skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not like somebody's sitting there saying, "hey, it's a woman -- I should make her miserable." It's more like there's a category of crap that ends up shoved at you if you're female, but not if you're male. There's another category that men deal with too, but it's much more potent when you're a small minority of the population. And, I mean, come on, some of these things: the attractive=stupid stereotype, the facile labeling of some women as irrational, being mistaken for secretaries or assumed to be non-technical staff ... these play upon stereotypes and cultural norms that apply specifically to women.

In other words: because most of these things don't apply to men. And because, when women try to explain what's happening, one of the most frequent reactions they get from men is, "what are you talking about?" (Or the related, "oh, but that happens to me too," followed by a spurious equivalence.)

So, look, if you really want to get into the details, there's a limit to what I can tell you. I'm male, so I'm not speaking from my own experience. If you're genuinely curious, ask some female engineers. Not all of them will feel the way I've described, but I've talked to enough to know that I'm not totally off-base. The main thing is, if you want to know, you have to be willing to actually listen and accept that they have had experiences different from yours. Even if you disagree with them, try to hold off on going into debate mode; they've probably done that too many times before and are tired of it.
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I agree this article was mostly hastily written over-generalized crud. But there is no need to throw Joel and Paul under that same train. Usually, they do a better job of supporting their positions, and their articles are much better written.
Looked it up because of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1217310 and hadn't heard of it before.

As a side note, Morris worm mentioned in the diagram tickled me.
Good info to have!
Its a good thing that Facebook apps dont have automatic access to your email - its really easy to create facebook apps.
Did we read the same article? The one I read made ample disclaimers about it being nothing even remotely approximating a serious benchmark.
Be aware of what info you are releasing to FB apps! Access to your pictures is also possible.
Who says it's conscious? Perceived reward can be fully subconscious, just look at any minor addiction (and some major), or any habit. Typically, people don't know why they do things in those areas (among others), they just do them.
The thing about civil disobedience is that it is disobedient, and people ought to be willing to risk the consequences in order to bring about the changes they desire. It wasn't the concept of fundamental rights that made the human rights marches and so on work in the American south in the '60s, it was the brutality of the police response to the marchers. It is the consequences, and the willingness of people to do what is right despite those consequences, that is the agent of change. So, yes, the laws in place ought to be enforced, and if they are wrong, let the law be changed. Laws should not invite or be subject to invite arbitrary application, and in this case the matter under consideration is the very nature of what can be classified and what actually constitutes national security.
... because you vastly distorted a humorous remark? Seems like that link is caused by your biases, instead of actually existing on its own.
I agree this is pretty cool, but the more I search the more I feel that the results are targeted solely towards early adopters. Google is the behemoth that it is because normals mistake it for the very Internet itself. If duck duck go wants a shot at any significant share of the search market they'll have to be more welcoming of those same type of folks.

(This comment is influenced by today's post by Spencer Fry http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1215949)
Hey, a-hole

Those are daily scenes in this (The Republic of Colombia) country

How dare you

Go F yourself
Pre-paid iPhone that only does data through WiFi? Gads, I've been trying to find something like that for over year now.
I didn't read their original entry. I read an article that was basically "Hurf durf, Digg is retarded, I can do better at home. NoSQL is stupid."

I actually flagged the parent article. It's a troll, and not worth anyone's time. RDBMS is good sometimes. NoSQL is good sometimes. Do we really need _another_ holy war?
hug That is... just so perfect.
The reason hamburger shows a raccoon is that it is a reference to an in-joke among Redditors. The whole joke is explained if you search for "cuil".
You're in Colombia? I find it pretty hard to believe any latino in Latin America would be so careless with their finances that they let $5 deposit fees hit them more than once per month.

But what do I know ... I'm just an Australian who's been living in Central America in countries much poorer than Colombia... but at least the people a little north of you are nicer. : )
Well, that IS what I believe. But regardless to what I believe, it is illegal to knowingly publish classified information. The ramifications of doing so with respect to hacking the encryption algorithm could possibly cause far greater damage that the release of the video itself (provided it showed something ACTUALLY classified, not this cover up stuff).

The point I'm really trying to make is that they are actively trying to acquire and release classified information, which is direct disregard for the law. If they were to "go away" I would neither be surprised, nor feel compassion.

What kind of society have we come to where it is revered to break the law in order to exact some change on our government?
And you think this article started the holy war? I believe I just saw another article on his about how you should do SQL sorting in PHP until you graduate to MySQL, or so claims Digg's former architect.
Totally agree with you on all points. Good suggestions too. This instance is a little different because they hacked a DoD communication encryption algorithm. Even if this was used to cover up something, how much other data has been sent using this method. Was the hack specific to the key used or will it work regardless? Will the hack be release in addition to the video?

It's pretty easy for our enemies to set up scanners in the field and capture streams of data to analyze later. If the hack is generic enough and the method was used enough I can see how this could be potentially VERY bad.

That being said, I think we're using very simple encryption on our UAVs video feeds. So it's probably the equivalent of locking the front door and not as big a deal as I've made it out to be.
You should do this whenever you are talking to anyone about anything (because they might actually listen), but especially when you want to get a message across (such as "you should invest in my company because __").
Another way to look at this question is one of - what drives web entrepreneurs? Let's assume that financial reward is one piece of it, and that the process of actually building is itself rewarding - what else influences how HN members have decided what type of companies to build?
Cuil looks pretty bad UI-wise. UI elements are presented in the same style as content text, which makes quick skimming difficult. A one-column layout turns into a two-column layout without any visible logical separation and no warning.

The no-warning column change also confuses the user the third column - which is consistent. I look at that page and my brain hurts.

Compare with Duck Duck Go, where UI elements are immediately obvious, and the text doesn't switch layout/flow on you half way down the page.

Also, DDG doesn't steal a bunch of pixels from your browser window permanently - not sure why this still exists in 2010.
- Make an educational app for kids. Make ABC fun to learn. numbers. math. geography etc etc, and send reports to parents.

- A website where locals/individuals can rent out their tools. Like craigslist, but for rentals only. I.E. Snowblower, lawnmower, ladder, car etc etc. Locals renting to Local like the old days.

thats all for now.

edit: take a vacation. get some fresh air and sun, or hit the gym, do anything away from the computer for a day or two and you'll be glad you did.
The copycat buglers would play reveille as they made their escape :)
Would you qualify it as a meta-search engine or as a search engine ?
You spoiled little swine, you have no idea, how fng dare you

Calling yourself a hacker while doing .net and flash?

You little PUSSY

You little BITCH

How dare you, sitting in your gluttonous SWINE of a country, you spoiled little swine
I first read Bing as being, which made for a very confusing interpretation:

"duck being punch duck, google punch and go!"
Yes, exactly. I feel I have been very bad at saying that the content should never have been classified to begin with (though due to the nature of how it was gathered it must be), and that it is the protection of our communication security which is of much greater importance in this case.
If the wikileaks guys are smart enough to have made it this far you can bet they've already set up a "dead man switch" torrent file somewhere that will self-tweet and self-publish the video x days from now if they fail to check in. PR stunts aren't their style- this smells like either a disinformation campaign to discredit them or a smoke screen for something else. Fortunately there's enough intelligent, vocal people watching this ordeal at this point that it can't be swept under a rug if they disappear. good luck fellas- you're leading an important charge right now.
Now, this is just me imagining.

My guess is that part of the tussle with Chinese authorities which Google does not talk about may be demands made on Google for information on individuals.
More than censorship, it may be the surveillance aspect.

It is maybe in this context that Eric Schmidt told users: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

Maybe the Chinese authorities told Google: "If you have something on users that you don't want us to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
And Google did not want to stop keeping user information for just China....
Does the iPad have a microphone?
The kind the founding fathers envisioned, as stated by Thomas Jefferson:

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."
It'll be interesting to see what happens if the oil money flows to the people in Iraq. Strategically, it would be a very wise move on the part of the US, as it would assist in shoring up relations with the region. If for their entire lives they've been told that the United States is the Great Satan, then the US invades, lets them kill Saddam, and makes everyone that's left rich in the process, it may reverse some of that.

So far this year, Iraq is safer for US servicemen than where I am today, Baltimore. (http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2010/01/man_...) The unpopular decisions made by the Bush administration seem to be paying off.
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Agreed, my identity is not exactly a secret. I haven't heard from his lawyers yet though, maybe it's still in the mail somewhere.

It's sad though, I think he may have something there but he's going about it completely wrong.

He wouldn't even have to rebrand the thing, just sell it as it is, save a bunch of $. After all it's not like smit is going to give him an exclusive deal.

And I'm still not sure what the status is on importing that thing with a 3G dongle in to Europe or the US without the required 'seal of approval'. I'm pretty sure that the local variety FCC wants to know that your device has passed inspection, and that operating a device that has not passed inspection is tricky at best and illegal in most places.
It's a rally and vigil, not a protest. I know from experience.
That would be even further back than the time period I am referencing.
The disturbing thing is we do have a bad example right next door - people will point and criticise China and Iran and in the next breath point out how we know better and would never let the power be misused.
With some luck, .NET code runs in Mono, so you don't even need a Windows to run it. So if .NET was really the killer app, BSD and Linux would be applicable, too, and those run fine on many architectures.

Thus, I think the real "key benefit" are still the native Windows applications.

Also, don't forget that most modern computer games use the graphics card more than the CPU, and ARM will have more trouble to compete more with modern graphics cards than with x86.
They are already famous because the research they did to earn a Nobel Prize made them famous.
Ok, this is enough of little bitches like you, I am leaving this forum, and go interact with

HACKERS

But how fng dare you, you little swine

Bye bye, cretin, and yes, I would say this to your face, would love to
Except that most students also don't have the wherewithal to get coding jobs during the summer, and often have to fall back on jobs not in their chosen field. I know that I would have appreciated a program like this most summers, as it would have saved me from the absolute garbage jobs I worked as a student (pizza delivery, where I was robbed twice; outcall telemarketing; others).
If they were to "go away" I would neither be surprised, nor feel compassion

Where the "going away" part would hopefully be against the law too.
Good point. I think that the fact that to most Europeans and Americans 'Russia' (the collective view of the former sovblock started at the east German border and ended halfway between Japan and the former USSR) was the enemy, and China is not yet.

There is some noise now with respect to the google China situation, but on the whole people think of China as relatively benign, and as an ally and trading partner rather than as an enemy. The cold war was definitely different in that respect, and everything 'the Russians' did (and by extension the other sovblock regimes) was perceived as bad.

I remember that in the mid 80's, when I visited Poland that on my return people were literally shocked that there were CCTV systems operated by the government on the streets.

The KGB keeping files on all foreigners and so on. We've come full circle and we're doing all that and more.
Good thing Apple also rejected Google Maps.
Hasta luego.
How have you found Bing VS BOSS.

I have to projects, one kind of a side project and one a main project that would benefit from BOSS integration but I am not confident the service will be around in 12 months.

I've not played with a Bing API. Thoughts?
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I find who is NOT in the list interesting. While I certainly am not condemning the article, it is interesting that no one who is highly technical is in the list. Where are the 21st century Andy Groves, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Nolan Bushnell? The marketers and the popularizers (not to say PR men, because that is apparently a bad thing to be) are the ones determining the next big thing, and not Linus Torvalds, or Lars Rasmussen or anyone from ARM.

Or are those guys just too busy building the things that'll change the world to be out twittering or blogging about it?
Except that most students also don't have the wherewithal to get coding jobs during the summer, and often have to fall back on jobs not in their chosen field.

Sure, and you italicized "also" stressing that it's not only students that have this problem. While I have reservations about financially motivating people, the program would smell nicer if it didn't arbitrarily limit itself to a demographic.

Why discriminate between a 20 year old taking marine biology and a 20 year old stuck working all year at a convenience store if they have the same desire to code on the side? Are "students" inherently "better" than other people and more deserving of programs like GSOC?

The students who really deserve our respect are those who don't sit on their butts playing WoW or watching TV for hours every day and are making time to invest in their futures by contributing to open source. There are a lot out there and they're what we need more of.
No, no, no. If you say "okay, we won't do that" and mean it, you've demonstrated respect for her, and that her opinions and preferences are valued. You've included her in the group.

And for your second paragraph: saying "no, it's not like that" is marginalizing because it demonstrates an unwillingness to take the woman seriously. If she says, "I didn't like that, it made me feel excluded from the group", and you say, "well, we didn't mean it that way": you are continuing to exclude her. The message communicated is, "your opinions aren't important". If the presentation went so far as to be objectifying, you're saying "well, I didn't mean for it to make you feel objectified, so you shouldn't feel that way" -- which indicates a flagrant lack of respect.

For emphasis: I do not know a single female engineer (not a single engineer, actually) who wants to be sexually objectified by his or her peers. Not one. They want to be respected as competent engineers, as colleagues, as friends.
You would be surprised but the choie of SaaS search APIs is really small -- even if you are prepared to pay.

Yahoo BOSS (which probably will disappear when Yahoo pulls out of search) and Bing API, basically. I don't believe Ask has an API.

This is a current issue for projects I am working on
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Wow, did the article say somewhere that Google and Amazon don't know what they're doing? I don't believe it did. In fact I think it quite specifically questioned some performance claims that aren't valid.
> the religious right are simply self-denying homosexuals

You're quite the dick, aren't you? But that's OK, because you're so smart. It's OK to be a dick if you're smart.
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If you make your sample small enough you will always be able to say that. A one month period is not long enough to make sweeping statements like that.

To suggest that Iraq is safer for US servicemen than Baltimore you'd have to look at a period long enough to include your 'anomaly', which by the way was written in January. And you'd have to qualify the slayings as combat, which they clearly were not, if you'd include non-combat deaths from Iraq it would look quite different.

http://militarytimes.com/valor/ shows that if you take that up to now (that's only a bit under two months later) that it no longer is true even if you were to qualify those deaths as combat.
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How do you see Bernanke saving Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain ? Did they suddenly become US states ?
My team is working on one of the most JS-heavy apps I've ever seen (Gmail being the exception). I'd highly recommend tossing us a resume.

My team works in PHP or Java (though we don't care too much about particular languages, we just want you to rock). We're looking for full-timers and interns.

Toss me a resume at bkrausz AT tripadvisor DOT com, I'll be sure to pass it along to sanj if I don't want to steal you for my team ;-).
Apps don't have access to phone info for the same reasons.
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Cites a paper which highlights flaws and threats in the Certificate Authority model and proposes incremental improvements.
I have to say, I'm really impressed by how accessible you are. I mentioned a problem on a Reddit thread a while back and you fixed it immediately as well. Keep doing what you're doing, and don't forget about the little guys when you get big :)
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The black background killed my eyes.
I know you're being sarcastic, but I'm not sure what you're getting at.
My favorite Chinese word of the day. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZRYd78vMT0
What do you use for a scanner ? And using what film formats ?
> it is illegal to knowingly publish classified information

It is illegal to who? If I came upon classified DoD information, I would publish it with my own name, and let them have fun trying to figure out how to stick their laws to someone who is not their citizen. Plenty of wikileaks ppl are not Americans -- you cannot expect them to follow your laws.

> What kind of society have we come to where it is revered to break the law in order to exact some change on our government?

You know, the one where the last time the government got too uppity you decided to kill/exile the lot?

> The point I'm really trying to make is that they are actively trying to acquire and release classified information, which is direct disregard for the law. If they were to "go away" I would neither be surprised, nor feel compassion.

So you believe an ordinary citizen shouldn't break the laws against his government, but the government should be allowed to break its own laws against the citizens. At least be coherent, if they "Went away" that would mean a vast array of laws would be broken.
IMF
Yeah, it's totally different. I didn't choose to be in those situations and I can't imagine ever choosing to be in something immeasurably greater in risk. The experiences soldiers have and the things they see. I wish they didn't. I haven't seen anything even close to that. When that philosopher said that, I really wondered if he believed it.

Philosophy, introspection... they're imagination. War is real.
I'm so glad that web browsers have the 'View Source' feature.

Anyone can see how a web page works under the hood and see that it's not magic.
HTML5 video is effectively a tech demo at the moment. Nothing relies on it. The HTML5 video situation doesn't really feel worth discussing until Google plays their hand in regard to On2 VP8. If they freely license the codec and promise to use their patent arsenal to defend licensees against lawsuits, VP8 will become the most practical license, except for low-powered devices like mobile phones until chips are developed to encode and decode the format via hardware.

Firefox's current H.264 stance isn't practical, but it doesn't have to be. HTML5 video won't matter for years (I'd estimate two years after the release of IE9), and by then, the landscape will have changed.
Nope, still nothing around that even vaguely competes with the iPod touch. 3,427 announcements of amazing freakin' devices sure to be released any day now!

The only market with more vaporware is alternative-fuel vehicles.
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