skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an interesting rule in COPPA that is the cause of this bad experience: http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/coppafaqs.shtm#teen

For sites that choose to age-screen, age information should be asked in a way that does not invite falsification. See Question 39, below. In addition, we recommend that sites that choose to age-screen employ temporary or permanent cookies to prevent children from back-buttoning to change their age in order to circumvent the parental consent requirement or obtain access to the site

...

However, as described in Question 38, above, should you choose to block children under 13, it is important that you design your age collection input screens in a manner that does not encourage children to provide a false age in order to gain access to your site. If you take reasonable measures to screen for age, then you are not responsible if a child misstates his or her age. For example:

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Not encouraging children to falsify their age information, for example, by stating that visitors under 13 cannot participate on your website or should ask their parents before participating. In addition, a site that does not ask for neutral date of birth information but rather simply includes a check box stating “I am over 12 years old” would not be considered a neutral age-screening mechanism.
Are you denying that there are women who want to be submissive and raise a family? Nothing the parent said suggested that all women want that.

Agreed that raising a family is difficult and challenging.
Foundation is a diferent beast than Obj-C.

Obj-C is an open standard language. Foundation is a proprietary library with some key stuff even PATENTED by Apple (for example, the AutoRelease Pool falls into some of the Apple patents).
One should be careful in assuming market efficiency
> They insisted it was legal because they weren't distributing, which is nonsense.

There is some actual truth in this of which I can only explain anecdotally, and am slightly wary of posting this story as last time I did on HN someone personally attacked me as being stupid, but never explained how I was wrong. I've even searched for the truth on the matter, but as I'm not a lawyer I've only found explanations of the grey area that supports both arguments.

Anyways, before I became a full time software developer I actually was a watchmaker, trained by a Swiss organization in partnership with a few major Swiss watch manufacturer companies. One of those companies is probably the most well known luxury watch brand in the world, of which they invited our class to their repair facility in Midtown Manhattan. The person that walked us through the facility was the president of after sales service himself. Upon visiting the area where they receive watches for repair, he remarked on how many imitation watches they receive per day (which is quite a bit more than I would have guessed). When asked on what they do with them, he said they usually just send them back to the owner with a letter explaining the watch. But, globally they have a goal to determine origins and production facilities abroad that do make their living off of manufacturing counterfeit goods in order to shut them down. Most counterfeit watches come from very few factories, so when they do receive an imitation for service, they check certain manufacturing marks which easily categorized them into groups they have already seen. (As an aside, this company engraves the word "Switzerland" inside the caseback, where the vast majority of imitations reproduce this word with "Shitinrhand"). If they come across an imitation that is unique, or instead of being produced as an imitation, it is produced to be a "genuine replica" to be sold as original, they try to keep the watch.

This is where the story gets controversial. Even though the imitation infringes on both copyright and trademarks, they can't, by US Law, confiscate the watch flat out by refusing to return the watch to it's owner as that is theft. They first have to offer to buy the watch from the owner, and if the owner agrees to sell the watch (usually for a large sum), they can then refuse payment and keep the watch, as the loop hole is that the infringement is the transfer or sale of counterfeit goods, not the possession.

I'd also like to debunk or validate this argument, however until someone provides me with case stories or cites laws, I'll go ahead and trust the president of service at a multi-billion dollar company who told me this personally instead of someone on the internet calling me stupid and cite this as true, or at least the story that he told me.
You didn't address my point. Pretty much all of the best known and regarded applications are written in a C variant, including the browser you're viewing this on. On the iPhone, pretty much all of the best applications are written in a C variant.

Because lower level languages mean more bugs.

That's not actually a magical rule you know. The primary difference is that it's slower to develop in lower level languages. But users generally don't care about that.

Hacker News sure has changed...

Great argument.
That's how they make money. Their entire business model is based on it.

TANSTAAFL, you're paying for their services by acting as their product.
2011 Russian Election Analysis
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>show blanket Club Penguin ads

OK I concede that one, and it made me laugh.
I read the first link with the assumption of a satirical undertone. I really hope it's not just my brain.
Are female entrepreneurs more successful than males? What does that imply about what is in undersupply?
> comes at the cost of dropping ACID

Do remember though that, as discussed here recently, most RDBMSs do not act in a fully ACID compliant way by default. IIRC it is providing a complete isolation guarantee often also provides a hefty performance hit so compromises are made in this area unless you explicitly tell it to be as careful as it can. I imagine this can cause quite a nightmare for master<->master replication.

There are a lot of people using "noSQL" options for the wrong reasons (such as to be buzzword compliant, or because they don't understand SQL), but there are issues that traditional RDBMSs have that stick-in-the-muds like me (who cringe at the phrase "eventual consistency" should be more aware of than we generally are.

Making the right choices about your data storage can be hard.
That's a good question, and depends on a lot of factors.

I'm going to assume we're talking about employee equity, and not founder equity. If you signed on at a reasonable salary, then you're an employee. If, on the other hand, you worked without pay until the company got to the point where a salary was possible, then you're a co-founder.

For a first employee, somewhere between one and five percent makes sense to me. Exactly where the number falls depends on their role, as well as small details like company funding structure, cashflow at time-of-hire, etc.

The next two to five or so employees would be somewhere around one percent.

After that, the number starts diving rapidly, with a total employee ownership converging to a number near ten percent or so.

In my experience, this is more than a lot of startups offer, and feels fair in terms of risk.

On top of the equity, though, I think that profit-sharing is also important. Not as a mechanism for motivation, but as a means of retaining talent. Exits are few and far between, and it's quite easy to screw over minor shareholders. An annual bonus check based on company performance goes a long way towards showing personnel that you're serious about the idea of "if the company succeeds, you succeed".
It's refreshing to hear others who share the same views of SF. I was beginning to think that I was just missing something.

> There are idiotic cancer warnings on everything; hotels, gas stations, parking garages, Starbucks, shopping centers, health clubs, and french fry boxes.

I think this is a State of CA thing, not a City of SF thing.
Could probably use contextlib to simplify the implementation a bit: http://docs.python.org/library/contextlib.html. Indeed HTML generation is the first example.
But the commercial isn't about sending emails to your daughter. The account is all emails sent to itself, which the father someday intends to log in and show to his daughter. It is the digital equivalent of keeping a scrapbook. The father creates the scrapbook about his daughter, and then shows it to her. I fail to see anyway this can be seen anything but the father's account.
If this is really a problem (and I suspect it the number of people who do this is much lower than the number of people who don't buy the book at all) then maybe the stores should focus on those who come to buy only one book or the immediate gratification of walking out with the book, rather than waiting days for it to get from Amazon.

Finally looking it up on Amazon means you can read the reviews -- and, funny enough, take advantage of Amazon to decide if the books should be brought or not.

But it is also clear that the future of book buying isn't going to happen in book stores -- I am kinda amazed they lasted as long as they did. With expenses for employees, heating, rent, theft, etc you would think the stores would have gone banckroupt a long time ago.
Google Apps and either Dropbox/Box.net (Dropbox is cheaper, Box.net has more features). I have this setup in production for ~68 users, some who are in the office, but most who are mobile.
How would you change your favorite programming language to make it better?
Neat little comparison and nice tidbit of info derived.

But as a fellow data scientist, the choice of bar graphs to represent this compact bit of info really just feels like padding to the article which could really use a bit more analysis.
and there's the problem: if you have to have people that specialize in understanding the law, the law is too complex to be allowed to continue in that form. How can a 'normal' person abide by the law if they can't understand it?
* Brainstorming of ideas/vision
* All development
* Register and manage servers (CI, test, and a prod box, email, database)
* Register company, handle the accounts, and bank account
* Licenses/legislation
* Payment processing

Is his name on any of this? It sure sounds like you own the company. Some of these things cost money. Did you pay for all of it, or has he contributed financially too?
>There is no evidence that women naturally want to only raise children.

Certainly most women don't, but motherhood and founding startups are both such difficult jobs that it would be difficult to do both at the same time.
Most enthusiasts don't buy top of the line. It's way cheaper to buy the "second best" and overclock your way to the Extreme Edition's performance (which is really easy with the new chips).

The second best in this case is i7-3930K, same 6 cores and architecture (just 100MHz difference) but with less cache (12MB vs 15MB) at half the price.
their time as innovative and useful is coming to a halt. they have nearly zero incentive any more to improve, even in their core products. search results everyday become more and more polluted with seo spam. google maps hasn't changed in years, still the same blocky loading and no useful overlays like demographic data built right in.
Watch(1) replacement with ansi support and millisecond resolution
> But the commercial isn't about sending emails to your daughter

That's very true, as I don't have a daughter. It's about one man sending emails to his daughter.

And the way I know that is it's called "Dear Sophie" and then the dude makes clear Sophie is his daughter. And the script, as written, has the narrator talking and writing to her, and not himself (which would have been less touching, if apparently more legally accurate).
>google maps hasn't changed in years, still the same blocky loading

MapsGL. http://support.google.com/maps/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
Had never tried, so I just tried to create an underage account at Yahoo, they handle it thusly:

Please get your mom or dad!
You need your parent or guardian's permission to continue. Show them this screen.
Parents, Please Sign-In.

To complete your child's Yahoo! registration:

Sign in with your own Yahoo! ID or sign up for a new account by clicking on the "Create New Account" button below.
Confirm your child's information on the next page.
You will need a major credit card.
To create a Yahoo! ID for your child, we require your consent to collect, use and disclose certain personal information about him or her. You can give this consent by signing in to Yahoo!, reviewing and editing the information your child provided, and then submitting the form on your child's behalf.

You will be charged 50 cents to help confirm that a parent or guardian more than 18 years old is involved. Yahoo! will donate a portion of that charge to charity.

Your child will be able to use most of Yahoo!'s unmoderated services, including Messenger, Mail, Groups and Message Boards. Learn how to make smart and safer choices online and get advice on using Yahoo! products safely.
"Submissive" is pejorative. You might as well say "bitch" (edit: almost). I mightn't have picked up on this if he hadn't also said "everything difficult and challenging".

I actually agree with the point about feminism being to some extent a prejudice of its own that makes some women feel bad about wanting what they want. But they're figuring it out. We're, what, 50 years into this? That's lightning-fast change. It's fine to let the pendulum swing back and forth a few times.

The more pressing question in the long run might be how we got into a situation where both men and women have to work full-time in order to have things (like a house) that a single-salary family used to be able to afford.
The overall economy is just as important as inflation. If the music industry outperforms other industries, even in a year-over-year decline, they can be seen as doing well.
I've heard good things about Austin's urban life - though I've never lived there myself.

In any case, there are lot of cities in the US (and even more abroad) where you can get the walk-centric lifestyle without having to dodge human shit. Hell, even Manhattan, the city that supposedly defines urban grime, doesn't have this.
I remember being on the internet since I was about 10 and I always said I was over 18 for whatever I did on the internet because I knew otherwise there would be restrictions. Is this a hard concept to grasp?
If your app emits RSS, think about the title you generate for each user's feed
Obviously measuring success by capital raised is silly. Is there a better alternative? Some function of pageviews (for more 'social' companies) vs. money raised? Tough to say.

In any case, I wouldn't read much into the OP.
I'm not sure that Ms. Trunk's biography is especially relevant to her argument here, but that's not it.

She's been very public and candid about her personal life (quite possibly overly so), if you want to look into it.
Yes, I know RSS is dead.
Only for lambdas. There's still no ability to define nested functions as closures, which is arguably more important.
I keep hearing of this huge shortage of developers, but the situation I have encountered while looking for a job seems to be saying something else.

Is there really a lack of good talent, or is the recruiting process so horribly broken that good developers don't make it through the first levels of filtering by non-technical people?
Android Projects Retrospective
Cross Platform C++ code integrates with Objective-C, so it's still useful.
This is a great idea, I just set it up on a spare box using Matt Cutts' instructions for getmail and POP3.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/backup-gmail-in-linux-with-get...

If anybody else tries this, I'd recommend sticking with POP3 as getmail's IMAP client seems to mark all your messages as read (not cool).
I'm thinking the first version of Justin.tv makes YC and TechStars even on the reality TV show front. Have a feeling it turned out better too.
I've been thinking (warning: pure speculation ahead) that I could target my binaries to LLVM IR and then use the highly-experimental PNaCL. But who knows how long it will be before that is viable.
It's highly likely that I will regret posting this, but I just find this woman annoying (and her ideas stupid -- and this is not the first piece of hers that made me feel this way). I don't view myself as a "feminist". To me, "feminist" means "women who want to pursue career/personal fulfillment at the expense of their children". I wanted a career but when push came to shove, I ended up doing the full-time mom thing for eons (my oldest child was 19 when I got my first full time paid job).

I had children younger than I intended. My kids had special needs. I could not count on their dad to help raise them (if I left the kids with him for two hours, it went disastrously, with children unfed and diapers unchanged). Their dad had a lot of fine qualities and was a dutiful provider, but, no, taking proper care of children under a certain age was just not one of his strong points. I happened to be extremely good at it. So I did it -- for the sake of my children, not for personal joy. Yes, I made a choice (like she keeps harping on). But, no, it wasn't a choice of the "gee, golly whiz, staying home and raising kids is all I have ever dreamed of my entire life and this is the fulfillment of a DREAM!!!" variety.

If I had been in a different situation with more support (or less demanding children and fewer health issues of my own), I would have preferred to have both a family and career. That option was simply not viable for me so I rose to the occasion and did right by my kids. And most of the time I am reluctant to talk about my views on the topic because I am leery of the potential to come across like this woman, who is doing all she can to set women back a few decades. The fact that women clearly make different choices from men hardly means those choices are rooted entirely in free will and the fulfillment of their dreams. A lot of it is rooted in "shit happens and then, if you are a decent, responsible person, you do right by your kids rather than indulging your personal whims, like it or not."

I don't resent my kids. I do resent the general lack of support that denied me other opportunities. And I've worked really hard to change my life. So I am not thrilled with the crap that routinely comes out of this woman's mouth.
The newsonomics of Google’s retail push
Too late as being able to bring to the table something that enough developers would care about so their efforts don't fall quickly into oblivion. I've seen so many times projects like this trying to resurrect a "passe" technology just for nostalgia sake. Without a decent community of motivated supporters and a real solution to current issues developers are facing, I fear that Dylan will follow the same path. In the specific case of Dylan, I remember that its infix notation didn't support very well one of best LISP features, namely macros. And while studying the language in the late 90s, I also learned that David Moon, one of the original designers, moved to work on something else. I took it as a sign. Don't get me wrong, I liked Dylan over Common LISP at the time, becauee they did a great job at simplifying the mess with collections and its notation would mean greater adoption. That was obviously not enough to succeed. As for embracing OOP, so does Scala, although at the cost of some compromises. But at least with Scala, the platform is here to address real projects. Do you really have the time and energy to start rebuilding all the libraries that are required to develop anything beside a toy project?
> It's not positioned with anything like the complexity you describe.

I'm afraid that this is, at least to the best of my ability to judge, simply wrong. Gmail is affected by the rules of operation at Google, and by the law. They certainly could address the issue with more compassion, but only at the cost of further increasing the complexity of their system. Everything is a trade-off.

> So it's not unreasonable, as OP suggested it was, for a user to want to use it, without giving much thought to age.

I didn't say it was "unreasonable." Just that the system isn't set up to allow it. It could be, but it currently isn't.
What children's drawings look like when painted by a professional
Right on! The last thing we need is more busybody do-gooders trying to fix something without sufficient evidence that it's even broken.

What really gets my goat is how people willfully ignore or marginalize anyone in the "victim" group who doesn't toe the line. For example, look at the editor's note for this article: "Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Penelope Trunk, writer and founder of Brazen Careerist. Her opinions are her own."

I took a look at the past 30 guest contributor columns, and not a single one of them was prefaced with "Her opinions are her own" (not even the $100,000 green card article had Techcrunch distancing itself like this). This is the CYA mentality that kills honest debate and rushes in stupid policies.
Here's a non-Facebook picture, if you don't want to send them the traffic and the data: http://englishrussia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/18.jpg
An example of a United States-based website that has a user-friendly COPPA procedure for opening parent-approved accounts for users under age thirteen is the Art of Problem Solving,

https://www.artofproblemsolving.com/

a site that many HN users may like, especially if they have children, because of its many resources for learning mathematics. It's regrettable that Google doesn't follow this example.

How is Google's behavior in this reported instance consistent with Google's claimed support for data liberation?

http://www.dataliberation.org/

And how is the lack of notice and lack of help for parents who approve of their children having email accounts (not to mention Google's apparently contrary advertising campaigns) consistent with a policy of "Don't be evil"?

http://investor.google.com/corporate/code-of-conduct.html
The Gervais Principle:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
Woah! Watch out! You said something unpopular around these parts with that last sentence. I'm seeing so many people believing that it actually is okay to distribute something you haven't made from scratch. I don't know why but I do suspect that they don't think of is as "distributing something you haven't created yourself from scratch". I've seen so many times in these discussions people defend pirating and saying that all software should be free and then there's excuses like "pirated works are just free marketing" and "well they wouldn't have bought it anyway".

It's very hard to explain why copyright infringement is not okay to people these days because the physical analogies no longer apply. People think theft is when you take something and deprive someone else of that thing. With digital media you're taking something but the creator still has it and that's where things get messy. But just because the author still has the original copy that doesn't mean that it's still okay to take. Then you get into the whole argument about how whichever industry (music, movies, whatever) are so rich and greedy and screw people that it's okay. True or not, it still doesn't change what's wrong with this stuff.
the imagebank page (million dollar homepage clone) is the worst possible example to point to awesome looking websites built with bootstrap.
"December 4, 2011, 10:36 PM"
...
"Now a survey has confirmed that the practice, known among booksellers as showrooming, is not a figment of their imaginations."

Really, just figuring this out in 2011?