skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article falls flat for a couple of reasons.

1) In Open Source projects people don't care about your gender, orientation, race, etc. in large part because this information isn't even available. I'd like you to give me some examples where people's code is treated like the plague for a prejudice such as those.

2) Of course developers are going to be valued more highly in a community _centered_ around development. Whose valued more highly at an art showing, the painter or a curator?

3) Treating disrespect and generalizations with more disrespect and generalizations has proven time and again to be an ineffective technique that's wielded by sensationalists. I don't see how you can expect anyone to take such melodrama seriously.

4) Your value to an open source project is directly correlated to the quality and quantity of knowledge and code you provide to the project. It should be obvious that more experienced people will be valued much higher than a noob who wants to join. Everyone initially takes a beating or two for submitting poor patches, but those who aren't deterred by petty bullshit stick around and actually learn a thing or two while becoming developers.

Honestly I couldn't care less if people put off by blunt commentary on their contributions don't want to participate. They aren't cut out for it.
Seems a bit weird for Google to name their magazine "Think" when IBM is so well known for that slogan. IBM even sells a book called "Think":

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/think/order.shtml
How Hipmunk Learned to Respect Its Users
Loved that! It's great to see that even great big things start small.
Really? They just make me laugh at how stupid and easily manipulated some men can be, and glad I've managed to surround myself with men who aren't.
I'm pretty sure he's said that Das Kapital is on hold because he's too busy with YC, Hipmunk, Breadpig, and life.
Video Tutorial: Android Application Development - Lists and Adapters
I think this is one of the better suggestions in the thread. Find some sort of free software, throw it on github, accept pull requests of good things, and those who are to be trusted give them access.

You are building a community and being as transparent as possible in this manner will win over a lot of people instantly.
Hmm.

Microsoft provides the operating system itself and supporting software and infrastructure for that business. Their business model is/was to drive adoption and standardization of the computer operating system by and large with Windows. They did so through aggressive tactics and eventually made it pretty much ubiquitous. However, they only provide the core OS that the machine runs on (and a bunch of other software) - they did not develop, market, distribute and support the machine. Further, they provide no infrastructure by and large to facilitate the transactions themselves.

Now, this made sense as they grew. The PC market was a bunch of companies running into an empty room and staking their claim. Microsoft simply said "let's make sure everyone uses our flag to stake their claim." Suddenly you had a crowded room with almost everyone waving a windows flag. They did not want to impede the growth of the market by controlling every step of the equation and at the time that was the right way to do it. They allowed an ecosystem to grow up around them, wanting to be the standard by which it all grew and developed.

However, the game has changed now. Apple uses the best UX they can make with the nicest hardware they can design to create desire. People want Apple products and that desire relies on everything about the product living up to the expectation placed on it. With this in mind, they ask for their cut of what goes through their infrastructure which supports this marketing machine. It would be different if they did not provide this level of investment or if they didn't actually handle the fulfillment.

To answer more directly, I don't think it is a question of fairness, I simply think it is a comparison of apples and oranges. Apple has a fundamentally different philosophy and this reflects in their business model.

That said, I do not agree with their policy of not allowing a link from an app to a place to purchase externally - I feel it doesn't add to the UX at all to enforce that and some manner of user choice is called for ( '-')-p
Help me understand what you're saying. If I write a library, you are free not to use it. My code, my terms, right? That's how commercial licensing works. How does GPL harm that dynamic? Or, should the party with more source code lines dictate terms to the party with fewer?
Actually, the probability is 0 or 1; she exists. Right? Stats anyone?
Why I Switched
http://macmobility.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-i-switched.html
I like it! Too bad it'll probably be abused, and force people to turn it off. I have high hopes for the average Github user, but it is on the Internet.
not actually...later in the conversation he states (paraphrase) that he's not seeing as many deals/co's of the type that they like to invest in
I think this is just a misreading. She says it's a "sexist boy's club." I think cousin_it is parsing this as (((sexist boy)'s) club), while it's meant as (sexist (boy's club)). The former implies that the club's members are sexist boys, while the latter implies that it's a group comprising mostly men due to some sexism inherent in the group's structure.
People were already using the @ notation in their code comments, so it seemed like the logical way to offer additional functionality without anyone changing their behavior.
Nearly 5 Million Students Have Benefitted From Donorschoose.org
headdesk

I started out in open source as a 12yo girl back in the mid-90's. I loved the OSS community because no one cared in the least that I was a farm girl from nowhere. You know what? I came in at the tail-end of a time when we had a lot more women doing open-source tech than we do now (some estimates have it around a 1:2 F:M ratio if you go back to the 70s and 80s).

Anybody wonder what the differences between then and now are?

* There were no "girl groups", i.e. Debian Women and the like. Women weren't a special case in need of protection, we were as mainstream as the men.

* There was no pressure to be politically correct. Everyone was indoctrinated into hacker culture, we weren't supposed to treat one another like foreign specimens in need of kid gloves.

* The stereotype that women are more suited to design and support tasks, and men more suited to development, wasn't hanging over our heads (ironically, like the author of this article, the people pushing that stereotype are usually so-called feminists).

* No one cared about the demographics. The current obsession with gender ratios in open source has been wholly counter-productive. It's taught people they must act differently around women, that women need special help, and generally worked against the hacker ethos of "best idea first" (no matter from where or whom that idea comes).

In short, the actions of those who are obsessed with parity between the sexes are causing half the problem: increased stress between the sexes in open source communities. The other half of the coin is what happens long before most young people come into contact with open source:

My 8yo son recently showed off his new netbook to some neighbors, who commented, "It's a good thing you had a boy, Susan, what would you have done with a daughter?"

The boys my son knows have tech toys: netbooks, robots, Snap Circuits, and so on. The girls don't. Most of them never get more intimate with a piece of technology than typing and printing an essay or answering email until college, at which point it's too late.

Every great hacker I know was introduced to hacking in some form at a very young age. I'm not on par with men because some patronizing feminists made me feel welcome, because the community was sensitive, or because I was gently sequestered into girl-friendly areas: it's because I wrote my first code when I was six.

Feminists, stop whining and let the real women do what we do, without the burden of your self-destructive attempts at shaming the men.
Try some different brands. I realize the article says there are basically only two big baby carrot producers, but the brand at Safeway is noticeably worse than others, IME.
It is the classic "China IP" issue, in that China has become such a famous source for penetrations that other actors appear to prefer Chinese IPs as effective cutouts. But the other side of the coin is that a substantial number of attacks from china IPs do actually get tracked back to individuals or organizations inside China. That would lead one to conclude that if it quacks like a duck, it is, often, a duck.
It's (slightly) more work, but a quick rinse under the tap fixes that.
If we're gonna have a petition about all the dumb stuff The Huffington Post promotes we're gonna run out of IPv6 addresses.
Americans Are Now Fat Enough to Need Bigger Buses, Too
Mass-following based on keywords is the same as spamming.

Twitter used to forbid automatic following (except for automated follow-back), but I suspect they don't care now - the more people filling it with spam and junk the busier they look when selling promoted trends.
Bill Nguyen's Lala followup is Color: instant photo sharing with nearby people.
Dancing is for unemployed people!
Recession Caused Sharp Decline in Start-Ups
Columbus HN meetup #1 (3/24)
Actually, if you take a look at the chart, you'll see that the population of black people is stable from the 80s to the 00s, and has only been reducing in the past 10 years. Versus the white population that has been halving every 10 years since the 70s.
Deserve's Got Nothing To Do With It.
- Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven.
in 2011 we do not know phone numbers anymore, but those braincells now store passwords.
Interestingly Apple used a similar tactic with their "Think Different" slogan, which was hugely successful.

The difference, I think, is that Apple was positioning itself against the monolith IBM, hence the "Different". Google is in a similar position today as IBM was back then (in being dominately huge). So maybe naming the magazine "Think Quarterly" makes sense after all.
Yeah, that was in Philly. There was a suit that <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20101012_Student_... in a settlement</a> and I think there were a few other suits that I didn't follow to the end. That case was hugely different than others, though.

First, the <em>school</em> district <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/17/school-used-student.htm... something like 50,000+ photos of minors</a> in their homes and then used what they found in those photos to accuse the minor who sued of doing drugs. The issue question in this case is about who was doing the recording. In this case, it was the school. In Mark's case, the accused knowingly recorded himself (though he didn't know he was also sending that data back to the Laptop's owner).

Secondly, the school's problem was with the scope of what they were recording and where. In your office, your employer can tape you without your knowledge while you're at your desk or at the water cooler, but they can't record you in the bathroom, where you have a reasonable expectation of privacy . You'd certainly have a somewhat subjective expectation in your home, too, even if you were using your work computer. (e.g. The courts would find it reasonable to monitor your Facebook usage on a work computer outside of work hours, but would not find it reasonable to photograph you inside your home from that same computer.)

Lastly, there's the human element of the courts. A judge and jury are almost always going to be less sympathetic toward a school district that should have known better than they would be toward a plaintiff who admittedly took someone's laptop and recorded themselves on it.
Stacey 2.2.2 - HTML5Boilerplate Edition
Wow! I had no idea Detroit was only 10.61% white. Is this an exception case in the U.S. or is this kind of ethnic disproportion common across cities?
$300 plus $4000 per year in taxes, that's the real story here
Number of US Wind Energy Installations Collapsed in 2010
Awesome! We've had support for this in HipChat rooms for a long time and I find myself using this syntax all over the place only to be disappointed when it doesn't actually notify people. Hopefully more apps will follow along.
> But the absence of any easy-to-use/uncrackable/provably non-backdoored secure voice phone on the market is proof enough for me.

If you have to worry about being monitored by government, a super secret phone will not help you anyways. If it's worth doing, your room / furniture / clothes / windows are already bugged and all you say will be recorded before it hits the phone. I really think a provably secure phone is a non-issue.
With Limewire Shuttered, Peer-to-Peer Music File Sharing Declines Precipitously
Thank you, it's the third of your options. (;
Help Track the Death of the Night Sky
Database of Mexicans using Hacker News by State and City (spanish).
This is way overblown. A guy steals a laptop and gets caught red-handed so you post a video to embarass him.

He's lucky he didn't get his hand cut off like in other countries.
> how can software be truly free (as in freedom) if it's not free to be used commercially?

GPL's goal is to maximize users' freedom, not developers'.

GPL forbids developers to take freedom away from users, as software with commercial terms or DRM becomes non-free for users.
Before we had computers (or a women's movement) computation was done using mechanical adders and such by women (since they are 'good' at rote, menial, repetitive tasks) "computers". When electronic computers came about they continued their role in running and even programming for them.

That is to say, people were "computers" before they became "computer programmers".
Indeed, one of the most prominent Ruby hackers a few years ago managed to completely disappear into anonymity just by deleting his website and github — nobody knew his name, and the only reason anyone even knew he was a he is because he chose to attend some conferences.

And I believe one of the core Ruby contributors is an open transwoman, which should be especially reviled if there actually is this intense sexism.
My take on Firefox 4 — Rasmus Andersson
I don't see why everyone assumes a bubble.

I think it's just like real estate purchased for renting out: People know you can make money on it, people realize that, so invest in that knowing rental income can at least pay for the mortgage (in some markets). So all the low hanging fruit are gone as people are not afraid of investing in these companies. You have to go for less low hanging fruit and invest more to get your piece of the pie.

The idea of a valuation of a private company is possibly also the issue. Who says a company's public market cap (which is what valuation is supposedly mirroring) has anything to do with what a private company sold part of itself for.

I'd say in general, if X was the cost of 10% of a business, that's not saying you could actually buy it for 10X. You might actually have to pay 20X to buy the whole thing or perhaps only 5X.
Reminder Columbus, OH area hackers, join us for our first meetup tomorrow.

3/24, 6pm @ Brazenhead Irish Pub in Dublin.

Very informal, chat, beer, NCAA hoops.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300016

http://anyvite.com/ybqq6ymkmz
Who controls nuclear control agencies?
"Detroit Lives" http://www.palladiumboots.com/exploration/detroit#ooid=5qaml...
Great argument, but it's way too long winded.
I built/launched a very similar product a few months back. Even has the same plan for the same price, and targeted at the same market:

http://trackjumper.com

Honestly, it's been a slog to get people to sign up and stay. AdWords is dominated by the giants who can pay more and SEO is competitive as hell for even a trickle of traffic. I've got a few tricks up my sleeve, but this is a tough niche.
Defeat the New York Times Paywall with 2 lines of CSS (or a Chrome Extension)
Author Gets Worst Reviews Ever on His Book
The GPL has done a lot of good, but I think it is rather hobbled by being tied so intimately to the concept of 'linking', which has a very clear technical meaning when talking about C/C++, but becomes a lot fuzzier when applied to other languages.

This was fine back when all software was written in C/C++... except that was of course never the case.
Forward looking valuations are the most difficult. I think when people talk about a bubble they are speaking to the fact that people are being overzealous in the assumptions about how big / far the company will go.
that was a pretty incredible conversation. Wow.
Down Voting "Really?" I will try to be more elegant when mentioning Apple removed the Gay Cure app? Maybe throw something in there about lean methodology and MVP next time.
We use @mentions internally at my company. It helps us to filter/prioritize emails that we are @mentioned in.
Definitely a great handy shortcut for getting someone's attention, I hope more services adopt it.
So what, then, is the difference between my calling your phone number multiple times and leaving harassing messages ("You're going to hell! Fag!"), and what the WBC does at semi-private gatherings, like funerals?

I don't disagree with the justifications behind protecting speech, even (and especially) things that I find reprehensible. However, I think it's a bit of a lie to say that law doesn't have fine lines or distinctions.
This is great is Disqus could have more uptime. I've had issues using them on different sites over the last six months or so.
Lala Founder Unveils Real-Time Photo-Sharing App Called Color
It's not that they'd have to release the source code, it's the cryptographic keys they'd have to release for iPhone stuff, as the code is ALSO on iOS, and you can't change it without the crypto keys.

You never have to release source code if you violate the GPL, you just have to stop distributing the item till you rip out the GPL code, and pay damages to the copyright holder for infringement.
The test that you picked is specifically there to test that call. Did you not see:

Any.CallTo(store).WithReturnType<User>().Returns(user);

Also, two of the tests have seen been updated to truly leverage FakeItEasy's stubbing capabilities:

[Test]
public void ReturnsNullIfThePasswordsDontMatch()
{
var store = A.Fake<IDataStore>();
var encryption = A.Fake<IEncryption>();

A.CallTo(() => encryption.CheckPassword(null, null)).WithAnyArguments().Returns(false);
var user = new UserRepository(store, encryption).FindByCredentials(null, null);

Assert.IsNull(user)
}

There's no setup/expectation on the store - it'll just returned a canned (default new user) response.
Are you looking for someone to say "never use the BSD license" so you can argue with them? Because nobody's saying that. GPL is an option when you care if people commercialize your work. BSD is an option when you don't.
That's an interesting perspective.

I had been under the impression that the concept/implementation was fine, until Microsoft started diddling with the system in order to mess them around.

Specifically: wasn't Samba based on a 'clean room' implementation of some Microsoft protocol or something like that? And when it took off Microsoft were in the middle of their 'kill Linux in the enterprise at all costs' jihad and so they kept changing the protocol that the Samba guys were trying to interface/interact with?
"Going back to Windows makes you really appreciate the speed of bash, vim and grep."

When I have to use Windows, one of the first things I always do is to install cygwin, so I can use bash, grep, etc.
What are the chances that the new service is actually samba-tng (http://wiki.samba-tng.org/doku.php/start) ? That would be at least interesting. Otherwise - good luck to them replicating what samba project learned over the last 20 years. A new implementation has slim chances of being compatible with systems in the wild.
The part about cryptographic keys. It makes it so code signing on the iOS version of the MacOSX kernel would have to have public keys (the anti-tivoization provisions of GPLv3).
FYI Mars bars help control the salivation.
While I'm not generally in the habit of defending Apple's decisions, I'd argue that all of those examples have tradeoffs that improve function. I don't necessarily agree with the tradeoff, but improvements to function do exist.

* The new style keyboard (with bezel between keys) is vastly more reliable for me. On the older keyboards, keys would come flying off all the time. I'd have to replace the keyboard every 8 months. My unibody macbook has lasted almost 2 years with no signs of wear.

* I can't comment on the reliability of the new ones, but I had an old iPod shuffle that was flaky as hell, especially when covered in sweat. Button clicks would get ignored or falsely triggered frequently.

* The Mighty Mouse is optimized for multitouch gestures, and having no seams on the top surface of the mouse makes that experience fantastic. Personally, not my style, but I see why they did it that way.

* The glossy screens have much better color and contrast than matte, and stay cleaner. Yes, glare is a problem in the sun, but I'm using an apple glossy LCD in an office right now and I can't find any angle or spot of the screen where there is even the slightest hint of glare.
Wow, thanks for the very good info. Think I will try acme, just to get a felling. Plan 9 from Userspace will be the way for me.

About the "soapdog" well, that is a silly story years ago trying to decide on a nick to register at a BBS and ghostdog was taken, had to decide on the spot because interstate calls were expensive, so looked at a soap bar and soapdog was the nick :-)
The question is, does Redhat have a repeatable business model, or is it a combination of being in the right place at the right time, with very good execution?
Sequoia gives photo-sharing startup more money than they gave Google
I liked it a lot until I convinced my wife to use it too. Then I realized that I was going to have to pay more than I wanted to be able to collaborate on a note. Then I started to notice the shortcomings of the UI and in particular the abilities of the Android client (at the time there was no local caching). Since I was not using it for text recognition in PDFs and scanned images I came to the conclusion that I would rather have the formatting flexibility of google docs and ability to share it and collaborate easily/freely. If I ever want to just do plain text I think I will install etherpad on one of my servers.
"In bash, use Ctrl-R to search through command history."

Or, add these lines to your .bashrc to use Ctrl-p and Ctrl-n:

bind "\C-p":history-search-backward

bind "\C-n":history-search-forward
No, you are right. Its about being as unspecific as the test requires. I updated a couple examples to lean more heavily on more traditional stubs; still generated by the framework, but expectation or set-response, its all canned.
Hi, this was unexpected. Everything should be working ok now... thanks! :)
How does this plugin handle shortcodes?
That's what I was trying to say, Most people are basing judgment of the situation from a echo chamber of media outlets. There might be much more going on hazard-wise than just the core overheating. The overheating is main stage right now from all the tension it has caused.
"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy." is this a mistranslation? It doesn't appear to make any sense. Should it be "experience praises most happily the one who made the most people happy"? Where did Marx write this and was it in English or German?
Why not just gte910h@twitter.com and gte910h@github.com?
Color Launches Implicit Proximity-Based Social Network for Smartphones
Steve Jobs Ordered By Court To Answer Questions In Class-Action Lawsuit
Start with BuddyPress or something else off the shelf you can customize later. You can leverage experience from the group on whatever solution you pick and the excitement you've started. I think it is imperative to move quickly.