skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be completely honest, I've said for years that women are the single greatest reason for unemployment. When 50 years ago the majority of workers were male and then you almost double the work force, you can try to have enough jobs but those jobs that men were doing exclusively back then are no longer theirs.

Hell, I saw a stat somewhere that there are now more women in medical school than men. That's insane considering that it was not just male dominated 50 years ago, it was considered just a male profession.

My intent is not to sound misogynistic here, just stating a fact. And when those who talk about returning to 1950s values (ahem, some Republicans) think of what that means.
"It's ironic that Ikea looks on the U.S. and Danville the way that most people in the U.S. look at Mexico,"

Not really. With Ikea furniture being so cheap, so heavy, and so apparently labor non-intensive (only three hundred employees at the factory?) the main advantage to building furniture in the US rather than Sweden is saving on the cost of shipping US-bound furniture across the Atlantic rather than saving a few bucks an hour on wages.
Does it say anything about what web browsers you can use to access the site?
I tried but could not. If a moderator with super-powers is reading this, could you please add the poll URL to the OP?
Additionally, the author of the article is potentially weeding out the exact people his company is looking for. Some (myself, as an example) are passionate about what they do for their job, to the point where they do development on work projects in their spare time. Presumably that person is better than the aspiring OSS developer who grinds their job for 8 hours only to go home and work on their pet project.
The cool part of the Windows Live integration, to me, happens when you share computers or tablets. When you hand off that tablet to your wife or your guest, and they log on with their Live ID, they have their e-mail, contacts, calendar, bookmarks, app settings in front of them as if they were using their own dedicated device. Yet when they hand it back and you log on with your own profile, it's all your stuff again.

This is a big pain with current tablets and phones to me. When someone wants to borrow my devices, I'm handing out my personal e-mail and photos and files, and they're not easily able to access their things. A friend of mine wanted to check out my Android phone and I lost all my app icons and widgets because she wanted to try a different theme. And when I borrow my dad's tablet, I have no easy way to access my e-mail, since I don't use gmail or something else with a convenient webmail site.
Maybe your employment contract states that anything you create is owned by your company so there is no code "outside of work." The question then becomes whether that is a contingency that has affected your passion or not.
Anyone else experiencing deJobs vu here? The demo world has been forever changed by that man. Impressive looking stuff, though.
Remember the Alamo (or why I won't do business with SoftLayer)
I've got a client that's looking for managed hosting that will probably be $3k-$5k a month for whatever company it lands at. After I started to talking to SoftLayer - something way back in my geek brain sent a red flag to the front of my geek brain. SoftLayer used to be The Planet which used to be EV1 servers which used to be Rackshack... which bought 'Linux' licensing from SCO way back in 2004. Old grudges die hard... sorry SoftLayer, you won't be getting any business from me.

I suppose at some point, I should let this go but I spent way too much time on Groklaw - 7 years is too soon. <grin>
I find its a scale, from people who would rather do nothing when not at work to people where their work suffers from all the other stuff they are doing. My ideal candidates are somewhere in the middle of that scale.

There are two interesting things you can learn about people this way, one is where their passions lay and the other is what their time management skills are like. Someone who works feverishly on 20 things and gets nothing done, or folks who consistently pop out one or two things a month, month after month, in their 'spare' time.

Interestingly a bias that perhaps the OP recognizes shows up in this blarticle (what do you call one entry in a blog anyway). What if the candidate sent a picture of a 6 piece mahogany dining room set (because they spent all their spare time wood working) or an MP3 of their latest composition ? Its not OSS, its not 'tech' per se, but its an outlet for their creative drive.
Never mind the bollocks SEO with Joomla
As a current EDA user, I hope these guys (or something similar) take off, I really do. It's ridiculously painful working with current EDA tools and not having access to tools I take for granted as a programmer (version control, diff, even text-based data that I can beat up in my own scripts).

But I think they're coming at the wrong end. Their schematic capture was painfully slow when I tried it a couple weeks ago, and I (and I suspect nearly every other electrical designer) rues having to change tools. If someone wants to become the 'github of electronics', I strongly recommend working on getting some sensible versioning and sharing going without also tackling the problem of creating EDA tools.

Having said that, a shared crowdsourced library is a big help, and some others have already noticed the good it can provide: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Eagle-Library
Not to beat this to death, but the developer created software. You're paying for the software, not the content.

It's like a paid browser (http://www.icab.de/index.html), the web content is free, but the software ads value somehow and costs money.

I hope someone can stand up to this kind of bulling and get this issue in court and decided on.
As would be the case if you worked for some of the Bay Areas biggest names in tech.
Twitter Launches New Web Analytics
A Stuxnet Apocalypse?
Riffmaster, You should make it a general instead of just contact me. What about "invite friends" button. Also, provide email templates, so for example If I "Invite friends" using your product then I should use some nice email template for emails going out. Good luck!!
The data comes from public KML files. Technically AmericanWhitewater.org publishes them.
It seems like it might make sense to re-brand the app as a generic stream player. Then you could provide some sort of directory service to look up available streams where you provide access to CBC, along with other streams from other providers. The directory could even be made into a community feature where users can add new stream URLs.
haha, I'm the opposite. I will only hire someone who has NO time to implement their awesome personal projects. I ask them about their personal projects, and this stuff is awesome. Too bad that they're spending all their passion on their current employer.... that's okay, I don't mind, if you would just scootch over here into our office instead :)
I also have a G1 running 2.3.4 and it works great. Using it for dev as well.
The cofounder search fallacy
Also, it would be nice if you could use stable sort (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_sort#Stability). This would allow to sort first by premium, then by deductible, then by insurance. This would allow me to see the $0/0% plans by increasing price.
on-site or remote?

you are definitely right about the 'not taken seriously' part - it is a good tip for those starting out
Kind of like iCloud?
Google launches Flight Search
Just know that without considerably more information than your name, you're not getting a real rate anyways.
Same here and the phone runs great.
Ex-Acne Sufferer Reveals His Secret Adult Acne Cure
Just to clarify for the crowd, portfolio theory, at least as far as its connection to linear algebra, is the mathematics of a covariance matrix. You are talking about different ways to decompose such a matrix. There are many ways and the justification for any of these methods goes beyond linear algebra and is really a special area of finance theory more than linear algebra.

Long before reading the book, I spent a lot of time with financial modeling of all kinds, but your complaint doesn't resonate with me at all. I went on to study machine learning and found the ideas in Hefferon laid a good foundation. It might be fair to point out that is not a cookbook and you don't use it to learn how to wrangle LAPACK, but I think it's over the top to say what you just did.
No but my guess is that it wouldn't be too hard for the CBC's lawyers to say what he is doing is encouraging "Public performance" without "Express written permission"
3-Day Egyptian Maker Space in Cairo, to Help Establish FT Hackerspaces in Africa
flash is still the dominant language, however there is a mutant among those entries. http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-21/?uid=2952

Technically it doesnt use flash, it's a language that gets translated to flash, and crap tons other languages. The language is built from ground up to be translated.

I am using it right now to develop a cross platform mobile game. It translates to c++ which runs virtually anywhere, and for android version it even takes advantage of NDK.

http://www.haxenme.org/

One surprising thing about it is that, this technology is old (in digital timespan) it's been around for 6 years and the NME engine, it's been around for 4 years, it still surprises me that no one knows about this.
Well, he wouldn't be anonymous then, would he?
A friend of mine who helped found All Hands Active hackerspace in Ann Arbor is traveling to Cairo, Egypt with Mitch Altman, who helped found Noisebridge hackerspace in SF in a couple weeks to establish the case for hackerspaces in Cairo. If you're interested in helping establish Maker Spaces in newly democratic areas and throughout Africa or getting involved in an advisory role checkout their kickstarter project that launched over the weekend.
Future versions of Android will be optimized for Intel starting next year
Actually, 76% of workers ended up voting for union representation at the end of July. http://www.bwint.org/default.asp?index=3639

This story is kind of old. It will be interesting to see how things go in the future, but unless things change for the worse, it is unlikely to me that any newspaper will do any follow-up.
Hi, Laurent. I don't use CCW much, though I do have it installed. Mostly I hack Clojure in Emacs.

Nevertheless, I sent a few bucks your way because I think it's a great thing to be able to introduce Java developers to Clojure via Eclipse. Your work helps to build the community, and I appreciate it for that reason.

Cheers and good luck!
Understanding the Fourier transform
What if I wrote a radio app, and someone provided me the URL of CBC's stream. I've never visited their website; how can I possibly be bound by their terms of service? A contract requires agreement and contractual intent -- can't exist where I haven't even seen the terms. I'm also not creating any copies of their work, so copyright law doesn't come into play. Where's the legal basis in stopping my app?

[I am not the OP, just creating a scenario]
That is preposterous. I can see no reason why a candidate should be denied an interview based on the fact that he does not have "pet projects". you know, some people have lives outside their jobs, things like families and kids that need to be taken care of. It may just so happen that they do not have enough time outside of their working hours to spend on side projects.

I've worked with a bunch of brilliant engineers, who actually knew what they were doing, they shipped products of high quality on time and their technical skills were excellent. None of them had had any side projects except maybe a couple of things they did back at high school or university. Yet they were one of the most valued employees at the company.

P.S.: actually, when an employer asks for "passion" it somehow makes me think that they are actually asking you to work 105 hours a week.
> What would be very valuable would be a crowdsourced version of these charts.

Could not agree more with your post, and the item quoted above in particular.

(My own case: I'm as healthy as an ox, wife has inflammatory arthritis, which makes the application look like a book. When everything is done, you can be sure that we end up paying $JACKED_RATE*$MYSTERY_FACTOR.)
> You can still make an analog radio yourself without having to purchase a license to do so.

Sure, but you'll still have to pay for the parts to do so.
Exactly... I can already access any of these streams through URLs they themselves publish. How is this app any different than packaging a prettily wrapped webkit with bookmarks for these streams on its default homepage? Wouldn't the fact that these URLs exist invalidate any claims CBC may have with respect to transmission/streaming? What should be doen when the corporate entity itself facilitates infringement on its own terms?
It's sad that you associate "passion" with "hipster". I can't think of a more inaccurate characterization of a highly motivated developer. I also didn't get the impression that he was looking for a "hipster".
Fast Times in the Cloud
I hope i got this right.
Its possible to create a list and they will automatically put friends inside this and suggest other people who could match too?

But they do not force this upon me or change existing lists.
Suggest HN: subcomments Karma
I hope this wasn't suggested before:
Instead of just ordering comments by Karma, I would suggest counting
the Karma of the subcomments as well, however at a certain discount
rate, depending on the how many parents that comment has. eg:

comment Karma

¦- 0.8 * subcomment

¦-- 0.4 * subsubcomment

¦--- 0.1 * subsubsubcomment

I think this would help bringing interesting but controversial
discussions, sparked by a comment, to the top even though their actual
karma count might be quite low (because of a lot of down- and
upvotes).
Meh, he probably needs to de-generalize this thought and take it case-by-case. I didn't work on side projects for two years because I was obsessed with the project at the startup I worked at. He would've heard an earful from me if he said I wasn't "passionate"
Embrace Your Irrational Colleagues
Stackoverflow is written in .NET. It certainly has a more "corporate" focus than node or something - but that's not to say there aren't people building cool applications with it.
The presenter struggles because on the one hand he has a camera and the other he uses to swipe/touch.

I'm not suggesting the beta/dev preview version is without bugs, I believe you're reading too much into this.
The art of the landing page
I would argue that the kind of persuasion you can get with this technique is most often shallow and short lived. If you fail to make strong impressions, to stimulate emotionally your audience, and to give counterexamples, it's very difficult to create real changes in people's mind. Especially if you are talking about subjects that really matter to your audience.
What I’ve always liked about nomograms, even more than their (1) usefulness for directly calculating as a practical tool is that they (2) make numerical relationships explicit/concrete, and (3) show an entire multivariate possibility space at once.

This has advantages for someone trying to understand a system over both symbolic equation representations, which are very abstract, and cartesian type graphs, which often are not good at plotting more than one or two variables at once.

I agree with you that with fast interactive computers it's possible to come up with other possibly better kinds of graphical representations, but the creators of those can still learn a lot from the design of nomograms.
bad pun on your name (George Romero of zombie movie fame).. ignore it.
We have a table which essentially represents a shallow graph (rows in the table can have links to to one or more other rows in the table). It would probably be interesting if we could define a distance metric in terms of those links: "find all rows reachable in 3 links from this starting row".

This probably isn't ideally done by this sort of index, as it would be a pretty weird sort of distance metric, if it's even a valid one (most rows aren't connected, meaning the "distance" between most rows would be infinite, and our query would really be "WHERE distance < infinity"). But it's good to know there's some kind of support for it!
Lets say a company really did want to say "only paying customers can listen to my stream." Technologically, how do you create a stream that has a URL for compatibility with current players but limits who it plays for?
Bad news for hipmunk? Especially since google acquired ITA.
Maybe the question they should be asking what did they do wrong with this feature that only 5% of people are using it. Maybe it's hard to use? Maybe it's hidden in the UI? There are other potentially fruitful ways of looking at this question other than people just don't like or need the feature.
Interesting, I like the simple layout, but it would be nice to have a price comparison of a few days in each direction like some sites have (I'm thinking Virgin Atlantic) so you can save some money by leaving a day early or a day late. Overall though bravo.
I'll second that. Strang's book is by far my favorite introductory math book. He addresses fundamentals quite well, and gives good treatment to applications such as linear programming and game theory.
My daughter had what we're pretty sure was a drug reaction seizure when she was 4. Uninsurable.

You can also expect that any woman with any reproductive health issue, no matter how common, will be automatically declined for private health insurance, and will at best be able to obtain outrageously expensive last-resort insurance with a rider excluding huge swaths of her physiology.

But these sound like simple gripes about how broken our insurance system is. That's not my point. My point is that the rates you get on a website like this have no bearing on the rates you'll actually be contractually promised, unless you are a healthy male in your 20s.

I wonder if advertised rates like this are somehow based on average group coverage rates. It's completely whack, but, none of this stuff applies in group coverage. In group, you tell your provider "here's how many families, couples, and singles we have", and I think maybe the ages, and then you get a simple number for each category.
My new mission: downvote every comment I find that whines about getting downvotes. How to automate this...
Hiccup  for ClojureScript
I think it needs sliders to adjust the deductible, coinsurance, etc.
ha a flight search engine that only does flights inside the US? cute, but of limited use. I won't hold my breath just yet.
I wonder if they allowed ITA to keep writing in Common Lisp...
Is there a theme or framework that you used to make this site? It has the exact same UI as https://www.bitcoinica.com/
I used to have pet projects, until one of them became my full time job.
Turntable.fm Adds A Slick iPhone App (And $7 Million) - Forbes
Excellent point - I somehow missed that part (probably my extreme prejudice against Hotmail set in :). That to me again falls under usability improvements and certainly if people exercise the sharing part often (arguable as these are personalized devices more than a PC ever was but on the other hand given the PC roots it is possible people will like it) Windows Live might see more traction.
Well, it was a matter of time, wasn't it? For now it's a bit too fiddly when compared to the likes of Hipmunk, save for the booking process which is quite streamlined. And the search itself, which is blazing fast. On second thought, this is really not a bad effort. I can see it gaining huge traction in no time.
I mean, am I only one that sees a 'powerful' tablet as a drawback?

Size, weight and battery life are three of the most important features of my iPad. Further, the non-fragmentation of the App Store is nice, a 1G iPad can run pretty much everything a 2G iPad can.

Why would I want to buy in to an ecosystem where developers are worrying about developing to the lowest common denominator? Would they consider optimizing their App for the 10% of their market that bought the Core i5 tablet vs for the ARM (in a total market size with 5 % of the tablet market)?

What benefit would you really see from a tablet with so much processing power? A I going to sacrifice all of that battery life so I can render video faster?

Ok, but what if they just let the tablet run all the apps that work on the desktop. Great. Now my overpowered tablet that has two hours of battery life and has a fan in it is running apps that aren't even optimized for a tablet form factor?

This does not bode well.
Interview with VMware CIO on Company's Internal IT Set-Up
Isn't it too early for that? Given the number of developers working with Microsoft's ecosystem, I don't think it will be long until they have a market as big as Apple's or Google's when it's released.

I think that WP7 wasn't a hit because MS made terrible partnerships and became a second-class OS vendor to everyone but Nokia, but I belive that the tablets will give MS more independence, will bring other makers to the table, and it will change. They're just late to the party.
To offer a different perspective... I'm younger than you, and was shopping for individual insurance.

In my case, the hardest part was trying to compare plans from the companies in my area. All of them have slightly different ways of making it profitable for them. One could have Rx copays, but a special deductible for ER and urgent care visits. Another company may have only Rx reimbursement and office visit copays. So on and so forth. I actually had a spreadsheet with about a dozen columns to try to figure out, based on how I've used healthcare in the last few years, what plan is likely to be best for me.

Anything to simplify it would be great.

Moreover, the companies I've worked with on this, Blue Cross of Florida and United Healthcare (GoldenRule), in my own experience, the rates they quoted me online after filling out their survey were correct.

Healthcare costs and complexity surely go up as we all get older, so that, plus difference in state laws, probably explain the differences in value we see in this app.
"Sorry, locations outside the U.S. are currently not supported." Are you kidding me?
I'll point out that less information can in fact be a good thing. A min-max-normalized line chart is not always better than an unnormalized one, though people often assume so, and adding the numbers or other easy means of comparison to imprecise or insignificant data only serves to distract.

For example, consider the voting pie charts earlier. Is it really helpful to notice that independents pick "other" a whole 1% more often than republicans? Because with a bar or labeled chart, you will pay attention to that.
That doesn't mean it's inaccurate, that means it's emphasizing the comparison between relative numbers rather than absolute numbers. If it was the way you wanted, then the percentages would be difficult to compare.
But those parts could be used for anything. There is nothing about buying electrical components that transfers a license to listen to the radio.

Technically, the user had to buy their phone too. That doesn't convey any special powers to the user to see/view CBC videos. (if any were needed)
Apple 'pulls app criticising corporate ethics' (the "anti-iPhone" game)
There's 2 gentle intro to Scala:

http://blog.typesafe.com/free-pdf-from-typesafe-scala-for-th...

The other is the Pragmatic book by Subramaniam (Aug 4, 2009). Covers 2.7 (current is 2.9.1) but conveys well the power of simple code.

(The Staircase book by Spoon, Odersky and Venners is pretty gentle, but, uh, big)

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You could look at this deck that mentions web apps in scala, haskell, F#, ocaml, erlang and clojure (adn also look at scheme and common Lisp

http://www.slideshare.net/carsonified/alex-payne-speedy-stab...