skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say smarter. You made that up.

If you're willing to accept that men and women have different physical characteristics and different aversion to risk, why then must the brain have an exemption when it comes to ability? Why can't men be more comfortable programming a computer?

And the more important question, why should there be an effort to lure women into computing?
There is good rule that sounds like "If you don't know what you want you will do what others want". You may hear a lot of good advices like "do this" or "don't do that", However, first and only thing you should do - is to decide/identify what you really enjoy in this life. It's not so easy as it sounds. Then do what you want, not others want. You'll be amazed how life can be beautiful, and how magically things may change - even beyond your expectations. It worked for me when I was 32-33. <PS> Sorry for my poor english.
I've been reading here two years and it's never been "all startups, all the time".
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If those assumptions about the underrepresentation of women in the field hold, then it's much easier to identify women for whom computer science would be a good fit but haven't chosen it than it is to identify similar men. Paying the costs for any qualified college student to attend JSConf would be less effective than paying the costs for qualified women.

Can you suggest gender-blind criteria that would be successful? Discriminating less while achieving the same goal is an unalloyed good.
I'm glad to know it's not just me. The tutorial book pins RSpec down to 2.0.0.beta.18 for just this reason. (It looks like 2.0.0.beta.19 is the one that has the problem.) Of course, I'll update the tutorial with the latest RSpec version once they fix this issue.
I believe we Scots are adapted (or at least attempting to adapt) to produce the necessary vitamins from a combination of alcohol and deep fried food. (e.g. deep fried pizzas and Mars bars).
I agree with you that a synchronous programming interface is easier than an asynchronous programming interface.

However, none of the systems you suggest make it possible to write code that can be run by both the server and the browser.

If you were writing web applications, which represent the typical use-case for Node, then this would be a prerequisite.
My point was that it's entertainment. I know it's a video game, but essentially it's no different from any other entertainment. I mean we don't have World Cup or Superbowl Stories on HN, why have the release of Starcraft? I'm sure there are people here who keep up with sports.
The intro bit about Newsday is a little off- newsday.com is available for free to all cablevision optimum obline subscribers... which is basically most of the market for people who care about the local news that newsday reports.
Meet Kate, the KDE Text Editor
I would think that even such a technologically dominant civilization would want to keep a few sentinels in the base reality. If only to keep an eye out for stray existential threats. And such a sentinel would be a fascinating character to base the narrative around; aware of the true nature of things, given vastly consequential powers in physical reality, but for all that, but not particularly important in the view of the society running inside.
Care to explain your vague statement?
Cheap Austrian wine

Just this past Friday I had a bit of a Trader Joe's $2 wine binge, and while I woke up pretty out of it on Saturday I somehow was also more creative than I have been in months. I think inspiration travels at a certain speed and your brain has to be going the same speed to catch it. I used to always get tons of ideas while driving on the freeway; maybe being hungover helps you catch the slow ones.
That was one of the most fantastic explaining-a-change videos I've ever seen. Great mix of humor, seriousness, understanding business and technical sense, understanding markets - just getting you on Gamestop's upper management team could be huge for them if it's mostly old school retail guys. Congratulations, Jim, seems like a smart buy for them and hopefully now you've got financial security to do whatever the heck you like henceforth. Whatever your next projects down the road may be, I'm going to pay close attention to them :)
Proper placement of "trust logos" can make a huge difference in conversion rate.
Well that's hardly a fair point. It's going to depend on the scale of your traffic, the type of site, the networking/sysadmin manpower available, tolerance for failure, etc...

EC2 certainly isn't always cheaper, but it also certainly can be cheaper.
I take 4,000 UI of vitamin D3 in gelcaps (it's fat soluble, so much better absorbed than with dry tablets) each day. Been doing it for years.

Make sure you get the gelcaps if you get supplements. Blood tests have shown that dry tablets are really badly absorbed, so that some people who think they might be taking enough supplements could still be deficient.
ITeleport: How A Weekend Hobby Turned Into $1 Mil In Annual Sales
Hmmm. Unless you are just ripping the lard off the animals back, last time I checked trichinosis was the result of undercooking meat.

Also, I should hope that the farmer is using some form of dewormer. There are plenty of proven organic herbal supplements you can give livestock that drastically reduce the parasite load of your average farm animal. I'm using a two-step wormwood-based dewormer and also supplement my animals' diets with garlic powder.
This leak doesn't really provide information on what the government is doing. They are low level reports written from the field, largely recognized by people working in this space to be unreliable. The government should certainly be more open about our activities in Afghanistan and the information that drives those actions, but reports like these without context are not the way.

Let's also think about this leak from the perspective of the Afghans and Pakistanis who risk their lives to work with the United States. If we cannot be trusted to protect their identities, then we will end up with far fewer local partners.
Fish & Chips actually contain quite a bit of vitamin D!
Right, but if you just get a plan with a German carrier w/o your own hardware, do you buy it outright or do you get it free and it's added into each monthly bill.

If it's the latter, it makes complete sense. Plenty of people can't afford to go throw down $500 at a time. It's the same as any other subsidized or installed-payments model...
He presented the problem well, then concluded without much support. That is, he did not explain to me why wanting reified generics makes me a language egoist. Does it really make the job of supporting multiple languages that much more difficult?

It also wasn't clear to me if his conclusion is just for the JVM (which has almost two decades of baggage), or for any given VM.
The January effect takes place in a lot of disparate areas.

Gym memberships spike in January. No surprise there.

But what's more interesting is that most self-development books are published in January. Publishers know this is a key time to reach people in the general areas of health & fitness, money, relationships, and work.

I've also had massive traffic spikes on my blog in January when I run a bootcamp/New Year guide.

I wouldn't be surprised if the HN growth happens with people saying, "I really want to learn about tech/entrepreneurship and build something this year."
Ultimate Reddit headline:

"Dear Reddit: Fuck BP! The game police dog got Bush to google Fox."
A JavaScript Implementation of TLS
this discussion is completely pointless, but yes, it can work on other platforms because it's open source.

i was able to compile it just fine on my openbsd laptop.
>You're right of course. So if it was done in say multiples of 15msec. The first window for a response is at 15msec. The second window at 30msec. The third window at 45msec and so on.

Instead of the comparison that checks the whole field, start two threads, one per real cpu core, and run the unknown comparison against an a known good, and in parallel, and only return when both have completed. Not the most efficient, but would scale properly for faster and slower cpus.
using a proper window-manager e.g. xmonad might be helpful, personally i use fvwm2.
my opinion: you are spending emotional energy on judging yourself. This energy is then not available for your goals. (Emotional energy is like a limited supply of money: spend it wisely, don't throw it away.) It undermines your motivation, and your faith in your ability, without which goals are impossible to achieve (literally). This is especially serious for weight-loss, because many people eat as a way to stop the feelings that the above creates - you need an alternative way to feel good about yourself, instead of eating.

You sound desperate. If you are, I have a suggestion that will help. But you'll only be able to do it if you are desperate:

Set doable goals, do them, and celebrate them.

1. Start off with clearly doable goals - no challenging or stretch goals! A good guide is to estimate what you think you can do, then halve it. [note: if it turns out that you can't do it, it was not a "doable goal" - start again with an easier one] To give you an idea of just how easy I mean, an example is: to make a mark on a piece of paper.

2. Doing them means to remain focussed on them. No moving the goal posts! Don't be distracted by other tasks; nor by thoughts of whether you can do it or not, nor by whether it's too easy etc. The way to prevent distractions is as in meditation: acknowledge them without anger nor fighting them, and gently shifting your attention back to the here and now.

3. celebration means something very specific: you recall (visualize) the state of events before you began; and then you compare the visualization with how things are now. And you notice that there is a difference - a change in the world - that is entirely due to your power.

The key is self-appreciation. You thought I was melodramatic when I said you can only do this if you're desperate? No. Setting a reasonable goal, doing it, and celebrating it is really that hard. It requires a particular kind of self-discipline that (according to your post) you presently don't exercise. You can improve at this - if you're desperate enough.

every great achievement is made up of a number of small achievements
The man who dug a coal mine under his garden
HN Smart
After submitting one item today I found myself looking at my karma, something I couldn't care less until some time ago.

Then I also looked at ALL my submissions and comments and wondered if they would look good if I ever apply to YC.

I found myself worried about this: not being "HN smart".

For example longer posts are HN smart, they consistently get more upvotes than shorter ones. Talking/Linking about YC funded startups seems to be HN smart aswell.

Also, in the latest months I've always seen people complaining about the new userbase, which is not as good as the one of 2007-2008.

Again, I've been lurking since more than a year but I don't post often, and I don't usually post URLs since all the news I read is HN.

Can we say that the new userbase is less HN smart than the old one? Is that the point?

What's the "correct" feeling, if there's one? Mind your business helping others when you can or be HN smart at all costs trying to get others to upvote you when you'll introduce your startup and eventually look good on YC applications?

Genuine question, what was it like in the good ol' days?

Edit: fixed some grammar.
Pitch at the Founder Conference: the Rules
From elsewhere, only 10% of the cost is bandwidth. 90% is CPU?!!! Because Reddit is so computationally expensive apparently...
Thanks for the feedback. Invites are coming soon :)
Can I suggest something very simple to you?

Learn to love yourself.

It is something so simple and yet so difficult. To tell you the truth I used(?) to hate myself like anything until the past few weeks. I used to wonder if I deserved to exist at all after all life had been so good to me and there were people worse off than me and I still couldn't do anything with myself.

The environment I was in encouraged it and I was trapped in an extremely vicious cycle which killed me on more ways I can write down. I still can't do stuff consistently due to the burden I have accumulated in the past. Don't do that to yourself.

It's a slippery slope and once you're on it. You're perilously close to oblivion. So what if you have stayed stagnant? At least you realize it and are taking steps to combat it.

I wish I could just hug you or something, but I can't so just call up someone close and talk to them about this. Drop the facades that we all set up and just communicate. It may not solve much, but it will remove the weight of the world from your shoulders and in the longer run that will make all the difference.
Please, don't auto-play videos.
Not-so-secret seven hold keys to the internet
You don't have to look at a trackpad to use it.

Looking is optional for the device I described. You'd only have to look in moments of managing greater complexity, which is the correct time.

I think that putting screens on trackpads, keyboards, or remotes (you use them to control other screens) is a horrible idea.

For a DVR, the second screen is very useful. You get context-driven visual feedback without impinging on the video content in the main screen. Someone could check on a game or look up a related Wikipedia entry without interrupting everyone else's viewing. Someone could queue the next YouTube bit without the same.
The Chevy Volt Is Now Officially On Sale For $41K MSRP
No kidding: My dad's first job out of college, an entry level position, earned him $25k/yr, with benefits. His house -- 1500 sq feet in a nice neighborhood cost $25k. This was in the mid 70s

My first entry level job out of college, a good job by all accounts, earned $30k, had minimal benefits. My first house cost $80k for 1100 sq ft. in a decent (but not as nice) neighborhood. This was in the mid 2000s (except the house was bought immediately post crash).

Something is not right w/ this.
Now that all macs can take advantage of gestures, I wonder when Apple will include some of the iOS inertial scrolling to OS X. It's such a simple change that (for me) makes a big difference in functionality. I was happy to see inertial scrolling added to Google Maps not too long ago.
I have a Magic Mouse for my work computer and use a MBP for personal stuff. Personally I actually preferred the Might Mouse over the Magic Mouse. While the multitouch is cool and I do use it a lot, it oftentimes takes a few tries for it to recognize the two finger swipe. I find the trackpad to be the best interaction device I've ever used. Your mileage may vary however. :)
Why don't you dismiss from your job?
IMacs with i7, SSD, and Magic Trackpad make their debut
>Why would I not choose the subsidized phone?

Because there is an implicit cost to being in a contract. It restricts your choices. I know you plan on being with Verizon for the forseeable future, but things change quickly in the world of mobile devices. Also, people move for jobs, school, family reasons, etc, and service quality isn't consistent even on Verizon.

For some people it's worth $400 to avoid having their decisions restricted by a contract.
Windows drivers will probably be included in a future Boot Camp update.
I would've bought one if they released it for Verizon.
Drivers for the magic mouse were released so you could use it on bootcamp, maybe they're not that far in the pipeline.
It's because in the USA, there's no benefit to buying a phone without a contract; you're still going to pay the same monthly rate. There may be deals for employee plans, discounts, or bargaining with the clerk, but for 90%, we just might as well get the $199 iPhone with the outrageous phone plan because we were already going to get an outrageous phone plan no matter what phone you get.
Physicist here. Although I am not really a "cosmologist," I have studied cosmology, and have spent a lot of time pondering the the big bang because I think it is interesting, and because so many people like you misunderstand it.

The universe did not come from nothing. Consider the following two claims:

* The universe has a finite age.

* The universe has always existed.

Both of these claims are true. It might seem that if something has always existed, it must have existed for infinitely long. No so. At every time in history, the universe has existed, even though the age is finite.

Your intuition might disagree. But recognize your intuition has been developed under very peculiar circumstances on the surface of the Earth. You should be skeptical of your own intuition when studying things outside of your usual experience. In this case, human intuition says two things:

* There was always something before.

* There was always something 5 minutes before.

In ordinary human life, both claims are true. That's what your intuition says. But for the universe as a whole, only the first claim is true, and the second claim is false. Even though it is true that there was always something "before" (for any time you give me, I can divide that time in two and give you an earlier time), it is nevertheless not true that there was always something 5 minutes before (pick 4 minutes after the big bang, and 5 minutes earlier than that is simply undefined [1]).

Big Bang theory is a self-consistent, meaningful mathematical theory. It does not fly in the face of logical reasoning. Rather, it is a spectacular case-in-point of the power of logical reasoning to describe and explain the universe.

Your second point is that the Big Bang disobeys the first law of thermodynamics, which is the conservation of energy. False. You are assuming there was a period of time when there was no energy, and then suddenly energy came into being. That's not what happened. The energy has always been around, for all time, and thus the first law is not violated.

[1] It so happens that "negative time", or even time t=0, is equally as meaningless as Elephant Time or Verb Time. They are all undefined.
Here's a funky explanation with buckets of water and balls, with the astro photos to go along:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRtGUCLjQ3w
to ride on to this question, I have a conundrum of myself. I have an offer from a university to join in and work with them .. about 70K offered .. Now do i take it up and keep working on technologies like FileMaker or wait around and look for gigs at for-profit corps or startups that involve a lot more interesting and cutting-edge technologies.
I just went out during lunch and bought the collectors edition from best buy. Waiting to get home to open it ...
Digg vs. Reddit infographic
You can buy phones without signing up with a mobile provider. If you want to buy the phone from the provider, they'll usually offer you the subsidies. The big providers don't make it very open that you can actually get a plan without buying hardware.

If people want to go the subsidization route, whatever (I personally happen to think that if you can't afford 500$, maybe you shouldn't buy the hardware - get a 50$ feature phone instead). It just irks me if people think they are getting something for free. I hear "phone x costs 0€ at provider x" all the time, so people definitely don't understand this.

My personal take is to avoid the maze of operator prizing completely (50 free minutes between 9am and 11am, but double prize on weekends, except for SMS which are free on a full moon), so I only sign up for plans that I can quit at any time, and with the lowest recurring fee possible.
Java IO is faster than NIO: Old is New Again
"...little more levity would help HN not to take itself quite so seriously all the time."

I agree completely. It makes me a little sad to see a witty (usually brief) remark at -4. Everything doesn't have to be so serious all the time.
In my home town, there's certainly an instance of this fear for mid-distance runs. The Chicago-area Metra commuter train terminates about 15 miles away, and there's a boarded-up old station from the golden age of passenger rail in the middle of the downtown. Whenever the subject of negotiating a deal with Metra and renovating the station comes up, the crime threat is always second right after budget concerns.

I can't say I've ever seen much of the thug life on Metra trains, though.
I second this! The times in my life when I've felt the most productive and engaged, I've been part of a tight group with similar goals and interests. Don't underestimate the degree to which people are fueled by outside interactions, not for external rewards but simply because of the shared momentum. The lack of such a peer group one of the things I've found the hardest after moving to the US, perhaps because the academic moving around makes it hard to build long-term friendships, and quite likely also because I'm not very good at it.
Ask HN: Anyone offering a job in Boulder?
I'm a hacker looking for part-time work or an internship in Boulder, Colorado while I attend classes full-time at the university.

Anyone have any leads?
they don't seem to be related to foursquare at all...no about us/contacts page

Is this a facebook/phishing app?
What I Mean When I Talk About Games Literacy
OK, I've updated it. It works now.

A couple of things I notice about the rest of the application:

1. using a square aspect ratio for presenting the pictures squashes some pics stretches others, it's not appropriate and looks really grotesque. You need to respect the work if you're presenting art.

2. You're violating flickr's terms of service for the API; each picture should link back to the flickr page for that photo, that will get you shut down more quickly than having flickr in the domain name.

3. I'm not exactly clear on what people would be buying with this. Are they getting a physical artifact (i.e. a print, a transparency, what?) Or just a download of the image at the largest size? If so, how is this any different than getty images?

4. On the configuration page you left the admin documentation link in the template but didn't install the documentation, either remove the link to Documentation or make it go somewhere useful. And you provide no navigation back to the the user's page. Your admin workflow is fairly rough right at the moment, most people don't like to deal with more than 5+/-3 items at a time, throwing 24 items at once and not providing a means of grouping them is poor UI.
Great suggestions!

Two more must read books:
1. "The Mathematical Experience" by Davis and Hersh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mathematical_Experience#cit...)
2. "I Want To Be a Mathematician" (http://www.amazon.com/I-Want-Be-Mathematician-Automathograph...).

Probably the key thing for me in helping my math ability was to actively try to prove theorems. Before reading a proof, I always try to solve the theorem myself first. And then after reading the actual proof... try to prove it again. You'll be surprised how many times you can't prove a theorem for which you just read the proof!!!

But this will help you get better at doing proofs, and understanding math. And it will also help you appreciate good proofs, because you would have already tried to solve it. You'll say, "Ahh... I didn't even think to try that, but that was exactly the step I would have needed".

Lastly, as someone else mentioned -- the proofs you read in texts are polished proofs. Often those theorems proved have been attempted by famous mathematicians who failed to prove it in their lifetimes. Take your time, be rigorous, and thoughtful. If you do that, you come out ahead regardless.
For those that want the "Quick WTF?!" it is because:
* With modern operating systems, idle threads are practically free.
* Managing non-contending threads is extremely inexpensive now.
* Multi-core systems.
* Selectors and state-restore used by asynchronous NIO libraries in high-load environments is more expensive than waking up and putting to sleep threads.

You mix all that together and you get a new appreciation for java.io.
Congratulations. Kongregate has some sweet addicting games. I would love a blog post from you on the elements of engaging Flash gameplay...