skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A company well-stocked with full-stack engineers who can communicate makes the execution of good ideas so frictionless and the death of bad ones so quick and painless that it cannot help but to succeed.

If this is the caliber of engineering talent that Facebook values, there should be no surprise they are taking over the world.
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Lost or Stolen Laptops Cost Companies $2.1 Billion Per Year
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I suspect the bait-and-switch wouldn't be such an issue in a more sexually equal environment. Physicians are about 50:50 and while I've heard plenty of female doctors complain about being called "nurse", I've never heard a complaint about "bait-and-switch". I have heard a few complaints about "where'd all the men go?"

The environment in tech sounds about like the military: women have to be prepared to physically fight their own team. Which is deeply unfortunate.
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Yeah I had the same reaction. Someone doing that should be reported to the police.That's just plain wrong.
Exactly. This is an effective user-centric strategy that to me explains how Chrome has made such massive inroads in a deeply entrenched area - it gets out of the way and isn't annoying.

(Until your swapfile hits 6GB, and Windows starts moaning and then you have to restart Chrome :P)
Father of Neutron Bomb, “The Most Moral Weapon,” Dies
I performed mentioned tests by myself while doing a tech research for online gaming startup. The code for V8 benchmarks is open, and it is very generic, so you can easily perform tests by yourself and see the difference.
Being concise is my ultimate goal too. I tried to shorten my post but it was the best I could do.

Just for an exchange of idea, how would you write my post? (no comparison or offense here, I simply want to see a different style)
"without getting something broken over your head"

What is the point of getting into a potentially life-threatening situation just to teach a jerk a lesson?

As for less drastic responses, I agree that the best way to enlighten people would probably be when caught in the act. It seems unlikely that "photograph upskirt guy" is reading this article and just now it dawns on him "maybe I shouldn't have been doing that".
I took a two-year break in the early 2000's from technology in general by living in a very impoverished nation--it simply wasn't available to 99% of the population where I was.

Before I left, I was all about piracy. I thought it was awesome, and I hoped kazaa, audiogalaxy, and others would be around in the mean time.

After getting back, piracy seemed so trivial and pointless--most things I was interested in pirating before leaving was media of some sort, and this media no longer interested me. BitTorrent was relatively new, and so I never really used it for pirating (just to get Linux iso's).

In regard to the OP, I guess I do neither?
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I wonder how many guys are being enlightened by reading this thread on HN right now. My guess would be zero.
Real-estate postering aside, this deal does not signify "a rebounding real estate market..." It is no coincidence that Google's East Coast offices are located in this specific building. The building happens to be a major internet peering point for the entire NYC region. So no, I do not see a major rush to buy entire city block sized buildings unless there are other enormous, industrial grade, internet peering hubs floating around NYC. (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/business/smallbusiness/01h...)

Also, the NYC tech scene is on fire, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1957538.

(cross post from my own submitted article)
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Jurors, who heard only one day of testimony, left the courthouse with mixed opinions on the case. “When we left yesterday, I was thinking, ‘What are we doing here?’” said juror Paul Dietz, a 27-year-old actor. He said he “probably would have” acquitted.

Another juror, Jerry Griffin, a 63-year-old trial attorney, said “I think Microsoft has a right to protect its proprietary information.”

Generational bias or lawyer bias?
As I said above, I understood what you meant. I just find the phrase slightly damning--and indicative of a problem in this space. I see a trend in commentary on tech blogs and conferences that imply that as a developer, either you're creating the next Google or Facebook acquisition, or you've traded the big payout for a "lifestyle business" that is probably turning a profit and carrying no debt, with no hybrid examples in the vast middle. It's a bit like saying, "Poor Joe Startup, he has a nice lifestyle business there, but it'll never be Twitter, Foursquare, or Path.com." Personally, I'd love to have those problems.
Lieberman's actions are going to make things worse because he's taking something that is out-in-the-open -- which means is can be seen, understood, analyzed, and managed -- and forcing it to go underground where the government has even less control. This is going to backfire. I "get" censoring the publication of classified information, but shutting down DNS access from the USA? What is that going to solve except to make information available to everyone but us Americans? I wonder if he understands that. And I wonder if he understands the momentum he's giving to a shadow DNS service that he'll have zero control over. And if he thinks this will give him the momentum he needs to run for president in 2012, then I'm afraid he's probably right. :-(
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How long were Noirin Shirley's false allegations on the front page? Once the white knights finish their posturing, it will disappear (until next time).
With all due respect, someone should also tell ESR that he's not God's gift to geeks, hackers, free/open software/source, the internet or computers in general.
> returns orthogonal to other investments.

What does the interest accrue in instead of money? Complex money with real part 0?
This definitely sweetens the deal. AMZN's monitoring facilities have been expensive and not really all that good.
I'm not advocating breaking things over peoples heads. I'm saying that I'm shocked that the heads of said upskirt photographers havent been used to break anything yet.

It shows a level of restraint that is certainly morally commendable, whether it has benefitted the community long term I am not so sure.

> What is the point of getting into a potentially life-threatening situation just to teach a jerk a lesson?

What is the point of getting into a potentially life-threatening situation just to be on the other side of a street? Your question is tautological.
Interesting list of books. Is it just me or we are seeing a large number of books (not just here and not just books) dealing with the failures of communism, soviet russia and china?

I'm wondering, are we fearing the comeback of these ideologies or what's the reason behind this surge in popularity?
I've got the proof, but am web savvy enough to not become a victim in the sense of lost material possessions, but still recognized and followed the trap just far enough not to be a victim. Someone doesn't have to murder anyone to be arrested... its called conspiracy to commit murder. This is conspiracy to defraud me. I thwarted their efforts, now how to get anyone's attention that can stop it? I'm contacting the registrars but I doubt they'll do anything.
I'm sure this will sound sexist as well, but the chivalrous guys far outnumber the jerks. If someone crosses the line, by all means call the cops but also consider making an immediate and loud protest, and you might get help from an ad hoc group of temporary big (or little) brothers. A black eye and split lip might be the quickest way to teach some of these guys the right way to act.
Some of these questions I include in my exams for "network technology" classes (at least the easier ones: what's the class D network, what's bootp, ..) - and maybe I can find some more. Thank's for sharing.
A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state (national government) to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for a public disclosure of an invention.

Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted by the law of a jurisdiction to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. Exceptions and limitations to these rights strive to balance the public interest in the wide distribution of the material produced and to encourage creativity. Exceptions include fair dealing and fair use, and such use does not require the permission of the copyright owner. All other uses require permission and copyright owners can license or permanently transfer or assign their exclusive rights to others.

Copyright does not protect ideas, only their expression or fixation. In most jurisdictions, copyright arises upon fixation and does not need to be registered. Copyright protection applies for a specific period of time, after which the work is said to enter the public domain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
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Yes, don't buy your Christmas presents from Amazon!
I'm sorry, next time I'll uses "forumses". Damn ecomony got all these morans backs up!
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Good point. I think Michael Arrington redacted the relevant TechCrunch post, didn't he? My respect for Arrington picked up a lot that day.
Yes. Good thing too, because monetarism worked very badly and led to continual economic instability prior to the ERM. Multiple currencies are an expensive inconvenience and an impediment to trade. Comversion fees are also a stealth tax.
I totally agree. I felt that I had the knowledge but not the skill by only reading the book. I definitely will write and blog more.
Hahahahaha. This cracked me up. That 8th grade exam was difficult, no?
Outsourcing kingpin hands $2bn to Indian education charity
A small minority of men cause the vast majority of the problem. Unfortunately it doesn't take many to create a real problem.

This seems like the most important point. Moreover, it's critical that all men who see and hear of such things work to stomp them out. If individuals don't have the social skills on how to woo, it's a topic for personal discussion. Dating isn't hard if basic respect is the first item to be debugged.

It makes me think of pg's nerd essay and with having just found the fantastic TV show Freaks and Geeks. Sexual socialization ripens when we're most vulnerable. If those hurts are carried into adulthood by otherwise successful people, we need to work as a community to help our friends and colleagues along.

EDIT: For a more positive final note.
I have a friend in Apple's data mining group who told me they use Numpy/SciPy exclusively for their programming. I was surprised. My experience has not been all that great either. But it's fun to tinker.
You must mean pretentiousness, surely.
Yeah, Chrome doesn't like this site. Which is a shame - when I opened it in Firefox I was impressed, but if I had not been prompted to check it out by the comments on this thread I would have moved on...
WTF? EveryDNS killed the WikiLeaks site? David, where you subpoenaed?

http://twitter.com/wikileaks/statuses/10567274838622208
It is true that Amazon has acted cowardly and succumbed to political pressure in the Wikileaks case.

However, I believe it is in their interest to take such action. What incentive do they have (or should they have) to protect free speech?

Amazon is a public company which operates for profit and reports to its stockholders. In terms of minimizing risk of future litigation - this move is absolutely necessary, and very understandable.
This is bad precedent for any site under a large-scale DDoS attack.

The DDoS attack undermines the viability of other customers so your service must be terminated?
> I also bet if you asked a number of Americans which had the larger population of Ireland or Massachusetts, a large majority would say Ireland

I’ll take that bet.
As far as I can tell she does social media.
Sorry, but all this crap is getting on my nerves. If it were my business I would have done the same thing. I don't care what your views on Wikileaks are, losing money and being shutdown due to violation of the Espionage Act is not something that sits well with investors, and would certainly affect the business model. If you don't like it, start a competing service in a country that isn't negatively impacted by the leaks. Good luck with that.
> isn't the Euro basically a straightjacket preventing each individual country from setting its own monetary policy?

It's generally a Good Thing for the people in the Eurozone that their governments can't impoverish them by printing money.
That looks like an extremely interesting article. Thank you.

A quick skim through showed that the number of violinists they examined was 10, so I am still highly skeptical, but at least after reading this I will be more informed.
No, I think that sounds unpleasant. Just imagine some guy you met once phoning you about business and then asking you for a date. Still think mixing business and pleasure is okay?

It's also obviously totally unprofessional of the person. I mean, what are they going to say to their boss?

I met the smart freelancer we're looking for,
but then I asked her for a date and now she isn't
returning my calls. Sorry boss.

It's unprofessional and unpleasant.
What is the proximity of this building to Wall Street? I wonder if they are looking to get a foot into the high frequency trading business in some way.
Let us know when/if Rackspace decides to step up to the plate (those publicly traded bastards).
Precisely because tool-specialization isn't a good analogue to problem-domain specialization.

e.g. Saying "Ruby Developer" isn't like saying "Brain Surgeon". It's more like saying "Hammer Carpenter" or "Scalpel Surgeon".

Web Developer, Embedded Developer -- these are more akin to specialization on the order of "Brain Surgeon" or "Endocrinologist". Notably, no-one's taking issue with that kind of specialization.
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An Argument for a More Selective App Store
Their developers will have more time to write pithy responses on HN?
Scrubbing Bubbles has an automatic shower cleaner.
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"within a matter of years"

That made me smile : ) I hope I can be as persistent as it takes.
I was commenting as much on the recent deluge of 'sexism in tech is rampant' threads on HN as I was commenting on the article. I was emphasizing that even as someone now jaded by such complaints, I find this to be a valid article.

I also comment on how inappropriate groping a woman is; I would consider my entire 3rd and 4th lines to be expressing frustration at immature male actions.

I consider all sides of an argument, and for that, I will not apologize.
a direct link to the post being referenced: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/12/03/announc...
It is a race to the bottom. Amazon is attempting to commoditize all aspects of their Cloud offerings.

If something becomes a standard feature, a competitor or service cannot pick up the slack and use it as a differentiating feature.
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I highly recommend this book. Expect improvement immediately.
Joe Lieberman Emulates Chinese Dictators
To save other people Googling, populations and GDP per capita (2009, USD) of the economies under discussion. All from Google apart from GSP (gross state product) per capita of Massachusetts, which is from Wikipedia.

Ireland: 4,450,446 (51,049)
Massachusetts: 6,593,587 (49,875)
Germany: 81,879,976 (40,873)
UK: 61,838,154 (35,165)
Greece: 11,283,293 (29,240)

The figure for GDP per capita in Ireland seems pretty high.

Bailout is EUR 85bn which comes out to about 25,233 USD per capita.
I have issue with what this woman is classifying as "harassment".

Let's be clear here: Harassment is not sexual attention from men you don't want it from. Harassment is unwanted sexual attention--period.

And I think that's the clear difference here. Replace $Ugly_Computer_Nerd with $Hot_Rich_Wellknown_Guy and that changes harassment to "harmless flirting". I'm sorry to be this stereotypical, but it's the truth. It's something I deal with a lot, it's something I argue with internally a lot. There are things I see "attractive" guys do that I would never consider doing with a woman because I fear that the behavior will be treated as sexual harassment or assault, and that's the last thing I want to be attached to. Needless to say, I'm also very single for that matter. But nonetheless, I sit in the sidelines at various places and have been around enough people to know.

So once we have established a guideline of what is truly something worth applying to everyone regardless of personal attractiveness, then we can have a real discussion on harassment.

For that matter, much of what is said here goes on all of the time in almost every public setting. You just might not be the center of attention of it because in other social contexts there is an abundance of other women.

"I was at a conference where a man mistook my friendliness and technical interest as sexual attraction to him."

This is not anything out of the ordinary as far as I can tell. If you randomly walked up to some guy in a bar and spoke to him, he's going to instantly start thinking you're interested in him. It doesn't matter the topic, he's going to assume that. I challenge you to find anyone else. The only time it wouldn't be construed as interest or flirting is if there are external forces requiring you to speak to each other.

So let's get this straight:

In defense of computer nerds, a lot of men like women. The idea of being portrayed as a sex object is nothing specific to computer nerd conventions. This occurs at all ages. You sit here and complain about women being scantily clad at a computer event, but probably let your little kids watch all of the Disney women that grew up and turned into completely crazy psycho whores.

It's okay for a cheerleader to wear next to nothing at a football event, but not okay for a woman to wear similar clothing at a computer event?

It's okay for a man to construe talking with you in a bar as flirting but it's not okay for a man to assume the same at another event?

I'm not sticking up for harassment, but we need some very clear definitions of what is or isn't appropriate. Time and place should not matter neither should it matter on attractiveness. If a "hot guy" smacks your ass and an "ugly guy" smacks your ass, both should be considered harassment. Otherwise it's discrimination.
What annoys me is that the article talks about a "problem of a sexualized environment", but the [post](http://blog.nerdchic.net/archives/418/) that is being refered to describes things like this:

> I lay across the bed, sat on laps, generally tried to squish in to any available space and get time to talk to all the fabulous people thronging the place. [...] I had a few drinks. I was wearing a skirt of such a length that I had cycling shorts on under it to make me feel more comfortable getting up on stage and dancing. I had been flirting with a couple of other boys at the party.

Way to be professional...
It's roughly 3 miles away, 15-20 minutes.
The fact that these things happened can not be undone.

However, I am __certain__ that the world is a better place now that these things are out in the open.
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"On Writing"

Added to my to-read list, thanks :)
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And how, exactly, would Australia do that?
(block an IP address?)

BTW: Also in Sydney - working here now.
I don't know about the business aspect, because I'm not a businessman, but if I met someone through the "business" of one of the volunteer organisations I work for, then I think it's perfectly OK for them to contact me, or me to contact them, and ask for a date.

If I wasn't interested I'd say "no thanks" and expect them to get on with life and not harass me. Granted, this may not accurately describe the situation in the article, but in that case the author has not made her point well.
I think it's safe to say the fight to stop global warming is the top priority of the human race in this age.
I get tired of misogynists who are too dense to realize their being misogynist.

As long as sexism exists women should be complaining about it. And as you have unwittingly proven, sexism does still exist.
Ireland has a GDP of around 160 Billion.

Yeah this problem can easily be resolved by looking at Irelands GDP. After all, if Irelands economy collapses the UK won't be affected. Each individual Irish citizen only spends about £4k a year on British products & services.

And hey, if the UK economy is severely affected then that won't affect the rest of Europe!

Small population, small landmass, small GDP, the worlds second largest software exporter.

Do you honestly believe GDP is a real indication of a countries ability to affect the economy of those it is surrounded by and nothing else should be considered?

There is zero chance that Germany will go back to the Mark.

The Germans have a history of spending silly money on contingency plans for things that will never happen. Oh wait, they don't.

Grow up, look at the bigger picture and face facts.

/rant
It's not close to Wall street. This building is where their NYC offices were already located, by buying it, it makes it easy to expand into vacant office space. And, as stated in the article, about 25% of the building is data center space, it is one of the largest carrier hotels in NYC.
It's not clear to me if she's
a) complaining for the sake of it, b) looking for advice on how to handle this, or c) offering advice to guys on what not to do.
Point c is probably really good advice to a lot of people, but she's muddled it so much with points a and b that it's not going to help anyone.
This is not a sarcastic question but what does that actually mean? Anyone? I'm genuinely curious.
How did we ever make it to 2010AD?
Freaks and Geeks
Wikileaks is a Whistle Blower. Govt must protect Wikileaks.
NSA, CIA and FBI "free monitoring" is not free - the billing is via another 3-letter agency: IRS ;)
Here you go:
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2647-the-class-id-like-to-tea...
Did someone mention Kurzweil and his army of computer science yes men?
True. That's a flirty rather than a professional image by US standards. That said, it can take some time to adjust when you move here from the UK (or is it Australia/NZ? Didn't check). I found California quite strange for the first year. Also, Americans like foreign accents a lot. I get flirty remarks about mine all the time despite being here for years and a wedding ring.
You could have at least included the quote.
Did you consider wording that as:

"I get tired of sexism in the startup/tech field."

I suspect it would be a sentiment shared by many who are affected by negative behaviour--both men and women.
I think what jeffmiller meant was that an investors returns from a hedge fund investent should have very little to no correlation to other investments the investor has made.
I don't agree. If there is a company that could stand up against such threats of government, it would be Amazon. I would have loved to see this played out in court.

Although I do understand that for Amazon's business it's better to minimize all risk, it would have been nice if they stood up for free speech.
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These countries are facing cuts to government spending and wages while increasing taxes. This causes debt to be more of a burden. Devaluing the currency would make paying for these things easier. Devaluing too much would cause problems as well.
Rendering problems in Chrome, first time I've seen this.
Wow, I thought I had tested it in Chrome. Thanks!