skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Node has been a blessing for me, as a frontend engineer, because I can finally code servers in the same mindset as I write client-side javascript. "

That was precisely the author's point. You'd rather stick with what you know then bother to deal with traditional server side techniques.
The observed pattern seems to be that women make more risk-averse career choices, which founding a startup definitely isn't. The pipeline theory applies much better to blacks than to women.

Further, pg somewhere argued that there's a multiplicative factor once you factor in cofounders--cofounding a startup implies an extremely close platonic relationship, people are more likely to form extremely close platonic relationships with members of the same sex, and hence men have a wider range of possible cofounders than women. I think this argument is at least partially flawed--many businesses are started by husband-and-wife teams and there's no clear reason why opposite-sex platonic cofounder relationships couldn't work either.
At my company, we're hiring mobile developers. We have received over 100 resumes. 2 of them were from women. I wish we could hire a more diverse group, but it's pretty obvious that changing our selection process isn't enough.
Have you found your productivity level stays the same as a project matures? My experience has been Ruby or Python allow me to ramp up quickly, which is great, because quick wins help boost morale early on. But after 6 months or so, I found productivity roughly evened out on several projects. Right now I'm fighting with a lot of things in Ruby & Rails that I know would be trivial in Java and on the JVM. FWIW, I'm trying to cut over to JRuby to see if I can somehow benefit from the best of both worlds.
How will I get to watch this from Australia?

We can't get Netflix here.
If the new Attested Development really takes off, Netflix will have a syndication opportunity to trade with the networks. It reminds me of the patent wars; build up your collection so you can horse-trade when necessary...
I skimmed this, but then I saw Madison, WI jump out. Here's a warning: I'd bet $100 the company was Epic Systems. They're a godawful employer [1]. Please please please think multiple times and talk to previous employees before accepting a job there. They're infamous for hiring devs on h1bs, refusing to sponsor them for a green card, and working their asses off while paying as little as possible and well under market. They also use, at least last time I checked, the world's shittiest tech stack: tens of millions of lines of vb6 and maybe 30-50MM lines of M/cachescript/mumps. The world's shittiest language by a damn long shot [2:4]. Undocumented and non unit tested (last I heard), though they do hire, at least when I was there, one full time tester for every two devs. At first you'll think wow -- they're dedicated to quality! No, that's just the minimum it takes to make barely usable software there.

The other downside to their antiquated tech stack is after putting in a couple years there, you will still have no marketable skills because you'll be the same as a brand new dev straight out of school. Everyone else will have two years in on either the .net or the java or the web (rails/django/node/html5) or the ios/android tech stacks. You'll still be starting at ground zero.

Further, my best guess is their devs have something like 25-35% annual turnover. That is not a joke. The best part is if you try to leave, your ass will be stuck in Madison WI. There's really not that many tech companies there so you'll have to relocate. They'll brag about paid sabbaticals after 5 years. So few people last that long I'd bet it's one of the cheapest benefits they have.

Finally, they have a comprehensive NDA/noncompete and since it's Wisconsin, it's very enforceable and they can and do aggressively enforce it.

Just don't do it. If you poke around the internet even a bit you'll see legions of disgruntled ex employees.

I could go on; they have this theory that anyone can be trained to code so your interview is pretty much just your gpa. They then put you through a 1-3 month internal bootcamp to train you to code. You can, um, imagine the sort of code this churns out...

See also [5:6].

[1] http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Epic-Systems-Corporation-Re...

[2] http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/2417/60874.aspx#60874

[3] http://thedailywtf.com/comments/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS.aspx

[4] http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/2402/60158.aspx#60158

[5] http://www.indeed.com/forum/cmp/Epic-Systems/Epic-Systems-Sa...

[6] http://epic-systems-rant.blogspot.com/
A web app would be, I think, popular. Especially if you build in some kind of "easy to use with phone" features, and some "social, but in a better way than all the other drek that's around" stuff.
I think netflix is expanding to australia soon. Streaming only though, no dvd-by-mail. they recently expanded into south america and europe.
I am racist.

And sexist.

I subconsciously attribute certain qualities to men and women, and to various ethnicities. Underneath all of the various common jokes -- "Asians are good at math", etc. -- there is an undercurrent of discussion where other people are admitting their biases, too.

When I get on the phone with technical support and hear a thick East Asian accent, the first thing that happens is I grit my teeth. I feel frustrated that I am having to try to resolve a technical issue with someone that I have to actively concentrate on in order to understand clearly; I feel annoyed in expectation of their overstated politeness; I am immediately resigned to not getting the problem resolved at all, as they are probably going to ask me to troubleshoot a networking problem by rebooting a computer.

These are biases that have been built up over a period of many years of similar experiences, one little bias at a time. And, when the call actually resolves the issue quickly and without any frustration at all, I find myself thinking, "That went better than expected."

I recognize this about myself. So, when I notice these things happening, I consciously moderate my tone, and try to consciously manage my opinions and feelings and statements. But, that doesn't change the fact that the bias is there, affecting my subconscious.

Likewise, for women in tech. I know there are amazing women in technology, and in other male-dominated fields. I'm occasionally fortunate enough to work with some of them, covering a wide range of other demographics. Still, when it comes time to hire again (someday soon, I hope), applications from women will first be met with biases built up one-by-one from a lifetime of experiences: all the various women friends that need help "fixing their computers", or of a past applicant who we hired, presented with an easy starting project and clear instructions -- "no coding necessary, just do some nice-looking Photoshop mockups" -- and who called, the next day, saying that she had cried all night and talked to her mom because she didn't think she could do the work because we used iframes in an ajax-y way.

Or, when I hear about a black entrepreneur. The first thing that bubbles up from my subconscious is, "Wow, they're succeeding in spite of modern black culture." I have to beat that thought down and consciously regard them as an individual.

These are uncomfortable admissions to make. I would be loathe to admit them in more polite company. Terms like "racism" and "sexism" themselves carry strong biases -- that the only forms of "racism" are "white superiority" and the only forms of "sexism" are blatant misogyny and creepy sexual undertones.

But, racism and sexism and other -isms are a part of who we are, a part of our psychology that dates back to our tribal and "us versus them" cultural influences. I think that trying to pretend that they don't exist is only going to prolong their effects.

Knowing that they exist can help us make better decisions.
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Rel="logo", a standard for providing up-to-date logos.
I looked it up and you're right! That's a surprise to me. My buddies' pro has significantly better color viewing angle than my macbook. I assumed it was an s-ips or something similar.
Ask HN: Slideshare or Scribd for PDFs?
I have a small bunch of, mostly scanned, PDF documents that I would like to share with the visitors of my site. Hosting of the files is a must (files are 0.5-1 MB large). Also, since the docs are scanned, it would be VERY nice if the docs could be OCR'd and searchable.

So which service would work best for me, Slideshare or Scribd?
what's the relationship between appfog and cloud foundry? is appfog source available? i just watched the video and it said "open source", but that seems to refer to cf, not af? what does "registering" for appfog mean? is that pre-registering? or does it exist? can i try it out? what do you pay for? please forgive the questions, but i'm looking at all this for the first time and a bit confused...
Clojure has no GIL and the concurrency API has few rivals
Unfortunately, Jython is at 2.5.2, 3.5 years behind cpython.
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Yea... I'm still confused as to the whole point of pure/near-pure functional programming if we're not getting better code density/more productivity against other languages which I (and some others) find easier to work with.

I guess all I'm saying is "convince me!" :) I'm all ears.
The Future: Smaller Companies with Larger Data Centers
It puzzles me that roads are never expected to break even, much less turn a profit - but trains and buses are. In the end it's all just transportation infrastructure, and society will end up subsidizing it in any case.
I agree that js does support the async paradigm for the reason you mentioned; however, at the risk of sounding like I'm speaking for the op js would not be my first choice for system or server side programming. The simple reason being that javascript's behavior is often near inexplicable, many examples can be found here: http://wtfjs.com. I'm tolerant of that strangeness while manipulating the DOM but really only because there are no other choices.
Good point. Thank you for this.
The author's post about it[1] sells it as a way to provide the media with a verified logo that you want them to use, however I think an easy-to-find 'press' page would have more of an impact. How automated are the authoring tools for news agencies?

[1]: http://blog.matt.cc/post/13016415544
We still complain.

About the high prices. How short the summer is. The cold. The rain. The snow. All the people on welfare. That we can't buy beer after 18:00 om weekdays and 20:00 on Saturdays (and not at all on Sundays).

Norway might not be very exciting, though. After all, we're only 5 million people, which is like half of Paris.

Although I don't work there anymore, Opera is hiring[0], and it has a multinational workforce and English is the working language.

Other benefits not mentioned in the article is 5 weeks paid vacation and Norwegian management style[1].

[0]: http://www.opera.com/company/jobs/
[1]: http://www.worldbusinessculture.com/Norwegian-Management-Sty...
This also rewards light gas guzzlers.

Hiking the tax on gas is simple and can be adjusted as the car stock gets more efficient - and this rewards the most efficient vehicles.
protip: pick keywords for the tech stack you want to work in, whether {.net, java, ios/android, web:{rails,django,node,js,html5}}. Hook up if this then that (http://ifttt.com ) to your google talk account. Every 15 minutes it will poll craigslist jobs looking for your keywords then im to your google talk account; it's wonderful. I think they also support email endpoints and maybe rss.
I'm sorry, I simply don't see how you expect to be able to share selectively without UI. And unless that sharing UI is embedded in every possible page, you're kind of stuck with a popup. Unless it were a browser feature, I guess. Which doesn't make it not pop up, but makes the popup a little more trustworthy.
How does Clojure's Java interop compare to Jython's?
I would say it was a matter of interest led by cultural biases, not lack of imagination. It is impossible to look at the ideas of Archimedes and not be dumbfounded by his supreme creativity. Archimedes was able to think of infinitesimals and come up with some of the basics of integral calculus but seemed to think of his methods as an unwholesome but useful tool so he never published them. Who knows where things would have gone if he had. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Method_of_Mechanical_Theore...
TechCrunch messes up the math on sexism
I think there is an error in logic here (and I think Ries touched on it): a bias in the input of a filter does not preclude a bias in the filter itself.

A bias in the input may exist because of a bias -- perceived or actual -- in the filter.
"No, really. I took the seats out months ago. And the spare tire and jack. And I always drive with 1/16th of a tank of gas."

There, saved ya' at least $5!
> “We’ve become spoiled,” one Norwegian told me. “Lazy,” said another. “Petroholics,” diagnosed a third."

Does the Norwegian society as a whole feel this way? What about other oil-prosperous small countries such as the Emirates or Kuwait? Are the cases comparables?

What are the Norwegian govt plans for the long-time future when their oil is over? (it's long for that, i know).
This is really neat. Although, one thing that makes it easier to map this program from Python to Clojure is that the original program was written in a pretty functional style. It would be interesting to see if a more imperative sample program, or one using more object-oriented features, would map similarly.
I played with this:

http://www.losethos.com/images/Machine.jpg

http://www.losethos.com/images/SoapCarvings.jpg

I played with this:

http://www.losethos.com/files/SimStrSetup.exe

I played with this:

http://www.losethos.com

I've done my hearts desire all I want.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\BIBLE.TXT

He shall surely be put to death.

21:6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their
brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

21:7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have
sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to
wives? 21:8 And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel
that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none
to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.

21:9 For the
I'd have to say yes, once I got comfortable with good Ruby practices I found it was as easy if not easier to keep the code clean as projects mature.

Some of the code-browsing and refactoring tools aren't as smooth, but they're also not as necessary.

I suspect you're dealing with concurrency issues? In that case, yes the JVM is brilliant at that and JRuby might be a great option for you. Ruby concurrency is coming along though. 1.9 is no longer green threads, and Rubinius has gotten rid of the GIL altogether.
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Remarkable story of an Iraqi geologist who helped Norway spread the oil wealth around:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144...
You posted some weird redirection link, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo is the actual target
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This cargo cult is rather effective in luring the cargo planes
Space exploration is like selling off your stocks during a tech bubble: it's obvious it needs to happen sometime, but it's really hard to figure out when the right time is. Unfortunately, that means for-profit organizations underinvest. This is one of those cases where it really does make sense for government to encourage the sector with investment, although it seems like X-prize-type systems might work better than NASA-type systems.
Expensify has developed a Universal Translator for app development
All of your negative points remind me of Finland. Perhaps all of us Nordic folk suffer from some von Trier-ish ailment, where we focus on what's wrong instead of how good we have it here.
I wonder if these can be considered the next generation of underwater gliders. There was a very interesting program on them recently - either on PBS or Discovery, can't recall exactly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_gliders

One of these made an Atlantic crossing.

http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-news/underwater-robots-explore-oce...
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Twitter now inserting ads into your timeline
It's not an 'in my view', it's objectively wrong to outright assume that somehow people who read some site are better than others. There is no reasonable way to interpret the original comment in any other way.

Furthermore, it's not an ad hominem because an ad hominem is an argument that is being made by discrediting that argument not on its merits but on an unrelated other characteristic of whoever made it. I'm not doing that in any way - the use of 'circle jerk' in this context is perfectly warranted as a way to express disapproval of the poster's myopic thinking methods (or rather, myopic world view based on lack of thinking).
To start, they seem to have invested heavily in renewable energy sources. Citing Wikipedia: "Electricity generation in Norway is almost entirely from hydroelectric power plants."

I believe that's more than you can say for any other country and it's one of the best ways to invest oil money I'd say.
You might consider using a different name or at least adding some words so people can find it. Looks like a useful and nice project!
This class blew my mind. Don't take it if you're even a little bit paranoid already. =)
Do you think African American students, 15 years ago, were spending time studying how to use computers? I've never heard of this

I was, as were all of the other black computer science students who graduated with me at MIT. Do we get to question your bias now?
This could cause the unintended effect of making it impossible to get to the front page when there is heavy activity. It would cycle quickly between new articles. There needs to be a fixed time element.
Paul Irish tells us how to become a Javascript console power-user
Human Interface for Glass
They should support RFC 4226, as google does, but they still need to support SMS with the size and diversity of their userbase. Google offers SMS as well.

How long before every facebook user has a device that can do RFC 4226? I hope soon, but kind of doubt it'll happen this decade.
Yuh yeah ! :) Congrats on the release.

You're definitely going to run into resistance from more hardcore Python guys I think, as it's very "unpythonic" but who cares ? I'll be curious to see everyone's reaction after the presention on Monday.
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A cool page that lets you create playlists made of youtube's songs
That's mostly because we have the opportunity to run hydroelectric plants very easily, with all our mountains and water.
Node was created to provide an event-based web server programming model

This is not true, and it's probably why the author seems confused. Node was not primarily designed to be a web server, nor is it particularly good at that. It is much better as a server that keeps sockets open, like for a chat application.
its ability to share music libraries *only with other
iTunes users* easily on a LAN

Fixed that for you.
Oddly, from what I can tell, von Trier's native Denmark doesn't seem to suffer from it: it seems to always top lists of people happy with their country's situation, and talking in person to Danes, it is nearly impossible to get anyone to admit that there's anything non-great about Denmark...
Underneath all of the various common jokes -- "Asians are good at math", etc. -- there is an undercurrent of discussion where other people are admitting their biases, too.

That's not a bias, it's simple fact. Asians have SAT math scores 72 points higher than average, TIMSS scores 74 points higher than average, and are disproportionately represented in professions requiring significant mathematical background.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0883611.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trends_in_International_Mathema...

Further, the top 5 nations on the math component of TIMSS have been the 5 first world countries in Asia (Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan) in all years since 1995 (in 1995, Taiwan was not included, and Belgium was #5).
This post has many empirical problems, but let's start by looking at the male/female deck by Terri Oda. The only data in the entire deck is on slide 21, and the caption reads:

Two normal distributions that are 0.15 standard deviations
apart (i.e d=0.15. This is the approximate magnitude of
the gender difference in mathematics performance,
averaging across all samples.)

In other words, what is plotted there is actually NOT data but simply the textbook Gaussian curves for two distributions.

So let's take a look at actual data. Here is a significantly more rigorous analysis:

http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/math.htm

This actually uses data from three different tail populations: Female mathematicians in the NAS, Fields Medalists, and Putnam Competition winners. Lo and behold, a simple Gaussian model predicts that small differences in average mathematical ability produce significant sex differences in the tail[1]. And these predictions tally with reality (e.g. the empirical proportion of females in the NAS).

Ms. Oda also does not consider two other crucial aspects, which are:

1. The large difference in spatial ability between men and women:

http://goo.gl/SGhDw

On the whole, variation between men and women tends to be
smaller than deviations within each sex, but very large
differences between the groups do exist–in men’s high
level of visual-spatial targeting ability, for one.

2. The large difference in preferences between men and women:

http://goo.gl/ccKyj

A study by Lubinski and Benbow followed the careers of
mathematically precocious youth from age 13 to 23. All
were in the top 1% of mathematical ability. At age 23 less
than 1% of the girls were pursuing doctorates in
mathematics, engineering, or physical science, while
almost 8% of the boys were. Equal aptitude not
withstanding, girls pursued doctorates in biology at more
than twice the rate of boys, and in the humanities at
almost three times the rate of boys.

The asymmetric part of this whole debate is that someone who voices the above counterarguments in public runs the risk of being browbeaten like Larry Summers or Michael Arrington.

[1] This is of course assuming that distributions remain Gaussian, though it is well known that correspondence to Gaussianity drops off considerably as you move into the tails.
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That's a good question. I don't think most Norwegians think of themselves as spoiled. A lot of people here wonder what we'll do after all the oil has been extracted. There are some concerns that Norway has "Dutch disease", but the government tries to prevent it. The government has given free education a very high priority, so there is a hope that investing in people's education will be part of the answer.

However, everything is very expensive here, and starting tech startups is difficult at the moment.
I have the same problem, and I'm female running a tech company. But I have a solution: I teach a group of kids to program, equal gender. Maybe in 10 years I'll be hiring some of them. You know what interests the girls most? I tell them about my lifestyle, my freedom to travel and to live how and where I want, the long lunch breaks I can take if I want (after working hard enough to get employees). By teaching these kids lifestyle options they stay engaged. It's early days yet, I've only just started the classes but I'm enjoying the process.

We're looking forward to the new Stanford CS101 online class, hopefully I can base my teaching on this which should spin off into the kids taking other online classes of their own volition.