skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would they accept it? Is there a clause that disallows something like that in the App Store TOS?
jsprinkles, you are such a despicable human being that I can genuinely say my life was a happier life before I found out that you existed. Good grief you disgust me.

I know this comment is not contributing in any way, and will invariably get downvoted into oblivion given the general misogyny rampant among many of the HN regulars, but I just could not let that go unsaid. THAT’S how much your behavior in this thread has bothered me.

(btw, I'm a white male)

Update (as I cannot reply a level deeper than jsprinkles reply to this, it seems): the “amount” by which my life is a less happy place is about the amount of sound the world’s tiniest violin produces. But the knowledge is there now, and cannot be forgotten.
I wish there were good open source alternatives to Gmail, Facebook, Twitter etc. that you could just install on your own server. But as it is now leaving cloud entirely would require significant effort, time and knowledge to setup and when you do, you would still lose a great part of functionality provided by the cloud now.
I just attempted to revisit the page, and hit the paywall login. I'm not sure if NYTimes clued in to the number of IPs being associated with said account or if they give users a one time preview reading of the article.
I was thinking of doing something similar to this. I'm partially glad you didn't take the route I had in mind.

As for the facemash algo I think it was the ELO rating system. (when I watched the social network I squealed inside cause I recognized it instantly) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
Exactly! Also IronRuby. Or MRI on Windows for a lot of extensions, which just won't build there.
I have been doing the same thing for some time, and I don't understand why people will pay the Apple premium if you buy into the cloud concept. It simply makes no sense.

I've got myself, my wife, my mother, step-father and sister all running Ubuntu 11.04 on rather cheap (as in price) but still good Lenovo hardware. Everything just works (and well) and since Chrome runs great on Linux, they have the exact setup in the article and they have near zero need for anything more. I don't get paying 10-20% more for shiny.

Anyway, that point aside, I absolutely love the setup. As I've said, I pretty much run this myself. My local file system is actually a huge Ubuntu One disk (cheaper than dropbox plus I get music streaming to my Android phone) so I don't even worry about backups (even so, I still have backups....call me old fashioned) and all my code is in github or bitbucket (depending on project). It has really been working quite well for me for about 1.5 years or so.

The big thing I noticed when setting up non-technical family members (all those listed above are teachers, FYI) is that you just have to create some bookmarks to Google docs and the like, and maybe create a desktop shortcut to them. I take my workflow for granted sometimes, and I've realized they are used to clicking on something to open it so creating a bookmark in the toolbar or a shortcut on the desktop makes it feel like an app to them. Other than that, no real adjustment.
Am I supposed to find some clever cat picture to reply to you with?
Yeah, I am married to someone who got death threats over email for daring to start a group promoting women's participation in free sofware projects. So never mind that most men in the industry aren't like that, a small proportion of toxic people still make for a poisonous environment.

And this is before we start quantifying how small that proportion really is, and how negative other aspects of discrimination can be. Death threats and sexual harassment are only the showy, extreme points of a very wide continuum of discrimination.
I hope there are explicit guarantees for this. Otherwise I am not sure I had trust all my data to the benevolence of an an external entity.
"Businesses that are already on PC aren't going to budge."

I'll call BS on that. I work for a large multinational with a 20+ year history of PCs in the workplace, and Macs represent a growing proportion of the workforce laptop pool. They still have to be special-ordered, but I've yet to hear a request denied, and IT will support them. Meanwhile, iPads are the incentive du jour, and iPhones have just been added to the approved list, where Nokia and Blackberry once ruled. I have none of the above, but I see the future, and the future is white.

[Edit: And why is everyone talking about servers? There's no mention in the linked article, or the original about servers...]
technically speaking the SEC does not force you to go public.

The problem most people refer to: if you have over 500 shareholders of record, you have to make a lengthy filing which is almost as onerous as going public. Hence, since the incremental effort isn't that much, most companies in that position go public. There's technically no compulsion to do so.
Google blocks movie service on rooted Android devices
It's a well made app, good job. Do keep us posted on how the price point worked out for sales.

Here are some suggestions:

1. It would be great to have an option when opening an article to automatically apply Readability when it loads (maybe you can choose that option by long-touching the title of the article or something). This would reduce waiting time on reading the article.

2. An article queue would improve multitasking. If the user could select a bunch of articles and have them load in the background, that would be awesome.

3. A setting to show the full text of every comment in the list view of all comments. I don't want to have to click a comment to read it fully, and I don't have to do that on the HN website.

Good luck!
A few days ago I ate at the Sales/HR cafeteria instead of the engineer cafeteria. A table of HR people I didn't know that was 80% female invited me to join them for lunch, and eagerly chatted me up for the next half hour.

This was a really illuminating experience that highlighted for me what an impact the male/female ratio can have. Getting that level of female friendliness/attention at work is totally foreign to me (I don't work directly with many women), and was kind of nice.

I think there is a vicious cycle where women in technology get too much attention from female-deprived men, which conditions them to have a guardedness about them, which conditions the men to feel even more female-deprived (and leads some of them to be creepy). It's unfortunate.

I'm not sure if this has anything to do with a conference organizer who demands sex (it certainly doesn't excuse it, even a little). But I do think there are a lot of lonely guys in tech.
+1 Push notifications for replies

Or even just an extra tab to see replies within the app would be much appreciated.
I was under the impression that Aviary's editors use Flash... clicking on the link to the image editor (Phoenix) - all Flash. Am I overlooking an HTML5 version, or is the article dead wrong?
PhD Thesis Writing
One of the most challenging types of academic writing is the PhD thesis writing. As it is a privilege to be a PhD degree holder, it is a common aspect for all PhD students to spend many years trying to master the techniques of PhD thesis writing.
Although it is not exactly proven, one can assume that asbestos' toxicity is related not to it's chemical properties but to physical geometry of particles of asbestos dust which seem similar to dust that you would get from carbon nanotubes. On the other hand, there is quite significant question whether this actually is problem (even in asbestos case) given right uses and technologies.
This is a serious topic, and you trying to make light of the situation is just absolutely horrible.
As soon as you're fed up with listening only to your your own feedback. You are not representative of your product's averaged userbase. Stop avoiding showing your product to outsiders and get their opinion sooner rather than later.

Validation of your product, let alone the workflow, colours, fonts, aesthetics, etc is crucial. If your product is promising enough, you'll retain the early adopters as evangelists going forward. If it's not good, then you should be able to get some great feedback - sometimes that is "stop what you're doing and find a different idea, this one sucks".

Any feedback is good feedback. Start now.
That’s an awfully cynical view. Problems remain, politics is tedious and sometimes mindbogglingly irrational but, looking back, humanity has made progress and there are countries in the world that are better at this stuff and some that are worse.

No one serious – and certainly no large portion of the population anywhere in Europe or North America – demands women’s suffrage to be taken back. I’m not sure how to interpret that in any other way as seeing clear progress (if my goal was to enable women equal participation in politics).

But that’s not really all that important to the point I was trying to make. Politics requires a different sort of mindset compared to engineering (as does, for example, PR or marketing), you don’t solve problems (or better: achieve goals – “problem” is such an awfully loaded word) the same way.
Good idea. I want to add more features, but I don't have any more room for controls in the current view. So, I'm working on a separate "Settings" panel that would let you choose a bunch of different options. For mobile, I'm thinking of using jQuery Mobile to help build this part out.
As the developer who wrote the Upgrading classes; I'd just like to say that PHP4 is, and always was, supported. The upgrade code hasn't been really affected by the switch to PHP5.2.4

All the known issues with PHP4 and upgrading have been down to bad configurations of the servers, and quite often, insecure configurations of shared hosts. Often swtiching to their servers PHP5 support would "fix" it, simply due to the PHP5 configuration often being setup better than their legacy php.ini for php4 from when php 4.1 was standard..

> and it fails in an uncontrolled way, not because it checks for the PHP version and stops - it actually fails silently (which is also typical WP style).

Did you ever bother helping fix that? If it's failing silently it's either due to a timeout (often configuration related), php error (often plugin related), or http error (dodgy php configuration, or extension is malfunctioning - curl i'm looking at you!)

WordPress has usage stats of what servers are running, The majority of PHP 4.4 hosts have access to PHP5 through their hosts, they just have to turn it on. Most other major webhosts have been contacted and have plans to support php5 as well.

Every other major web application has made the move, It's time for webhosts to spend their customers monthly fee's on providing up to date, secure services, not just letting the server rot..
Lean Startup Machine Team Needs Feedback
We're in the middle of the Lean Startup Machine this weekend here in SF.

http://sf.theleanstartupmachine.com/

We're scrambling to try and get validation around a couple of ideas. If you could complete this survey, it'd help us a bunch!

http://goo.gl/s2AdG
Is it possible that they haven't spoken about it because you are male and they feel as though you may not understand? Is it possible that they haven't spoken up for fear of losing their jobs?

Just because nobody has spoken about it doesn't mean it hasn't been going on.
"Personally, it doesn't even cross my mind that some people are different than me."

People who aren't rich, white, straight, and male don't have the privilege of forgetting about their own identity the way you do. In the context of tech for women, this means always wondering if you were hired, fired, or asked to coffee because you are a woman or because you are interesting and competent. It's knowing that if you mess up, you are reinforcing stereotypes about all women. When you walk into a room at a conference and you can count the other women on one hand, men may not notice but women definitely do. We don't have the privilege of forgetting our gender in that context. It's not that men are evil, it's just the way privilege works: when you benefit from it, it's hard to see the experience of those who don't.

If you want to hear more about this idea even more eloquently, check out the classic article about white privilege that puts it better than I ever could:
http://www.nymbp.org/reference/WhitePrivilege.pdf
Yeah, I saw "We have a team of musicians who listen to each and every song before adding it to the rotation" but assumed that was just a smaller example of a "crowd." Or is each team member getting the final say on individual tracks (e.g. individual curators) rather than it being a group decision?
I make that much and I live about 2 hours away from a major market on the east coast. I haven't been offered a developer job anywhere in the past 5 years that was under 75k.
I'm sorry but I cannot help but be amused that some anonymous opinion on a forum somewhere has made your life a less happy place. My tiniest violin is mourning your loss. I do not mean to be disrespectful but I fail to see how my words can so deeply impact your life.

I beg you to unplug and go find some peace if this discussion has gotten that far under your skin.

What behavior specifically disgusted you? That I preach moderation in times like these instead of rushing to publicly out someone? That I disagree that IT is a completely women-hating industry? That I acknowledge the inevitability of a gender programmed to reproduce to eventually make unwelcome advances on a woman without forgiving it or removing blame?
This is nuts. It's not even a copy. Look closely at the movie tattoo then at Tyson's. Similar, not the same. Not a copy.

The whole thing smells of publicity stunt by Warner Bros, and a money grab by the tattooist.
Well yes, but I don't see how that's relevant in the discussion. The topic hadn't come up and since there was no fission on the other submission mention it doesnt add anything to the potential conversation, not to my mind anyway, perhaps I'm missing a use case.
This list can be long and I'm tired from lack of sleep and coming back from another event so I'll just give one answer off the top of my head...

One of the things that turn most people away, but particularly mentors you want to work with, is the inability to learn and adapt. Most people are completely oblivious to this or completely delusional in thought thinking they're not like that if they are in fact displaying this behavior. Mentors, investors, etc... work with people who are trainable, willing to take advice, execute on the advice, and ask questions when they feel the need to clarify or disagree.

Disagreeing isn't the problem. It's the behavior that a person tends to ask a question only to argue against what they hear. There are a SWARM of people out there like this and they don't even realize it. Other times, the wrong impression is given due to a misunderstand on how a person reacts once advice is given possibly due to how they may phrase a follow up question to the advice. Word choices and gestures matter as to not give off the signal that you're a person bent on looking for validation rather than valid advice. It's a fine line between the two and I dare say most of the people I've encounter can't tell the difference.
I hate how people in that are in a minority demographics tend to cry wolf and discrimination on everything.

Isn't concluding that people in minority demographics are either deluded or engaging in deception -- a form of prejudice?

now I live and work in one of the most diverse place on earth: SF. It boggles my mind that this is still an issue for people.

It boggles my mind as well, even though I live in Houston. I've never been harassed in SF, but I've been racially harassed by strangers in Houston, Cincinnati, Oregon outside of Portland (shock!), County Wexford Ireland, and probably a bunch of other places if I try and remember. I attended a New Year's party at a frat-house in Seattle, where my big bruiser square-headed friend told me he had to talk a bunch of frat brothers out of beating the crap out of me for no reason other than that I have asian features.

I don't go looking for trouble, and it doesn't find me very often -- maybe only once in several years or so -- but it does find me from time to time. Most people are good people, but there are a few bad ones out there. (Just like there are a few misogynist douchebags who would rape a woman.)

So don't be disgusted or surprised if I wonder why certain strangers seem to take an instant dislike to me before I've even finished my first sentence or talk over me or don't even deign to look at me even though we're clearly in the same conversation group. That occasional bad person might come out of the woodwork with no warning or provocation to ruin my day.
I don't see any reason for this to perplex you. The dead tree model is well established; enough people are willing to pay for their own copy so that they don't have to go through the annoyance of lending.

One of the abilities of ebooks is that there is essentially zero duplication cost. That means that (outside of legal and DRM) there would be absolutely no reason for anyone to ever pay for a book instead of getting it for free.

I would actually say that there is very little advantage of ebooks to an author; piracy is suddenly an actual problem instead of something that would be laughable (how many pirate paper backs do people own?), people suddenly can't lose your book meaning they will only purchase it once, and most importantly you lose the entirety of the extra profits from hardcover editions (the price of hardcover versus paperbacks is not really from the cost to produce). Publishers are clearly going to be decimated by self publishing becoming more viable for up and coming authors.

The efficiency of not having to print actual books, ship them, etc is nothing compared to these other factors. The real reason why they have to sell ebooks is because customers are demanding them, and would buy their competitors books if they didn't offer digital editions.

Almost nothing about ebooks is actually positive to publishers or established authors. They are the horseshoe manufacturers and the model T has just been invented; just because they start making tires doesn't mean that they wouldn't be much happier if cars had never become invented.
Yeah ... not a good idea: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2571972
Wait--so you get a potential hire drunk at dinner to see how they are going to behave? Seems a little radical to me.
Would have been better than the snark. Lack of contribution to me is not license to reply with even less contribution.
Modern browsers share several things in common. If you're not a modern browser, then you're a legacy browser.

Modern browsers have most of these:

Super-fast JavaScript engines
Hardware acceleration for graphics and text
HTML audio and video elements and APIs
SVG for vector graphics
ForeignObject for bringing HTML into SVG
HTML canvas element and API for 2D
Some useful CSS 3 support like border radius, text shadow, transforms and transitions, etc.
HTML History API
WebGL for 3D graphics
Web Workers
Application Cache

These are the features that let Web developers build a richer caliber of Web applications. IE 9 is a little bit short on some of these items, but I think it's got enough to qualify it as being part of the gang of Modern browsers.

IE 8 has none of this. IE 8 was really not much more than IE7 with improved CSS 2.1 support, and IE7 wasn't much more than IE6 with tabbed browsing.

So, yes, IE 8 is a legacy browser. It's the new IE6 -- the boat anchor around the necks of Web developers who want to move the Web forward.

Even worse, Microsoft is leaving behind hundreds of millions of users who are currently running IE 7 and 8, saying that IE8 is the end of the road for Windows XP. It's pretty clear that Microsoft is making the big break with legacy between IE8 and IE9. 8 is the past, 9 is the present.
This thing of people always asking for hard numbers, sources, proofs for everything one says and if you can't provide them your words are worth zero is getting a bit tiresome.

Sometimes you can also express personal opinions, you know, gut feelings, and you can discuss about those even if you don't have numbers to show. Those discussion are also usually slightly more entertaining than numbers.
People who aren't rich, white, straight, and male don't have the privilege of forgetting about their own identity the way you do.

Well, from what I've seen, Korean males of high social status who were born in and live in Korea have that privilege. It's hard to get your head around what this stuff is like as an adult. If you're born as a minority and raised to feel the metaphorical target on you from childhood -- there's just no way to convey what that's like. Face that stuff only as an adult, and you can always draw on your memories from childhood to know that's not true. You can always go back home where you know you are safe.

It's quite an eye opener and really weird, being raised by your parents to expect that sort of privilege, then going out in the world to discover the world at large has a very different story to tell you.
You'd expect better from Google really, even if they are at the behest of the film companies here..
Apple Store 2.0
What conferences are there next week?
Just to clarify: no robots were involved in photoshopping the image. Regardless of the author's "trusted source's" statement, the image is clearly shopped to remove the score overlays on a video still (as @mrnibbles http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2571979 mentions). The cloned areas of the original image indicate that whatever entity did the shopping had a contextual understanding of the image, which means it was a human (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2236/5733655921_b28748984b_o.... -> http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5101/5734289061_34f76398e9_b.... -- note that the foreground subjects are not `cloned`).

This was either a quick hack job by a person, or the work of an extremely sophisticated machine vision program.
La Reina del Sur Capitulo 57
La Reina del Sur Capitulo 57: At La Ryina del Sur Capitulo 57 will tell a lot about the state Teresa Mendoza after the death of Paty. For Teresa Mendoza, Paty not just as a good friend, Paty seemed to be a soul mate.
You can use a Mac for standard "productivity" purposes (because it runs Office).

You can use a VM, which are now quite mature, if you require some Windows-only app.

Mac integrates well with MS Exchange now (for corporate e-mail and calendaring).

Beyond mere compatibility:

The build quality of Apple laptops is excellent, which is a positive incentive to move over.

And, most importantly, if you've personally bought in to the Apple ecosystem (iDevices, iTunes), or use a work-provided iPhone or iPad, then you have an incentive to actively move off your Windows system.

They're not being used as servers, or for open source apps. Put yourself in the shoes of some "knowledge worker" at BigCorp, contemplating what his/her next "seat" will be. You'd have such a choice every ~3 years, so there's a delay between when the choice is obvious and when you can actually do it.

I don't think Apple cares hardly at all about this, BTW. It's more of a "rising tide lifts all boats" phenomenon -- a side-effect of their main strategy, which is consumer-focused and not enterprise-focused.
I am going to get slammed for this but I really doubt if they care. 7.84M shares was the IPO makes a total of 94.5M shares outstanding. That's less than 10% outstanding if I am reading the press correctly. The other 90%+ shareholders will want the IPO to pop just so the market impression of the company is positive so they can sell their shares at a good price when their holding period ends. Like any investment, I would look at the current position of the company and it's long term prospects before investing.
It's one of those instances where a synonym isn't actually (ha!) equivalent, and doesn't quite work the same way in the sentence. In this case, 'actual President' would contrast with some fake President running around, whereas 'current President' contrasts with the upcoming President.