skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This record business is getting out of hand, especially now that the media are jumping on the 'youngest'. Here in nl we have a kid that's 14 years old and wants to do the same.

Some kid is going to get killed over this one of these days, driven by media hungry parents and a lack of respect for the sea.

Fortunately the WSSRC has discontinued the record for the 'youngest', maybe that will help a bit in calming down this hype.
I just found it to be an unnecessary distraction.

It's not that it bothers me. It just makes it more difficult than necessary for me to read. I make an assumption that by posting something on the internet, the person wants me to read it and wants to share their ideas with me.

Why distract readers from one's ideas by not following simple grammatical convention?
Probably because it's written by business people.
I've always been interested in these kind of data. Are women earning only 77% of their male counterparts because

a) They are primarily employed in occupations that pay less

b) They take maternity leave and/or extended vacations/time
off (taking care of children etc.)

or

c) Women are just paid less for the same work?
A big thing missing is the context of the work. Perhaps not spending time at the computer and "socializing", distributing information, is actually more productive, or even a bullet point on the person's job description. I think a more accurate description for this blog post is "Men spend their time working on computers more than women".
Depends on how clever your sampling is.
...and this is why terms of services are so ridiculous to the point where they have practically no meaning anymore.

Isn't it automated when the Gmail extension to Chrome tells me how many new messages I have, without me logging into gmail.com?

Isn't it automated when emails to my Gmail account are synced automatically to my (non-Google) smartphone?
I'm not talking about someone calling me about a former employee (I've never had someone quit with 0 notice to me directly before); I'm talking about the case where I've worked with someone at the same company before and they left with no notice. If they want to try to sue over that, then they're welcome to go for it.
Because the USPTO couldn't give a hoot. They face no negative consequences when they rubber-stamp a bogus patent application.
A lot of facebookers have a lot of vesting to do though...
I think the parent probably meant the "they think they have a problem" bias.

Though, that's not why I use RescueTime - I just love data. (And by the way, would love to download the fine-grained CSV for all of my activity for all time)
I was more alluding to the deluge of very-similar opinions on a single topic in a finite period. While the iPad is a new thing, Facebook has been around and been engaging in the same behavior that gave rise of these complaints for some time now.
shudder
>As far as I can tell, very few people are arguing that people with lower grades are better than those with good grades.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1028272

There's some one arguing just that. While I don't see it a lot I have certainly seen the point argued, generally right beside some one claiming Einstein was bad at math.
Ubuntu 10.04: Check IMAP with Nagios
Any chance we could get beta invites for HN?
Well, there was a politicised line of thought in 20C modernist typography towards abandoning capitals due to their implied hierarchies. Herbert Bayer’s experimental Architype (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_Architype) would be one example of a specific typeface designed with this in mind, but there were also many other typographic designs of the time which abandoned capitalisation.

We’re still seeing the filter down of these experiments now, every few years another company rebrands and drops their capital letters to “humanise” their image or some such reasoning.

So… maybe it was a conscious decision by the author along these lines. Or as you say probably just a broken shift key.
Leveraging Facebook to Find a Job
I think the strong correlation presented in the parent comment suggests that women actually work 77% of the time that men do, period.

Whether that is actually true, or - even better - relates in any way to productivity is out of scope here.
Making a Plug-in for Atlas (the Cappuccino IDE from 280 North)
This is the way I learned to code. I just stole stuff from other people and made it work for what I was trying to accomplish by changing it little by little. So what was his point anyway?
This is a good point. If you're a marketing exec or advertiser for instance, being on Facebook or shopping sites may indeed be part of your job.
It bothers me; lack of capitalization makes me think a person didn't care enough to read over what they wrote even if it is just looking at the text as they write it.
This is like when you were a kid and you got in a fight with your sibling, one of you lost and went and told mommy.

And then, you both got in trouble. Surprise.

Apparently Adobe's managers do not remember lessons learned during childhood.
GCC-XML
If it's any consolation, I do not like its line noise. I already work with perl. I wanted to step up towards beauty.
Authors are Not People: ORCID and the Challenges of Name Disambiguation
Ah, but as a recipient, the arrangement with your code is the same as with your text: if you put something where I can get it, I'll modify it if I wish.

You may of course prevent me from distributing entire derived works, but not from distributing mere patches like the one that was posted for HATETRIS--- any more than you could prevent me from posting a Perl script that uses a regex to change characters' names in your novel.

Particularly amusing that a rant like this would come in response to someone modifying a game that was itself an unauthorized modification of another game.
Getting started with Clojure/Emacs/Slime
What if they said
"That's why I'm here."?
FWIW: I always thought that this case would make a great visual resume for a quant. A "stock" chart of your GPA improving over time using the visual analogy of a successful company turnaround.
There's no dramatic arc
So men are generally (slightly) more productive at computer-related tasks, based on time working vs procrastination time.

But computers are communication devices (in most cases), and women are generally more productive communicators. So they limited time they spent working on computers is probably more valuable.
The stuff outside the OU cannot be seen in principle. Its size is fully independent of our current level of technology, and no advancement of technology will let you see beyond it. (Seeing beyond it would mean you can send signals faster than light, which implies you can build a time machine, in which case all bets are off.) In practice, we cannot see anywhere near as far as the radius of the OU, since after a certain distance you're looking so far into the past that space is opaque to microwave radiation. If you can somehow see neutrinos you get to see more, but that's still all inside the boundary of the OU.
Does “Intellipad” (nee Emacs.NET) support .NET?
Have you looked at Perl 6/Parrot? I read, or at least my faulty memory remembers vaguely, that Perl 6 syntax is defined by Perl 6, or something like that. From what I understood you'll be able to change its syntax easily (and that's what matter to my point).

Anyway, if what you want is easier DSLs, go check how Perl 6 is implemented in Parrot and if what it'll help you.

Okay, re-reading what I wrote before hitting submit made me realize I should add more details:

http://blogs.perl.org/users/leon_timmermans/2010/04/why-perl...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6_rules
Non-linear is absolutely true. But the non-linearity is not nearly as strong as a lot of dot com business models assumed.

In an interesting twist, Metcalfe's law comes closest to being true in mediums where existing social relations are less important. For instance eBay is a classic example. If I want to sell, I really do value the network at the size of said network because I have no idea who wants to buy from me. Which is one reason why it is so hard to compete with eBay. (Despite how badly they mess up.)
my shift key is fine (programming in erlang actually forces me to use it) but growing up in a non english country - and being forced to a lot more capitalization than english has - made me decide to refuse the capitalization thing entirely. it was a mix of movement and point against overly stressing the beginning of sentences and i somehow stuck with it. did not think that is was that much of a problem though :-)
Taking the Android Show on the Road
I would agree that on their own grades are poor filter.

You could have less than stellar grades, but may have something else to show your ability (side projects or what not).

On the other hand, a high GPA might only demonstrate your mastery of bulimic studying; Memorize and regurgitate.
If you have a product that is more attractive to men than women, then the women who find it attractive are unlikely to be typical for the larger population.

So yes, you've adjusted for the tendency to have more men than women. But you still haven't wound up with a random sampling of people out there.

To get that you'd have to select a random set of people, ask them to participate in your study, and go from there. Which would immediately hit you with the fact that over half of the USA is functionally illiterate and therefore does not use computers very much.
Yeah, I saw that. But he seemed to be going back and forth, how he understood why Apple was doing it, and while he didn't like it, it really seemed like he still supported Apple.

That's his big thing: Apple is allowed to do these things, and it makes it alright. Legally they can do something, we shouldn't complain. I just got from his followup that while he didn't approve, he still supported Apple's decision.
6 reasons for bootstrapping before accepting VC money
Nope, they give it out for free via the graph API.
It's not a huge problem. I enjoyed your post and can relate. Thanks for sharing it.
Completely true - it's funny how so-called "capitalists" are so for the government helping them use force to enforce their "right" to intellectual "property". The whole language of this issues needs to be changed really. How about renaming pro-IPers "idea hoarders" or similar?
IPhone calendar sharing made easy with Tungle
Lies damn lies and statistics.

1) Does it surprise anyone that they have 5x as many men as women as users? I wonder if you broke down by occupation what percentage of their users are software developers and engineers compared to others?

2) It's not a random sample. While they say "The data for this report was compiled from 8,000 randomly selected men and women", it is not of all people, it is of their users. Those are two vastly different things.

3) "All this adds up to huge differences in the amount of knowledge work men get done compared to women. Our data shows women only work 76% of the time that men do. Interestingly, the National Committee on Pay Equity found that women earn 77% of what their male counter parts do." is one of the dumbest comments I have ever seen in my life.

THEIR TOOL DOESN'T CATCH ALL WORK. I stopped using it because it is utterly useless if you step away from the computer and are productive in that time. They are saying "Our data shows women only work 76% of the time that men do. [in front of computers]" Dropping out the in front of computers part is huge. Is the President of the United States a knowledge worker? Because he doesn't have a computer on his desk and therefore would be 0% as productive as someone doing data entry according to this methodology.

For that matter, me sitting in front of my computer all day with Eclipse open (no matter how much I actually commit) is more productive than my dad, a CEO, who spends a lot of his time with a pad of paper out talking to people. Hmmmmmm.

I understand that this tool has its place, but to say something so outrageously false really casts the company as a whole in a bad light. Blogging this was poor judgement. At best it is just some dumb people who don't understand data, at worst it is offensive.
This is all extremely interesting, especially the fact that you've been able to narrow down the 'range' of possible values by some real world analysis.

So, if I understand your piece correctly the value of the power changes over time depending on the size of the network and the available pool, in other words even the log(n) factor is not exact, in the beginning it is probably closer the to the original n^2, whereas later on it moves to more sedate territory, but it always seems to be higher than the '1' added by attaching another node to the network.

The 'competing with ebay' has a nice counterpart. In the netherlands there was a small local site called 'marktplaats' that had entrenched itself in the early days of the web, and nothing ebay did to dislodge it worked, so they ended up buying it.

The kicker is that 'hyves' (the dutch counterpart to facebook) is losing ground because people have a lot of international connections to friends and family, but trade seems to be limited to geographic boundaries and hence marktplaats succeeded where hyves is in trouble.
WTF? Police arrested him? On what charges? Link?
Mixergy interview with Brad Feld
When I was made a manager, I had the company buy cases of that book: one for each person in the department.
The signup page displays the cost of the Linode plans while the backups page lists the cost to add the backup service to each of those plans.
note, however, that encoding a space as a + is supposed to happen only in the query portion of the url, not the path.
Jack Donaghy vs. Kabletown: The Case for Innovation
Is it high noon for net neutrality at the FCC?
I wonder if this will help me make my way through a Raymond Smullyan book.
How does ceph compare to glusterfs, POHMELFS, sector/sphere etc ?

Is anybody here using this ?
One example, Give Me My Data:

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=206330625089

But, yes, let a hundred flowers bloom in this market space.
My god, you are the one who wrote this and you don't understand why your sample is so biased? No wonder it is so horrible.

How many teachers are in your sample? How many nurses? (extremely few - how would the tool capture that?)

Or more insiduously compare the number of engineers to the number of people in marketing. Both are "knowledge workers", but they have a very different gender breakdown. And they also have a very different day. Someone in engineering is on their computer all day, someone in marketing or sales probably not. If you are making sales calls all day instead of looking at an IDE, you can be vastly more productive than an engineer staring at a blank screen, but that doesn't show up in RescueTime at all. It's one thing one you are on a team and can account for that, it is another when you make a generalization about the population.

All of your data can be explained with other rational besides "men are more productive than women". Your company approaches the world from the view of engineers to begin with, and then slaps that bias on top of a faulty set of data. You should be careful with this or you are going to have NOW breathing down your neck (I guess all press is good press, but do you really want to make your product piss of women to that extent?).
Isn't that called "having a blog"?
Yes, Common Lisp is somewhat ugly. Scheme looks nicer.
A is the primary reason. B is true, but it is not so much that women take time off and are therefore paid less, it is that women take time off and miss out on a few rounds of promotions and get behind a bit. You only take 5 years out of a 40 year career, but you might take out two of the total promotions and that adds up to a lot.

C happens but rarely in the US is it that a woman makes 77% of a man for exactly the same occupation, the difference might be 5-10% but not 23%.
I'm not sure I agree with the estimating thing. Though I've only met one developer/manager that is good at estimating. He works at a steady pace and doesn't cave when people want things faster. It's tough at first but once you deliver on time, they respect your estimates.

He's also the only guy that I know that buys new cars with cash. He just puts away a "car payment" every month. When the old car wears out, he buys a new one.

It's tough to manage people that aren't pulling their weight. Take time to listen to what signals they are giving. If they want to work, help remove their obstacles. If not, do what you need to so the productive people don't get dragged down.
Can someone tell which band played this background music?
I apologize if this not Hacker related, but can anyone tell me which band played the background song starting at 1mn25s. Thanks.
Cool! MOSIS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSIS) for PCBs.

Although I remember fabricating a couple in the '70s by hand, although not hardly as fancy or with such fine details (you lay out your pattern on the board with stickers and/or a pen of the right sort and then bathe it in an etching solution that removes the copper that's not covered).

I think some people are also doing 2 layer boards using milling machines to remove the copper.
The point being made "creations being his babies" seems somewhat odd to me.

"But it's weird to me that other people are so okay with mucking about with other people's work."

That's also called "progress". It's how people learn and grow.

Is it okay to take Shakespeare's characters and modify them here and there, play with the setting a bit, and generally muck about? It's legal, but is it okay? I assume his feelings are hurt that someone has taken his idea/characters and modified them. Because it's not as if he took the _idea_ of tetris and modified it. Imagine how hurt the author of tetris would be! Oh, but is it okay if the auhtor is dead (like Shakespeare)?

Sorry, but I don't buy the argument/complaint. You want people to follow certain rules, put up a license. Hundreds of ideas, words and characters are written, and a lot of them are alike. We're not all that unique.
I like open source software. I'm a big fan of the
objectives that open source software is created to
achieve. I really like not having to pay money for
Notepad++ and TrueCrypt and so on and so forth. I
wish the movement every success.

FSF is against the "open source" moniker for a reason. Some people associate it only with freedoms 0 and 1, and disregard the other two.

It looks like the author falls into the same trap.
The fight back: loyalty card subversion ('06)
>We need about 100 programmers to go out right now and start writing code that allows users to download and update information from their Facebook social graph.

Why stop there? They could go on and create a sort of alt-Facebook.
You could spam a bunch of people until you get your account permanently banned, I would think that banned accounts eventually get deleted.

To the contrary, if Facebook is advised by competent lawyers, I would expect them to make banned accounts invisible to the public but to keep them in their business records indefinitely.
Finally! Just signed up all my linodes.
Shouldn't consumer protection law render this kind of ToS unenforceable? When car manufacturers tried to ban third-party parts, that was shot down. Surely this could be extended to user data?
Adobe shows off prototype Android tablet running Air and Flash 'flawlessly'
As a C# developer in my day job, I think that is a completely awesome idea.
is this still necessary if you've never opted into the app? I've never played farmville or allowed it to see any of my data, but lots of my friends have. does this mean that farmville can see privileged information?
How Dropbox is different from hundreds of "storage in the cloud" companies ? All of what I saw in the slideshow I might assume was more or less done by the other companies. General marketing fluff that is quite obvious.( Nothing against Dropbox, since I'm a happy user). Luck played a certain part(big part?). I want to see the slideshows of companies that took years to get to 100,000 users :) Then I might think they had less luck and their lessons would apply to your average startup.
Patrick McKenzie for example (no offence), I don't think he was lucky it just lots and lots of work and I get real gems from his talks/blogs...
I think it's a bit more than a culture clash. The issue is not only that the majority of source code readable online is open source; it's that making code readable is the only thing you need to do to allow people to copy and modify it. It's a bit like a failed Searlian speech act where an actor running lines or a student practicing French is overheard and presumed to be saying something to someone in particular. The OP's readers, having looked at his post and code, quite understandably mis-inferred that he meant the posted material to be beneficial or useful to his readers, when really he only intends it to be useful to himself in some hypothetical future where he wants a job.

To my mind, this is similar to saying "look but don't touch" about a door handle, an elevator, or a platter of hors d'oeuvres in a crowded party. Of course people are bound to be confused; that's not the way to go about bragging to people about your fragile antique doorknob, guerilla marketing for the Otis elevator corporation or demonstrating what a really well made (prototype) bruschetta looks like.

This isn't merely a cultural issue, where we're used to the availability of code being a signal that it's open source. It's a deeper issue of social cognition than that. Other people are seeing the hatetris post, and making the perfectly normal inferences that humans as sophisticated social creatures are bound to do -- namely that if he's putting stuff up publicly and even points to it enthusiastically, and that stuff offers natural interactions to the reader, then it must be because he intends his readers to partake of those natural interactions with that publicly available stuff. Here the stuff is code and the affordances are reading, copying and changing, but I they needn't be for this error to occur. The OP's just failed to consider that his readership might mistake his exhibiting of untouchable code as an invitation to interact with it.
Game Mechanics are Bullshit
I thought I knew these things until I worked on a project to scrape arbitrary websites. We had to follow arbitrary links around a site (easy, right?) but it turns out there are many, many edge cases we had to deal with.

Another developer pretty quickly decided to ditch Ruby's URL parser and write our own, since there are tons of things browsers deal with that you wouldn't think of. For example, relative links starting with "//" share only the protocol (http or https) between the current page. Add in vagaries specific to some HTTP servers, like that http://foo/bar == http://foo/bar/ and we quickly realized it was a lot bigger task than we thought.

We ultimately got the thing working OK, but crazy edge cases just kept popping up.