skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sister was just about the only woman in her engineering classes at Cornell.

She was hired in the 70s (and continued doing consulting through the 90s) by a designer of nuclear reactors doing programming, since she could understand both the engineering side (steam valves etc) and the programming side - she helped program the nuclear reactor control room simulator using Fortran.

Yet now she is a professor at a well-known university. The hours are easier, pay is as good or better, excellent benefits.

Given that, why beg women to join in something that doesn't pay as well and expects you to slave away during weekends and holidays when there is a crunch?

(edited to add: I think part of it may be that men (speaking generally) are more in love with the works of their hands, even if it doesn't benefit them directly; they can have pride in it years later. I am not sure that women necessarily have the same attitude towards material objects.)
I do this for new emails, but it's kind of cumbersome for replies.
You can [sadly] substitute IE9 for quite a few different products from MS where the demo come out so early that by the time of release, competition is well ahead.

ZuneHD was initially announced cheaper than the comparable iPod touch - by the time it shipped (9 months later), apple had dropped the price on its product. HP Slate announced before iPad but available after.

Microsoft really doesn't understand how to market themselves.
Also here's a 5-1/2 month trial of polyphasic sleep - http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/ . This is the first entry, but he went back and added links to all of his posts about polyphasic. I am trying it, or attempting to - I am having trouble getting to sleep quickly enough, then having trouble getting up and not over-sleeping.
I used profanity?

What?

Serious question: are you drinking right now?
Do you mean what "you can't do" as "you are not capable of this but others are/might be"?

Yeah, that has much less weight, although you might want to drill down and see why they have that opinion. E.g. Edison could not do in a practical way electronic distribution because he didn't have the math (calculus) needed for polyphase AC, which is why we're all using Tesla's inventions (with a modern special case exception of very high voltage DC interconnect lines).

I.e. a "you can't do this unless and until you master X" is worth listening to. On the other hand, the founder of Motorola didn't know or pay attention to the conventional wisdom that coils? (inductors) had to be big, so he went ahead and made the first really practical car radios.
Interesting, I didn't know the history of the term.

However, I feel you are being pedantic. If you replace "first world" with "rich" and third world with "poor" then the statements make sense (though you can disagree on if they are true or not).

Or am I missing something? I realize that being the US or aligned with the US has large implications in global politics, economics, etc... but that doesn't seem to invalidate the statement "The US might be come a poor country if/unless <whatever you think might make it a poor country>."
Obviously the writer and poster have no idea what '3rd world' means.
Well, Markdown is a script for converting into HTML, which is far beyond the abilities of Ulysses. But Ulysses does have both inline and paragraph styling, so it would be trivial to replicate Markdown's functionality like italics, strong, headers, et cetera. It doesn't literally do HTML, though, so I wouldn't try to, say, plug it directly into a Markdown processor in a blog. It's designed for producing manuscripts, which it can do in several formats, including LaTeX.
You mean women typically have the choice between becoming programmers and professors at well-known universities? Or in general, they don't become programmers because other jobs they opt for pay better?

"I am not sure that women necessarily have the same attitude towards material objects"

I suspect 90% of offerings on Etsy.com are from women? Haven't looked it up, but I am pretty sure it is a large fraction.
Given that, why beg women to join in something that doesn't pay as well and expects you to slave away during weekends and holidays when there is a crunch?

Why rule out half the population?
This isn't the first time these fringe ideas from paleonu made it to HN. As Lena pointed out this is a blog post on an article about a study that the paleonu author hasn't even read the abstract for. Meanwhile, there's a mountain of evidence supporting endurance training:

According to one 32,000 person study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (1999), "fit persons with any combination of smoking, elevated blood pressure, or elevated cholesterol level had lower adjusted death rates than low-fit persons with none of these characteristics". The same study found that aerobic fitness had a far more important impact on longevity than obesity did. This was cited in Fantastic Voyage, Kurzweil and Grossman, Chapter 22.

Another 100,000+ person study found that men who ran two or more marathons per year were 41 percent less likely to suffer from high blood pressure, 32 percent less likely to have high cholesterol, and 87 percent less likely to be diabetic than non-marathoners. Those who ran only one marathon every two to five years also had significantly lower risk for these conditions than non-marathoners. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/140104.php

Here's a different piece on how regular hour-long runs stimulate neurogenesis and memory improvements in middle aged humans: http://www.dana.org/news/brainwork/detail.aspx?id=7374

Distance running is one of the most beneficial things you can do for yourself. Racing marathons is also fine, with sufficient training.
Hmm, you can guess when the app will be approved.
I'd like to see some stats on those guesses, i bet that the results will make clear that the average user has no idea of how long the approval process is (i expect that the majority of votes should fall in the 1-3 weeks range).
Disclosure: I own 2 Apple laptops and pre-ordered an iPad.

I spilled a glass of wine on my Dell Inspiron 1705 awhile ago. I called Dell and told them what happened, and they gave me the same story: $250 to look at it. The only problem I could detect was with certain keys on the keyboard, so I googled around a bit and found a replacement keyboard for something like $25. I also discovered that replacing the keyboard was dead simple, and could be done in under 10 minutes. I did that, and everything was fine.

Contrast this with disassembly of my 13" Unibody Macbook.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGcVwmUSmak

Instead of prying out one plastic cover and undoing a couple of screws on the Dell, I have to do all of that just to get to the keyboard.

If you buy a mac laptop, buy a sleeve, buy a snap on cover, get an AppleCare warranty, and sell it before that warranty runs out. They are not meant for you to repair yourself, and much of their value as high-end design products can vanish in a moment of inattention.

If you want a laptop you can maintain yourself, Dell is a better option. They are also well designed, but with very different design goals. (Many also make decent Hackintoshes, I hear.)
I include the email addresses but append ".invalid", which achives the same result.
It also bears mentioning that both Scrivener and Ulysses have their own pretty powerful LaTeX export functions, though I haven't thoroughly used either one.
Faster loading times, especially noticeable on mobile and other slow devices in image-heavy apps.
Old book is old. This has been a free e-book since its publication.

Singularity scifi is pretty cliche at this point. Stross, by his own admission, hasn't done any serious thinking on the topic since the mid-00's. His more recent work of near-future scifi (Halting State) is much more interesting (and disturbing) in terms of what it portends for our lives. Rainbows End is another good read along those lines.

The term "nerd rapture" pretty much sums of whats wrong with the singularity sub-genre when taken to its logical conclusion.

Giving Stross credit, though, he does some pretty clever things in this book, especially in his discussions of economics/business ("My board of directors is a perl script", The Corporate Instrument, etc).
The Slow Rise of the Robot Surgeon
How Google, Apple, And Other Household Brands Came Up With Their Names
There's a link to a single-page version on the bottom right of the post.
Yes, Microsoft can definitely build a better browser. They just need to put their hearts to it. And cut off all support for IE. They envisioned a Chrome-OS like system before Google did, and I think they even have a team to work on it (not sure though).
The Genius bar is a far better bet. When I showed up with a refurbished 24" iMac out of warranty, I was exempted from paying for diagnosis unless replacing the power supply did bring it back to life. (If it was the motherboard, it would be a better deal for me to take my machine apart for parts, eBay them, then buy another entire used machine.)
Somehow, I can't stop thinking of him as the guy from Ocean's 12 Francois toulour http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2973145088/ch0002220
Moreover, in the so-called "real" journalism, in many cases the reporter actually has to physically go somewhere to witness what is happening, and then the total cost of producing an article is even higher, in other words journalism work is not only writing.

But still, in certain sectors like Tech or some other niches, the best outlets actually are profitable online; those are typically something between media and blog, like Techcrunch, gadgets blogs etc., where about 10 reporters are pumping out articles 24h/day, and maybe about 25% of articles can be called journalism (they called someone or went to some event).

But where this model doesn't work are general news, since they are quite expensive to produce and yet not perceived as very valuable. There it doesn't work.
> I used profanity? What?

You called my post "a slew of crap". If that doesn't qualify as profanity, you still did nothing to rectify my apparent misrepresentation of your original post.

> Serious question: are you drinking right now?

No.
As I recall, it was an April fools prank not long ago.
Markdown is both a specific script and a format, and in this context I meant the format... that is, turning asterisk-surrounded text into emphasized text, etc. HTML is just an implementation detail. :)
The point about not using your day job's resources is important. Not only could you lose you day job, but your side project as well. Many times when you start working at an organization, they have you sign an agreement saying something like "We own everything that is produced on our machines, network, etc."
Ask HN: Who's hiring?
There have been a few "who's hiring?" threads in the past and I'm curious if those hiring would be interested in adding to another. I think the last one was up almost a month and a half ago, so I'm sure the job landscape has changed over that time.

On a completely self-plugging note, as of this past Monday, my company downsized so if anyone is need of a good web developer, drop me a line!
The notion of the 'third world' as being poor occurred after the fact. The reason the majority of the third world countries never aligned was because they couldn't field a worthwhile military for a cold-war era threat, the vast majority of them still can't.

The idea that the US could fall so far from grace that it would be incapable of fielding a military is a much, much bigger thing than people imagine. Due to the size and natural resources of the US it fundamentally has an economic bottom line, despite all the economy going to crap it will still have access to raw materials to make a sufficient military to stand with its allies.

Many African countries have next to nothing in terms of established economy, or likely establishable economy. With little access to water, little access to raw materials and little access to arable land, there is quite literally zero hope for improvement, these countries by nature would be trapped in importing natural resources and exporting products, which is something no country has solely survived off.

For the US to ever reach third-world poverty, it would have to have almost zero access to clean water, zero access to natural resources and zero access to arable land. By virtue of americas geographical location, it is physically impossible for it to have no arable land and no clean water unless rain never falls again.

The simple notion that the US could fall so far is quite absurd, you might as well be arguing that overnight your dog turned into a cat. Unless there's a fundamental change in the ordering of the universe, a dog will never become a cat, and unless there's a fundamental change in the ecological systems of the earth (I'm talking WAY beyond global warming bullshit, the US has been habitable through ice ages and periods when Antarctica had plant life; I'm talking a dinosaur-killer required to make it uninhabitable) the US will never sink to third-world poverty.

Simply put, unless we change the fundamental ecological system of the planet well beyond recognition in any way or form as to what has existed before or in the short-term future, the US will still be a thriving country with a massive population. It might not be a world-hub of technological development, but it'll still be on a map. Of first world countries there is a whole host of countries that aren't known for any real technological development, but because of expert use of natural resources over a century or more, they still have excellent wealth and development.

As the old saying goes, it takes money to make money. Right now the US is still harvesting gold and diamonds out of its land, and is also harvesting black gold, most of these industries alone are more profitable than almost any of the poverty stricken countries in Africa. Zimbabwe has a GDP of ~3 billion, if it was a company we'd be talking about it being bought out by Google/Apple/Microsoft for $30bil and what they plan to do with it. There's quite literally more money in some companies than in entire swathes of Africa.
Phone touchscreens tested by robot
Visualizing Usage of the Firefox Menu Bar
People forget that reddit was widely viewed as a trivial digg clone in its early days. Dropbox also seemed trivial to some early on: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
"embrace polyphasic sleep".

Not as easy as you would think. Also, most job schedules don't really allow for a polyphasic sleep schedule.
Microsoft doesn't want to follow standards, their browsers are made to access stuff built by software they license and the only reason they are willing to adhere to some standards now is because they have fallen behind.
So in essence their shitty browsers are a kind of DRM.
> I am not sure that women necessarily have the same attitude towards material objects.

Then clearly you haven't talked to enough women.

Also, if you believe the only allure of programming is a poorly-paying job and terrible hours, then there are larger problems afoot.
No offense to your project, but if you feel disadvantaged from not being in the Silicon Valley, segregating yourself into your own aggregator is not in your advantage. Plus, if I recall correctly about half of HN users are not US based.

Also, your title is misleading.
I think you misunderstood, it's not designed to shrink images that are used in a GUI. It's a GUI based application designed to shrink images (most likely for web sites).
Lua Programming Gems (Ebook)
Does anybody know how hard it would be to design a notebook that doesn't die if you spill a few drops of water on the keyboard?
It's even better when combined with QuickCursor (free download), which allows you to, with a keystroke, edit the contents of almost any textfield in WriteRoom. It also works with other editors such as TextMate.

http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor/
That's not current information about Michigan, dating from before both the Supreme Court case about affirmative action there and before the subsequent voter initiative than banned consideration of race in admission there.
This is true, but having to enable a GMail labs feature is a heck of a workaround for a simple UI issue.

That's a bit like saying let's put this vase right next to this punching bag and don't worry, if the vase breaks, we've got some glue over here. Obviously this is hyperbole, but I think it illustrates my point.

It would make much more sense to just separate the two very different elements. In fact, this is the point of this write-up and to offer a hackish workaround in lieu of a simple rearrangement is completely missing that point.
I'm going to guess here but... I think @iuguy meant LaTeX source code. PDF from latex is probably fine.

Why do they hate it? Because most of them probably can't open it.
Chinese web users boycott Google
This might be the best wikipedia article ever. I am surprised there are more actual than fictional too. The best one:

Famous Apache Boat Builder and racer Ben Kramer tried to escape by helicopter from a Federal Holding Facility in Miami on April 17, 1989. The escape failed when too many other inmates jumped on the helicopter and the helicopter crashed from being overloaded. #FAIL
The main purpose of unpaid internships is to keep out working class people who can't afford not to have an income. I was thirty before I could afford to be out of work for more than a month; and I wouldn't have been able to then if I'd had a family.
Another relevant example would be the voting arrows here on this site. I don't know about anyone else, but I have voted comments the wrong way on a number of occasions. Having some sort of obvious undo vote feature might be nice as well.
Me: http://www.causata.com/careers
First impression: Health reform and Health IT
There is, and that's the first thing I thought, too.

But the point is that the controls are mis-placed on the screen. This specific example may have a work-around, but it's just that: a work-around. I don't know if the need for the "Undo Send" labs feature would go down if the UI was changed or not, but it'd be interesting to know.
I don't know... these debates seem to go round and round, and at the end of the day, I grow weary of them. My resolve is to do what is in my power to help out other people, be they men or women, who are interested in learning something about programming and maybe need a leg up, and not to discriminate or make the work environment uncomfortable in any other way. Beyond that, though, I don't think I can do much more, and it doesn't seem a good use of my time wondering what a very generic "we" can do to change the status quo.
Another advantage of waking up early, if your employer allows it, is working four 10 hour days. I started doing that a couple years ago and would have a hard time going back. Those couple hours in the morning are golden because no one else is around. Having a three day weekend every week isn't bad either.
There's a Lot in the Dot: Filesystem Permissions and Pathnames (Part 1)
The credited way to disagree with a statement that some computer science department is a top-thirty department is to name thirty other departments that are better, with rationale.
Philip Greenspun wrote a good essay on the subject.

http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
I agree that unpaid internships attract their more than fair share of suckers, and I personally advice anyone who cares to listen very strongly against taking unpaid internships, except for very short stunts, such as helping out at a trade show or festival.

But if someone wants to work for free at a museum, and the museum can't pay them anyway, why should it be a crime?

> more than ten years trying internships and with amazing CVs living with parents because you can't afford living by yourself.

I don't want to draw conclusions on the situation of your friends, but I'm not at all sure unpaid internships are to blame.
Still, why blame the companies? seems to me it is still the people who are volunteering who are bringing this upon themselves. There is no human right to "working on culture" - if they want to get paid for it, maybe they should try to think about what they could offer to make it worth paying them.
Any time I see a feature like that on an app, I think that enough people must have asked the support team to do that for them that it became easier to provide a function for that on the UI.

Either that or the app developers just tossed in whatever features they could think up. Depends on how much credit I give the developers.
أدب .. وليم شكسبير / William Shakespeare : سونيت 95
Agreed, the author lost me in the first paragraph. Sure the US imports a lot of products from (technically speaking) second world countries, however the US has major exports that no one in the world compares to. You want a computer? Show me an operating system used globally by the mass majority that isn't made in the US?

The US has a tech sector like no other, if you don't count Windows, Google, Facebook and World of Warcraft as exports then you really have no clue whatsoever about the economy. The raw materials for the development of such things are the luxuries we consider imported from other countries. Yes that futon a Google employee stuck in their office, that in no way contributes to their developing of Analytics, Docs, etc. Get real.

Lets be realistic here, we're all versed in computers and development here. Did any Ycombinator developer actually come up with their idea sat in a made-in-the-USA chair, at a made-in-the-USA desk working on a computer solely made-in-the-USA? No! I bet a fair percentage got the majority of their ideas like everybody else, sat on a crapper imported from Indonesia, or at the breakfast table made in China by a Swedish company, or on their commute in a German/Japanese/Korean car or an American car made from parts imported from down the road from me here in Canada.

Can we skip the naivety here? The US is switching from a physical exporter to an electronic exporter. Microsoft isn't one of the worlds biggest companies because it hauled dirt around looking for copper that could be turned into wires, it built software that everybody worldwide needs.
The blurb and review suggests that he lost, but now campaigns on the issue to avoid others hitting the same problem, though it's not totally explicit.
Great point. I would add the caveat that "online ads as they currently exist simply don't ...".

Jeff Jarvis (http://www.buzzmachine.com/) has been pushing papers to jump into marketing packages that go beyond the ad/CPM model. It requires better sales/marketing/ad staff and innovation, and isn't as simple as "We have your target market hostage," but then again, the pay is a lot better.
It's obviously better to be poor in the US than to be poor in sub-Saharan Africa or rural China. I will grant you that.

This is like arguing that, because Northern coal miners in 1840 were treated marginally better than Southern slaves, describing the miners as oppressed and downtrodden would be somehow inaccurate because someone is worse off.

American poverty is physically a lot better than in much of the world, but the ennui and inability to advance are the same, and the conditions for the American poor are getting worse right now and will reach a state of true poverty if we don't intervene.
Chapel Hill, NC: These guys are hiring. Not a bad place to work. Their product has a lot of potential to be applied in markets which it is not currently.

http://www.integrify.com/about/Careers.aspx
> some who get into Harvard don't

For every Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Page, or even Patzer, there are many who went to a top school who never did much or even really blew it. Part of me wants to see a post-mortem on their careers, much the way we review failed startups for "lessons learned"