skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a 29 year old start-up founder in Tokyo, I'm also carrying my first child.

I don't know all of the stats regarding women and start-ups and to be honest, I don't care. I have learned that in order to be successful in anything-- sacrifice, hard work, knowing your stuff and the right people goes a long way and opens up a lot of opportunities, especially for Americans or start-ups in the US. The amount of support I receive being pregnant and founding a start-up is unbelievable, and I'm and American in Japan.

Penelope is known for writing articles like these, which do more harm than good in my humble opinion.

If you want to start a company, male or female, recognize that it won't be easy, be prepared to work harder than anyone else and dismiss the naysayers.
It's true that richer countries tend to have less pollution, but it's false to say it's the result of the free market. The U.S. has strict government-mandated emission controls. I know that in car emissions the U.S. was actually the leader in such controls; the European mini was missing from U.S. streets starting in the mid 1960s because it did not meet the U.S.'s strict standards.

Most societies have pretty bad pollution when they are beginning to industrialize, and then become rich enough to afford emissions controls via government regulation.

Re: businesses, I do tend to favor free market solutions. But one thing that this does not work well at all for is any time there is a common resource; the atmosphere is such a common resource. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

It's actually rational for any individual or business to exploit it such a common resource. This is why many libertarians advocate private ownership of land instead of government ownership; if people are farming a rented plot of land, they'll gladly strip it of nutrients. If they own that piece of land, they'll be more likely to treat it well so it will continue to support them.

As for the motives of the groups, it's obvious that neither group necessarily has our best interest at heart. Businesses are a great boon to society not because they are trying to help society, but because by trying to make money, they produce cheap goods. Governments are ostensibly in the business of trying to help society, but of course they are merely composed of people who want to get paid for doing their job. In the end both are after profit, which is fine. I don't think it necessarily says anything about who is correct about GW though.
Considering that San Francisco has arguably the most difficult city streets to drive in the country, I'd say this is no small feat
here is me giving more or less this same talk: http://chacon.blip.tv/file/4213359/
Ask HN: Status of Google's noop language
Does anyone know the status of Google's noop language? I see a lot of discussions on the Go language, however very little of noop. The last update I see to the code on the project site is June 27, 2010.
Hal is an old family friend - a good guy. I have known him since I was an infant.

I also happened to take a physics class from him in 1969 and even back then he was warning about energy problems, etc.
How is that not a system failure? Because the car has some kind of intent? Well, we have an analogue for that today, too: who gets punished when a dog attacks someone?

I'm not saying there are no details to work out. I'm just saying that it's not some unfathomable chasm we have to cross. We deal with similar questions all the time right now.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million lives are lost every year in road traffic accidents.

That is an incredible number. 1.2 million out of 7 billion. If the average person lives to age 70, that means that on average, one has a 1.2% chance of dying from a traffic accident.
Nobody manually enters all the tags for XML/HTML/SGML - you ought to be using an editor that supports some combination of tag shortcuts, tag completion, Zen Coding, or some other schema-aware entry method.

I'd go nuts too if I had to enter all the tags by hand, if my left index/ring fingers didn't fall off first.
"Twitter is dying because Twitter doesn't like my spam operation."

Yeah, OK... sure.
Apparently "how" means keep hinting at buying software from your company. There wasn't a lot of new information here.
Same here. For most things it makes little difference, but over time I'm finding that some apps I want to install are rather stubborn about their dependencies.

So I have a dated vlc, a dated Amarok, etc.

I want to update, but I need to do a solid disk image backup of my laptop first in case shit happens.

I've been running 9.x or 10.x or so on my desktop, with Trinity KDE3, and have been pretty happy with it; hibernation started working after a somewhat recent kernel update. :)
Not an original idea but excellent execution and has potential to spread virally! I have put it to my bookmarklet and time will see if I use it for some tasks. At the moment I cannot think about any scenario that would be useful but I am sure there are plenty.
Without getting into whatever statistics she based the article on, there is a much more logical explanation to the projected 3% drop in programmers and a 32% increase in software engineers: there will be a 29% increase in software engineers/programmers and the term "programmers" is becoming less fashionable than "software engineers."
Most of our servers are DB anyways. We have 2 load balancers, 6 web servers, and ~40 DB servers.

Wow, that's not what I was expecting.

I have no idea if those 40 DBs are just mirrors sharing the load of some heavy queries or you are sharding the data in some way. If they are all just replicated maybe move most of them up into the cloud where they talk to your web app. But I don't know how much data you have to replicate up into the cloud or how long that would take.
That's what the BitTorrent release is for. It actually gets faster as more people try to download…
Yeah but lobby money is specifically targeted at directing politicians' attention at specific issues.

Tax money is redistributed into government services and spending. Yeah, it pays the salaries of the politicians, but it's clearly not the same as lobbyist money.
Hence the plural form.
Watching football isn't a very good comparison with having children, let's try...

Men Don't Want To Have Children Because They'd Rather Run Startups
This is surely the rational way to handle it. But I'm not convinced a judge and jury would see it the same way.

The prosecution would likely argue that no computer program can be a match for a human's ability handle new and surprising situations: the "driver" must still pay full attention to the road, whether a computer is driving or not. It would not be enough for a computer to be statistically better at driving, it would also have to not make mistakes that a reasonable person wouldn't make.

Also, we don't have information on how error-prone this system actually is. All we know is that a car it was driving had one accident. We don't know how many times the human driver had to take control because it would have otherwise crashed.

[obligatory IANAL]
Well he doesn't look anything like Marlon Brando, which probably explains him quitting.
I've doing pretty much the same thing with http://wappalyzer.com the last couple of years. It's a Firefox add-on that analyzes source code and headers to find out what software is being used on sites. The add-on is mildly popular and I'm collecting a ton of data but it isn't making me a lot of money. It's a fun side-project though, perhaps we can do something together?

Example stats page: http://wappalyzer.com/stats/app/WordPress|Drupal|Joomla/webs...
Think of the millions of hours spent behind the wheel today, which could be spent on Google instead. Maybe this is what they're "driving at."
Throwaway account, since I don't want to link this to my real name. But: Leave. Your feelings will only get stronger, and it will be harder to leave if things seem to go better business wise. But you can't ignore your feelings, and will only get unhappier with the situation.. I did, and am happy I left, only should have done it earlier.
I've already upgraded my laptop and file server to the 10.10 RC, and upgraded the few packages that changed between the RC release date and now. Haven't encountered any issues so far.
forms does not have Cancel button! they have reset buttons.

big difference.

There's no input type=cancel. only input type=reset

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/dtd.html#InputType

And resetting is sometimes desirable, say, for a real time map filter form. where you can play with the controls, reset, play some more, reset... you get the idea.

Now, for forms that are presented to the user empty, as most are, the reset button with a 'cancel' label, is just plain dumb. yes.
According to the article: "... their [Men's] aim is for their businesses to grow as big as possible. Women start businesses to be personally challenged and to integrate work and family..."

It seems that men build startups, but women build lifestyle businesses.
Motivatory - The blog that cares about you
It's great to see a blog that is specially dedicated to empowering young people with time tested ideas on how to make money making online as well as an insight on how to become a better you in future.
I'll be the contrarian...

As a techie you have to take a step back and ask yourself: are my expectations like a programmer or like a person? People aren't machines and partnerships are usually far from perfect at first.

Being inexperienced, your partner is not going to grasp (and hold on to) X-tech concept as quickly as a veteran like yourself. It also sounds like he is wearing a lot of hats (on top of family and day job) so his attention could be very divided.

It may not be time to pay yourselves, but it may be time to consider outsourcing stuff that neither of you can manage - such as the website redesign.
Well, cruise control is legal, and since there's a trained professional behind the wheel at all times accepting liability there's no legal issue. The real issue comes when you want to let the car drive itself alone...
Running the company has been absolute hell. Not that I didn’t know it would be hell. It’s my third startup. Each has had its own hell before we were solidly funded, but this one was so bad that my electricity was turned off, and I really thought I was going to die from stress.

Male or female, babies or not... maybe she's just in the wrong line of work? I've been the first tech hire at 3 startups, and I'm kind of undecided as to how much I actually like programming, but they were all kind of fun. There were a few stressful moments, but I wouldn't describe any of the experience as "hell," nor did we ever get our electricity shut off.

I mean, if it's always hell and you're on the brink of disaster, why would you bother doing it again... 3 times?
How can anybody know your personal preferences? I also can't teach you how you should set them as I don't use the same browser as you. Try to remember: not everybody uses everything you do.

I don't understand what your problem is, apart from not knowing to use your browser. You've asked for a tool, you've received the answer -- it already exists, you're not accepting it again and again.
Tell him you're leaving, and offer him (as an alternative) to buy him out for a low price.
Yes. Sounds like fun.
Why Mark Zuckerberg Should Like The Social Network
Is This Wall Climb Possible?
Help, My Smartphone Is Making Me Dumb — or Maybe Not
Yet to try it out, but really like the style you've chosen for your front page. Only thing, and it might be intentional, is the variety of ways you're presenting your mark. The mark is there in a circle, arrow-like shape, and something more like a banner (in the footer). If it's to demonstrate the shapes your system understands, that might need to be better explained. Otherwise, I'd just pick one shape and run with it.
He's referring to Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs), which are groups sponsored by acquiring banks to underwrite, provision and maintain merchants accounts for clients.
Nice user engagement when u ask them to draw shapes, I was hooked right away.
The explosion of sensory history
Right, but the author clearly has no idea of what they are talking about and shows that with one of the most illogical and uneducated (about the subject matter) explanations I have ever seen.

The fact remains, software is a creative discipline (one of the only that pays the average practitioner well). I believe that there are not enough truly talented people in the world to supply the demand and I doubt there ever will be.

If you where to take an average or the people who are smart enough, creative enough, had the proper work ethic and then combined that with an interest to enter into software development, the pool of good candidates suddenly dwindles to a small segment of the population even if you include the entire globe.

I used to concern myself with it, but after more than 15 years in the industry, I have come to realize that their are ebbs and flows, but when the chips are down. There are not enough good people to go around.

If someone is good, they will never have to worry and if they are not they should look to get into a field that they are good at. Why would anyone want to be average.
Htty is a console application for interacting with HTTP servers.
yes but your sister: rule or exception? exception
To be fair, I've used their software in a former life, and it's quite good for the specific job of pushing out that kind of volume. I'd be tooting my horn about it if I were them, too. :)
Nokia's Stretchy Electronic "Skin" Paves Way For High-Tech Wearables
Car weight = ~4000

Average person = ~200
my mono lisa, http://markup.io/v/r7tj2gav5ds5
Why do apps insist on asking for every possible permission they might ever need? Can't you ask after I do something that requires advanced permissions?

This is the first thing I see: http://i.imgur.com/wfWCR.png I don't even know anything about the app, let alone whether I should trust you.
I think this is a typical 'go with your heart' situation. If your gut feeling tells you you're not enjoying it for such and such annoying reasons it is a clear sign that its not the best thing for you. In these situations ending is better than mending. That is because mending will take up your time only to have you end up in a marginally better condition. If you feel this is the case start from scratch.
Maybe I'm missing some nuance in what you're asking for, but in mercurial, you should be able to just create a named branch to get the same effect:

hg branch bug-fixes
hg commit -m "creating bug fix branch"
hg update default
hg branch translations
hg commit -m "creating translations branch"

then you can just "hg update <branchname>" to do an in place switching between branches (just like git checkout).

I wouldn't use 2 separate repositories for that, just one.

We've got multiple named branches at work (I also use bookmarks with development branches fairly heavily, but that's a slightly different topic).
I have a very similar volume site (game analytics) ... I've always been afraid of Amazon because of the bandwidth and request based billing. I just use VPSs to scale when I have to ... it helps that my hosting guy is on my MSN Messenger.

Edit:
Also your site looks terrible in Opera ... the CSS or JS or something isn't loading which is breaking everything.
Newsflash. Nobody reads (I mean really reads) e-mails. Get used to it.
You find that you will make about 30k more when you do.
C-z
I run a forum without registration (about 700-1000 posts/week). People can register, make up an alias for each post, or just post anonymously. Many people don't record an email address when they post and the majority are not registered or logged in when they post.

The majority of spammers do leave a valid (free-account) email address and register to spam (probably not used to a forum that doesn't require registration).
Okay, I know a lot of other folks have already pointed out the fact that just throwing up a Facebook/Twitter login might be a bit harsh. I would listen to them. But in addition to that, I would question that rather liberal policy you have taken with what, exactly, you have access to in my Facebook/Twitter account.

I didn't actually try to sign in with Twitter, but I noticed at the bottom you post a disclaimer saying that if I sign in with Twitter, I will start following you. WHY? Is that necessary to the app running? If not, that seems like a pretty bad way to increase your follower count.

I did try to sign in with Facebook, but immediately canceled when I saw you wanted access not only to my News Feed and Friends (which I fully expected), but also to send me EMAIL, access my Facebook account WHEN I'M NOT USING YOUR SITE (offline access), and POST TO MY WALL. At least the last of those, posting to my wall, I can get behind should I choose to do an action on your site that warrants it (e.g. I like something on your site and want to share it with my friends), but you should be approaching this from a standpoint of asking me for the only the permissions you need to get me started, then following up with further requests for specific permissions on an as-needed basis.

Especially since your entire site revolves around people logging in with their other social networking accounts, your site should respect those accounts. Not ask for permissions right off the bat that are going to scare away potential users who have no idea what you're going to use the permissions FOR. If I like an item and I get a request to allow your application permission to post to my Wall, that makes sense to me. What doesn't make sense is that I have to give you permission to send me email through Facebook just to access your site at all.

My 2 cents, but hey, you already lost at least one potential user. Get that fixed and I think you increase the folks who actually proceed through the front gate by several fold.
A point well taken that EC2 could be much more expensive for transfer/storage-intensive use cases.
The observation is interesting (and one I'd never noticed before), but I'm not sure if I agree with the conclusion.

The "American" approach of discarding what you know when you're almost defeated and "winging it" seems pretty rational to me. If what you've been doing isn't working, no matter how "correct" it might seem to be, and you're about to run out of options, perhaps it's a good time to try a new strategy.

I don't think I'd characterize that as unhealthy.
While cars that drive themselves are not the final solution they could be a necessary stepping stone to mass transportation.

Imagine a future where cars are not owned by individuals but are owned by few companies (or maybe even government, the way public transport is) and participate in what is essentially a global taxi network.

Instead of using your own car you would just step out of your home, enter destination address into your phone and press a button. That would be sent to a server which given your location, position and destination of all existing cars in route would pick one that is the closest to you that has available seat and goes in that direction. That car would just pull up and you would be notified in real time how far it is from you.

If a car is not available, it would be dispatched from the closest holding area.

Think ZipCar except with cars that come to you, drive themselves and you can share with other people while it drives itself (or you can have it for yourself, if you prefer, except at a higher cost).

This kind of a network would drastically reduce number of cars needed to drive people around and given global knowledge of where people are and where they want to go, it could plan the absolutely most efficient route.

For popular routes (e.g. if it detects a pattern that a lot of people commute from San Francisco to Mountain View around 9 AM on Mondays through Fridays) it could deploy bigger cars (i.e. buses), further reducing traffic.

When you think about it, it's not surprising that car companies will not work on a technology like that since it would drastically reduce demand for cars and if this comes anywhere close to reality, expect lots of legislative and political battles (after all, this will mean that Americans in Detroit will loose jobs).
Don't forget, also, pedestrians who run out onto the road and get hit by an automated driver.
You never know. There's a lot of confusion around the term "wireless". As a teenager in the early '00s, I worked in an electronics store that sold laptops. Many times, people would be pissed that you still needed to plug it in to the wall: after all, they were buying a laptop "with wireless"! Of course, there's always the extreme case that's the basis of many jokes on the 'net, where an old lady returns a laptop because it died after three hours of use. She didn't plug it in because "it's wireless, right?"

sigh
Clones: I have seen a number of places talk about using separate repositories for branches in mercurial, but that's not how many people work these days. Just as with git, there are less efficient ways to do things.

In the article you linked to, the author is recommending against using separate cloned repositories, I agree with him.

Bookmarks: As of mercurial 1.6, bookmarks aren't local only and can be pushed.

Named branches: you don't have to push everything, just do

hg push -r .

and it will only push the current revision, and any unpushed parent revisions. The linked article mentions this and talks about aliasing it to "hg nudge". If you do that, you have the same behavior as git.

I think git is a solid tool and that it can work well for many teams. I also know from personal experience at 3 different jobs that mercurial can work effectively for teams.
the spammers are most likely just using xrumer so it's a bot doing everything for them
Excuse me? 40 tests per run for $49 for "hobbyists"?

$1200 (TWELVE HUNDRED) for unlimited tests?

Oh, and Windows only. Nothing to see here, move along.
Wouldn't these branches be permanent? They might be fine for translations, but I doubt upstream would accept one for a bug fix.

As for bookmarks, if I understand this correctly, I have to convince upstream to use them.

With git I can create a branch in my repository and upstream can pull my changes in whatever branch it wishes too. I don't need to convince anyone to do anything else, besides accepting my patches.
The thing that excites me about this isn't the driving, it's the parking. Living in SF, it would be AMAZING to be able to pull up to whereever you were going, get out, and tell your car to go find it's own parking spot. Then, when it's time to leave, click that button on the key fob, and the car is waiting outside in five minutes.
Not this woman. Ever since I was young I wanted to build a big business (i.e. NOT a 'lifestyle' business) and also raise a family. I never, ever saw it as an 'either/or' decision and maybe that's why I'm doing both.
"Increase CO2 content in ocean water and you produce carbonic acid. I'd assume that this is at least a contributor to ice melt."

And that applies to melting ice above water how, exactly?

And I'm not sure why slightly acidic water would have an effect on ice, anyway. I mean, any more than the presence of salt.
question: how does the ubuntu upgrade process work? do you reinstall everything from scratch? or can you just apt-get your way to a new release?
I got feedback on my idea in Palo Alto today. Stupid?
I literally stood on a street corner in down-town Palo Alto and asked people if they would use my product. One gentleman who claimed himself to be a 'startup guy' seemed to think I was crazy for exposing my idea publicly in PA. Your thoughts?
It doesn't appear there's any schema for this, which I see as a mistake. The validator he linked to accepts any well-formed JSON at all; it has no idea what valid RSS JSON should look like.

I would have done RSS based on http://n2.talis.com/wiki/RDF_JSON_Specification. But then I'm one of those who doesn't understand why RSS moved away from its RDF foundations in the first place.
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