skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Apple were as creative/exciting in their security processes as in their design processes they'd intentionally release a variety of misleading "prototypes." In fact, mightn't this be a cooler corporate image... to be messing with the bloggers' minds - rather_than/instead_of being so heavy-handed with those who publish leaks.

It'd be a lot more fun to laugh with a corporation than to have to choose between fanboy and hateboy camps, IMHO.
I think looking at source code is passive. Having to type it in is not. There's something... different about typing it in, learning by doing. We all spend our days copying and pasting. What was neat about the code books was that you couldn't cheat. Typing each keypress to understand how a loop worked was very helpful. The reward for all of that was that you could play the game. That's why they're not supposed to be long, or overly complex in the beginning.

Of course, everyone learns differently. I could certainly be way off base. But I bet most people who actually did those code listings would agree that there's a certain value there that's very hard to reproduce with view source and cut+paste.
Actually, that's precisely what this is for Python:

http://inventwithpython.com/chapters/

The programs in this book are actually modeled after such projects from magazines and books from the early 80's.
US telcom companies have assured us we're receiving the best internet access in the world. 100MBit VDSL may seem impressive to you, but can you claim that each packet is lightly-dusted with American Exceptionalism before being hand-delivered by the invisible hand of the market? I think not!
Great point, do you have any recommendation for a paper on alpha spending functions? This looks interesting way to compensate for early peeking into significance.
IRC can be a great way to connect with other programmers who are in similar wastelands. Programming is kind of boring to most people. :)
It's human 1.0, really.
I might add some Haskell.
Starbucks is not about coffee, it's about convenience. Starbucks is right inside my building. Do I really want to walk for 20 minutes to get a better cup of coffee at Intelligentsia? Not often.
I have found the hardest part of self-learning to be finding peers and mentors, and I work in a software mecca. When I have lunch with colleagues, they don't care to talk about programming. In fact, they make fun of me.

I think there may be a selection effect where many of those who are really hardcore are too busy doing to socialize. Besides that, it can be hard to communicate with others about programming because there is so much disagreement about how to do it "right". (Not that there isn't also agreement.)
No, certainly there isn't - but my comment is no way disparaging to geekiness, but there's a difference between "I am a person who likes sci-fi" and "I am sci-fi incarnate", I'm not sure if I'm getting the difference across well.

The science majors I've met, and the "science parties" I've been to are full of people of varied interests, just one (or a few) of which are the geeky sort. These are people who are multi-dimensional enough to carry intelligent conversations on topics both inside and outside that of normal geekdom.

Contrast with CS majors (the hardcore ones anyway), and I find that people almost try to be two-dimensional cardboard cutouts of the stereotype. Topics outside of LOTR, Firefly, lolcats memes, etc, are difficult to discuss with anyone.

Again, this is not some way to assign value judgments to hobbies - but rather an observation that for a lot of people in our field that I've met, the "geek stereotype" is all they have. There's no dimensionality to their personality, and it's almost as if there's an active rejection of anything that doesn't fit into the archetype they're trying to project. It's also an observation that, in my experience anyhow, people in scientific fields don't really suffer from this. They're not afraid to do geeky things, nor are they afraid to do un-geeky things. They're just people who like whatever it is they happen to like - which is something I wish our field had enough balls to make happen.
You still know who it's from, just look at the signature: http://i.imgur.com/Icz56.png
'"The reason Apple has been able to do so well is that it produces products that consumers want," Kaufman Brothers analyst Shaw Wu said. "That's something that's very difficult and, frankly, something a lot of companies struggle with."'

Sounds familiar.
A blog where someone tries to make Million in a year
Same here. Comcast in Portland, a city that allegedly has competition among ISPs.

The most galling thing for me is that my parents get 100 Mbps fiber with phone service at their house for around $60 or $70 month. And this is in a small town (<10,000 people) in the midwest. The difference is they're lucky enough to have a visionary small ISP that chooses to reinvest in its product rather than sit back and milk a quasi-monopoly.
The nice thing about leechblock is that it lets you set up a set amount of time per hour on particular sites.

Unfortunately, this means I get cut off mid-sen
The greed inside me makes me feel like I want to pop up to the science park to interview for Red Gate right now (I'm about 15 minutes away), but what you've said about Citrix is very appealing to the good and holy part of me and that side generally wins with me! :)
Tip for building eigencourses: I have found, through lots of trial and error, that nothing beats a math book with worked solutions to the exercises at the back of the book. The kind of immediate feedback that you get from comparing two solutions is really helpful and cuts down the time you need to internalize concepts.
I agree — I like to learn new programming languages from books precisely because I have to type in any tutorial material by hand.

Thanks for starting this — all this talk of closed systems keeping kids from playing with programming, and whether video games/programming was art or not was distressing.
can we read the server side code?
http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=333168
Why are plumbers and programmers alike seen more as a male profession, and cosmetology a female one? There's no evolutionary basis for it

How do you know that? Male and female minds are certainly constructed differently, and appear to be interested in different things. Cosmetology, for instance: most girls and most women are fascinated by makeup, and the opportunities it provides to look marginally prettier. Men care much less... of course men don't wear makeup, but for the most part they don't even care much whether their women do. Just ask any man who has spent twenty minutes waiting for a woman to put on her face, only to find that she looks hardly different when she comes out from the bathroom than she did when she went in. (Protip: don't tell her this).

As for plumbing, well, I don't think anyone is really interested in plumbing, but men are much less deterred by the prospect of getting their hands dirty than women are.

Are these differences cultural? They might be, but there's pretty good reasons to think they're innate. It makes evolutionary sense for women to invest heavily in being good-looking and men to invest heavily in, y'know, accomplishing actual stuff.
A qualification:

> However for something like games leaderboards are essential as they can provide an incentive for achievement-oriented players to keep playing.

Leaderboards will do nothing for other types of players, and may actively repel some (explorers who are given too "transparent" a view into the system through an itemized leaderboard score.)
You are assuming that evolution/biology only affects physical traits and does not affect intellectual/personality traits. You provide no evidence for this.
By "most circles" you mean "my circle."

Skype/iChat Video is used constantly by very large groups of people all over the world: expats, and people who truly cannot afford to travel far (developing countries "middle" class, at internet cafes).
Do you follow a thumb rule for certain minimum sample size?
Is Go suitable for building DSL?
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Ask HN: Should I incorporate or operate as a sole trader?
I have a full time day job as a industrial/product designer that I love and don't forsee myself leaving anytime soon but also love to develop web software in my spare time.
About a year ago I came up with a SAAS app idea that we would find useful at work; we spoke about the idea and everyone likes it, but web software is very much not their business.

I recently started hacking it together in my spare time and am almost ready to get our office using it. I then intend to polish it a little more and try to get some paying (£10ish a month for a business with 10 users) customers. My inital plan is to get to the stage where it will pay for my daily 2 hrs train commute where I have done, and probably will do, most of the work for it, although I think it has much more potential than that.

My question is should I incorporate as a uk Ltd company or operate as a sole trader? I don't think it will affect getting a merchant account and setting up the subscription payments but the initial setup costs would be higher. What have other people experienced?
I like StarBucks coffee. What do you find wrong with it? They do use stronger blends than many other coffee shops which is exactly why I like it.
24 hours ago we all thought it was a fake, so it's not "clearly Apple's". Until Apple claims it, it's not theirs. Could Gizmodo call and say: "hey we think this is yours, if so, let us know, and well give it back" sure, they could and probably will.

Yeah, Gizmodo might get sued, they know this. Gawker takes risks like this and it's worth it to them.
LabView is a code generation tool that replaces the work a programmer would have to do. Rational Rose has a tool that spits out Java code, but that doesn't mean there are no Java programmers.

I'm not sure why you're trying to downplay the work these women did, but it's clear from the ENIAC histories and their biographies that they were far, far more than transcriptionists or "compilers". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton
Right, and this should still exist, but the people should get paid for the work they do. An internship is an investment in peoples' careers so as to encourage them to have a favorable opinion of you, and maybe work for you. As it's a short-term money-loser by design, there's no reason it shouldn't pay at least a pittance.
The discrimination against male nurses isn't overt, it's much more subtle: male nurses are the subject of jokes and people act as if there's something inherently effeminate and un-masculine about the profession. There's a general societal attitude that "nursing is for women" that certainly discourages men from entering the profession.
Shouldn't this message have been delivered as part of some sort of puppet interview?
Emigrating to Hong Kong should be pretty easy, their migration process is points based and most people with a Masters degree probably qualify. It's a great city so the WiFi wouldn't be the only attraction.

Has anyone had any experience doing that? How hard is it to find work if you don't speak Cantonese or Mandarin?
I'm far too entertained by the fingerless gloves. Clever setup, though.
I hope someone has an answer to this. In a lot of places (like Hong Kong or Japan), users are likely connecting to local servers a lot of the time for reasons of language or geography. So, it's potentially easy for an ISP to offer a high speed to those local servers just like it could be easy for an ISP in Boston to offer high speed access to servers in Boston. However, most Americans would be connecting to servers that are usually far away from them geographically.

My question is, are those Hong Kong users getting 1Gbps access to the internet or a small portion of the internet located within 5 miles of their position? If I had a server in Japan, would they be able to connect at 1Gbps? If I had a server in San Francisco?

I know that when I was in Israel a few months back, access to major sites like Facebook was terribly slow even over a connection that was fast when tested using Speedtest.net to a server within Israel (even accounting for latency).

If that's the case, would you want/accept an American ISP who offered you 100Mbps access to servers within your metro area and much slower speeds to the greater internet? For example, in Boston we have the Northern Crossroads (http://www.nox.org/background/index.html) and my ISP could probably easily and cheaply give me very high speed access to servers within it, but that's a tiny fraction of the servers that I'd want to use since, as an English speaker, the servers I'd want to connect to are very spread out. If they moved the bottleneck to 2 hops out, would that be helpful? Would you accept them selling you 100Mbps or 1Gbps internet service that was actually 10Mbps to the greater internet and only that fast to servers nearby? I'm really just musing here and am really interested in people's thoughts on the matter.

Hopefully someone who knows about the situation (like where ISPs costs are, whether it costs more for an ISP to get/build capacity to go across the country for me, whether it's significantly cheaper for my ISP to deliver higher speeds to a nearby server, etc.) can speak to this.
I have found memories of pages and pages of BASIC typed in.

And a very well remembered (and still relevant) lesson that once you've typed it all in, you should type 'SAVE' before you type 'RUN'

Finding typos that you've made is a great way of learning more about the programming language too.
FWIW, at my alma mater, the CS majors who most embodied the stereotype also seemed to have the highest attrition rate. Their concentration was somewhat high in the lower-division classes and very high in the "CS hall" in the dorms, but they weren't nearly so common in upper division classes (to say nothing of the graduate program).
Ask HN: We could use your help completing the Founder Census
I'm working with Matthew Shapiro, a Yale MBA student on a research paper that compares the startup environments of Boston, New York and Silicon Valley. I signed on to help because I really believe in the project, and I'd love to read more research about tech startups.

We're trying to get entrepreneurs to respond to a 33 question form. The information you give is kept anonymous, and everyone that completes the census will receive a copy of the results.

If you could take 5 minutes and fill out the census, we'd greatly appreciate it. http://entrepreneurcensus.wordpress.com/
Did you just copy paste your comment from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1273711?
Let's put things in perspective: R is S and S had it's first appearance in the 1970s. It's current reincarnation is from the late 1980s. I remember that other statistical packages back then had a similar looking syntax. This is also the reason why lua/python stand no chance against R: they simply lack the vast abundance of statistical packages and tutorials. The best thing they can do is use R as an inferior process (IIRC there is a package for incanter that does that).

The point is though that S/R isn't that badly suited for what it was created for. There are a few pitfalls but those are explained in the langage definition. But unfortunately nobody RTFM nowadays (like people used to do back then in what you call the dark ages) because it's easier to start screaming for Mommy and write stupid blog posts that prove nothing but that those people haven't read the language definition.

And BTW, python sucks.
Samsung wins 20nm process flash race
We could of course extend this back through the consumption chain and suggest that consumers have this responsibility (in which case I assume the author's house would no longer be full of Apple products). Certainly they have this choice. Something like the consumer electronics equivalent of Fair Trade in food.
Sensei taught me two things about web analytics, when it comes to making money online:

(1) Checking your stats too much is a disease: if looking at stats isn't going to changbe your behavior, it's a waste of time
(2) Monthly revenue is the one web statistic that matters
You might want to edit the title, because when I first read it, it seemed as if it were a statement "Stop talking, start coding" directed at "[the] women in tech". I was immediately reminded of a particularly misogynistic line: "quit all your bitchin', get back in the kitchen", so pretty anathema to the purpose of the article.

Back to the topic:

I don't think it's an issue of just lacking women in the tech industry. We lack men too. When I was going through college, computer science enrollment and matriculation were at all-time lows; it's going to take years to see the full effects of not being able to replace the first major wave of retiring programmers with enough people of high enough quality.

I've had non-programmer coworkers, including managers, call me names like "nerd" and shoot down my ideas without really listening because they assumed I was proposing something "too technical, not practical", and it all really came down to a lack of respect from my coworkers. How can we have people graduating with four-year degrees studying one of the most difficult human endeavors in history entering the workplace in positions that are treated barely better than burger-flipper?

In my mind, the issue is not just women not getting the respect and support they deserve in IT, but everyone not getting the respect and support they deserve. And I think the problem is largely cultural, and in part to blame on programmers themselves. The culture of programmers, especially the idealized startup culture that tries to differentiate itself from standard corporate imagery, is defined by people with the emotional maturity level of children. The pinball-machines-in-the-break-room, jeans-and-snarky-t-shirts environment is conducive to attracting geeks and only geeks. Most people in general don't want to be associated with this environment, there just happens to be slightly more men than women who fall into that minority of SciFi-and-comic-books fanatics.

I have struggled for years to find the level of respect for my work that I feel I deserve, rather than being "just a code monkey." The epiphany for me was to realize that, if I wanted to be treated like a professional, I needed to act like one. I haven't worn a printed t-shirt to work since. Some days I even wear a suit. There's nothing wrong with wearing a suit to work. I even like wearing a suit now, as I realized that I look much better than just jeans-and-t-shirt. Maybe it's just confirmation bias, but I definitely feel like my voice is heard more often and other, "non-technical" coworkers approach me more freely now.

Everyone wants a work environment based on mutual respect. Somehow, slightly more men are just capable of putting up with being treated like crap. This is not in any way a good thing.
Nat'l Weather Service using Twitter to provide better weather warnings
Actually from a 20 year olds's perspective it really HAS set off a video call revolution. Video chat is way bigger than it's ever been and I think you can pretty easily draw the line directly to MB owning college kids. iChat was the first time video chat was easy and didn't look and sound like total crap. Skype's is still a disaster in comparison.
I think I just heard tptacek's head explode.
Ask HN: Please review my side project dexjra
Howdy

I am hoping some of you can provide some feedback for my site project dexjra... http://dexjra.com

I realize the name is not great, so I am certainly open to ideas there. Although what I am really wanting is some feedback on what direction I should take the project (if any). It's basically like popurls or a Google News-like thing for Reddit and Digg. There's basically 4 main section:

1) Current Top 15s (tracks changed in comments,votes,etc)
2) Recent media (just the images/videos)
3) "Where first" ...gives a break down on where an article was posted first if it was submitted to both ( I also use HN data here).
4) Search...since reddit's search is so bad and I have the data collected already anyway.

On my todo list:
1) paging for each section (to view older data)
2) graphs for "more info" pages to see visual changes of votes/comments
3) improve search customization (search with regex?,sorting)

Thanks for taking the time to read this. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks.
I can speak for Japan and Sweden (which also offers 1Gbps for around 30-40 bucks) and that is 1Gbps over the entire internet, in Sweden there isn't even any commercial restriction from this particular ISP (in Lund), i.e. I could set up a server farm in my apartment and sell space if I wanted.

I've only tested 100mbit in Japan (that was free with the apartment) and that was 100mbit to anywhere.
We pay around US$35 for 3mbps in Argentina. And you only get that speed from 12am-9pm. THIS is depressing.
Of course. http://github.com/xantus/mojo-websocket-examples/blob/master...
"and can derive no real benefit from it themselves"

I would think that would be pretty impossible to conform to no matter how you structured the intern's day/tasks. Unless you simply provided them a desk in which to study, or worked and let them observe with no interaction I would think sticking to this rule would be difficult.
I've gathered that the continuing witchhunt against pedophiles keeps a lot of men out of teaching, actually.
Startup Culture: 23 Insights From The NetFlix Culture Deck
I believe this quote from Paul Graham is relevant here: "Don't be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign. That's probably why everyone else has been overlooking the idea. The first microcomputers were dismissed as toys. And the first planes, and the first cars. At this point, when someone comes to us with something that users like but that we could envision forum trolls dismissing as a toy, it makes us especially likely to invest." http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html
I do think the "leadership" bias is only really apparent in large corporations. I do think that small companies tend to value skill and hard work more, however I find, being in school right now, that it is the large corporations that are recruiting students at job fairs and not smaller companies and start ups. I think students who work, and and learn skills on their own are better off looking for jobs on their own outside of official recruiting. At least for people going into tech.
Toronto, $40 a month: http://www.speedtest.net/result/787507214.png
http://www.google.com/finance?q=goog,+aapl

Google has a higher profit margin, it should be noted. So yeah, Apple has issued more stock, and by stock prices it is more "valuable". I'd still rather own Google than Apple, if I were given a choice.
You are over-estimating HN :-)
It's particularly funny because on the one hand, these people are doing something of non-trivial technical sophistication, and on the other, they have zero understanding of what they're trying to accomplish.
It instantly reminded me of this post about how apple does controlled leaks
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1034741
No they attract only students who DO know their worth.

$BIG_WALLst_COMPANY will only employ people who have done an internship on Wall St.

This means that all Wall st $BIG_COMPANIES can offer unpaid internships because they have a $$$ value to you. And compared to the $$ cost of going to Harvard/Yale (the only other requirement for Wall St) it doesn't really matter.

If a student thinks that the $1000/month they could be earning in a paid internship doing web design in Idaho has more value they are probably wasting their tuition anyway.
Just to be clear mbreese is talking about if you have just set up a new server like a vps and when you first ssh/scp to the server you accept a compromised key such as through a MITM attack but as he said this is highly unlikely to occur.