skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the looks of it - it means that you have to modify external scripts in ADW, right?

FIXED loading time to browser-specific DOM ready events. Don't see the need to use actual DEFER. Any reasons to do it?
This is all your fault, you see. You need to start "hiring" student assistants who look less intelligent than rubber ducks or random office equipment. Then your student assistants would be less apt to take up each other's time.
An HR tip for increasing office efficiency: only hire programmers who look less intelligent than rubber ducks.
Specificity is a blessing and a curse. For someone who is interested in specific things, like Rails developers and Rails hosting, your site is a perfect place to sponsor. Someone looking to determine if a site is running Rails is very likely to also need Rails hosting or Rails information. I'd look for a few select Rails related referral programs and integrate them. Avoid cluttering up the page. Developers understand the need to monetize traffic, so if done tastefully, advertising can be effective in this scenario.

Keeping your expectations realistic is important, however. I don't think this is the kind of site that you could support yourself on.
As a woman (and someone who is friends with the Brazen peeps) this is highly insulting. It assumes that all women want to have children, that men are mostly absent/dismissive in their children's lives (if they have them), and insinuates that women just aren't biologically fit to run a company. I know Penelope has kind of made a name for herself in saying things that shock people, so I wouldn't doubt that this is in the same vein. I run a company, work ridiculous hours, and the other devs on my team are male. I don't think any of us puts it fewer hours or energy based on the number of ovaries each has.
Fun. But the page is really hateful in the Android browser. The text box is jumping around all over the place.
I feel that your criticism is off base. The author of the story was right to focus only on the facts: specifically, the scientist's funding sources and the pattern of behavior that occurred with regards to funding and testimony.

Wisely, the author does not overreach the facts and try to call shenanigans on the science per se. Nor should he, unless he knows of a scientific experiment that has been done demonstrating what you are claiming.

Yes, the implication is that the scientist is not to be trusted and that, by connection, his work should not be. But that is intentionally left to the reader to conclude. It allows for the possibility that the scientist does questionable science but that his conclusions might be proven correct by others, even. This is very good investigative scientific journalism.
Ask HN: Why they are down?
Recently, We saw facebook went down for couple of hours. Twitter goes down frequently. Few days back, Four Square went down. I was discussing this with my friend at office and realized, It is interesting to know how big applications fail (just for learning purpose though).

Do any of you remember of any such incident and can share the link that explains / describes how they went down.
This article altered my perspective of what happened at HP. Firing Hurd, who IMHO was a great CEO up until his lapse in judgement, was costly and did take a lot of courage. I am now inclined to agree with the decision of HP's Board.
Markets weight features. Sometimes performance is most important, sometimes scalability, adoptability, usability, reliability, cost etc. It can even change over time.

This is self-evident, but it's so easy to forget when one is familiar with the overall comparative technical merits - this one is so much better in most ways. How could the other one win?!
I know hn isn't the place , but I an so completely jealous, and I think you're awesome.
Looks interesting, will be even better if the script has a demo page.
It has. Look at the yellow blocks.
Hmm.. I do have to amend my statement. Evidently, Bayer was caught with their pants down in Europe and Japan after their non-certified-edible GM rice was found in our food supply for export.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_1605.cfm

So the jury could still be out: Is Bayer corrupting science to lead away from the idea of GM food is causing bee deaths? Ugly, to say the least.
It assumes that all women want to have children

Headlines omit qualifiers. If you read the headline as "Fewer women than men want to run startups because many of them would rather have children", I think it's entirely accurate. Sure, there are women who don't want children, just like there are men who want nothing more than to be stay-at-home dads -- but they're the exception, not the rule.
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Sounds like Chandler. http://chandlerproject.org/vision

Maybe one of these days someone will succeed in this space. It would be nice.
This article makes me think of Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis), who wrote this book called
"Dancing in a Mind Field" years ago, and it brought up some interesting points when talking about "scientific research" and the reporting behind it.

The one takeaway from the book.. "follow the money". Fact checking, of course, is much harder than it sounds, which is probably why a lot of news organizations don't do as much as they should when reporting stuff like the bee colony collapses, etc.

Mullis has some interesting (almost conspiracy theory-esque) ideas about AIDS research, etc. One of the more memorable anecdotes in this book - he found it amusingly coincidental that there was a huge movement to ban Freon for environmental reasons right before Dupont's patents were about to expire.
posted yesterday here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1769761

click the title to get the story - interesting stuff.
Ah yes, you are right. Thanks for reminding.
This model of doing business is broken. It can be fixed.
How is it better than GitHub?
Thanks Jason :)
Good job, now lets get the major sites (especially blogs) to use this.
I think there is a market for a lead generation product for niche hosting providers. Have a pay service that 'hunts' down high-traffic or newly-launched websites that fit the profile that they're looking for.

These types of apps are impossible to get done internally. But sales teams would gladly pay if t exists.
Anyone else read Q2 as (sum of the prime factors of X) + 1? Confused me for a good 10 minutes :(
In one sense, of course, you are right. But I was using the term as a shorthand for the state standardized tests used to measure academic progress grade by grade (e.g., CAT, TAKS). These state standardized tests tend to measure the minimum requirements for a grade level.

But for a test to be a learning technique, it must challenging enough to make the students study new material. Otherwise, it's just an excercise in "monkey see, monkey do."

Personally, I think the future of standardized tests will be like ACT's Compass college placement test, which progressively adapts to the level of the student as he/she is taking it, yet still results in a comparative standardized score.
Thanks!
Too early, need to polish out quite a few bugs with Opera/IE right now.

UPD. Major bugs with Opera fixed. IE probably too, waiting for confirmation.
Evolutionary pressure in our society will tend toward women that have children, not women who don't have children.

If women all run business, go to wars, and the like. All of which implies that women won't have time to have children because it take 9 months to make a baby as well the maternity leave that come with it. It will be a population disaster if that were ever to happen. Pretty soon, you won't have a self-sustaining population.

In time, women like you will be the exception or already is an exception. Sad, but true.
Unfortunately I'm not working on this idea. I gave it and the others in this thread away to community because I'm currently working to make one of my ideas a reality and I already have a second one planned for when I'm done with this one.

On top of that I'm not living in the United States right now. I plan to return one day, but at the moment I live in São Paulo, Brazil.

By all means feel free to work on it, share it with others or whatever. I'd be more than happy to advise anyone who wants to work on it.

I have way more time than ideas. New ideas appear daily. I wish I had as many skills as ideas.
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Even if he didn't use the funding for the study, he should have at least disclosed it. His research is going to now be perceived (right or wrong) as a lot shadier now that this CNN article came out than it would have if he just made his disclosure in the first place.

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Well, I don't know if I agree with you there. There's a fine line between opinion and theory in scientific papers, especially when you're trying to prove (or disprove) causation. You don't find it interesting that, say, the tobacco industry manages to find scientists to refute links between use of their products and cancer? Or what about the division between the "global warming" debate. There's a reason for peer review in scientific publications, and even the peer review process can occasionally break down.
>I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation. APS no longer represents me, but I hope we are still friends.

This guy has a lot of gall to end with that after making such flimsy allegations of fraud against an entire academic discipline. His hyperbolic screeching about the "flood of money" would better be directed at the oil industry.

That's not to say the climate change crowd is without its biases, but if he honestly thinks that they are intentionally committing fraud for love of money and prestige, he is deluded.

Personally, I think that the people he slanders are acting honestly, but I might present a more modest hypothesis:

The people who do research on the climate and on the environment have a dramatic love of forests and lakes and natural, untouched wilderness. Anyone who stands in the midst of the mountains cannot help but see why this is. These people might even be willing to lie to protect them. Money, I assure you, has nothing to do with it. But unfailing love of the natural world? Sure, there are people who would lie without hesitation to protect that. But money? Money has very little importance to people who advocate for reductions in fossil fuels, and I think Hal Lewis' focus on money shows how little he understands the people he maligns.

I don't include myself among them because I am no such researcher, but I share their values, their love of the wild things. Lewis, I'm not entirely sure what he loves. I find it difficult to believe he's really interested in science. I can't believe a rationalist would look at any of the evidence available and be so convinced of fraud.
I know tons of successful women who run businesses who are fine without having children; I also know quite a few who have children and are still able to run a business.

This whole argument goes back to the beginning of the feminist movement and people not being willing to hire women because they should be making some man sandwiches and popping out babies.

The trend is leaning towards more women having fewer children, if they are having them at all (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...).
The only reason is so that you can use the browser's native async and defer script scheduling. And yes, you need to modify the external scripts (only adding a single line to the start and end).

If you can't convince the widget provider to change the script, you can place <script>document.write.to = "the URI of the following widget script";</script> right before the widget script itself.

Also, on your fixed loading time thing: with onload, it still won't run until every image and iframe on your website has loaded too.
Apparently it only took 16 minutes for the take-offense-out-of-context strawman to rear its ugly head. Did you even read beyond the headline?

The author doesn't say "all women" to the point that a single counterexample disproves the hypothesis. Not only does the auther qualify statements such as "fewer women" but any such analysis is a statistical study of a group. It says something about a group and similar groups but nothing about a specific individual (in a definitive non-probabilistic sense at least).

It's a bit like arguing that the research into the ill-health effects of smoking are nonsense because your Uncle Jack smoked 3 packs a day for 80 years and died at age 95 when hit by a bus (ie not lung cancer).
Just as some of us are annoyed by the scientist for not talking about the funding, we also have to remember that newspapers have funding too. Advertisers and eyeballs.

The linkbait-y headlines are all about helping the newspapers make money.
> why not use natural language to specify a program, but add annotations to disambiguate the parts which are ambiguous due to the inherent fuzziness of natural language?

That's far from a new idea; that misguided idea is how monstrosities like COBOL got inflicted on innocent programmers. Here's the problem: whatever you create, will not really be a natural language, it will just be another programming language. Yet for some reason everyone who has this idea thinks no one else ever thought of it. It's the computer science equivalent of perpetual motion physics cranks.
Incubators Need Mentorship More than Money
I have been using bzr with a team of 4 for some time now. Moved from ClearCase UCM and haven't looked back. :-)
As most people had experience with cvs and svn the command set was easy to pick up. We just needed to put together a policy with integration branch and user specific product branches. It was a unix only install so standard unix groups/perms were used for these directory hierarchies.
While it could be a subset of Israel, various forms of Zionism also come to my mind. It's interesting how the Israeli PR is so effective in some cases (like in US government) and so ineffective in others. Of course I have to remind myself that P(bad person | jewish) isn't significantly different from P(bad person | not jewish), we're all human.
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Exactly. Working smarter/slower at first, and focusing on a well thought out minimal viable product, then scaling up makes more sense than working insane hours to bang out something fast then burn out.

I figure I have about 60-80 good hours of applied, useful thought a week (not all of which is spent on work related items).
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This is definitely a problem. If you apply/ok a submodal but then cancel the parent modal, I believe the original apply/ok sticks. This tree-like UX is bad and should be avoided.
It's hard to say.

The toughest problem people have starting community sites is getting the community. Dealing with problem behaviors is something you worry about after you've got the community. Just as casinos hire shills, many community site operators use Mechanical Turk or statistical models to get the ball rolling...

Who knows, we might soon have replicants that are more satisfying to interact with than ordinary humans.
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How many browsers support 'document.write.to'?

It uses browser-specific event. onload is fallback.

I've tested the slow image (20 second delay instead of image) - no, it doesn't require loading of images, scripts fire up as soon as HTML finishes loading. Sorry.
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Warm Gun: the Age of Experience
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I'm not demoting you (I mostly agree with you, actually), just noting that part of that lack of self-awareness comes from how many programmers seem to consider anything written more than a couple years ago obsolete.

It makes sense when dealing with surface details in rapidly changing web APIs, but otherwise that approach condemns programmers to starting from zero and wasting time re-discovering fundamentals.

"Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes." — Richard Hamming
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I think this post is skipping the crucial factor in all this. It's not about children--at least not directly. It's about risk.

Several years ago I read an article that analyzed the work preferences of the genders. It demonstrably showed that:

- Men are more likely to do riskier jobs;

- Men are more likely to travel further to work (including internationally);

- Women tend to choose that are closer to home.

Basically it came down to risk-aversion. Women are, on the whole, more averse to risk than men.

A startup, compared to any salaried job, is far riskier. You can work for years on substandard pay and much longer hours and end up nothing. Of course you could also end up a millionaire (or even a billionaire).

Obviously children will be a factor for some (both men and women but more women than men, on the whole) and you can argue that the risk aversion is a product of the child factor but I think you see these same traits in women who are childless (so you then have to stretch the child factor to women who may one day have children, which applies to pretty much any women under 40 so is really a non-argument).

Tech Crunch had a post about this a few months ago. The tech press wants to write stories about women entrepreneurs. Companies and business schools have diversity policies the result of which is that the entrance requirement for women are generally lower than their male counterparts.

Equality isn't the same thing as being identical. If less than 50% of entrepreneurs or programmers are women is not a failure of equal opportunity. Nowadays there aren't any barriers preventing women from taking these paths (quite the opposite, actually). It's simply that less women choose these routes.
Andy Rubin: OEMs/carriers have a lot of value to bring, and they need a vehicle
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Scholarship essays need to be written persuasively; it needs to be attractive and requires the inclusion of perfect English writing skills. These three elements combined will ensure that your scholarship essay is written to impress which will get you the scholarship required.
I think you probably need to ask yourself: "would I pay for this?" then ask your friends and people in a wider community: "would you or your business pay for this?"

I think you'll probably find that answer is, well, no. What's my ROI on knowing if a site runs Rails? I'm really trying hard and coming up with a blank.

What does your site do that I can't accomplish in a simple email to the site's owner? You're basically arguing a value proposition over my laziness to send an email and wait a day or so for the result, which isn't a lot.
Casio debuts Prizm graphing calculator with 'high-res' color screen -- Engadget
Or make bigger checkboxes - my little invention, mostly cross-browser:

.bigcheckbox {
vertical-align:middle;
margin-right:5px;
height:1.4em;
width:1.4em;
*font-size:1.4em;
}
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What? How? It was only a year ago. Is Windows Vista ancient history? Sheesh.
So, is his opinion more relevant for having that much stock in facebook?

I'm all for a more realistic stance on drug (ab)use, the United States has way too many people serving prison sentences on grounds that in most other jurisdictions would merely get you a slap on the wrist.

So even if I agree with the ideas behind proposition 19 (and I think it doesn't go far enough, why should there be an age limit, smoking has no age limit, neither does drinking, but selling cigarettes and booze to minors is an offense in many places) I don't see what his (theoretical) riches have to do with it, other than that he can spend some money on causes that he sees as worthy.

Personally I think that wealthy people sponsoring political causes is a terrible way to run a country, sometimes that will lead to things good for everybody, but most of the times I would expect such wealthy backers to support legislation that benefits them or their corporations.

As for Mokovitz having that much money, he doesn't, he's got a bunch of Facebook stock, and that's not exactly the same as having money in the bank.

Of course that goes for many people on the Forbes 400, but I'm thinking that $70,000 may not be as much of a pittance as you might expect based on the numbers thrown around there, I don't think he won't be able to go shopping on Monday but I also don't think it is below the radar for him.
Well, that headline is designed to get eyeballs.

It should have been headlined "Opinion: ...", as it's not like the article is full of research, etc.
Just like almost everyone on HN, you are a statistical anomaly.

(This is nothing to do with you being a woman - that just increases the factor by an order of magnitude or two.)

Even the people you know are probably outliers. So you have to be a bit careful relying on your experience and instead look at broader demographic trends.

Nearly all of the people I know well have no TV. Should I assume that TV is hugely unpopular with everyone?
Live Labs closure, leader's exit cap a crazy week for Microsoft
I'll simply point out that this is Penelope Trunk, who previous wrote about how she had two abortions for her career.

http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/06/17/whats-the-connectio...
Here's the original author's site: http://people.csail.mit.edu/msbernst/

Paper: http://people.csail.mit.edu/msbernst/papers/soylent-uist2010...

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_miZqsPwsc

Code: http://code.google.com/p/soylent/

Slides: http://people.csail.mit.edu/msbernst/talks/soylent-uist2010....

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I dunno much about the HP board or the HP culture. But having spoken personally with Ben Horowitz about creating company culture, and after working at Ning, which is a heavily Horowitz + Andreeson-based culture, for nearly a year, I can say this: he's sincere and the real deal when he says this stuff. And as an employee, it totally works for me. I feel taken care of, like the company has a greater mission than just making money, and like they care about doing the right thing.

While I'm sure HP has many other corporate forces at play in it's decisions, and I am but a lowly code monkey, if what Ben Horowitz outlines in the post was at least a partial motivation for what they did, then I think there's at least a glimmer of hope that things might get better there.
Not necessarily. Birthrates in developed countries where resources are plentiful and infant mortality rates are low tend downward, not upward. Our species has adopted the strategy that it is better to put more resources into fewer offspring than the shot-gunning approach. We only need to maintain replacement levels or slightly above to be self-sustaining.
This already exists: www.epostalservices.com