skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Their research shows that a woman earns 5 percent less the first year out of school than a man who goes to the same college, gets the same grades, has the same major, takes the same kind of job with similar workplace flexibility perks, and has the same personal characteristics, such as marital status, race, and number of children."

It could be that not all of the gap is explained by sexism. The overall educational attainment of women is greater than that of men despite the lack of a difference in average general intelligence between the two groups. It could be that a man who goes to the same college, gets the same grades, and has the same major as a woman is slightly more intelligent than his female counterpart. It's thought that male SAT scores are higher than female SAT scores mainly because fewer males take the test (since fewer males are college-bound).

Naturally I don't argue that there's no discrimination in the workplace. For example, unconscious attitudes on the part of employers that a male worker is "providing for his family" would create a pay gap even if overt sexism is uncommon. My point is that it's misleading to say that this study determines how much of the gap "cannot be explained by anything except the person's gender" as the article writes.
I'll add that there also aren't people in weird animal costumes having virtual sex with each other in Minecraft.
Whole Brain Catalog. An open source virtual catalog of the mouse brain.
Does anyone know who said "It's about experience" first? I keep hearing this great principle rehashed over and over.
In 2008 one of the DARPA 'Young Faculty Awards' went to someone at UW-Madison for a project named "Super Artificial Eyes"; I don't know nearly enough biomedical engineering to parse even half of his paper titles, but it appears he's still working in this area. I'm sure the military would be very interested in this and similar techniques, thus the DARPA funding. I would guess that for a long while after it's actually viable it would remain mostly an expensive toy for nation-states but eventually it would leak out to people who can make use of it (sports stars, for instance) or people who are just into self-modification, long before it becomes common among normal humans.

How will people react to it? Just ask yourself how older people reacted to electricity, the Internet, genetic engineering of infants, &c. It will seem normal once enough people have grown up with it, for the rest of us (outside of the neophiles, which probably is a majority on HN but a tiny minority in the general population) it will just seem crazy and strange.
Is Being Successful Really As Hard As It Sounds?
Before I start on why being successful isn’t as hard as everyone thinks, I’d like to clearly define the meaning of success. According to Dictionary.com Success is: the attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like. Based on this definition, most of us see success as the preferred outcome when attempting a new idea, project or venture.
Yes that's what I do. I want to see as much as possible without having to scroll. And I set up one monitor in portrait mode for working with documents or pages that are tall and narrow.
James GoslingInterview – 9/22/10
My favorite tidbit was, IBM's been kind of weird on the whole topic because on the one hand they do everything they can to try and screw Sun over, I mean they didn't name eclipse casually.

I had never heard that.
A bunch of screws, but not overly difficult: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-17-Inch-Unibody-T...
Such acquisitions often happen for talent more than the actual product -- similar to several of the recent acquisitions by FB / Goog.

Also, several of Brizzly core team members are xooglers as is Tim Armstrong (AOL CEO)
go-oo.org wasn't a fork. It is an alternative build of the upstream code that includes missing plug-ins that were excluded from the oo.o build because the developers hadn't assigned the copyright to Sun. The go-oo build has been the default for most Linux distributions since whenever.
Only tangentially related but the title reminded me of http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP3=ViewBox_VPage... from a few years back. Photos taken of crashed rockets in Kazakstan,

I think http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP3=ViewBox_VPage... is particularly stunning
It depends on the state. And even then it's only for 12 weeks vs 52+ for Europe or Canada.
AARGGH! I paid close to a hundred bucks for the Tibshirani book a few years ago! On the plus side, I think it's a beautiful, beautiful machine learning book that is a welcome replacement to Tom Mitchell's book, which is showing its age. I highly recommend the Tibshirani et al. book to anyone with college-level math and a desire to understand what the hell this machine learning thing REALLY is.
Sure, just look at plastic surgery. Women have been replacing their perfectly healthy boobs with artificial ones for decades. It's just a matter of having the technology ready for the "upgrade."
Obviously there are some cases where you should use parentheses. The reference operator just seems like a strange place to draw the line. I mean, to me it seems like the least confusing part of the quoted line.
Life is a Zero Sum Game
Well obviously I am not deluded; you are putting words in my mouth. Read back and take note that I never said there would be any improvement for Afghanis. I said there would be less 'risk' because I am anti-war. The burden of proof is with you to show that a war creates less 'risk' if you want to take it.

> the region would not suddenly become peaceful.

You cannot prove this. Maybe it would. (Maybe a little.)
"Theoretical Framework" (comic strip)
> There's very little about neural networks, for instance, or genetic algorithms

For good reason. Outside of neuroscience, there's very little reason to use neural networks for classification or regression problems, and outside very ill-posed optimization problems, there's very little reason to use genetic algorithms. If you want a good MODERN machine learning book (which is where your post seems to imply your interests lie), try the Elements of Statistical Machine Learning by Tibshirani, Hastie and (I forgot the third guy's name, sorry). Anyway, it's included in the posted link.
I feel that we do need to reward the "good" teachers a lot better than what is currently common practice. Having two close relatives that are teachers I hear firsthand the struggles they deal with just to be teachers. Sometimes it is hard to imagine why anyone would ever want to go into that field, but knowing these people the way I do I know that it is their true desire to be there and to do everything within their ability to be good teachers to our children. So why wouldn't we want to reward them for taking on such a huge and important responsibility of educating our children.
I thought this might go over okay here because this particular strip reminds me of some of the stuff on XKCD. Tried to not give away the punch line, so just stuck to the comic's title.
Dropbox has many competitors but none seem to be able to or even want to copy the very smooth experience of using Dropbox. I tried many competitors and found none that comes close.

I don’t know why that is but it seems to me that really copying an experience is not at all easy.

(I also think that multi-touch is a neat feature of the iPhone but in no way essential to the experience. Pinching makes for a nice tech demo but on the small screen the ordinary and somewhat clever double-tap works much better. You can theoretically build a great iPhone clone without any multi-touch.)
A ZoomingViewController to animate to fullscreen
Thanks for enlightening me!
> I'm sure CS PhD's are in good shape but breaking into ML from another programming discipline seems pretty hard.

That's because ML isn't a "programming discipline". It's pretty much pure statistics, optimization algorithms, and linear algebra these days, and those algorithms are HARD to code, HARD to scale.
Hm, thinking about writing defence script to my sites and start js-war.
Developers should be able to write their code once and it should work consistently in any browser.

So why is it that developers can write code that works on FireFox, Chrome, and Safari, but requires tweaks and hacks to work in IE?

Fundamentally, it's about a better web, not a better browser. There is so much more that can be done. That's why we build Internet Explorer

More doubletalk. If they truly believed in a better web, they would build a browser with a gecko or webkit engine so developers could be assured that their sites would work without spending time on hacks. If developers could have all the time they spent on cross-browser compatibility back, they could spend more time building a better web.
Hexxeh Puts Chrome OS on an iPad
Thanks! I would have pronounced it similar to /ˈbozeɪ/.
Could two smart CS PhD students create a search engine that unseats Google?
Why We Sold TechCrunch To AOL, And Where We Go From Here
Could I run as DONALD DUCK, if Donald Duck was already in the race?
So, content-based sites can make money after all. TC apparently made decent profits off of their events business, and the site was basically a large marketing spend.

Arrington's legendary workaholism paid off nicely.
I did not mean it to be difficult for you to decipher. I was simply saying that technology helps make ethics or 'rights' irrelevant in these situations. If somebody can leak with relative security and ease, they will.

To quote another HNer:
"Technology bestows rights in a way which is true and real far beyond the law. The law can be changed, but you cannot undiscover AES. The law gives you rights as a fiction, but technology gives you rights as a fact."
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When I was a kid, tattoos were looked down on, and piercings were something you saw in pictures from Brazil. Now? Both are common and accepted.

Standards can change a lot, quite quickly.
Cool, hadn't seen that. Not sure why people were downvoting you -- I asked for a source and you gave one.
Very cool. I wish their touchpads didn't suck so much, though.
Agree completely with the gripes. I've been using 1kb Grid (http://www.1kbgrid.com/). Easier to use than 960.gs, lightweight.
The problem is that you're still talking about troops. Read all of the articles about this and you'll see that they're explicitly talking about the informants being redacted out. As for the troops: knowing their names or their locations months and months ago makes little tactical difference. They can defend themselves.
An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the Senate Judiciary Committee
Holy crap, I had an extremely similar idea last month for a bookmarklet that let you machine gun and blow up pages. In fact, it's sitting half complete in a projects folder. Erkie, get out of my head!!!!

At least it's open source, so I guess I can fork it and add in my ideas.
There is already SDK support for real-time video overlays (since iOS 3.2)

> Consider a movie player view to be an opaque structure. You can add your own custom subviews to layer content on top of the movie but you must never modify any of its existing subviews.

In addition to layering content on top of a movie, you can provide custom background content by adding subviews to the view in the backgroundView property.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/mediapl...
I for one am VERY disappointed in MS on this. The corporate/marketing jargon in their responses is what will lead them to fail.

Honest question: Is this an age thing? After reading some of the "witty" things they tried to say it sounded like my 58 year old dad trying to spew out playful banter to my friends at a bar...it just doesnt work.
Ask PG: What are the plus signs next to usernames?
They just appeared for me.
If your photos are dull or washed out, you're doing it wrong. Or, to be more accurate, you're doing it right, but need to do a little more.

This high dynamic range mode compresses more highlights and shadows into the limited brightness values of a JPEG.

Your job is to widen the contrast back out selectively, using the saved details to re-process the image with the exposure and contrasts you want:

http://michael.terretta.com/if-your-iphone-4-hdr-photos-are-...
... or prove it is a bad idea.
I think this post vastly underestimates the difficulty of rolling innovative hardware into production.

Glass is not the end of history. Apple could include thermosensors, audiosensors, or miniature holographic projectors. It could go towards flexible screens or wearable computing.

But new hardware is buggy before it's commoditized. The reason Apple's touch sensitivity is so good is in part because they control both the hardware and software layers. Any kind of temporal or spatial variation in touch detection at the hardware layer due to manufacturing issues can be corrected at the software layer.

It's that vertical systems integration which lets them push the envelope on technology. Others can easily copy, but they will only be followers unless they play to their strengths (e.g. Android with search).
I think Jason doesn't have much of a clue what he's talking about. There's still a lot of details just with the display itself, see this for example: http://www.displaymate.com/Smartphone_ShootOut_1.htm
Premise: learning is fun.
Premise: school children are bored.
Conclusion: learning is not taking place in schools.

This seems as true now as it has ever been. The belief that schools can be fixed is one of the main reasons people become teachers and why the existence of schools will drag on for at least another half century.
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Doesn't this open the door to flashing the new AppleTV with an Android (or eventually even Debian) build?
The VCs are not unbiased, objective observers of YC. It may be that some VCs have that particular issue with YC, or it may be that they don't like YC for other reasons, and their stated reason is just the professionally acceptable rationalization they've come up with.

Clearly, some VCs do like YC. Didn't Sequoia invest a few million dollars in them?
Most of the points have already been echoed but I went through TS Boston 09' and couldn't have walked away with a better experience. I highly recommend applying!
I think I agree with the gist of what you're saying, but saying "Time has no cash value" is overly broad and a bit silly. Do you think interest rates only exist to hedge against inflation?? What is the value of angel investors??
mmm....I find it hard to read as body text...the words all seem to run together.
> Interesting. If you know beforehand that those investors' expected value is 0, why invite them?

Just a speculation: Different investors may also have different values to different companies.
Nice link. For the past year of so I've been keeping up with design blogs and trying to do most of the art and design I need on my own.

a hacker's mindset leads surprisingly well to design, and I think the design side of my brain has helped in my coding.
Yeah, I've been in and out of the modern MBP for RAM and HDD upgrades inside of three minutes. Very thoughtful design, especially for a notebook.
No argument. I made the comment for the benefit of distro shoppers. They won't see it as off-topic even if it is.
Sachin is right. A product is more than a feature list. He may come across as arrogant for pointing to Apple et al. as example of great product but his point really is about experiencing a great product and to duplicate this feeling/experience to his product. For example, the unwrapping experience of an iPod does not show up on a feature list but damm, it feels good to open that box because Apple took the effort to make it seem like you're open a present. He should've point to Google Search as another example of great experience. I remembered my virgin search with Google. Relative to other search engine at the time, Google was insanely fast and relevant. Do you remember? if not Google, there must be some products that you fell in love with, now ask yourself if it was the feature list or the experience that you love. btw, having the right feature set at the right moment is part of experience.

Sachin got nothing to apologize for, Posterous is one of the great product out there. It just works! Go, Posterous!
How much staff is really really needed for these quant shops? After an algorithm is developed isn't it just rinse/repeat? Honest question, as I'm not a finance guy.
He should of teached people to write at least if he'll call himself a "professor". LOL
I wrote a defense: http://github.com/bl4k/astroid-defense

(bit scrappy, 10 min of code, but funny)

(test it by running asteroids on this page: http://bl4k.github.com/)
After thinking about this, I realized I left out the liability that the 45 year old worker has in social security payments remaining, so the wealth effect will be smaller than the above. Also for young workers (who are often poor) the social security wealth effect may be negative since they pay over many years and receive in the distant future, making the original articles premise stronger.
I am worried about the long term of this deal as well. Can techcrunch post AOL leaks anymore (Not that AOL really has leaks anymore)? Will the upper echalon corporation politics effect the writings? Will the Disrupt and TC50 events still happen? I would assume they would, who knows. I am also curious about the crunchpad/jojo lawsuits going on. Will the added aol resources help? Not effect it? Hopefully techcrunch stays roughly the same, or I will need a new main news source.
You conflate two things.

I'm saying that vast inequality in the distribution of wealth is a bad thing; historically, such inequality tends to lead first to oligarchy and then to entrenched aristocracy.

You are interpreting this as an argument for absolute equality of wealth for all people, an argument I've not made and would not make. Some inequality of wealth distribution is a good thing; concentration of extreme percentages of total wealth into a tiny fraction of the populace is a bad thing.

A good explanation of the difference this makes shows up in chapter 3 of de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America", where he discusses the impact of different inheritance laws on American and European society. The traditional European system of primogeniture created and favored hereditary aristocracy; the American system of division among multiple heirs made this impossible, and created more opportunities for social mobility since wealth could not be hoarded across generations, but instead was gradually distributed through the effects of the inheritance laws.
Not really. If the exit Tor node is within the US you won't be able to reach the blocked domain.

On the other hand, a free DNS from overseas should work.
And Perl 5 will stay the most recently released version of Perl 5 (note the number). Perl 5 and Perl 6 are different languages of the same family. They forked roads but drive in the same direction.
The condition of the shuttle is odd between the two photographs. Perhaps the windows were boarded up? Still, the location is most consistent with 2.02--there would be no reason to move any of the other shuttles from Kazakhstan to Moscow.
BlackBerry Tablet OS aka QNX Neutrino
Does "rich" really have a useful absolute meaning? I'd argue it doesn't.
Lots of people down-vote those who whine about down-voting.

Personally, I have no idea why anyone downvoted the comment you linked above, but that's why I down-voted this one and flagged this thread.
Perhaps it will be good long-term as founders will be able to move on to new things?
Depends on the country, the speaker, the statistics they choose and what they choose to speak about.

A favorite trick though from the radical feminists is to lump all the men into one group and all the women into another group and then compare the two. Always, the men will come out on top simply because of biology. Women stay at home more than men starting with pregnancy, then staying at home with the toddler, a lot of women also choose to work less than 100% in order to be at home with their children, etc.
AOL Acquires Thing Labs and Brizzly
Reminds me of this: http://xkcd.com/250/
The 1KB CSS Grid Generator
Not sure neural net expert Yann LeCun (yann.lecun.com) would agree with your neural networks comment. Neural nets have taken on a life of their own since the time they were originated and actually have little direct connection with neuroscience these days.
It's oddly non-deterministic. Add two ships and fly around a bit. They're paths will quickly diverge.
Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars (1977)
I just hope AOL starts paying all TC writers the ridiculously low monkey writer rate that it pays Weblogs writers. Ooh, and TC posts now get entered into the digg voting ring too!
How about recording (with permission), and asking in a few years time whether you can publish it? Some issues just need to cool down.
Personally, I'd like other people to see when I upvote them (especially when I am arguing with someone... it makes me look like a good sport, and it's an easy way to say "I think you have an interesting point, even if I disagree with you.")

As for seeing people who downvote me? really, who has the time to worry about that sort of thing?

I mean, I can understand why both up and downvotes are kept anonymous, but I see a much stronger argument for making upvotes visible than downvotes.

Really, I find it unusual that people are willing to admit that they care so much about downvotes. I mean, yeah, I can understand the emotional "ouch" that comes from someone downvoting you, I mean, even I feel it sometimes. But on a logical level, getting upset about a downvote on a comment... a downvote that has no effect on your other comments or submissions, as far as I can tell, just seems childish.

I mean, it's like being insulted in a childish way in public, in a situation where physical violence is not a possibility. So maybe it bothers you. but it just seems childish and weak (well, to me...) to let the other person see that you are upset. I mean, they are being childish, right? the adult thing to do is to ignore it or laugh it off.

(and then, there's always the possibility that I'm being down voted 'cause I really am being an idiot... I do that sometimes. But most down votes, I think, are a childish attempt to enforce groupthink, and therefore best ignored.)
Also, it's "Rainbows End", no apostrophe.

Indeed, shamefully my fingers auto-corrected.
Don't forget that a penny saved is not truly equivalent to a penny earned, because saving a penny actually requires earning enough to cover taxes and the extra costs (travel time, gas, etc) you incur to earn it. Saving $20 on a purchase is equivalent to earning $30-40.
I've been using 960.gs for a while now and just stumbled upon this. I think 1kbgrid is my new favourite CSS thing.

It's sized at 960 pixels by default but the generator can make wider configurations, which is pretty handy. It also gets rid of those .alpha and .omega classes that seem like a clunky way to do nested grids.
Telecom and the health industry are some of the most highly regulated industries in the US. Is it a coincidence that both are replete with customer abuse and horrible customer service?
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