 60s, and then applied a curve. Actually getting 100 would require knowing all the material for that course in advance and then some.

An interesting, if nerve-wracking, philosophy. :) It's the only time I've ever left a test and not known for sure what grade I'd get.
Iranian Valentine's Present with HTML5 audio Tag
> play the numbers game

Meaning, just make a complete doormat of myself. Go on as many dates as possible, buy women as many things as possible, just keep giving and giving more and more.

And maybe one day, some woman who no one likes will decide to give me a go, as a last ditch resort, and I'll get lucky for a night or two before she dumps me for someone with higher status.

But of course I must not have enough "self esteem" to do all that.

> If you are proactive enough to choose in your dating life

Oh I have all the choice in the world.

I mean, I can literally CHOOSE who will reject me.

I can approach any woman anywhere and get a rejection within 5 minutes.

That's wonderful.

And the internet makes it even easier, because now, I don't even have to know of the rejection.

I can just send off 100 messages to 100 women and get 0 responses after 5 days, and just assume that I was rejected.

Technology makes life so much easier!
Even if that was true, I'd still tell people to start with flat files for a new project. It's like the advice to do a job yourself before hiring for it: You'll be better equipped to judge how well a database is managing your data if you've already done it yourself.
haha, good point. Anyway I just remembered this one as soon as I saw hailpixel. I like hailpixel too, here some thoughts about it:
- copy code to clipboard
- edit previous selected colors
A quick skim shows a lot of applications that use PHP and some libraries available with or for PHP. What does this have to do with WordPress?
Another example of what to me seems like a "good" case for NPEs: Stanford's CCRMA invented a bunch of early synthesizer techniques, and licensed them to Yamaha, who brought them to market. A reasonable division of labor: CCRMA is not well equipped to manufacture and market synthesizers to the general public, but Yamaha is and was interested in their research. In turn, the licensing revenue was fed back into more research in the field. Patents provided the legal mechanism for that all to happen.

A focus on NPEs also doesn't get at the abuse perpetrated by practicing entities. For example, Intel uses its stable of patents (many of them quite questionable) to prevent startups from breaking into its markets: you can only go up against Intel if you're someone like IBM who has their own patent stable to form a credible MAD threat. The aggressive use of patents by practicing entities with strong market positions (in order to stifle competition) is imo at least as big a problem as NPEs are.
File this in the category of: making backups, not using GoDaddy and using a password manager. It's easy, everyone knows it, but yet most people don't take the tiny up front effort to do it right.

Just last week, another GoDaddy rant. How quickly are these startups closing? How many startups' products do you use that have no business model other than "attract users and content and figure it out later". Enjoy when the next one that you're "actually using" succumbs to the same fate!
He probably relied on the popular options. If all your neighbours think of Leica as the best, there's no way you'd pick Zeiss in a pre-internet world without a Wikipedia that has a disambiguation page for every other term.
Sure, people on the other coast might pick Zeiss, but how many people were willing to travel across a whole continent for a job interview in those days?
Play A Random Harlem Shake Video
"off of"? what is this, the youtube comment section?
Native wrapper for webapps on OSX?
I'm looking for a webapp wrapper for OSX, kind of like PhoneGap, but for OSX not iOS. But there seems to be...nothing. Apache Cordova has a flashy website, but not very much information on what it can do or how to use it - and when I downloaded the bundle, read the readme.md, got sent back to a URL[1], OSX wasn't listed.

[1] http://docs.cordova.io/guide_getting-started_index.md.html
You know why the tone of my comment depresses you? Because it's true.

It's depressing, because you don't have anything to point to in reality that would refute my viewpoint, because it's just true.

And your success with women isn't based on anything you achieved yourself through your own choices in life.

It's all pre-determined by how tall you are and how many friends you have.

You're full of romantic delusions about actually having some sort of genuine mental connection to the women you date.

I'm revealing the shallowness and emptiness of your ACTUAL relationships.
I find my Evernote has turned into a valuable asset. I used to create browser bookmarks, but without searchable content from the page, or something visual, no matter how much organization, it was often easier to just go back to Google to find the link.

If it's a good tutorial, etc, I copy the relevant part of the page, and paste into a new note. It keeps the formatting well enough, and on Desktop it picks up the Heading and Link on it's own.

A lot of times it will be a web design, or some other smaller UI feature that I like, and will screen clip the design and us Evernote as kind of a visual bookmarks.
Heard of Ad Hominem? It seems to affect you. He might have been a thief, but he was a quite capable business man that many could learn from.
That's because competition for government work is not really based on customer satisfaction in the same way it is in other industries AFAIK.
I don't know. Maybe there's some way we can reach out to someone high up to make it happen quickly.
Google is moving from the "web" to the real world, and closer to customers and also making hardware themselves. The next 5 years should get very interesting for them. They need to build these stores fast, though. Adding 5 stores per year won't change much.
In 2007 we were heading right into the ground, but I think we're going nowhere but up right now.
One of the unique features of Opera that other browsers should add is ability whitelist/blacklist most annoyances and vulnerability points for a website. I usually default to everything off and whitelist as I go.

- Kill 3rd party cookies + remove all cookies on browser close

- No plugins enabled (and permanently disable all unneeded ones like Java). Plugins can be reenabled per site.

- kill javascript on really bad sites that abuse it and work without it

- Use private tabs and windows for shady sites

- kill animated gifs and html5 video autoplay on sites that abuse them

Since Opera has a built in way to whitelist sites for each of the above items (or blacklist depending on how you do it), I add trusted sites back with plugins on demand and save cookies for a few sites where not having them will be annoying (banks, etc).
Yet Chrome has a "Click to Play" feature for all plug-ins which is way more handy than having a second browser or a bunch of extensions.

Go to chrome://chrome/settings/content and look under plug-ins. There is Run automatically (default), Click to play and Block all.
The problem with the linked article is that "working code" isn't defined. Does this mean an executable embodiment of the code, or a compilable source? The difference is obviously very significant.
Chrome has a "Click to Play" feature for all plug-ins which is way more handy than having a second browser or a bunch of extensions.

Go to chrome://chrome/settings/content and look under plug-ins. There is Run automatically (default), Click to play and Block all.
You are completely and totally ignoring the point.

Wanting to take the test is not problematic. Opting out of the boycott and taking the test is not problematic. Allowing everyone to believe he is joining the boycott, and secretly taking the test anyway is dishonest douchebaggery of the highest order.

There are alternate solutions to this problem that do not involve both skipping out on the educational value you perceive to result from taking this take while simultaneously fucking over every one of your classmates, including "innocent victims" who felt pressured into joining the boycot.
We routinely land impactors, robots, and even sample return missions on other bodies in the Solar System. It does not seem to be a stretch to land a small rocket on a meteor and give it a push. If you do it a few years in advance, it would not even take much of a rocket.
I haven't followed this thing very closely but has anyone suggested testing this again and trying to reproduce the problem? If someone said my code was faulty, the first thing I do is repro.

Why doesn't another newspaper just try the same experiment?

Maybe the journalist was bias, maybe he got a lemon, maybe he hit on some weird bug, maybe it's true and the car doesn't work well in cold weather.

Arguing over who said what is crap. Just test it and get more data.
Studios do need their service. They don't need them to provide that service.
Sony's next PlayStation reportedly will stream games from the Internet
If you use Chrome there is. Go to chrome://chrome/settings/content and look under plug-ins. There is Run automatically (default), Click to play and Block all. You can also set whitelists for sites you are OK with trusting (YouTube comes to mind).