skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, it is a difficult challenge. I know because I'm working on it right now with my company, Cashier Live. We've thought about doing something like this in addition to working with options out there like Milo or Google's local product search, but it leads to the same problem they have now. Comprehensive search. If I (or VendHQ) did something like that, we'd only have independent stores and not the large chains.

That being said, I think Milo knows their weakness is in independent retail and it looks like they're taking steps to solve that.
Also they have a patent on 2 pass LZ compression. Insane.
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I also think it is unfortunate that his first theorem is incorrect (n=1 cannot be written as the product of two distinct integers)

That may cost the author some of the readers for whom this text is the most educational, i.e. the ones that have trouble grasping the logic.
My first professional software job was at a great software company, but I had a horrible commute each day. I ended up leaving that company to work in tech support (enterprise software) at a software company much closer to my home. I remember feeling a little embarrassed about it - it was definitely a downgrade -- but I chose it for the lifestyle improvements it offered at that time.

Turns out, it was probably one of my smarter moves. I really enjoyed solving problems for the customers. People sent emails and actual snail mail to my company raving about me. That was cool. Then, I noticed a need for a utility in the field. I wrote it and did some testing with it and then the development manager caught wind of it and came by to talk to me.

He wanted to recruit me in to the development team! Simultaneously, I was being recruited into sales consulting. Not only that, but our customers were trying to hire me left and right. I ended up taking the internal position for sales consulting.

Moral of the story: You can create opportunities for yourself even when in a position that may not be your ideal role. Hard work, creativity and initiative go a LONG way.

Taking this job clearly depends on your goals. It seems to me that one has endless opportunities right now if they are willing to be self employed or work for a startup and don't have heavy income requirements. Lots of functions like startup weekend, group meet-ups, etc... can get you in front of the right people. If your goal, however, is to work for the man, then why not take a position like this and see what doors it opens?
Cool visuallization, but "Tropisue\u00f1o", really? ;-)
The Promise of Stem Cells
A wealth of proof attests the fact that organs of building A wealth of proof attests the fact that organs of building embryos, especially the building brain, are acutely delicate to substance perturbations. However, experts know pretty small about how exposures to particular endogenous chemical substances in fact result individual growth or children’s capability to learn. And there are nearly no info on how the huge vast majority with the 84,000 chemical substances at present detailed in your Toxic ingredients manage work (TSCA) Inventory1—including most with the 201 compounds recognised to become neurotoxic to adults as nicely as the 1,000 chemical substances revealed to become neurotoxic to animals2—may influence building infants. It can also be unclear regardless of whether screening with animals often gives precise insights into individual developmental susceptibilityembryos, especially the building brain, are acutely delicate to substance perturbations. However, experts know pretty small about how exposures to particular endogenous chemical substances in fact result individual growth or children’s capability to learn. And there are nearly no info on how the huge vast majority with the 84,000 chemical substances at present detailed in your Toxic ingredients manage work (TSCA) Inventory1—including most with the 201 compounds recognised to become neurotoxic to adults as nicely as the 1,000 chemical substances revealed to become neurotoxic to animals2—may influence building infants. It can also be unclear regardless of whether screening with animals often gives precise insights into individual developmental susceptibility.
Fighting non-deterministic unit tests through causality tracking
It’s Not Just You: 71 Percent of Tweets Are Ignored
The filtering might be a bit off on that data set...Sephora is a beauty retail outlet, which hardly qualifies as a bar or restaurant and its the #1 place for women in NYC.
Are you using Canonical's Landscape thing? It seems that with every release they actually make something useful for the server deployments, not just fluff features.
Dunno abt poor people gambling more, but they sure can get educated more - so that they can at least calculate their odds better.
pretty awesome. My favorite part is how it goes to addresses automatically as soon as you type them, so if an address is in your history you can be at the page just by typing the first few letters and letting autocomplete fill in the rest of the address.
The only way one can come to the conclusion to that question is either

1. You agree/disagree that they are different? - I think they are different because the whole concept behind demanding an artist to come and play in your town is no doubt very sticky. I speak out of experience because my wife for all her love for Yanni is getting to see him play live in Toronto next year using eventful.

2. The only thing which is left to find is how many 'demands' have been met this way?
Maybe there are not many but I know that Eventful has one strong supporter in my wife and they'll have me too cheering for them if my fav singer comes to town.
I'd like to see this same data, but normalized for the total number of checkins per group. Right now all it tells me is that of the people going to bars, guys are more likely to check in than girls, not necessarily that there are more guys at the bar.
not sure i agree.

its not the logo which makes it instantly recognizable - it's the hundreds of millions of dollars of branding and advertising
is the male/female ratio of foursquare comparable to the society or did weeplaces at least try to interpolate them?
Getting started is the hardest part. After that you just need to pick up momentum.
Is there a known guy/gal differential on Foursquare in these cities? If so, it might be nice to have the ability scale these scores to reflect that.

In other words, if 2/3 of SF's Foursquare users are female and 2/3 of a particular SF bar's Foursquare users are female:

1) It's true that the guy/gal ratio is 2:1, but

2) It's also true that there is no enrichment of women at this bar relative to the null expectation.

Edit: A collection of presumably neutral places (e.g., Bay Bridge) might help achieve such an estimate.
Do they normalize for the strong possibility that in general, guys check in more than girls? I'm assuming this is the case.

Or for that guys are more likely to want to check in and advertise that they're at a bar rather than a beauty shop, or even a coffeehouse? And vice versa?
At this point, this is the way I feel. At their price point, Chargify is a useful tool to get off the ground quickly but not quite as useful as a long term solution. At your example of $2000 for the development of a billing system, Chargify is only viable for a short period of time. At $49/month that wasn't so bad. Now, at $99/month I think it's overpriced for that purpose.
If the "Bay Bridge" is 24% more girls to guys, then I think there is a problem here with reporting information that's not statistically significant, because that seems very unlikely to me.
That is also, quite possibly, the nerdiest coincidence in the history of mankind. My hat is off to you, sir.
I do not think the reasoning in this piece is solid. Firstly the concept of expected value only make sense over repeated trials of the same experiment and using it here on a one off is a misapplication. Unless the person is expecting many such tickets. At which point the combination of the person's stupidity and statistical variance will have them broke a lot quicker. The expected value is no more meaningful as a dollar amount as 2.5 is for average number of kids to a family.

The other portion is the fact that the $250 is a sunk cost. Future decisions should be independent of that money lost. Rationalizing gambling using cost relativity since gambling on an already expensive bill "will save you money" is not logical. It won't save you money unless you keep doing stupid things at which point you are already losing alot of money - its on average meaning repeated trials. Simply irresponsible. I'm either gonna win $130 with 47% chance or lose $130 with 53% chance. My $250 bill is sunk and completely independent of this decision and outcome. Otherwise any time I have an expensive bill to pay and will be left with only about $130 why not gamble it save the amount I need to pay in the long run. This is the start of a gambling problem.
Ugh, I just tried devise and tossed it out within an hour. Way too much automagic, way too difficult to use it in any way but their scaffold. Still looking for a clean way to do facebook/twitter stuff however, so I'll checkout omnisocial and omniauth.
I'm not sure this data is very good. The Lexington Club is marked as having 7% more male checkins. I live right next door to the Lex, and it's a lesbian bar. Women outnumber men there at least 10-to-1.
I think you miss a lot by only reading the transcripts. I listen to the audio version of mixergy on the commute to work.
Any chance of an Australian (Brisbane) HN meetup?
Getting smart about the hierarchy of smart
Don't necessarily turn it off. Make sure you've hardened SSH, only do key-based authentication and limit access to specific source IP addresses or use something like fail2ban.

Then spend the time to properly look at your information security requirements and develop a plan to comply with them.

If you just turn off SSH you're going to have a lot of pain with little gain or loss if it's properly configured.
in the German startup area it's all about Ubuntu/Debian and maybe some centos/gentoos.

I guess only the big old customers stick with SuSE. I don't know a single person anymore using SuSE…

I've recently helped to install a new server farm for a media company. We've choosen Ubuntu 10.04 LTS + chef (opscode) + REE + kvm.
Or just provide a 'non-version specific' tag in addition to the version ones.
If you're already familiar with MVC and have a basic background in scripting languages, 30 minutes or so of rails experience should allow you to follow the screencasts without a problem.
I've worked with them as an affiliate too - and their XML service, in some cases, is very slow compared to their competitors - like orders of magnitude slow. I hope 40+ engineers can help them catch up with the rest. Although 40 seems like a crazy number.
Agreed. At one of my previous (financial sector) employers we had a crack perl team (the team had a number of well known members of the Perl community) and we still struggled to find decent Perl developers despite offering a decent pay package and a strong team.
What if you use a "cloud" database and don't know whether your service ever runs on servers in Texas?
carbo,

all percentages shown are deviations from our calculated average per city, so there is an average of about 2 male checkins per 1 female checkin in SF. hope that clears it up a bit!
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We could've probably normalized this data better. The fact of the matter is that guys use foursquare nearly twice as much as girls do, so every venue will have dramatically more guy check-ins. A 7% male edge actually makes it one of the more female venues in the city.
FastSpring's subscription offering (in beta) includes a merchant account, the gateway, etc. Finally, a one-stop shop for SaaS e-commerce. No need to piece the puzzle together on your own anymore.
It's referred to as having 'minimum contact' with a state; it's not just for tax purposes, but would also matters for things like lawsuit jurisdiction and so forth. Here's a recent summary with good references that explains the basics: http://www.picpa.org/Content/41763.aspx
They are right; we have RHAT/Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu, no need for 3rd enterprise (or pretty much other) Linux distro.
You mean like Geek Corps?: http://www.geekcorps.org/
The audio interviews give you a chance to really absorb what the person is saying.

Because it's slower than reading the transcripts, I can think of how to apply the new ideas while they are talking.
Chris @ TED: The Creative Internet. 106 Projects.
Sad thing is, Auth.net is one of the better interfaces I've seen lately...
And I can live with it.

Believe it or not, I deliberately didn't mention that I know there are areas where women are much better than men just for the sake of experimenting with HN public opinion.

Why? Because I feel the smallest glimpse of non-tolerable way of thinking is going to get downvoted. Unless it is coming from Zed or DHH. If I am right, I am going to be told I am wrong with a wording like: "It's not because you say what you think[, it's because you're troll without proofs]" (last part is optional because people don't want their opinion to have a tiniest trail of subjectivity).

Guess it's time to become one of them rockstars and have an ability to speak freely.

p.s. Bye, lol.
Most websites out there don't actually require a captcha for signup. Paypal certainly doesn't. (I'm not going to create a fake wepay account to check if/when they do email uniqueness validation.)
Never-before-seen footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly in Back To The Future
Even that big players can't track there own stock. Recently I wanted a toy at toys-r-us, but found out the only way to get it was to call every local store once a day until someone had it in stock. I paid the scalper fee and bought it on ebay. Similarly I wanted to rent a specific (more expensive) car with Avis. The only way to do it was to click on each office, put in my dates and see what they had, one by one. There was absolutely no way to search for a car to find out where it was or would be. I ended up just renting the cheapo car. You would think tracking your inventory would be a solved problem in this day in age for a company of either of these sizes.
Now I'm confused. Your post implies that this is a raw excess (truly 7% more men than women, which is a relative excess of women compared to the citywide average of 2 male:1 female checkin), right? But shasha...sha's post indicates that you've actually already normalized, which would imply that this is actually 7% more men than average, which is already quite male (2 male per 1 female, per shasha...sha's post).

Which is correct? Or am I misinterpreting?
Writing a good cover letter is like writing a good sales letter. Show the prospect that you know who they are, you have looked at the situation (you absolutely must convince them of this), and that you have the solution.

I suggest reading about Leonardo da Vinci's resume for a good example: http://www.theladders.com/career-newsletters/leonardo-da-vin...

Something else to keep in mind, the interview process is not always about winning/losing--it's about finding the best candidate. You might be extremely qualified for a position but not come across as what the company is looking for. For example, the last time I was interviewing people, I was looking for someone who would follow my instructions. My top five applicants were extremely qualified (overqualified even). I went, not with the most overqualified candidate, but rather the one who I knew I could mold into what I needed.

Remember, you're involved in a transaction. You're selling your time. Make sure you know what you want to sell and realize that not everyone is buying exactly that.
Does foursquare publish male/female ratio user base stats? Based on the people I know, it seems like only males use apps like foursquare.
The ideal solution would be an improved email application that allowed multiple file attachments, better layout, etc. In lieu of that posterous is doing the right thing. Bringing an improved user experience to it's iphone users.

I've installed it and will use it if my post is complex enough. Still, it's unfortunate that the root cause can't be fixed - improved email creation on the iphone.
The Atlantic Mocks Digg For BP Ads In Article Sponsored By Exxon
Agreed. In general, Google is still incredibly poor about this kind of communication.

Historically, when search was really their sole product, it was annoying but tolerable. Unhappy with them? Use a different search engine.

The bar moves, IMO, when you start asking people to invest (time or money) in your product. Dynamic is exactly the same with Google Apps "Enterprise" edition. When people are paying you hundreds or thousands of dollars a year, many have a reasonable expectation that the company will let them know when certain critical bugs/performance issues are going to be fixed.

Although they've improved a little, for the most part they continue to suck at this. It doesn't seem to be in their DNA.
Marissa Mayer Takes New Role in Location, Local Services
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Sounds like you should wait more than two hours.

Also, sounds like maybe it's better to ask for advice earlier. Not to say that you wasted months (I haven't really looked at your site yet), but I think you waited too long to get advice/opinion.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on Empathic Civilization's feasibility?
If you are not familiar, here is a good intro to the idea and the book:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g

I can't talk to most people I know about it because they believe the world will end in 2012 and there is no point in even thinking about the future of life on Earth and how we need to change to make it work.

I was hoping for an engaging HN discussion on how consciousness has evolved over the past few ages of man and where it is headed next. Maybe we can all learn something and apple it to our work.
Right. He called it a fuel cell because it was the only way he could get past the funding gatekeepers who dismissed his ideas without properly examining or understanding them.
Tailor your style for the size of company you're dealing with (with the implied "do a bunch of research on the companies you're serious about first").

Applying for a position at a bank/multinational/"big" company with a full HR department and a contract with Taleo to track job applicants? Be a bit more formal. Remember that the first person who reads your letter is likely an HR professional with little connection to the people who will actually make the hire/no-hire call. They'll be working from a job requirement form, and their goal is to answer the question "Is there enough of a chance that this candidate has the right skills that I should forward their file on to the right hiring manager?" What makes this even more "fun" is that there's a good chance that they have a very small - if any - technical background, and may not know (for example) the connection between jQuery, Javascript, and "AJAX". For companies like this, a little buzzword bingo in there is an important ingredient that gets your file sent on to the technical guy, who will actually know what he's looking for.

On the other hand, you've got small/medium-sized companies in which the engineers you'd end up working with will be much closer to the incoming stream of applications. These companies may have a designated HR guy, but the role is often filled by someone else wearing the HR hat for one day a week. Here, the initial person reading your letter is someone you'll probably end up working with to some degree or another, which complicates their goal in the first screening. Now, the question becomes "Does this person sound like the kind of person I'd like to work with, and if so, does (s)he sound smart/interesting enough that I should disturb Steve over there to get him to look at this letter?"

Bottom line: if you're applying to somewhere that has an HR department you need to get through first, write the letter for them (and assume the actual hiring managers won't read it). If you're applying to somewhere where the HR guy is a potential colleague, write the letter as if everyone will read it and they're judging your fit as a person, not only technically.
C'mon man throw us a bone here. What exactly did 'your reading of economic history' teach you? Why can't patents, even the steam engine one, be justified? What test of empirical evidence? Why do you already reject his reasoning? Why do you need to read and dig more if you're already decided on the issue?
I'd imagine that they would be at the same disadvantage to prove that as you would be.
Anecdotal evidence. You are simply on the low end of the bell curve for men.

Endurance is simply how long you can use your muscles before they give out; it's not independent of how much muscle you have. If you are very weak, you will have terrible endurance.

Yes, there are things called fast twitch and slow twitch muscle fibers; the greater proportion of the latter, the better endurance you have. The greater proportion of the former, the faster you go.

There doesn't seem to be evidence of gender difference in the ratio, but Google could have failed me. There is, however, an argued difference along ethnic lines. (East Africans have a much higher slow twitch/fast twitch ratio than other ethnicities.)

Even if there were, though, a marathon is an endurance race. You rely primarily on your slow twitch muscles, except perhaps in the home stretch, if you have anything left. Men win the marathons.
I wouldn't agree that a tweet without a reply or a retweet is ignored. If somebody reads a tweet, and just for an instant thinks "oh, i agree", or "what an idiot", the tweet had some impact. Of course, it all depends on the way you use and look at twitter. There are many "lurkers" out there that just like to follow interesting people and read their thoughts and opinions, and don't feel the need to reply or retweet every single tweet they come across.

On the other hand, a lot of them should be ignored. I really get a lot of tweets that are part of conversations or some personal stuff. It is a shame when a smart person that sometimes has really interesting tweets, "spams" you with unimportant tweets talking with his friend he just saw 10 minutes ago and will see tomorrow first thing in the morning. Common, use mail, IM or facebook for that. Sometimes I feel like I am intruding on a phone call. I know, who am I to tell them how to use twitter. Of course, I don't want to. But, that is when people stop following them and their tweets get really ignored.
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I don't see Ubuntu and Redhat serving the same market personally. I use Ubuntu everywhere but on some large servers, Redhat was the choice. They had the drivers and were a supported vendor for the hardware we got. To me that's two markets.
sorry, it is 7% higher than sf's average. this is probably a case of Foursquare's demographic being heavily male [and heavily straight??]
However the license isn't valid in a case like this unless it passes the TCK, right?

No, that is not correct. The OpenJDK license is the GNU GPL plus a liberalizing exception for the Classpath. Possessors of the GPLed JDK are permitted to make and distribute modified versions without passing the TCK.
I used your tutorial to learn about rvm, Heroku, rspec, and of course rails. Not sure I can spring for $85 screencasts right now, but wish I could. Thank you for your work.
You've actually got an excellent point to this.
I remember reading about the JTEC a couple of years ago, but I am very curious to see an actual working version of it.

Could be the hottest thing around ...
we've thought about that a bit — it's probably harder to study that aspect [who wants to broadcast which where] but it is fascinating. strip clubs probably being way more male and the lex probably being way more female...
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