skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or further -- once either of you pay, you can each see all of each others' photos.

Nonpaying people only see half the photos of other nonpayers, but all the photos of other payers. This would be a little like the "at least one user has to be paid for an introduction" policy I've seen on dating sites.
That's a tautology.
Poll: How many of us read via website vs. RSS feed?
I find it particularly annoying when I click a link to Hacker News in the RSS feed and it comes to a discussion that's empty and the link is dead.

If enough of us read on the website to make it worthwhile, is it possible to make discussion links show up on the RSS feed only after some time to prove their mettle instead of immediately?

I could implement my own filter, of course, but it's not quite high enough on my list of priorities to get done any time soon. So I'm just wondering if there are others that feel how I do, and if enough people read the website to make it useful for those who don't.

Obviously we're dealing with a little bit of exploitation here, but still...
My primary notification about Hacker News stories comes from visiting the website
My primary notification about Hacker News stories comes via RSS feed
gmail just uses tags instead of folders. That way a single message can be in multiple folders at once. You can still do anything you could do if they were called 'folders' instead.
Fair enough, but don't let the unscrupulous part be a story you tell yourself to justify why you've never figured out how to get laid.
Say what you will about how lame Microsoft Exchange is - the one advantage to it is that pretty much every Mobile Device in the world (that wants to have a market) - can bring up the Calendar in it - and give you a reminder as to what room you need to be in.

I don't see how the paper solution ever worked anyways - I can't tell you the number of times I've reserved a conference room 10-15 minutes before, hoping someone wasn't at the same time as me.

I think this is as much a commentary on Google Calendar, and how negatively MicrosoftExchange has impacted standards around calendaring, as it is on the cool 802.15 hack.
But some bugs turn the user experience into paralysis. How do we know beforehand which intentional bugs will only be harmless?
That's a loser's game. Sure, a ton of money will get you laid... with precisely the kind of women one should avoid in the first place. Money does not increase one's attractiveness per se, it only attracts scavengers commonly known as gold-diggers. Better use the money to improve oneself...
I'm surprised this comment has so many up votes. Money helps a bit, but trying to earn more money just to get laid is ridiculous. There are many easy and fun techniques that are far more effective. Examples: carry yourself with confidence, be social, cultivate an aura of mystery an allure, do interesting things, become a better conversationalist, be fearless in approaching girls, practice speaking to random girls and trying to entertain them, etc, etc.
I'm on Windows unfortunately. I would imagine there's got to be good online solutions but all I've found so far is animoto.com like I said...
Display bugs are pretty harmless (e.g., a label being a few pixels off its correct position). Also, consistency bugs are hard to notice sometimes.

These bugs irritate the developer, but probably not the user.
Alas, being smart doesn't ensure wealth, either.
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Being smart got me a well paying job.

For about 3 hours of work I can make it happen + tips.

But seriously, I'm not willing to "get some" because it requires me to do things I don't want or willing to. It's sort of like PG's essay on popularity.
All you really need to get laid is a willingness to eat humble pie while you climb the social learning curve.

It's simple: smile, make eye contact, show interest, ask questions. You will probably feel like an idiot. Repeat until confidence outweighs fear. If you're smart, use your brain for wit, not for showing off.
I have seen it before and, like last time, I really think I should follow some of this... I'm very bad at single-tasking and it doesn't help at all getting things done.
Me too :(

2/3 years ago I started registering for free trial at Emusic and gave a UNIQUE email addy on the 1st page. Then, when it started asking for my credit card, I curtailed my application.

So, I wasn't even a member of emusic (couldn't log in as you would expect). Yet, it obviously remembered my email addy and leaked it, as shortly after I started to get spam addressed to this email addy that I used exclusively for emusic.

I complained to them but a director replied denying that they had any security breach.

For a couple of years I got the odd spam using this addy. However, in the past few months I'm getting about 40/50 per day.

I'm not too concerned yet, as the spams are not very large and I can filter them to delete from server without downloading them. I'm just a bit worried that they are on the increase and could get larger and more of them to fill my server mailbox.

These are not isolated instances, there are quite a few articles and blogs about it. This is how I found here by googling "emusic spam"!
There are already service that somewhat meet those needs.
Eg: http://www.rightstuffdating.com/. This site limits members to specific schools. Not all of the accepted schools are ivy league quality, and you could probably get in from a school not on the list. But the service is being advertised as for single adults from elite universities. There are other similar dating services.

Plus there is always Mensa and other high-iq societies. People have said that Mensa has just turned into a club to find people to date. Here's Kathleen O's experience with using Mensa for dating:http://www.yelp.com/topic/chicago-a-speed-dating-service-lik...
Um...here's hoping that an insightful comment on the topic of geeks getting laid doesn't necessarily imply that I don't. Hope you got your giggles though.
I remember taking a wireless sensor course and how they were talking about a situation at Intel headquarters trying to synchronize conference rooms. It ended up being similar to travel scheduling which is as it turns out, a hard problem.
Also, I need to lose about a hundred pounds and do something about my jebediah beard.
> Smart people spent more time on achievements than on relationships when growing up.

More details about it from pg : http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
It's TRUE alright!
"Unless you actually convey femininity as a woman or masculinity as a man, you're not going to attract a suitable companion of the opposite sex."

How... heteronormative... of him. I'll pick my own brand of suitable, thankyouverymuch.
You can be smart at a skill without guarantee of success.
Of course I can't speak to you personally, but I've definitely seen cases of exactly what I described. It wasn't a joke.
Woman did not evolve to find smart guys or "nice" guys attractive. Woman are programmed to find the leader of the pack attractive, even if said leader is an ahole. Fortunately, most well raised woman were taught with their rational minds to be wary of the jerk and to go for the gentleman. So rationally they want the nice guy, but the animal mind wants the leader of the pack. This creates conflict. If you've ever been in a situation where you've had a close female friend tell you - "you're a nice guy, but I'm sorry, I'm just attracted to you. I really wish I was, but I'm not" - you know what I mean.

The answer is not to become to an asshole, but you should cultivate an air of being more like a leader of the pack. Note you do not have to actually be a leader of a group of guys to do this. It's just about sending the right signals to the female's animal mind.

Things you can do to give that impression are: be confident when approaching girls, do not be needy or give off signs of desperation, tease her, be interesting, give off a sense of bemused indifference, don't act like your trying too hard, do not be afraid to touch her on the arm or shoulder, flirt with her friends, etc. I learned this stuff through experience and friends, but there are sources on the internet that can greatly speed up the process. You can read the archives of Roissy's blog, but be warned, it's very not PC - http://roissy.wordpress.com/
When Fabrizio Benedetti of the University of Turin in Italy carried out the above experiment, he added a final twist by adding naloxone, a drug that blocks the effects of morphine, to the saline. The shocking result? The pain-relieving power of saline solution disappeared.

When I read this, I said, out loud, "What the flying farkmipple?"

So does naloxone block placebo effects in general, or only placebo morphine? Inquiring minds want to know.
This is why start-ups are so exceptionally cool. Get your SO when you're poor, so you know they love you for you. Then hit it big and be rich without a gold digger.

(Details left blank as an excercise for the reader, BTW. ;-))
Notice I said "quite a bit," not "when appropriate."
who said anything about relationships? this is only about getting laid.

And if you are loaded and want to avoid gold diggers, nothing is stopping you from going 007 on it, rent an apartment, buy a beater, and pretend to be broke
www.mew.org
Is there a group recipients feature? Something like assign Y contacts to X group and then send to group X?
no way...

let me add a monetization option for facebook here: why not adding revenue share with application providers? Block adsense, force their own ad engine, get 30%...
Or just live in a comfortable place, drive a decent car... live like a normal person...
I would have to agree with this. Being smart does not guarantee wealth. There are a lot bright people who got good grades in HighSchool, finished college, etc. This is because they have to -- get good grades. But after graduation, it becomes an entirely different story. It takes more than brains to get rich. Opportunity, guts, risk-taking are just some of the factors... Just my two-cents...
> But seriously, I'm not willing to "get some" because it requires me to do things I don't want or willing to.

What are the things that you don't want to do or are unwilling to do that you think would get you laid?
don't forget to workout, being in shape will pretty much cover a lot of those things
Amen to that. I've often wanted to send emails out and specify the time they get delivered.

But don't send it at the time we specify - send it out plus or minus two minutes and some change. There's nothing lamer than saying to yourself "Wow, what a nice email about 'thoughts you had today.' It came at midnight - wow, you sure were up late! Oh wait, it came at 12:00:00. What a douchebag."

Well, there is something lamer: if you are the douchebag.
yeah but decent car = gold digger, unless you don't buy anything fancy and settle for something boring like an accord
Create automatic video editing styles using Scheme/Lisp
Yes. My phone is associated with my personal account and not my company one though.

Besides, the system predates the phones.
I would argue that the user experience is not better. You are still seeing ads, and you still are limited to what the networks decide to put on hulu. Often they will take down episodes after a few weeks, and on top of that, there are plenty of networks that haven't made deals with hulu, and their content is not available.
Wow, that took me a while to unwind. It wasn't immediately clear to me what "I can't, and don't want to, figure out the last part" referred to.

You were expressing apprehension at exploring why those particular attributes confer a high success rate.

i.e. Why might bad behavior be rewarded?
My friends have tried using iPhoto once for a bar party. We just hooked it up with projector and speakers. iPhoto is good since the transitions are cool enough and you can play music during the slideshow.

If you do not have a Mac then borrow one from your friends ;-)
Obama Spurns Silicon Valley Vets, Names Virginia’s Secretary of Technology As CTO
Did Twitter Just Quietly Start Twitter Connect? If Not, It Should.
I check the website when I am not busy to get the latest news. When I mean latest, I mean to the last minute. I use netvibes.com when busy and just scan entire tabs for important stuff.
Your point came across much better in the original version:

"being smart will get you laid, for sure. being raised in a family/culture that quashes social interaction and activities is the thing that will salt your game."
Exactly. I can get action, as can most single people. But if I wanted to get laid all the time, I'd lie to women, entice drunk ones, etc. Not far off from what most "pickup manuals" encourage.
Appearance I find is not a huge factor... If you excude confidence and know how to talk, you will still get laid.
Astronomers call this boundary the Kuiper cliff, because the density of space rocks drops off so steeply. What caused it? The only answer seems to be a 10th planet. We're not talking about Quaoar or Sedna: this is a massive object, as big as Earth or Mars, that has swept the area clean of debris.

They've got this kind of backwards. They describe this like something basically pushed parts of the Kuiper belt inward to form the steep gradient. We're pretty sure Neptune and Pluto pushed things out to form the Kuiper belt. As well Mike Brown's work that found Xena, Santa, Easter Bunny etc. would have picked up on a Mars sized object past the Kuiper Belt but close enough to shepard things.

Maybe we can't work out what dark matter is because it doesn't actually exist. That's certainly the way Rubin would like it to turn out. "If I could have my pick, I would like to learn that Newton's laws must be modified in order to correctly describe gravitational interactions at large distances," she says. "That's more appealing than a universe filled with a new kind of sub-nuclear particle."

Actually modified Newtonian Dynamics or MOND equations are WAAAAY harder to swallow than dark matter.

Dark Matter: The majority of particles don't interact significantly with photons

MOND: Particles shooting through space either spontaneously replicate or behave non geometrically.
Gravity falling off at 1/R^2 is a consequence of geometry, the surface area of a sphere. MOND proposes 1/R^2 + R/N (for some very large but arbitrary number N) which makes NO physical sense.
Meanwhile gravitational lensing observations continue to provide evidence for "invisible" matter.

If the observations are correct, the only vaguely reasonable explanation is that a constant of physics called the fine structure constant, or alpha, had a different value at the time the light passed through the clouds.

But that's heresy. Alpha is an extremely important constant that determines how light interacts with matter - and it shouldn't be able to change. Its value depends on, among other things, the charge on the electron, the speed of light and Planck's constant. Could one of these really have changed?

Actually any sophomore or junior in college is exposed to the concept of evolution in the fine structure constant, while it isn't taught as definitive, it's hardly heresy.

AND it goes on, none of these (at least the physics based ones) really have much debate in the scientific world.
Quick mention: we just added an API to the site for our newly launched Issues feature.
Microsoft PhotoStory + Windows Movie Maker might do the trick for you. If you need more power and can't find an online solution, ProShow Gold is great. Kind of pricey though.
It's actually ridiculously easy to use...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D6B...

You may not need to download it, but this is the latest version for Vista.

Just slap in each photo, drag a transition between each, import an audio track and it takes like 10 seconds to make a DVD with it.
Yes.

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk/Makefile.in

Find "test-rubyspec".

It even `git clone`s rubyspec if you ask it to (update-rubyspec).
I don't visit a lot of websites on a daily basis. Mostly I come here to HN and read the articles HN front page leads me to. That's it.

This is the reason why I never need an RSS client.

Anyway I think your concern is genuine. HN should fix the RSS thing for the group of people using RSS clients.
guess i should've stuck with my gut reaction. i appreciate the input.
(Accidentally downvoted you. Apologies.)

That is not a loser's game. I have more respect for the guy who is getting laid because he is rich, than the guy who was born handsome. The latter was born blessed, the former had to figure a way to become a good candidate for fornication.
It's a good question, but I'd have to say: only if you equate "nonstandard" with "considered harmful."

Needless to say, I don't.

For one, there is a large difference between the spaghetti code that can result from liberal and
injudicious goto usage vs. whatever you might encounter by using "for" instead of ".each"

In the goto case - we use it all the time under different names with special circumstances: method calls, loops, breaks, nexts, etc.

In the case of for vs. each - it depends. In some cases you may indeed be iterating over the contents of some object in particular. But what if you are iterating over the contents of two disparate objects? Should we use ".each" on one and keep a separate counter for the other?

And then, there are those times when you actually want the variables in the loop to be available outside the scope of the loop, as I mentioned in the previous comment. It might not be standard, but it does happen. One instance is where you are letting doing evals on variables introduced by the objects in the loop. That just can't happen with the .each call, and you need the "for" loop to do it.

And I would add, even if it were possible to keep track of that in a block we pass to #each, I would rather not do so because of the psychological implications of doing so. If I want to iterate over two disparate objects, I need a way of expressing that, and the "for" loop is it.
If the OP likes Textmates code browser then why not use ECB with Emacs (w/ anything)? I've been using it for a few months and its really helped me ease the transition from Textmate.

http://ecb.sourceforge.net/
Business Grads Look Beyond Wall Street
Just use powerpoint and hook speakers to your ipod. Our ears will naturally match the flow of the music with transitions.
Four More Analysts Call Market Bottom
Thanks for the comment, token.

It's just an opinion. I tried to source it as much as possible, but at the end of the day, we'll simply have to agree to disagree.

If you Google how the civil war started, you get everything from Dred Scott to John C. Calhoun. Last year we visited the Lincoln museum in Springfield, IL. I bought a book there -- something like "50 things that could have prevented the Civil War" It was an interesting read, speculative at best (as all of these types of conversations go)

I would argue that all of the presidents in my list are "pretty good" In fact, they're great presidents. But that doesn't mean that they don't fall short at the bar of history. Most of them made excellent tactical decisions that had long-term consequences. You can't blame presidents for being human, and humans do the best they can.

It's a complicated subject -- hence the post. Thanks for giving it a read.
I didn't say anything about relationships either...

Attracting gold-diggers can be fun if one sticks to pump & dump kind of debauchery. It might seem unscrupulous, but we're not discussing that. Worst-case scenario, one risks getting one of these gold-diggers pregnant... and be forced to see her again (or, preferably, her lawyer) in the future, which is never pleasant.
I'm fairly certain this is the worst idea I have ever read. The "programming" done by public schools is bad enough already, trying to get kids to think the same. Now they want them to feel the same.
That's not his point. His point is that you lose because though you get laid, the woman loves your money, not you.

Now, you could argue that if you're handsome, the woman loves your body, not you.

So I guess you really should have every negative quality possible, save your personality, if you want to truly "win." Except that you'll probably just totally lose.
nmh and its Emacs client, mh-e, are pretty nice, and are an excellent fit for working in screen. It's been a couple years since I used it actively, but it's worth a look.

nmh in particular is a bundle of small command-line programs that "just" dump out a list of subject lines for unread messages, etc. Easy to build on.
For whatever reason this really struck a nerve for me.

It's erected on a false dichotomy: "given a choice between happy-go-lucky and picky-but-lonely, happy sounds like more fun."

I don't personally measure my completeness or incompleteness by my romantic status. My estimation of self-worth comes instead from my research, my projects, and my work. It's an arbitrary preference, much as it's arbitrary for some people to feel completed by a union with someone else.

I'm smart, I'm driven, and I'm incredibly picky when it comes to the people I socialize with. Life is short, and just like everyone else does I make personal value judgments as to how best spend what little time I have. And in the end I'm quite happy--and still single.

Go figure.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v306/n5940/abs/306264a0...

Naloxone blocks placebo analgesia in general. I can dig up the referenced papers if you don't have access.
I use Emacs for most things, but the fact that elisp isn't multithreaded made gnus a painful experience for me. I've had much better luck using Mutt--and setting the program's editor command to emacsclient -nw.

Sounds like this guy had a similar experience:

http://jfm3-repl.blogspot.com/2007/10/emacs-tricks-7-do-not-...
Drop the solar panel; meeting rooms are full of hot air - there must be enough temperature differential across the door to power a Sterling Engine or a small computer...
Gene Associations Illuminate Biology of Diseases
A vasectomy would prevent that.
Nope, that's why I'm doing one right after graduating college. That's before getting a day job, so I won't have to give one up.
Scientific blogging on the subject of the submitted article:

http://scienceblogs.com/geneticfuture/2009/04/personal_genom...

New York Times reporting on the issue:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/health/research/16gene.htm...
Wow, thanks! For fifteen minutes I've been scratching my head after I read all the docs on deflate. Nowhere was that command mentioned and when I saw your comment I had an "Of course!" moment. Thanks for that.
It's true!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydpl0bgL_Kw
Thanks for the suggestion - I didn't know about ECB, and it seems useful. I want to try not using a Textmate like interface for now (and see if that makes me more or less efficient once I get used to it), but if I decide that I don't like it, I will definitely check out ECB.
Being smart can get you laid - you just have to find women who find smart guys attractive (such as the lady who was my boss at my first programming job). Such women do exist, though they're not all that common.
so, the site that says it only posts good news on the market is posting good news on the market? you don't say...
I wish I had a day job :(

(actually, I'm a student, and I'm starting co-op in 2 weeks)
Red Bull literally gave this guy Wings
These guys do it all day long.

www.iovation.com
This is a handy PDF guide to this principle that I found useful:

http://practicalist.com/singletasking.pdf
This Roissy character has some amazingly clever, witty and all around awesome posts!
Incorrect. Gzip streams just fine, so there is no latency issue. Google search, for example, writes the top of the page before the search is complete. (and I assure you, they use gzip)
I'm not sorry.