skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Women are facing pretty much the same issues in greater or lesser form the world over, you added in all the other items that have no bearing on the subject as proof that those things are 'no longer issues', but while they're no longer an issue for a large number of people the fact is that there is lots of social pressure against interracial marriages even today in the USA, there is tons of discrimination against gays today in the USA, the only thing you've probably dealt with successfully is slavery.

The rest of the world is more or less lucky with all of those depending on the location and the crib that you were born in to.

So, even if we limit our view to the US then it's not all roses, and the female-male wage gap is still very much present.

some links to underscore these points:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male%E2%80%93female_income_disp...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_State...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States

Really, we're far from there, on paper everybody is equal but in real life that's absolutely not true, not even close, and gender equality in founders is just a reflection of gender equality issues earlier in life, in the educational system and in society in general.
Yes, at least some of them do.
Homoiconicity means program and data have identical representation. But after you Lisp for a while the boundary blurs entirely.

X-bar theory says that in all natural languages, Noun Phrases, Verb Phrases, and depending on who you read other types of phrases all have the same form; a single Head (which may be composite) and a Tail with zero or more elements. Never mind that they've just discovered S-expressions. The point is that in the natural language program:

multiply the radius squared and pi

Both the data-like parts and the program-like parts share the same structure.
Actually, that's not entirely correct. It should be:

1) escape data to prevent it from being interpreted as code

Because this security problem is just subset of markup correctness problem.

If you escape data perfectly, then both trusted and untrusted data won't be misinterpreted, e.g. I can echo any evil input if my character encoding is enforced and HTML special chars are escaped as entities. I can send any untrusted nastiness to database via prepared SQL statement.
This is exactly why I killed my own PL. My language was amazing for the class of problems I was solving until a new problem came in and I had to solve it down in the lower tier like a dog with my tail between my legs.
Let's see, they have Bing and Hotmail which are significant web operations.
When you use justified text, you’re not only making text difficult to read for non-dyslexic users, but even more so for dyslexic users.

Since when is fully justified text deemed difficult to read? I guess that's why nearly all printed books use fully justified typesetting?
You can see how very far we are from any kind of sensible patent reform here. Yglesias seems to understand, but check the comments.

The general progressive public is still entriely under the illusion of the patent bar. They really believe PTO would never allow you to patent mathematical laws, algorithms, laws of nature, business processes, obvious extensions of established methods, well-known existing practices, and all the other corruptions common in software patents. Quite a lot of them argue that such abuses must not exist because there are supposedly rules against them.
Periodic Table of Google APIs
Nice to see a crystal clear explanation an acquisition strategy for once.

This not only seems well thought out and valuable acquisition to provide value to users, but reads like a mission statement for the FFlick team to be successful within Google.
Lockheed Martin's Human Immersive Lab
Fire up another poll and link to it here.
Where are all the phones that are minimalist in size?

We used to have quite small phones in the turn of 90's—00's but now that the smartphones are everywhere, and even for non-smartphones everyone is assumed to want internet and lots of features, the current phones are so big and come with such a big screens that my first Nokia 1611 has stopped looking like stoneage in comparison.

Something similar to MacBook Air but a phone would be cool.

Thickness closer to 5mm than 10mm. Slightly larger than a USB stick. A clamshell design would be a must to make it long enough to reach both ears and proximity to mouth. Something that you can certainly lose in your pocket, something almost invisible.

We could certainly manufacture those these days.
Sounds like something Zappos would say.
there was the rumor that the next iteration will be 2.4 and will be for handsets. Such a versioning strategy makes sense.

Except for the part where 2.4 comes after 3.0...
Trolling Facebook polls for science (or "Facebook and the falsely viral UI")
Business & Technology; Yin & Yang?
Yeah, I don't think you'd be targeting your latest masterpiece at this. Probably it will receive mostly ports of existing software.
that's exactly what i was expecting. thanks!
If, like me, you have heard bits and pieces about McLuhan, but never delved deeper, the 20 minute introduction by Tom Wolfe is well worth your time.
So Lisp macros provide compile-time code generation, but in doing so, you have access not just to the code-generation instructions – which are just Lisp data – but also to the entire Lisp language and environment.

The same can be said for classic Forth. Indeed, the enthusiastic way that Lispers describe macros I find eerily similar to how I used to hear Forthians describe their language. Except in Forth the relevant term isn't macro but "defining word". Indeed, I think programmers in both camps see the proper use of macros/defining words as a sign that one has passed the beginner stage of using the language.

A classic compiled Forth word (ie, function) would consist of the word's name followed a string of addresses to execute; how those addresses were laid down, where they pointed, etc. were totally open to programmer control -- both during compilation and afterwards. It's been a couple of decades since I looked at Forth code, but I don't think there's anything that could be done in Lisp macros that couldn't also be done easily in Forth as well.

I think the big difference between the two -- at least, so far as the macro topic goes -- is that Lisp starts with an assumption that code and data can and should be interchangeable while Forth was initially developed for the machine control (embedded systems before they were called embedded systems) and thus code was merely a vehicle for creating applications.
It will also support a lot of retrogaming.
I love this idea. Just reading about this brought to mind half a dozen books I've read that would undoubtedly be better and more accessible if they were shorter. Until now, those books stood no chance of getting published.
Gutted, I thought it was open source. That would have been cool but I'm still impressed they managed to ship anything at all.
After suffering through two miserable years of dropped calls on at&t with the iphone, my only question on any cell phone is: can it make phone calls?
I can’t decide whether to pick “non-web company” or “other.”
As a purely subjective ?, this is going to come down to priorities, and as such there's no "right" answer. You'll be able to look through history and find plenty of examples of people who have bet it all and won, and they may have been right to make that bet depending on your perspective. However, there are also more people who have bet it all and lost (even when they were right - check out Charles Goodyear).

Personally, I think it's irresponsible to put your family in a situation you characterize as "near homelessness" for a "social experiment" - especially if you can get this done more slowly by pursuing funding more than you have. I also think it's a rough idea to move to a far more expensive locale on the hopes that it will help you with your project. You have a skill-set that can provide for your family and leave you the time and means to work on your experiment on the side. You live in a city that has a market for that skill-set, which means you have options at your fingertips. I think you ought to play it safe and put your family obligations ahead of your startup ambitions for the time being.
Heh, actually, no.

Says McLuhan Biographer, W. Terrence Gordon:
"by the time it appeared in 1967, McLuhan no doubt recognized that his original saying had become a cliché and welcomed the opportunity to throw it back on the compost heap of language to recycle and revitalize it. But the new title is more than McLuhan indulging his insatiable taste for puns, more than a clever fusion of self-mockery and self-rescue — the subtitle is 'An Inventory of Effects,' underscoring the lesson compressed into the original saying."
How to hack Facebook password for FREE - real working hacking Facebook method
These are two instruments that you can do a lot with on your own.

I learned to play guitar [mostly] on my own, with information I found on the internet. I would recommend that you pick up a decent acoustic guitar and google 'beginning guitar' and start from there. It's really helpful once you've piddled with it some to have someone else who plays decently listen to you. Guitar lessons are usually rather cheap, too, if you want to go that route. Even just a few lessons could really get you started.

Piano is a little more complicated. You can do a lot with a piano if you have a good ear and good coordination. For me, personally, piano is a struggle and has taken a lot more work/patience/practice. Most likely, if you want to play piano you'll definitely need lessons.

The good thing is that there are always a lot of people who play these two instruments, and a lot of them give lessons for reasonable prices.
Beacon lives on. Facebook is too smart for the average bear.
what technology you use - php, ruby ?

and why
My Adventure Writing My First Quine in Java
It came out of the retro emulation community, so it has a couple of magnitudes more games available than that. Whether those old games appeal to you is a very good indicator for whether or not the Pandora is for you.
I wonder how many of us are bootstraping own product while feeding the family by consulting.
I was referring more to the black hat tactics many affiliate employ successfully. That as well as how many affiliates can easily shark a product with negative smear campaigns and SEO tactics to remove their competition from top Google spots. A reason you see many sites with generic Google listings in the first 10 results.
api.embed.ly will remain free, but it is a community resource. If someone is abusing it we will ask them to move over to Pro as to not effect the other users. We have not had to ask anyone to move over and don't see it happening in the near future.

It's in our Terms of Service: http://api.embed.ly/terms
> escape data to prevent it from being interpreted as code

What about too much data? Overflow is a concern, too. Escaping is just one solution, so I shot for the more general rule.
...where 3.0 is the new tablet line and 2.4 is the next handset version of 2.3. There's nothing particularly confusing about that, and there's a logic.

And at 4.0 they would likely merge.
tokutek

clicked "startup (employee)" and "non-web company"
you can pick both
Industry self-regulation. Affiliates need to in most cases, to preserve "traffic quality."
I'm finding that they are less relevant than they used to be. We are beginning to have more consistency across browsers, fortunately. I've been working on projects lately that don't employ them with very minimal issues.
To reply to someone on Hacker News click the "reply" link under their message. This keeps conversations threaded.
I think adding student would be a good option.
If knowledge is power, then sharing your knowledge empowers others.
Consulting by night to bootstrap a couple of products while working a day job as the "Infrastructure Administrator" (read: netadmin managing linux boxen) for a small municipality to feed the wife and son.

Not sure when the day job will end, but it's soul sucking work.
I fall into that category: I work for a medium size company earning a fairly high wage, and simply enjoy the huge amount of knowledge that can be gained from here.
Android 3.0 includes Apple's HTTP streaming technology
Right - I meant if I don't need/install Netflix for example, the DRM plug won't be on my phone. So yeah - I might get Netflix bundled on VZW phone but I have a choice to go with another one that doesn't ship with it.
Sanmina-SCI
I was surprised to learn from a review of Coupland's recent biography (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2115029) that McLuhan largely deplored the social changes he was writing about. "Anything I talk about is almost certain to be something I'm resolutely against, and it seems to me the best way of opposing it is to understand it, and then you know where to turn off the button." The popular image of McLuhan (and he was extremely popular - up there with rock stars) was definitely not that of a button-turner-offer.

Such a mindset in many critics would make them predictable and boring, but to me it makes McLuhan more interesting. The knock against him was always that he was glib, but this suggests a depth that isn't obvious.

I remember hearing that McLuhan was once at an academic conference where some professor excoriated him after his talk (McLuhan was loathed by his fellow academics). McLuhan shrugged and said, "You don't like these ideas? I got others."
Actually I did comment; my comment was that I disagree with this article. I'm sorry that you didn't pick up on that. In the future you should take your own advice and only comment if you have some actual value to add to the conversation e.g.: I agree because... or I disagree because. I was unable to comment at the time because I was working on my startup. My comment conveyed my opinion of the article and yours has done nothing more than show you are petty person that makes irrelevant comments that are not even relevant to the topic at hand. Since you are obviously dense I will explain: The topic at hand is the article but you did nothing more than comment on me so next time try and focus on the article at hand.
Ditto, I just wish it wasn't $700.
location? I'm in RTP.
> But you are asserting that most people are not aware there is more than religion.

I'm not sure why you believe that. I did not write that anywhere in my post.

> You also have a suggestion that after becoming aware there is more than one religion, people will then become aware that some of the adherents to the other religion "aren't evil".

No. These are independent phenomena. I did not write that the one leads to the other.

> This is also completely contrary to reality. If there is someone who believes that everyone not in their religion is "evil", it must be an incredibly small fringe group along with flat earthers and apollo mission deniers. I've certainly never met one in real life.

Here, we're looking at different time-scales. I'm talking about the past 200 years, or so. "Evil" is an exaggeration, but let's say "immoral" or at the very least "misguided".

The point I was trying to make is this:

1) The primary vector for religious belief is parenting. Yes, people sometimes adopt a faith later in life, but this dwarfed by those who practice the faith of their parents.
2) This vector depends on the child having other adults and mentors (a community) around them who are also religious, or at the very least a community that doesn't mock religion as ridiculous and/or insane.
3) As more and more respectable people who are not obviously "other" are un- or anti-religious, it's harder to get kids to believe their religious teachings
3b) Or at least, it erodes their authority from Religion (capital R) to mere tradition.

> Yet you assert this is a majority belief.

Where? Where are you reading this stuff?

> This means you are irrational and believe in things that are demonstrably false, does it not?

Try again. Your argument is based on false premises.

I can only assume that because this is a sensitive topic, I've hit your auto-rant button, and you failed to actually read my post.

> Ah but it won't apply will it. Only certain specific types of unsubstantiated or irrational beliefs are to receive the blacklisting.

Well, since you bring this up -- why should certain irrational beliefs receive deference.

For instance, if someone tells me that they believe the biblical creation story, admittedly contrary to all evidence, why should they receive any more protection than if they tell me they believe the creation story from the Silmarillion to be true.
Nope, that's the actual title of a later book he wrote to provide a visual condensed introduction to his ideas.

http://www.amazon.com/Medium-Massage-Marshall-McLuhan/dp/158...
I'm going to guess I'm in the HN minority—Design Director for a Southern East Coast church.
I teach a course that uses perl. I really wish we used something else. Perl on Windows is a clusterfuck; including core modules that ship broken. I don't really use Windows, except helping my students get stuff running, so maybe programming in general is a clusterfuck on Windows?
Every blade of glass is a different shade of green
Hi, this is my second post on Hacker News, and I read it every week or so. My name is Emrah, and I'm a seasoned entrepreneur with complementary skills to a hacker (capturing user stories, figuring out human needs, UX, architecture, agile methods, merciless testing to break your code over and over again) and have access to lotsa money.
I would like to co-found with 1-2 exceptional humans who can code, and dis-intermediate a large industry that will see tremendous demand thanks to baby boomers (thank you Drucker for making us rich, again).

I am an ex-introvert geek (I hacked my mind successfully to see the other side). So are many of my friends. But they are not here.
I moved to San Francisco after riding 7 months around the country on a GS1200 (swam with sharks and got stranded on an island:).
I don't know many people here in the industry (just one Stanford CS professor, who is a close friend). I'm looking for intelligent, imaginative, and brave engineers who have an appreciation for irony and distaste for blind status quo. I deeply respect Graham, DeMarco, Brooks, Weinberg and Spolsky. I applied what they wrote over and over to win with position+tempo+material (I think chess strategy dominates all business strategy).

So here's my question to the Hacker community,
I am looking for some of you: intelligent, passionate, gets things done, and excited about making something people will like. Now, HOW would you meet and gently seduce YOU to build something great, if you were to ride into an American city where you don't know anybody?

Nice to meet you virtually:)

Make something people will like.
All else follows.

Emrah

PS: To switch from introvert to extrovert, especially to attract a mate, I found the first step is to let go of guilt/shame/regret etc.
They all are exotic forms of self-torture.
Smart people like exotic mental expressions to amuse themselves;)
Thankyou for introducing me to longform.org & longreads.com - both are excellent!
Sigh, these poll options seem to confirm to me just how myopic many HN and startup people are about the software world. Believe it or not, there is a LOT of software that gets written that either is not "web", or related to a startup. Additionally, the people that write it do find the content at HN relevant and interesting.

I found myself at a party in SF on New Years at an apartment that housed a startup as well as its founders. While meeting someone there, the conversation went like this:

"Oh hey, are you part of the company here too?"

"No, I'm in a different startup"

"Oh cool, YC?"

"Yeah, what YC class are you?"

"Actually, I'm not in a startup, I work for..."

The guy turned his head and walked away. Sorry boys and girls, but you're not all Mark Zuckerberg just because you're doing the startup thing, and the rest of us that write code aren't relics of another era. Happy hacking.
I like Conrad Barski's take on explaining quasiquote:

http://www.lisperati.com/looking.html

"Flip, flop, flip, flop..."
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
He doesn't say it will be ubiquitous in that timeframe. You'd have to be pretty crazy to think that. He means it will arrive. Which is correct. The thing is, javascript is what's available in all devices. And it's a pretty nice language.
near homelesness = broke.
I'll have to look into it given my knowledge of McLuhan extends as far as his Annie Hall cameo.
Thinking clearly about performance
From a design perspective, I'm least happy about all the low-contrast text. I see this grey-on-white too many places, and it dramatically reduces usability.
foursquare!

(ps: we're hiring! http://foursquare.com/jobs/)
Surely amazon.com ships to Mexico?
And So You Code
It's probably a combination of factors that make "the female founder" seem more rare than she actually is.

There is a breed of female founder that lives to pose for cameras and magazine covers and to be mentioned in Valleywag. But more common are those who are happy to grow their companies to a certain point that is manageable enough. They don't want or get a lot of attention, which makes them seem more rare than they actually are.

Maybe the core issue is that females don't tend to form the kind of companies that tend to get really big really fast. Each iteration of a growing company changes the social / cultural dynamic of a company, too; these are areas which females tend to treat with more care.
Involuntary Celibacy
The specs (SoC, display) are almost identical to N900 and Palm Pre, so you can play games made for those. Palm Pre games run already on the N900. You could also put some other flavor of Linux on there such as Maemo or MeeGo when it comes out.
Really an interesting article. One thing I don't agree with: ""one of the biggest reasons people haven't adopted Ruby or Python is the lack of IDE support""

I use PyCharm and RubyMine a lot and they do a very good job of dealing with two dynamic languages. They are commercial products but fairly inexpensive.

Also, disappointing that the NBL will not have a Lisp-like syntax :-)

EDIT: I didn't notice this was a 4 year old article
Whenever I see "Periodic table of", I remember of this blog post by Rob Pike: http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2010/08/know-your-science....

"Another sort of abuse is comedy periodic tables: periodic tables of the vegetables, period table of the desserts, periodic table of the presidents, and on and on. There are zillions of them. I believe the vegetables one was the first widely distributed example.

What's wrong with them? Again, they miss the point about the one true periodic table, Mendeleev's periodic table of the elements. In fact, to put things with no structure into a periodic table not only misses the point of the periodic table, it misses the profound idea that some things have periods."
Most of the criticisms of justified text are based on the fact that web browsers use "naive" justification, without intelligent hyphenation. This can lead to

lines where words are spaced far apart

which many people find harder to read.

Printed books are justified and hyphenated, so this is not an issue.
Interesting! What kind of stuff do you do?
Interesting anecdote: so far 100% of the female engineers we've tried to hire who've turned us down (four so far...) did so in order to try to start their own startup, for at least a while. Of those two (that's 50%) raised outside capital so far, each just a few months after our offer.

I wonder if this is a fluke, or a result of the massive influx of women into greentech?
Would you wager there is more software written that is not web related and that it collectively makes more money than the stuff that is?
Have Laptop, Will Travel

I work wherever I am when I need to get something done. Office, patio, airport waiting area, starbucks, DMV...