skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
is saying that women are somewhat less than welcome.

It's more of a signal to marketing professionals. That 'men wanted for hazardous journey' ad is famous enough to be cited in just about any textbook/college course on advertising and marketing - it generated a huge volume of replies when published, confounding the intuitive belief that effective advertising requires exclusive focus on the positive. They're seeking to attract people with a similar ability to see the big picture (both superficially and in the abstracted context of the ad biz), and emphasizing that their actual hiring will be extremely selective.

You probably don't believe that the job is actually physically hazardous (I hope), and can appreciate the metaphorical use of the quotation in relation to the uncertainty of disrupting an extremely competitive established market. Within that context, it makes no sense to interpret a single word in purely literal terms, any more than it's sensible to think that citing Alice in Wonderland means one is addressing oneself exclusively to people named Alice.
1) If by wide screen you mean requiring a horizontal scrollbar, the answer is no. I have yet to see a good UI that's wider than a single page. If you mean layouts that fill screen width, I've had some success there (Photo sharing/video sharing websites with grid content are good examples)

2) As little as possible. A typical reaction/animation time should not take more than 300 ms. The key is to test it on slow machines and connections, and optimize for that delay.
Maybe he can't get friends, so he says he doesn't want them.
Every installer I've used that had any user-friendly implicit settings, also had an "advanced" mode where you could override them, in addition to the button that just installed the software with default settings. Why can't it be put there?
Yes, clearly we've all realized this by now.
There is something about Google Earth that just doesn’t make it as fun to use as Maps. Maybe because Earth is a lot uglier than Maps? There are all those customization options but no sensible defaults and a very strange aesthetic, completely unlike what you see on the much more subtle and sophisticated Maps.

Navigation also feels somewhat broken. I often manage to get lost in Earth, that doesn’t happen to me on Maps. Is it the added degree of freedom? And now, Street View. It’s not really a joy to use on Maps, either, but it feels atrocious in Earth. It’s slow, it’s too blurry for too long, it just doesn’t feel right.

Earth has all those potentially great features but the UI feels like such a huge step back from Maps.
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These 'security holes' are not typically security holes which let people do things with the device without authorisation from the device's owner; instead, they prevent authorised people (by the person with legal authority over the device, i.e. the owner) from doing things, so are better termed a deficiency in an anti-feature rather than a security hole.

Fixing the holes in the anti-features may be in the interests of Apple if it lets them get a better deal with mobile networks, but it isn't in the interests of device owners.
Self-hosting Lisp-to-C compiler in 384 lines of Lisp
I wonder if the people who up-voted you took the time to read both of your posts in their entirety, especially the second half of "Part II".
One requires significantly more overhead. Also, the whole thing about submitting, voting, and commenting came much later. Reddit didn't even have comments for the first 5 months or so.
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I find the forced "Google Update" install more annoying.

Plus, the uninstall note for Google Update points out that if you want to remove it, you must first remove all Google software, otherwise the Updater will be reinstalled within hours.
"Sorry, the application deadline has passed."

Edit: Anyone have a copy of it?
I think Rust is very interesting and quite exciting, but it's hard to evaluate in relation to other languages (for me, at least) because it is really really young. I've never seen a useful program written in Rust. All of the features sound really good in theory, but I've never used a similar language, so I don't have a sense for how these features work in practice.

Actually, anybody have a link to some non-trivial Rust code?
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Well, actually, it's not up to us to decide whether it is or it isn't.

Bullshit. Who, other than me, should have the right to decide if my statement is too offensive to be spoken? It is absolutely up to the individual to decide if someone else's offense at your statements or opinions is due to oversensitivity or you being wrong. Who else should decide, if not the individual with the opinion in question?
Former East Germany also used to have grades for behaviour (averaged over all subjects): Ordnung, Mitarbeit, Fleiß und Betragen.

Translated: order/tidyness/organized-ness, participation in lessons, diligence and conduct.

Some people still moan that this system was given up, and there are occasional discussion about re-introducing it.
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Yes, I believe that among developers in general and software startups in particular you will find an average to below average number of people with a sexism problem. You will however find an above average number of people who a) can't take a joke b) are somewhat bone headed in making inappropriate jokes. c) people who fall in to categories A and B at the same time.
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> # Tell jokes that would make sailors blush

Not specific gender bias, but we can both agree it's likely.

> For example, I can say "fuck political correctness"

Sure you can, just like every other startup/developer type has said ten thousand times -- hell, you aren't even the first in this thread.

Isn't there room for a more nuanced view?
No. It absolutely does not IMHO.

Our work just isn't appealing to most women.
OT...

So she should report those guys to whichever FBI department deals with counterfeiting ...

Actually, the Secret Service was formed for just this purpose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service#Ea...
Let's say, for the sake of devil's advocacy, the historical quote was "Women wanted for hazardous journey". If the ad had used that as its headline, would you males feel encouraged to apply?
The post makes sense, and we should not be putting people like him on a pedestal. It's in bad taste to call out someone specifically. He is not the only one who does this, and this article can be generalized to any over zealous leader. I feel bad for him for missing out on so much in life, and he's young - there's no reason to knock a young kid when he's down. Eventually it will catch up to him.
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And this is news ???
Try using Tor.

https://www.torproject.org/
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I once worked on a project where there was a system with three chips that were expected to be upgradeable (have new versions of their firmware installed).

The problem was that, each of the chips, in its boot sequence, checked that it had the same firmware version as the other chips and died if didn't. Thus no upgrade sequence was possible.

And this problem was discovered close to release.

Bootstrap problems sound ridiculously easy to find "in the design phase" but they are actually quite hard since they depend on overall system properties.
Yes. When I was in New York one day, I happened to attend a meeting by some socialist musicians about how the internet has changed their livelihoods. The theorists and old guys talked about how we need state support and forming a union.

The younger pragmatists where content with giving away their mp3s and selling T-shirts.
For us, a A in an Honors course got 5 grade points (rather than the 4 standard), so doing really well in Honors courses put you above someone who did really well in non-Honors courses. The amount of work required, however, for a B in an Honors course was far more than for an A in a non-Honors, so for anyone who wasn't going to be getting top grades, their GPA would suffer.

Of course, they are the ones who were more successful in university.
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I understand your sentiment, but who gets to decide what is legitimate discrimination, and what is not? Surely, it should be a compromise.

Let's take discrimination out of the picture, and look at a less contentious example.

In a relationship, how often does saying "you're overreacting, just calm down" get someone to calm down? The alternative is to, perhaps, listen to the complaint, rather than dismissing it immediately.

Finally, let me point out that there's an interesting systems thing going on here. Imagine you're raised / cultured in a system that is stacked in your favour. Would you notice it, or would you just notice that there are these annoying people who keep complaining about nothing?
Though I suppose it depends on the definition of value, something seems somewhat wrong about this maxim, otherwise there wouldn't be abhorrent anger at certain business models.

For example, Payday lenders.
I don't know. As an example for a bad fit: The Economist is as corporate as you can get, but not really mainstream.
You might be interested in http://freenetproject.org/
Popular media, in analogy to popular science, is a pretty good term.
Tor doesn't host anything. Maybe it would be useful in connecting to or administering a server that is hosted elsewhere, but this is not what the OP is asking for.
A hearty congratulations to you and your family.

And don't worry about the parent-haters here on HN.

I had hoped that the anti-childrearing bias would disappear after Paul and Jessica's baby, but that hasn't seemed to have any effect.

I hope everything goes well with the delivery and that you continue to find time for balance in your startup life.
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Which is just ridiculous.
I thought the same. I occasionally access gmail from my mac at home but for the last 2 months my only access has been over iphone. I've also gone into my Google accounts access and removed my authorization from all services that I log into via Google (minus two well trusted places). I'm curious if someone is picking it up on wifi when I'm at a hotspot.
Ellipses, if you'd like to be technical. Periods pretending to be ellipses, if you'd like to be even more so.
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I think the people getting caught up with the sensitivity... wouldn't be a great fit for being allowed on the internet.

I guess we can all see now why most job postings have comments disabled.
This was like five years ago, before mobile internet was available to most consumers. Also, writing mobile apps before the App Store was a real pain, and involved dealing directly with carriers, I believe.

J2ME apps involved no carrier participation (though often you had to target all of the profiles), and most devices, including standard Nokia feature phones, could run it. Windows Mobile apps...well that was always completely open and with little carrier control.

And of course...WAP. Largely forgotten now, but the Gopher-like WAP was usable on pretty much every feature phone, optimized for limited displays and input technologies. It was a giant dud for a variety of reasons, but it was always an option back to the turn of the century. And you didn't need a data plan, which remains the #1 impediment to the mobile revolution, though you did get charged usurious rates for the packets you did use.
> Also, writing mobile apps before the App Store was a real pain, and involved dealing directly with carriers, I believe.

While an app would have been nice, I guess that you could do something like this with just SMS.
It depends, in this alternate history has women been used as a common word to mean person of either sex? If it has, like man has in this history, then I would not be discouraged.
They are about business model discovery.
So if you are fundamentally a technologist
at heart, whose heart sings when you’re
making a better file system, or fixing a
kernel bug, you’re not going to be happy
at a startup.

There are plenty of storage startups in Silicon Valley that would be happy to pay someone to do filesystem work.

Web 2.0 startups are not the only game in town. There are plenty of other companies at which to do serious engineering work.
I wish carwoo would also handle leases; that'd be killer too.
I put up two sites this month, but I'm not sure they qualify. They don't have any chance at growing into a startup, but I'm going to list them anyway.

The first is a little game that lets you try to unscramble words [1]. It's hardest word list is from a post about the 1000 most useful words that came up here a while ago. My favourite thing about the site is that it fetches definitions and the like from wordnik so you can learn as you play. If you want to try playing let me know and I'll fix the last known bug. The focus is stolen from the input box when I check to see if the top word has changed, but I didn't fix it because I got distracted by more interesting projects.

The second is a personal website with links to my blog and a portfolio of past projects [2]. I figured starting to put together a portfolio would help to get me a job at some point and that it would be a nice way to start learning Clojure, which I've been wanting to try for a while. Still haven't decided on a domain name though.

Right now I'm working on a third project that people on Hacker News might be more interested in. I'm hoping it will bear some resemblance to Stack Overflow when it gets a little more fleshed out, but that won't be done this month. God willing it will be done some time in December so I can share it with all of you. I'm really excited about it.

1: http://anagramscramble.appspot.com/

2: http://jcolessite.appspot.com/
I've felt that the Maps is generally way better due to it's availability as you and everybody else has it, you can embed it etc. It actually feels more integrated to my desktop... I mean my browser.
This seems like a good deal and a great startup, but I'm not sure it's in the spirit of past Offer HN posts. Then again, maybe after its birth in hype and exuberance, this is what Offer HN has become.
Our work, or our culture?

I'm going to say it's the latter, given that these aspects of it aren't appealing to me either.
I don't understand why they feel morally superior to people creating games. Have we devolved to the point where search engine marketing is considered so prestigious an occupation that its practitioners feel they are able to make jokes about others?
I don't have any advice, but I'll be watching this topic rather intently.

I had an idea (admittedly, a rather mundane idea) regarding and apartment-seeker website. The idea is on indefinite hold while I build something else, but one major problem I had with it was charging holding companies for ads before I had any visitors to the site (a classic chicken-or-egg problem if there ever was one).

The only thing I could think of was to begin charging from the start, but give the holding companies a sufficiently generous credit on the site to get them started - no risk to them, but it would give the site enough content to stand a chance at getting visitors to rent those listed apartments. The site gets bootstrapped, and the holding companies start paying as normal.

This approach might not work for you, but perhaps the same sort of "transition" could work. You approach your beta users with an offer of credit at your premium level for a set period - making it explicitly clear that they'll have to pay after that - then let them transition smoothly into the paid version. Perhaps you could even have some sort of segmented pricing where you offer a continued discounted rate based on how early they transition to paid status (i.e. for the first week, they can get three months at 75% off, second week is 50%, third week 25%, last week 10%, then full price therein). It puts a subtle pressure on them to sign up earlier, creating an artificial scarcity that might make them want in sooner.

This is all just off the top of my head, and I've never done anything like this before, so take this entire comment with a generous helping of salt.
Allowing teachers to choose the metrics upon which grades are based is much like a Third World dictator being able to print currency at will. Don't have the budget for classroom Kleenex? Just issue an incentive. Want your students to be compliant? You have an incentive that most of them (or at least most of their parents) will value. Until this school in Austin audited Teachers' ability to turn on the printing presses at will, there was no disincentive to abuse the currency. The benefits of currency inflation are local to a classroom, but the downsides are macro in nature. Outsiders looking at a high school report card can't tell if a particular "A" was due to mastery or compliance, but those same observers will base the value of those grades on the aggregate of their correlation to competence over time.
Sir Ken Robinson talks more about this in his classic TED talk, "Do schools kill creativity?". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
Compared to other recent Lisp posts, this one implements the nitty-gritty like garbage collection itself, not depending so much on the implementation language.
I emphatically disagree. At least for most "technology startups".

Technology startups are just startups that require technology to operate. I've worked at some successful ones. And they really were about finding the right business model. We needed good technology people and there were fun technical problems. But really they were about finding business models that fully used the technology, and not about the technology itself.

That said, there are some real technology startups. They look rather different. For instance I know employee #7 at SpaceX. There is no question that that company is really about the technology.
I thought it was a UK-only thing earlier. I was surprised when I saw them in Belgium.
Compared to reddit, pgs advice must have cost them a fortune.

Damm.
Statistics and studies will tell you information about the source of a gender gap.

However, things like:

* porn passed around chatrooms

* rape jokes around the water cooler

* comments on women's attractiveness every time one leaves the room, or every time a photo is posted online.

* etc

don't really need statistics, do they?
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If you add a dance routine, he may even do it for free. At least he did so for Weapon of Choice.
But that's not really what's happening.

A skilled engineer who focuses solely on engineering will produce much better work than a skilled engineer that also has to focus on /marketing /sales /investors /accounting /facilities /IT /management /HR

Either a small fish in a big pond or a big fish in a small pond.

Edit: Also consider that you may be a person that can produce a lot of value specialized, but practically no value when juggling all the above items. You'll find that if you can produce a lot of value at any level then you can negotiate from a position of power.
"A grade can be regarded only as an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined level of mastery of an unknown proportion of an indefinite amount of material." -Dressel
Let's take category (b). If a joke is truly inappropriate, is it really being a wet blanket to speak up about it?
File that lists functions with with excessive arguments?

<insert meme face>

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Nice pictures! I wonder why non-Haskell versions of Kahrs' algorithm are so Byzantine.
The problem with loan sharks is not that others create more value for them than the borrowers necessarily keep for themselves — that could be said of all loans. The problem with loan sharks is that they prey on the weak in a way that is not just suboptimal, but outright harmful.
I love it. It's the Starfire project come to life: http://asktog.com/starfire/index.html

(If you haven't seen Tog's vision for the future of computing from 1992, take a moment - it's eerily close.)
Stuxnet is a game changing weaponized computer virus
You can run a webserver and use Tor to provide a 'hidden service'
https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en
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Full disclaimer, this is my page hastily created using google sites. Even though the code is from the time I was studying I take full responsibility.
This is more autistic than sociopathic. It's quite possible that he won't burn out, simply because he really isn't interested in socialization.
Around the same time as your "false but accurate" rules for teachers, the Ford Motor Company had a "Social Department", which employed investigators to determine whether employees engaged in heavy drinking or gambling.

http://www.autotropolis.com/wiki/index.php?title=Ford

As I pointed out, the rules concerning interracial dating applied until 1967 in Virginia to people of every profession. The rules concerning men wearing garters at IBM applied in the 60's. And according to my late grandmother, you could be fired from a job on the police force for marrying a Jew (I'm not sure of the exact date, but it was definitely post 1915).

So no, the rules didn't stop applying to other professions 200 years earlier than to teaching. Things were just really different in 1915 and even 1970 than today.
Putting the option in an advanced pane would be as good as not having it. The sort of people who would see it are the same ones that already keep an eye on their browser plugins and uninstall ones they don't like.

I guess my real issue here is that this guy is picking the wrong fight. It's not about consent to install, it's about good or bad software.

Most of the stuff he calls out is probably a win for average users. They can click a link to a song and buy it right away, for example. It's good software.

I get the feeling this guy would be fine with things like the Yahoo or Ask toolbars (bad, horrible, terrible software) because if users stay on their toes while installing stuff they could opt out. Normal people just take the defaults though, and get stuck with a crapped up computer.

Adding choices to the installer feels like the smug, nerdy, you-need-my-help-to-use-computers approach.
I'm a male. I don't give a flying fuck about 'culture'. There is no culture. It matters not a jot to me. It never has. Why should it???

I grew up hacking away on my own in my bedroom floor hunched in front of a PC making raycasting demos at 4am. WTF has culture got to do with me doing that???

Are you trying to say that I started programming because I was embraced by some culture??? Are you saying that women are put off solely because of this mythical culture you speak of? Grow up.

Once you have a few kids, you learn that most differences in the sexes are genetic.

Women enjoy communicating. They're social beings on the whole. Sitting talking to a computer does not appeal. This is not rocket science. It's not environmental. It's hard wiring. Women = nurturing, communication. Men = hunt, build. If you can't see that, I'm not sure what hope there is for you.
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