skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, the person bringing up "countless psychological studies" has a responsibility to provide their own evidence.

I have no problem with other people having opinions. I likewise have no problem with publicly disapproving of opinions which I think are socially harmful.

I don't have any illusions about changing a bigot's mind, but I can hope that others will see my disapproval and think that bigotry is just that much less cool.
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite webpage on the Citadel.

Seriously though, this is perfect. It's exactly what we need to dispel the idea that HTML5 is some magical new technology that is going to make every website on the internet instantly amazing.
16 million iPhones over 90 days is 178,000 / day.

This is getting down to near half Android's claim of 300,000 / day (not all phones, but one would presume nearly all).

Of course, add in the other iOS devices and Apple is back in front, but it's interesting to see how far behind Android they are in the phone market now.
They obviously knew that this would bump the stock price up, which is why Steve's step-down announcement was timed to effect the market on the same day.
My company uses it because we run our web front ends on various cloud providers, most of whose IP space is blacklisted. I don't even bother to verify that they are anymore and just assume that they are. Sendgrid gets rid of this entirely, which is a pretty big win.
The Nexus One may not match the hardware specs of some of the newer phones, but that doesn't mean it is out of the game. My Nexus One is still fast and powerful, and outside of that one Unreal Engine 3 game, has no problems with any app. So my point is that even though other devices have better hardware, rarely is the Nexus One outdated.
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If your stance is proportionate to risk, you wouldn't ever leave your child alone with a family friend, or your own siblings for that matter.

The only male family member I'd leave my child with is my father. I have two sisters, so the sibling angle not so big of a deal. And one brother-in-law who is a crimina ldefense lawyer, so won't stay alone in a room with kids anyways :-)

So maybe in some sense the family structure has made it easy for me to sidestep this potential conundrum.

And I agree about education and such. As the child is older I'd certainly relax things, but a toddler isn't going to know what is going on.

And regarding friends, I don't really have any male friends that I'd be comfortable leaving a toddler with -- even sexual abuse aside.

As children get older this changes, but 0-5 I just don't know if my child were around many men alone. And none regularly.

But I will grant you this... I'm at a more extreme side of the spectrum than most when it comes to risk avoidance in general. Especially compared to the HN crowd.
Make that Apple product = hardware + app ecosystem
Not pimping , but my post on this exact topic was recently on Hacker News , http://contrast.ie
"Ten years of work on OSX barely shifts the needle; less than a year of iPad sales breaks the gauge. It's pretty clear which OS is more important to Apple now."

It's unfortunate, but I think you're right. OS X is BY FAR my favorite Apple product (even over the hardware, which is beautiful, but seems to be trending down with regards to quality). iOS is the money-maker though; Apple would be hard pressed to not see it as the future of the company. Boo.

Dear Apple,

I don't want iOS on my desktop. I want OS X on my desktop. Please.
> "at least Google has acknowledged those and is working on a fix"

That's of little comfort. The bug report was dismissed and deprioritized for a long time before pressure from the public/internet forced Google to prioritize it and ship a fix.

If Google can't even prioritize and fix critical bugs like this without the blogosphere getting all up in their business... what hope does Android have?
Clever. Especially since "normal" bugs occasionally have that nasty habit of turning into security relevant bugs.

It will be interesting to see how close you can manage to get something resembling good review on a budget. Hopefully other people who are in similar low margin code businesses will keep an eye on your experiment to see how it works out.

Thanks for being so open about how you're trying to make things work. I hope you'll be publishing all the awarded bounties? (I suppose I should just wait for your follow-up entry.)
Oops - maybe the ruling class in Tunisia should have made the state their intellectual property.
I only go on facebook to confirm friend requests when people start bugging me about it in real life. I haven't deleted my account, but I might in the near future (or might not). I have never met anyone through facebook and I think that in all the time I've used it (not a lot compared to most Americans my age), I never accomplished anything productive whatsoever. I get more value out of watching re-runs of Law and Order.
annual revenue vs revenue for the quarter.
I found that reading SCIP while stoned helps understanding. Give it a shot! I finally understood big-theta!
I really wish people would stop calling Goatse Security "white hat hackers." As an information security professional, it irks me to think that this is how people think of my industry.

Goatse Security (yes, named after that Goatse) is a subsidiary of the GNAA (excuse my vulgarity, but it stands for the Gay Niggers Association of America), whose sole purpose is to troll the Internet.

All these news outlets giving Goatse more publicity and even worse, calling them security professionals brings a bad name to my field.
That's exactly why lot of developers stick with iOS.
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In my experience, I'm very good at proofreading my own writing/code, as long as I wait long enough that I've forgotten it. In this case, I was looking at code which I wrote over a year ago.

But please, go ahead and give the code another read. :-)
Why single him out? When iPad was finally shown in January the notion that it would not sell more than a few million, tops, was very widespread among analysts and most of the tech press.

Hell, people were giving Leo Laporte a hard time because he came in with one of the highest estimates, at (I think) over 5 million.
Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy&...
it looks like IBM pulled in $29 billion last quarter, so still ahead, but just barely. Regardless, it has been a remarkable turnaround.
Great to hear you're using it, thanks!

We're planning a major revamp of all the widgets. In the meantime you can use a custom text widgets (which accept images and inline styles but no JS) to render whatever you want. Drop me a line if you would like any help getting something up.
Depressingly true, but there's a flip side:

- Brand loyalty. Apple's fans are die-hard partly because Apple doesn't (often) screw their users. You can expect timely (even major) updates to your iPhone for quite some time after release. When's the last time someone reported that they won't buy anything but LG/Samsung/Motorola?

- Apple also loves having you on the upgrade cycle. The difference is that these have been largely driven with hardware changes. Retina display, new styling, front-facing camera, GPS unit, 3G connectivity... etc.

There's no reason why Samsung, LG, Motorola et al cannot follow this model.
FWIW the 20% figure is reasonable. Reading through http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/content/82/4/457.full and doing some back of the envelope figures, let's suppose that 20% of the population has been abused. Let's suppose that the average abuser abuses 20 people. So 1% of the population are abusers. If virtually all abusers are men, that puts it at about 2% of the male population. (Which is, incidentally, similar in frequency from homosexuality. So this is not a difficult to believe rate to find for an unusual sexual orientation. Though evidence suggests very little overlap between homosexuality and pedophilia.)

Now add to this the fact that most men don't have a strong interest in children. But all pedophiles do. So among men who choose to deal with children all day, you have to expect much higher rates of pedophilia than in the general population. If it is an order of magnitude difference, you'd get to 20% pretty easily.

All of that notwithstanding, the best way to protect children seems to me to be to teach them what they should bring up with other adults. Abuse depends on secrecy. The best protection is light. This is much better than tarring 80% with the problems of the remaining 20%. Particularly if you believe, as I do, that it is important for children to have both male and female role models.

Furthermore it seems to me that we're creating our own problem. The more we demonize men who want to deal with children, the more we drive non-pedophiles away from that, then the higher the fraction of those left who are going to be pedophiles.

I understand your decision to react differently based on the data. But I don't agree with it.
I sense a great justification for an alcohol budget.

Edit: Totally willing to continue burning karma on this comment if the HN community continues to decide vote it down. I've tried reviewing my own code in a different state of intoxication than when I wrote it and I'm not joking that it can help. I'm still trying to pull resources together for a study on the benefit of different mindframes for peer review. We haven't tried alcohol yet, but frankly it wouldn't be a half bad idea if we could get anyone not to laugh too loudly at the proposal.
It looked like a RSS icon to me.
Can you give some instant reward to users? Sure in 20 clicks they are getting a set of things they should buy, but what about people with a shorter attention span? What if you could see statistics about how your opinion lines up with other people? What % of people agree with you, perhaps the trending popularity of the shirt over time.
This is really fantastic. I'm going to start browsing Google Code Projects now. :)
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The data I've seen (and cite/quote in previous posts in this thread) show that only 30% are committed by family members. 60% by out of family acquitances, like teachers, coaches, etc... And 10% by strangers.
Yes, I'll find somewhere on the website to put that list.
Yup. NPR and PBS are on the chopping block. It's really amazing. But, strategically, I can understand. You can't have people getting any valuable intellectual content over the airwaves... it undermines the Republican base.
The title tells you what the author was able to accomplish through a particular phenomenon. That's hardly anything like "14 Ways to Get On The Front Page Of Digg." So, I'm surprised you have that reaction. I didn't.
The point Dubner made in the blog post is, I think, a valid reason to leave. It used to be that Freakonomics was a book with a follow-up blog trying to build/retain an audience for book #2. In that context, getting NYT to provide the platform makes a lot of sense. But when you're tossing in a whole lot of multimedia stuff and films and podcasts, it starts to make sense to run your own show.

Sort of like when you're starting up, it might make sense to run stuff on VPSes and shared servers and cloud or whatever, but as you scale, the incentives to own your own boxes triumph.
It's one of many studies that demonstrate empirically that women are more empathic than men. My assumption is that the difference relates to genetics but what matters is that there is an observable difference that will have an impact in the real world - especially in the workplace - which is what this discussion is about.
By the way, not one question about the health of Steve Jobs.
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I wonder if there isn't a correlation amongst Facebook users that falls along introvert-extrovert lines. Specifically, I wonder if introverts aren't more likely to be disappointed with their experiences with Facebook because they crave deep, interpersonal relationships with fewer people while extroverts are satisfied with Facebook because it allows them to keep up to date with hundreds of people.

I find that I regularly check Facebook and am regularly disappointed with what I encounter there both as it relates to the activities of my friends and their responses to my activities. I tend to want deeper feedback and discussion which clearly isn't the model for Facebook. Whereas I know plenty of extrovert friends who love Facebook, are constantly checking in and because they have hundreds of friends, are constantly validated.

Certainly this is all anecdotal and biased given that I'm strongly introverted but every time I see someone say they are giving up Facebook or are disappointed in it (including myself), it seems to me that person is most likely introverted and thus not well served by the end goals of Facebook.
I've noticed four avenues marketers usually take and they're all pretty demeaning.

Selling to women?
-Men are morons who can't understand this product like you can.
-These women are better than you because they consume this product

Selling to men?
-Women are items to be acquired through the use of this product.
-These men are better than you because they use this product (or in the case of the Miller Light ad, "Here's what you look like when you don't drink Miller Light.")
>　Most iOS devices being sold are, in fact, not iPhones!

Pedantic reply: half ≠ most, half = half

But that aside, I see your point: clearly iOS can still be influential regardless of the shift in the cellphone market space. What will be interesting to see is how (or if) that changes when Verizon gets the iPhone...
By "standard implementation", I mean something like "OpenSSL 0.9.8o". This helps me more, since I can be fairly certain that >0 experts have reviewed that code. Given that absolute verification is just about impossible, it's a question of reducing the probability of failure wherever possible. With a private, closed implementation, the number of reviewers is almost certain to be lower.
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The more we demonize men who want to deal with children, the more we drive non-pedophiles away from that, then the higher the fraction of those left who are going to be pedophiles.

I agree with that, and I don't like it. I don't particularly like the position I have. I struggle to take on a different one though.
Wow, this looks awesome and runs really fast in chrome.

Great work. Did you create your own 3d renderer using standard canvas or are you using some framework?
Speaking with someone about your mom dying is bound to be more consoling than having someone comment "My condolences! What a great person" and- hopefully not- "4 people liked this."

Not really. It's just tiresome and awkward. Unrelatedly, I've also had fairly intelligent (even HN-caliber) discussions on Facebook. It all depends on who your friends are.

Plus, posting something on Facebook doesn't preclude anyone from talking with me about it in person on the rare chafe they have something to say.
This is what most people I know talk about. Why would they be any different online than in person?
please do this.
A friend of mine worked in the day care centre at my old (Western-European) school (ages 6--10 years), and he told me that, for guys, letting children sit on your lap was strictly verboten.

Pardon my French, but what the fuck has the world come to? It really makes me sad how little solidarity there is in today's world where people become more insulated and afraid of each other for no rational reason. I love being very physical when I'm social, regardless of how well I know some people, and I am seriously worried about the day that the paedophilia thought police (PTPD) knocks on my door.

- - -

It boggles my mind how so many things are going backwards as time moves forwards, even though you'd think the opposite would happen. In ten years' time, will Santa Claus be abhorred as a paedophile, or will Coca Cola have to cave to public pressure and feature Ms Claus instead, so children can still sit in the Christmas and share their adorable, naïve wishes?

If we ever get an equivalent to Mad Men that takes place in the 10s, I'm sure people will balk at things like these and wonder what the hell we were thinking. Or maybe things will have become much worse by then.
I don't suppose he mentions (or anyone knows) what the product actually is?
linkbait, buzz intro, not really useful info, beginner php code and timewaste, and seo honeypot on "Bldng a sstnbl side proj"
Microsoft sold 8 million Kinnects in the first 60 days. And now it like it's being positioned directly as a Windows peripheral.
It bothers me.

I used to assist teaching a Saturday morning martial arts class for kids. The change-rooms were communal; nothing unusual and I never thought anything of it. Then I was told that it made the parents uncomfortable and I had to change in the office. Suddenly I felt embarrassed and shameful.

Then I was shocked that I had felt such feelings. I don't experience much, if any, discrimination in my life. I really empathize with those who do. It's terrible.
Apple isn't putting iOS on the desktop. It wouldn't look right, feel right or work right. They will however be incorporating some iOS ideas into OS X. I really do believe that they'll do it with a careful and steady hand.
But see this essay, discussed on HN a few months ago:

http://www.fastcompany.com/1689699/you-negotiate-commodities...

The point he's making, I think, is he wants to be approached as an opportunity, not as a commodity.
http://www.aacsb.edu/dataandresearch/reports/08-09-salsurvex...

Mean salary for new hires in (AACSB accredited) finance is $193,300
Don't know- but I did buy some this morning the second I realized that Steve Job's announcement was coming right before earnings. If nothing else, Apple knows how to time things. Also, Tim Cook has been speaking more publicly and being put in a higher profile ever since Steve's last leave in 2009.
Well, the whois for claimchowder.com is pretty interesting....
I could not follow this article at all. He does not even say what his project does: "I had potentially identified [market demand] related to ecommerce, and then I spent 3 hours building it before opening it up for business."

The remainder of the article is about using a Google Docs spreadsheet and PHP to fulfill the "ecommerce demand" by hand. Once he saw the business could be sustainable, he began to automate the fulfillment process.

That is a novel, low-risk approach, but it's difficult to wrap one's head around it when you don't know what he is actually doing.
I think the hysteria would be far far less if the media didn't sensationalize and completely over-blow the rare instances of abuse that do happen.

The media has such a ridiculously lopsided view of risk, but the general public buy it. They hop in their car to drive to the shop, leave their kids with that weird uncle without a second thought.

But because of media induced hysteria, worry about getting on a plane or leaving their kids with a male nursery assistant.

I'd place the blame firmly with the media, rather than with human nature.
Why are you calling me a bigot? Is it possible you could find a less offensive way of engaging in this discussion? I would appreciate it. I also disagree with you, after all, but have not resorted to calling you names.
Page view generator? ;)
well it's good to know that Facebook users are not robots and have mortality. Always love interesting statistics.
Announcing the Warp web server in Haskell (Benchmarks inside, 100k req/sec ping)
wait 70 years and it's going to be REALLY high.
Streaming Pushing Daisies, 30 Rock, and Arrested Development are what made me a Netflix user for life. When I hear from people whose tastes I respect that X is awesome, and X isn't at Blockbuster but is available on DVD and streaming from Netflix, I know who I'm going to be a customer of.
Generally, it covers most of the people who care.
$60B, but, who's counting.

The fact that they have that much cash means that they cannot find anything that would materially affect their stock value (ROI for the investor) greater than the expenditure.

If they acquire a business, it needs to provide a greater return than the cash it took to buy that business. This is a problem Google and Cisco and a number of other companies face as well. Cisco's answer was a dividend - which was a sad statement for the tech market.

Google can buy all of the companies for tens of millions it wants for the foreseeable future, but, none of those companies materially affect the ~94% of their revenue brought in through search. That's why Google can be all over the board with Solar projects and alternative energy and self driving cars, etc, but, at the end of the day, will any of those ideas provide the same ROI as search?

Sure, something will come along that will do it, but, holding the cache horde right now until something encouraging comes along is slightly better than paying a dividend and having to borrow when they do find that investment they've been on the lookout for.

And Apple's stock price reflects their cash position. Don't think Wall Street doesn't analyze that and use that as a basis for assigning value. If they announced a dividend, the share price would jump to the current price + the expected dividend, then would settle back down to the appropriate valuation.
I re-checked the URL two or three times to convince myself that this is not an amazingly done HTML5 troll-site ! I just don't associate such imagery with the W3C ...
Key sentence FTA: I had previously started a few companies with angel funding and a couple small exits, but certainly nothing of scale.

He didn't raise $5M in 4 weeks, it took years of laying the groundwork.
"since Colin presumably doesn't want to raise his prices to pay for actual review"

Speaking as a Tarsnap user, he ought to. The service is seriously underpriced right now.
A minimal Python WebSocket server
1) I clicked a ton of shirts; does it ever end? Where are the suggestions?

2) I clicked "help" and got nothing. Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, all on a Mac.

3) Could you preload the next comparison so the site is snappier? If the next comparison depends on the results of the previous comparison, perhaps load the comparison tree up 2-3 levels deep. The experience would be much nicer if it everything was totally instant.
I just browsed the online version of your book. Nice! I just pre-ordered it on Amazon (they have a 39% discount).
His name is pretty memorable and he seems to show up quite a lot when people want an "expert" opinion on Apple.
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Thanks for reading. The product I chose is not all that important to the article. I believe the value lies in the process related to executing around it, and wanted to share with others.
"Excellence Has Become a Habit"… nice snippet from Tim Cook.
Somewhat related: how/when do we get Gingerbread on Nexus One?
Good news. Titanium has always been missing a default IDE/editor.
Found the supplemental PDF: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v439/n7075/extref/natur...

The second page has a graph of individuals by "empathic concern" (ignoring the brain activity axis, which is what the study is actually demonstrating...)

Note that although women, on average, have higher scores than men (a mean difference of 2 on a scale of 1-20), almost half of the men have scores higher than the female average, and a quarter of the women have scores lower than the male average.

In more intuitive terms, out of this sample of 16 men and 16 women, the 7 most empathic men were more empathic than the 8 least empathic women. If you were trying to guess how empathic someone you meet is based on their sex, you would do slightly better than just flipping a coin. From this you're getting that "women are more empathic"?

Or are you using a slight statistical association to rationalize your cultural prejudice?