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The idea is interesting indeed - and easily doable as well: Entry.all gives you all the links on the front page, you'd just have fetch the main page between regular intervals of ti…

Clickable url : http://github.com/bolthar/ruby-hackernews

You can find the library in question here -> http://github.com/bolthar/ruby-hackernews .I'd love to hear from you about anything - bugs, feature requests, etc. Thanks in advance fo…

This is really sexist, and the very fact that she can get away with it (and even get lots of praise) should make us all reflect on how fucked up social conventions and politically …

Web MS Access?

I wonder why Microsoft insist on using this kind of language when talking to programmers: they're just asking for the hate of the hacker community. Couldn't they at least try to fa…

Thank you for this comment. Now, instead of wasting our time considering the article, in which the founder of the SANS Institute is lobbying the government to set up semi-official …

I couldn't care less about changing what hacker means to the general public. I'd just like to be able to recognize if a topic is about either hacking or security at first glance.

Changing them often causes confusion (editorialising) if I misplace emphasis You're right. Besides I'm pretty sure most here know the distinction b/w "hackers" & "crackers". I thin…

Please, clueless journalists, stop using "hacker" as a synonym for "cracker". And also: when posting an article on HN which title contains the word "hacker" it would be nice if you…

This is so full of corporate bullcrap that it makes me shudder... Game mechanics in crappy apps -> ???? -> PROFIT!

I've collected and studied data from rubygems a while ago and I came to the exact same conclusion. (you can find the post here -> http://usingimho.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/men-and-…

I'd like to be able to believe that once again. It's really as you said, social skills and no more: it's just about trial and error - knowing a lot of different situations and mind…

I know I repeat myself but the thing that scares me to death is that this is not about j.random college slut or the housewife looking for adventure. Or about any specific group of …

I have absolutely no idea how it works.

I'm not talking about pick up artists: they explicitly target those kind of girls, and they've developed techniques tailored for that. I don't even know about that stuff, honestly,…

(Mind that this is my experience only, so I don't pretend to be right: don't get me wrong on this one) I've been travelling quite a lot and I've been hitting on pretty much any kin…

The issue lays in what exactly are the 'idealised versions' that women actually like.

I started with 'The Game' from Neil Strauss, that gave me the idea. From then it was all downhill, you just have to go out and try. I never used canned openings and that kind of st…

I have to say, i lost that too.

Nope. This terrible things work because they leverage some very powerful mechanism that is deeply and unavoidably bound into women's brain. It's not just _statistically_ valid, it'…

It's all true. The effectiveness of the approach is amazing, I lost every single bit of respect in the female gender in the process of trying it out myself. Now I'm searching for s…