skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then she lists a lot of code-cowboy vs. good-developer differences, involving things like "working in teams" and "understanding human elements" and "respecting people" (which are implicitly feminine traits, according to the OP, unlike the focused solitude that "code-cowboys" employ.) This is triply problematic--she dismisses out of hand the idea that men are better than women at abstract reasoning and such, but implicitly argues that the qualities of "good developers" are feminine and the qualities of "code cowboys" are both bad for development and masculine.

I think that there is something ironic about someone using sexist reasoning to justify anti-sexist policies. While I may agree that it is probably difficult being a woman working in an industry dominated so strongly by men, she's not helping her case by pulling the same kind of crap of which she accuses men.
goodbye free time hello bliss
> I remember reading that, wondering who is today's equivalent of the Victorians.

Inside the US? I'd go with the Amish first, inasmuch as they pretty much are from the Victorian era. (Technically they were much earlier, but I figure they've drifted that far forward.)

Outside of small or weird groups, I would guess the Asian-Americans (Japan/China/South Korea, to be exact) are the closest in their high valuation of education, thrift, repressed social mores, and reputation.
Watch these videos and understand them: http://www.khanacademy.org/

You can start at as basic level as you like.

Expose yourself to lost of proofs of simple theorems. Try to reconstruct proof after single reading (with understanding why steps follow one another).

After a while you will see how information flows within a proof.

Basically expose yourself to a lot of math proofs and be sure that you understand why every element of each single proof has to be where it is.
I'm confused as to how you're confused.
Do you have sources for those numbers? They seem very high.
It seems like users in USA thinks of phones as something they rent, not something they buy.

In Denmark the carriers must show the "minimum total price": the sum of the upfront price and the monthly payments until you can cancel the contract (incl. termination fee). This law was introduced in 2005 to provide greater transparency of the real price for consumers.

See "min. pris" on http://www.3.dk/Privat/mobil/Mobiler/Wildfire/

upfront = 200 DKK (1 + 199); 399 DKK pr month; so total price = 2594 DKK ~ $453.
Does reality care whether something you have a problem with is solvable?
The TED talk was far better than the BBC article. Thanks for the link.
I think goals are valuable if you set them right. An overarching goal can be to have 1 of the ideas implemented, and then you can refer back to the goal at the end of each month and evaluate whether or not the tasks you've been setting have gotten you closer to your goals.

This approach combined with having different levels of goals will keep you on the right trajectory in finishing everything you want to accomplish. Something like "Only eat out once a week" can be a goal, it's up to you to choose your level of granularity.

IMO the most important thing is to periodically take a few steps back and reevaluate your current habits in relation to the goals you set.
Google News doesn't show up in search results the way, e.g., Mahalo might. The only search results I've seen that incorporate Google News are built right into the main results page; I don't click through expecting content and get a Google News page instead.

In fact, I haven't seen any Google-owned scraping or aggregating page in a result that I've clicked through. They are big believers in the theory that you should look at exactly one search results page, not a page that takes you to a page that takes you to (...) the result you actually wanted.
That is actually a sweet idea... and it could easily be handled with modes like vim. If someone builds one I will buy it.
What I want just a bit more than this: an iPad app that emulates the Trackpad and does just a bit more.

For starters, a command-key could reconfigure it into a numeric keypad. Then incorporate custom per-app controls. (There are already iPad apps that do this.)

Such an iPad app would have the promise of the Optimus OLED keyboard. It would be much better, since high fabrication costs wouldn't be a barrier. It would have the potential to be a game-changer in terms of PC productivity.

Imagine integration with Eclipse for such a device. For example, when you execute your app in debug mode, it could configure itself as a debug remote. When you switch to an editor window, it could display editor macros and shortcuts.

Alternative: a 5" or 7" multitouch LCD device with a similar form factor to the Trackpad that doubles as a universal remote.
I can't do it, I just can't. I want to give in too badly.
What's with the periodicity of the graph? It looks like users who have signed at the beginning of the year -- any year -- are more likely to comment? Or more likely, much more people sign at the beginning of the year. Strange, in any case.
Thermodynamics just says that entropy can't decrease in a closed system. So entropy can stay constant, and in an open system everything can happen.
I don't understand what the point of a two-week chart like this is, if the purpose is other than to convince devs they should work on 2.1 apps. If this chart was longer, I think we'd see 1.5 and 1.6 dominate.
The problem is you don't [usually] get a discount for bringing your own hardware to the party. All you get out of it is the ability to switch, but the subsidy runs about the same cost as the early termination fee, so that benefit isn't all that huge. If you don't switch during the contract period it ends up being a great deal.
I'm not a fan of the male-stereotyping in the article. At best, it's unproductive, at worst, it insults men and so they stop listening.

A lot of the responses here on HN though demonstrate exactly why many women leave software engineering. Read these responses and ask if you like your mother, wife, girlfriend, or daughter working with people who have these attitudes. In an all-male group, the level of misogyny is camouflaged because there are no women to talk about. When there's a woman around, it's exposed, because she is both a target of any misogyny PLUS all the discussion about the drama created by it. Most women cope by becoming "one of the guys" and laughing along when someone makes a sexist remark. The stereotype of the un-made-up geeky female hacker exists because a lot of women notice the difference in how they're treated when they wear a skirt, heels, nice hair, and make-up, as opposed to jeans, sneakers, ponytail. It's a lot easier to dress sloppy and not be made a target.

Another problem is that a significant amount of workplace happiness derives from having friends at work. It's a lot harder to make friends when you're the only woman and you occasionally wonder, "does he really view me as a friend? or is he flirting? that sounded like flirting." Or consider networking - the best way to advance your career. How do geek guys network? It's not usually golf. Networking with geeky guys usually involves late nights gaming, coding, drinking beer (in my experience). I'm not comfortable going to my single coworkers house to play video games and drink beer until midnight, or staying at work coding with a couple coworkers after everyone else has gone home and the secret mini-fridge in the server room has been opened. It could lead to a bad situation with lots of misunderstanding that could ruin a career. Best to just avoid it.

If it wasn't a wide-spread problem, then why does every single woman in the industry feel like it's something she has had to deal with personally? I've been in the industry 5 years and I'm considering leaving because I feel my gender is holding me back. I'm smart and hard working and I can do really well in a field where being a woman isn't going to hurt my career.
Promotion of the Nexus One was minimal and, seemingly, limited to Google's advertising network

Considering that it was featured on Google's home page like no product ever before, I wouldn't call that minimal.
i use an x301 running openbsd (with a samsung ssd). i swapped out the dvd drive for a second battery and have no complaints about it.

the build quality is just like the old thinkpads (i've had the x40, x60, and x61) and the keyboards are still perfect.
Given Windows is suggested as an option on their machines, maybe they will write a driver. Either way I'm sure someone will write one for Linux.
Not this stuff again. Yes, basically any service you can think of can be implemented trivially, if you don't have to worry about things like concurrency, performance, scalability, etc.

This might have been a nice learning experience for the author, but it's definitely not hacker news.
joking aside, a good designer can save you bandwidth money if they know what they are doing. (please note I used the word "good")
16M/24/60/60 = 185 pages/sec. 185/15 = 12 pages/sec/server. That's not much different than the Reddit number.
If you click "Sign in with Facebook" from the homepage we don't spam your wall. You can opt-out of spamming your friends, too, once you're in.

Would you use Twitter? Plain old email/password?
I would definitely recommend the following books:

- How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate by Andrew Hargadon

- Micro ISV by Bob Walsh

- Smart and Get Things Done by Joel Spolsky

- 4 Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris

and here is one that I used in school that has great intro level information on a variety of topics.

- The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship by Andrew Zacharakis (check the spelling)
It's not censorship, it's just a social seperation of professional concerns. Non-physicists have no chance in hell to understand arxiv papers, in fact most physicists don't have a chance in hell to understand arxiv papers, even the ones from their own field. (I'm saying this as a physicist.)

In this case, the MIT TR writes about a bleeding edge, unpublished paper written by a non big-name physicist that will most likely be discarded and never be talked about in 6 months.

The author is from a "Institute of Statistics" and the paper was written in Word with double-space formatting. That means the author is probably not a physicist, and non-physicists have a very low chance of being able to grasp the problems with current models and propose better ones, not to mention accounting for all the astro observations coming out every day.

Looking at the actual paper as somebody with a cosmology background, what he's saying is:

1. Let's take the classical Einstein equations

2. Let's see what happens if c, the speed of light, is not constant, but a function of time c(t)

3. Hm, but to not break the original equations let's also make G be a function of time G(t) such that c(t)^2/G(t) is fixed

4. Hm, but then in the derivations, where there are derivatives wrt. to time new dc/dt and dG/dt terms appear

5. and so on

There is no new physics in this paper, it's just a routine derivation with a twist. The TR blogger is probably not a physicist and/or has not read it, he just pushed out some generic bullshit about space and time.

There's no point in talking about this paper for non-professionals. First, professionals have to reach concensus whether this makes any sense and is compatible with observations (the former part is easier, the latter takes longer and more people). Once a result passes these tests, then it makes sense to tell people about it.

If the TR wants to push out some sciency newsitem, they could for example talk about recent Higgs data from the Tevatron, which is bleeding-edge fresh but fairly uncontroversial, as it is a measurement and has gone through the Tevatron team:

http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2010/07/higgs-still-at-large...

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Reply to scott_s (for some reason I can't reply to the comment): I agree, total seperation is not good. It's not good if all the physicists involved are pure academics, because it allows for sub-optimal incentives to dominate. I believe the good model is fOR physicists with no academic incentives (positions, grants) to also take part in the discussion, eg. somebody working at Morgan Stanley or doing a startup. This model would be similar to programmers donating their time to open-source projects. (The academic counter-argument which easily wins out today is that if you're not working in the field, you don't understand the issues and don't have a say.)
It's fine to suffer in coach during international flights if you're a vacationer who only takes one or two long trips per year - totally different if you're a frequent flyer. I'd be extremely reluctant to take any job that required me to fly international coach regularly.
The Magic Mouse supports a three-finger click, which is interpreted as a middle click.
Very true, but if that's the case you're probably writing some code that requires engineering (i.e. a control system or requiring an understanding of the engineering system that you're writing code for). If that's the case then you're probably wearing the hat of an engineer.
I acknowledge it now, but only sideways. I don't believe in wrapping up problems and tucking them away into a diagnosis... I'm a whole person, and if I have ADHD, it's a part of who I am. Part of what makes legitimizing ADHD difficult for me is that there's no litmus test--we have to rely on psychiatrists to make diagnoses, and it seems to me that the diagnosis is just as likely to be "bad habits" as it is to be "ADHD."
Looks like they're bringing out their version of the iGesture pad: http://www.amazon.com/Fingerworks-IGESTURENUMPAD-iGesture-Pa.... Apple acquired Fingerworks in 2005, which is how they got the multitouch technology used in iPhones, MacBooks, and now the Magic Trackpad.

The thing I'm wondering: My iGesture pad still works, and still has way more gestures than the Trackpad. For example - twisting clockwise with four fingers is "close" (it presses command-w for you), which is pretty natural. Will the Magic Trackpad be able to handle this with software updates, or will we have to hack it to do the things its predecessor could do 5 years ago?

Also, be sure to check out all of the crazy multitouch products Fingerworks had before they were acquired. My favorite was the insane keyboard at the bottom of http://fingerworks.com/.
Take a proof based math class in college. They will likely start at a low enough level to make you happy.

Once you get to the point where the subjects start dividing, you'll see that the real skill that math teaches you is to look at a problem, and create a set of definitions which frame all the properties of the problem and make them make sense in that framework.

You get this skill by both playing with problems and trying to define frameworks (theorems, lemma's, axioms, ect) and by reading about the techniques that others have developed. It isn't about rote memorization, its about playing with abstract concepts till you have a way of understanding them. One thing that playing will teach you is that it will show you that the path you take to understanding something is not the same as the simplest path for explaining something once you understand it.

In contrast, in things like physics you are generally given the frameworks (by the mathematicians) and the cleverness comes from understanding how particular situations can be described by the existing (pretty abstract) frameworks (like newtons laws).

If you are bothered by how some of the ideas seem to appear from nowhere, notice that there is a lot of math out there that you don't know, and even basic statements about open and closed sets build on a lot of more basic set theory and group theory.
I can recommend "You Unstuck". It helps you overcome your stuck, and learn to take risks. It is an OK book, better than most self-help books. It can get you started. Good luck.
http://www.amazon.com/You-Unstuck-Mastering-Rules-Risk-Takin...
I think the Lenovo build is great, they really did a good job maintaining IBM build quality. The Tx lot might be more bombproof than the Xx series, but I don't know - I haven't had the glorious chance to play witht he x201 / x301 at any great length. When I have, they felt a lot like really light and skinny versions of their bigger cousins, with the same great quality and strength. But, I might imagine that just because of the compromises to make them more road-warrior friendly, they would be a bit more fragile.
some theorists have proposed that lower temperatures may evolutionarily select for higher intelligence

Is that because for early humans to survive in cold climates they would have to have the intelligence to create fire and clothing?

It seems hard to control for climate in a study like this since it seems so closely linked to rates of infectious disease. Parasites like malaria are carried by mosquitoes that only survive in tropical climates. Also, water shortages and food-borne illnesses would be more prevalent in warmer climates.
I have some doubts that this will be comfortable to use for hours at a time. The Magic Mouse is bad on the wrists because of it's low profile. I have to wonder if the same will happen here. I suppose a bit of experience with using it is what it will take.
Really? Which niche things have we added?
This should be mentioned in every discussion about HN's negative aspects: click your login at the top of the screen and change noprocast to yes. Next time you'll visit HN, you'll see a "Get back to work!" message and hopefully you'll go do something more productive.
One word: Finally.
Thanks; I think this is a similar point to someone who was saying "Maybe you've had it too easy." I swear that I get exercise... ;-) The short walk down a plain street is more difficult for me to understand... what does it really change?
I wish I had more upvotes just for "do something that makes you break a sweat EVERY DAY." Even though it doesn't directly affect any of your issues except possibly the weight problem, I've found nothing that so reliably keeps my mood up as regular exercise. Preferably outside.
People use Android phones without even knowing it has Android on it!, I think that's the ultimate goal, like Linus says: The OS should be invisible to the user.
There's a cultural issue in affect over here. From where I come from all I am expected to do is rote stuff up, not understand it. My teachers explicitly say that I'm wasting my time, but I frankly disagree. The why is not important for this discussion.

So a lot of math is fairly non-intuitive for me. My problem wasn't understanding the proof, but visualizing it and deriving it on my own without any aid.

The last bit of your comment is spot on though. I do have tons problems in visualizing stuff, but there's more to it than that. It's a learned skill that depends upon the knowledge of the fundamentals I have and how I have to apply them. I lack that at some level and I am trying to understand how to correct it.

Thanks for replying!
One thing that doesn't work well on the internet is poking fun at a group you belong to yourself. In real life, the rules are different when you include yourself in the joke. On the internet, that's theoretically still the case, but in practice people are a lot slower to realize it, and even if you explicitly state it, they may not believe you.
While I laughed at your joke and agree with your sentiment, I had to vote you down because witty one-liners introduce more snark than insight and drive the quality of discussion on HN down.
A rare game that gets even those that have put their gaming years behind them back into it.

It would be hard for any other company to have the ability to spend this much time and put this much polish into a game. Given the long development time and the relatively few changes being made from the original and thus far only the one campaign. Guess that's the luxury you get from developing the cash cow that is WoW.
New year's resolutions perhaps?
Talked to my vendors and I'm just updating this thread in case someone runs into the same problem and finds it.

1. Its NOT an Authorize vs Braintree issue. Your gateway doesn't care at all. It has everything to do with your Merchant Service Provider.

2. Different merchant service providers have different rules. For reference, Cybersource (a Merchant Service Provider, and Authorize.net's parent company) does not allow you to take a credit card payment at the beginning of a software trial period. They require you to give the trial, THEN ask for the cc info and begin the recurring payments immediately after taking the information.

Cybersource claims that this is what they are supposed to do: when you take cc info online to charge, you pass that information to visa/mastercard/whatever credit card company, who then authorizes the transaction. There is an auth code associated with this transaction, and the auth code expires eventually.

They've told me that the rules from visa/mastercard are fairly clear that you're supposed to charge once you take the info, but some Merchant Service Providers aren't very strict on that.

tldr: Cybersource won't let you take credit card info until you charge the card. You'll have to find a different MSP.
Proof that static type languages are much faster than dynamic languages. Reddit has resorted to use C for speedup.
You are not doing anything wrong. You're just like every single other human ever to exist. The way you describe your problem makes me believe that some manner of Zen/Mindfulness approach would be appealing to you.

"I have a difficult time relating attempted solutions because I'm still not sure what the problem is."

To me, this says that you've already found the fundamental truth of desire-- you cannot sate it with its own ends, as counterintuitive as that is. I realize this is starting to sounds like the dreaded "get religion" solution, but there's no magic or mystery in these approaches. Just 2500 years of close examination human life.

Two specific, small things:
I recommend a short, easy book, "Everyday Zen" by Charlotte Joko Beck.
Try to sit still and just breathe for around 20 minutes. It's just as easy and just as hard as it sounds.
Bah! I am the future of humanity. All you short people just need to catch up.
T-Mobile has significantly reduced prices for their "Even More Plus" plans which do not include subsidized phones. This is saving me about $20/mo on my Nexus One, which I purchased for the heart-palpitatingly low price of $529. If I keep it for 18 months, I'll get back around $350. Unlike my G1, which was slow and had poor battery life from the beginning, the N1 is a fantastic phone from the start. I can definitely see myself keeping it for more than 18 months.
starcraft 2 will gross $1Bn over next few years.

why is an oil spill related to hacker news? or why we buy airplane tickets? or wikileaks?

hell, if anything starcraft 2 is a factor of 10 more relevant than any of those, you know, because starcraft 2 is on a computer

not only will starcraft 2 reiterate what a big deal video games are, it's going to shape popular culture, it's going to be played by millions of players each and every day for the next decade or so.

starcraft 2 is a game that values practice is thinking out of the box more than anything else, I know far more starcraft players amongst startups/hackers than settlers of catan, or anything else.

hell, nothing unites startups more than a good old lan party. (i'm aware of the irony of this point)

but most importantly, its related to Hacker News because over 30 people have said it is (upvotes)
Damn. Then we haven't leaked enough.
Use the right tool for what you're doing. Ruby (or PHP) is great for rapid prototyping. But you won't want to use it if you need distributed processing. Also I feel more productive when I learning when I'm doing. Sure gems gets you more features, but how much have you really learned vs building it yourself?