skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You didn't talk about self-esteem. What you said was this:

>There is an absurd amount of pressure on women in this society to be perfect.

I think the data show precisely the opposite - that women aren't under pressure, at least from men, to be perfect. That was the point of my comment.

Actually, in my experience, women are many times more guilty of the things they typically accuse men of than men are (e.g. objectifying the other sex, being judgmental about looks, etc.). Men are under at least as much pressure as women in these regards.
haha. this is so true. i have no doubts the biggest problems we'll face with early product iterations are our own bugs rather than malicious third parties :-)

we'll do the best we can to get both fronts up to snuff before the general public gets a stab at us.
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What is clone URL of the git repos? Not familiar with gitweb and not able to guess the repo URL
I figured the not-immediate matches were Mechanical Turk. But it's pulling results on some searches seemingly immediately after I snap the photo.

I'll have to try out your suggestions.
good reminder. i've used slicehost to help setup servers before, even though i happen to use linode (early recommendation from a friend who got me into web dev to begin with). i really like the slicehost community.
i'm sorry, this does suck
Assuming that there was in fact a 'most efficient' way to teach the principles of rational thinking, how could you confidently identify it?

Makes me think the people most able to teach these principles would rely on them to avoid your contest.
Ask HN: Appropriate equity share for founding team?
I have recently been approached by an early stage startup (still in stealth) with a solid idea and founders that have a solid track record.

I'm being asked to join the founding team. They use an open source framework that I've contributed to, a language I'm advanced with, and it sounds like a killer opportunity to buck the cog-in-a-wheel machine.

They are in stealth and haven't pursued venture capital yet, they want to build the product to a Beta release before seeking out funding. Their time line is one to two months before they go out and start pitching. So, they have no money to pay for work; the obvious compensation here is in equity shares.

Question to the commenters: does this sound solid? What kind of equity share is appropriate to be asking for as a developer on the founding team? What are your thoughts in general?

If there are any online resources that answer my questions I would gladly receive them; just can't find any since I don't know where to look!

Any input is appreciated!
What do I try first?
You can get jQuerify button into Firebug by using FireQuery extension (http://firequery.binaryage.com).

Yes, a bookmarklet is more general solution, which works for every browser. In FireQuery it is just a convenience bonus feature.
the presumption of competence on the part of the USPTO leads to the conclusion that the two patents cover different things.

Someone needs to challenge thi stuff in court. "Presumption of competence" is a very funny phrase applied to the USPTO.
An old coworker of mine at an internship did exactly this to find the most attractive profile picture for a dating site. He had a sample size of maybe 10 photos and used HotOrNot to do a simple ranking of them. The top rated ones were used as his profile picture on social networking sites.

Unfortunately, he left out one part of the experiment - he did not have the "ugly" photos as his profile picture, measure response rates, and then try it again with a "hot" photo.

I am currently running an experiment with my OkCupid profile along similar metrics - I am varying my profile picture, as well as certain parts of my profile, and testing profile views, response rates, and 4-5 star ratings. This is mostly out of frustration with the pitiful view/response rates I was having originally, but if the data is interesting I might do a write-up.
Good advice, though I think he overemphasizes the gym. The point of exercise is to emphasize how much overeating costs you. It's harder to justify that candy bar when it equates to an hour of hard exercise.
We used to do that as a standard procedure.
Before a meeting with a client we would write a bogus patent listing everything we could think of about the subject. Then if there was an arguement about an NDA we could prove we were already working on the idea.
You can file a PCT application for almost nothing (used to be $20) and never bother taking it to a full patent - cheaper than having a lawyer minute it.
I assumed what you did, but looking closer, this is definitely the real deal, complete with the Google-patched 2.6.30 kernel.

What I find interesting here is that ChromeOS has its own window manager for X. I was under the impression that the video system was something new. Does this mean that they still support X running on their own video subsystem?

I predict that someone will start releasing self-compiled ChromiumOS builds running very soon.
Chrome OS source code published on Chromium site
It's not the jerkiness (?) that's attractive, it's the self-confidence. That's what people really mean when they say "women prefer assholes". Bad behaviour is a proxy for confidence. Self-confidence trumps all other factors from a woman's POV.
This is a cloneable URI: http://src.chromium.org/git/chromiumos.git

Here are complete instructions to download and build the source: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os

And Google's Matt Cutts is liveblogging the annoucement webcast (includes links to other blog coverage): http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-os/
SCOTUSblog has the transcript, if you're interested.

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/todays-transcripts-66/
Sure, can you sign my NDA before we discuss it?
Looks like an amazing app, but I probably would never use it.

For the last 10 years I've really been obsessed with improving my own productivity, and after all the fads and gimmicks, my ultimate conclusion is that the keys to productivity are discipline and focus. I feel like anything more complicated than a simple list just adds to overhead, and ends up eating into my time more than it streamlines anything (incidentally I sort of feel this way about Twitter too, so you're in good startup company). I'm a real big fan of a pocket moleskine for keeping todo lists, jotting down ideas, and just generally dumping stuff into any time anywhere. I find I never have a shortage of things to do (especially now as a new father), so the problem isn't being able to track them over time or see them all at once. It's just about immediate priorities which should be decided quickly and decisively. If something important gets missed, it will make itself known soon enough.
It depends on the to-do list - may be it contains details of the killer app you are going to launch next month?
Or you have some stock market ideas in there?
You may also have very sensitive information in the References folder, e.g. I'm used to use it as a key chain for the specific project - servers, accounts, passwords etc.
While Cosmos is interesting for the same reasons Singularity is interesting - and I'm very much in favour of any OS which tries to focus on security, verifiability and correctness - from my little knowledge of the system, it doesn't really seem different enough. Theres countless toy, research and hobby OS projects out there, some more ambitious than others, and few truly try to innovate. Now, I'm not very familiar with Cosmos, so its unlikely that I'm giving them enough credit and I apologise for that.

What I want to see is an operating system which forgets all the technologies which were a great idea 20 years ago, but may not be so suited to todays computing world. We have a lot of computing power available to us now, so we can try some truely innovative idea cheaply and easily. I want to see highly extensible systems, applications which are hugely parallel from kernel up, I want to see orthogonal persistence, I want a system which can determine what applications to run for me, so that I dont have to and can simply focus on the task at hand - getting work done. I dont ever want to have to think about filesystems and directory structures again. I want to be able to see the internals of the running system in a REPL, if I so choose. If I'm using, say, an instant messenger and I'm typing text, I want to be able to use vim (or whatever your favourite editor is) to edit that text!

Ok, some of these may not be great ideas or very realistic - the point I'm trying to make is that I want to see operating systems truely try to achieve something different in an end-user (ie not simply for research) OS.

This is the type of system I envision to run on such a computer, were it to exist!

End of Rant ;-)
"On average IT workers consume 10 cups of coffee a day, which is more than your recommended daily allowance of caffine."

I wonder if IT workers are also more likely to lie on stupid surveys about health. Does this even seem reasonable to anyone? I have 2-3 a day maybe and I have more than anyone else I know.
Any photojournalist worth his or her salt could pull that off. Might be a nice little side-income.
I agree that there is almost certainly not going to be some mass revolt but people are generally unhappy when they don't have jobs (as evidenced by the current political climate in the U.S.).

My only point is that a significant portion of the economy is based on exports for which demand has dropped and may never return. Will domestic demand fill in that gap? From what I've read, that seems unlikely. The government is going to have to maybe shift their economic strategy to cope with this fact.
"Like it or not, developing an attack plan for a penetration test requires ..."
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Eep - I apologize for making the assumption that this was another "Chromium for Chrome" post.
Exactly.

It's funny how commenters keep clinging to Erlang as if I said it was purely functional, when I'm actually talking about writing purely functional Perl (and to the extent that it's possible, C).

Oh well.
true. i am at once torn between consuming this large topic and beefing up the few links in the chain that i am currently working on. i'm looking forward to getting some of the above mentioned books from the library sometime, yet i also know i'm on a tight schedule and it's hard enough to sneak engineering goodness tasks into each iteration (tests get on fine, though).

getting my server hacked into is certainly on my mind as i set up the server myself only out of necessity and poverty (if not financial then creative and social). i really want the data to remain private.

i have form submission secured. not only does django escape input into sql, but i have a pre-save signal that removes html tags. once concern i do have is that when a form has an error in it, the page is reloaded with the previously entered form values. i believe django templates always escape variables, but i should try writing javascript there just to make sure.

django also stores salt + hashes of user passwords, rather than the passwords themselves. django also puts non-critial information in session cookies. the real data gets looked up in the view middleware.
This is one the things TimeGT tries to achieve - keep you focused. I have 200 tasks in my life atm and I don't wanna see them all, otherwise it depresses me and I loose motivation :)
So TimeGT keeps important stuff up and visible and hides away all the rest. While trying to add as little overhead as possible.
Moleskine is IMHO usable to some point and then it gets not that comfortable.
Maybe it won't compile, but:

/spoj/c_run: line 5: 3844 Segmentation fault ./prog

is the error I got, and that doesn't look like a compile error. (Also, just to be pedantic, I had noted the stack overflow possibility in my original post).

http://ideone.com/view/09u9091w9h# is the snippet.
Chrome OS source Code
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Yep. First time I read about it, I did a double-take: "wait, _Linn_ designed a CPU?!". Sounds like it might have been an interesting place to work.

Too bad there's next to nothing online about it.
Looks like they are inviting submissions now also:

http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/build...
Chromium OS Website
Isn't the cat already out of the bag?

I mean, creating laws like "three strikes and you lose internet access" might have worked years ago, but now everyone is used to downloading media online.

Laws that effectively make the majority of citizens into criminals (America's drug laws, for instance) tend to just be ignored, no matter how draconian.
cappuccino and all that... they got a new language with compiler all in javascript :) objective-j it is like objective-c but for javascript

http://cappuccino.org/learn/

ps: they will never do asm the way we did :)
The Case For Gold & The Case Against Gold
Have a look at the graph again:

http://cdn.okcimg.com/blog/your_looks_and_inbox/Message-Mult...

This shows that the most attractive people get more messages than those less attractive, uniformly. It does not provide evidence for the existence of "A and B such that beauty(A) > beauty(B) AND suitors(A) < suitors(B)".

I think you're confused by the distribution graph:

http://cdn.okcimg.com/blog/your_looks_and_inbox/Male-Messagi...

But the "dip" on the right doesn't mean what you seem to think it does. If there were no dip, and the message distribution line had a uniformly positive slope, it would mean that the majority of all messages would be going to the most attractive women. The existence of the dip simply means that the sheer number of women with average attractiveness get enough messages to outweigh the tiny percentage who are most attractive in total number of messages.

My last sentence was about physical meetings; the rest of my comments were with respect to online messaging on dating sites like okcupid. In other words, I was suggesting that the old wives' tale may have more truth with respect to face to face than online.
Quantum entanglement in photosynthetic light harvesting complexes
Some of the videos worked till a few minutes ago - now their back to

EDIT: now public again :) the UI video looks pretty impressive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ57xzo287U&feature=chann...
I'm pretty sure the article says that it just has the fancy one, and the NT 3.1 dialog for it's super stripped-down version.
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Could somebody please submit this to the Patent Office? This seems to represent parklines in a spreadsheet" patent.
Ever since I read Jason Santa Maria's article on his "rethinking" (http://jasonsantamaria.com/articles/a-new-day/) I've been thinking about doing something similar with my personal site, where the frequency of posts has reduced over time.

I agree with the comments here that the smashing article went overboard; what particularly annoyed me was the use of different colored words for emphasis instead of bold or italic. I kept thinking those were links and obsessively moused over them to check. In their overzealous sale of the idea I think they definitely missed the mark about how design should work with the content. This is exactly what Jason Santa Maria points out in his post.

He specifically mentions that he may not always have time or the inclination or possibly even a need to do something special for each post. If that's the case he has a great default template for such articles. I highly recommend reading Jason's original article of a more sane and reasonable version of the idea.
Some time ago, someone posted to HN a service that could basically find images based on an input image. It worked very well, so it could be that.
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Or you with your puppy featured prominently? That might draw their attention away from any of your flaws, and when they think of you they'll immediately associate your face with a cute and cuddly puppy.

There's also the other idea. What if you put something unattractive near you to make your attractiveness stand out more. Like you volunteering to help a disfigured veteran (no offense meant to disfigured veterans). It might make you look more attractive in comparison.
IBM: first real-time simulation of the brain that exceeds the scale of a cat
I wish there's a browser that implements jQuery in binary natively.
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/s...

According to that it looks like they are definitely using X.

They seem to have made a lot of tweaks to low level firmware too.
Depending on how you architect your OS, it doesn't have to be impossible.

I have a little Exokernel project I devote my Saturdays to, and we'll actually be able to offer a POSIX-compliant libOS, and run anything that Linux does.

Or, there's always the hypervisor route, on desktops anyway.
So to lose weight, all I have to do is eat <1300 calories and work out for 3 hours daily? Sounds simple enough...
An hour of hard cycling burns about 700 kcals, which is a medium-sized meal. A candy bar is on the order of 250 kcals typically.
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Modern JS engines are fast enough for many tasks not possible before.
For example, I implemented AES256 and SHA256 in javascript for "security locker" website (http://www.memengo.com). I spent few days hand-optimizing the implementation to make it fast enough to encrypt user data in slow browsers like IE6, but last-generation browsers like FF3.5, Safari 4, Chrome would be fast enough even without excessive tuning.
You might be shocked to think how much money is in iPhone applications. I run a small group that has some big clients, and we are going to clear 1MM easily this year doing just iPhone, and Android.
Group messaging on Twitter, and why we need it now
It's worth noting that Smashing Magazine is not normally a full-on blogazine; only this particular article was like this. Their previous post was much more in the format of a normal blog: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/18/designing-css-but...
"I want to share hard-won “a ha!” moments in clear and simple language."

I looked at a couple of articles and they seem to achieve this pretty well. http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-quakes-fas... is a great explanation (previously discussed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=419166) - it omits some detail to better convey the key ideas.

This one's going in my RSS reader.
Bookmarked. Keep writing.
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Google Chrome OS will have no native apps, data will be stored in the cloud.
Well, there's a whole niche culture (PUA) built around this, and there are so many contradictory observations and prescriptions that I don't know that I even have a position on exactly what aspect of asinine behavior is sometimes attractive. I would note that it's not uncommon to see a girl devoted to a guy who seems self-loathing (as well as being a jerk, at least to her), so self-confidence is not always a major part of the picture.
The problem with China, in my mind, are several fold, like any other country to be fair.

1) Its primary industry is export. Is it really sustainable especially since other countries in the World may soon provide even cheaper labor and economic realities may force countries which consume China's products may reduce the demand.

2) It is artificially controlling its currency. I'm not an economist but how long can they keep doing this? Can a country really keep this going on for too long?

3) Its internal problems related to widening economic gap, human rights, and a communist government are going to get worse when people with new found (or lacking) economic freedom revolt. When will this happen, probably soon or maybe never.

Only time will help how it pans out in the future.
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Don't you normally have one person who writes the article and (at least) another person who does the layout and photography for the article in a normal magazine?

I'm not saying that this is not a great idea for a new content type, but it seems to me that the intersection of people who are good at web design and people who are good at writing (about things that aren't web design) is probably a fairly small set (in comparison to the set of people who are good at writing).

You also have to notice that the signal to noise ratio in a magazine (feels to me) much higher in a traditional print medium than it is in a magazine. The text gets stretched out over a much larger area (although the trade off is worth it for magazines where the pictures help to tell the story).

A lot of the time, the design is there in order to cover up the apparent lack of information in the magazine. Have you ever read Cosmo? It is mostly full-page advertisements.

Although that does bring up the fact that you could monetize a blogazine really easily by including full-page advertisements and making it so you have to scroll through it. Imagine one of those really pretty magazine-style photo-adds on a blogazine, I would imagine that the click through rate would be pretty good, and you could charge just for showing the add.

Appearance and textual content meet somewhere (otherwise we would all be using HTML 1.1 or whatever), but I doubt we will be seeing full-blown blogazines go mainstream any time soon simply because of the technical skill involved (and how bad it will go if you don't pull it off properly).
This is timely. This morning I was trying to work out what steps I'd need to go through to create a parser and interpreter for another syntax in javascript. I'm seeking to write a personal organiser in my browser but dislike the javascript syntax, and was wondering what I'd need to do to get an iolanguage syntax in js.

I found someone who had already done somthing similar using ometa. Here's a smalltalk syntax in javascript: http://tinlizzie.org/ometa/ometa-js-old/

Unfortunately I never practiced the stuff I learnt in 'language translators' at uni and have forgotten the details. This source may be useful, although I'd prefer it to work dynamically rather than having a compile stage. Other advice welcome.
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Interesting to see this get linked to - this was a little hack that I did back in 2006 and haven't touched it since.

In short it was an experiment to develop an alternative syntax to jQuery (I've always felt that jQuery's syntax and idioms are very much like a domain-specific language for traversing and manipulating the DOM). One of my primary reasons for creating jQuery was to develop a library that had very little syntactical overhead. This jQuery^2 experiment was trying to take it to the next extreme (almost no syntax, just some whitespace). To do this I built a very-hacky parser and search through the page for scripts that have a type of "text/jquery".

You'll note that the script that runs the page is actually in this meta-language. Also note that the code in the textarea compiles to some nonsense that doesn't actually run on that page. I was mostly just throwing in code to test the parser.

Projects like Cappuccino have taken this idea to the extreme and developed complete languages on top of JavaScript that are much more functional than what I present here.

Glad people are finding it to be interesting, though!
looks like a gemcutter.org clone, for clojure?
For folks interested in papercraft (and I very much am), Google Sketchup + Pepakura = paper models of damn near everything.

http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/

BTW, get SketchUp 7.0, not 7.1. Something's odd in the kmz export.
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They have to protect their trademark, or lose it. Chalk this one up to another casualty of intellectual property law.
There's an Uncanny Valley effect going on for sure.

I bet if it were a bit closer to life-sized it would truly spook people.
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