skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can you suggest gender-blind criteria that would be successful?

Well, the original formulation was "potential to succeed at computer science". So we need to measure potential (P) and success (S). Then the people we are interested in satisfy (P and not S).

S could be defined as being a professor of computer science (or related discipline), or as earning more than a certain amount in a computing-related field.

P could be determined by getting someone to submit a computing-based project they've worked on; the submission might consist of a tarball containing documentation and source code, which would obviously have to be assessed according to subjective criteria (to avoid untoward discrimination at this stage, the submissions might be anonymised so reviewers wouldn't know the name of the submitter.

Or P could be determined by some objectively-assessible criteria, for example asking people to write a program whose performance would be measured objectively (e.g. the Google AI Challenge -- http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/index.php )

But however you determine S and P, the set of people you're interested in falls naturally from that.
"BBC was anti-war biased from day one"

My recollection is that the BBC was not biased against previous wars - and I can recall the Falklands & the first Gulf War fairly well.

However, for the Second Gulf War they did keep asking "why are we going to war?" - which as it turns out was a perfectly valid question as the justifications for the war (and especially for UK involvement) ranged from rather weak arguments (Saddam is bad) through to outright lies (involvement with 9/11 or WMD).

So if the BBC is biased it seems to be biased in favour of the truth.
As I've seen since the 70's, if you get enough people in the US pissed off, they elect different kinds of people. Given this, it's more likely that the rich (being mobile) will emigrate rather than dealing with the hassle. They can afford the lawyers and other "fees" required to do so.
In almost every major venue I have frequented, Thursday night is considered "ladies" night. It's when they waive cover charges for women, luring them in, and in the process lure in more men.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1532694
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That seriously sucks. How about teaming up with people in other countries to receive the funds and send them to you via western union or so ?
It was the actual query results (page 3+) I was talking about. You still get "I need a software that helps me with my finances" results, just without the "a" in bold any more.

There are depressingly few hits in there that actually use the phrase "I need software" without the bad English.
I would but I'm not that good of a programmer (yet)
http://github.com/quad/stardate

It's whimsical.
It's lamson.

You can demo it by e-mailing punchit@stardate.quadhome.com with your first entry.

It'll kick back a confirmation e-mail. Reply to it.

After that, it'll e-mail you daily. Reply to those with your journal.
Add in the manufacturers software driver for my Netgear Wifi dongle! NEVER connects to my Wifi network (have to manually connect each time, tried a lot of settings and nothing works). I have to have it installed so the dongle is operable, but the software itself is crap.
Apple's Trackpad, the ultimate Mouse trap?
1) Ah! I somehow didn't know that, thanks.
When sites try to increase pageviews artificially it pisses me off.

They could've easily implemented a ajax solution to update only the headers section of the site.
Suggestion for the dupe checker: Check with index.html removed and www. stripped.

That would get rid of a lot of duplicates.
There is vanishingly little incentive to the business in giving that much value away for free. It autocommoditizes your offering and lets any idiot with a printer compete with you.

Give the PDF for ~10 guests away for free. This demonstrates that your solution will work, but nobody worth worrying has their invitation need filled by 10 invites.

Charge appropriate to value for PDFing the full guest list. Charge extraordinarily dearly for completely taking one annoying task off the overworked bride's plate and sending the invites yourself.
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The open drivers do support 3D. You won't get the same performance as the closed drivers, but you will get accelerated 3D plenty good enough for desktop effects and simple 3d games.
There was a sonic game on the Sega Master System. Also an 8-bit system. (It came built in with my Sega Master System. Unfortunately, I can't find the ROM online.)
a lot like what they did in "Atlas Shrugged"
As a CUDA developer I'm pissed off by this decision.. Last time I checked OpenCL wasn't ready (much slower then CUDA) so I don't see how one could use the new Macs for serious GPU development :(

Also Adobes premiere uses CUDA.. maybe Apple wants to look their own product (Final cut) better on Macs?
Oh, I'am a little late to the party...
Sorry.
6 Reasons to Stop Charging by the Hour
Top Negotiation Quotes
The suggestion of what to do instead:

> "The alternative to billing by the hour is to pick a few things you’re really good at”and that your customers ask for”and to come up with a standard formula and a standard price for delivering them. Don’t think it would work in your business? The practice of law is arguably the most addicted to billing by the hour, yet a Toronto-based lawyer named Jane Harvey has a standard set of services for which she charges a flat rate."
If murdering children across two continents doesn't do it, I don't know what will. For my part, the only diamonds I'll buy will be on a saw blade or drill bit.
Are there any best practices for linking up a blog to your site for SEO purposes?

Do you have any marinating recipe tips?
The argument that mice are dead because they're a fifty year old technology is bunk (how old are keyboards again?). But that doesn't mean mice will be mainstream forever.
Q: Achieve, achieve, achieve.

A: Achieve, achieve, achieve.

You are trying very hard to be Dashing Successful Hacker.

Maybe you are not meant for that. Amidst all the insightful advice about how startups will change your life, perhaps a while should be spent on thinking about that.
Genuinely not sure about that, but considering how this analysis was done, it's equally likely, that Thursday is the day that people would start talking about a restaurant ... i.e. looking for recommendations for the weekend or talking about going to a particular restaurant.
+1 on the plans for perpetual motion machines, I actually get these once every few years from otherwise smart people who don't understand the basics of physics.
In 2001, I had the idea of creating a bookmarking system for saving all my big list of researched url's and named(now called as tags) as personal and official links for my personal use. Few years later I heard of something called Delicious.
What really annoys me is all the websites who just mirror mailing lists onto the web. So you use Google and get the same page just with different banner ads, and the same - usually wrong - answers.
A suggestion to webmasters: canonize your URIs.
Updated to beta 2, but the demos all looked so slow and clunky that I'm sure most users would consider the experience unacceptable. I have hardware acceleration enabled, with all the wobbly compiz effects, but the browser doesn't seem to be making use of the hardware.
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That is an argument against naming in general. 'When one day you will find that your class="product" contains contact information, you might now the part of the answer.'
4 Weird Things Accomplished with Urine
Here are some ways that people have managed to put urine to awfully good use...
Very cool; mail handling is an area where Ruby needs work.

One question: Does it properly quote non-ASCII characters in mail headers? That's been a big pain point for me over the years, which I fixed by being lazy and using Javamail.

Good names for mail gems are hard to come by; my Javamail wrapper for JRuby ended up going through four different names because Mail, Mailer, Postman and Postal were all taken (we finally called the damn thing Postinius).

I'll at least offer my suggestion for a name; what about 'Takkyu'? Takkyubin is a very famous delivery service over here in Japan.
Yes that could work as a last resort. Western Union and other money transfer services are widespread here because expats send back a lot of remittances to their relatives, etc.

Two nuisances:
1. Higher fees, possibly.
2. Hassles with the income tax authorities: people might be asked to produce a signed letter from their foreign friend for every deposit.
You could try http://www.killerstartups.com/
Siegler's earlier article was complete unprofessional flamebait and also acting as if Apple is the first company to ever produce an input device that's an alternative to the mouse. This article is just some lame attempt at backtracking without going back on what he said. I'm done with Techcrunch.
Yes, that would help a lot too. But I would peg the chances of getting the dupe checker in HN fixed a bit higher than getting all the sites that might be submitted fixed.
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Isn't that exactly why Perl 6 can't possibly do as well as Perl 5 did?
You can always delete the link if you find out that it has bee submitted recently after the fact.
In return for receiving a disproportionate amount of the gains from economic growth in a capitalist economy, the rich paid a disproportionate percentage of the taxes needed for public goods and a safety net for the majority.

In return for generating an disproportionate amount of the wealth, you mean. The rest of the article is similar economically-illiterate gibberish.

its allies might have failed to defeat totalitarian empires that would have created a world order hostile to a market economy

It's clear where the sympathies of the author lie.
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keeping in mind that Lynx also fits within the "all browsers on all operating systems" statement.
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Ultimately the price of the PDF is going to tend to zero anyway, that's why I said in the long run. If you charge for the PDF someone will charge less and someone else will charge even less. I don't think people will want the PDFs since their printers are not very good + they don't have the right paper + ink is expensive.

The free PR you get from offering the free PDFs will drive sales of the printed versions and providing some free PDFs to low value customers will be much cheaper than Google ad-words and wedding magazine adverts. If you think about it magazines / blogs are going to point to the place you get good invitations for free, ultimately a lot of the people going there will pay for them to be printed and sent out.
If you do that with an always visible toolbar, you lose precious screen real estate: the top bar can just disappear away as you scroll down (with the always available status bar serving as a direct link to it), a bottom toolbar can not do that (note: I don't know if the toolbar hides on the iPad, it does on the iPhones).
I don't know where you stay in India, but here in Pune (Maharashtra) the Government post is quite reliable
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Hedge fund invests in LinkedIn at more than $2 Billion valuation
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very difficult for entropy to stay constant in a closed system. And surely universality (all-encompassing, there-is-nothing-else) means closed system? Or are we looking at open and closed in the wrong way; if the universe is periodic, could entropy decrease with order 'warping in' from a different point in time (future or past) if time happened to fold or loop over itself to feed into the back of it?
Adobe Buys Swiss Company Day Software For $240 Million
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The "perfect and flawless"-model for running states has been widely discredited. These models invariably makes sweeping assumptions about peoples priorities, which is very hard to do, given how surprisingly different people are. The resulting flood of compromises either leads to inefficient systems like the ones we have today, or totalitarian regimes (force people to share the assumed priorities).

The model of deciding on a few general core values and defending them rigourously (free speech, equality to the law, right of self determination etc.) leads to inefficient, yet stable and reasonably prosperous societies.
As long as human anatomy and sensorics remains the same, there will be constants in usability. I am very, very picky with my rodents and keyboards as well as screens.
Day Software also contributes to a variety of Apache projects, such as "Jackrabbit".
This is a fantastic idea and I love disruptive companies.

I wish you all the best.
I don't think he is saying native speakers never make mistakes though.

A better example might be people using if when they should be using whether.
I do not get why a keyboard is not needed. How do you write on an iPad?
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I haven't seen any human data on this, so please share if you have, but in animal models of T1D, impaired calcitriol conversion occurs within days of the onset of diabetes. If they had to develop renal failure in order to have impaired Vitamin D metabolism, then I would agree that the timecourse makes no sense.
That's not the point. On any decent Unix, you can overwrite any shared library that's being used and just reload the program. It's not about log files, but not having to bring down the machine in order to write an important file. That's why windows updates take eons: after the boot there are tons of files that have to be moved or renamed before the system can boot completely.

It's insane.
Patiala (Punjab). It's never been reliable here. Even Speedpost (Government-run express mail) commonly arrives a few weeks late.
SCRUM how do you estimate time - in hours??
Hi,
I need to give time estimations for my tasks in hours! I find that ridiculus - its SCRUM, how can any task be made in hours? every task requires defining requirements, analysis, design, documentation, testing, automatic testing. Should I put a note on each of these tasks? and estimate it with hours?! unittest1() - 1 hour? section A in document 1 2 hours? what if someone calls me and asks for help? what will happen to those 2 hours?! also can someone give me more tips how do you estimate your time?! I find I always underestimate my time (as well as anyone else I know around me!) plz help...
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Corruption can take many, many other forms than the handing over of cash.

Politician A fixes something for company X in legislation, company X opens a new plant in A's constituency just in time for re-election. A runs on excellent job-creation credentials, and regular meetings with X aren't controversial, after all X is the biggest employer in the district.

Also, Politician B fixes something for labour union Y. When it's time to announce his bid for re-election, 400 exited Y-workers show up yielding "Re-elect B" rally signs. Excellent photos for the front page of the paper, and man-of-the-people B-roll for the TV-news for the entire campaign.

Are these even corruption, by the way? Or are A and B genuinely looking out for the best interests of their constituents?
There is a difference between "academic stuff should be discussed on academic sites only" and "government stuff should be discussed on government sites only": unlike government sites, everyone can open an academic site (if we define "academic site" by the choice of topics and moderation policy instead of by being endorsed by a brick-and-mortar university (I would e.g. call LtU an academic site)).
If the article is to be believed, the switch to ati only applies to iMacs, not MacBooks...
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Some interesting observations, but I think the title is poor (I'm not American, I'm not saying this because I feel threatened or insulted). Something reflecting that fact that the US domestic market is waning in importance would be more accurate (but less provocative from an editor's POV).

The EU, taken as a single market, is the largest global market in terms of sheer spending power - it has a bigger population than the US (half a billion plus, vs. 307 million in the US). China is growing rapidly, but is still a very poor country currently. Of course, you cannot treat the EU as a single market in practical terms, because of language differences (even within the same country e.g. Switzerland), different laws and customs. The US, by comparison, is a far more homogenous unit (easier to sell into from a startups' perspective, European startups probably have to go international from day one, which is a big drawback from doing a startup in Europe).

I certainly don't think the American people are becoming obsolete - the world is still very US-centric, for better or worse. Just think, if an article like this came out before the crash of 2008, the author would be branded as an unpatriotic commie.

EDIT: I just read down to the end of the article, and it's mostly bullshit speculation with no supporting evidence for the author's fanciful claims.
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And when I say a modern PC is a kludge, people don't believe me.
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I don't think removing the last shred of accountability from lawmakers while introducing even more populism is the right way to go.
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Well yes that is a given that it will not look the same on Lynx. Most would assume that when a designer says "look the same" they generally refer to the top browsers and 2 to 3 versions back. It is pretty much a given that you are not going to get it to look the same on IE 5 or FF 2.

But you bring up a good point, designers should be specific with their client as to what browsers the design will look right in and the steps taken to deal with the ones that it wont.
'T' is already in use. I suppose 'R' is a replacement that makes phonetic sense.
Just as a note, I think the song is named "bicycle built for two"

But it woud be very funny.
"the value of the iPod was that it offered a unified hardware, firmware, and store experience that all worked well together"

This makes no sense to me, and seems to be randomly projecting Apple's current success with a different product line (the iPhone/iPod Touch) back into the past.

The iPod was a hit before the "store" existed, for example. And even iTunes as a "music manager" didn't arrive on windows till later on. Was Microsoft even pushing a device OS at this point? Apple's was very bare bones and device specific and I would assume all the competitors had similar code for their hardware with very little but the PlaysForSure DRM being shared between devices.

I thought the iPod succeeded because Sony were being arrogant and expecting everyone to transcode to ATRAC, Microsoft were being arrogant and expecting everyone to transcode to WMA and both seemed keen on putting DRM even on CDs you ripped yourself.

Apple supported mp3s which had already got the seal of approval from digital pirates and let you freely rip CDs in a way that wouldn't delete your collection if you upgraded your machine. They also had widespread Firewire in the days before USB 2 so you could fill the drive in a reasonable time frame. I can't count how many firewire cards I fitted to friends and colleagues PCs when they were following me onto the iPod bandwagon.

Fundamentally if you can't execute then it doesn't really matter what you're strategy is. I don't see how jumping from one poorly executed strategy to a 2nd hand strategy from Apple is going to help unless you can deliver on it.
Multiple levels of Embedded Documents in MongoDB
PadPressed <3 GPL. Adding a blog post to clarify that later.
That's pretty impressive. Back in 2008, Google did a 1TB sort in 68 seconds (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/sorting-1pb-with-mapr...), breaking the previous record of 209 seconds (which I think was done on Yahoo's Hadoop cluster)

I expect these aren't quite comparable (the op link talks about it being non-generalized data), but it's interesting how these high performance numbers are becoming more achievable.
The arguments that college students all use their mouse's trackpad is not because they prefer it over the mouse, but because they don't either have a mouse (don't think of buying one) and/or they do not want to be bothered taking it with them everywhere.

I'm sure there are students out there that prefer the trackpad, but everybody I've ever met prefers using a mouse over a trackpad any day.

Maybe the reason for the trackpad not being more popular/comfortable as a pointing device stems from the fact that the current trackpads out there are not good enough and the apple trackpad might change all that, but as things stand now, the trackpad is not replacing the mouse.
Lemme guess... you're not married?
I've used yourfonts before at work to generate fonts from handwriting. It's easy to use and about $10 - though bear in mind that it renders as individual letters, so the observant guests will twig that you've cut a corner on thank you notes!

http://www.yourfonts.com/fontgenerator/896673.html

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You can always change the lyrics. You can sing "it's you voltage out of spec" to the same tune.
Any idea why there are two peaks for bar attendance at 8am and 10am?
I still don't get it, you can use something like blueprint while using sane class names
Hm, no, seems like some people haven't seen it yet and find it interesting.

I will post some other links to that page in the next days. ;)
Just kidding..
Why Are We Better Than Google
He assumes that the bulk of the consumer-targeted computing devices in use in the future are special purpose devices that will not need a keyboard since nobody will use them to write stuff with.
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They also introduced more flexible schedules. Some folks opted to take Fridays off; some could only get away with every second Friday (folks in the US Fed gov't, for example).

It just occurred to me that there are probably reading this who have no idea what it was like when your schedule was entirely set by your employer with no wiggle room. Yikes!
"I think that a living language is defined by its usage by native speakers."

First, I think there are degrees of nativeness in language acquisition. Cutting out the entire class of strictly non-native speakers is a bit of an extreme step.

Second, what about differences in usage of the same language over two classes of native speaker?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vernacular_Eng... was once considered to be "incorrect" English.
My initial thought was that this idea sucks - would you want to be remembered as the couple who sent out facebook invitations because you were too broke/tight to do this properly, this once-in-a-lifetime event?

But then, could your suggestion be cast as a couple making a statement to reduce paper usage? And if enough couples do this, what kind of dent could it make on aggregate?

Pros:

- electronic invitations mean no paper, no postage.

Cons:

- chances are, people will print out the invitation and directions.