skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
<i>First, I disagree with the premise anecdotally: most girls I find attractive are smart.</i>

This is the typical nerd male response. It's all about you :P In reality social pressure comes from so many sources.

<i>popularity is typically an extrinsic measure, relative to your peers (i.e. it wouldn't make sense for everyone in your high school to be considered one of the popular kids) while attractiveness is an intrinsic measure </i>
The whole point of my piece was that we are told attractiveness is an intrinsic measure whereas, in many ways for women, it is much more arbitrary and akin to popularity. Women in the states above all want to be thin. But if we can invent a pill tomorrow that will make everybody thin, is everyone suddenly going to be hot? For a while maybe, but soon a new arbitrary standard that excludes the majority of the population will emerge.

<i> clear that being smart is a cause/excuse for being unattractive </i>
My other main point is that being a conventionally attractive woman is hard work! Think about it this way...Katherine Heigl had to lose 10 pounds to play opposite Seth Rogan in Knocked Up.

<i>I think it's abhorrent to tell smart kids being anti-social in general or smart girls rejecting their femininity in particular that their behavior is some sort of badge of honor.</i>
I'm a girly-girl. There's nothing I love more than to put on some makeup and look hot at a party. There's a difference between enjoying something when it's fun for you and having it be an obligation.

<i>If there's something you'd like to change about yourself, change it. If you're happy with yourself as you are, even better. People should accept themselves, flaws and strengths alike, </i>

That is exactly as I would like the world to be. But right now, if you are a woman and you don't diet and you don't wear makeup and you don't spend a lot of money on grooming products and cloths and frankly a lot of other bullshit guys don't even know...you are at a distinct disadvantage. I'm just a regular girl who is tired of the bullshit. I haven't cut back on personal hygiene or anything. But I will not go on a diet or obsess about my weight unless it is for health reasons. I haven't read a fashion magazine for year, and while I do have nice cloths for special occasions, my wardrobe and spending on beauty is a fraction that of my peers.
[Whitney's] languages are derivatives of APL that do one thing very well and nothing else.

I don't think that's fair. They are general-purpose languages. It's true that they've mostly been used on certain classes of problems so far, but that could just be a historical accident. Who's to say what people would make with them if they found a broader audience?

Whitney is not someone who thinks in special cases.

Edit: I agree with everything else you said, though.
Real time link analytics seems like a great idea. It would be neat to open a chat box on the corner of the page with someone who was using the site in a weird way, and start talking to them about what they were hoping for.
Well I think that's the idea. It lets you choose related movies based on specific aspects of the seed, so that what it returns is as well-tailored to your appetite as possible.

Just giving a seed is much more difficult (see: Netflix Prize).
I have found it to be less damaging as I grow older and got more confidence in myself. But kids, they're stupid and they believe what they see on the TeeVee machine is a reflection of life.
What an absolute treat. Whitney has done things which, if he hadn't done them, would be called impossible. It's such a shame that his work isn't widely available. There's a whole world inside those 300 kb. It's the only thing I've seen that got me as excited as Lisp.
What's the problem with going against major incumbents?
Google challenged quite a few players and changed the world.
Firefox stood up to a Monopoly and found its niche.

Someone's gotta be the next big guy..
Disclaimer: I'm the developer of this app.

It wasn't a marketing stunt. I made it because I wanted it, and Slicehost offered a nice API. It also gave me a great excuse to learn how to write iPhone apps :)

The SliceManager is great as a mobile web app, but I like that I don't have to enter my username and password to use my account, and I get a native iPhone experience (which isn't really possible in the browser, even with things like IUI).
What happens if the court subpoenas the contents of the filesystem? If you don't supply the key, don't you go to jail?
I agree, but it's what Apple used as it's legal defense.
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The designers could have been a bit more creative with the sawhorse legs, especially at that price tag.

I'd rather each side was asymmetrical with the inner legs at a more vertical angle. As is, it looks like a lot of good leg space real estate is lost, plus I can imagine banged and bruised shins and knees at that desk.
May just be my personal taste but I like to stretch my legs out at a desk.
I think that part of the success of "Radical Honesty" is not directly about honesty, but about taking risks. So many people live a bland life because they cannot fathom "making waves". This is normal. However, "Radical Honesty" forces us to break these laws. I think life is meant for excitement, and this is one way of achieving it. (As Tim Ferriss and others have pointed out) Happiness and Sadness are two sides of the same coin. Its boredom that makes life miserable.
To give a good idea of ARM performance in practical situations (so you know what to expect), the resident ffmpeg ARM guru did benches with Cortex A8 and A9 for H.264 decoding without assembly optimizations.

With a Core 2 reference at 1.0, a Pentium 4 at 0.38 in terms of performance per clock. The Cortex A8 is 0.28 and the Cortex A9 is 0.4. The difference there is mostly the out-of-order execution added in the A9.
Note that the title of my essay is "Why smart women are unattractive"...it is taken in parallel with Paul Graham's essay "Why nerds are unpopular." Of course there are exceptions, just like there are smart kids who are also popular.
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Using quantum theory to explain psychology sounds like wishful thinking to me...
The search warrant standard is called "probable cause"

http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/terms/probable-cau...

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

rather than "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" (which is what is needed for a criminal conviction) and definitely is at a level such that sometimes places are searched or items are seized that never end up resulting in a criminal prosecution. The case mentioned in this thread involved a search warrant affidavit mentioning facts that made reasonable a belief that the items seized should be looked at as possibly related to a crime.
The site looks great, and your auto-complete is amazing! How can IMDB not have that?

However, i entered Sweeny Todd. I get a mostly blank page and am asked to pick a sub-genre. None of which really fit what i'm looking for (dark & musical). so I try the sub-genre thing, and it just isn't working.
But then I see the left column with "movies most like". I'm assuming that is the main feature of the site. So why on earth do you not put that front and center, and if I want sub-genre, I can do that after??

Aside from that, i think the service is pretty good.
Do they now have two monitor ports of some sort? My mini had only one DVI.
We actually are an "interracial" couple, but I get what you mean. I'm trying to do my part to bring about a world in which we all just look at one another as our fellow human beings, without invidious assumptions.
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From the article:

Five is also my lucky number. It is my default answer to any question that I am unable to answer without more information. Five is my personal 42.
killerweb's comment at DZone is pretty insightful -- http://www.dzone.com/links/dont_make_me_write_html.html
This was my biggest take-away from Web 2.0 Expo. I thought it was a replacement database. But the guys at cloudera did an excellent job of explaining that Hadoop/MapReduce can be used for doing analysis of huge amounts of data, and prepping that data to be exported in a relational database.
Wow! I think it indeed does. I clicked on the link thinking "sure... another recommendation engine" but I was surprised at the effectiveness of the method they use to make the suggestions: "3-word nanogenre." I searched for one of my favorite movies 'MirrorMask', clicked on 'fantasy, wondrous, surreal' nanogenre, and I got a list of films, many of which I loved:

http://nanocrowd.com/movie/genremovies/genreId/1814/movieId/...
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I think if they made their tag cloud (on the right in B&W) clickable, then you could select 'dark' and 'musical' and have the site suggest movies based on that. I think that would be a pretty sweet way to suggest movies.
Short, sweet and to the point. Exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks pg! :)
You've heard about Ikea, right?
Yes. The actual paper ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=562324 ) compares MapReduce to parallel relational database management systems, not "SQL".

Also, if this gets more points than the earlier link to the paper itself I will be sad.

EDIT: sadness.
The reason I posted this on my blog is the overwhelmingly positive response it got among my peer group when it went online at a discussion board type site. Here are some of the PMs I've gotten (and one PM of two friends that one friend sent to me):

(1)
[name redacted] (1:25pm): Good heavens. This is like reading my own thoughts on someone else's plan. :)

My father never said anything about anorexia, but there were some comments in that vein.

I still don't care enough. Frankly, I hope I never have to.

(2)
[name redacted] (6:01pm): I love that Paul Graham essay. It's the first essay of his that I read, and still his best work, I think.

Your substituted version makes me think of "Adam's Curse," by W. B. Yeats:

"To be born woman is to know --
Although they do not talk of it at school --
That we must labour to be beautiful."

I think some girls decide that labor isn't worth the hassle.

(3)
[name redacted] (4:05pm): I was really heavy in high school- now I'm about the same size as you said you are. I'm so done feeling bad about my figure, because I'm perfectly normal and I happen to like food.
[me] (4:29pm): Yay!

(4)
[name redacted] (1:23pm): Go post that on news.ycombinator.com. It's surprisingly insightful, and I bet everyone there (including Paul Graham) would get a big kick out of it.
[me] (2:28pm): :) I just might

(5)
[redacted a]: the most fascinating thing, to me, is using the words of Paul Graham to talk about feminism.
[redacted a]: (from that plan)
[redacted b]: I don't know anythign about him except the nerds essay
[redacted a]: He's someone that a lot of nerd guys look up to for things like the nerds essay. A lot of nerd guys having no patience for feminism.
These kinds of claims are common; G Harry Stine in his "The Hopeful Future" wrote, "A self-taught person is usually deficient in one or more areas of his learning expertise." There are several problems with the claim, but the most important is that if a self-taught person discovers he or she needs to know something that they missed earlier, they simply need to go find it out, since they have avoided becoming dependent on others to tell them what to learn and when.
Time zone doesn't matter. The clock starts from when you submitted an article or posted a comment and it's the same for everyone.

So if you submitted an article 10 min ago, it shows as being posted 10 min ago for you and everyone else.
What bar was it? I just moved to Bushwick and all I see is Popeye's and Dunkin Donuts. Maybe I'm just further out...
unless you get an "18x" contract upon enlistment, at which point you go...

basic...AIST (infantry)...airborne...SFAS (special forces selection)
My hunch is that this is a charismatic (evidence: he's fucked 500 women) guy telling everybody "be more like me." That reminds me of somebody I used to work for who would say things to people that would have gotten me fired or beaten up in the parking lot, but he got away with it because he was charming.

So what happens when somebody with average or sub-average charisma tries it?
The best thing a company can have is competition.

Otherwise you're under no pressure to innovate.

Also it validates your market. If no-one else is doing it, it must be a sucky idea.

I should think they will be thrilled to see you starting up something similar. Seriously.
I absolutely hate smiling for photos. It feels fake. I don't really like having my picture taken, to be completely honest, even though I'm not bad looking.

I really hope this study is as meaningless as I suspect it to be.
I was referring to "Beautifully composed." That sentence is why your post was modded down so much.
http://worth1000.com also has logo contests.
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Though they did measure wrinkles around the eyes as well, which is generally a sign of a genuine smile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile#Duchenne_smile

(Yes, you can fake that as well, but I doubt enough people know about that part to do it.)
For want of a word the localization was done in-house.

For want of a localization the installer was done in-house.

For want of an installer the deployment process was done in-house.

For want of a deployment process the server set-up was done in-house.

For want of a server set-up the development was lost.

And all for the want of a localized word.
Yes: Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI

http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html
Is it possible to a transcript from the court proceedings? I'm not familiar with NZ law at all. I'm mainly curious to see how Apple argued that plugging in an external monitor into an external monitor port and running an Apple-built program on an Apple-built computer could be argued as "inappropriate use". That's some crack lawyering!
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Please note that that's 537m worthless Australian dollars. The award was for USD388m.
I think there's incredible value in preventing divorce. I also think this study is bullshit.

I know this is a bit of a strawman, but what have we really learned here? That if you tell your kids to smile in their yearbook photo, they'll have a happy marriage? Sorry, I just don't see any value in this correlation at all...seems like it's almost as likely to be random as meaningful.

Edit: Instead of just downvoting me, could someone explain what I'm missing?
Presumably we are all in favor of software patents as long as the are used against MSFT?
Indeed. For example, he makes a comparison to the military—the military is an abstraction that allows soldiers to see themselves as fighting wars. But you all know, whether from experience or simply the media, how soldiers feel about what they do, and it bears very little resemblance to godliness.
I've really been amazed at the caliber of people that I meet through the Hackers and Founders meetup that are from Austin. There's really a great little sub-culture here of ex-Austinites that are interested in founding startups.

Austin's loss is Silicon Valley's gain.
I don't like this Anon84 submission. Just a list of book covers that all lead to a framed amazon link with hidden affiliate ID.

Flagged.
I had a first gen MBA for 9 months. Exact same kernel task issue - it was always hooked up to my 24-inch. Ended up going out of my way doing some undervolting to keep one of the cores from shutting down. It's not like it was actually overheating when it would shutdown one of the cores before my little hack. It was maintaining regular temperatures, even tested with a fan on it on a raised platform.

Anywho, 9 months was enough for me to realize I needed more juice and I've since graduated and hack from home full-time so I don't really need mobility. My new MBP+ Intel SSD is working just fine.

As for the MacBook Air.. I fell asleep with it one night and woke up to a cracked screen. After I got that fixed I took it to Apple for another issue and they returned it to me with a german keyboard. Huge mess up on their part, got it on the consumerist and such. They gave me a new one which I sold. /rant
I’ve heard Google itself uses SQL, MapReduce and/or sharding depending on the task.

Wow, that's a lot of cluelessness in a single sentence.
Technically, no, it wouldn't. Not as you stated it. College being uniquely suitable for learning a subject does not ensure that someone will learn it if they go to college.

You can say that to learn x you must go to college.
If you went to college though the fact that you did or did not learn x says nothing about whether you need to go to college or not to learn it.

You get drilled with exactly this type of logic problem a LOT in discrete math courses. Stuff there's no way the extreme vast majority of working programmers would study on their own just because.

That's being pedantic though, I imagine you're saying that it doesn't matter whether you go to college or not since you can make the same kind of mistakes when you get out. The latter part of which is true. But there's no doubt in my mind that had the guy that did go to college would be a lot worse had he not gone. He'd most probably not be able to write code that worked at all rather than code that works but not as optimally as it could.
I don't think this is related to the Macbook Air problem, but Apple doesn't seem to be doing so well with Mini DisplayPort and large displays:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB571Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDA3Ng&...
Don't make me click past an advertisement. I mean, what the hell? Since when did super-obtrusive advertising not alienate people?

(It doesn't show up all the time, so you may not have seen it.)
"worthless Australian dollars" That's not cool mate
I wouldn't feel comfortable using something like markdown until I had a firm grasp of how it works and the kind of html it writes.

And at that point, I guess I might as well write good ole html... Unless browsers _universally_ supported a new better language, I'd hate to have to think of browser nuance in two different markups...
The reason I ask is that my site gets about 7,000 unique visitors a day. If 20,000 = $35 a day, 7,000 = $12.25 a day. I make about half that.

I don't recall seeing any articles on HN about advertising options (AdSense vs. AdBrite vs...) or optimization. (Though it's possible I've simply missed them.) Any good resources I should investigate?
This hasn't been resolved in court yet:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01...

"On Nov. 29, Magistrate Judge Jerome J. Niedermeier ruled that compelling Sebastien Boucher, a 30-year-old drywall installer who lives in Vermont, to enter his password into his laptop would violate his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. "If Boucher does know the password, he would be faced with the forbidden trilemma: incriminate himself, lie under oath, or find himself in contempt of court," the judge said.

The government has appealed, and the case is being investigated by a grand jury, said Boucher's attorney, James Boudreau of Boston. He said it would be "inappropriate" to comment while the case is pending. Justice Department officials also declined to comment. "
and again, like i said, i was attempting to be clever/funny. clearly failed, and i admit that. but that doesn't mean there wasn't content there. two innocuous, inoffensive words actually ruined the post?
Fair enough, title is now fixed
It's the "Disputes Tribunal". So it's not a proper "Court" per se - you present your case to a mediator, in person.

http://www.justice.govt.nz/disputes/about/default.asp for more information.
You are absolutely correct. MapReduce is chiefly a framework for performing distributed computation. RDBMSes, colloquially referred to as "SQL databases", are for data storage and (parallel, transactional, ...) access. If you want to compare SQL databases with some Google technology, probably the closest thing would be http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html Bigtable. MapReduce doesn't even come close to being anything comparable.
However, the law is "you must attend 3 years of law school".

Actually, there are still a few states where you can join the bar after clerking for a number of years and passing the bar exam.

See, for example: http://www.wsba.org/lawyers/licensing/faq-rule6.htm
This wishy-washy, rambling piece disrespects the reader.
> It entirely changes how you think about data storage.

It should entirely change how you think about data storage. What's stunning to me is the number of people who are stuck on "Fully ACID, fully RDMS or it's crap and you will fail and deservedly so."
Smiling in yearbook photos is probably an indication of conformity.
Patent link: http://www.google.com/patents?id=K7MoAAAAEBAJ&dq=uniloc+...

didn't serial-code-based shareware registration schemes exist before the 1993 filing date? certainly shareware and the concept of "registering" did -- maybe the novel part of the patent is the idea of an identifier tied to your environment as a constituent part of the serial #?
I'll upvote you as much as I can, and explain why I think the study is worth doing. Just like Alexander Fleming when he first saw a zone in a culture dish where bacteria wouldn't grow,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming#Accidental_di...

a scientist who notices an interesting correlation has some new issue to investigate. The next issue to investigate is why some young people smile for their yearbook photos and some do not. Yet another issue to investigate is whether that characteristic is malleable in each individual. And of course all the causation issues need to be sorted out--do people stay with spouses who smile a lot, even if the spouses are louts, while good spouses who are glum get dumped? There is a lot to investigate here, but the investigation could reduce an important problem. At the very least, a marriage counselor prioritizing which client to devote the most vigorous interventions to might start asking clients to bring in their high school yearbooks and talk about how they felt about having their pictures taken, to get them talking about other issues.

But, yes, I agree that one of the first things to be done here is to attempt to replicate the finding.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

Maybe it is just coincidence in this one study, and the correlation is spurious. But it would be a reasonable idea to check.
I agreed completely with the first comment:

Please don’t make me write in any of these simplified markup languages, either. And, really please, don’t ask me to embed code in the language, or one of these languages in code.
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Three minutes to find a page that I've visited, searching my browser history?

Three-damn-whole-minutes?... gee.. if I can't find with two or three tries on the search bar (in 10 seconds, tops) I google it. I know I am not normal on my daily net usage, but three minutes?

I guess there's a market for making people finding stuff that they have encountered but can't quite remember how.

Wow... there's a market there, indeed. Presenting "how it looked like" meta-info might work for a subset of the population, but repetition is the key to memory retaining.

Hummm... I wonder if some website that "normalized" every other website would make sense. Every website would look the same. So people, by using it daily, would forget that "there was a red stripe at the top" and instead just remember the content. Perhaps the key is removing every other element expect the crucial ones.

I bet the designers would kill me to decide what's crucial :p
My boss had serious problems with his MacBook Air using Firefox on JavaScript-heavy web sites all day. They refuse to fix it / replace it under AppleCare saying that using a web browser is inappropriate use! Crazy.

Obviously they can't afford to just come clean and admit the issues.