skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a slight problem with this (and I'm only half tongue in cheek here): corporate IT admins probably see it as an actual positive if their staff can't access their favorite social networking web sites or anything else not explicitly required for work. The only thing that will convince them to move is if critical business infrastructure they depend on starts breaking and that isn't very likely to happen soon.

I think one of key things that will make businesses move will be when Microsoft itself phases out mainstream support. Sadly, their policy is that IE lifecycles follow that of the OS they were released with, so if I read it right, we are looking at IE6 being supported right through to 2014 before security updates disappear. That means we'll probably be stuck with some reasonable percentage of IE6 users for a few years yet. With luck Win7 will be good enough to entice a lot of companies that held back through vista to upgrade and that will kill off a goodly number over the next year or two.
dauntingly powerful Borgian collective

Indeed. I'm not sure Apple will put up much of a fight. Resistance is futile.
Sorry, but Apple made their bed. They don't get my sympathy just because they've painted themselves into a corner.

In any case, there's a lot to be said for, "You know, our App Store approval model just doesn't work, so we're abandoning it. From now on, it's open and transparent all the way."
If Google is adding it to Chrome, I would expect it to end up in Webkit before long.
I've lived in SF for about 10 months, and it isn't as hopeless as the article states. I've met quite a few girls and went on plenty of dates, but you may have to be a little more aggressive than other places.

For instance, it's common for bars to have a higher ratio of guys; I know a lot of 'nice' guys who will give up in this situation. You might have to step out of your comfort zone to interact with girls, but it's doable.

SF is a massive, dynamic city and it can't be modeled in such a simple way.
You'd think a gadget site would understand the horror of auto-playing videos. Thanks... You scared the hell out of my cat.
How would you measure that? Who is the cat and who is the mouse?
Yep, immediately pressed the back button when "pause" didn't work.
No, I'm wondering, if you have 100 gays at a bar, what different demographics would add or detract from it. Cause if you have 10 more hot guys, there's nothing stopping them from dancing in a clique unconnected to anyone else, versus 10 ladies who probably didn't go out to hook up with each other at the end of the night. Are there different types of guys you could incentivize to show up, like Ladies' Night?
Only wussies need AM radios. Real hackers can do it just by looking at the board. ;-)
Thanks for that, I've been copping flac left right and center even on twitter :)
Instead of shutting it down, you should leverage on your existing user-base for your next project. I actually had a similar experience, I created a hobby project as I learn RoR, and the project did take off with substantial traffic generated. However, the idea itself is not monetizable, other than pathetic AdSense. With this huge user base, I have created a second project, but this time with a solid business model before I started a single line of code. I'm channeling lots of traffic from the non-profitable project to the profitable one.
Self promoting? Cwest37802 meaning probably Chris West, the website owner?

And the info on the article lacks any real substance. Looks more like a press release.
Backtype Connect does a pretty good job of this: http://www.backtype.com/connect/www.crunchgear.com%252f2009%...
Oh yeah, now I get the reference :)
For good measure, it's probably sensible to mention an in-memory PySQLite database.
This is outdated. It is about the Late 2008 version of the MBP.
yeah, but what i really want is the "Lime Away" stain remover...

how the hell is that thing unblockable?!
I'm not a local, but Forbes ranks SF #7 for best cities for singles:

http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/27/best-cities-singles-lifesty...
no need to include the version number
You might also find that some keywords convert extremely well and those cpc will go up through the roof while others won't be clicked on anymore.
"I would ... say that all these modules are useful for web development."

It's very unusual for a web developer to work directly with RubyInline. It's quite a stretch to classify it as a "web development tool" or significantly related to "Web Apps."

"I made almost immediate comparison between the two"

It's not even close, though. The Ruby analogue to WSGI and Paste is Rack, not Mongrel. RubyInline and Psyco are very different things. HPricot is one of multiple options for HTML parsing in Ruby (nokogiri, scrapi, scrubyt). There are multiple JSON options for Ruby (including yajl bindings), and half the paragraph is about simplejson vs python-cjson, which has nothing to do with Ruby. There are also multiple Ruby templating systems available (erb, erubis, haml, markaby, liquid), but you only mention python templating enigines.

And all of these are just a small subset of libraries that you can have in a typical web app, such a small subset that they aren't really representative of anything.

"You never curious about hot-and-shiny key value databases for work?"

There are a whole slew of libraries for "hot-and-shiny" data stores (there are at least 5 Ruby libraries for couchdb alone) and it's not uncommon for people to roll their own. I don't think shove even supports anything "hot-and-shiny" like couchdb, tokyo, cassandra, etc.

"The best way to know about these languages is to use it to hack on something."

This is very true.
This is [REDACTED].
Right, you understand this perfectly. With Conversion Optimizer, shaving is a non-problem: an advertiser who shaves is just doing something they're permitted to do ("bid less for clicks") via a roundabout way.

This throws people for a major loop because Google encourages people to think of Conversion Optimizer as CPA bidding and shaving is automatically a problem for publishers in CPA. In standard CPA, shaving is "not paying for services which you have already received".

Its sort of a leaky abstraction for an advertiser. Conversion Optimizer is described as CPA bidding because that is the easiest way to tell an experienced advertiser what it is. It does, indeed, feel like CPA bidding when everything is going right. But there is CPC bidding going on underneath it, and while that detail is abstracted away it can bite you in the hindquarters if you're not aware of it.
How did this review (spam) even make it to the front page? It has text about the iPod nano half way through a paragraph, then continues to discuss the MBP.
There are tons of teenage girls with macbooks and yet none of them have a censored dictionary.dmg
How not to respond to a potential domain buyer
GDB has some bare-essentials macro support for the preprocessor macros, and I imagine people can get fancier with their own GDB scripts and functions.

http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_11.html
Perhaps, in environments where gay guys have lots of high status potential partners, they tend to hold out for more (so that it becomes harder for everyone to find a relationship.) But, uh, probably not.
You can search for companies profile in linked in. (I actually I friends that work there, and they complain the same, no women).

Linkedin.
Median Age	33 years
Gender
Male	70%
Female	30%

Ps. While that counts only people that have a linkedIn profile, I would remind you Facebook has more women that guys, so I would assume that women are very familiar with social networks, and not afraid of them.
Practice. Do some learning, and then practice again.

You're already at a disadvantage since you're not seven years old (five to seven is the best age to learn a language, according to linguists), so you're gonna need to make up some ground. Aside from picking a learning program to pick up vocabulary, you need to practice, and do it in as many ways as you can.

Some suggestions I/friends have used:

Mass Media. Start buying a Spanish-language newspaper and reading articles (specifically, articles that you don't know what they're about) with a dictionary in hand. The first few you do will take an hour each for a two-line article. But as you do this for longer times, you'll start to pick up words - and (mainstream, well-regarded) newspapers are great because they've generally got very clear writing. When you get confident, start trying to read the letters or editorials. You should also dedicate an hour of the day to watching news or a soap opera on Univision (doesn't matter if you don't understand it at first - pay attention and you'll pick it up), and pick up a Spanish radio station to start listening to.

Computers. Set your OS's language to Spanish, and set Spanish as the preferred language of your browser (so it will request es pages before en ones). When you don't understand a web page, get out the dictionary and work through it. Try and limit yourself to Spanish sites as much as possible, and (most importantly) read all your online news in Spanish.

People. If you can find some people to speak to in Spanish on a daily basis, do this. To complement this, find a local cafe/restaurant that has acceptable food and Spanish-speaking staff, and become a regular there. Practice at home, and then go there an order in Spanish. Do this a lot (hence the OK food). After you're feeling OK about this, go to this place at off-hours, order something (in Spanish, of course) and try to make some small talk. These people should be familiar with you by this point, and be amenable to talking to a customer (since they don't have anything else to do). At first, they'll likely respond to your broken Spanish in English - either respond back only Spanish, or ask them to speak Spanish to you directly. They see this as being nice and helpful; they're not trying to insult your skills, and will likely accommodate you if you ask (and they recognize you).
Except that wouldn't be sampling the HN community which would make the test unable to answer the original question.
It makes us happy to see that Bernie Madoff is going to jail but how much good is it really doing?
Yeah. Singles rate number 4, but if all those singles are guys that can't find girls, it surely doesn't look good, unless you are a girl.

The other thing it rated high is on coolness, which I guess it is, give the amount of hipsters/piercings/tattoed/non normal people you see here.
Exactly.

Think about the kind of guy who starts a blog dedicated to the fact that there "aren't girls in San Francisco".

Now find me a group of girls flocking to be in his presence.
Update HN: Google AdWords problem resolved
I thought I'd mention just because it was on the front page: my issue with AdWords seems to have been resolved. I have no clue whether it was an algorithmic hiccup or someone within the Googleplex actually noticing the issue, my support requests, or public disapproval -- as I noted in my update to the blog post, I have as much evidence for the existence in technical support in Google as I have evidence for the existence of Santa Claus. Luckily for Google, part of me still believes in Santa Claus.

Despite this experience, I would still recommend you use AdWords.
I've got a language translation dictionary in the app store. When I tried to get an important 3.0 bugfix through, I was rejected by the same logic, until I changed the rating to 17+. Crazy thing is, you can set your app rating to "Frequent/intense profanity or crude humor", and it'll just bump the rating to 12+. Still unacceptable to Apple (presumably, at least. I asked the review team if this would be suitable, but of course heard nothing back).

So my dictionary now appears to have "Frequent/intense sexual content or nudity" because the review team tried to translate bad words.

In a moment of frustration, sent a sarcastic quip to Apple's review team about not allowing dictionaries to minors, and I'm left wondering if that knocked me into the slow queue - because it took well over a month to finally get the update approved.
I think it's pretty clear that one person isn't going to be able to write the article we're all actually looking for. We need to get two experts together, one in each language, and in the spirit of respect and discovery, have both people put their language's best foot forward, to try to "get" the other language but to not descend into endless wankery about the details.

But, honestly, I know how it would turn out: The technical considerations are not all that different. Most people who bitch about one of the two and praise the other seem to not understand the one they are bitching about, and the pattern is strong enough at this point that it should be considered the norm. I'm tired of Ruby advocates who seem unaware that yes, Python can pass functions as first class arguments and yes, that pretty much is a block, and tired of Python advocates who get shredded in the comments for obviously having only gone through a Rails tutorial.

In the end the big difference is community. I think there is a big difference there. I'll skip igniting a flamewar by trying to characterize the communities, since it is impossible to do that neutrally, but there's definitely a difference I can see.
"The app store sucks. Look it up!"
Use inline functions instead of macros whenever possible. They don't have all the tricky gotchas, and they generally have no performance impact over macros.
This is something that I too keep on thinking about every time another incident happens. The best I have come up with is that SJ is not in control of this. It may have become bigger than he could totally control while he was away from the company. Who is to say he is not fuming each time one of these stories comes around and that they are working on a change(Apple has screwed up on the iPhone before and took their time fixing that).

Also I also think he nailed it with the last line in the story-telling sense.

"Apple requires you to be 17 years or older to purchase a censored dictionary that omits half the words Steve Jobs uses every day."
A unified transportation system - encompassing everything (including but not limited to walking, rental bikes/cars, car pooling, trains, planes). One machine that I tell my starting and ending points (down to the house number), and will make me a number of possible schedules and ways to get there using mixed modes of movement, and lets me pay for it/track it with one card.

A clean and plentiful energy source that is widely distributed.
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I have an HP tablet laptop (model tx251cl) with a swivel touch screen.

One application I found that fits it perfectly is learning to write Chinese characters.

Of course drawing is another application (if only I could draw).

I think it could be used in some games, too.

Using it for control operations (moving windows around etc) feels awkward.

Oh, one other thing I forgot. It's a dual boot, and my Ubuntu does not recognize the pen. Vista does (it came in as a pure Windows box). But it does not generate a middle mouse click without an external device: pressing both trackpad buttons does not do it, nor anything else. So I set the pen click as the middle mouse click and use it mostly for that. (Lame, I know.)
A libertarian socialist engineer solves the financial crisis
It's true that geeks are early adopters, but that doesn't mean that every popular technology product is due to geeks giving their stamp of approval. The iPhone has passed the point where geeks opinions matter for much...marketing and the fact that everyone has the iPhone now means that most people see it as a cool tech device, not as something they should ask their geek friend for advice on.
The secret is to blog in a cafe with a CC (no, not the c compiler!) sticker on your macbook pro laptop.
Anyone have a reference of a study on using secondary social indicators to estimate an individuals likely behavior, prejudices, socio-economic history and current status, etc?
This was posted on HN before. I think another article cited that it was 10-16 hours beforehand.

The other 3 tips were to focus on exposure to sunlight, routinizing the whole sleeping/waking process, and exercising during the day.
My Inbox Is Not A TV
I used to have a folding bike made by Kama. Can't say it was very convenient. To get it inside an elevator, it took more time to fold it, than for the other kids to fit their regular bikes in. And the small wheels made the speed a lot slower.
Are they Asian American or straight Asian? There's a huge difference.
I have a Fujitsu Stylistic and I love it.
Something that might not be obvious is that, since shaders will be supported, this will also enable GPGPU from Javascript. If JIT-compiled Javascript is still too slow for you, you'll now have the option of running your code on the massively parallel vector co-processor that's in nearly every modern PC. The obvious next step in this direction is OpenCL.

WebKit has been implementing a different approach, doing 3D effects via CSS. I think both approaches to 3D are useful in different contexts and they should both be implemented.

http://webkit.org/blog/386/3d-transforms/
Why We Learn More From Our Successes Than Our Failures
S&S couplers are necessary for bike travel these days. Bikes now incur a $175 surcharge on any domestic flight I've been on in the past year. If you can get the bike into a suitcase you avoid the charge.

However, couplers on a real bike are nothing like a strida, brompton or bike friday tikit. These bikes are designed to fold up and unfold very quickly. They are also much smaller and can fit on public transportation where you're not allowed to take a full sized bike.
If this holds for the vast majority of people, that most people don't learn from their failures, then it should also hold that if you can learn from your own failures you will be able to get a nice head-start on life.

It would then also be good to reflect and make sure one learns from each of their failures instead of continuing on the worn and useless path.
Yes. That didn't work to our satisfaction.
I have the ThinkPad tablet. (x61; I have two of 'em, actually.) Love it. Favorite machine ever, warts and all.
Are entrepreneurs hypomanic?
So, it's chaos, and a lot of it is junk, but there's a good bit of good stuff in there too.

If the interface were better (navigation & editing commands) that would be sweet.

Privacy would be a matter of picking a distant enough location, if you could jump to it.

I also want zooming, but that would be a pretty major undertaking.
"As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance."
-- John Dewey
That is silly; there are plenty of situations in which macros are useful in C. I'd be inclined to avoid complex multi-line macros that multiply-evaluate their arguments unless there's a compelling need for them, however.
That came off as more petulant than I would have liked. My apologies.
Why Consumers Won't Buy Tablets
Ask HN: What applications are designed for use while talking/listening?
What applications (web or native) are out there that are designed to be used while you're talking with people?
How fickle are our tastes, and how brief our memories.

Not long ago, Google was roundly denounced as a privacy-invading censorious copyright enforcer extending its monopolistic tendrils into every aspect of our lives.

Then Apple started doing stupid crap with its mobile platform, and suddenly Google is truth and justice and freedom and puppies.

How long until it swings round again?
Walmart and Costco are equivalent of Blockbuster and Coconuts Music. I wouldn't be surprised if the likes of Walmart was one of the first places to have replicator technology, it would reduce their distribution costs to nothing. It'll be the creators who'll attempt to use some weird conglomeration of copyright and patents to keep people from napstering their creations.

Physical Goods creators need to eat too!
Evolutionary vs. Revolutionary design and development
Cash For Clunkers: The Data On Why It's Working
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 Release Notes
Not unless you have to. Walk softly, carry a big stick.

If all else fails then yes, I'm sorry, but yes, if somebody breaks into a house and threatens my family I will threaten them with force. The lives of 4 people who are innocent are greater than that of one who willingly put themselves into a criminal position. Do I wish that that wasn't necessary, sure, but that's not the reality of human nature. The threat of force has always been a factor in survival. Even in nature.

Poison caterpillars rarely get eaten, the birds learn to avoid them.
I hope there is a day when all my medical records/my professional (from school to PhD) records/my financial records are available at one place. And I hope that place is such that no one but myself has access to it without the scare of it being hacked. I know its a lot to wish for, but someday hopefully it will happen.
http://www.slate.com/id/2188684/

The eligible bachelor paradox.
To me it has to be thin, light, yet robust just like the iPhone/iPod. I want to be able to read magazines on it, with as close to the same experience as reading a real magazine - flipping pages, ripping bits out, post-it noting pages. I hope Conde Nast or other major publishers are listening. Perhaps this type of device will bring some relief to the magazine industry, but they have to be early adopters.
Guess it's not really surprising, but definitely interesting. FTA:

"In fact, the Ford Explorer--that quintessential sport-utility of the 1990s--occupied no fewer than six of the top 10 trade-in slots. Explorers from model years 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999 were in the top 10, with EPA mileage ratings of 14 to 18 miles per gallon depending on drivetrain.

Two more Top 10 trade-in slots were sport utilities as well--the Jeep Cherokee and Jeep Grand Cherokee--with two minivans, the 1997 Ford Windstar and the 1999 Dodge Caravan bringing up the rear. All 10 of the top trade-ins were domestic vehicles."
So are they pranksters or terrorists? The most damage these guys did was trick some morons into breaking some TV sets, and The Smoking Gun is raging against them the way Perverted Justice attacks pedophiles. Overreaction?
That would be fantastic, you know, if the banks didn't already rule the world. Do you think that banks are going to let software replace them? I have a hard time believing that this would come to fruition with anything less thank a full on revolution.

That said, I would wholeheartedly support such a revolution.
This is a dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=737271
This sucks, but the application is fantastic. If anyone has been waiting for a good dictionary app for the iPhone, this one is fantastic.
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I agree. Esp running the country with Engineers rather than politicians or bankers.
It is just a billion dollar wealth transfer to people buying new cars or making new cars, from people who pay taxes and currently neither buy new cars nor make new cars. That is both the most positive and most damning thing I can say about it.

You would have exactly the same results if you instituted Cash for Computers, where you paid people money for increases in CPU clock speed. Wow, $1,000 rebates increased sales in computers and, wouldn't you know it, new computers are faster! Sweet! For people not buying computers, not quite so sweet.
I work in one of these companies and Im surprised to see this. But then again Im an engineer. These numbers are bloated by the HR/customer service/sales people I guess. If you are a tech in tech company,the split is like 90-10.
Just Say No to . . . Drug Companies?
Maybe they can tackle Apple's app store review process next.