skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may not be grandstanding if the technical cofounder believes it's in his best interest not to take 60%. Maybe s/he feels that taking more would damage company morale overall, thus harming his/her investment.
Finally a memorable page with links to subsections of the spec.

Did anyone notice it eats less CPU than the official one? :-D
You're right, there's a lot (if not the vast majority) of applied sociology that masquerades as philosophy and/or economics.
I actually have a follow up post exploring that. I felt like having them combined was waayyyy too long.
Yes, it probably is just a coincidence that Steve Jobs' illness recurs just when Apple profits are this high.

But on a more fine grained timescale a few days more or less in the timing of the announcements might make quite a difference in how people perceive this. If they had announced a month ago instead of right next to record quarterly earnings it might have hurt the stock more at the time than it does today.

The market is in theory 'efficient', but in the short term it tends to overreact to bad news, so combining bad news with extremely good news may be a viable method to offset the effect of the bad news on the stock.

Savvy investors will have priced Steve Jobs health in to their stock holdings already, those that are on edge might panic and sell unless there was a second factor.
It seems like satire comparing the hype which surrounded javascript in the late geocities/early myspace era with the hype that now surrounds HTML5.
This suggests that we are in for a long period of inflation.
Of course Korea and First Gulf War are not here, since they would ruin the author's argument. Cue the chorus of people arguing why Korea and First Gulf are "different."
It's a joke page, just < http://www.whatwg.org/html > with ugly CSS/JS. The point's to make fun of marketing weasels trying to confuse HTML 5, CSS 3, JS 1.8.5 , and other related technologies.
This seems like it would be a fantastic reason to develop a crypto-linter. Not that I think such a thing would be easy - but it could be immensely simplified by defining things like a "must change" attribute on parameters like that "encr_aes" pointer in library code, to flag potential incorrect use.
The contents are just links to parts of the "HTML5" specification. The page itself is meant as a joke.

From the source:

//please don't try to understand this super advanced DHTML script.
//it's way ahead of its time.
I have always felt that one of the saddest tragedies is that percentages have to add up to 100.
How do you assess your effectiveness at proofreading your own code?

I know that I find more mistakes in my code when time reveals the code as it is rather than as it was intended. But I can't say this makes me good enough at proofreading myself. What about the code I've conceived and written in ignorance?
Ask HN: Are there any good alternatives to Mozilla Thunderbird?
I've never had a cofounder like this, but I've (almost) had freelance clients who tried to start the relationship by sending an aggressive, strongly-worded, and one-sided list of rules. (Rule 1: You shall not be paid until final delivery. Rule 2: You must provide 24-hour turnaround; failure to do so will result in a $250 penalty. Etc..)

It's not about the money, but the attitude it demonstrates. It tips you off that the person will be unpleasant to work with, and imagines themselves constantly defending against people trying to take advantage of them.
Vannevar,

If you asked my investors about my history prior to Viximo, they wouldn't have a clue what I had done. It didn't matter. In any case, the point of the article isn't the exact timing of these things, it was a demonstration of what core groups can do. I spent a lot of time evaluating how/why what happened, happened (including my personal history). And I can honestly say, this was the one thing that was 90% of the cause.
Large version of chart, here:
http://www.thereformedbroker.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/...
Is Bill Gates damaging public education and undermining democracy?
Its probably more, due to the convenience effect. Its the same reason companies cluster restaurants: people go to the cluster knowing it will have the best selection. In the same way, people go to Netflix knowing they'll have the best selection, and sometimes they end up choosing a blockbuster title.
Doesn't PMail have export functions? I might have lost some part of the information doing it, though (could be because I had to pipe through Outlook Express, and Outlook Express was to blame - I can't remember).

Or if PMail does IMAP, copy all folders to an IMAP account?
I think it's a bad idea to recommend the OTR protocol to people looking for a simple encrypted transport (or simple encrypted record storage). How do you judge whether the guarantees TLS offers are "needed" or not?
Will Jobs' Departure Take A Bite Out Of Apple?
I used to use dillo as my browser of choice. It truncated tabs by dropping vowels, which I thought was really clever. I have no idea how well that would work in other languages, though.
Google's Artificial Intelligence Translates Poetry
When the iPad was first released, I stupidly thought "0.x% of people are going to have one in Australia. Tiny market."

Then I came to realise, that's x hundred thousand people who will suddenly be looking for something to do with their new device. At the beginning, if you were the first, strong player in a given field, you didn't have to shotgun-advertise all over the place, you could've just been noticeable in the app store.
Should Younger Developers be Paid More?
Scientists develop 3-D model of the ionosphere F-region
Different studies have found very different figures. The link that I provided includes a range of figures from different studies for different kinds of pedophiles ranging from 5.2-150 victims/pedophile. One of the reported numbers for non-incarcerated heterosexual pedophiles was 19.8. It looked like a reasonable figure, so I used it (after rounding).

It should be noted that I started drawing my figures with the assumption that I'd find that the number was hopelessly overinflated. When I got done I could have easily picked other numbers to show that. But I decided to be honest and report the first set of reasonable numbers that I tried.
Most humans in north america are women.
Your world may in fact be flat: http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/spence/Feng,%20Spence,%20...

Since you mentioned spatial awareness, you'll probably like this one. Having both groups play Medal of Honor for only 10 hours total narrowed the spatial gender gap into nonsignificance, with women benefitting much more than men. The benefits were still visible months later, without any instruction to continue playing.

Considering the wildly different toys and games we encourage boys and girls to play from infancy through adolescence, to say that this calls the idea that the spatial gender gap is genetic into question is quite an understatement.

So, uh... got any evidence that it is?
1 million fps Slow Motion video of bullet impacts by Werner Mehl
I read that he's the "State Secretary for Youth and Sports." Not quite a minister.
Did you read the article? I stopped when it started on wild speculation about future deals, but there were two execs quoted. Time Warner's CEO claims that Netflix is eating their lunch, and has not only cut off access to new releases but raised prices for library titles.

The unnamed Disney exec is glad to have an additional market for their library titles. They sound a good bit more clued in than anyone here is giving them credit for. (Though they clearly are fighting tooth and nail to keep consumers from realizing how poor the existing distribution channels are.)
everyone discussing this subject with Hilbert is severely mistaken if they think they'll dissuade him

That's a big part of why I was trying to stay out of it. Call it a moment of weakness that I bothered to reply at all.

A gentle note: countries that have state funded childcare and that otherwise compensate for the burden of child-rearing have even higher part-time and pink collar employment rates for women than countries that do less to provide for women and children.

I am 45. In my twenties, I read quite a lot of books on women's issues and some comparisons between the US and some European countries (many of the titles are lost to the mists of time) and the general understanding I developed was that countries that provided better support for maternity leave and childrearing (and had lower divorce rates) had made more progress than America in closing the wage gap. Those statistics are out of date by at least two decades, but I think the general concept has probably not staled in the least.

I don't think I am pushing anything deterministic. I am saying it is tough to change gears once you go far enough down a certain path. But it can be done and understanding what is going on can help in that regard. (EDIT: Also, understanding that this is an issue can potentially help reshape society so that it isn't so much of a "one or the other" kind of choice.) I got divorced and now work full time. After having been a homemaker in a very "traditional" (throw back to the 50's) marriage, I did some gender roll reversal with my sons: When push came to shove financially, I encouraged them to learn to cook and take over more of the housework so I could work more overtime instead of encouraging them to get jobs.

I did this for a number of reasons, but one of them was I did not wish to remain the household "domestic slave" and it was clear to me that if we all had jobs, the majority of the housework would continue to fall to me -- not because they are male and I am female, but because I am the one who already knew how to do it. They are well aware of my views that a lot of stereotypical gender roll stuff is rooted in situational factors, not in our genes or physiology, and they were well aware of my various motives. It was better overall for the family than other options available to us and they went along happily. Since my "theories" are yielding real world results for me and my family, I feel confident they aren't simply hot air or delusions (though I also have no fantasies that I know 'everything' either).

Anyway, long day and continuing to comment on a topic I should probably stay out of most of the time. It would be far better for me to turn my thoughts into a blog so I can explain my views, at my leisure and and at length, instead of "arguing" it in a male dominated forum.

Peace.
A call for industry-wide pixel-doubling
Part of the problem is that they haven't shipped Froyo officially. But yes, manufacturers, even HTC, have been up to 6 months late delivering code as required via GPL.
I don't know if I'm the chorus you're talking about, but they were both much shorter than the ones marked (gulf war 1: 90-91, korea: 50-53). If he shaded those boxes as well to the graph, I don't see it "ruining" his argument. The growth in those four years wasn't exactly spectacular. Very slightly up at best.
Has anything of significance actually been developed on Node yet? Seems like there is a lot of excitement about it (like the early Rails days), but I haven't seen any sites announcing they're written in it.
Last 3 minute is extreme
So, decided to completely ignore all my points and evidence about physical differences in the brain between the sexes, evolution etc eh?

I think we're getting nowhere here. You clearly have an agenda to follow rather than a desire to find out the 'truth'.

I'm also guessing from your comment about toys that you don't have kids yet.
This should be awesome. I really enjoy Appcelerator's Titanium dev kit and I think it will really come to life with its own IDE/editor. Congrats to both companies it's a great buy.
Microsoft Adds 'Attack Surface Analyzer' To Its Dev Sec Toolbelt
It gets worse if you're a gay male. Then you either get patronizing and clueless "Straight" advertisers that try to appeal to stereotypes, OR you get patronizing and embarrassing "Gay" advertisers deciding that what you need is men. Buff, BUFF men.

Fuck off. Maybe it's just that advertising is mostly patronizing. Sad for their industry, really... Why not learn how to relate to people?
No, really, you should read that study. It directly contradicts what you're saying in an experimental, repeatable way.

It's totally wild.
Without knowing what your product is, the numbers and information you put are exactly worthless. They have no significance for me. Any reason to do that?
Chukwa: A large-scale monitoring system
Nice, I like how the characters bounce a bit. Gave me an idea for a game.
Well, it matches pretty closely with some of the other patterns it spits out:

"How I Closed My First Round of Financing In Less than a Week Using Only Ten Lines of Code"
How do you assess your effectiveness at proofreading your own code?

You count how many bugs you find, then you count how many bugs other reviewers find.
UTTER BS.

It shows that women can 'learn' to get better at spacial awareness. Just like men can 'learn' to get better at communication.

It doesn't "directly contradict" anything.
Ask HN: Your coolest, most useful web design/dev tip?
I've found that web design, and back end development, is surrounded by an amazing community of people. With so many people doing neat things it's no wonder that so many nifty tips and tricks come about. Many of these tips or tricks become part of many people's bag-o-tricks - their "go to" way of achieving neat effects, or awesome typography, or just anything that makes web development that much more appealing. Often times it could be a certain font that you use at a certain size, and it just looks amazing you think. Or, some CSS trick that you feel gives your pages that current, trendy look. Even could be some Photoshop trick that you like to do with images for your sites. Anything. Most people have a few.

So, I thought it'd be fun to share yours. If you had to pick one or two items from your arsenal of tips/tricks, which would they be?
What's so terrible about labeling a set of technologies? Is it also wrong to call smartphones smartphones because the underlying technology isn't magical new technology?
I would like to know how do you find the 3-hours to build product and market it to $10K/ year.

I'll be very happy if I make $10K only.
This is an Intel plan, not Microsoft. They're trying to get press for x86 designs in mobile more than anything. Clearly Intel and Microsoft's interests are diverging here, or CES wouldn't have had the Win8 on ARM bomb dropped.
Whatever the deficiencies of the Gates Foundation, at least they are trying to improve things and with their own money. Children today are not helped by being "tied to the land", with teachers paid regardless of performance.

Perhaps people like John Taylor Gatto need to receive more attention.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto
First, don't obsess too much about your password digest. I know this is head-explodey considering the source, but all I'm trying to do by ranting about it is to get people to stop using SHA1 (or SHA256 or Whirlpool or whatever) hashes. The risk to your users for doing that bit wrong is not very high.

Second, my advice about how to do crypto security is very simple:

* Use PGP for data at rest.

* Use TLS for data in motion.

Do not trust your own judgement (say, by using OTR because it "feels" like most of what you need, or trusting that you'll use Keyczar safely) on anything else without a formal external review. In practice, you will almost never need anything more than TLS or PGP.
Yes. Go's assignments, increments, etc cannot be used as expressions.
It's not sold... it's just a syndicated blog. You won't find this article in the newspaper...
Buffer overflows are a fantastic reason to develop secure code linters. I'll let you know when we figure out how to make one that can count reliably.
I applaud the openness of this submittal. Nobody's perfect and the topic is difficult and the implementation is tricky to get absolutely right.

At AltDrive, we use a nonce generated w/ secure random and that is used for encrypting an entire file in CTR (EAX) mode. The issue with 64k chunks does not apply. The mature and well-respected BouncyCastle AES-256 libraries are used from the low level API. Usage of the API was independently reviewed by the BouncyCastle organization. I can share that on the AltDrive blog if anyone is interested. http://altdrive.com
This is great news for the Appcelerator guys, but I've gotten so used to writing Titanium apps in TextMate, that I'm not sure I'd really need a dedicated IDE!

Still happy for the company though.
Technology is a brutal industry for those that fall off the leading edge. Anyone who's considering going into it should know that.

It's often worth it to have periodic career breaks simply to refresh your skillset. Found a startup in whatever the hottest area is. Take on a side project to teach yourself something knew. Switch to a new job working on hipper technologies.

But if you're expecting to gradually keep your head down and put in your 40 hours a week at the same employer for the next ten years, you're going to be disappointed. Basically everything you started out knowing will be obsolete by then.
We probably won't see buybacks and dividends any time soon. Apple remembers the days when they almost went bankrupt and that has set the tone for how they manage financially. They are very conservative with their cash.

They have made it very clear that they are reserving that cash for a big acquisition. IMHO that means that they are waiting for the moment when someone innovates in a way that threatens them and they can bring the talent and assets aboard. Like the Google process, except you pay with cash.
Really? Does this howto (http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Compile_Cyanogen...) not get CM7 running on the Vibrant?
Where are the companies making their money? Ads? If so, put more ads in the Netflix content. It's not that ads that bug me, but my inability to watch a show when I want it.

Seems like Netflix/Hulu should be a win/win -- unless most of their money actually comes from the cable operators (in Time Warner's case maybe this is doubly so being a cable operator).
Herodotus:

"they are wont to deliberate when
drinking hard about the most important of their affairs, and whatsoever
conclusion has pleased them in their deliberation, this on the next day,
when they are sober, the master of the house in which they happen to be
when they deliberate lays before them for discussion: and if it pleases them when they are sober also, they adopt it, but if it does not please them, they let it go: and that on which they have had the first deliberation when they are sober, they consider again when they are drinking."

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2707/pg2707.txt

I also agree with you in general, that checking things in different mental states is a good practice. With alcohol, I suspect the benefit is outweighed by the difficulty of spotting bugs when drunk -- but who knows?
A Review of Quora Social Network
Yeah, exactly what I was trying to say — WIL was an app I've wanted to build for a long time and I used it to learn Django too.

I wouldn't worry about whether you're copying an existing app as well — just make something that interests you.
When it comes to our children, all bets are off - forget statistics and numbers, if your kid gets hurt and you feel you could have prevented it, no matter how unlikely the event, you'll never forgive yourself for it.

This is how junk science gets peddled. Instead of thinking logically when presented with evidence that doesn't make sense scammers rely on base instincts even though we know its not true.

For example, how many people were lead to believe that vaccines caused autism? Even when the junk science number were statistically small, and eventually found to be false, parents just assume their kids would hit the unlucky lottery and get autism.

The worst thing is the US invented the 24-hour news channel and they have to fill a 24hour slot so they'll pump out whatever junk they can find. This is what Michael Moore was getting at in Bowling for Columbine. Guns aren't bad, people with guns aren't bad, the constant beat of paranoid, locked and loaded, TV viewers is the problem. People die because they feel like they are at general quarters everyday of their lives.
Appcelerator Acquires Web App IDE Aptana
I agree on the importance of caution when applying statistical conclusions in individual cases - especially hiring decisions. I don't deny that there are, as you said, "mean women and caring men". But I don't believe in denying the existence of gender differences simply to avoid supporting the status quo. It can be useful to be aware of these patterns because, with a broad brush, we can cautiously identify where people's skills are most likely to reside.
Okay, but in the more general case, where something literally does not exist for a particular platform/language and my choices are "write it myself" or "don't use that platform/language", is there any way to feel confident that a choice to write it myself will not be a hideously wrong decision?
Really? Android is on every carrier. iPhone at the moment is only on At&t. If the iPhone were on all carriers the way Android is, Android almost certainly wouldn't be so far ahead. Hence... the iPhone is headed to Verizon. Let's follow up in a year and see where things are at then. Also, Android is on dozens of devices at different prices points. There have only been 4 iPhones... it's Apples to Oranges (pun intended). And anyways... Android isn't hurting the iPhone, it's hurting Blackberry: http://www.asymco.com/2011/01/11/for-every-att-android-user-...
I get a weird mix of this.

I'm a scout leader in Australia, where Scouts is non-denominational, non-discriminatory and mixed gender. I'm a Venturer leader, the 14 - 18 year olds, and I'm gay.

These things ARE linked. I'm a Venturer leader because it was this or being a Joey leader, which is the under 10's, and I just CBF dealing with that noise, because I'm also gay, which makes parents immediately suspicious. 'Cause, you know, once a little bit of a pervert, NATURALLY a complete monster. Just like how litterbugs all become worse then Pol Pot.

So, on the one hand I avoided one sort of leadership. On the other, I'm wanted because I'm a male, I can relate to the younger dudes. At camps we have a leader of both sexes not because there are touching fears, but because kids need someone of either gender to talk too if they need it, to make them comfortable.
I (the submitter) didn’t create this. I just wanted to keep widening people’s conceptions of what’s possible with the pure web technology stack.
Google claims carriers are activating 300,000 Android devices a day. The Apple figure you mentioned is of actual hardware sales, limited to phones. I'm not sure whether the two figures are comparable.

In any case, sales volume for the entire platform is more interesting to developers, as an iPhone app will also work on iPhone touch and iPad. Combining sales of all iOS devices that allow 3rd party apps, Apple sold 375,000 a day in the last quarter. (33.57m/90)

What I found especially interesting in today's conference call was the figure for iOS' installed base: 160 million. Android has a long way to go.
That info serves absolutely no one except the spammers by giving them some leads.
It's strange that you can get a nearly double-width monitor, but still 1050 pixels high. Why aren't monitors getting larger in proportion to an aspect ratio?
I honestly have no idea what you're talking about, please enlighten me.
Where was the social media?

Seriously: most mainstream outlets I follow have devoted a reasonable amount of space to Tunisia, albeit hampered by an obvious lack of experts on the situation there. Social media? very little. Pretty much the only stuff I've seen has come via the pirate parties or the far left.

Possibly it's just my friends and contacts being unusual -- but my hunch is that if you tried to quantify online attention to Tunisia, you'd find it lower than in the mainstream press.
Maybe it's my naivety, but how are they a scam?