skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may find these reports on gender in open source interesting.

http://flosspols.org/deliverables/D16HTML/FLOSSPOLS-D16-Gend...

http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/lin3_gender.pdf

The findings include that women aren't disinterested; instead, they're excluded in a number of ways which often aren't obvious to those who contribute to the problem.

Some other good resources can be found at

http://www.linuxchix.org/women-open-source-free-software-bib...

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Resources_for_men
I especially distrust the free stuff

I use free stuff all the time, it's just a "sudo aptitude install" away.

On the iOS devices I go wild and crazy, knowing
that my private information is private, my data is safe

Tell that to Aaron Barr :)
Or to the people that cooked up http://jailbreakme.com

Or to the dozens of apps in the App Store that use your unique device ID.
Agree completely with your response. I can see both sides to the university theory of teaching, not doing that make the experience valuable. On one side, with doing your own startup there are no control structures in place on you so you are often just shooting at moving targets with the goal. The university likes to see specific learning experiences from the internship. On the other hand, some internships are nothing more than glorified mailroom people with no "real" learning being achieved.

I like your advice on going with an incubator or accelerator program to get started. Another option is if the OP is dead set on doing his/her own startup as part of the program, would be to go into the administration with a predefined list of objectives/goals to accomplish within the time period that are directly related to the degree path. For example, if it is a business degree, make the goals business oriented, such as incorporation, accounting structure, etc... If the degree path is programming related, make the goals such as having an MVP developed or building out the landing page for the site, etc...

Even interning at an established startup can get turned down if the administration does not feel the experience is valuable. So the whole point of the effort would be to prove to them that you will learn/gain more by doing your own startup.
Something negative is definitely happening. I don't think it'll look like the classic bubbles that we've seen (as a matter of fact all bubbles are different). But at the very least a predict a backlash.
I wonder how Greplin feels about this, it's certainly covering some of the same territory that they're in.
Apple skips Mobile World Congress and wins mobile device of the year
Hijack parent key events from iframes
"Whom shall I fear?"
I already bought a ticket, but happy to do so because the price is fair.
This is related to the phenomena that tea leaves tend to group in center of cup when you stir it with spoon.

Due to centrifugal forces the level of water near the border is higher that at the center so the water start to flow from borders to center at the bottom of the cup.

This speed up heat exchange as the water gets constantly mixed in addition of usual thermal exchange flow.
Well it's definitely not a one-for-one distribution, but those Groupon dollars do make it around. Our site has Groupon ads popping up almost constantly, and actually tend to yield a higher clickthrough.

Massive injections of capital into Internet businesses do help overall economy of web startups. The danger, like the Yahoo comment earlier, are the spotty business models and expansion that are built on that frothiness. Cause when it goes, it's those startups that crumble first.

The ones that figure out a business model that isn't tied to a flush VC climate should be ok. eBay as I recall, did just fine after the first bubble.
He is ecstatic because his app netted him $3/user with apple taking 30%. Now that his app is free he will make $.70/month/user.

Apple was taking 30% of his profits before but has given him a way to make more money per user long term.

@nika, the reason you should not be ecstatic is because while apple did help connect your customers to your product they did nothing to ensure that people continue to use and pay for your product. You did all that work and you should feel entitled to your money.
Fund manager Rolfe see Apple and Google as smartphone winners
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=using+iphone+without+itunes
When you say "Amazon", I take it you mean "Apple"? Unless that's a development I've missed.
Some Perspective: Facebook vs Google vs Amazon vs eBay etc. Valuations
Seems there is no way to win this one. If men don't share it's a "boy's club", if they do share it's condescenion.

Also my bias detector is beeping. Reverse the genders. What if I found it insulting that a startup event wasn't "men only"? If I acted like it was a waste of time because female advisors can't teach me anything?
The "standards" that you are referring to here that IE does not comply with yet are not really "standards" yet. With the specifications clearly in debate, I don't know why anybody would expect them in the production version of a browser. In supporting these standards the other browsers are getting ahead of themselves.

Here's a quote from the article:

"Along those lines, some of the weak areas in IE9 relate to standards that are still basically in flux and are implemented with vendor-prefixed flags in other browsers"

"On that note, Doug Schepers of the W3C SVG working group recently dismissed critics of Microsoft's SVG support in IE9 and lauded the company for implementing a "very large, functional subset" of the standard" - Mozilla didn't have this for quite some time.
Really? Tell me please, what was the penalty imposed on Microsoft after being convicted of illegally abusing their monopoly power?
The obvious comeback being large Java projects considered harmful.
Posterous (YC S08) Goes Bare: Shows Us All Its Stats
I know one of the authors, David Srbecky: he was in my class at Cambridge. His final year undergrad project was a decompiler from IL to C#, so he had a big chunk of code for this lying around already - the Reflector changes provided the motivation to finally clean it up and publish it.
Also, the following links might help:

http://www.mfa.go.th/web/2482.php?id=2492

and this:

[PDF] http://www.mfa.go.th/internet/consular/StandardProcessforfor...
Ctrl-A
It is probably worth noting that even though iBooks is distributed via the AppStore it is a free download. This may put it in the same category of system apps as Safari and Mail. That is to say an optional install of an OS component.
Gmail's setup guide is pretty good too: http://goo.gl/IIMgg

And yet yesterday I had someone call me up after I provisioned them with a Google Apps account and the link above (Google Apps's Settings screen links to the IMAP version of it). They thought they had to set up a Gmail account first because all the screenshots show 'username@gmail.com' instead of 'username@myappsdomain.com'. The screens were also alien to them because they showed a different OS version.

This is definitely fixable. I like the idea.
We shouldn't wait until after a piece of infrastructure collapses to fix the cracks in the foundation. The public capital stock has been allowed to age much more than the residential and private stock:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2010/12/age_americas...
That would be Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
Sorry, but you're wrong. The iTunes DRM was ridiculously easy to circumvent even in iTunes itself. No mad leet hackzor skillz required.
Since you could trivially turn aac files into mp3 files in iTunes [...]

Do you mean the "semi-analog hole" of burning protected tracks in iTunes to a CD-R, then ripping the disc back into MP3 tracks?

If so, I wouldn't call that trivial because it requires a physical medium and some level of knowledge about audio formats to realize the possibility (I think a layperson would not understand that AAC->CD->MP3 is no more lossy than AAC->MP3).
Faster startup ain't nothing! I'm religious about making my .emacs only load modules on demand (using autoload and eval-after-load -- lisp is a great editor customization language, actually), and have managed to get emacs down to 250ms:

gin17 ~ $ time emacs --eval '(save-buffers-kill-emacs)'
real	0m0.256s

But that's still a lot slower than instant, which is where vim is:

gin17 ~ $ time vim --cmd :q
real	0m0.006s

I definitely don't feel that emacs editing is bad, and I use and appreciate one-off macros, [regexp-]-isearch-and-replace, and killing and yanking (the kill ring is awesome), but...I think the grass might be greener.

Well, after all this discussion, I'm probably morally obligated to spend more time with vim (or maybe vimpulse) so that I actually know what I'm talking about. :)
Is there any research about the keyboard issue? Sometimes I suspect that it is simply impossible for adults to learn touch-typing naturally the same way I did as a child (ie, simply by telling myself 'don't look at the keyboard'). Or maybe it's that they never engage in the activities that really force people to become fast typists (in my case, probably IRC) and perhaps never will.
I use Google to search for things my friends don't have answers for. I use Facebook to ask my friends about things they have answers for. I don't want my interests influencing my friend's searches, nor do I care about their input on 95% of the things I'm searching for (coding, SEO, tech news, hardware, etc)
HTML5 Web App - Beta Test for Workola.com
For a while now I've been working with the concept of making an online utility that allows users to easily create and manage their online 'routine' putting:

-Bookmarks/links
-notes
-tasks
-RSS feeds
-web tools (youtube, hulu, crossword, web search, music, drawing pad)
-social chat and social updates

all on one page, multi-tasking harmoniously together in one browser tab. For example, with the right 'tools' on your desktop you could watch a show on hulu, chat with facebook friends, work on the crossword and drink your coffee all at the same time.

After working through a few ideas I recently found an HTML5 application that has helped make the idea possible. Utilizing the browser cache, it's easy to install, fast and private. I've been testing as I've been building but now I could use some user feedback. The link below brings you to the http://workola.com 'desktop'.

http://workola.com/page/view/about-us

I built a toolkit with some 'tools' to help get things started.

http://workola.com/page/contactus

This is an HTML5 application and only works with chrome, safari and opera browsers. Takes about 5 minutes to download chrome and add a few tools, links and/or RSS feeds. You can also create multiple projects, each with their own set of tasks, ideas, links, etc.

I set it as my chrome homepage, removed all the toolbars and just keep the tab open all day. I also added a cool little weather widget from yowindow that works as a screensaver. I call it an 'Interactive Desktop'.

Any thoughts?
I agree that the overall situation is pretty dire. In the grand scheme of things, the amount of money exposed in the tech startup bubble is pretty small -- and it's disproportionately from certain groups of people (wealthy tech startup veterans, Goldman Sachs clients). But California's counting on the tax revenue so it could catch a lot of others up in it as well. We shall see ...
I remember several years ago eagerly anticipating the release of Sifter simply because the design was so fresh for its time. I would peruse Garret's blog constantly to check up on any new postings where he would show off some new drawings of what he had planned for Sifter. It was all so very inspiring.

Glad to see that the years have been treating him well!
Actually, you've got it almost backwards. If people are worrying that there's a bubble, there probably isn't. Bubbles form when everybody thinks things are worth more than they are. This produces a positive feedback loop whereby investors buy things they think are valuable, raising their price and therefore perceived value, causing other investors to buy.

If everybody's worried that there might be a bubble, then investors will be more cautious about buying simply because others are buying.

The biggest difference between the tech bubble and what's happening today is that the investors are all sophisticated--these aren't retirees dumping their savings into Pets.com stock.
So PC shipped with a floppy and a speaker only in order to be able to beep while loading? :)
although i think we are in a bubble, you never know where the top is. we are only 1/2 way up on the nasdaq from the 2000 high disregarding inflation.

http://imgur.com/qeiEZ.png

this s&p also has room to go

http://imgur.com/k3obu.png
Get used to this. Borders is clearly just the weakest of the pack. Lots of book stores have tried to diversify into markets they don't understand to try to compete. Culturally, they can't handle amazon or apple working in their space.

As tablets and phones drop to the 300 / 150 range respectively, bookstores are going to go the way of music stores in the very near future. B&N has a great chance right now with Nook Color. They should drop the e-reader only aspect and launch a fully supported android device with a kick ass e-reader in it.

Lots of people root their Nooks and turn them into good tablets, B&N could pop out a basic tablet at $250 right now and eat a huge chunk of the market that's going to appear near the end of the year.
Not especially. Syncing was a major pain in the butt for most devices back in the old days. I don't think that Apple were trying to establish a monopoly on synchronization software, I think they were just trying to make it easy and painless to use. Whether they succeeded or not is an exercise left to the reader. I think that some people just have this image of Steve Jobs as some bond style villain stroking his white cat and holding the world to ransom for one meeelion dollars /pinky in corner of mouth/

However, if you asked me whether their proprietary dock connectors were an abominable crime against humanity, you might get a different answer. :D
Correct.

Also, small claims court is not based on tort law, it's quasi-contract [1]. So the judge (not a jury) uses the principle of equity. Even if Apple did send someone (unlikely), it's still a question of what is fair, not a question of what is contractually obligated.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-contract
And you should avoid dangling prepositions.

You should avoid dangling prepositions if you are speaking in Latin. Then again if you are speaking Latin, ALL dangling prepositions will intuitively sound so wrong that you'll never make them.

If you are speaking English, they are perfectly fine. Some people a long time ago decided Latin was the bee's knees and English grammar ought to mimic Latin grammar. This is nonsense.

But you can keep up the nonsense as a way to show off your education (superior social rank).
http://www.fakesteve.net/2011/01/im-totally-fine-but-goodbye...

"I hope that when you see stories like that - because you will - you use their comment strings to express your outrage for being the kind of scumbags who would put their own hunger for unique visitors and pageviews ahead of a man’s right to privacy."
I have, only things I see is:

HTTP Request - Update check.
HTTPS Request - Login.
HTTP - Friend list update.
HTTP - PSN keep alive message every few mins.

It seems the problem is stemming from custom firmware:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/02/report-psn-hacked...
Congrats, and a note about rejection:

I see a lot here on HN, that people take a YC rejection to mean that YC doesnt think they'll succeed, and the outcome is.. quit or set out to prove them wrong.

Perhaps when YC doesn't accept your application, it only means that PG doesn't see your project as a good fit for what YC has to offer or the current class. I wouldn't take it to mean that YC is betting against your success.

edit: I mean that as a general note to other HNers, because it doesn't seem like you do harbor any negativity toward YC
Terminal prepositions are poor Latin, but they are perfectly acceptable English. The prejudice against terminal prepositions (and split infinitives, as well as such abominations as the s in island) came from a period in English linguistics where a bunch of grammarians thought that English wasn't dignified enough, and tried to pretend that it was a Romance language by shoehorning the language into awkward and ungainly shapes that faintly resemble Latin. The language of Shakespeare is dignified enough for me, without the groundless prescriptivist contortions. He, like many authors since then, has found that the natural aesthetic flow of English will sometimes (not always) result in the preposition most naturally falling at the end of a clause. When that situation arises, take the opportunity to celebrate the uniqueness of your native tongue.
Boy without cerebellum is learning to walk
Developer scholarships for LAUNCH Conference
In the future, with HTML becoming unversioned, this will be SOP. Every other browser vendor seems to have no problems implementing standards as they emerge, yet one of the largest companies mankind has ever seen can't spare the resources? Give me a break, this is all about power struggles.

Also, the fact that browsers actually implement emerging standards means that when the standard is eventually finalized (again, talking mostly in the past here), it's less likely to be the 'ivory tower' sort of standard, and more likely to be what a standard is supposed to be: a codification of what everyone is already doing. This is far more useful than some sort of proclamation from upon high.
Would you care to elaborate on your point? If at all the US Census does not agree with the affirmation that "making ends meet is now easier than in the 1950's-1970's".

Median income per household (in 2008 CPI-U-RS adjusted dollars.) [[2008 : $50,303], [1968 : $41,995]] +19.8%

Consumer Price Index (CPI-U-RS) [[2008 : 316.2], [1968: 58.3]] +442.7%

To be honest, people below poverty line has not changed that much... [[2008 : 13.2%], [1968 : 12.8%]] +3.125%

source: http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/p60-236.pdf
Implementation of open content licenses
STEVE JOBS HAS 6 WEEKS TO LIVE
If online journalism becomes all about pageviews and spot traffic, this will be par for the course.
Right, so... this? This is the closest thing I can recall reading to "impossible" in at least the last year or so.
It pains me to see Gizmodo running an article with the National Enquirer as its primary source. They do make the necessary disclaimers, "The Enquirer is also wrong a lot especially when it comes to proclaiming that celebrities have mere weeks to live." but perhaps they'll run anything to get the attention away from their redesign.
It's a lot easier on my eyes than the white background used by 99% of all websites.
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Challenge to Microsoft and FF: swap and merge test sets!
Ask HN: Cofounder vs Management Team?
In filling out several apps for incubator type startup programs, I’ve noticed that single founders are at a significant disadvantage. This disadvantage is, in my eyes, 100% justified. I agree that for MOST startups, having only 1 founder is a disaster waiting to happen because 1. It’s too much work 2. You can’t bounce ideas etc.

That being said, if a single founder startup already has its product developed, it has users who are excited about the new platform, and the main issue now is scaling, would finding a cofounder be valuable? Or would time be better spent finding and hiring a management team?

This is the crossroads I’m currently at. Find a cofounder (who would essentially do what a management person does) or find a strong management type person / team.

Note: We are talking about a non-technical founder. In my personal case the startup has minimal to no coding needed.
Pyvascript started because I simply didn't like Javascript at the time (and still don't, for most things). I wanted a way to write my entire app in Python and use macros to make my life easier. To that end, I wrote two libraries: Transformana, which allows arbitrary manipulation of the Python AST by macros, and Pyvascript, which utilizes Transformana to compile down to Javascript on the fly. Combining the two allowed me to get all the benefits of Python with the flexibility of Javascript, and macros to make life easy. For example, when used with Pylons you can do _uriOf(SomeController.action) to generate a URL that gets baked into the JS. It also turns Python classes into JS classes, which allowed me to make AJAX calls trivial.

I used Pyvascript heavily for one product and it's fairly battle-hardened at this point, but since I don't really do anything web-wise anymore I haven't done much with it lately.
IBM Watson's next adventure: Healthcare with Nuance
I think the majority of Americans would say "Which car am I driving in?" However, something makes me think the majority of Britons might actually say "In which car am I driving?" Am I the only one thinking this?
I'm going to break away from my devil's advocate argument.

I was rhetorically trying to show:

i) The parent's argument is weak. The existence of competitors is not sufficient to show whether Apple is or is not a monopoly. Microsoft had a lot of competitors. Even in 1998, there was a lot of OSes.

ii) The argument that Microsoft was a monopoly was, frankly, ridiculous to begin with, based on defining a market in an oblique way. The same argument could be extended into many fields to show that many other products have a monopoly.

Even so, I do believe that Microsoft engaged in anticompetitive behaviour in actively trying to destroy Netscape and its desktop OS competitors. The weak "monopoly" argument should be sidestepped completely, since it was terrible to begin with.

I do think there is an fine line between limiting creativity and preventing anti-competitive behaviour, and it's not clear where that line is.

I think the EC's "browser choice" decision is shocking given that a web browser is an integral part of any OS, especially in 2011, whether that OS is Windows, Mac OS X, a Linux distribution or whatever else.

I do think Apple and the iPhone creates genuine questions about where the line should be drawn. Is it reasonable for them to close up the protocols in iTunes to prevent anyone from creating their syncing software? Is it reasonable for them to want a cut from downloadable content on their platform?

In my mind, they will always be anti-competitive practices, whatever the letter of the law says.
To offer a possibly way oversimplified theory: In a typical workplace, sexual harassment and random acts of male chauvinism are constrained by corporate culture, so at least from my experience, women can be somewhat comfortable being themselves as paid programmers.

From my experience in open source projects, the number of trolls trolling is quite a bit higher, especially when the primary channels for communication are mailing lists and IRC, which people have an easier time being trolls on due to anonymity and lack of face to face interaction. Not having a boss to yell at trolls for trolling or not having the possibility of getting cockpunched for saying something stupid might be another factor.
Unfortunately most of those comments will end up moved to #devnull

http://gizmodo.com/#!devnull/forum
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