skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
actually i was trying to point out that these articles don't give any specific example of how they were treated in a sexist way. they just say they did not achieve whatever it was they wanted because they were treated in a sexist manner.

> To be clear, your blanket condescending dismissal if someone's own firsthand report of an experience is actually a perfect example of exactly the sort of sexism we're trying to confront.

This is also what I'm talking about. Even if what I said in the first place was meant the way you read it, it still wouldn't be sexism, it would just be ignorance. Had I have said that something to the affect of "her opinion doesn't matter because she's a woman and women are always way too emotional," then it would be sexist. What I said was that she didn't provide an example of what sexist thing was done to her. Instead she only spoke about how she failed at what she was trying to do and assumed it was because everyone was sexist.

Perhaps something sexist actually was done to her; perhaps whoever did it didn't mean for it to be sexist; perhaps me and a bunch of other men do the same thing not realizing its sexist; perhaps women think that something me or any other man does is sexist when we have a completely different reason for doing it? That being said, I'll stop this comment with a mildly sexist comment... Women are always telling men to communicate their feelings with them, so maybe women should start communicating their "facts" more often with men. (i put facts in quotations just to sound even more sexist)
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It is energy generation, and energy saving.
If you were at YC demo day this week, you would have seen some very solid companies that are addressing those 'Customer' issues that you list below. I was expecting bubble when I walked into the door at YC, but walked out of there thinking the total opposite.

I can't speak for all the other companies out there.
Global Sign SSL problem
Just received this email from GlobalSign, couldn't find a lot in the news about it. If you're going to mess up, mess up big:

On March 23 2011, the Certification Authority Comodo announced it had mis-issued 9 SSL Certificates to high profile websites including:

* login.live.com
* mail.google.com
* www.google.com
* login.yahoo.com (3 certificates)
* login.skype.com
* addons.mozilla.org

The Certificates were issued through one of its unnamed Registration Authority (RA) Partners who had been given transferrable trust rights to issue publicly trusted SSL Certificates.

The fraudulent Certificates have since been revoked, however due to the high profile nature of the mis-issued Certificates, Microsoft, Google and Mozilla have issued browser updates to hardcode the revocation status of the Certificates into the browsers. We advise all GlobalSign customers to update their browsers immediately.

This is a very serious compromise of unprecedented scale. As further details unfold, our security group will publish a full statement. However we wish to strongly iterate that this is a completely standalone attack on the Comodo systems. GlobalSign wishes to confirm to all customers, partners and the industry as a whole that GlobalSign is not affected by the Comodo compromise.

More information:http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214998/Firm_points_finger_at_Iran_for_SSL_certificate_theft
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215036/Delay_in_disclosing_SSL_theft_put_Iranian_activists_at_risk_says_researcher
So they're waiting to release the code until it's a little more fully baked? <yawn /> Somebody wake me up when this is real news.

Sure, you can quibble over this move and how it doesn't fit with the usual "release early, release often" ideology of F/OSS, but - in the grand scheme of things - I have a very hard time seeing this as a big deal. If they said "We're not going to release the code, EVVAAAAAAARRR, MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA" then I could see a reason for being concerned.
Seems to characterize that labour market. Lots of math, stats & CS people have heard that they can turn brains into $ through the magical zero-sum game of the markets. Thank ederman.
I tried it out and while it worked fine and didn't crash, I struggled to find the purpose in my day to day life. It might be great at a concert or something. Also, I'd like to just share with a subset of users - not share with everyone.
All I'm saying is that the "buggy" adjective is the last reason to hate them. $41m, lack of product-market fit, no users, these are all genuine reasons to be hating. But anyone with ten minutes of programming experience knows that bugs are just bugs. You fix them and they're fixed. Lack of product/market fit, however, can never be fixed. Focus on that.
No, the burst will come after the Facebook IPO when they can't find a way to make the $5,000 per user per year that their stock valuation will suggest it can earn. When Facebook stock crashes and it's plastered all over the news, that'll be the start of the bust. We're a long way from that.
The link is currently invalid, but I distinctly recall an outdoor toilet in the diagram.

Why is land ownership relevant to the posting? If they're told to pick up and move, they can do so very easily. Or, a benevolent land owner (government, commercial, other) could offer them space at low or no cost, particularly if they're willing to live in something such as this, rather than a typical dwelling for the area.
Thanks. All great points.
>Sure, but "ruthless" is a hair's breadth away from psychopathic

The literal meanings are identical. "Ruth" is an archaic word for a feeling of pity, compassion or remorse.
Just please, please, do not use the standard "motivator" posters at my workplace.
Brings back memories. I suppose at the time my dream was to understand how those games worked. And I think I still couldn't write one today...
Eh, was Oliver Steele, not PG. Old essay, somehow I started attributing it to PG instead:

http://osteele.com/archives/2004/11/ides

Perhaps out of date now, given what IDE's can do, though I personally still prefer to learn a language and toolchain with a text editor, then graduate to Eclipse for the benefits you mention.
Checkmark comparison charts are notoriously full of 'features' that either don't matter, are vaguely measured at best, or listed solely for the creator's benefit.

"Jump Lists and thumbnail preview controls for pinned sites" just doesn't seem to be the differentiator that will make me switch to IE9.
Smells more like the chatroulette of photo apps to me.
In 2002 we did custom patch for an energy company which had hundreds of outdated remote RS232 terminals hooked up via wireless links to the central station for control and monitoring. Their goal was to encrypt transmitted messages so it will not be intercepted and messed with during wireless transmission. Solution was Linux boxes on both sides that encrypts communication using OpenSSL...
The problem was the terminal do not want to talk to Linux over crossover Ethernet because of.... you guessed... bug in TCP... To solve that we had to make patch for Linux kernel. and let me tell you that code in 2.4 kernel was very ugly with extremely funny comments :-)

My companion since than developing drivers and "he feels that he is doing something important rather than boring UI".

but all he is doing is mostly his own projects and drivers since updating open source IS a pain in the neck.

I guess problem in collaborative work is the reason why people do open source vs something that have to be supported. What do you think?
Using Mercurial Subrepositories
> I've learned a huge amount about Java

But did you learn a huge amount about programming?
Are you willing to disclose a price range Jason?

I'm guessing, looking at your level of funding when you bought it, that you got a better deal than color/colour.com for a better, more brandable name
The inline keyword is best thought of as a hint to the compiler, not a command. The compiler is free to ignore the meatbag telling it to inline functions if it chooses to.

Macros are substituted in before the compiler, so they are always inlined.

EDIT: Hint, not suggestion.
Why Tablets Are Just a Fad
I think by just being aware of it. Thats all you need. There is no further big secret "how" to it.

Tell yourself you are looking to find something that you will enjoy doing and sooner or later you will find it.

I enjoy programming, creating stuff with computers and I know how lucky I am that I get a chance to do it and also get paid for it. This passion also shows on me I think.. so when people ask me how they can find it I always tell them to just be aware of it.

I sincerely hope that helps.
The integrity of most mobile homes is subpar for my desired application. I do, among other things, IT consulting and computer forensics. We were working on a project to deploy to disaster zones to provide ISP services, data recovery, and other related services. Packing our entire operation into a container that could be shipped to the area via normal shipping options would reduce our deployment costs and logistical complexity.

(And, as always, anyone interested, please drop me a line.)
The app: take pictures with your phone, instantly/automatically upload them to the cloud, meanwhile see what other pics other people nearby are taking.

The experience: a frenzy of sharing entertaining photos and having fun anytime, anywhere, with anyone.

The reality: a classier, more respectable and 'innocent' rival to Grindr.

The money: push advert pics into the localized photo streams, even making them geographically contextual, exposing them to an already captive audience, who may even react and start talking about it (the advertised product/service) on the spot.

Actually, have to admit, I really like the idea.
And V 1.0, 40 million or not, always stinks and If it doesn't you shipped to late.

Whatever happened to beta releases?
Isn't it a bit contradictory:

"All I get out of a blind code giveaway on a social media site is a lost sale."

and:

"In most cases, people claim codes because they like the idea of getting something for free, even if they have 0 intention of ever using it."

How is giving your app to someone who would never by your app a lost sale? To me it makes sense to give away promos every now and then. True, not everyone will use it, and yes, maybe someone who gets it for free would have been prepared to pay for it. But maybe the onces that start using it have friends who they show your app to. Friends that like your app and buy it. And maybe they have friends too...
So you give away maybe 20 "copies", but since this costs you nothing, every sale this gives you counts as profit!
Thanks for clearing that up. I was starting to think my iPad was going to cook me dinner quickly. That is surely an item on the iPad 3 feature list.
Founder Of SaaSy Describes SaaS Revenue Tips and Tricks
Why do you believe corporate risktaking is harmful to the company in the long run?

If anything, I always thought the common criticism of big corporations is that they are far too risk averse. E.g., rather than taking a risk and betting it all on Maemo (an early linux-based smartphone OS), Nokia instead went the safe route and have now stagnated. Similarly, when problems arise, many big companies layer small fix after small fix on an existing system - it's much safer than investing $250M in a complete renovation.
$200,000 isn't cool. You know what's cool? $41,000,000.

Honestly though, grats Kyle. Passionate users, revenue is coming in, you obviously deserve it.
Ask HN: Any mid-life career change hackers out there?
I'm a 31-year old who has just started professionally developing. I taught myself to write code when I was 14 (MBasic on KayPro), but I'm not a seasoned developer (meaning I learned about arrays when I was 17). I've got a degree in business and have worked in the IT industry since I was 18, but software development has never been my primary job. My career up to this point has been mostly technical project management in a Fortune 500 technology company. Is there anyone else out there who has started developing as a 2nd (or 3rd, 4th) career? Did you start in an established company or in your own startup?
Very nice. Good that I still have the original X-Com box lying around.
I think you can keep hitting the up arrow to find earlier matches too
Agreed, during my evenings I've been attempting to learn Rais. So I have the Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial PDF on my iPad resting on the arm on my couch, and laptop in my lap. These types of PDFs/eBooks really shine on the iPad over the Kindle. From what I read the code section appearance on the kindle makes it hard to follow. The color diagrams, code and touchable hyperlinks make the tablet pc the book of the future.

The tablet for me is really about reading and reference. I got a bunch of 99 cent html5/JS/php/css reference books in case I need them there. But the real bread and butter for me is FlipBoard and InstaPaper. These apps make the tablet worth it. InstaPaper now has social interaction and a curated longform article section so I don't even have to use my computer to find interesting topics anymore.

Yesterday there was a HN post about Inkling, a textbook distribution app for academic textbooks (McGraw-Hill, Pearson) that allows you to have embedded multimedia objects and section highlighting/note sharing to professors and classmates. Tablets are the reading experience of the future.
Is this really "the first time" the super rich have spoken candidly about their lives? The film Born Rich is a counterexample.

Actually, the article contradicts itself: the byline says "the first time" and paragraph 2 says the studies have gone on since 1970.
This list is so amazingly curated. Everything nobody needs and IE implements is in. Everything developers need to provide better experience and IE doesn't implement is out.

The absolute best feature: "Tools that show pages in different rendering engines to let developers understand and debug browser differences" .. I wish this actually referred to Chrome Frame :-D

Also peculiar: The top table doesn't align with the rest in Gecko and Webkit. Being the longest of three, I'd imagine the Firefox table header would expand it's column, not compress it. And shouldn't those tables be tbodies according to semantics?
Do you think he may put it on airbnb?
What Calacanis thinks of Color: Brilliant.
Why would someone give a painting featuring a torpedo boat to a man who has never been in a rowboat? What an odd wedding gift and what an odd choice to leave it hanging for so many years.
Great product - it even helps you go through the installers. I had to change from A: to D: for installing Stunts though! (I had a copy...)
Please elaborate.

If you aren't making enough money to cover your expenses, and you have no cash on hand, how are you still in business?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution#Application...
That's idiotic. While it's important to work quickly, to invest that much money that quickly is proof positive that the bubble is about to pop. Mark my words: people will say that this was the inflection point that ends up with a new dot com crash. Color is pets.com, webvan and friendster all in one.
dead in 1 years?

Is that Julia Allison grammar?
I really want to know why they didn't launch at SXSW....it would have been the perfect place to launch this
^ Best argument for progressive taxation.
Do watch the video. Great design!
Show HN: Bubble (pixel) Display
Too bad you can only vote once, i would put a +20 on this !

That's for me the critical feature #1 in a service : your users use your product for one very clear reason. They come to your app to do specifically this. There might be other features on your app, but there's a main one, clearly defined.

And by using this feature, they get value. It is simple, it is straightforward. Value can be content (Quora answers). Value can be an action or reaction (check-in, "count me in" on a plancast). Value can mean earning or saving dollars.

Love the subject, blogged about it here:
http://laurentk.posterous.com/in-search-of-the-perfect-viral...
I think the idea is good, I just don't understand why anything you've mentioned requires VC at all, much less that magnitude.
ianhawes below also recommended "The One Percent," which is a newer documentary by Jamie Johnson.
One of my previous clients, a couple of tattoo/piercing shops, just emailed me to be on the lookout for used iPads. They want to use them to show off the artists portfolios but also for to showcase their extensive jewelry collection and pricing. It feels like a great way to allow the client to be more invested in the artist, and they can even use the ipad2 camera and drawing apps to sketch tattoos without ever leaving a potential client.

I've been trying to convince them to try out the POS options as well. Being able to replace a bulky $4000 point of sale system into an ipad portfolio/register is pretty sexy.
i don't think this name is good for SEO since it's such a generic term; but it really shouldn't matter given the amount of money they have, and being a primarily mobile app. they're coming up 10th for "color" right now, while it's cool to be able to say color.com, does it really matter? i don't think so- think they didn't need to spend close to half a mil on color+colour rather than going with something like getcolor.com or colorapp.com

the itunes placement seems like a wiser place to spend their money at this point, but really with $41MM i guess they can spend it everywhere all at once if they like.
Hmm. Not their fault, I know, but as described here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2320323

flash no longer works on my laptop. I'm using the built-in version in Chrome (as best I can determine) and I consistently get

The following plug-in has crashed: Shockwave Flash

It works for a while if I shut down Chrome and restart, but it doesn't last long. I'm finding I don't really care much, although it would be nice if the much vaunted Chrome were actually better than IE in practice. For me.

<sigh>

Not been a good day.

</rant>
Even better argument for communism, no?
I know which side of that bet I'm taking :)
great work guys!
Without exaggeration, I bet it goes something like this:

Big Pharma: We need to you ban x,y,z now that we are selling something similar.

FDA: No problem, anything else?

I mean how else can you honestly explain fish oil being banned, the FDA doesn't have the time and money to do the research to find all the unregulated competition that has been on the market for years.

It's like the department that regulated oil drilling, they allowed the corporations to fill out their own inspection reports and the regulators just signed it.
SourceFire IPO'd on GPL software. There are other examples. I feel like this has more to do with ideology than truth-seeking for you.
Nuclear Power's Global Fallout
> If you take a look at the man pages for all of those commands you'll see they explicitly mention that your working tree will be affected.

I'm not complaining that these commands mismatch the spec. I'm complaining that the spec for these commands is badly designed.

> They are written explicitly to do that

I agree about git clean, but git reset --hard and git checkout do more than just changing the working tree.

> If you're ever unsure about the result of a given command make a copy of your current working tree before applying it. I like git because it explicitly doesn't hold your hand through things like this. It expects you to know what you're about to do.

You misunderstood my problem. I know exactly what these commands do.

I consider "reverting my changes in the working tree" to be a separate and irreversible thing of whatever "git reset" and "git checkout" do, and want git to ask for approval before accidentally doing irreversible damage.

The main thing protecting me from accidental errors/deletions/etc is my revision control system. But in this case, the irreversible damage is done BY the revision control system.

Here are a few examples of what I mean:

* I jump to the wrong shell. In it, I have an old "git status" that says my working tree is clean, but at the wrong location. I forget that I already moved it, and started working on a feature. I use "git reset --hard <correct-place>" and without warning, I also get my working tree changes irreversibly lost without any question.

* I press <up> a few times in my shell, to reach a previous command, hit <return>. OOPS, that command was not the one I intended. Instead it was a "git reset --hard <someplace>" or perhaps a "git checkout"!

* I may execute a command like "git checkout <refspec> <some_path>" during a merge in order to pick some version of that file. If I accidentally press <return> too early, I may lose all of my working tree changes in the directory.

I don't actually lose my working tree changes with git, because I'm aware of these issues, so I am very careful about which commands I replay.

But it would be nice to know that since I have a revision control backup of my files, I don't need to be as careful, as long as I don't use "clean", "rm" and other commands meant to lose information.

P.S: It would be nice if "checkout" stored a stash or such of any overwritten content so it isn't irreversible unless given a flag not to.

tl;dr: Good UI design dictates that user operations should be reversible whenever possible. Irreversible operations should require explicit confirmation (or at least "--force") and ideally should have no other effect except the specific irreversibility.
...and well beyond that extent. Social proof is a NOP sled for escalating sexual privileges in another mind, too.
Good for them, but it still annoys me that I have to give a twitter username to sign up. Not everyone tweets all day. Some of us waste our time on here instead ;)
Same thing applies for almost any mobile platform and is more/less severe based on how the "home page" UI is developed. On Windows Phone 7, there are even fewer slots to put applications, 8 to be specific. But thankfully they are hubs so can combine functionality of multiple apps in it. e.g. the email/call/facebook etc functionality is all driven off the People hub. All games are driven off the games hub etc.

If you think about it from the platform's perspective it's bad that it can only give front page to a limited set of apps. It makes it extremely competitive for the developer to make a good app to get on that page.
Websites are assets just like property. Get em out ASAP so they can appreciate
My experiences and conviction in the saying "Release early, release often"
if its started up. One of the biggest draws to me originally for the tablet was that there is no waiting.
Google Delays Distribution of New Android Tablet Source Code
And my point is that I understood what the article is saying on the surface, but there's a definite subtext here aimed at those who are not as fortunate enough to be able to (easily) discard one ill-fitting "purpose"(vocation) for another that fits better.

Or in essence, I don't believe what the article is implying, and it has nothing substantial within it to make me believe it.
I think the author is missing a connection between the two arguments that he talks about.

Open Source isn't just about self-hosting, but about being able to choose your provider. And the ability to freely choose your provider is dependent on the services on different providers being interoperable.

Also, without a strong Open Source movement, there's no incentive for the closed platforms to interoperate. If anything, there's only disincentives.

As I see it, the only big player with the necessary clout/infrastructure and Open Source credentials and incentives to make the necessary changes is Google.
git commit --amend -aCHEAD
You don't really need '-C HEAD' at all. The default behavior is to just reuse the last commit message, which is, implicitly, HEAD.
Lemme just grab a copy of Bananacom so I can download some games from the local BBS.
Oops! In a good way!
Bootstrapped, profitable, and proud!
If that's a solid sheet of microfiber on the inside, then I'm sold. The thing that irritates me most about the Smart Cover is that it leaves streaks on the glass where the indentations are.
+1!

The best apps do just one thing very well.