skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Encode the positive integer (index of the preset message) in the length of the ringing:

1 second before cutting = OK

2 seconds before cutting = Be there in 5 minutes

3 seconds before cutting = No

4 seconds before cutting = ?

5 seconds before cutting = haha

... etc

It would be much easier to do between friends (understand they are sending a message, not phoning you) but a well coded application could disable its vibrate+ringtone on ALL incoming calls by say, 3 seconds and the message can be placed in that window (so the user doesn't accidentally pick it up thinking it's a call).

There are many ways to do it. A well thought out version can become immensely popular.
[warning: slightly offensive]

I really would hope, that women in video games are in fact judged by how attractive they are. I certainly wouldn't want an obese woman superhero saving the world, just as I'm sure the gay males and the straight women wouldn't want to see a tub of lard (excuse my language) in a male, who is supposed to epitomize the superhuman virtues that we lack.

Yeah, it's shit easy to wave a finger and say "omg u guyz objectify womenz!!!" but honestly, stop for a moment and think about it. This isn't unique to nerd/geek/whatever-you-want-to-call-it culture.

This is spread through the ENTIRE western world. Why? We like beauty. We (and I speak as a straight male - feel free to adjust the context to your preference) like the way those subtle curves meld into a girl's hips. And why shouldn't we? The female body is a thing of beauty - it's delicately crafted, given form by years of grooming and attention. You'll be hard pressed, even among the straight-female population (at least the 18-25 age group), to find many people who think likewise about the male body.

When I told pg about my idea, he told me to consider how females would react; this is very much the same situation. Try dressing a video game girl up in a trench coat, with green hair, and ugly classes, and ask a girl if that's a character she'd like to play. No, it's not.

Who am I to speak? I've been in the gaming industry for a while, and I've probably passed my 10,000 hours of MMO development/management. Give most gaming girls a choice, and they will CHOOSE to dress their characters in slutty--or as they call it, "sexy cute"--clothing. Can you almost see most of their legs? Yes. Should their nipples probably slip out once in a while, if there was a realistic physics engine? Yes.

Do they care? No. Just as I would not like to play a male character whose genitals are almost falling out, females would not like to (in general) play female characters who are covered by obstructive and unattractive clothing. Why do my friends adorn themselves in dresses that barely cover their underwear when they go to clubs? I used to think it was because they wanted to attract males, and while that may sometimes be the case, many of them have loyal boyfriends and won't even dance with other guys.

Want to know the real reason, why there are so few girls in gaming? Well, I don't know - though here's one (partial) guess:

Most "nerds/geeks" are disgusting. I have a terrible sense of smell, and sometimes I'm forced to recoil from my more nerdy peers. If everyone took the time to shower daily, use proper body wash, shampoo (and watch out of dandruff) and condition separately, exfoliate, and shave, I'd bet way more women will enter the gaming phenomenon.

Remember - gaming isn't always a solo affair. Much of the time, directly or indirectly, it's a social activity.
This is a tough seat to go after because it's a reliable Republican district (around 2/3) and Smith has held his seat since way back in 1986. He's extremely entrenched, so the Republicans aren't going to be particularly tolerant of a challenger (edit: in the Primary)

That's what they said about the Tea Party challengers to Republican incumbents. It can be done, with the right challenger.
Show HN: SoundCloud Instant
I was playing around with the SoundCloud API earlier today, and I saw how easy it would be to make an 'instant search' for SoundCloud. I know these aren't super original but they're fun and easy to make so I couldn't resist.

Still is buggy, but I'm going for 'just ship it' instead of 'make it perfect.'

It's all client side so I'm hosting it on a static site on S3.

http://soundcloudinstant.com
> A controversial measure aimed at stopping online privacy...

Heh, I've made this mistake too when speaking, although privacy certainly could be affected by the SOPA.
In some ways the solution falls out of just knowing that it is a problem. If you think about it during your interactions with other people, then you can avoid the harmful things that could be said.

The reality of male privilege is that it's so pervasive in our community (in many communities) that even a little bit of acknowledgment that it might exist, and the males in that communities trying to lessen the harm that it creates can make a huge difference in making it less an issue.
McCain got paid almost 12 times as much on this bill as his wage.

Campaign donations are not the same as a salary.
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thanks guys, I wrote the post at 3am and that was a bad time to be writing about vim as it turns out :) I've removed the bad examples for now and will go back to the post and add more as I think of them. The general idea was to explain that vim is not voodoo, but is very mnemonic and conversational.
Your comment is very hard to interpret without clearly defining what you mean by "clear foundation" and "successful."

Overall you seem very down on Zynga and Groupon. Note that they have both IPO'd and have far from tanked. They are both in business with no apparent sign of bankruptcy etc.

You make them look bad by comparing them to the biggest tech successes(such as Google). The thing is, you can make vast majority of companies look bad in comparison to Google. But that misses an important point about public markets: there is plenty of room for non-googles in the stock market.
There _is_ a language-agnostic API spec for the DOM; that's the whole point of the DOM specs. It's led to APIs that are a huge pain to use from any language (I've tried it from C++, Java, and JavaScript).
"well meaning"

I don't think we can assume that any more. Not with every amendment being shot down with glee and contempt.
Huh?

How they chose their system has nothing to do with whether that system would work for someone else. It also has nothing to do with how well another system would work for them.
Step back and look at the big picture, if you will.

Nobody can force someone to change their mind about anything. That's entirely up to you. Most readers here are probably pretty damn smart and capable of creating incredibly detailed justifications for believing what they want to believe. So in that narrow sense, you're totally right.

But on the other hand, it's pretty curious to think that you can't influence culture with ideas. How did we end up where we are, with a constitutional republic, human and civil rights, and so on? How did we abolish slavery or give women and minorities the right to vote? If you can't change culture with the strength of your arguments, the only answer left is that it just changes on its own, as if by magic.

So if you think it's preachy, fine. Don't read about things that piss you off. It's a fine strategy that's worked for far dumber people than you. But try to recognize that without the "inconsequential firefights" there would be no social progress at all. I for one don't really care if it takes 50 years, as long as we don't kid ourselves into thinking that if we can't change everyone's mind with one single blog post there's no point to discussing it.

And above all, have a nice day.
I'll try to expand the post as I internalize the learnings myself. I'm no vim expert, I just find that explaining it to others helps me solidify my own learning
The SOPA secret: why aren't major Internet companies doing more?
Top personnel at companies like Google and Facebook have made statements against SOPA. Wikipedia is considering a site blackout in protest.

Why aren't they getting the word out to the public? Change the Google logo and put it at the top of search results. Sticky it on Facebook walls. Change Wikipedia's donation ad to inform people about SOPA.

These sites have huge audiences which cut across demographics. Why aren't they using them?
Did Congress just realize they could manufacture a few extra days for the media companies to bump up their contributions?
sorry, made some mistakes late at night. but "most" examples wrong? I think I only screwed up on the $ examples. if you see anything else wrong can you please point it out, so that I can fix em and not mislead people, thanks!
But not anymore? What happened?

This missed call phenomena is fairly common in Sweden amongst children and teens with prepaid cards/plans.
People bitched about Google's owners taking ridiculous control, and doing and an interview with Playboy. Google IPO'd at an absurdly low price (less than half of my bid). Google's IPO was the most underpriced offering in modern history. I think $9.50 is generous for Zynga. Zynga is a declining business.

I think you are right, but for the wrong reasons. Facebook will ultimately be only marginally profitable for the same reasons as Zynga. I value Facebook at $20B.
Of course some of these things are being fixed (e.g. modules are being added; there has been talk of optional types). At least when Google or Microsoft aren't dragging their feet and sabotaging the process.

As for generics, I'm not sure what you're looking for there; it's pretty simple to write generic functions in JS, or indeed any language with duck typing, no?
> Congress is responsible for regulating interstate commerce and creating intellectual property laws.

They're not obligated to do either of those things - they merely have the authority to do so.

> In the long run, the only way for Congress to not harm the usefulness and freedom of the Internet is for legislators to understand the Internet and specifically craft laws to avoid negative side effects.

Was that true for electricity? How about railroads or telephones?

Heck - I'd argue that the only thing that Congress has ever "understood" is alcohol, and they've botched that at least twice.
it feels like the substitute operator doesn't follow the sentence conventions. you can't saw (substitute around word) or anything like that. it feels like a standalone bit of functionality. I was trying to express reusable bits in my post, things you can build on and expand. am I wrong?
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how come this come ?
There is some real negative sentiment here, that I understand, but don't at the same time.
Yes, their growth is flattening, they've done some less than honorable things in the past, but if you look at the big picture, they have some great talent (which may or may not be leaving), they really haven't had any prolific product failures or missteps, and they've made a solid name for themselves in the gaming business. (I doubt many of their users or potential users know about the stock option BS or their past with scammy offers)

I'm not saying Zynga is a clear winner, but what I am saying is, they are not a clear loser.
Or not http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111216/11102617108/sopa-m... "Or not. Despite the fact that Congress was supposed to be out of session until the end of January, the Judiciary Committee has just announced plans to come back to continue the markup this coming Wednesday. This is rather unusual and totally unnecessary. But it shows just how desperate Hollywood is to pass this bill as quickly as possible, before the momentum of opposition builds up even further."
how come that come ?
The page you linked to allows me to do absolutely nothing.
How fortunate for the slaves of 19th-century Alabama that the abolitionists of 19th-century New England did not think this way.

Though I'm sure plenty of people tried to convince Frederick Douglass to stop talking about Alabama all the time. It must have made for more than one uncomfortable dinner party.

Anyway, back to the point. Yes, this is a particularly blatant example of a male-privilege subculture, used in part for educational purposes. [1] You would prefer to begin a conversation about male privilege by discussing much more subtle examples? So that we can be treated to the usual two hundred pages' worth of denials that the examples are even real?

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[1] Though in gamer and comic culture this is not an abstruse academic exercise. And these are not small subcultures, even if they apparently aren't quite big enough to encompass everyone.
At first, I enjoyed the article.

However, I lost all respect for the author after reading some of his responses in the discussion thread.

One post of his in particular caught my eye :

"...And the first thing you did when confronted with this topic was to defend, counter, argue, and resist.

And by doing so, you immediately lost based on the rules set forth by the article..."

The notion that an argument cannot be refuted because of some preemptive ban on counter-arguments is, frankly, ludicrous to the point of being offensive.

This doesn't invalidate the contents of the article, but it effectively ends my interest in reading anything else by this author - including his follow up piece.
Trending Upwards
When an article about the problem is published on a gaming site, after it makes the point, it's got a couple of gratuitous chick images stuffed in it, with captions like "Bet you're paying attention to what I have to say now!"... Hmm.

I have always hated "You are male, YOU WILL LIKE THIS CHICK" flavored messages, and this still bothers me. Especially in an article like this.
Someone offered a $350,000,000 gift to Cornell, at which point Stanford decided to drop out.
I think what I'm proposing is that we take local control of our subculture, which Hacker News tends to do overtly on a regular basis by defining moderation; for instance, blatant political slogans are discouraged because they're likely to provoke flamewars.

This is exactly the sort of thing that's likely to provoke an unproductive flamewar in my book.
> Most "nerds/geeks" are disgusting.

well at least we agree on something!
Even now (after the long distance call cost has drastically come down), when ever I receive a call from my parents, I instinctively cut it (making it a missed call for them) and call them back :).
In last two years increased competition among telecom players pushed down costs so low that in a few years missed calls may not mean much...
I don't know that I've observed people using the terms interchangeably, and the distinction between geeks and nerds is pretty constant - what does seem to happen is that people disagree about which label ("geek" or "nerd") goes with which category.

So, yeah, we probably should jettison both words.
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The surprise, to me at least, is that the stock dipped on day one of trading. Even us negative nellies assumed that Zynga would follow the traditional arc: IPO, hype, price spike, slow fall into obscurity.

But, yeah, overall it's not really surprising. I'm a reasonably young man, but I don't recall another IPO with so much hype and disdain over the company behind it. True, they're printing money at the moment, but that's slowing. The obsession with "social gaming" will not disappear, but it will diminish. No one knows what will happen with Zynga's relationship to Facebook. Combine all that with the fact that Mr. Pincus doesn't come off as a very likable guy but still controls the company, and, well...
I'll say this: a company's products are IMO a far better predictor of future success than any of its ledgers and reports.

RIM was financially extremely successful for years, even though they were no longer building competitive products. It takes time for the books to catch up to reality.

Looking at Zynga's products, and looking at Activision's products, I know who my money is on for still existing in five years. The only thing I hear about Zynga outside of startup-IPO talk is about people quitting their games. Social gaming, in its current incarnation (that dastardly, insidious, vampiric incarnation) experienced a surge of novel popularity, and is quickly fading.

Contrast with Activision (and EA, and any of the major publishers) who seem to be selling more and more copies and gathering more and more fans with every iteration of their major franchises.

One company stands atop products with increasing popularity and mass-market appeal. The other has ridden past the highs of a fad and is on a slow spiral to irrelevancy.

Who else here feels like there are parallels to be drawn between this and Groupon? Companies past their prime, products with dubious futures... and overall widely criticized by industry insiders for being poor bets. Yet IPOed anyways, all smelling like just a way for people to cash out while they still can.
Ben, Jesse and their team are awesome folks with an awesome product.

Your conversation with Ben was indicative of how many CEOs are missing a huge opportunity to connect with real users and make sure they're solving a real problem.

I do my best to answer as many BuzzData support tickets as possible, because it gives me direct access to the best early warning system we could ask for.

As the technical co-founder, I completely understand Craig Newmark choosing to stick to tech support. Once you have enough money, the best high comes from seeing how something you built makes people happy.
As well as gaining points by distancing oneself from unpopular kids, one loses points by being close to them. A woman I know says that in high school she liked nerds, but was afraid to be seen talking to them because the other girls would make fun of her. Unpopularity is a communicable disease; kids too nice to pick on nerds will still ostracize them in self-defense.

From http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
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@antirez, i see what u mean but in this context with "SORT BY GET", in the case of a single server, the command is send to it in one call and the server replies with the result. but in the case of a cluster, the benefit of having the server handle the one call is no more there as of 2.4 at least. the most a good client could actually do is to take the one call "SORT BY GET", recognize it, divide it, do separate calls, merge the results and send them back...which is going back to what were trying to avoid...
or is there another way to handle this currently with 2.4?
Lets not be sexist and respond in a fashion that anyone would respond to a male who whines: stop whining, get a life. Either put up or shut up. Can't handle the heat? Stay out of the kitchen. If male centered entertainment bothers you, make your own. Use your money as a vote to influence the industry. I guarantee that the industry likes money.

The arguments that women should be treated with silver gloves are by their very nature sexist.

"mouth-breathing troglodyte" pretty much immediately tells me what way the article is going to go. Which is to demonize male sexuality.

"And that was when I shot him, your honor." another sign of clear bias.

This is like reading straight from a feminist cookbook. Nothing new, nothing that would be worth any deeper thought.

I enjoy what I enjoy. It's not illegal so you may as well shut up. It's not up to you, dear author, to tell me how I should live my life.

There was nothing new in the article. It was the same tired argument that because men like boobs and they consume popular entertainment that contain boobs they are evil. Which makes no sense to me.

Maybe as the author grows up and lives a little he will see through the matrix.

We all have our biases. But it is a different thing entirely to confuse your shallow rationalizations with actual fact.
Let me know when you want to get in touch with reality.

This is SOPA. The government has done far worse. And the Internet will survive SOPA, just as it survived the DMCA.

That doesn't mean it isn't horrible. It still needs to be stopped. That's why I went to DC to meet with congressmen to talk about how badly written and reckless it is, but you think I should destroy 120 jobs over it? I don't think so.
So the delay is just to put it under the radar while everyone is off on Holiday break?

Devious.
It may be better to look at a series in general:

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

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

In particular there are many interesting sums on the convergent series page.
I wonder how much of this acknowledgement can be done effectively as a group vs. as individuals. It seems like individuals can change their behavior very well this way, which eventually trickles to the community, but I've come to be a bit disheartened on the group side.

In a thread not long ago, I made a comment calling out an article (of an article about Steve Jobs, not gender) for expressing a (to me) particularly exasperating form of the "pedestal" side of female-discouragement. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3229502) If I recall correctly, the score of my comment fluctuated a bit before hitting 10, then going back down to 2. I didn't find any of the responses particularly thoughtful, but clearly it is a contentious issue.

A number of recent call-outs by women about conferences seem to indicate that accusations of sexism without 100% proof of sexist don't fly in our community, much as anything without 100% proof tends to fall flat. However, one of the most frustrating parts of sexism (and related problems) is that they are subtle and often subconscious. This discourages me.
Work smarter, not harder!
There are two questions:

1. Can you give us feedback on the idea of a site where you get feedback (I hope the recursion here is not damaging).

2. Can we ask you to review things we build?
Humorous, however the following is actually a semi pet peeve of mine :

Boss: I'm really upset that no one has updated me on Project 127.
Me: I cc'd you on all 9 Project 127 emails I sent this week.
Boss: I haven't had time to get caught up on my email.

Depending on the scale and structure of the company / department, getting "caught up on emails" can range from "completely reasonable" to "fundamentally impossible".

For example, at a previous job we received no less than 250 work emails daily and often more. Needless to say, simply being CC'd was not a guarantee the recipient would be up to speed on the contents of said email string.
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