skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Immature male behaviour is celebrated as well. Look at all the tv shows that portray some men as boys who haven't been able to put away their video games and other toys. They too act like vapid teenagers ;/
'Dashler Toolbar is a bookmarklet that opens up a toolbar of shortcuts to various webpages, and allows for super easy bookmarking. '

I have a very limited attention span. You need a better opener than that - 'shortcuts to various webpages' is vague and doesn't give me anything beyond my existing browser bookmarks.
What would be interesting to me is if they broke that statistic down geographically, such that we could measure ignorance (or at least the effectiveness of the local education system) by region or country.
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Some of these facts are super hilarious and interesting. Ex I just saw: Long Term Risk is a board game ;p The irony of that statement is awesome.
Anyone know other 'challenges' like this one?
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And 95% copywriting to 37signals.
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that doesn't seem to be so much about marketing, but more to do with being viral.
Okay, this makes a lot more sense now. I'll definitely be watching this to see where you take it, since quick development of canvas applications is something we could definitely use more of.
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Curiously enough, most of these also work for essays.
>Why is it important to you whether or not women are dumber than men?

Wouldn't you want to know if you carry within you an inherent deficit or advantage? I do. That's why I got my genome sequenced. Now I know my risk of colorectal cancer. Knowledge is power. Blah blah blah.

Also it's interesting. And clearly it's not just interesting to me, but to HN as a whole. There's a sex-related post on the front page practically every time it loads.

>OKCupid's OKTrends blog posts are second only to MythBusters in putting out interesting, entertaining, scientific answers to questions

So you admit that in terms of one scientific fact that has implications for a person's understanding of size, scale, and space, women are inferior to men.
Express passion for what the company does and how they do it within the context of the position being applied for.

Think of it combined with your resume as a marketing plan. Why you as opposed to someone else and address anything that stick out better or worse in your resume.
No. Imagine I'm a 4-person startup hoping to capitalize on my revolutionary new psychoacoustic library. Copyright protections don't prevent Microsoft from reading my library, learning how they work, and creating a clean-room reimplementation. Similarly, it's hard to create a trade secret out of something that will need to run on every customer's machine.
When reporting science, it's often not useful to start off with the newest thing. Doing so presumes the reader knew about the old thing, which of often not the case. Hence, the new thing is a few paragraphs in:

To track where the X-rays travel, Australian scientists rigged up Scotch tape on a spool driven by a motor (the lab’s first prototype spun on an electric drill). The X-rays mostly sprayed at a right angle to the direction the tape was pulled, the researchers report in the Sept. 29 Applied Physics Letters. That’s a convenient property, because herding light into a straight line normally absorbs the light’s energy, but the tape naturally emits X-rays in a straight line to within 5 degrees.

“Tape is an even better use as an X-ray source than we thought,” says Putterman, who first observed the phenomenon and reported in May that bremsstrahlung radiation is the X-ray source in a May paper in Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics.
Spreedly, Recurly, and Cheddargetter are the three most often mentioned as alternatives.
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Those are good points. I mainly just wanted to put that information out there for anyone who wasn't familiar with how OKCupid works.
First, you are confusing lack of intelligence with ignorance. A person can be intelligent, but ignorant of basic facts. It's not terribly common in our society, where basic education is afforded to most, but it's a distinction that needs to be made.

Second, the fact that more women got the answer wrong doesn't tell you anything about the average intelligence of each gender. What if women's intelligence distribution has a greater variance? There could be a bigger number of women (compared to men) at the extreme ends of the intelligence spectrum. I don't believe that's the case, but the "argument" you present is far from "convincing".
Sun always had a schizophrenic behavior in regards to open-source and the Java standard.

This is also one of those stories where the GPL (version 2) is acting in the interests of Oracle, not in the interest of the users; if only Sun released OpenJDK under Apache ... but why would they do that?
I was thinking that if it doesn't take off, I'd just release the whole thing as an open source project since most of the work did not come from writing the code, but rather acquiring and maintaining the list of institutions, servers to query, and eventually websites to scrape.

From your idea, perhaps I can release the code completely free (or small one time fee) but charge for use of my up to date databases. Thanks for the help!
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Wow, thank you for that response. Very helpful.
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As an adult engineer, I feel myself in status competition with other engineers: I want to be recognized as a better engineer than they are. The salespeople just aren’t on my radar.
Questions:

1) How would you classify a non-reprogrammable hardware device that performs a computation?

2) Would it matter to your classification if it was programmed through the simple arrangement of wires, rather than some source code?

3) How is an arrangement of levers that performs a computation different? Would you argue that a specific physical machine capable of performing a computation is patentable, while the algorithm itself is not?

3b) Since computers are a form of universal machine, if the answer to (3) is yes, then what constitutes the specific physical machine, where the machine is specified in software?

4) Finally, would you simply argue that nothing should be patentable, in which case splitting hairs is irrelevant?
Unfortunately this won't help. Homophobes are not such because they looked at a bunch of data and came to a conclusion as a result. As such they will not look at data to the contrary and change their mind.
Speaking for myself, I don't get a boner just from looking at an attractive woman (provided she is dressed), and I don't check my penis to see whether I am attracted to someone. Therefore I doubt that the lack of a "visual cue" is realistic, because I doubt that many men use their erection as a technique for determining whether they are attracted to someone.
Social Networking websites
What would be involved in getting a website started that is comparable to facebook in how it functions? How could I go about finding someone that is able to write the code for that kind of thing?
The German Schuko with the French contact added? Never heard that given the europlug name, but that's probably due to me being German, where the old-fashioned name just stuck and only the CEE7/16 is given the "euro" prefix.

Yeah, I was quite surprised that this is now a de facto standard, as most of my previous European travel took me to locations where another system was used (e.g. Italy, UK, Ireland).
You're absolutely right. The most difficult thing I'm dealing with is explaining this thing. I'd be grateful if you could give it a test drive, or watch the video, and let me know of a better way to explain it.
Quick! file an app for 'peer-to-patent' and we'll be riiiiich!
All proprietary Java implementations are licensed, with the deal made behind closed-doors, especially IBM's.

All open-source Java implementations available (minus OpenJDK) are not certified, and can be sued for patents infringements (or trademark violations if they're advertised as being Java implementations).

Oracle just showed they are not shy on using their property.
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That's a very interesting point.

It'd be fun to think about how one could architect a patent system where the duration and scope of a patent is based on the capital costs that went into developing it as well as the capital costs required for a clean room implementation (still seems silly that a patent can affect somebody else from coming up with the same idea independently).
Wait, no one else thought that these are variations of the Bacardi logo first? I must be drinking too much...
There's a really detailed breakdown here:

http://www.untitledstartup.com/2010/02/accepting-payments-on...
Perhaps its rarity is why there is more of a stigma...
Its not the developer, its the open source which is an asset. Developers in this area tend to be contributers to the open source, which means that they are much brighter than 'Learn Apply' proprietary source developers.
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In "Quick Find" there's a button that says "Find shortcuts related to news.ycombinator.com". When I click it, it does show HN tools. You're right though, there should be some sort of indication that there are tools available for the page you're viewing. Even better would be "most common tools/shortcuts used on this page" ... that might make you want to check the toolbar at each interesting page you view.
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about 90% of my misery, unhappiness, frustration in life are due to one word: expectation. Once I understood that my sufferings are caused by unmet expectation of myself and/or others, my sufferings ease.

ps. still have high expectations, just not suffering.
It's an individual fact, certainly, but it has greater implications for a person's understanding of the world. A professor I knew in college taught a non-majors general biology class, and every semester he put this question on- order according to size, the following: cell, organism, atom, molecule, organ. Apparently this was a very difficult question for them, and it expresses a fundamental lack of understanding of how things work. If they don't know that the Earth is smaller than the Sun, then how can they understand that the Earth is a satellite of the Sun?

>What if women's intelligence distribution has a greater variance?

Sure. But if anything, it has a smaller variance (if there is a difference; the "greater" male variance hypothesis is a bit under fire recently.)
Great, thanks. And what percentage of the site is male/female?
> the hypervisor is simply not doing the stuff that the classical OS kernel does

And that makes the comparison with exokernels apt. Exokernels are not supposed to do what normal kernels do.

(Though if you run a normal kernel on top of a hypervisor or exokernel, in a sense you haven't reached the true potential of the system and your critique is more than valid.)
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As my dad said: "You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into."
I would consider doing it though I have done the startup and big company thing, so the experience may not have as big an impact career wise as for others. Aside from networking and the actual work, it certainly demonstrates good citizenship, character, and passion.

If I were the organization, I would try to offer some group housing (maybe they do and I missed it). I certainly agree if the program gets bigger colocating project teams with the customers/cities is definitely the way to go in order to create empathy and broader contextual understanding of opportunity and impact.
I've been thoroughly absorbed by this project, and have lost the ability to see it from a fresh perspective. Any ideas anybody has about how to explain this thing, or what their immediate impressions were, are extraordinarily helpful.

Oh, I replied :)
The problem is that it makes it hard to summarize a set of arguments; for example, to focus on points of agreement or disagreement. Which I think tends to encourage back-and-forth arguments.
This article got me thinking about a trip to the dentist I had a few years ago. From when I was 5-18 years old I had the same dentist and between ages 13-18 I had a really impeccable record when it came to not having cavities.

Then, when I came back from my first semester of college I had to switch from my old dentist (who specialized in children/teenagers) to a new one.

On my first visit, he identified something like 3 cavities, which was pretty shocking to me. Before I just assumed that the x-rays were easy to interpret so the dentist is 'always right' ... but after hearing about this 50% figure it makes me wonder.
Straight men and straight women were in opposite ends of the chart. So I thought the sequence is more likely to be straight men, gay women, gay men, straight women. I got it wrong thinking gay women are more masculine than gay men. Actually the chart looks ok to me (in my line of thought) now.
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Areas like this (essentially, a complex combination of psychology combined with differing motivations along with a little information disparity for good measure) could be an interesting opening for a startup.

If you could get over the admittedly uncomfortable social dynamic of implying a lack of competence in your dentist, you could ask them to send your Xrays over to "2ndopinion.com" where trained and certified dentists would give a second opinion. You might pay $80 for the privilege, and for that price maybe 2 dentists would review it.

Anyways, you get the idea. I love disruption around information disparities.
Yes, but if you couldn't become erect from thinking about any women ever, or seeing a picture of any women ever naked, you could be unlikely to ever try having sex with one in the absence of social pressure. It's a negative filter, not a positive one.
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Yeah, I completely agree with this post. I recently published my first application to the Android Market (last month) and was pretty shocked with how little the Developer Console tells me. I had expected a lot more analytical data.

Hopefully, as they continue to improve the OS, they will improve the Marketplace as well.

(Side: I am still waiting to even hear another thing about the Desktop version that was demoed at the Google IO this year.)
In other words, there's no problem with software (or other) patents in theory, but currently the pragmatics are out of whack. Software patents are no different than other forms of patents except that many of the coefficients involved are very different from other industries, which significantly changes the calculus. Complete elimination of software patents would be preferable to what we have now, but IMO wouldn't necessarily be the optimal solution.
Or...

It's recognizable because it's a bat.
Look nice but:

- Needs to have a search (that lists sections found, lets you skip between finds, etc.)

- Needs index, even though tabs are nice

- scrollbar in middle of page != friendly (use vertical space in page and page scroll)
Interestingly, that image search shows the Crystal Tux designs (one shows up second in that search for me - it's shiny, rounder, and has unevenly sized eyes) is nearly as popular as the classic Larry Ewing design in adaptations.
If anyone could just pull a fantastic, iconic logo out of their ass on a whim, this story wouldn't have gotten any upvotes. You seem to be saying "gosh, I can't blindly apply this to crank out my own logos, so it's not useful", but that's wrong

No, I guess You misunderstood me. I am just saying that while this might be an ideal logo to aspire to, it is something most designers should not worry about achieving in order to satisfy their bosses or clients. I love the bat nonetheless!
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Like they say: "The little things... there's nothing bigger."

It's really difficult deciding on things when every single word matters. I spend a lot of time and energy either being stuck in analysis paralysis, or trying to avoid it.
for a first job, or a couple years out of school, or trying to bypass school? This would be awesome. Having gone to grad school married with kids, I assure you, you can make this happen.
Good point. I put that in more to represent releases between F and M but I see why that was confusing.
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The blog says: "The blog’s end is a result of limited resources in a medium where any number of worthy projects are possible, and where new priorities continually emerge."

What in sam scratch does that mean? I can apply my Corporate Kremlinology to it and get a couple of meanings:

1. We just laid off the gal who was doing this as a side project.

2. Nobody visits this blog any more because of the paywall.
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How about something more like Peace Corps for programmers and hackers? Not just for government projects, but for humanitarian coding (if such a thing exists).
Pros & cons of IDN ccTLD vs .com for startups e.g. disk.io vs diskio.com?
Does anyone have any thoughts on the relative merits of international country code top-level domains (.io, .gg, .ws etc) vs Plain 'ole .com for startups e.g. disk.io vs diskio.com (particularly since it seems possible to get 'clever' IDN ccTLD names that form a single word relatively easily, whereas .com is more crowded)? I imagine in non-technical niches .com rules the roost, but I have no data to back that up. Also if I've already settled on my 'brand' and want to get keyword-rich domains for landing pages do off-beat TLDs work there too?
Free market forces can definitely spure society towards equality and human rights. Unfortunately, there is a clear point (i.e. China) where business interests take over. So while I'm certainly happy that business interests and are aligned in this case, it certainly isn't the norm. The only example I'm aware of where a business fell clearly on the side of equality and human rights at the cost of business was when Google pulled out of China.
You can't go to Visa/MC and get a card. You have go go through an issuing bank. As opposed to Amex where your card is issued from them directly (though, they do have bank issued Amex cards too).
This story would be better titled:
"Computer reads and learns from the Internet"

Text-to-voice is already very established. However, "machine learning from the Internet" with its intelligent crawling, parsing, computational linguistics logic, and AI involved is the truly impressive aspect here. Don't you think?
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How did you have time to work on it when you were a grad student?
No, thanks for this! I just found this image while poking around and I reposted it because I thought people would find it meaningful (every startup has to figure out its branding).

I had no idea it would go to the top of HN... Its only my second post.
When I changed dentist after University the new dentist made an official complaint about the standard of work of the previous one (who I had been with since an early age).

For a while my mouth was effectively "Exhibit A" in some kind of professional complaints process.
Gender dysphoria is pretty thoroughly described and catalogued seperately from the hetero/homo continuum. There may very well be correlation, but the idea that one causes the other is worthless without new data.
I think it just means they are re-assigning the gal to a different project. Too bad they don't tell us which one though. So, maybe you are right after all: they laid her off just could stomach telling the readers... ;-)
Actually straight men should encourage other men to become gay: Less competition.
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This is not an 'anti-PayPal' in any way, shape or form.

They offer a service that PayPal doesn't yet. It is not opposed to PayPal and it doesn't replace PayPal's services at all.
Let's say we buy into the Java Trap Hypothesis; the question then is: what's next? What do you choose if you're a corporation with large projects and large teams of mostly non-rockstar developers. For the sake of the argument let's assume the JVM is out, and you can't use .Net (e.g. need Linux, or more flexible licensing, etc). I'm curious what people would choose, if given a clean slate for this kind of situation.
Great article. Actually, you can do the same right here at home by hiring minorities, disabled employees, and people who would otherwise not find work. Many of them will be more motivated than the average employee and you also do society a service by doing what most employers still don't.
StormPulse's previous article made me question why they've been ignored by VC/Angels despite great traction, and smart founders.

I have a crackpot theory: Silcon Valley doesn't understand weather.

I live in CA too, and "weather" for me is not wearing sandals to work.

The StormPulse founders live in FL, where "weather" is not being able to find your house when you come home from work because it's in a tree a half-mile away.

Meanwhile "The public’s online appetite for weather cannot be overstated. According to a Scarborough Research study, 36.5% of adults went to the Internet for weather info in the past month, behind only e-mail (62.6%) and ahead of news (33.6%)."

I can't wait to see where these guys go . . .

StormPulse's first article - http://wensing.tumblr.com/post/1215873671/bootstrapping-stor...

Quote referenced: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/390680-Stations_Wea...
So simply summarized Stormpulse's success came because:

1. They provided a better solution to a problem that people had,
2. They made the solution easily spreadable via an embedable widget,
3. Hurricane Ike hit the Gulf Coast.

Two of the three ingredients they had control of, the third was a random event that they were well-placed to take advantage of. People who saw the Stormpulse widget remembered it and searched for it directly, rather than try to use the broken, or inefficient service of other online weather media.
I like to think that the things that will get me hired at a company are the pet projects that I choose to work on (rather than a degree, or "notable" classes I've taken).

What's worked best for me is just emailing startups I genuinely want to work for with a one-sentence description of me, and a question (wanna meet up? is a summer internship a possibility?). I also include a sentence describing the coolest thing I've worked on (inspired by the SuS application).

It's worked so far (and I'm only a freshman, I'm sure you have way more to talk about!).
Reading this while sitting in a chair waiting for four cavities to be filled might not have been the smartest move.
Anyone know if there's a copy of the mentioned graph elsewhere? The original link is down.
Most of that time is probably actually spent outputting the numbers. Something like that would be really quick on the back end.

And with a bit of optimization, it would be even quicker.
Isn't ! pronouced 'click'?

Go Click... kind of catchy.