skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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....This is very good investigative scientific journalism.

Really? It just sounds to me like insinuation.
Sorry, I misunderstood then (probably because my comment got negative karma at the same time). To clarify: I don't think anything written more than a couple years ago is obsolete. But I do feel that this particular article by Joel already caused maximum havoc and people have moved on from it for a good reason. Otherwise I agree with you as well :-)
That landing page is very rudimentary. I really wanted to find out more. Maybe put some more info to help fellow startupers (me included)
Thank you so much. The timing of this article is fantastic I have actually been battling this exact bug/quirk all week.
Is Windows Vista ancient history? Sheesh.

If only wishing made it so!
Interesting, I was there when they went from full coverage to the co-pay PPO/HMO model, as well as when they went from pensions to 401K retirement.

Some of this seems to be in line with healthcare reform, i.e. no-copay preventative care.
Fantastic idea. Fits perfectly in my schedule :)
Mark Zuckerberg.
There is http://www.duggback.com
It is not about what is "real" or "unreal". Calling it an acquisition is part of the value Google is providing to the deal. It is not measured in dollars but maybe just as valuable nonetheless.
On a pure headline level, this is more suited for The Onion than TechCrunch.
"but if he honestly thinks that they are intentionally committing fraud for love of money and prestige, he is deluded."
It's official, sprout, the non-researcher thinks that an American Physical Society of sixty-seven years is wrong simply 'because'. Without reading the emails of climategate, sprout leads us to the truth intrinsic to himself only.
Floods of money are directed to "the oil industry", often times by customers. Money is flooding scientific research by tax dollars aimed at manipulating the public. It's not like a carbon-credit market props itself up, right?
We have Commercial skipping technology for TV..

FWIW, I know a lot of people with a DVR that don't skip commercials. Hell, I'm one of them. In my case, I have the TV on in the background and put the remote down somewhere else in the room.

Also: Please use the enter key more often in the future. It makes large blobs of text much more readable.
Let us say that the writer actually believes that every single assumption (and oh, there's so many you will lose count) in this article is true (they are not) and it is not just flamebait/linkbait (it most certainly is).

Even so, surely she believes in exceptions. Surely, she does not think that every woman in the world is exactly like her? Why the $$$$ would she advise other people who run startups to "stick with..men in their 20s".

What a shameful way to get attention!
The Hope of Tomorrow
Good insight. My thinking today has moved beyond SMO more in the directions of public relations.
If you understand what you're saying... well, that makes one of us.
I think the inference is supposed to be "Look, this well-off, exceptionally productive (in a monetary sense) member of society supports marijuana legalization. It isn't just a bunch of layabout potheads and criminals!"
Agreed, this is pretty much a shallow version of the same argument that many people have been making for quite some time now. It would also seem to suggest that we should see major shortages of women in other fields that are extremely intense to start out in (medicine and law, for instance), and IIRC the gender ratios there are much more balanced. "Working hard" is not something women tend to be put off by; "building software", on the other hand, is, and I think any helpful suggestion needs to avoid catching the first in the same net as the second.

IMO the main reason this is getting attention is that it's a woman and she's not arguing the "discrimination" line. That's fine and all, but at this point it just seems like fanning the flames rather than adding anything new to the conversation.

Really, most of this whole debate is a polarization issue: the only people that care very much about this are at the fringes, either arguing the "men are pigs" position or getting really pissed off about people arguing the same. I think there's probably a balance between "discrimination" and "inherent biological differences" that conspire to turn women off from programming altogether, but each side is working so hard to shut the other side down completely that we don't see any balanced views coming out of this debate.
No, they get a dialog (you can't completely prevent navigation in a web browser). They can say, "yes I want to lose all my changes", and then it will go back.
Well they are not technically innocent are they? If marijuana possession is illegal and they got caught with it, then they broke the law. You can say that the law is unjust of course, but if the law is on the books, they are not innocent of it.

Overcrowding can be a good argument because it basically argues that whatever social ill the marijuana prohibition aims to cure is not worth the cost of keeping all these people in jail.
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

Except she does not cite one bit of research to back up her claims.

What do you call research without data? Assumptions.
Debate is being intentionally suppressed, data is intentionally being manipulated and obscured, sources of information go missing, trillions of dollars are being poured in by Governments to influence the outcome, and outcomes are being declared by stacked committees. Call it what you want, just don't call it science.
"According to Wikileaks has leaked this file because it is important to make public policy is influenced by pressure groups, and for the record of what is happening in the European Commission."

This is kind of hard to read.
Are there any good links that give a fair and balanced* view of both sides? I realise that I could be asking for the impossible here, but for example, I'm finding it difficult to find a view against climate change that doesn't irritate me by mentioning mediaeval temperature logs and yet criticise the modern temperature logs for accuracy.

*TM News International
I'd be curious to see that too. Don't be shy! :)
Right. Let's not overlook the fact that T can influence both B and P. The equation is nonlinear, and IMO dominated by cross-terms.

Teachers and teaching methods that are engaging, for example, will tend to promote better behavior within the classroom. Teachers and methods that inspire most of the class to think learning is "cool" and worthwhile will improve the whole peer group. There is a lot of feedback involved. Unfortunately, as you point out, the expected "role of a teacher" isn't really well geared to produce excellent teachers using excellent methods.
Well, for what it's worth, I thought it was stupid in the 90's, too. I never did understand the logic of having a reset button.
trying it out now ... you my friend probably just got yourself another new customer
> "I strongly disagree with the confirmation dialogs' Cancel button: confirmation dialogs are generally pointless and annoying. It's far better to provide a means of undoing."

There are some places where it's appropriate - but IMHO they should never be named "OK" and "Cancel". One of the better things we've done to make our lives easier is the trend to verb our dialog buttons, and "OK/Cancel" is in gross violation of that.

OK to what? Cancel to what? People simply don't read dialogs (or, your dialog text is just not as understandable as you think it is).

"Are you sure you want to foo?" should be followed by "Foo" and "Don't Foo", not "OK" and "Cancel".
There are still questions about nature vs nurture. There are lots of social pressures to be a certain kind of woman, a certain kind of mom, etc. I'm not sure any of her examples prove that things are biologically this way, just that they are. I wish she would just ask the questions, and not answer them. Why aren't men full partners in parenting? Who's fault is that? Why aren't young women encouraged to take on greater risks in their lives? Is it really true that you can only have a successful start-up if you surround yourself with exploitable young men who will work long hours for a minimal payoff?
The comparison to law/medicine is particularly interesting, and I haven't seen a good explanation of the differences with that (one might exist, but I haven't found it). My feeling is that 20-30 years ago, computing, law, and medicine were all seen as being fairly similar gender-wise, both in terms of their ratios and perceptions of how friendly/attractive to women the fields were. But in the years since, they've gone in opposite directions: women now make up more than half of med-school students, and an ever-increasing proportion of law-school students, but they make up a smaller portion of CS students today than they did in the 1980s.
One thing I've found irritating about the facebook privacy system is that it seems to apply differently to Zuckerberg's own profile. It isn't possible for me to see a list of https://www.facebook.com/zucks friends, for example. But I can't prevent people outside my network viewing my own friends list.
Am I missing something obvious?
If it's a privacy setting that's useful to him, it's a feature he should expose to the rest of us too!
Review the UI/Experience of this side project (FriendShuffle)
We wanted to make sure it was fast and dead simple.

We think there are a lot of things that we can improve on but we would love some feedback from the Hacker News community (specifically on the UI and experience).

Thanks!
It's just not young people! I'm 42 and would probably go crazy without my Internet connection.
“1,000,000 people can do your job.  What makes you so special?”
This seems like much more of a cultural phenomenon than a biological one.
We wanted to make sure it was fast and dead simple.

We think there are a lot of things that we can improve on but we would love some feedback from the Hacker News community (specifically on the UI and experience).

Thanks!
Would that be balanced by an equally well off exceptionally productive member of society if they were against?
Well, I just registered. This is maybe the wrong question. Is not a one to one competitor to github. It is far more. And I really like the idea and vision.. and everything is based on open source. From my understanding bettercodes is a social network only for developers combined with useful features like code hosting, project management, and other features. I also like the GUI and the design...
6,873,900,000 and counting... (continuous growth since the Black Death around the year 1400)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
"Running a startup" and "being in tech" are very different things. It's totally possible to work in tech without running a startup, so if her thesis is correct you'd expect women engineers to be equally represented in medium to large tech companies and under-represented at startups. Instead, they are vanishingly rare at both.

So I don't buy it. One datapoint does not yield a conclusion.
That link isn't for Mark Zuckerberg's profile.
Showing their own ads above a cached copy of the page? Sounds like profiting from copyright infringement. Lawsuits ahoy!

However: prime Coral Cache with the page before publishing the link, monitor the servers of the submitted site, and offer the Corel Cache link instead of the original link if the submitted site is struggling to cope with the load? That seems like a good idea.
Things to remember before buying any mobile phones
Often with these kind of 360 degree images, you can look "down" and see the camera stand (or a big black circle where they cut it out of the picture). In these, you can't see the camera at all. It's impressively seamless.

Also, you can zoom in on stuff, which is nice.
Oh my, the extrapolation is making my brain shrink!
I see your point, but how many polls do you know that aren't made by an interested party? Most companies sponsor polls to validate their products or success.
Hey, a child IS a startup...and you can't be risk averse to create one.
I just moved out to SF too. I just got a place for 1 month. But, if you find a double room, starting in November, we should connect.
Could you elaborate a bit on what kind of project it is? Your description is very vague.
Yup. Didn't we only yesterday have an Ask HN thread on side projects that are making money?

The great thing about software today is how much you can do on a small scale. If her theory about commitment was correct, you would have a bunch of women who had started small side projects and then said "oh this has really taken off and I don't want to work 100 hours a week so I want to sell it". Where are they then?

I am pretty convinced that the answer is a lot simpler and is simply related to the number of women who code in the first place.
A Near Perfect Hardware : Nokia N9
You can change that in your privacy settings.
I always wondered how many of those controls and indicators are regularly used during a flight.
Right, but in those states where some drinking is allowed, there are far more places where it isn't allowed than where it is. I think it's disingenuous to phrase exceptions in the active sense.
I generally find the use of "never" interesting.

There was a time when I never wanted to work in tech because of what my parents went through. How fun could working for 12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week be? Not all that fun. Now, I work in tech. I guess I was wrong.

I was a toys'r'us kid. I didn't ever want to grow up. When I hit 27, I changed my mind. I guess I was wrong.

Today, I never want to have kids. But I've felt this with many things - many more than I mention here, most of which I've likely long forgotten. Instead, I tell my girlfriend that I don't think I want to have kids, but can't promise anything. Previous experience with the term proves it a rather dubious conclusion. Afterall, never is a long time.
I concur to that. I find Hg branching model messy: there are clones, named branches, bookmarks and anonymous branches. They all have different features in term of how you can share them, etc... Also, I find comparing branches (through log, diff, etc...) a bit painful, especially because of inconsistencies between naming in hg - git naming is less user friendly, but much more consistent.

IOW, Git complexity comes from a f*cked-up UI, but hg simplicity is only superficial. Any semi-advanced usage in hg requires queues, a lot of plugins, etc... whereas git supports all that out of the box. Some simplicity in hg is also seriously broken - the "simple" version naming is a very bad idea in DVCS. Inevitably, different people will refer to the same revision (r1234) which is in fact a different revision because they are relative to different repositories.

Merging is also not that great in hg: I really miss git index when I need to resolve conflict. But I have a strong dislike for kdiff3 and that sort of tools.
I'd like you to talk to my friend Esther Flatto. She is working on a product called the Flip Slip. geuis.teses@gmail.com
9 free learn photoshop resources
A nice start if you have no idea where to go for good photoshop tutorials!
From a scientific perspective, failing to disclose that you're being funded by the company you're report exonerates is wrong. Research has shown that funding sources are strongly correlated the results of scientific papers in controversial areas, so this is arguably the single most important fact in the article.

More specifically the article did specifically identify a major flaw in the report: it didn't look at the chemical aspects as well, so couldn't draw conclusions about the contributions of different causes.
Agreed. If you have a husband with a job, you don't have to starve to death. Starting a start-up is safer.

Theoretically if you're a man with a wife with a job, you can do the same thing... except there are a lot fewer wives that are willing to do that than husbands.
Here's the link to the project page.
http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/research/storylines/
It says there that this visualization is based on a XKCD comic (about lord of the rings).

The guy is the same that the code_swarm visualization:
http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/
If you didnt see it before, go there and watch the impressive videos about eclipse, apache, python and postgres.

The guy is using processing.
Yes, actually anyone can hide their friends list from anyone. If you go to your profile and click on the little pen icon next to your friends list on the left side, there is option change visibility settings.

On another note, FB actually has some pretty advanced privacy settings, there are two problems. First, the settings are not obvious and intuitive to all users. Second, it really takes some time and effort on the users part to get the settings just right. One way to do this is to put your friends into what FB calls "Lists". For example, I have several different lists, one for friends I really trust, one for work colleagues, one for relatives. Once you have all your friends separated into lists you can change your privacy settings and many other options based on those various lists. So for example, my relatives can see certain photo albums that my work colleagues can't see, and I have college friends who can see albums that my relatives and work colleagues can't see. You can also limit what they can post on your wall (if anything), what info they can see about you, and many other options. FB's biggest problem is that they assume everything should be open to everyone and then make it extremely difficult to back off those settings.
Here's mine: http://gist.github.com/618459

I didn't see the point in doing this in anything but C. I tried it without cheating, and to make it as interesting to myself as possible. Also did it after a week of writing briefs, so that was a nice way to unwind from that! Pretty Fun.

Anyway, if I'm applying for a job (which I wasn't), the last thing I'm going to do is send in a bunch of one-liners.
great job, i have nothing to complain about!It would be nice when a video ends, for the shuffle to begin.But it's not that hard to click the button!
The article says "And I’m not even going to go into the idea of women having a startup with young kids. It is absolutely untenable. The women I know who do this have lost their companies or their marriages or both. And there is no woman running a startup with young kids, who, behind closed doors, would recommend this life to anyone." How much more contet do you want?
For many people, being a Google employee with a few M (or even a few hundred K) in the bank is a pretty darn good end-state...
It's great that you got valuable information and that you're humble enough to realize you should readjust your plans to give people what they really need. I'm really looking forward to your beta!

(P.S.: Your blog shows up in some foreign language, especially at the bottom, probably a bug.)
The only people who think Groupon destroys businesses are people trapped in the Hacker news echo chamber.

There is one article on a restaurant saying Groupon didn't work out, and that gets extrapolated to mean there is some fundamental problem with the business.

You learn to discount stories like that after a while.
The west coast of the USA is about to fall off - Lex Luthor style
UPDATE2. IE now works. Chrome works. Opera works. Firefox works.

Test it and tell me if you can break it! :)
I don't care much for coffee at all, so.. yeah, I'd be "grumpier"
I see your point, but how many ads do you know that aren't made by an interested party? Most companies sponsor ads to validate their products or success. Clearly, they too should get free press coverage.
Just because you don't want to go without something you're addicted to it? I thought addiction had to do with continuing use in the face of adverse consequences.

If not, then personally, I'm addicted to oxygen. I'm not sure what I would do without it.
I don't think it would, because that would be unsurprising. There isn't any perception that the only people who oppose the law are potheads and criminals. When you're busting a stereotype, showing that people who never fell under the stereotype also don't fit it isn't very enlightening.
Deadmau5 is a hacker
"Thank you for using Plannr. We’ve greatly enjoyed building Plannr and working with you to improve it over the last few months. However, we have decided to put our time and efforts elsewhere and have closed down Plannr. "

http://www.useplannr.com
Advice on moving to the cloud?
http://www.difrwear.com was a success
I've had about 20 fails. Here they are http://www.artofcyberwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mike...
There are way more women running tech startups that have VC funding than there are with bootstrapping.

Really? I'm not so sure. Perhaps it is just hard to hear about the women that are bootstrapping tech companies. Companies that are being bootstrapped typically are pre-traction, and have not received the buzz in the tech media that comes with raising a funding round.
I don't accept your premise that taxes = penalization.

Employers who pay their employees $35,000/yr have to pay more in federal taxes than if they paid their employees $34,000/yr. I don't consider that a penalty either. Its progressive taxation.

The two aren't mutually exclusive. Just because it's called "progressive taxation" doesn't mean it isn't penalizing. I consider any tax at all penalizing. It's the exact reason politicians raise taxes when they want to discourage certain activities or lower them when they want to encourage more of a certain activity.
Most people find success on social media sites is capricious; not a lot of people read the "new" queue, so your first few organic votes are a matter of luck. Downvotes on reddit make this go double. Even great content can get buried if it doesn't get noticed.

I'd go even further and say that most stories have some kind of "weight" behind them that is not available to small-time users. If you follow the 'net news, especially topics about social networking, one sees always the same players getting lots of attention for the stuff they just happen to be doing at the time. I'd argue the system is indeed rigged, even without taking hacks like this one into account.
Python packaging tips
This point cannot be stated strongly enough. The buttons should describe what you're doing, not merely affirm or reject what's in the text box. People are trained to hit "cancel" or "no" whenever unexpected text boxes come up, and "yes" if they're expecting it, without reading. This often leads to them doing the opposite of what they intended.

Wording it as [Foo] and [Don't Foo] is a good start, but sometimes it should be worded as [Foo] and [Bar] where Bar is opposite of Foo. For example, [Quit] and [Continue], or [Leave] and [Stay].

EDIT: an example of the wrong way to do it: "Press OK to stay on the current page, or Cancel to receive 50% off!"
http://failblog.org/2010/10/08/epic-fail-photos-cancel-fail/
Do we really need to use sidebars that scroll with the user?
i just read, ...well started to read, the article about wikileaks publishing info that the eu tries to curb free software. (http://blog.javier-carrete.com/2010/10/wikileaks-publishes-documents-on-plan.html)

is it really necessary to fill a blog with a sidebar that continues to scroll with the user?
for me this is so annoying that i leave the site without reading it at all.

disregarding that that scrolling doesn´t work very smooth (at least in ff on linux) the site loads huge amounts of js from different site that doesn´t load completely? (for me it always stops at something from www.goodplanet.org)

what do you guys think?