skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I teach first grade Sunday School at my church and I definitely noticed that parents were uncomfortable with me being alone with the kids for a few weeks. This in spite of the fact that I'm a leader in our church and I knew a lot of the parents outside of this setting. I also had to have a background check before being allowed to help out.

It was pretty annoying but the parents got over it when they saw that their kids loved having me there. This is in part because I always seem to end up discussing Star Wars or video games with the boys for at least part of the time.

What's funny (and sad) is that this attitude spills over into family life. My brother won't kiss my oldest daughter on the lips despite her insistence that he do so (she has some pretty strong opinions). His response was that "I don't do that with kids."
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I updated my company's website after about 1 month of part, part, part time development (i.e. probably in about 24 hours of actual work). It's pretty fugly, but there are some cool technologies at play that the HN community may enjoy. And I would enjoy (even potentially negative) feedback. The blog entry is tutorial-esque with a link to the "code" on GitHub.
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One of the better papers to read is http://www.ipt-forensics.com/library/female.htm

It is specifically about lifting the lid on abuse perpetuated by females, and not a "cherry picked" story.

Here's a site that is more numbers focused:
http://www.yellodyno.com/html/child_molester_stats.html

Here are some numbers:
Nearly all the offenders in sexual assaults reported to law enforcement were male (96%).
- Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement, 7/00, NCJ 182990, U.S. Department of Justice

Males are reported to be the abusers in 80-95% of cases
-Thoringer, D., et al., 1988

All but 3% of offenders who committed violent crimes against children were male.
-BJS Survey of State Prison Inmates, 1991.

The typical offender is male, begins molesting by age 15, engages in a variety of deviant behavior, and molests an average of 117 youngsters, most of whom do not report the offense.
-Dr. Gene Abel in a National Institute of Mental Health Study.
The BBC story from 2006 seems to be the one older story in there, while at least the first two examples were in the news recently. If this is not enough to make it a "real article with actual analysis and data", most of the stuff that makes soccer moms uneasy to see their kids with random males wouldn't make the cut either.

It's extremely stupid to label all men as possible pedophile, and it's even really stupid to ascribe - to each and every pedophile - the faculty (let alone willingness) to be a predator.

Most children who are abused are abused by close relatives, so (as unpopular as that is) keep a close eye on other family members and your kids' buddies' parents, with a reasonable amount of concern. Teaching your children to fear all and every stranger, or any male adult, will deal considerable psychological damage to them; when a single well-meaning caregiver can damage literally hundreds of children in that way, who wouldn't have cause for concern?
I'll never forget when my two oldest kids (now in their 20s) went to one of those early head-start kind of places when they were a kid.

One week the lesson was on inappropriate touching. I know this because both kids spent the next month inappropriately touching everybody they met -- with some very humorous results.

Of all the things that have changed in the last 40 years or so, this thing we've done where we've trained everybody to be afraid of each other is probably the worst. Every day parents are bombarded by statistically highly-unlikely events that they take to be commonplace. It's made an awful impact on the fabric of society. Very sad.
After I got into work, I did a quick search and found that it's not under labour law as such, but Ontario courts (and presumably Canadian courts in general) frown on non-competes. This article from 1999 suggest that non-solicitation agreements are acceptable, but there's nine conditions that make a non-compete acceptable because it's an 'exceptional' situation.

http://www.zvulony.com/non_compete.html

This is upheld in other articles that I've read that are more recent:

http://www.toronto-employmentlawyer.com/law-advice/employmen...
http://blogs.hrhero.com/northernexposure/2008/10/14/noncompe...
http://www.brazeauseller.com/articles/29/12/2008/245.aspx
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Why yes, business success is defined in monetary terms. Good CEO brings good money to the company.

But to bring it back to the subject, my son's kindergarten was 1/2 staffed by males (we're in Norway). He loved every minute of it.
Not that I want to beat up on a open source project, but for a desktop environment focused on ease of use, there are some very odd things overlooked.

1. How am I supposed to know what these icons do? Why even title them? https://img.skitch.com/20110118-biweei4eyuey217fisi7ks2d9f.p...

2. Eight of the eleven icons in the dock have significant title clipping. Did no one notice this? https://img.skitch.com/20110118-e1ykw7u3qf3gwmuhxaug28p5mr.p...

Usability isn't minimalism. It isn't translucent windows, rounded corners, or stark blacks and gradients. It's these details, and about a hundred others that I'll run into while using your software. These details can either add friction to whatever problem I'm trying to solve (and therefore add marginally to my bad mood), or they can remove it. If you don't ask these questions, you aren't even giving your users a chance.
While I agree about the lack of supporting evidence for her claims, nothing in the article suggested to me that she isn't concerned about pedophiles, nor do I think this article was really near a gray area at all.

>Of course it's stupid to label all men as possible predators, but there's another side to it: when a single pedophile can damage literally hundreds of children, who wouldn't have cause for concern?

Concern about pedophiles isn't the other side to this. It's related in so far as our concern about pedophiles has turned into a concern about men in general. The only way it could be the other side would be if the majority of pedophiles are men (probably true) AND if a significant amount of men are pedophiles (I don't think I need to cite any references to say this is absolutely false).

It's pretty easy to have concern about pedophiles without having concern about men working with children. In fact, we already have systems in place for this - all teachers are screened before they are hired, for example.
Lenore Skenazy is actually the leader of an entire movement around kids being able to do more of what they want (hence the book: Free Range Kids). You can check out the blog here: http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/

Also, she caused quite a stir a few years ago for letting her 9 year old kid ride the subway alone. Her story about it is here: http://www.nysun.com/news/why-i-let-my-9-year-old-ride-subwa...
I don’t really see the contradiction.
Suppose you are black kid in the inner city and none of your teachers are black, cos they might be criminals or a muslim kid and none of your teachers are brown (terrorists) - you might have some doubts about whether you can be a teacher or whether school is for you.
Facebook befriending = please don't forget about me.

Real friending: Facebook befriending agnostic.

Conclusion: without FB you know who your friends are. With FB, you know who your friends are, or are not: because you are reminded every time you look. And who needs that?

Why people resent Facebook: it has mangled the definition of friend and warped the ground of relating.

My way of relating to Facebook: give it as little energy as possible (have a minimal presence.) I'm not on it to make new friends, or improve relationships: mainly to keep the status quo. It's for sharing photos, sending messages and basic interaction. It's not for deep communion.
Interesting, but seems that even fully developed, it would be limited to cases of when only a (lower requirement) portion of a chip needed online reconfigurability. Even one of the mailing list messages admits the routing is severely limited compared to the host, and timing hadn't been characterized. (that "ascii bitstream" format is quite cute)

If one was to flesh this idea out and create a "universal bitstream" -> specific FPGA "compiler", at what layer do we stop and declare that we have reached the proper primitive abstractions? What happens when technology moves on from those primitives, and more performance is demanded by the majority of the applications? An older CPU can go about its business a bit slower while an older FPGA trying to run new code won't even fit the design.
I disagree that men are better at disciplining children than women are.
1. What do you want to get out of it?
2. Do you see this happening? If not, stop.
3. If you're not sure, what do you need to make it happen?
4. Does that seem viable?
5. If not stop.
6. Otherwise continue.
Not that your position is logical, but if it was, it seems like you'd have the opposite position: teachers might be alone with groups of children, but probably not with a single child, one-on-one.

But piano teachers and other tutors seem like they'd often be alone one-on-one with a child. I was always dropped off by my parents (or rode my bike across town) for those kinds of things. Do parents today really cart their children around and sit and watch them every second? Geez.

To be clear, in no way am I advocating that paranoia against male piano teachers or tutors is justified.
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I agree. I also think that like many things, this kind of paranoia regarding pedophilia is taken the the extreme in the US. I've spent time in several European countries, Greece for example, where it is perfectly OK for an adult man to pat someone else's child on the head without the mother pulling the kid close.
I'm using CSS3 (as a progressive enhancement) in XHTML1.1 ... am I doing it wrong?
The moon is made of cheese and Atlantis is located just off Greenland. The data bears this out.

I'll provide a citation for my claims if you provide one for yours. The plural of anecdote is not data.
> When both carrier and manufacturer neglect to offer explanation or consideration for their collective failure to deliver, they must collectively be held responsible.

No, you can only hold the organization that you have a business relationship with responsible.
I'm amazed by how dumb and severe the icon label truncation is. That screams to me that it was designed without testing it with real content.

How can anyone see Network C…, Network P…, Network P… in the preference panel and not wonder if the truncation is too agressive?
Is http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=slim Hacker News' first high-level government official? :-)

The Guardian also covered this in http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/18/tunisia-dissiden...
"Anshika Packers & Movers" ranked #3 by traffic in the U.S., according to Alexa
Ahhh, I had misunderstood. I thought the example include was a required step... Thanks, btw, excellent post.
The headline posted here is not the headline of the article, nor is it supported by the article. The article makes the point that corporate profits are going up while unemployment is staying high. The article does not say that profits are up because unemployment is high. In fact, I expect corporate profits would be even higher if unemployment were lower, as more paid workers means the economy expands even further, creating more demand for products and services and higher profits.
Dark Patterns wiki (http://wiki.darkpatterns.org/Home) does a great job of identifying ux trickery, with a nice undertone of "See the witch! Burn the witch!"
Hello there,

Overall application idea is great and very useful for any service based company. Although there are many things that would need to change or be added to make it that much more appealing.

-First of all, the websites design needs some work. I find it to be plain, unappealing and untrustworthy. With a brighter design, you can attract a lot more users. Maybe try choosing some main accent colors and applying them throughout the application.

-From a Developers point of view, the application runs very smoothly. Solid programming but missing a lot of features.

-I would concentrate on adding Google Cal syncing capabilities. I understand that it has already been mentioned but its too important to pass on. Many service companies use Google Apps to organize their scheduling. This would make things a lot easier for any user. Maybe even integrate with other project management applications such as Basecamp or any other.

-For the booking process, I think you should also ask the most information possible from the client. This will make things easier for the company to contact the user.

-The domain name is simple and easy to remember, but I would try to find a shorter abbreviated version to host the users apps.

-You could also allow the registered users to insert their custom logo for a small one time fee.

-For future consideration, maybe even add an advanced payment ability. Allowing the clients to pay by credit card in advanced and send the payment directly to the company (Paypal, Authorize.net etc.) You can also charge a small percentage of the transaction as commission.

Overall great idea. Keep up the good work! Good luck!
Toilet-based video games (toylets)
It's amusing to watch various media companies horsetrading the rights to stream a particular show or movie on a given month, worrying about getting one week ahead or one month behind or whatever.

Meanwhile, millions of consumers look at the confusing availability of media and unpredictable technical quality of streaming, shrug their shoulders, and just download high-quality versions of whatever they want to watch at their leisure, thanks to torrents.

iTunes succeeds with a pay model in a world of piracy because it delivers predictable quality, widespread availability, and downloadable content instead of streaming.

That's how they beat the subscription music services, how they beat piracy, and what the movie studios need to learn from.
Sure, but it's a great and insightful article...probably one of the best I've read on HN in a while
There are few other professions that result in a baby being sexually abused. I'm more than willing to bend over backwards to give someone a chance writing code, fixing plumbing, making clothing, painting a room. Some things I'm less willing to do.

With that said, its a great opportunity for people who don't mind male daycare teachers to really get top quality care for less money. I think you'd be foolish not to exploit this arbitrage opportunity.
What? Axod said, "If I had to choose..." not that the choices were mutually exclusive. Comparing the question to another question that's more frequently discussed in order to highlight its significance is not the same as a false dichotomy fallacy.
Chip upstart Tilera lines up $45m in funding
Where are the stats about male /teachers/ alone with pupils having a worrying level of sexual predation, which is what you claimed.
See my other post, which contains some. If you don't think those are satisfactory (and please state why), I have more.
The New York Times selling unsubstantiated rumors as newsworthy, shows why the newspapers are in trouble. It is nearly impossible to imagine Apple allowing someone else's shoddy product to carry their logo...let alone doing so on a regular basis.
Telecommanded Zombie Worms. +1 for Science.
Male nanny here.

Anyway, I was an education major and one my male professors would always stress to the males in the class that they should be extremely cautious when dealing with children (don't hold their hands, etc):

The professor started out teaching first grade, and one time, a boy in his class came out of the bathroom with his pants down because he couldn't get them back up. Before the boy could even ask for help, the professor ran down the hallway to the nearest classroom with a female teacher to have her pull up the boys pants.

I'm not offended by the way it is though. Like how at the Iowa daycare center where the one male aide can't even be in the room while diapers are being changed. I was taught to stay far away from those types of situations and to be honest, if it makes someone feel better that I'm not in there - that's fine by me.
And as short as a day waiting for the mail or even a trip to the video store can be, having streaming video means Netflix has something to kill time _right now_. I'm not a movie afficianado and neither are most people I know, so the fact that only some movies are available online doesn't present much of a problem (I'll just pick one that looks good enough).
Didn't anybody tell these guys that economics is boring? You can't sell many books about that. Or a DVD (available today).

Inspiring to me.
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How hackers can use smart keys to steal cars
What? In Windows 7, the contemporary version to GNOME 3, all the flashy effects come on by default - or at least they did on this machine. You have to turn them off if you don't want them. IIRC OSX is basically the same... isn't it a little counter-productive having a whole lot of pretty effects if they're off by default?
What the author didn't dig into was the selection of core groups, and how we choose a group that best serves us as individuals and that we can best contribute to.

How does one move between core groups, how many can you be an active member of at once?
I'd hesitate to put books on my résumé. My fear would be that the interviewer would then pick the hardest part of the book to ask me about.

OTOH, if I were interviewing someone, it might be worthwhile asking them what good programming books they've read lately, and drilling down into that with them.
Norway is 2500km[1] away with no noticeable Tunisian population, but the media has shown a lot of interest. but locality can't be a factor here. It is a relatively popular Tourist destination of course, so that may make the country more relevant.

[1] Distance between capitols according to Wolfram Alpha
I have to say I wish my first 72 hours in Silicon Valley were anywhere near that exciting. Great report, shows that if you time it well - and know people - you can really get a lot out of even a few days here.
You're going to want better (different, rather) citations if you want to justify your claims. None of those citations give reason to be wary of allowing a male teacher to be alone with a student.

What are the statistics on the number of men who are pedophiles? Better yet, what are the statistics on the number of male teachers (who are screened before they are hired) who are pedophiles?

If there was only one pedophile in the world, and he happened to be male, you could say that 100% of pedophiles are male and so you should never leave a child alone with a man. But that doesn't make sense, does it?
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Calling Comcast an ISP is a bit strange. They are still primarily a cable service. They are also quite experienced with running tv studios, they own E, Style, Golf, G4 and quite a few more.

That being said I've worked for 2 companies that Comcast bought, the first was TechTV which got absorbed into G4 and tanked. I'm not looking for the takeover of NBC to go much smoother. Comcast has installed a lot of their broadcast heads over their NBC counterparts. I understand they want to drive the direction, but putting people in charge of severely underperforming networks over people in only marginally underperforming networks makes no sense to me.

This merger is going to be ugly and have a lot of nasty fallout.
I meant that changes are not drastic in a single level (at least on phenotype level). You don't expect progeny of an ape-like ancestor to give birth to an elephant like organism. But that is what precisely happens with Genetic Programming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wtfNE4z6a8

Jack Nicholson getting his toast and not taking any shit.
The real life equivalent of this for me is Christmas cards.

I never send them, but I receive piles of them every year. It's really not nice of me but I stuff them in the paper bin unless they're from close family or home made and not printed.

When it's mid summer though I tend to drop in on people just to say hi and ask how they're doing, I prefer to do that than to send a Christmas card just because 'it's the social thing to do', I don't feel as though I'm obliged to return the favor and the facebook 'demands of reciprocity' I can do without just as well.
Always a great one from Marijn!

As a side note, would it be possible to add a simple 'X' (close) button to the interpreter/console. Clicking on the reading area didn't seem all too intuitive, especially if your screen isn't that big, and the console ends up taking up much of the view =).
And in two hours, this one will have twice as many comments as that post got over the course of days.

Pedophile-paranoia is a real problem, but let's be clear - if there's anything that will rile HN posters, it's the idea that some straight, white guy somewhere might get a raw deal.
The average for English is over ten years.
It's funny how that works - a brand new article not having much commentry. No such thing as confirmation bias, eh?
Someone Hijacked yahoo.com on Alexa!

When you click on the link it clearly shows that it's yahoo.com and not anshikapackersmovers.

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We were like 20 at the time, and ill-equipped to deal with children on this level, so we probably should have relayed the event to an adult of some sort

At 20 you are an adult of some sort, and have been for some time. The only problem I see in the story is you don't act like it.
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All-Free Software (BIOS, firmware) netbook with a Loongson MIPS CPU. RMS uses this.
In less than a month it's Pegasus 21th birthday! The article is almost a year old. My first email client was indeed Pegasus. I started using it around 1995, the year of awakening.
How trustworthy is the feedback from these dissatisfied businesses?

People have a strong tendency to blame others for their problems and this case is no different. Groupon and its "disloyal" customers are an easy scapegoat for the business' own problems.

Groupon just brings customers in, they don't magically make the business better.

When analyzing the effectiveness of Groupon we should be most concerned with how well businesses with a good product or service did using Groupon.
"As has been shown time and time again, vendors really don't want the burden of keeping your handset up to date forever because there is nothing in it for them, aside from perhaps avoiding too much negative press."

The reality is a lot more depressing; the vendors actually want you to buy a new phone.

If your current phone can run the latest version of Android - why would you bother ... ?
I had no problems doing SICP. Yes, it was somewhat hard, but only in a few areas.
I don't disagree with the notion that people overreact to men around kids, but I think the article itself is just a lazy appeal to emotion, and not very well argued.