skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if a similar effect is behind male/female differences in mathematical, scientific, and computing fields.

Mathematics usually requires that you go deep into a field, through a long chain of prerequisites. In order to understand general relativity, you need to understand differential geometry, which requires tensors and calculus, which requires vectors and linear algebra, which requires algebra, which requires arithmetic. In order to understand Haskell, you need to understand monads, which requires parametric data types and type classes, which requires algebraic data types, and so on.

Meanwhile, female-dominated skills like communications, law, or management usually require a broad base of knowledge and a relatively shallow chain of prerequisites. Lawyers have to know a ton of information to do their jobs, but much of it consists of court precedents that build upon the basic principles taught in first-year law school.

For that, matter, among the sciences, the ones with the largest female populations are those that require a broad base of knowledge rather than a deep chain of prerequisites. Compare biology and geology to physics and advanced mathematics.
I'm no expert, but this reads more like 11 Web companies the author would LIKE to fail.
Would have been cooler using UTF-8 in the source. HTML escape feels like cheating.

E2 98 83 FTW
You appear to be confusing flu shots and zithromax scripts with a real health care system, which responds to cancer, heart disease, and life-threatening injury.

It's not the ear infections that bankrupt people.
I am surprised at the fast and loose use of numbers and assumptions[1] put in this article. I expect more from the Financial Times. Even if we accept the numbers to establish that the United States and its citizens have a negative net-worth, that is not equivalent to bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability to pay creditors. If the US Government ever makes that declaration... wow. We as a country have not defaulted on our debts, and based on the strength of the treasury market, few are betting on that scenario.

Martin Feldstein's proposal is so much less radical, as presented here (I am otherwise unfamiliar with it).

[1] For example: "The debt secured on half or more US homes will be worth more than the home itself, with little or no prospect of a quick rebound in housing values to rebuild positive equity. In the circumstances, many households may conclude that it is rational to walk away rather than pay over-the-odds for an asset the price of which has no realistic chance of regaining its former value in the short to medium term. The resulting wave of repossessions would only depress prices further." That might be true if housing were some simple investment vehicle... but it is not. My assumption: at worst, most people view a mortgage like credit card debt or an auto loan -- you don't consider the asset being backed, you focus on the payment. With the exception of speculative housing investors, most foreclosures seem (as reported) to be about an inability to make payments. Recall the existence of mortgage structures that accumulated negative equity: this is not an indication of savvy investors focused on ROI.
thats a killer domain name ;)
CSI: - S9E02 The Happy Place
Nick and Catherine investigate why a woman who was about to be married would have taken a swan dive off of her balcony
It's really just http://xn--n3h.net/

http://mct.verisign-grs.com/conversiontool/convertServlet?in... converted it to PUNYCODE.

Your browser needs support for IDN to make this work; in Firefox it's the option network.enableIDN
ER: The Book of Abby
Neela is upset when she finds out Abby’s good news from someone else. Abby and the new ER Chief argue over how to treat a gunshot victim. Abby comes to Sam’s aid when she faces a nurses’ disciplinary board
I remember reading how paypal.com with unicode was a big problem for a while.
http://www.♂.com/

http://www.♀.com/

http://www.☯.com/

http://www.☺.com/

http://www.☼.com/

http://www.♫.com/

Just some from my bookmarks...
He should start a webmail service--imagine trying to give out an email address @☃.net.
I think:

[capital] <--> [financial system] <--> [projects]

better reflects reality in that inflows/outflows of capital to/from projects are funneled through the financial system. For example, investors (capital) are trying to take get capital out of hedge funds (who are in-turn invested in companies) and they can't b/c the financial system is "constipated."
The A-Z of Programming Languages: YACC
12 Steps to Short-Circuit the Fundraising Marathon
If I understand this correctly, you're still required to deploy the browser application to gain the extra functionality?

So a person would code a web application, embed the browser into a native application, and point it to the correct domain.
Not that this isn't awesome or anything, but this is a hack for so people can print over poor designers. A print media CSS file should be included to clear all the garbage so that printing will only show what you want.

See: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/media.html#media-types
I haven't tried this, but someone says that if you go into the Spaces view--the one where you can drag windows between all four of your spaces--you can drag the menu bar in there as well!
I agree, however consider that most people who are smart enough to make a print media css file, still end up with the print version of the web page being a better design even for web browsing than the browser one.

If the print media css file was common, than maybe a browser setting could always show that version whenever it is available.
I was able to get through the first page, but had to start skimming on the second.

Of particular interest to me was the article's argument that our work life has become divorced from our feelings of reward. In other words, we no longer find our work rewarding in any way. The 5 day work week and 2 day weekend provides a convenient cycle of guaranteed regular reward. But, two days isn't a lot of time, so instead of having leisure time we are compelled to spend our weekends in a productive manner, e.g., scheduled and regimented instead of whatever may suite-our-fancy.

This is in contrast to the work, quite, have fun until you go broke cycle of ages past, or of the work all-the-time until disrupted by a series of holy feast days or town faire/circus.

In my short work life I've certainly found my traditional path of college to cube completely unsatisfying. I thought working for a nonprofit was a way to combine work and reward. But, I found being a staffer at a nonprofit, at least in Washington DC, isn't really any different than a "soulless" forprofit.

Changing to an IT consulting job six months ago has been more rewarding, but I dream of being a carpenter or some other job that is more practical, rewarding, team-oriented, and creative.

Either way, I'm looking for something that lets me spend my time with longer cycles or work and leisure so that I can engage in bigger projects and times of leisure without interruption.

Modern society's 5 day on and 2 day off cycle for white collar workers, however, is not conducive to anything outside of it's rigid structure...
It's important that the American people don't view China this way once the balance of power has shifted again. It's a supreme stupidity to turn envy into hatred.
I thought Arc didn't support Unicode. Maybe it just passes through.
That's the beauty of UTF-8.
Researchers discover baldness gene: 1 in 7 men at risk
in most cases, a government simply does, what the people allow it to do.

Sadly, people can be persuaded to allow all manner of things, if they're led to believe that their way of life is under threat.

Thomas Jefferson put it better than I ever could: “He who trades liberty for security deserves neither and will lose both.”
which is the same as *(n + A)?
> is far from the "mass" opinion of the press or the average stockholder

I think it is very much the mass opinion. People are expecting some sort of rebound next year or the year after. Surveys show most home owners continue to think their houses will appreciate substantially over the next three years. The contrarian buy-time is WAY off.
No more tail calls in Javascript?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111100
That is an excellent process to follow. Now I just wish we had someone on the team with 29 startup ventures under their belt.

Does anyone know where/how he built the financial model? It looks like it could come in handy.
I can't upmod mynameishere's comment enough.
You'd have to flash it at something like 38 kHz, but I have a feeling it doesn't support that.
Sarah Palin A Christian Of Convenience |
Ticketmaster Is Evil And Must Die (StubHub mention)
After a few minutes' googling to find somewhere that sells nacho hats (as featured in The Simpsons) I was disappointed to find that they don't seem to really exist.

So, definitely somebody needs to start making 'em.
From what I understand that's not what this is. Unless they are going to have an app of their own that is going to try to replace Safari on all iPhones.

It sounds like a native app where you have a UIWebView with special access to native data via javascript.

In either case I love the idea. I've been thinking of something like this for some time, except in a more general form.
A few crooks got rich and they want us to panic while they run away unpunished.

After the biggest profits ever in the oil industry I can hardly see this as a recession.

Where is that money now?
Here's an example of the snowman with UTF-8: http://unicoders.org/.
Not quite, the webapp needs to be put inside a native application in order to use these javascript apis.
"Cracks are finally starting to form in Ticketmaster's money-encrusted shell, but the competition doesn't inspire confidence. Everyone looks at Ticketmaster's 30% surcharge and thinks how good all that undeserved cash would look in their pocket."
bankrupt? no

in debt up to our ears? you betcha
One way to look at the current crisis is that a whole lot of long term plans, once thought to be sensible, were abruptly shown to be unworkable.

These plans included actual inventories, lines of production, houses and other buildings, and actual people working at actual jobs to support all of these.

Those plans now have to be scrapped. That means inventories wasted, lines of production shut down, and people fired. We cannot just keep building more and more houses as if nothing has changed.

Shutting down production lines and firing people is a real destruction of wealth.

This destruction will have secondary and tertiary effects. We've already seen how the cascade works in the stock market. Over the next year (or more) you will see it in production and employment levels.

> The crash of the financial markets has not reduced the production capacity of any of these goods or services.

It has, because a considerable fraction of that productive capacity was allocated based on false assumptions.

We have to reallocate that productive capacity to new purposes. We don't yet know exactly what capital and labor needs repurposed, or to what new purposes. The way we find that out is by businesses contracting or going bankrupt and people being thrown out of work. Eventually, other businesses will expand, new ones will start up, and people will find new jobs. It will take a while, and in the meantime, it is going to hurt.
Looks like Clipmarks but instead of bookmarking/blogging it's for printing.
All VC activity has Not stopped
we're pre alpha testing a practical application of unicode if anyone's interested.. the tool uses intertubes to help ourselves learn more language.. it'll get better when we learn how to incorporate IDN.. no, we're not that smart yet, but yes, we are open source :)
It's a blog?
Totally agreed! Thanks for that succinct explanation of the real world connection to all this financial destruction.

A whole lot of capital and labor needs to be repurposed, and it is going to hurt, even without the political system making things worse. History teaches us that the odds aren't very good on that front- it is not a Republican vs Democrat issue, nor for that matter a US vs Europe issue.
Just do the math.

$10 trillion (national debt)/300 M (US Population) = $33,703.56

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

As long as the US has the power to raise more taxes it can take on more debt with the insurance that in case of emergency it can hit the switch and raise taxes to take $33,334 from each of us to wipe off the debt (over like 10 years, $3,000 each year). That would totally "suck", but we're not "bankrupt" if these options exist.

Now, I obviously am not supporting the government's irresponsible deficit spending, I'm just merely pointing out that the media is blowing all this out of proportion.
Yes, and the `bounds, s = (j, i+1), t` especially when forced onto the same line as the if statement.

See the Python Style Guide:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
"Compound statements (multiple statements on the same line) are generally discouraged."
I wish I had this years ago. But now? The only things I print have an optimized print version (maps, boarding passes, etc). I can't remember the last time I experienced this problem...
The author was referring to total household debt (including mortgages, credit cards, and car loans), not just the Federal debt. That total is significantly more than $10T.

Granted, he's still wrong, because he doesn't take into account who the debt is owed to. If you have a $200k mortgage, that $200k is your debt but some bank's asset - most of which are U.S. corporations. It all cancels out, and what you're left with is the U.S. debt held by foreign citizens, governments, and corporations. Which is worrisome, but historically, when major military powers have owed large sums to foreign creditors, they just declare war on the foreign powers and then declare that all debts owned by enemy combatants are null and void.
None of the figures (debt to GDP, savings rate etc) I cited are controversial. Lots of people have been talking about those figures for many, many years, that's why I left out citations. Just to cite a recent example, the Sequoia presentation has all of these and more, in gory detail. Of course, you can interpret that data whichever way you want, but the data itself is clear.

You can find the presentation, for example, at: http://www.slideshare.net/eldon/sequoia-capital-on-startups-...

A couple of common objections to my line of argument are:

a) debt to GDP is just an accounting number or paper ("we owe it to ourselves" - in a global sense) and we can adjust that without much consequence to the real world.

Response: Given that current incomes are not able to service the debt, the debt needs to be written down. As that debt gets written down (for example, if GM or Ford were to file for bankruptcy), there will be economic consequences like lay-offs. Those economic consequences are another way of saying that the projects that the debt financed were unviable and therefore have to be terminated.

Those layoffs will cause further debt erosion - those laid-off workers default on their credit card payments, for example. So there are real economic effects to that accounting fiction. Even the dot-com bubble needed several years to be worked out. This is a far bigger bubble.

b) The US savings rate is underestimated.

The savings rate underestimation argument actually used to cite rising asset values, particularly housing, not being counted in savings. Falling asset values kills that argument.
I've been waiting for Apple to implement this themselves- it always seemed odd that they didn't. Especially back in the 'web apps are the iPhone API' days.

It's nice to see this hole closed, although still relying on the app store for distribution is a shortcoming. An even better option would be a third party browser that could support these extensions for any site, but then again, that would be duplicating Apple's built in functionality, and chances are they wouldn't approve the app for inclusion in the store.
the best way to get a good VC to take you seriously is through a trusted referral, and then to have something promising to show -- a great prototype or great traction.

blasting emails is a waste of your time and theirs (hi, i'd like you to give me $15mm, but can't take the time to email you personally or find a trusted intro) and it smacks of desperation.
Reflections of a YC Dropout
In my opinion, that's not really such a big deal.

For example, Python does not optimize tail calls, but supports many functional idioms anyway and is quite pleasant to use.

So, yeah, having tail call optimization be a mandatory part of Javascript would be cool from a language nerd point of view, but it would have very little practical impact.
I don't know about ycsearch, but http://searchyc.com/ certainly works.
Hey, is that an Obama ad on my Xbox 360?
My Name Is Earl: We’ve Got Spirit
Randy is next on the list so Earl takes Randy to cheerleading camp where they encounter a problem in the name of Kimmi Himmler, the camp owner, who is desperate to get rid of the brothers.
The Office: Baby Shower
Dwight helps Michael prepare for the birth of Jan’s baby. Michael vows to feign dislike for Holly to appease Jan.
Why rumors exist in human culture and how to fight them
Yeah sorry about the lack of paragraphs. I always get this nagging feeling that I need to add empty rows for.. clarity :)

You watch Fight Club several times per week?! I can't understand the motivation, but hey, people are different!

I've seen Fight Club exactly once, in a theatre, but there are movies I've seen many times, and will watch again. One such movie is Leon ("The Professional"). In case you haven't seen it, do yourself a favour.. It has to be the director's cut though.

> Finally, I think at this stage piracy (well, quality piracy at least) is still something that Joe Public isn't savvy enough to pick up.

Maybe, but many Joe Publics are already downloading movies much like you and I, and at least see some of the good stuff in there while looking for Saw XVII.

They might download quality entertainment by accident. Of course, they might just as well stop watching it too, when quality fails to keep their attention.

Anyways, Transformers was legendary for me too, and the movie was enjoyable, with some of the coolest 3D ever. I feared Michael Bay would just totally ruin it.
1.5 Million G1 Phones Pre-Sold
Yeah, but, if you can't rely on tail-call optimization, you can't really use recursion and expect your code to handle any arbitrary amount of data that's thrown at it. To write robust code, you're forced to use iteration instead.

The difference between O(1) and O(n) memory usage is a big deal, IMHO...
I am missing something here if it is considered hard to implement. It is not that hard to TCO in Scheme or ML, so I must surely be missing some detail that makes it hard to implement in Javascript.

I can't see why you would leave that out of the system.
There's never really just one point of failure. There is maybe a so called turning point, one mistake that is then daisy chained with other mistakes. Soon enough the compounded mistakes lead to an overall failure. You have passion, dedication, and more. The founders there weren't right, and now you've learned something pretty damn valuable. Time to move on and start something new, don't let one failure ever stop you.
They don't show the store, but I think this is really just browse vs search (or narrowing browse). Any good online store has both.
Nah, the effect will be minimal. A house is either being built or it's not being built. The investment in a house that is not built yet is not that much, for the simple reason that there are not THAT many houses being built.

This economic correction will have an effect, but it will not be terrible - it only affects very tiny parts of the global trade, and most of what is affected is just U.S based and very local.
You're not worried that this reads a bit like you trashing your co-founders? I assume you mean well, but:

* "Lack of conviction" reads like a moral judgement on the rational business decision to leave a startup that isn't working.

* "Fear" is an emotional word that (to me) implies irrationality; "concern" or "wariness" might be more appropriate, especially because you don't give much context. What are they "afraid" of? A company with no revenue and a 3 month runway?

* In a three-person startup, the "half developer half CEO" probably shouldn't be picking out the ex Goldman developer as good-but-not-excellent for not turning out a feed reader fast enough; why didn't you get it done then? And especially...

* ... when the CEO of that pre-revenue pre-product decides to have the company pay to fly him to SXSW during that dev crisis.

I mean, look, you can do everything right and fail, and everything wrong and still win; startups are a huge risk, keep trying, etc etc --- but you wrote this to get feedback from people, and mine is:

* I wouldn't want you as a cofounder (hey --- my cofounders probably don't want me --- I work my ass off to mitigate that!)

* You seem more engaged with the "lifestyle" of a startup --- lawyers, "networking", advisors, incorporation, "voting" --- than with the reality, which is a mindbending daily grind of work and fear and effort hopefully aimed at getting to cash flow neutral as soon as possible, but most likely aimed right off a cliff.

You're obviously going to do this again; all knocks aside, you read like this stuff is in your blood. Better luck next time.

[edit: toned down very slightly].
b) I didn't say anything about real estate. 401k + Roth kill that argument.
So that's what happened to Orian. I actually really liked their idea, but execution is usually the only thing that matters.
In an ideal world yes, you would have differing presentations. I would imagine someone like Amazon has experience in this area. Also, see the difference between mens/womens categories at online retailers.
For something like twitter, like the article says, I doubt this will have much of an effect. Lots of people use sms to send tweets to twitter. But I don't think there are people with more than a couple followers who would be crazy enough to opt to receive updates through sms.
Sounds like Android might have an advantage here. Im sure someone will make such a thing possible really quick once Android phones are available.

Now that I think about it, wont Google Gears offer something like this?
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There's a lot of good stuff in here, but I wonder how much of it you can really be seen without looking at things from inside a startup. A lot of is based on what Paul's written and while I've read most of his essays, I didn't really get some of the points until they were up close.

It's kind of like earlier today I was struggling through a paper written on a topic of advanced mathematics that I'd never worked on before. I asked a friend with a PhD in math if he could explain it to me. He used the same terms that I didn't understand from the paper in his explanation. So, I stared at the paper for another two hours. I doodled on my whiteboard. I could visualize the solution to the problem, but I couldn't work out the mechanics. Eventually it dawned on me, and it was really simple ... in retrospect.

I think a lot of things are like that. Parents try to warn their kids about their mistakes and it rarely works. I think the real lesson, perhaps, is to not be afraid to fail. Bite off more than you can chew and be willing to fail and learn from it. You'll definitely make mistakes, and your startup may fail, but you can at least be certain that you'll learn an enormous amount in the process and that you'll be able to carry that knowledge with you the next time you take a swing.
I like - in the words of nostrademons - deep chains of reasoning. When I'm in a foreign city, I rather wander around for two hours than ask for directions. Very male so far.

When it comes to web pages though, I hate unneccessary complexity. I also prefer man pages to info.
The Prickly Prince From Microsoft Strikes Again