skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Carly Fiorina, for all I loathe her politically, was a powerful woman in the businessplace for two decades. And she's been married to the same man since 1985, and raised two stepdaughters. Meg Whitman too has been married for a long time and raised two children. The point is not that the traditional family model hasn't suffered. It's that the root of its suffering isn't that women are finding it hard to be emotionally available because all of a sudden they have jobs.

Your anecdotes don't lead in the direction of your conclusion that "women are [not] finding it hard to be emotionally available". Carly Fiorina I'm sure found it hard to be "emotionally available" when her step-kids needed comforting and she was in a board meeting. See http://web.archive.org/web/20071101051517/http://www.careerj... for example which strongly suggests that her husband Frank's retirement enabled her.

I'm of the opinion you can't have it both ways. Either kids or work in almost every situation one will get marginalised.

>the conclusion we draw will not be that women simply can't do these things that we claim they can't do

Can women scratch their own balls? I'll answer for you - no they don't have any (in general), despite how equal you want things to be that isn't going to change. Men and women are different.

>The fact that we're arguing that right now is proof that we still have grossly distorted views of what an entire sex is capable of.

You're talking about capability but I think you're looking at the wrong thing. The reason there are less off one sex in traditional roles of the other sex is little to do with assumptions about capability IMO. IMO it's about desire of individuals to do those roles as much as anything.

Also in this line you meant men, right?
http://www.google.com/trends?q=threewords.me&ctab=0&...

It shot up, then it shot down... Agreed @ smart move. Best time to sell it, and I can't see it either being very monetizable long term, or 'sticky'.
Yea, I know. The difference between treatment and prevention. Our medical system is mostly based on treatment (mostly using drugs), and that makes sense sometimes, often prevention makes more sense.
Over time, NewTwitter does incur a large memory footprint. I've been traveling for a month and haven't looked into the problem in depth, but I'd bet the major culprit is our aggressive caching techniques. It's also worth investigating the number of polls and their frequencies. Timeline refreshes are dropped back to 90 seconds when the tab isn't focused, but not sure about other ones.

As most people have reported, infinite scroll is an easy way to introduce a slowdown over time. The sheer number of DOM nodes becomes quite significant - there are things we can do to ameliorate that issue, as well. Will take a look tomorrow. The feedback is greatly appreciated.
Or perhaps a methodology to enable Goldman to fly a bunch of business through a loophole in the law.
Hopefully that comes to fruition, I may get good service with less congestion. I would consider the move if it didnt mean switching to CDMA. I use data + voice often enough that this is a deal breaker.
We're only 17 days in, let's not get ahead of ourselves ;)
There is a market for this no doubt about it. Although several startups I know prefer to do this internally - for privacy reasons.
HP training materials out webOS netbook plans
Goldman Blames Media Attention For Killing Off Its U.S. Facebook Offering
Haha, hey everyone this guy thinks profitability with this matters! Everyone point and laugh!

I highly doubt even Mark thinks this product has legs with monetisation, it's a fad at best. He's clever for cashing in now, it'll be dead soon unless the new owner works out how to expand.
> Real Mossad Operatives Ship.

How do you know that?
I know all of this certainly has worked and does work for you, but the first thing I thought about when reading "small QA team" and "the key...talented engineers" is that QA is not very important to the company. A QA team that only checks the money buttons tells me that traditional QA has been incorporated into the developer positions themselves, which creates a conflict of interest.

Couching my conclusion in the topic of this post, it would seem that Facebook gives extraordinary freedom to developers, but also hangs everything around the developers neck. Screwing up in this area sounds pretty fatal, and not an aspect of a company I would want to work for. I'm kinda old, though.
Ya, was going to say the same thing... Do we just consider these web apps or SaaS?

I was thinking this would be like an analysis about how Rackspace would buy Linode and slicehost or something. (not saying that as a reality)
we're talking about stopping a nuclear weapons program here.

But the unanimous consensus ("with high confidence") of all 16 US intelligence agencies remains that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. I haven't seen that mentioned once in any discussion of this subject here. That's just weird.

I don't follow this stuff closely and obviously have no idea what's going on behind the scenes, but it seems likely that everything about this business is stuffed to the gills with propaganda. Is there any credibly objective source anywhere?
Hey, I'm not monetizing it at the moment. Transferring the actual website: not sure, will have to be something we talk about.
Most Bulgarian teenagers don't have access to nuclear centrifuge controller units for the purpose of designing/testing their code.
fourwords.me ?
Seems like they really messed them up.

According to Western intelligence reports, Russian scientists warned the Kremlin that they could be facing "another Chernobyl" if they were forced to comply with Iran's tight deadline to activate the complex this summer.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8262...
Why I decided to return my Nexus S smartphone
Try to avoid companies that would value a run-of-the-mill internship over a highly productive GSoC. :)

On the subject of visas: I know that in the US, if you come on a student visa, there are certain allowances for summer internships in technical fields. Your local consulate should know the details.
That's true. Don't be too paranoid, otherwise that'll come across to the VC as "this might be interesting but too adversarial to invest in."

But also, don't overlook the prospect that the person you're talking to is evil. Happens more than we'd like to think; lot of sharks in these waters.
Ask HN: Landing page Vs. jumping right in?
I am building a web application game that users essentially play once logged in. I am curious to know whether or not to use a landing page to explain how to play. If you want to make sure people stay on the page, I would think you would want to instantly through them into the game and provide links for help. But if they don't know how to play, they could just leave so a landing page helps. Of course I could also have a pop up that allows a user to learn how to play or go play on first visit. Thoughts or experience with this anyone?
If he was really in it for the money, though, he probably wouldn't have let $5+billion in options expire since coming back to Apple, iirc.
I am impressed by the amount of press coverage Mark got :)
Considering they use mysql how feasible is it for the database to be constantly changing? I think ive read that they use it more as a key value store then a relational store but still.
Stuxnet worked. Very well. It was out in the wild, by best estimates, for over two years before it was detected.

How long it was out in the wild doesn't matter though: what matters is how long it infected the target machines.

During that time it caused complete chaos within the Iranian nuclear program (to the point where some officials were executed on the suspicion of espionage).

How do we know that the people being executed were innocent as opposed to people committing espionage? I mean, if Stuxnet caused Iranian counterintelligence to discover an Israeli operative, then I'm not sure that's a win: delaying the program by an unspecified amount of time at the cost of lots of dollars and the loss of some operatives doesn't seem like a win to me. But this is all very speculative, so who knows.

Is there a good source justifying the "complete chaos" claim? Or the executions?
He always has the option to go to Flippa later if he doesn't get the value he wants here. From my limited experience, Flippa is kind of a liquidation market more than a source for competitive bids. Your mileage may vary.
Life imitates art imitates life?
Why is that necessary? Why not just use the symbol? I'd think that $ appears in too many non-stock contexts to really be a useful filtering mechanism.
Forever: on Digital Archival
Was really going off the recent Merrill Lynch report on internet trends and following their categorizations within the cloud space. Yes, I include SaaS apps under the umbrella term cloud. In some areas it's just a new label for things the existed, but that's not the case with everything in the cloud space.
Music designed for Shuffle
"Software isn't like that. By obtaining a copy of a program, you're not taking anything from anyone in a way that prevents them from using it. In particular, if the software has an "owner," you're not preventing them from selling it."

Piracy isn't theft. It's counterfeiting, which us much worse for the product creator. As an example, theft may deprive LG of a physical television, which isn't that bad. Counterfeiting can destroy the actual value of the product being passed out for free. Software, like any digital good for sale, is almost like proprietary currency. It's value is only in the minds of the consumers, because there isn't any physical cost involved. If it gets shared and anyone can get access to it through Google, torrent sites, etc, this value approaches $0 (and will eventually be $0).

We probably shouldn't be using terms like theft anymore, but counterfeiting. However, I have a feeling that those words will still be used because many people still want to justify piracy and want to make it seem like it's not really a bad thing.

Identity theft is not "theft" and we still call it that. A person's data is merely copied (the original is still there).
print only version:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/01/the-rise-o...
The example there is one of a cross-site request forgery (CSRF or XSRF). They pose a solution for POST requests, namely, the "Anti-Forgery Token". This is the right way to stop CSRF on post forms.

However, this is a defense which works just as well for GET requests. Just put a nonce in the URL. /do.php?action=delete&id=3&nonce=88e3a6fe57854f2ed18c. Solves it just as well. (Another common solution is to duplicate the session cookie in the URL.) It is not bad form to have a get request which changes state so long as there is a nonce in the URL.

Edit: URL was being truncated.
WHILE YOU'RE STILL IN COLLEGE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ALL YOUR NON-PROGRAMMING OPPORTUNITIES ESPECIALLY IN WRITING AND DESIGN HOW IRONIC THAT THIS ARTICLE IS FROM A GROUPON PERSON AND GROUPON HAS SUCH CLEVER AND HUMOROUS WRITING AND BEAUTIFUL DESIGN YET HIS BLOG LIKE THIS COMMENT IS PRACTICALLY UNREADABLE BECAUSE OF YUCKY TYPEFACE AND BLOG SETUP DO WHAT OP SAYS BUT NOT WHAT HE DOES
Their logo is a mint leaf, so...
well, i just deleted all twitter apps on my mac because they became too much of a time hog, and well new twitter on the web sucks currently so this means one thing ... i'm free
Perhaps because one of them is on the rise while the other is on the go?
Dispora Switches to MySQL
I think how we finance it is a very, very big part of the problem and the two probably can't really be separated. I think it actively encourages bad solutions.
Me too, but I only had 30 minutes to make that page. Ton of work today.
I have been using it in Chrome and new Twitter has been unreasonably slow. A friend who works at Twitter has acknowledged that they know about the issue and are working on it.
Nate Lawson is not trying to one-up anyone in the security industry. He works on a level above most of the rest of us, spending most of his time on hardware and cryptosystem projects. To imply that he's part of the Black Hat vulnerability research bugfinding rate race is to betray a comprehensive lack of understanding of how our field is structured.

I'd challenge you to find any reputable party in that field to challenge this summary. There's a whole Twitterverse of security experts that will back me up on this. Nate's not an egotist, and that's not where this post is coming from.

The place Nate is coming from is one of skepticism. He's challenging the near-hagiographic conventional wisdom that Stuxnet's sophistication is a clear sign of its intelligence lab origins. If Stuxnet isn't particularly sophisticated, that doesn't mean it wasn't set into motion by nation-state actors, or that it was ineffective, but it does knock down one factor in most of the discussions about the importance of "cyber warfare". Maybe Iran's nuclear plants were simply absurdly exposed to IT-based attacks due to sheer incompetence.
That may be the case, but I've left other sites open all day and they don't accumulate 500MB of memory.
+1 — figuring out a monetization strategy on this for me is too much of a time investment that I don't have, but someone else does.
As far as I know, Facebook uses Cassandra not MySQL.
Halo's banning policy - too much power
"Coming up with a new name that's not theft is probably a good idea, then we can mete the appropriate opprobrium upon that word instead of the too much of theft and the not enough of copyright infringement. This is definitely a goldilocks issue."

I don't think it has anything to do with theft, it has to do with painting piracy in a bad light.
I suspect your question is "how do you know that they're behind stuxnet" for which none of us probably have the answer - or if one of our loyal HN readers does, they're not really likely to divulge it.

The statement quoted in general, though, seems pretty true. That particular agency has a track record for being rather active rather than just quietly/passively gathering intel.
It wasn't a specific characterization of Nate, but rather a generalized, overly sarcastic and sweeping view of the security industry as a whole.

Many in security are just far too condescending, as this post was (not just wrong, but smug to boot).

For some reason there is a constant, tense competition between netsec bloggers and personalities for absolutely no reason. It is ridiculous.
Growing up in Russia, I remember the stereotype that girls are better suited for sciences because they are more studious (the exact Russian word is hard to translate but basically means that one is physically able as well as personally inclined to sit down and study for a long period of time). Boys on the other hand were considered too boisterous to pay attention for very long.

Of course, this stereotype was perceived as The Truth. Mother Nature, backed up by statistically demonstrable demographic evidence. Can't argue with that, right? And so it goes...
Tried it. Not even close to a MATLAB replacement even for students. It doesn't support or doesn't name half of the statistical functions the same thing, which makes it useless for problem sets (where you have to turn in your source code).
I like how the 8) on the eighth item in the list is translated into a smiley face. It's a nice touch.
And of course some asshat downvotes because you bring up ruby...

I'll just point out that rvm isn't a pip for ruby. It only manages what version of ruby you're currently using and allows seamless switching. It comes in handy with ruby because of all the compatibility issues between ruby versions and rails versions. Pip is a sophisticated package manager that can be used with virtualenv to isolate where Python libraries are installed. They are indeed both good tools for development but serve different purposes.
I'm not sure if I should downvote you because your post is really annoying me, or if I should upvote you for the self-referential murdering of style...
How to answer the question, What do you do?
Maybe instead of scaring you, it should provide you with comfort. Steve Jobs, after all, survived whatever he has been through. I'm not saying it's because of his diet - but who knows, it probably could not have hurt.
But it's totally unpredictable. You are right about Linda McCartney. Also why did Dana Reeves, who never smoked, die of lung cancer at the age of 44?

Best thing you can do is treat your body as a shrine. Follow a healthy diet - I think veganism is great if you can stick to it, meditate to keep your stress levels under control and engage in a moderate amount of exercise, you really don't need to do anything too excessive because that can take a toll over the years as well. And don't spend too much time thinking about it too, cause at the end of the day, you really should enjoy life.
Stuxnet is really dangerous precedent, where hacking is legitimized to the point of destroying nuclear facilities.
Chinese now can't be criticized for spying on gmail as this was lesser intrusion then this. If tomorrow some rogue group, and there is always a rogue group would use us computers to create havoc here, and I don't even want to speculate and give ideas on what can be hacked, they can always say it is the same like this.
Having said all this, I would like to say that in terms of working software, this got the job done. So yeah, maybe not as cool as some newer viruses, but it did what it was supposed to do. Which is why I am worried what Chinese can do as they seem to be more advanced.
Many potential employers will directly ask how much you were/are making. While presumably there's nothing wrong with just saying "I'd rather not say" and trying to discuss what you want to be making, I don't think a lot of people feel comfortable not answering a question directly.

I completely agree with you though, both sides should be as transparent as possible during the negotiation.
I am really confused. I thought the goal of Stuxnet was to delay the production of Iranian enrichment efforts at Natanz. Not to delay a civilian reactor at Bushehr, which is hundreds of miles away.

Assuming the Telegraph report is correct, I don't see how this tells us anything about how effective Stuxnet was at delaying enrichment efforts.
Fun, but not enough "dead", "dying", "doomed", "over", or "obsolete" results for my taste.
I've also taken a one-time flying class for about $75. It was... incredible. With no experience, I taxied, took off, piloted (including turning off the engine mid flight and glided, 60 degree turns, etc), and my instructor would have let me land except there was a precarious "cross wind."

I say this to encourage others to try the same, especially if they live near a small airport.

It's amazing just how responsive a small plane is. I felt I had complete control of everything, whether I was a foot off the ground or thousands of feet in the air. I think we have a natural inclination to think that the process is somewhat chaotic. But it's not!
according to leaked cables some middle eastern countries actually encouraged us to bomb Iran. Otherwise I agree that a non-military solution is at least initially appealing.

I fear whoever unleashed this has opened a pandora's box of destructive malware. We've already seen things like China hacking major corporations and manipulating it's currency. It's not hard to picture a future where malware is used to hurt the competition's production, at either a corporate or state level.
Yet. The unanimous consensus was that Iran does not yet have a nuclear weapons program, but that it was attempting to establish one.

The purpose of Stuxnex was to push back Iran's progress by a few years.
But the unanimous consensus ("with high confidence") of
all 16 US intelligence agencies remains that Iran does
not have a nuclear weapons program.

Israel has enough to worry about without Iran developing nuclear weapons. I sincerely doubt they would keep bringing it up if it obviously wasn't the case. They really don't need it for their case. So I would like to see the evidence for your assertion.
I think the comparison here to Enron is a bit of a stretch.

From what I know of Google, their internal staffing of projects is done much the same way: you're assigned to certain teams when you first join the company, but after that the various Product Owners try to recruit and advertise within the company for engineers to join their team.

When I was interviewing there I recall seeing flyers posted in common areas advertising different projects that were in need of engineers to come join them ("Interested in _____? Google ___ could use your help!").
Congrats on getting such early feedback and vetting. In fact hearing your story about an internal award/competition just added +1 to Intuit's cool points in my books.
Check that your Android app was not unpublished from the Market
How did you protect your IP from being claimed in part by your previous employer? Are you the only one who ever touched the code?
From the perspective of just about every other country in the region there is a hell of a lot of difference between Israel bombing Iran and the US bombing Iran.
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BSD: http://www.scipy.org/
"I mean, if Stuxnet caused Iranian counterintelligence to discover an Israeli operative, then I'm not sure that's a win"

I should have clarified. The Iranians, according to reports, resorted to firing, jailing and executing their own scientists and engineers because they couldn't figure out why the operation was going so wrong.

Apparently they replaced all equipment, re-programmed the centrifuges etc. etc. until they thought they eliminated everything except for the actual people involved - at which point they became paranoid and the firing, jailing, executions started.
Given the current sad state of Facebook Platform, it must be because no one is working on it.

Or it is labeled "unsexy" to work on it.
If the attacker can add a form and script to a page, then the attacker can arrange for the form to automatically POST using script.

If the attacker cannot add a form and script directly to the forum, then the attacker can try to trick the victim into following a link to a page where the attacker can add these elements.

Switching from GET to POST makes the attack more difficult because social engineering is required, but it does not eliminate the problem.
It's hard to estimate a reasonable price for this if you don't have any revenues. Whereas you could usually discount future cash flows, in this case you would need to estimate the goodwill - which probably means what you're willing to pay for maintaining this site as a hobby.

BTW. does this page still get a lot of hits? I've seen on my past projects (albeit on a much smaller scale) that those services usually spike for a few days and then quickly die off - what are the current usage statistics?
It's an interesting question. The logic of the article isn't great, but perhaps there truly are some deep similarities between flight and code. As he points out, both have a tradition of learning by on the job experience, and providing a sense of freedom to those willing to master the basics. Both also have an somewhat uneasy interplay between the 'professionals' and the 'amateurs'.

From the article, the most salient part for me was the "World War II attitude". There are tons of regulations for flying, but in end one is truly in charge of the vessel. Pilots and engineers are among relatively few professions where one can answer 'unable' and presume that the rest of the conversation will take this as fact. You may have to deal with the consequences later, but in the moment you are the expert in control.
It also doesn't work in the version of Arora I have. I imagine it will suck as much as Facebook does on the Kindle browser. Is there a version of Twitter that will work in a plain HTML browser with cookies and no JS? Please?
I'd challenge you

I don't understand, what are you challenging me to? That was the entire point of my rant.