skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It is politically incorrect to note that a large fraction of women really are house mice and find anything in work outside a home surrounded with a white picket fence too stressful."

Well, it's certainly politically incorrect to note that, but is it true? [citation needed]. It's been very much contrary to my observations.

"Quite broadly in the US economy, and nearly without exception for technical positions, the subordinate needs to be younger than the supervisor."

I know literally dozens of exceptions. Hell, Larry and Sergey are only in their late 30s, quite a few people who work for them are older than that.
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I don't know about other vim-users, but I haven't run any tests because my primary motivation for using vim isn't speed (it's that vim connects with my brain and my motor activity -- it just feels "right" and I get a great flow).
I think Control Tower is primarily meant to run local web services in situations where you don't want to depend on anything except Mac OS X and MacRuby.

As you can see it has no external dependencies and is the only web server –apart from WEBrick– which runs on MacRuby without compiling any additional code.
So you're saying a very popular news station in the US is actually a collection of trolls? :) I don't know if that should make me feel better (at least they don't believe what they're saying) or worse (so many viewers do).

EDIT: silly spelling mistake
no, using mobile flash on my android of course, thank you very much.
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Hell I'd buy it just for the "quote" on the cover.
Domain Name Scams
I only know http://sightwalk.de/
At least you can write java-style code (or call java seamlessly) for whatever is performance-critical. I agree that idiomatic Scala can be too slow in some cases (it should be faster due to static typing than Clojure wherever methods aren't generic, or are specialized).
TIMTOWTDI (for the non perl guys, there is more than one way to do it - the motto of Perl)

Mojolicious is very cool, has strong leadership, direction, and is very opinionated.

I prefer Dancer, and believe it fills a slightly different niche - but the competition between both can only be a good thing.
Can I get some thoughts on http://github.com/luciferous/pip? It's an interface and a web server (and framework). Its a ways to becoming near a standard. I think it "fights" PHP style in its current state.
Correlated. Just because we can say "This person is generally more attractive because of facial symmetry, well-aligned teeth, and x,y,z" doesn't mean we have any particularly useful quotient to judge the attractiveness of a person. Such a general measure is way too broad. And you missed my point: the perception of physical attraction is not based solely on physical traits! Look at Sarah Palin--some would say she's attractive, but if you mentally recoil at the thought of a Palin presidential run I'm sure you would not think so.

Your amateur video productions _prove my point_ because the attractiveness is in the ordinary, the "just a person at home making a video." It is in the fact that the person is presumably contributing something valuable. So why would people care if models were paid to say something?

This is why Adams articles frustrate me: because it provokes discussion without moving anything forward, because he's used a terrible model to abstract attraction and as a consequence our definitions are semantic (read: fucked) to begin with.
From the many articles you see online, you'd think HTML5 was doing circles around Flash. It appears those statements are becoming less and less true, and even if this test isn't a 100% apples to apples comparison it is nice to see Flash performing well on a mobile.

Both of these technologies are in early stages of development (yes, Flash is mature on the desktop). I think in 1-2 years there will be less of a debate for which one is superior and just accept them for the content they provide.
I agree - the data this depicts is indeed very scary, but unfortunately their use of color is a little manipulative and detracts from it.

10%+ should not be total black - there's no reason to make that the extreme, especially when you consider that the real rate of employment could be around 18-19%, and in the Great Depression it was even worse than that.
Complaining that an electrical engineer isn't very good at soldering is a bit like complaining that a CS graduate can't touch type.
Those same could be said for Alaska as well, yet it has higher unemployment. I wonder what the other factors are - I suspect it has to do with industry to some extent - farming vs. natural resources extraction.
Actually, yeah. I know it sounds horribly cynical and conspiracist and so forth, but they have gone so absurdly out of the way of simple, verifiable facts, that it's impossible for me to accept that they really believe what they're saying.

They're just taking advantage of people's anger, and doing it well, and getting rich in the process.
I use MQ's to queue things that I want to do that are computationally expensive but shouldn't impact the user experience. A feature that is necessary but doesn't require immediate execution.
For example, I use a MQ to manage the creation of thumbnails on a website that I manage when somebody uploads a new photo.
> I ran his e-mail address through a reverse e-mail finder, which cost me about 15 bucks for a month's worth of "surveillance."

Can anyone enlighten me on what she means?
washington state gdp actually went up over 45% from 2000 to 2010 (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=washington+state+GDP+20...)
What's with all the class warfare in the US lately? There isn't anything wrong with making money. I'm no where near the 450k/yr earnings range, but I certainly don't begrudge anyone who is. Some people seem to have the perspective that your earnings are the government's money, and they, through the goodness of their hearts, let you keep a percentage of it.
That chunk of "third_party" stuff is a pretty tempting target.

Not all of it. Part of the third_party code is a modified version of bsdiff, and as the bsdiff author I specifically endorse the shipping of modified versions of bsdiff with the software which required the modifications.
My distaste for Facebook grows deeper every time they do this crap.
That was a bit tounge in cheek but after discussing this with my partner I think perhaps a more constructive use of class room cameras would be to facilitate peer review and ongoing skill improvement. Similar to code reviews by programmers.
There are a number of paid services on the net where you give them an email address and they slurp up all the information out there associated with that person.

http://www.spokeo.com is one of many and might be the one used in the article, though Spokeo gives you 3 months for your $15.
Tucked into this tale is also a cautionary warning: be careful about what you post online. In this particular case I applaud the victim on her tenacity and the thief was a not-very-tech-savvy person. However if the roles were reversed and the offender was the tech savvy one, imagine the havoc that could be wrought on someones life.
To a certain extent this guy has a point. You are rich if you can afford a good lifestyle without having to work for a living. These people have a high income, but they also have high level of spending and they have nowhere near the assets to support their lifestyles.

So, rather than being rich, they are wage slaves with high incomes.

When you have enough money to stop working and still have the lifestyle you want, your life is completely different. It buys you the one thing that is really precious - the time to do what you want with your life.

Although I am not extremely wealthy, I have enough savings to stop working and to spend my time the way I want.

The other interesting aspect of this case is that it is a classic example of the hedonic treadmill. No matter how rich you are, how successful, how productive, after a while the joy wears off and you think: If only I had a bit more, then I'd be happy. The millionaire thinks he or she needs $10m, with $10m you think $100m, etc. "The only way to win this game is not to play".
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I wasn't referring to consumption of alcohol in general, I was referring to doing it at work.

If you moderately drink at work and then drink outside of work, does that count as moderate consumption?
that's proportional to how much of the actual headline is still visible. scroll slowly and you'll notice.
Ask HN: Great demos for an introductory Java class?
I am teaching a section for the introductory Java class at my university for the first time (one 50 minute problem session per week).

I am looking for inspirational, accessible demos / visualizations / tips / advice to show / give in class. Can anyone point me to some great resources?

Thank you!
In considering the benefits of what she did, you also have to take into account the crimes this guy will not commit while in jail.
I am quite proud of my vimrc. It took me a while to build it. By default, it's just a text editor without settings required for development. Use dev to enable devmode and nodev to go back to normal text editing mode.

http://github.com/SpookyET/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc
This would be a good outline of a response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1705467
How would this happen exactly? Teachers are vastly underpaid at present ($30k for a job that has such a major impact on the future of the country?). Classes are also overpopulated. Where would these savings come from?
I think you are giving a college education too much credit. There are definitely exceptions to the rule, but one of my best engineers has been at it since the 70s, and has no degree in electrical engineering but in math, and what of the hackers that have been programming such as RMS before it became a real, hardened discipline (before a CS degree was offered)?

The best and most dedicated need no degree to validate their talents. MIT is a fine school, but I would be even more impressed if they could take an average student and turn him into a programming whiz. The best learners are often self taught, which is why the PhD program works to an extent (free labor for the school, self education for the PhD student). How are you so certain a degree less programmer couldn't program an OS, or code a linked list library from scratch? Arrington's a lawyer--how was it that he got into an agreement without documenting it on paper (maybe that JD is just a piece of paper)?

A lot of college graduates seem to think they are entitled to jobs, when they haven't proven they can program. I've met a BA Chinese grad who can't speak Chinese to save his life (I spent my middle school years in Taiwan, I have no degree in Chinese), or the English grad who can't write. Having a degree means you studied the subject, it doesn't mean you are an expert at it. Especially not with an undergrad degree. They spend 2-3 years on remedial high school, and spend maybe a year and a half on their discipline.

Like anything in life, there are no absolutes. I can say though that the ones most driven go beyond a piece of paper. Having one helps. But having one doesn't mean you're better, you just paid your dues in cash and time. It might just give you the edge you need, but the last thing I look at it in a programmer is for a degree. I seem to recall reading that one of the main Linux kernel committers has a degree in music. That hardly gives him the credentials to be playing with an OS internals by your reasoning.

It's like the culinary school example. You'll be on a much better footing with a degree, but it doesn't mean you're better. A lot of culinary school graduates end up cooking banquets at country clubs. Some chefs, like Pizzeria Bianco's Chris Bianco (where NYT proclaimed the best pizza is not in NYC but in AZ) have no paper to prove but hard knocks.
Rapleaf.com offers similar services. With just an email address you can find "Demographics, Influence, Interests, Social media memberships, Occupation, and much more."[1]

[1]: http://www.rapleaf.com/developers/api_overview
Except that, historically, the internet has been all about getting something for nothing. This is why were using complex modern web browsers for free to view a site that doesn't charge us.

Also, Scribd would be nothing without the thousands of hours people have spent uploading content without charging Scribd. The situation isn't as clear cut as you make out.
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To put things into perspective: Google has a 97% market share for search here in Germany, IIRC. Don't know the other numbers, but they are probably quite high for online video, too.

Also, I'd say, people here don't have the blind faith, U.S. people seem to have concerning cooperations and free markets.

Under these circumstances, it shouldn't be a surprise that Germans are reluctant to watch some large cooperation build another potential monopoly out of other people's "property" -- namely their privacy.
Getting work done is a different goal, and, indeed, an understanding that it is impossible to repeat Sinatra isn't required for getting work done.
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If you're not being sarcastic: http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm
Articles like this shouldn't be here in the first place because they beget this kind of trolling and flame wars.
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I didn't mean to attack Mojolicious at all. I've never played with it, but it seems very cool. I have used Dancer, and liked it very much, that's all I wanted to say.

It's great that you promote your framework, but it doesn't mean that similar frameworks can't be good.
Not yet, but probably it in the future.

Microsoft may not have got Windows Mobile right in the last 10 years but they now have a good template to follow (user interface, user experience, even the business model) thanks to Apple. You can see this with Windows Mobile 7 - they've 'rebooted' and are following Apple's lead.

They're definitely the underdog but I wouldn't count them out.
"If I were mathematically inclined, I might even observe that in my tale, the good guys outnumbered the bad guys, by about 10 to one."

An amazing ending to an incredibly interesting and well-written piece. That's just how I think about the world - so much more good than bad. It's a shame most articles seem to focus only on the bad!
Nice, I got a feeling what your main line of programming is from the source. That's somehow fun.

Anyway, might as well join in too, here is my vimrc: http://gist.github.com/144742#file_gistfile1.vim
Indeed. I also thought the following comment from Scribd showed what is wrong with their mindset:

As a start-up, we're constantly trying to strike the right
balance: building products that people love but that also
help us make money (to cover server cost and everything
else associated with running a company).

Umm, surely as a company you are trying to do more than cover your running costs? Or are the saying "As a start-up" profitability is irrelevant and all they care about is covering their costs whilst increasing their market share? A larger share in a market no-one is actually willing to pay for is not worth more than a smaller one, what with them both being worth nothing and all.
I was glad to read about justice being done in this case.

Its a shame that many get away with so much.
Unfortunately, that doesn't really counteract the new skills he will learn while in jail. :/
> Snarks would point out that this was overkill, that insurance would have covered most of it (most of it was recovered anyway) and self-sleuthing can lead to dangerous situations.

Possibly true. But nothing is as cathartic as personally tracking down the person that wronged you.
That again? How can photographs taken from public places be your property? How do you have a right to stop anyone, including Google, from taking them?
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Thanks looking into it
First, I feel sorry for the world that makes me think my second point.

Second, let's see how long till one of the quoted 'brands' attempts to sue.

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Have you used it before?
Well, it utilizes WAI-ARIA for most (if not all) controls which is really all it can do.

The rest is up to the implementers of assistive technologies, in my opinion. If you want to be able to build rich, themeable interfaces you will end up having to re-implement "standard" controls like buttons, scrollbars and checkboxes. As far as I know, the ability to actually use native controls is actually being considered for SC 2.0 (read more here: http://groups.google.com/group/sproutcore-dev/browse_thread/...)
Perhaps "can't post stuff on Facebook anymore" will become a powerful deterrent against a career in crime :-)
This is my in-progress collection of CSS3 buttons. Any ideas for more styles?
I don't understand your 3G argument. I use 3G to connect to the Internet from my desktop for various reasons, and I've used plenty of SC apps via that connection.

Isn't this really a problem solved by the HTML5 offline application cache?
It is now in the Android market for those with access - just search for HNDroid
I have nothing constructive to add beyond-- thank you Steve, what a fantastically informative post. It clearly took a lot of time and effort to put together and it is very much appreciated.
"Given Johnny's dozen tattoos, given his weakness for skank, I made a leap -- and assumed he was on MySpace"
I don't know if "the singularity is my retirement plan" is a wise strategy, but it'd make an awesome t-shirt. Especially for a baby or small child.
I don't know how you are working and what your typing characteristics are, but you are probably not doing a lot of fast typing.

Once you type reasonably fast (>30wpm), the time you have to invest to reach for the mouse, do some funky things and home back in to the keyboard is quite significant.

Another thing is, that once you got some of the very useful commands into your bone, like repeat action, some of the more elaborate selections, replacing and so on, you really get much more efficient with vim.

There are other advantages too. Pulling gedit through and ssh session is at best problematic, most cases there won't be an X client on the other side. You (almost) always find some kind of vi/vim there though.

There are all those nice things you can do that are really use case specific, like live editing files through ftp, scripting various things that you regularly do, adapting the config file, etc..

But it's not a question of "months". Really, vim has a very steep learning curve and you have to use it on a regular basis so it gets entrenched in you. Think more about "years". But that's cool, there is always more to learn, tweak and optimize.
You could use the Cream bundle for vim (http://cream.sourceforge.net/) to get a more modeless, Textmate-like editor.
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Could be precompiled headers, inline functions, etc.
Righteous vengeance. Fortunately for her, the demographics of the thief allow the audience to unhesitatingly endorse law enforcement action without blaming the victim. Many people who have been victimized in SF are not so lucky.
This happened to me in my closing months of the old day job. I found myself at home, with no memory of how I came to be home, or of eating the dinner whose receipt was in my wallet.

Salaryman life, banzai.
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They are not even playing in the same league.
This reminds me of what happened at the end of the dot com bubble, where the hasty erection of a paywall usually meant that the death of a site was imminent, and users often did feel "tricked and trapped" or that their community relationships had been violated.
Google would own if they popped out a product like this. Of course that would never happen because then Google would then be admitting to what we all already know.
The really amusing thing to come out of the whole 'antennae-gate' issue was Apple's messages: when launching the iPhone 4, it was revolutionary (again), but when problems emerge, it's just like every other smartphone. Cracks in the reality distortion field, methinks.
The figure quoted of 78 is what's known as "period" life expectancy. It's life expectancy from birth based on mortality rates in 2008, without any future improvements.

In practice death rates are expected to continue falling over time. Looking at "cohort" life expectancy which allows for expected future improvements can give a considerably higher life expectancy.

Also, it's not enough to look at the average. If life expectancy is 85 then you shouldn't plan to die at 85. It's more like rolling a die and having an age of death of any of 66, 77, 82, 88, 92, or 100 [1]. Maybe you need no savings, maybe you need lots. It's hard to plan for this without an annuity.

[1] worked out a while ago so that it has the same mean, variance and four higher moments as life expectancy for a UK mortality table.
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> "By now it was Friday afternoon, and Inspector Vargas does not work weekends or Mondays, thanks to the California state budget cuts."

The movies would have you believe that detectives work around the clock and would do anything and everything to catch a crook. Rude awakening.

Seems like a lot of crimes must go unsolved because of this - time just seems like such a critical aspect of a lot of cases.
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Did anyone else find the attitude of this article outrageous?

Bragging about sending a young man to prison over her blackberry?
Girl's horror as 21,000 RSVP Facebook party invite
Today Facebook is really asking for bad press about its default user settings. This just made it to the BBC: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1711973
>should be faster due to static typing than Clojure

Uh, why? Are all object types known at runtime in Clojure? I bet they are. And this is exactly what Hotspot was designed to make fast [1].

[1] http://www.strongtalk.org
Ask HN: Microsoft tax refund, is it feasible?
A common complaint from FOSS users when buying laptops pre-installed with Windows is that they don't use it, don't want it, and don't want to pay for it. The common excuse given by manufacturers is that the OS is bundled into the price (essentially for free), so no refund is possible.

According to Microsoft's EULA, the end user can return Windows for a refund by refusing the terms of the license:

"By using the software, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the software. Instead, contact the manufacturer or installer to determine their return policy for a refund or credit."

There have been reports of successfully receiving refunds, others of requiring an NDA to receive a refund, litigation against manufactures for denying refunds, never ending go-arounds, and my personal favourite - being completely ignored.

Question is, has anyone had experience with getting a refund (my interest is from Lenovo). And, is it worth the effort to even try?
Is is as or is as is?
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But why? They only want to make the world a more "open and honest" place, right? :)
^^^ here is your reason. Nobody knew about the other companies. Everyone knows about Google doing it.
No, this article is about using publicly available information to send a guy to jail that committed multiple crimes. It's not just about her blackberry it's about taking stuff that belongs to somebody else.
A friend doesn't know what a browser is, yet he has a jailbroken iPhone so he can use winterboard. He paid someone to do it for him.