skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, she was lying and having fun manipulating. You are doing much the same. Enjoy the games of fifth grade girls.

That's... a terrible piece of rhetoric... :(

I don't see how I can explain that what you are saying appears to be founded in stereotype and a lack of understanding. So, I guess the argument is over, except to say:

Don't overthink things, and don't oversimplify. Your point #3, for example, is based on so little fact and on so much on prejudice.

I actually think what you could have done is observed the somewhat socially inept computer geek stereotype; and extrapolated the direct opposite as "how girls are". There is a lot of commonality between male and female phsyc - and many differences.

At a young age both those extremes are amplified.

the topics might be about cars, cattle raising, household electricity, operation of a commercial pizza oven, cardiology, roasting pastrami, trading foreign currencies, computing, etc.

I encourage you to work with teenage boys and try to engage with them on topics like these. Nowadays it is not at all common to find a kid who has such interests; computer games, girls, sports and food (i.e. "gossip") are much more common.

will be able to so not concentrate and, thus, on average will be removing their genes from the gene pool

Essentially you are saying that... girls who do technical careers won't be as able (or be suited) to procreate and so future women will be genetically pre-disposed to motherhood?

Do you have any idea how genetics works, for a start? I'd love to read your work on isolating the genes related to good motherhood and proficiency in technical topics and your research into how they interrelate within the population... ;)

Why? The usual explanation is that the boys know that they are small versions of men, that men take competency in their careers very seriously, that they, the boys, do not have such competency, feel vulnerable and out of control from the lack of competency, and, thus, as part of growing up into such competency are eager to soak up everything that is relevant they can. That's the standard explanation. Although you didn't 'get it' the first time I explained it, didn't work it out for yourself, I believe you can understand this point.

Standard explanation? Really? Find me a kid that, at age 15, is concerned about his competency in relation to a future career. Now, I could agree they would be concerned about competency in areas their social peers are strong; say football.

In fact; I will make it easier. Find me some peer reviewed material that identifies this as a standard explanation

For whatever reasons, you are straining to disagree with what I wrote.

It's really not hard :) although we seem to have gotten off track from the main topic, which I thought was your theory of little girls being pre-disposed to sharing & caring and not interested in technical topics because of genetics.
Classical rhetoric 101: the five canons of rhetoric
Ask HN: Do you know any good-looking open source administrative system layouts?
I have a custom developed administrative system, which customer service etc are using allmost throughout the day. The interface is simple, although a lot of functionality exists, but the look is quite dull and boring as of now and my design skills are not my strong side.

Do you have any hints/tips about good looking open source administrative templates, that could be adapted to the system? Wordpress admin-stuff is quite good, but the menu is not very good. I also like letsfreckles layout.
It has no official significance, just a common term, and your link proves my point. I'm from Poland and by Larousse we're not central, by Brittanica we are.
Leading Kitchen Shop
Shop for the best kitchen utensils that are surely of good help when you want to do your work faster.
Jobs myway
that's why http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War

The chechnyan islamists have been terrorizing the area since the 1990s.

they were the first ones that i know of, that used the 'force' of producing and distributing videos of 'peer' civlians getting beheaded.
Clever, but really, you should have checked how it would look when posted on Facebook.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Moscow_Metro_bombings

Chechen separatists
I was just propositioned by a staffing agency for Microsoft and it was done poorly. I was treated like many of the Indian staffing agencies. A non fluent English speaker low-balling the rate and ratcheting down that rates before we even get a chance to discuss the position.

I'm getting the feeling that the hiring division for MS is losing its mojo.
In 2003, the Pentagon nearly created a terrorism prediction market.
Other relevant links:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_Analysis_Market

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness#Fut...
And not whatsoever related to a biased agenda among the reviewers? Very different things matter to those who gravitate to one or the other. iPhone users rate it down if it doesn't work miracles without them even thinking about it. Android users rate it up for maxing out tech specs and embodying "open" principles.

True, I exaggerate. But these self-selecting groups rate on different criteria.
I don't know how easy it would be to adapt, but Django has a mature built-in admin system with a decent layout.
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Sorry, I switched currencies somewhere halfway in my post, I don't quite remember where - but either way, either your net pay will go down or costs go up so the actual situation is worse than what I describe.
HN: DuckDuckGo, Blekko, or Stumpedia?
Which search startup do you think is the most promising?
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Yawn. This is such meaningless drivel. User reviews? Really? Not even the sane user reviewing both so you have some form of control?

Reviewers of anything are outliers. Generally the motivations for users to review are one or more of:

1. To complain about something. Unhappy people are more likely to make noise.

2. To justify their choice. Such reviews are very often skewed as the user is compensating for insecurity or pushing a philosophy.

3. Because they like the sound of their own voices (metaphorically speakimg); and/or

4. Because they're really happy.

Most users of a product (happy or unhappy) write no reviews. So we're talking about a vocal minority.

What's more people have a bug up their ass about the iPhone in particular. Consumer Reports for example seems to have abandoned all pretense of objectivity when it comes to the iPhone 4:

1. Despite giving the iPhone 4 their highest phone rating ever they somehow couldn't recommend it; and

2. They called the Verizon iPhone "middle-aged tech" (iirc) when nothing else has an equivalent or better screen and other specs are at best a wash.

Most iPhone users love their phones. In my experience an awful lot of Android users aren't buying an Android phone; they're not buying an iPhone either because of carrier (predominantly a US issue) or they have some objection based on the iPhone being popular or some guff about walled gardens.

Seriously 99% of this iPhone vs Android stuff is just noise and typically just link bait.
I'm sure that trademark law specifies that you have to uphold any infringements to be allowed to fight for the trademark at a later date.
What other movies have your favorite NPR personalities...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Schorr
> Why wouldn't you want the best in class of any product?

Because of the energy expended to find it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More...
+1

It seems we don't have too many brazilians around here, our developers don't like to share information and knowledge :(
I can understand why wanting the best cost/benefit, but I can't understand why obsessing about having the best possible phone available this week it is so common.
Sweet, someone already signed up for the Doodle. First drinks are on me if more people sign up!
The article highlight for me was "Silicon Valley has been around a lot longer than London and is more mature".

Possibly our very European sense of perspective is what's holding us back...
Hackers turn back the clock with Telnet attacks
The Mises Institute is a bunch of far-right libertarian nutjobs, I'm not surprised a war-riven failed state is their idea of paradise yet funnily enough they're not rushing to move there.

If you're looking for objective rankings of economic freedom you'd be distinctly better served on the right by the Heritige Foundation http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking or Reporters Without Borders's Press Freedom reports leaning slightly left.
Very, very cool! I want to use this for my blog... It does has limitations though.

As far as I can tell, copy-pasting the 'generated' markdown results in plain text.

And I guess it's also to much to expect setContentEditable to do something useful.

I'm still looking for my visual MD editor...
Thanks for the feedback!

SpriteDeck has a customizable, XSLT based code exporter. If you save the project as a ".deck" file, and open it in a text editor, you will see the full dom of the project. I'm working on documentations for that today.

Btw, if you drag the bottom or right resize handle, it stretches. If you use the bottom-right handle, it resizes while preserving aspect-ratio.
Those aren't internet apps.
There has been an interesting book from Barry Schwartz a while ago (the paradox of choice). He describes types of users, like the optimizer and the ones that go for good enough.
Schwartz concludes that optimizers are usually never satisfied. They spend tons of time to find the best and then, after a short while, go on reassuring themselves, that what they have is still the best and start the hunt for the better. These are Apples best clients.

On the other hand, the good enough types make a quick decision and don't look back - or, spend sufficient time to find what they need and then don't look back.

I think it depends on your personal preferences (or on the amount of time you have available).

Who wants to spend time on the choice of a dumb phone? I certainly don't and I have better things to do. I am a user of the first 5GB iPod. It was a gorgeous tool but today I am glad that I don't have to carry this brick with me anymore. That's why I never considered an iPhone or an Android thing so far.

But, if you like, go ahead.
Corona is 2D. Unity is, well, 3D. Apples and oranges.
Hmm, so in general no philosophy or literature, but plenty of cheap ideology (Rand) and self-help crap.

For me, probably the surrealist texts, esp Breton, Henry Miller and the beatniks. And from the phil. side, some Plato, Hegel, and lately R. Girard.
I've heard that said many times in terms of sales. Do you really think that it applies to review scores as well?

I mean you could suggest that some niche android-powered device might so neatly fit some weird need that it gets full marks from the 3 people who buy it, which would be higher than the average of all iPhone reviews. But the example in the article is the multi-million selling Galaxy S.

(Note also it's UK focused, so AT&T versus Verizon doesn't apply)
Yep. True. Not unbiased in the slightest. I find it interesting nonetheless as I would not have guessed it to be true...

You (and other commenters saying similar things) are definitely right on this point, but I remain interested :)
Power user replacements for OS X default apps
Ah, but subscription-based services are where you can find the true EULA joy--for instance, not only is the iPhone app store EULA 20 pages of text which you have to read on a phone screen, it also pops up once every few months with mysterious changes, the content of which I've never found, that you must accept.
He was off on one item for sure: good tools for Javascript OUTSIDE web development.

I am currently in the middle of a 100k(not all mine) LOC embbeded Javascript project consisting of multiple files and it is rough going.

Eclipse IDE for JavaScript Web Developers is the crutch I am currently using, it feels better than most commercial packages I tried(Aptana, Komodo, etc.), but that is not saying much.

What I want most is the ability to reliably zoom in and out of functions, but the indexing over multiple files is quite shoddy.

The bad habits Javascript encourages make for frustrating reading of code (like where did that foo.bar just come from, if bar was not a property in the initial declaration of foo). Not everybody reads Crockford...

Until Javascript is feasible on larger projects, it will not be general purpose NBL.
Patterns for Concurrent, Parallel, and Distributed Systems
Note that this was, in fact, by design. Anyone who seeks to make C more complicated than this should be shot on sight.
Why should she use a text-message for a belt bomb? Wouldn't a simple switch be sufficient?

I don't think this is a credible source.
For those who are not familiar with Corona, it's a 2D sprite and event system similar to Flash. In fact, the co-founders of Corona are ex-FlashLite PMs.

Corona uses the Lua vm, which reminds of AS2.
40K is around 2450 per month after tax.
If you don't want to share a flat and don't want to spend more than 40 minutes commuting per trip allow around 1000 for a single bedroom flat in zone 2 or 3. Council tax is around 100/150 per month. Water/gas/electricity/internet should be between 150 and 200 per month. Monthly pass for zones 1 to 3 is 120 a month. So fixed costs are around 1500 a month. This leaves you 950 per month for food, clothes, gadgets going out, travelling and for saving some money. Healthcare is free for now.
This is neat! rafaelc, where did you find this?
These are Apples best clients.

I don’t see the connection to Apple. Apple offers limited choice and little room to optimize. You get what everyone else gets, I can’t imagine “Optimizers” buying Apple products.

Edit: Wouldn’t you buy an Apple product exactly if you are tired of having to compare all the time? All of Apple’s products fit on a decent sized kitchen table (five computers, four music players, two phones, two tablets, one set-top box). Wouldn’t many people who like Apple say that the nice thing about Apple is that you can trust them, that you can blindly buy their products and still be reasonably certain that you are getting a good package? The best Android phones might well be better than the iPhone but you actually have to find them in a sea of many phones of wildly differing quality.
It's Painting, Stupid
That does not even make any sense...
You have Los Angeles and Seattle in the same region? Seriously?
DDG. Never even heard of the other two, but I've been a statisfied DDG user for the past few months, and am loving it.
You can get a perfectly decent furnished flat in a normal inner-suburb area of London on little more than half the suggested £1600, and if you plan your flights in advance the cost on a low cost carrier is negligible. £40k per annum isn't going to offer you the same kind of luxury in London you might get in other cities, but it's a perfectly adequate salary to enjoy the city on.
Sorry about the confusion. We are targeting Corona community members at this moment, thus the lack of information on Corona.

You are correct, Corona is similar to Flash, and just like Flash, it leaves engine building to the community. Most developers I know have their own custom engines. SpriteDeck has a XSLT based code exporter that can target custom engines. I'm documenting that today.
We know the method, but we also need the key used for any particular message, unless Enigma has been thoroughly broken. IIRC (from The Code Book), at the end of the war Bletchley park couldn't break German naval messages. (They used the same machine as everyone else, but with less predictable messages.)

Am I missing something?
I think in many areas you are entitled to extra pay for over time. 1.5 * hourly wage ("time-and-a-half") is common.
That's not really a fair comparison; the same car costs more in India (I believe) than in the US, if you are comparing say a 2011 BMW 335i Coupe. India does have much lower end cars available, so "a" car can be cheaper, but Indians pay a premium to buy imported cars. It's nowhere near as bad as in Singapore or Malaysia where cars are marked up 200-300% though.

There's some argument that a secured loan like a mortgage or car loan should be cheaper than an unsecured personal loan. Education loans in the US are often federally subsidized, but if they were treated as regular unsecured loans, they would be higher than car loans, and much higher than mortgages. There's a good argument for government subsidy to education, but it would have to be a subsidy to make it cheaper.
The job market isn’t great at the moment and coming straight out of uni is a pain when you don’t have any decent experience. It was the same situation in 2003 when I left uni and I was very glad to get a first development role at £15.5k (after turning down a £12k offer).
Vintage 1983 RB5X Intelligent Robot
I'm from Australia where fixed quotas on wired (typically DSL) are de rigeur [1].

Several years ago the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) banned the use of the word unlimited on Internet plans unless they were truly unlimited meaning no overage fees and no traffic shaping after hitting a soft cap.

Compare that to the UK where they've de died that unlimited means what 90% of users use, which is as little as 5GB/month!

In the US you typically still have caps (hidden behind terms like "fair use"). So the only difference in Australia is the ISPs are upfront about it.

So in Australia the net effect has been:

1. You buy the plan most suited to your usage. In other words you pay for what you use.

2. You get what you pay for. If you pay for 1TB/month you get 1TB/month.

Both of these situations are much better than say Comcasf or Time Warner really only giving you 250GB/month or UK providers declaring you're a downloaded and moving you to a network that in the evenings is utterly unusable.

The fact is that bandwidth still has a marginal cost so it's not unreasonable to expect users to pay for that. Nor is tiered pricing based on usage a bad thing.

In New York I have one choice for high speed Internet: Time Warner (some areas have Verizon FiOS; not mine). There are two plans for $65 and $99 (iirc).

In Australia I have typically a dozen choices or more ranging from $20 to ¢150+ pe month based on the features I want. How can that possibly be a bad thing?

[1]: http://www.iinet.net.au/broadband/plans.html
People earn far too much in Germany to be attracted by startup salaries. Still, once I finish my part-time masters, and my wife goes back to work too, I wouldn't mind getting into the scene. Got a few ideas, but would probably rather be a technical co-founder alongside an ideas/business guy.

Still, if anything is happening in Cologne in the mean time, give us a holler.
I thought what was bad was monotonically increasing keys, not values.

The solution, assuming for instance that you are indexing by timestamp, and your timestamp is a string: index by timestamp[::-1] (reverse the string).

Solved, next problem?
(Sorry, I missed this reply).

For me, it was the best decision, as I enjoy programming much more than sysadmin work. I get my kicks out of creating new things.

Valuable experience though.
Taj staff response to 26/11 a Harvard case study
SpriteDeck is developed in six months by myself and a part time contractor. We are bootstrapped, with a limited budget/time. On top of that, we have to support both Mac and Win. We couldn't have pulled this off without AIR.
High-End Electric Oven Comparison Test
The most interesting thing in this article is the big jump in the average review score for the Galaxy S during September. It would be great to understand why that happened, and if it was really because of a "changing mix of buyer" and/or "glossy advertising".
How to Divorce Your SEO Client
I wonder: was his working-like-a-dog to self-promote was necessary so that he could be successful with ebooks? He clearly started to establish a name for himself before his massive success with digital sales. Note that he is in the top 10 Mystery and Thrillers for free ebooks on Amazon. I'm guessing his prior reputation helped with that.

I would think that hustling is still needed for new authors to break through, probably including both relentless web and in-person self-promotion. But, I have no info on that. Anyone know?
Remote triggers on suicide bombs are not uncommon. Either in case the suicide bomber gets cold feet and can't push the button or so that a spotter with a better tactical view can trigger the bomb at the optimal moment.
You can already look these up easily from home on the restaurant inspection website[1].

But it's New York, so there's almost always another good restaurant nearby. This app should allow you to search google local or yelp to find one if the results it delivers aren't favorable.

[1] http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/rii/index.shtml
Nope :( I live in Campinas... Close to São Paulo
Banks turning your purchasing habits into ads
Just use an Android phone and set up Tasker to trigger on a special keyword in the SMS, not just any SMS.
Central America
ohhh handy, finally I can pin my gmail tab again... link for those (like me) who missed this

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-in-labs-unread-mes...
The actual reviews all seem very reasonable, and their algorithms seem to extract sensible meaning from the noise:

http://www.reevoo.com/p/samsung-galaxy-s

http://www.reevoo.com/p/apple-iphone-4-16gb

Basically, the Galaxy is slightly behind on all subsections, except battery which is its weakest point and biggest differential compared with the iPhone, and the value for money, which is much better for the Galaxy (it's about a third less to buy).

Note again, this is UK focused, where the graduations of handset price (including buying the handset separately) seem to be better reflected in your monthly bill.

As far as I can tell in the US there's no advantage to not taking the best phone they offer since you're paying the same monthly rate anyway which will dwarf the handset price.
I think its is just the question of the size of your universe. Apple users don't compare with Lenovo and Sony but with Apple. I know a couple of Apple users who owned every generation of iPhone (and don't even consider Android).
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True, I exaggerate.

Again, Android is now mainstream. The iPhone is now mainstream. Any delusions that denizens of places like HN are the typical sort of buyer are terribly far off reality.

The average buyer has no such desire to hoist the flag. And every time Android comes up the anecdotes appear about how everyone anyone knows with an Android is so disappointed and just can't wait until the day that they can trade it in for an iPhone, etc. Which of course is garbage, but there it is.

Android as a mainstream platform has gotten dramatically better. Aside from improvements in the versions, the application ecosystem is what is really improving perceptions of the device. It is less common now that Android users feel like they have some sort of knock-off device, finding themselves left out of the application game.
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While sleeping... DONT laugh... i (or my alter ego <-that bastard never sleeps) apparently do lots of problem solving while sleeping, since most of my AHA... EUREKA moments literally wake me up in the middle of the night.