skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no more and no fewer social issues in the Ruby community as in any other. The difference is that the Ruby community and its members are easy to identify. You don't get large groups of Java developers buddying up on Twitter or becoming real life friends merely from the virtue of using Java, so any sexist/racist/other comments that Java developers make aren't as easily tied to the "Java community".

The article is bizarre. Pointing to sporadic events as a sign that times haven't changed is disingenuous. You can still point at examples of racism, murder, or god knows what, but it's not a sign of a lack of improvement in the world.
If you thought this was interesting, you might also like:

http://www.hntrends.com

Which is a site I built about a year ago that takes a somewhat different approach to visualizing HackerNews front page data.
Good point about Dr. Nic, I do hope he meant it that way. That said, being sarcastically sexist/racist/nudist in public is a bad idea, because other people don't know your true intentions.
thanks, I really appreciate you take the time of showing your appreciation!
Doesn't sound like a good relationship to me.

I'd think you should get a good lawyer asap.

Odds are you do have documentation. Get all the emails, receipts, etc. you can find, the code (hopefully you have logs, etc. of work in source control, although I'm not sure if they'd know what to do with that in court or if would be admissible as evidence), and talk to people who could testify on your behalf.

The other option is to ditch it all, but it sounds like you are invested enough where you would rather make a lifetime enemy than give it all up.
University of North Florida Hacked
I would think that people driven to attain those levels wouldn't listen to advice like that anyway.
Sean Parker: With a Little Help From His Friends
An IRC bridge would be nice, since all my other dev chat rooms are on IRC.
Do you honestly believe that devs at Microsoft sit around saying, "Hmm... how can we do nothing today?"

What on earth gave you the idea I believed anything of the sort?
please let this be a reference to the Young Jeezy song... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9sABRosdNg
Band Gets Instruments Stolen, Plays Song on iPhones
bcrypt doesn't reply immediately. You could set it to require ~10ms of CPU grinding each time it checks whether a password is valid, for example. Having latency while work happens on another core or server shouldn't impact the total number of concurrent connections the server can handle, though - the benchmark should measure that, specifically.

Oh, also - the reads and writes to the bcrypt server will be really short, and could use persistent connections. Something like "$2a$07$8BzFlUuprZN4FSBpDx3ZAuPWOu4CZ3uv8Awa4EjAZhNmnIY59nh2e" -> "OK". And yes, it would increase the number of events, but a real server is probably going to be communicating with a database, memcached, etc. instead.

FWIW, this comment thread is getting buried deeper and deeper in my threads page - if you want to keep the conversation going, my email address is in my profile. Have a good weekend.
The bit about using a gender as an example of an attribute that never changes doesn't seem like a specifically male error. I'm sure there are any number of women who would also make the same mistake and I don't think it's about gender, it's about assumptions that we all make. An equally good example is the way people store names of people in databases.

This list and the parent article are both, in my opinion, way off base. Some people are juvenile and obnoxious and we can pick them out of a crowd by this very behavior. Turning around and telling everyone else in the room that they are just as juvenile and obnoxious is unreasonable and unfair. Part of being an open group is letting pretty much anyone who's interested into the room.

I can understand why many of these criticisms would be characterized as whining. Some of these items seem like nitpicking when compared to some of the very real injustices that women face in the workplace, for instance, the fact that they aren't paid the same wage for the same work. Better curation of this list might help ameliorate that issue.
Firstly, are you sure you describe the situation objectively? If this were a novel, I would consider the storyline under-developed. There must be some reason, however injust, why your co-founder thinks he should get a majority share. For example:

"currently, 100% of the design AND code was created by me."

You may have done the typing, but you also acknowledge that there was a lot of discussion that led to the current design. I guess that this is an area where your co-founder may see things very differently ('(s)he did the technical stuff, but all the ideas are mine')

As to your question, you should decide what you value more: getting back on your co-founder, or having the product succeed. In the first case, go talk to a lawyer; in the second, I think you should get an agreement that includes you leaving the company ASAP. That ASAP is because of phrases such as 'bullied', 'bosses me around', 'belittling' that make me wonder about the 'is' in 'who is a close friend.'

How much you can get out of it depends on the value you have to the company. That will depend on the technical complexity of the product.
My guess is the friend is one of those people that thinks the idea is worth more then the work it takes to launch it.

> My co-founder had the "idea" for a startup.
Jason Fried: “Twitter is the modern day smoke break”
We use http://rpxnow.com/ we only have to worry about their interface.
The article doesn't say a darn thing about methodology. For all we know, they could have done anything from comparing means to measuring the overlap of various confidence intervals to arcane statistical methods that predict the accuracy of classification based on the data.

Darn paywalls around scientific journals. I really wish more would go the route of http://www.plos.org/
great advice for younger developers and managers ... the IT folks ate it

IT, ever shortsighted.
We've gone back and forth many times. It's hard to decide on equity when circumstances change. Also, I recently discovered that we are at pretty much at step 0 in terms of business/customer development. I thought my co-founder (who never really tells me what he is working on) had made progress but I found out recently that I'm expected to jump right into sales with him once I'm available to do so.
Looks a lot like campfire from 37Signals
I agree, but sadly most people just pay someone else to do even little jobs around their house (or just don't do them at all).
I believe the author of this list is, in fact, trans-gendered. This is mentioned way down at the bottom.
I wish the article said what kind of math they tested for. There's a world of difference between being good at multiplication and being good at proving P≠NP.
A git-based wiki? My respect for the GitHub guys continues to grow.
In celebration, I'm going to Monolith Burger tonight to work on my Astro Chicken highscore.
My co-founder and I are.

http://upscalews.com
The hidden assumption of "Idiocracy" is that survival of the fittest is the only selection mechanism. Even if survival and breeding become trivial, sexual selection will continue, and many intelligent people will only want to mate with others of their kind, even if they become overwhelmed numbers-wise.

I understand, though, that the film is an allegory, and as such it succeeds admirably. In terms of the downward trajectory of our political and cultural discourse, it is disturbingly spot-on. Reminds me a little of the prescience of "Network": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_%28film%29
Intel and the Big Squeeze
I'm so glad you didn't mention purple. Everybody always says purple. I think it has to do with the people eater.
Every interpretation tells us something about the observer. This person interpreted the change as an improvement at the counter.
Autism rates are 3 times more likely in males than females, which I see as an extreme symptom of a more general trait. This is what I chalk up the math and science gender gap to, though I have absolutely no scientific data to back that up.
I have hoot.com. Still haven't come up with a finalized idea for it.
Running a Somali restaurant that the family bought. It's very tough, and with lots of gotchas. Would not recommend for the common person, but if you're dedicated, fast, sharp-eyed, have cash, and find a good location, go for it.
I, too, was under the impression that this was pretty well accepted, at least as far as mathematical skills relating to the ability to handle spatial models.

Rephrasing your quotation, if you draw out the curves so that ability is on the X axis, and number of individuals having that ability is on the Y axis, then the curve for females will be taller and narrower than that for men.

That means that if you've got in mind a brilliant geometer, that person is more likely male than female. On the other hand, if you've got in mind an extremely bad geometer, that person is also more likely male than female.

Discussion of this that I've read have hypothesized that we've evolved this way because humans back a zillion years tended to have the males go out hunting while women took care of babies and domestic chores; and tracking and stalking prey demanded more of a person's spatial skills.
A number of countries experimented with shock treatment capitalism as a means of quickly bringing their economies up to speed.

Take Russia or Bolivia as examples of what can go wrong. In each case, they quickly freed up their economy and tried to privatize everything. The problem was, they had no real legal system in place to properly check that activity. Key national industries went into the hands of just a few wealthy people (see Russia's Oligarch's). In Bolivia, after shock treatment, there was a rise in unemployment, a fall in industrial output, and a fall in per capita GDP.

At my university (50k students) I started the first micro-credit organization and we've made over 100 loans to entrepreneurs in developing nations -- so I am not against capitalism or anything like that.

But I've studied economic development enough to know that you have to take a multi-pronged approach to promoting development. It's not just about going full-free market or full donations/state involvement. It's requires a mix.
#getalife is awesome, we aren't in debate school, it's an informal discussion and getalife sums up the sentiment well.

Keep going and keep ignoring #overly-sensitive.

I know you are getting down voted for these comments (these threads are a magnet for the overly sensitive), so I've decided to go through your comment history and up vote others where appropriate.

Being offended on behalf of another group is the new chivalry.

edit: w00t, at zero, keep the downvotes coming. can i get a neg 4?
There're more than a few people where I work whose full time job seems to be inserting themselves into existing projects as middlemen for the purpose of taking credit. They're transparent too when it comes to taking blame... I don't want to be a manager (been there, done that) but if I did, I wouldn't have time to do actual work.
Let's not get caught up in semantics here. You could just as easily consider giving people money in the name of charity an investment because you're investing in their better future. Can we taboo the words "charity" and "investment" and talk about what the actual acts are?
Another question: What programming language you ever programmed in was invented by a black guy ?
I sold my company, took a job working for someone else, and I'm now actively planning to start another company. The reason I suggested that you're in a good position is because most of the issues I had were cashflow-related - having to cover my existing expenses on substantially reduced income (I had to pick up all kinds of distracting side projects to pay the bills). If you're living at home and you have healthy savings, you can really focus on building the product.
My Mentor was a 5 Years Old
Sometimes I worry that a significant portion of "git enthusiasts" have no idea what distributed VC means.
Infosec Comic based on a Defcon CTF contest
Here's a copy of Matt Aimonetti's "CouchDB: Perform like a pr0n star" presentation, for those who aren't familiar with it: http://omploader.org/vNWNrNg/gogaruco-couchdb-090418194027-p...
I'm not "in" any company, though. Or am I? I've never signed any agreement. I haven't been paid.
1) Taking legal action costs money. Your product hasn't launched yet so it hasn't made any money yet either. He is either going to have to sue you with his own money or find a lawyer that is willing to work on commission for a product that hasn't made a dime. I wouldn't worry about his threats.

2)It seems to me that you've been very complacent with your co-founder up to this point which is why he thinks he can bully you with such a bogus claim. You need to politely say you've had enough of the abusive relationship and you wish him the best of luck.

3)Did you sign anything for the LLC? Anyone can put anyone else's name down when they register it online, but without a signature it's meaningless. Form your own LLC or S-Corporation and start learning the biz side yourself. Articulate exactly what you think you need a biz person for and start doing what you can. You'll get a better understanding of the expectations you'll have for the next guy, who may end up being an employee instead of a co-founder.

Good luck!
First off get a Make magazine subscription. It has a lot of wonderful projects for kids that will keep an adults attention as well. One of the best thing I got was a Lego Mindstorm for my kids. That thing has received a lot of use.

I am an off-road hobbyist so my boy and I do a lot of auto fabrication and electronics projects for that. He likes restoring vehicles so we work on that quite a bit. I just bought him a 68 Bronco that we are restoring (he is young, 4 so my wife thinks I am crazy, but he loves it so why not). You can work quite a bit of mechanical engineering and electrical engineering education into restoring a vehicle. Not that I suggest going out and buying a car for a 4 year old, but I have some heart problems and may not be around to do it with him later.

They all (10, 4, 2, well the 1yr old baby does not) use the computer and they all work on the ipad.

I taught my oldest girl (10) Photoshop, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Illustrator and she is now learning Flash, I have tried to developer he interest in learning to code but as of yet it has been fruitless (with the exception of the mind-storm, which has a visual programming IDE). A friend of mine suggested that I try Alice to see if she would catch on to that, but as of yet I have not tried it. She is a good artist, does all the home movies (I have to make her remove the special effects some times. "Come on now the baby did not lift the car, take it out") and some times helps me out with some graphics.

I am rambling, but basically my post can be summarized as kids are awesome and there are a million projects that one can find to do with them.
Wasn't guessing the commands half the fun of LSL?

Putting them all out in front of you seems too easy!
Gunpowder? No. Saltpeter was known by the 1st century AD; but saltpeter is not gunpowder. The earliest reference to gunpowder is from the mid-9th century; but then it was an alchemical curiosity. The earliest reference to using gunpowder is from the mid-11th century.

(All according to Wikipedia.)
Move on. The project is tainted. Neither of you will be able to use the code: your business partner has no rights to it, but surely has a good enough story about your partnership and his contributions to take you to court (see 'grellas comments on the TechCrunch v FusionGarage fiasco if you were hoping that everything is clean since you don't have an actual contract). Court = death. Forget investment; there's a storm cloud hanging over your business.

Your BATNA in this negotiation is "get on with my life and leave you with zero"; that may be a strong enough position to get your partner to let you buy him out (or vice versa). That's about the best that will come of this.

You could "lawyer up", but that's not going to help you that much, unless your former cofounder is dumb enough to take you to court or make a break for it with your code. It's hard to argue that someone shouldn't talk to a lawyer, so I'll just say: don't spend too much money on it.

There's no chance you're going to work with someone who threatened to sue you because you wouldn't sign over your code after he tried to take a 60% share of a product you coded by yourself.

I'm being grim, and surely that will irritate you or someone else in this thread, but I'm trying to point out the path that costs you the least time, heartache, and money.
I'm not a dad, but I had a guy in the office put together a wiimote whiteboard with his 8 year old. He supplied the following links:

http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/
http://www.uweschmidt.org/wiimote-whiteboard
I think you need to look more specifically at what exactly the Gates Foundation does if you want to answer the questiona at the end of the article. They're known for fighting disease, primarily; disease in third-world countries is a major barrier to industrial expansion into these countries. Further, charity has achieved at least one major victory: the eradication of smallpox, perhaps the greatest achievement in human history, so I'd say it's contributed at least a little -- and the Gates Foundation has some good precedent for their goals.
The biggest problem I see with this is that in real life clients will hard-code the urls anyway and break when the urls get changed.
Privacy Violations
I personally do not feel that there is a correlation

I'm sorry that I'm about to sound rude, but...

For this kind of question it really doesn't matter what any of us feel. Our values, morals, aesthetics, etc. simply have no bearing on the truth of the matter. And none of us has sufficient data points (rigorous, untainted, and unprejudiced) to form a model that has any validity. We really only have two choices: (1) say "I don't care", and ignore the debate; or (2) read the study, then criticize methodological flaws if any, else deal with the results.
What an iPad Competitor Needs
It's a sort of chicken-and-egg question as to which must come first but generally, if infrastructure and education are there, public health will follow. On the other hand if most of the populace can't read or write, if there is a constant lack of resources and perpetual warfare, the people who you are healing will most likely end up in an early grave anyway. Employment will help with all of these things, since happily employed (and educated) people don't typically start rebellions, are capable of building lasting infrastructure and making use of outside aid.
No, not really. Why would I?
Kodu Teaches Your Kids to Visually Program Their Own Video Games
Thanks for offering! Our system is not set up to enable this (yet). Note that the Medallions are not an image plus JavaScript but HTML, CSS and image or three, and JavaScript inside an iframe, with the real content generated at page load time based on the state of the person viewing the page (person signed up with Kachingle and if so, does he or she already support the site).

Looking at http://shortformblog.com/, it’s a really nice, clean, readable design and your concern about fitting new elements in is completely understandable. Specifically in terms of size I think our Jazz style, which is 61x61, could fit in the column where you have the Retweet and FB Like buttons per post.

You're using WordPress so our shiny plugin (I admit to pride of authorship for it) makes it straightforward for you to have different Medallions for yourself, Seth and each/any of the other authors.

/turning off sales mode
The journal article as pdf http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/bul-136-1-103.pdf
It seems like most of the objections to the OP boil down to "if they're offended that's their problem." The trouble is that it's _our_ problem.

How many articles on HN complain about the lack of qualified programmers or complain that programmers aren't contributing to open source? Why, then, do we not seem to care about driving programmers away from cutting edge tools and open source projects? Whether you think they're reacting correctly is irrelevant. It's outcomes that matter here and the outcome is that women drop out of open source involvement or never even consider it in the first place. When a fair-sized segment of programmers feel ill-treated, the community itself does not prosper as it could.
SOAP has 50x the features of REST. Even most REST advocates will accept that there are scenarios, where it's better to use SOAP. If you need complex security, reliability, addressing, etc. why not let Microsoft/IBM/Oracle do the dirty work?
One might argue that most job creation is hardly "teaching men to fish."
Ask HN: What do you think about a simpler syntax that compiles into LaTeX?
I'm thinking of starting a project that is aimed at creating a simpler syntax for LaTeX, for cleaner and speedier document creation.

Check out the project notes, ideas, and examples at http://github.com/chetan51/eX.

There already exists a syntax called Multimarkdown, but it doesn't support a lot of basic stuff (AFAIK) like multi-line equations, theorems, etc. Basically, it's not as simple or specifically tailored for LaTeX as I would hope.

My vision is to make simple LaTeX document creation easier and faster using this shorthand notation, and to make LaTeX more accessible to the non-technical masses.

What do you think? Is this a project worth spending time and effort on? Would you use it?
You don't have to sign a contract for a counterparty to claim that a contract exists; worse still, your partner can claim, even the absence of a paper contract, that there are fiduciary duties you owe to each other. It helps you that you've never received consideration from your partner, but I doubt it helps so much that he can't take you to court out of spite.
I'm with the winning UC Berkeley Overmind team.

We played against Oriol (the guy from the video linked in another reply), many times. Maybe 20. We won once. Now, keep in mind, he is a retired pro, and so he represents one of the very best players.

That said, by the end, he definitely needed to be very careful. He couldn't win any way he wanted to; he had to attack at the right time, etc.

We'll be posting a video of him against us soon. Probably the one where we won. :-) http://overmind.cs.berkeley.edu/
That's the point. Bill Gates was convicted of being a monopolist and checks were put on what his company could and could not do. That does not happen in Mexico.

In more extreme cases, look at John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. Rockefeller used to be the wealthiest person in the world (according to some, if you inflation adjust his money, he may have been the wealthiest person in the last 200 years). His company was broken into parts in order to promote competition. Same goes for the Bell Telecom companies in America, they were also all broken up. We have checks in place to curb the anti-competitive forces of certain companies.
I'd second the third party idea. If you both feel like there's something that could be salvaged, I think even hiring a professional mediator for a couple of hours might help.
your product kicks ass. was in the sf for business and pleasure (from the east coast) and randomly stopped to have some (I am a sorbet fanatic). it was a real treat and probably the most memorable thing my wife and i had the whole time.