skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really sure, maybe Gartner has some vague reports on that.

RIM does make money on the use of their Business Enterprise Servers (BES), so in corporate installations they're taking in large sums of money on a per-year basis. Given that, and my assumption of Apple's superior profit per-unit, it might be hard to tell who makes more money on their phones overall.
Top Database Startups in Boston
> women haven't really been discriminated against in any serious, society wide way for a very long time

Wow, really? Upvotes even? I'm honestly surprised no one has pushed back on that statement yet.

Not to be condescending, but I'll guess that you are a man, and a young one at that.

In the west, there is certainly less officially sanctioned discrimination, although that is a relatively new phenomenon. (Some examples from the US: The Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was passed in 2009. The FMLA was passed in 1993. The Tailhook Scandal was 1991. Roberts v. United States Jaycees was 1984. Chrapliwy v. Uniroyal was 1982. Title IX was 1972. The EEOC and The Equal Pay act were 1963. Even 1920 isn't really that long ago.)

But if you honestly believe there is no "serious" or widespread gender based discrimination, you must either be very young, very privileged, or not paying attention. That statement just doesn't reflect the experience of people in the working world, whether white collar or blue. Google "gender discrimination study". Ask some professional women you know. Ask your significant other or women in your family. Look around your workplace and witness how people act toward and talk about women versus the way they act toward and talk about men.

It is getting better, but this isn't controversial: Gender discrimination exists.

There's no conspiracy or collusion (well, rarely, see Tailhook for example, or the wall street folks taking a business lunch at Hooters or taking a client to a strip club). It often isn't even malicious or intentional (I'm thinking of that study that showed people are more comfortable with and most likely to hire people like themselves, but my google fu fails me). But it certainly happens, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, and this certainly has a "serious" impact on women's work life and careers.

(By the way there's also gender discrimination that happens in the other direction: try to become a nanny, day care worker or pre-school teacher as a man, or sue for custody of the children during a divorce.)
Having taken this class, it is billed as a breadth-first introduction to a ton of topics in mathematics. It is not meant to go into any of them in depth, but to give you a taste of many different topics in one short semester. We were told to consider it a wine tasting, not a night out at a bar. This is one of the first classes a CS major at MIT is expected to take.

To that end, I think it more than fulfills its goals. I certainly learned a lot, even if some of it I already knew; and I went on to take more in depth classes on the few topics I really was interested in, which was exactly what the course was intended for.
Strange that they took out reduce() but not map() and filter(), which you can easily replicate with list comprehensions.
Very, very slick. I was happy to see you have an Amazon affiliate ID in your links :)
AOL paid $40 million for Techcrunch
Congress passes bill for web accessibility
Nice work Pek, design looks great! I noticed some odd behavior of the search term suggestions as well, but overall it's awesome. Only suggestion would be having a brief summary of the books on your site, without having to click through to Amazon.
I think this was one of the more interesting discussions at TC Disrupt. At the core, what I got out of it was that the technology IPO market isn't really all that bad. It's just that most (75%) of the companies are outside Silicon Valley and so the SV press doesn't report on them.
Wow, nice! It actually is an Instant search, i.e. not just Amazon Suggest.
You took the instant, barebones style and turned it on it's head with a beautiful design. Could be slightly smoother, but loading images sucks (especially from Amazon).

Also, works perfectly in my iPad. Great job!

Couple questions...
* You did this in 2 days?
* What tech did you use to build it?
Well, then they should only display it through a Flash app.
Often by trying to explain the precise thing that you don't understand, you will have a moment of zen.

This.

I often find that I run into a problem, try to solve it on my own, then bring someone unfamiliar in to get a fresh set of eyes on it. It usually goes like this

Me: "Hey, I honestly can't figure out why this is doing this particular thing, can you take a look? <start explaining problem here in detail> ...FUCK! Nevermind, I know exactly whats going on. Thanks for your help"

Person I asked: "Huh?Uh sure? I can solve problems with my presence alone"
I think it's a natural instinct even.
re: naming things.

Please have objects be nouns and methods be verbs. Please done have a class named "buildLetter" or "generateEmail" - it's confusing to read.

At least to me.

Perhaps I'm alone in that? I run in to enough "objects named as verbs" I'm sort of beginning to wonder if I'm alone in this thinking.
Boo + ASP.NET is also really quite nice. Python syntax with static (inferred) typing and syntactical macros, with a nice base framework. While it hasn't replaced Python+Pylons for me when it comes to rapid development, it's really quite enjoyable for high performance stuff.
I like it. It would be nice if the buy button was more prominent. I found a book I was interested in buying, or at least finding more about. I tried clicking on the book cover and nothing happened. I did notice the Buy button in the top right at the end, but it's not prominent as it's the same colour as the shelf.
> The admins should have made it clear in no uncertain terms that this post would be a disaster

I dunno. If you look at some of the more technical stuff the MS devs post on channel9 (and some of it being really, really good) you could almost imagine that there could have been an interesting and informative exchange of information here.
Right Click, Save Image As...

Post to imgur. How would this change be any different? And a better question is, why bother?
jquery php. I've had this idea for a while - ever since Youtube instant came out. And before that I've just had the idea of a nice book search app that wasn't necessarily 'instant'. So I hit the ground running so to speak.
The authorization happens at the time you request the photo url, not the photo itself. So the security is on finding out what the url is, not the actual photo request. It'd be the same as someone being able to login if they know your password. That URL is the password.
Admittedly I got a little carried away with this one, so thanks for bringing me down to earth. I think some of the frustration having to do with our current status is turning into these long winded tirades on my blog. I'll keep them more toned down and private in the future.

I do hope to write something that you will enjoy reading about soon.
I agree. Other UI experts have told me - BIG GREEN BUY BUTTON!
Whenever the windows of two peers overlap there is an opportunity for trade. Perhaps the window size should be inversely related to the number of peers in the swarm.
"...as conceptualized in an arbitrary, almost-Haskell-specific manner."

FP doesn't necessarily have anything to do with types. Where does tacit programming* in J fit in, for example? You can't get much more functional than that, yet J is dynamically typed. (So is Erlang.) I thought FP has more to do with immutability and higher-order functions.

* The Haskell community calls tacit programming "point-free style".
Has anyone done any experiements with node.js and Jägermonkey? They’re getting pretty close to V8 in speed ( http://arewefastyet.com/ ) and might prove better for server use (utter conjecture on my part).
I have found another security hole: When viewing a photo, you can take a screenshot of it and upload it to anywhere else on the internet, where any arbitrary person can see it.

This violates all of my expectations of privacy.
Netflix. Meet Hulu. Now, How About Merging Together?
Specifically, it seems to work on people who don’t feel very attached to their jobs. They have separate, thriving lives outside of work, and are fully able to leave all baggage at their desks before they go home.

Is this a bad thing somehow? Shouldn't we all strive to have separate thriving lives outside of work and to leave the company baggage behind when we go home?
Large airplanes usually have electrically heated leading edge surfaces in addition to pitot tube and stall indicator heat. As you point out, something like that would work well in this application. There is something of a drawback, though.

On mid-size planes rated for icing flight, "ice boots" are generally used. Boots are a rubber surface over the leading edge of the wing that can be inflated on command. Once ice buildup is sufficient to warrant their use, the pilot engages the system, which compresses air and then inflates the boots violently, breaking the ice off the leading edge.

The reason this is more popular for smaller airplanes is because electrically heated wings take much more power than you can reasonably expect to generate on something smaller than business jet sized (e.g., Cessna Citation), especially on approach when engine output is reduced (and when icing can become the most problematic). Even medium-large twin turboprops like the Beech KingAir 350 rely on boots.

An alternative technology for smaller airplanes that's pretty unpopular is the weeping wing, wherein a deicing agent is pumped out through small pores in the leading edge. It's unpopular because you either have to carry a lot of weight in deicing solution or risk running out. My father flew a Beech Bonanza A36 that he had retrofitted with the weeping wings, and he's remarked on many occasions what a pain in the ass they were.
On their way through the web the images themselves are visible to "anyone" (any nodes or shared ethernets the packets go through), so if your photos are incriminating you should find a host you're willing to trust that will serve them https-only, or host them yourself.

Those of us having grown up bringing film to the drugstore aren't too concerned about URLs in our ISP's proxy server logs. Nobody cares about your facebook photos enough to risk their job at the ISP to steal them.
One suggestion I have is that since search is the main feature of your site, you may want the search box to stand out. Maybe it should be little bigger and in center of the page
Yes. A Dick has probably risen to his level of incompetence. Or, might just be incompetant, not knowing that the hell those developers are doing all the time.
I have programmed literally hundreds of thousands of lines of python without using classes or __metaclass__, as a counter example.

When dealing in industry, we can't always hire the best talent, so there is no need to make things overly complex. Simple solutions work best for a lot of scenarios, and I haven't been limited by it yet.

Not to bash Perl, but the whole reason we write in Python is because there were too many people on our team writing in Perl using too many obscure constructs that took too long to review / revise (especially years later when team members changed and code was forgotten in parts)
> * I can understand why both up and downvotes are kept anonymous, but I see a much stronger argument for making upvotes visible than downvotes.*

I think the argument carries the same weight. Anonymity reduces quid pro quo and encourages voting based on the merits of the post.
There needs to be a dark and gritty Toy Story retelling in the same spirit as "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"
A/B test with red - I'll bet you a drink red outperforms green. (Oh, and make sure your conversion isn't clicks, but purchases. I believe the Associates API will let you track by click. And, no Pek, we don't do that tracking at Dawdle. :( )
Those are all still cruddy SysV IPC methods you're pointing to. They're marginally better than just throwing data into shared memory and hoping it sticks, but you're still much better off sending messages across a UNIX domain socket.
How much do people trust scientists? Depends on the topic
Dick is not a bad manager, he is a manager for a different kind of employee. I agree that Dick hurts the productivity of the Creative employee than loves his job. But on the other hand there's lot of employees that if not for Dick, would be all day slacking around doing nothing.

You can say that firing the Slacker is the solution. Unfortunately it's hard to find the Creative and most of the time that person will ask for more money than the Slacker. Plus the Slacker is able to do the job just fine with just a little bit of pushing.

If a Creative is working for Dick it's only natural for him to realize that he is not a right fit for the organization and leave. Eventually leaving only Slackers in the organization, the way it should be.

The problem comes when Dick is a manager in an organization that _requieres_ creativity, then you are doomed.
"2. Spoke to developers and partners - yay. Except the majority 'partners' they speak with likely are very MS centric. This isn't a "MS devs are dumb" comment, but I speak with many people across multiple platforms, and there's a shocking lack of understanding (or even caring) about other platforms across the board. Many "mac only" devs don't know much about Windows, for example."

You really don't think most strong web devs get the problems regardless of what their dev platform is? I'm sure IE's partners include folks from Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and much smaller companies. I really have a hard time believing that they aren't getting pretty good feedback.
Show HN: Instant Search for iPad
Black Mother With Three Albino Kids
Joao and Rosemere Fernandes de Andrade are black but none the less they have three albino kids.
Also you should apply 'cursor:pointer;' so people know that it's a clickable link.
For anyone confused about doctors without MD degrees, note that in India the first medical degree is the MBBS, equivalent to the US 'MD'. The Indian 'MD' is a hospital-based postgraduate degree.

You can make more in a call centre than as a doctor who is 'just MBBS'.
That's what scientists call causation rather than correlation.
Some links to create your own engine in asp.net mvc:
http://www.singingeels.com/Articles/Creating_a_Custom_View_E...

http://amazedsaint.blogspot.com/2010/06/creating-custom-view...

Unrelated, but every time I see an F# article I think of a quote from Juval Lowy I heard on the Dot Net Rocks podcast (I think), which went something like "Yeah, with F# you can just slam your fingers onto random keys and it will be valid code"

(edit:formatting)
Expression Web. Superpreview. Works as advertised through IE8 anyway, including testing via Safari on OSX remotely (in beta).
As far as the detail page - any thoughts or ideas that should go on there. It's super bare bones right now
Just read the original, and while I do disagree with Microsoft's approach to answering these questions, I think the reddit community did a disservice to themselves (and possibly the entire hacker community) by transparently disguising attacks in the form of asking a question. For example:

"When will they be releasing a Mac OSX version? I couldn't find the download link on their site. I must be an idiot. But I submitted a question so I'm sure they'll get back to me and tell me where the download link is. I've also got a Linux machine at home. Perhaps I could use that? Has anyone tried the Linux version yet? Does it work OK? I couldn't see the Linux link either, but I wasn't really looking very hard. Some companies don't support Linux, so perhaps it's understandable if they haven't got a Linux version yet. I'm sure it'll be coming along soon. But I can't imagine anyone would release a new browser these days and not have a version that runs on Macs. So it must just be me. Right?:-/"

I'm not saying tough questions shouldn't be asked -- they should, and were -- but this particular kind of question is immature and should have just been ignored. I'm not at all surprised MS decided to respond in PR speak (although I still don't condone it).

Personally, I'd love to see Microsoft reach out to a more mature audience and actually have their engineers answer questions this time.
This is debatable. For example, the historious bookmarklet works on all browsers right now, except IE8 which refuses to run the JS. IE users are about 6% of our users, so is it worth spending hours debugging an issue for 6% of the userbase?

We will do it, for the user, not for the browser. I don't want to have to tell someone "this doesn't work, use something else", because it's just not polite to tell him what he can or can't use for a few extra hours of work on our part.

However, if the browser is so broken that it takes considerable work to make it usable, then yes, I'll put up an overlay saying "your browser is too broken, please use another one for the good of the internet and your sanity".

EDIT: Also, I don't want Microsoft to change their mentality. I want them to stop making browsers (and maybe a few other things).
Nice! I noticed it still retains the previous image when I click on a book doesn't have an image available.
Meh. I just sent this to a friend of mine that knows nothing about coding, but is taking a class (biology) that uses python. She really has no need of functional programming, she just needs to know how to survive her problem sets. I think that's the audience.
Here are the three versions of this course at OpenCourseWare:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
This is awesome! I shared it on Facebook, but your mugshot showed up in the preview rather than say a ShelfLuv logo. The latter would probably be more enticing for my friends to check out!
I have heard another, albeit slightly more controversial, explanation.

Which is that religions discourage most adherents from deep exploration of their faith, because often that leads to rejection of the religion (note: not always rejection of faith).

Being an Atheist that lived, for a short time, with an amazing born-again Christian theology student, havs given me a lot of interesting historical and theological knowledge of the modern religions. It has always interested me how little people know about their religion, and how, in a modern society, they show no interest in finding out these things :(
Are there sensible scenarios under which it's reasonable for a cop to want to avoid being filmed?

For instance, certain organized crime and/or labor union groups will often threaten reprisals against individual cops who enforce the law against them. If you're a cop whose job it is to escort people across a particularly unruly picket line then I can see how you could reasonably object to being filmed.
While what you say may be true (that MS held back a technology due to lack of support), but at this point that's water under the bridge. Should MS go and other competing scripting technologies to their browser, including Java, which were marginalized due to their support of Javascript.

I do get your point, but I don't think you can make forward looking technology decisions based on past actions, unless you think for some reason that if MS supported SVG fonts that they would suddently take off. I don't think they would.
Initially I am getting a strange feeling about the idea. It is likely just because I am not your target market. I work out 4-5 days a week and would rather pay the $40/month for a gym membership with top of the line equipment instead of the convenience of working out at home. The gym is where I let off steam by myself without the fiance right next to me.

I don't want to shoot down your idea, but I do see a few problems with it...

1) At my gym, I can bring my fiance as my plus 1 every time. Your web app doesn't scale the same way.

2) Anyone that already works out has a major outlay of cash to spend to get up and running. Dumbbells, exercise bands, maybe a few kettle balls... PLUS the membership fee.

3) Solitude. I can't get away from my family when I am at home. At the gym I am in my own little world.

For people that just exercise (ie no complex weight training) and are willing to watch it on their computer, I think the idea is great. But I also think you'll see more success if you target a specific class of gym-goers.
Yeah it needs to clear the image and have one of those spinning icon GIFs while it's loading the new cover art.
Campaign Monitor Launches Monthly Pricing Plans
> a woman can wear almost whatever she likes in a situation where a man can't

I'm not sure that's true. There's a lot more diversity in women's clothing. I think that probably makes it more difficult to dress for the occasion as opposed to less. For instance, a man can wear slacks and a dress shirt to work and then throw on a tie and jacket for a formal dinner. Most any single woman's outfit would be out of place in one environment or the other.

(In fact, men can get by in almost any situation with a pair of dress pants and a button down shirt.)

> Incidentally, women dress up to impress other women. Men simply don't notice eyelashes or nail varnish or whatever.

Agreed. That has been my observation as well. I think there may have even been scientific studies on this point.
It's poorly phrased, but I think he means to make a distinction between people who enjoy their work and get into it, and people who view work just as a way to pay the bills. The latter may need more direct and focused supervision than the former, who just needs guidance.
Don't forget expat Indians from the west, who know they can save money on everything from dentures to clothes on the next trip home.
Amazon Android app store T&Cs leak
it's funny that the reward of starting a hedge fund is 'marry that yoga instructor'.
1. seems like a pretty indirect strategy for getting what you want.
2. quite an insult to the yoga teachers.
A quick google image search to the domain http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2010 gives me a large number of images hosted there http://bit.ly/9Lp3r5 . This isn't the behaviour I would like.
You do realize everything you said applies to how we learn things in courses, right? It was a learning exercise. I don't understand the fetish people have to make sure every activity people engage in has a tangible result of value. It's rare that someone can learn something while simultaneously produce something of value.

If he did this for a course, he would have just used a logic simulator (example: http://www.kolls.net/gatesim/), like I did for my intro to computer engineering course. I don't still have those designs, either, but I still have the knowledge. His simulator just happened to be Minecraft.
مشاهدة مباراة مانشستر يونايتد وفالنسيا بث مباشر
UX Myths - Myth #25: Aesthetics are not important if you have good usability
Only thing I am on the fence about is "methods be verbs", unless your language differentiates between methods and properties. The exception in my mind was the classic Point.x, where x is a method for accessing the value of an internal x.

Note that some languages, such as perl, understand whether you are setting or getting by the surrounding syntax:

my $x = $point->x; # get the value of x
$point->x(100); # set the value of x
Office for Mac actually came first... and they developed the Windows versions after. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Office
One suggestion is to maybe restrict bad words similar to how google works. I typed in "sire" and got some unexpected results.
Perfect example of such: TED Talks.