skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I really wish that more people like you existed in this world.

Can I ask you something? How did you get interested in this? If you don't mind can you please drop me a line at yesthisisananonymousid [at] google mail?

Thank you.

[edit: This might sound weird to you, but I would really love to talk to you. All of my life I have to fake being a boy for the benefit of my parents. I have to talk differently, walk differently, gesture differently, adjust my posture differently, look at things differently. The lines were drawn in my childhood; I was either a boy or it was the streets for me. Of course, I doubt it that my parents would have acted on that threat, but growing up with such stuff changed me. It's like someone stole my childhood from me. I don't know what it is like to have a normal life anymore. It's something really profound to meet someone who just gets it without saying. Please do indulge me with that.

Oh and my parents aren't monsters they just followed the status quo. I love them and I shall continue to love them no matter what.]
I am not saying anything against Tereza personally, and she may be incredibly talented. But every single thing I said in my summary can be backed up with quotes from her article. Here is the summary I gave, with quotes from Tereza interspersed.

"I want a Y-combinator..." - I want a Y Combinator...

"...except where I live..." - I’d love to New York be home to the world’s first XX Combinator, and I’d love to be in it.

"...aimed at my gender..." - I want a Y Combinator for women. Let’s call it the XX Combinator.

"...and with a schedule I can accept." - It would be scheduled and located so that women with families could actively do it.

"Oh, and please supply the tech talent I need." - Benevolent hackers would work side-by-side with them to build it...

"If things work out I can reward the coders with salary and possibly a CTO position down the road." - ...for equity and possibly paid salaries by sponsors and can convert into CTO positions.

There is no part of that list which is likely to happen any time soon. Y-combinator itself found out the hard way that it is easier to get startups going in Silicon Valley. People who are investing money generally care more about return on investment than targeting women. Startups naturally don't stay within convenient schedules. The rate-limiting ingredient to starting tech startups is available good tech talent, so there is no supply of "benevolent hackers", particularly not ones who are willing to work the necessary hours with a random person they were partnered with. And given the amount of work it takes, plus the supply/demand issue, the reward the tech people need cannot be an afterthought "if things work out".

Oh, and I disagree with the claim that YC is just an existential solution to a monetary problem. If you're young, single, and capable, it isn't hard to save more money than YC offers. But that won't get you, for instance, the feedback and networking benefits that YC gives.
Of course, that just ensures that phone vendors will never ship (and thus never contribute to) any GPLv3 software.
You example is illegal. The operation 3+1 can be removed without changing the answer, violating rule 6. You should replace rule 5 and 6 with "Zero can only be used in power (as y) and factorial operations".
I really think they include that to have an on-phone equivalent to the itunes store. But I agree that it should be removable.

You can't remove the Facebook app either.
MySQL Learning resources
Hi, I've basic database knowledge and am self learning MySQL. Does anyone know of some best books and/or website that will help me practice commands. I need to practically try out each command and its option rather than just learning its syntax and there uses.
That likely would result in near-zero market share for Android.
Social Graph Persistence: Graph Database Tutorial
GraphDB how-to, creates a large synthetic social network to analyze.
So we are going to see a lot of zero click info on Google. Like DuckDuckGo. Good.
The key difference here is a CEO that is interested in building long-term value and great products that customers love, rather than a CEO who is only incentivized to create short-term shareholder value.
How we launched Chrometa, flopped, and then and learned to build traction.
Your friends and family have one out of every two calls dropped?
Does the research and experience show that businessmen in their 40s are on average more capable than their younger counterparts? I bet it does!
I wouldn't advise arguing against capitalism while drunk.

What does the amount they charged for their product have to do with anything? Pricing is influenced by the market - the market was willing to pay what they were being charged. I don't know that pure capitalism is the ideal system (being Canadian I rely on public services like health care) but it is very difficult to claim he is a thief.

They were wildly successful because they added a lot of value to the market.
ew thanks, i actually removed rule 6)
I was making a fine point. The comment was down voted because they disagreed with it. Yet reasonable people can disagree.

I think in this community down voting is used to discourage a certain behaviour, not so as to penalise someone who expresses a valid opinion.

Charities are full of bureaucracy and the entire money does eventually not end up to the people who are supposed to get it. Also, squeezing as much profit as possible, perhaps to the expense of life and great environmental disaster in the case of BP, is not desirable.
I'm the same way. If I'm not currently working in the specific area I'm given a question in, it can take me a few minutes to access that information in my head. And therefore, I look like I don't know the answer.

I recently was in an interview for an iPhone dev job. I was prepared to talk about Objective-C/Apple SDK since I was working with that. However, they started digging into projects I had done at my last job (in Java). I struggled. I just hadn't thought about that work for a few years, and probably came off like I was embellishing my resume. After the interview, once I caught my breath and thought about it, all the details started coming back. Needless to say I was kicking myself for not being able to recall it sooner.

Just the way my mind works....
who was apple competitors in 2000s anyway? I don't recall anyone noticeable
I doubt a thin film would eliminate the attenuation. If the problem occurs because the two antennas are electrically coupled, separating two conductive surfaces by a thin film simply forms a capacitor that will still couple the RF signals in the primary antenna to the secondary. The duct tape hack and the bumper help because they distance your finger from the conductors.
OpenHeatMap launches
Go Halves: A Deliciously Healthy Charity Idea
True. But you don't get anything close to MOTOBLUR-scale nonsense on there. Or user-hostile carrier decisions, like AT&T removing the alternate-markets switch.

And to shake my tiny fist at Cupertino, with iOS4, I put all those useless non-removable apps into a folder called "Recycle Bin" on the last page.
The upcoming teacher crisis
Graph Database How-to: Concurrent Memory Model and Graph Partitioning 
Describes the architecture of a graph database that implements a sharded graph.
Software Engineering for Internet Applications
At the beginning of the interview, yes, he talked about the stock market being rigged. However that was a lead up to a bigger conversation where he made a point that he prefers to invest in startups because it's less risky (see marks 2:35 mark and 3:20). Whether you agree with him or not, he said directly that startups are safer than stocks.
Apple’s Antenna Design and Test Labs
It looks like the official Twitter app can't be uninstalled from recent Froyo builds either.
If I understood correctly, they will offer a selection of 3rd-party cases, due to their inability to keep up with the demand for bumpers.
Preheader in Twitter's new follow notification
Let's put things on perspective, shall we.

Take 100 random people who has not read the book, but have seen the movie. Pay each of them to write a novelization of the movie. Take the best 5 "novelizations", and I bet the original will circle around them, with the eyes closed.

Repeat the above experiment, but substitute random people with random English literature mayors. Maybe the average "novelizations" will have fewer grammar errors than the top 5 of the previous experiment... but over all, I still expect the original to be better written than the top 5 of the second experiment.

The guy had a good idea, and executed it well enough to make a success out of it. Get over it!
Giggle @ self. $100k/yr :)
We're not talking about the web, we're talking about the user's stuff. Entirely distinct, for the purposes of usability. Anyway, a good filesystem supports fast search and filter, in addition to folders.

Without files, you have no web and no general search. Instead you have photo-net, music-net, video-net, text-net, all orthogonal. Lame.
Is anyone else thinking that they could pair these with teenage boys with fleshlights and power the planet?
It does help.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3821/iphone-4-redux-analyzing-...
Completely agree. I'm only 24; I just finished my CS undergrad and masters' degrees. I'm getting married next year and just took a high-paying job as a software engineer at an established big corporation rather than taking up any of the start-up offers I got from friends. I really wanted to do the start up thing but my fiancée and I want kids; I want them sooner to reduce the risk of infertility as well as mental and health problems that are statistically more prevalent amongst older mothers. Along with that I grew up very poor, so I want to provide for them with a house, steady food and small comforts, things I lacked until I was able to work for myself at 16.

I think that other women may take different choices - if I didn't want to have kids, I would be all over working on a start up, but as it stands, I wouldn't think about it until I am older.

I think that the article has its plusses and minuses but one thing we should all agree on is that the YC model should be adopted for the needs of many different groups. I won't want to do anything risky until my kids are more independent and I've built a solid nest egg. But my fiancée feels the same way as me! So, I don't see why the article needs to be quite so gender-specific. I would like to see this idea come to fruition, with emphasis placed on attracting more women to the field but maybe geared more towards anyone 35-40+ who has a family and responsibilities but would like to take on a start up project.
As a consultant, I got to do lots of interviews. I found that questions and programming problems go in fads or cycles. I often get the same programming problem at more than one company. After an interview, I go over the problems to see if I can tighten up the code, or to see what the nut is. If I am weak or unsure about one of my answers, I immediately go over the literature to understand the domain. The same question is sure to come up again. A couple of years ago it was the new java concurrency. This yea, not a single question about Java concurrency. But I did get FizzBuzz. :-)
Phrased like that, it's a much more appealing idea. A lot of companies strike a bit of a middle ground by doing contract-to-hire types of things.
Don't start with HTML, it isnt programming and it might leave you disillusioned. Try Python or Ruby.
This is a great article about a scary problem. Any thoughts on the best solution ?
HN truncates the display of long URLs. Yours is http://books.google.com/books?id=ni0EsmebjYwC&pg=RA1-PA7...
> And to shake my tiny fist at Cupertino, with iOS4, I put all those useless non-removable apps into a folder called "Recycle Bin" on the last page.

The first folder I made with iOS 4 was called "Unused" and similarly is on the last page (the only item).
Again, she started filming casually and ended up making film history for the second time.

Time travel is the only reasonable explanation.
http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61c/su10/

http://neverball.org/download.php

http://bellard.org/
Why? No-one's interested in the Android mark as-is.
That's the real criticism of that suggestion.

If Google threatened to take away their rights to use the Android name or logo they wouldn't bat an eye. The manufacturers and carriers are after the modern OS and saving the development time involved in "catching up" from their horrible old systems.

They prefer that their customers don't build up brand loyalty to something they don't control. Why do you think Verizon is selling Droid phones?
Yes, I bet there were times that he did. Especially before he was "George Carlin, world famous comedian" and was just some guy trying to land enough gigs to feed himself.
Warning: Suspicious Conferences
I'd be glad to. I'll email you either tonight or tomorrow, probably tonight.
B2C = business-to-consumer.

Contrast to B2B (business-to-business). Slightly confusing as he mentions his former employer as his first customer, I presume he means his boss in a personal capacity.
Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned
I think we've found the problem. The guy in the chair is only testing the phone with his right hand.
I thought only softer metals like aluminum could be anodized. Not sure you can do that to stainless steel.
I can't replicate the brainwaves of some people. Some level of "bad code" is just unreachable once you understand the basics...

In my experience, a lot of "bad code" mimics what you see on a lot of TDWtf stories: (statically-positioned) string operations for everything. Super-fragile, super-slow, but it does work and sometimes is all one can think of doing without looking at documentation.
Steve Jobs Gives Consumer Reports the Bird
You are correct I saw a demonstration with the computer tethered to a smartphone and it worked surprisingly well.
I'm really starting to get the impression that people think that I've been arguing that there aren't any biological differences between males and females. I probably should have worded that sentence as "fundamentally different in regards to what they are capable of doing, minus some very obvious physical limitations like childbirth and ejaculation of semen"
-- Here's where Professor Steve sits down in his wheelchair and uses this helmet that amplifies his reality distortion abilities. We call it "Manzana".
That is a good question; but as the life expectency of our population increases while the prospect of any of us getting social security decreases, the fact is we may be at a point where retirement doesn't happen until one is at least 70 or even older. A 45-year old entrepreneur with, let's say, 20 years experience in the field who doesn't plan on retiring until 65 or 70 still has at least 20 years to invest in the company; additionally, think of what you at 18 or 20 could have learned from an internship with someone like that. I think our culture is continually redefining what is and isn't "old"; I for one don't think 40 is truly all that old.
The students who pay for the academic journals, in the manner of university fees, etc., get free access to said journals through their university library. You seem to be arguing, if I understand you correctly, that the academic journals ought to be free to all-- which destroys their business model. I have close relatives who have edited academic journals, and I can assure you, there is an enormous amount of work involved.

Regarding "Faust", do you know of anyone who has attempted to put "Faust" behind a paywall? I doubt it; if they did, they'd have little success, as "Faust" is in the public domain (except for recent translations, naturally).

The question you should be asking yourself is: if all content is going to be free, who is going to pay for the production of content?

At the moment, your argument seems to be that content should be free because you don't want to pay for it. While, as you indicated in your comment above, this attitude may be commonplace in 14 year olds, but is not the basis for a sustainable society.
And to think Microsoft got fined millions for just objecting to having competitor's software bundled with Windows. At least they didn't portray other browsers as sinkholes of vice and crime. Their rating policies seem almost designed to generate complaints to the FTC.
Just so we are on the same page. I am refering to the V8 codec not the Javascript engine.
The issue with this approach is that it doesn't weed out the mediocre. This is why big companies fire people by re-organization. You run into legal problems if you are firing people who are competent, but not excellent. So you round them up into another business unit and then drop the whole unit. I assume you would run into the same legal issues with the proposed 4 month trial period. If the person does a solid, but not great job and you let them go, you are opening yourself up to being sued.
Funny, but imo misses the point.

The beauty of dynamic typing is that it makes the writing of the code easier, which makes development shorter, which gives you more time to thoroughly test your code. After years leading a QA team, I'm convinced that more time testing is always superior to more time writing code, even if the code you're writing is there to stop bugs!
The more I watched the Milan fashion show, the more
troubled I became that 0% of the models on the catwalks were men. I realized that the men in the IT industry compose a vast, under-served market for high fashion that is being actively and sexually discriminated against by structural factors.

Factors which we can overcome with wishful thinking.

We need a fashion show. In Silicon Valley. For men. In their thirties and forties. Who can code. On nights and weekends so as not to disturb their working hours.

Benevolent designers and fashion models will work with the coders to make this happen in return for equity and possibly paid salaries by sponsors and can convert into CFO (Chief Fashion Officer) positions.
My G1 no longer receives incoming calls. They just go straight to voicemail. And the text message ring tone changed without me doing anything. The maps application opens and dies to the main screen. Something tells me this crap doesn't happen with the iPhone.
Who would want to take this deal?

I could not afford to work for four months at half of my salary, and I don't have a family - so I can only imagine that people supporting a family would really not be able to do this.
Letter from India: The Problem of Working With Men
Maybe a smart pre-emptive strike against twitters annotations?
Haha awesome seeing this on HN!!! Hooray!
They certainly don't kid around when they finally decide to answer bad PR.
This looks like something out of a James Bond movie villian's hideout - all it needs is a self-destruct sequence announced over the PA system by some lackey with a monotone voice who inexplicably sits through the entire process while paitiently waiting to be engulfed in flames by the resulting explosion.

Sorry, I've had a lot of caffeine today.
Go ahead with Spring then. I can't say I am a huge fan of it but its quite useful.
yet another neat product from pete warden. the unemployment map is a really nice example of the value of this type of visualization:

http://www.openheatmap.com/examples/us_unemployment_county/
There is already a y combinator for your gender: y combinator. If the problem is that women don't know how to code, then we should start empowering them to code, not give them money to start a tech business despite that.
Color Psychology and Branding
"A language and its standard library are theoretically different things, but in any practical sense, the choice to use a language carries with it the choice to use its standard library."

That's less true when talking about C/C++ than other languages. C/C++ are quite often used in embedded systems, which often have problems with dynamic memory allocation, code size, etc. This means that many embedded systems don't use the standard library, or only use portions of it.
Before clicking the link I was about to post a pedantic "please change to a headline that doesn't editorialize", but after a second of looking at the pictures...holy crap! That is (objectively) insanely cool! :)
I knew I'd heard about this on the radio, usually I listen to BBC Radio 4 so I think that this http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinking... half-hour programme is where I heard of it. Just in case someone is looking for an audio presentation.
Just found this link on HN:

http://blog.chrometa.com/you-launched-your-app-now-what

Related and a good read.
How can they make such a massive investment in this type of thing and end up with such a big 'oops'? It must be heartbreaking for the antenna engineers.
I'm sorry to hear that. I work in search quality at Google, and we really do try to do our best, but it's a very hard problem.

"Just provide good content" indeed isn't enough. What we should also be saying is that you shouldn't count on Google's search results to do your marketing for you. It's difficult for Google's search results to "lead" the internet. If something isn't already somewhat popular, it's hard for us to discover it, though we try very hard. What I'd suggest is to try to market your site through more conventional ways without worrying about search engines. If real people demonstrate that they like your site when exposed to it, the ball is in our court, and it's really our fault for not ranking you well enough.

However, if not enough people have been exposed to it, there's still more you need to do on your end.

Send the site along, and I'll see if there are any issues I can tell you about.
I have to agree with you on this. I've been in SF for a decade, and SOMA for the past year and a half. SOMA is pretty abysmal, and it's not really San Francisco. It's sort of what you would expect if Palo Alto regurgitated all over San Francisco. My roommate & I are currently on the hunt for an apartment in Nob Hill or North Beach.
Are there anyone here that downloaded and played with their data set (PG dump). I have fiddled with one of their table to process their Wikipedia data. I think Google bought it for their supposedly wicked-fast GraphDB.
I just got an EVO about a week ago. I don't understand why a company would be so confident that every single user wants a nascar app that they would remove the option to uninstall. Put the app in the marketplace, make it free, let people uninstall it and then put it back on their phone if they decide they're interested in it again. How is it that people so opinionated are permitted to select the software for a phone that thousands of people will use?
If you meant actually existing stop the world GC, the server GC in Microsoft's CLR stops all threads on a processor to do GC.
Is it just me or the video is really out of focus?
Isn't this a good thing for us? Teacher is still a pretty low tech job even though technology could do a lot in the classroom. So wouldn't a lack of teachers force school districts to look towards technological solutions?

There was an article just today about teaching methods that don't require teachers in the classroom at all: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1521077

I'm not saying we go to that extreme but there's a lot that can be done in education and technology and a teacher shortage is exactly the type of thing that would jump start that development.
The idea is simple - you pay full whack, but ask to 'Go Halves' and nominate the charity of your choice. You then receive a plate with your food bisected neatly down the middle (in the manner of a Damien Hirst), or just half the portion size if the former was impractical. Half the money you paid goes direct to the charity you nominated

Erm confused. And the restaurant who needs to make so many $$ per table served to survive gets what?