skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Venture Capitalists are basically mutual funds that invest in startups. The y get most of their investment from pension funds who are investing for a large chunk of Americans.
Do you have a link to said discussion?

Look at most bold women and the jokes that people make about them being "bitches" or "cold" or what not.

I would respond "bold" men are often called "predators" and "douchebags" by the very same people. I find that there are always people who dislike those who put their necks out, no matter their sex.
Am I the only one who finds the language "C class talent" really distasteful? I feel like it's worse than referring to your employees as "human resources".

I understand the importance of passing on people who are a close-but-in-the-end-imperfect fit for your organization. But using the concept of class and grading people from A to F just makes my skin crawl, and it makes me want to avoid any company or organization who things about people that way, YC included.

Am I the only one?
"it wasn't sexism, merely rudeness"

ugh. Sexism is an attitude, the rude introduction was the action. Who cares why it was rude? It shouldn't be more offensive because you can (correctly or not) ascribe a motive to it that you find distasteful.

Trying to decry this sort of thing and speak up in "defense of women" or any of that garbage infantilizes women and perpetuates a much more serious problem than men noticing how we look.
My wife would be extraordinarily flattered fwiw:)
Monopoly's biggest issues are that it eliminates people, and people refuse to play with the auctions and other game rules as written (and do stuff like letting people survive, etc, prolonging it longer).

To each his own, for sure, but that game takes forever without the auctions.
Related discussions as we've talked about this stuff before here:

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392036

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=389727

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=503811

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=450886

(this is still an excellent post however)
You make it sound as if Developers are solely to blame for this "mess", and they did it for superflous reasons. I call BS on that.

Case and point: Border radius and linear gradients made things better for EVERYONE. Developers didn't have to create the html/js/css/image mess just to create rounded corners. This meant less code, less images, less css, which also translates to snappier websites. (and users like that.. there are studies that prove that) This also meant that, as a company, we decided that IE had to live with a degraded experience until they made their browsers competitive with all the others. (and users had access to said browsers)

As a Front End Engineer, I find it insulting that you suggest we are doing it for "fun" or to make our resume look better. This makes our lives better, and we have to consciously decide who gets a degraded experience and who gets the better experience. I think we call that "graceful degradation" or "progressive enhancement". You stated: "They allow you to create novel effects which you can then discuss in your blog", if these are novel effects then why do...

You state that websites are "broken" for non-webkit browsers on mobile. Well then maybe my definition of broken and yours differ. I say a "broken website" is one where the content CANNOT be consumed by the end users. Also if the end users have functionality that is broken, and therefore prevents them from accessing / modifying content.

I DO NOT think broken means, degraded visual experience. When we decided that IE would get square corners, and flat background (instead of rounded corners and linear gradient backgrounds), we knew that IE would still be consuming the content just the same.

Therefore, please inform me which -webkit prefixed css is causing the breakage I define. (where consumers are blocked from the content)

"This looks bad", doesn't count.

Now granted, I'll give you that as developers, we should be using all prefixes that are supported. It might be a pain in the ass, but that's our job. I'm with you there, and I'm going through my current css to find if any are missing -ms, -o, -moz and the default fallback css. Considering I use a preprocessor for my css, I'm pretty safe, except on my blog, (which has no preprocessor yet). I suggest all of us developers do the same. But this is a "nice to have" not the "the mobile web is broken!" as browser vendors are rallying.

Again, if you can prove to me, that the web is broken under my definition, I will take my words back for those specific css rules according to their proliferation on the web.
This looks sick, I hope there's going to be videos posted. Although, it _might_ be a nice weekend to travel to Boston...
Isn't the implication here that these folks know each other?
Thanks for this. The sexy comments were obnoxious and almost certainly wouldn't have been made about a man, but this context paints a different picture than the one the author was trying to convey.

"These would all be appropriate topics to use when introducing someone, man or woman. Here’s what the man introducing Rebecca chose to say instead"

It seems pretty clear that the omitted portion of his introduction explicitly recognizes her merit. I favor the author's overall point, but by deliberately excluding this portion of the text, he opens himself up to straw-man arguments about the misleading lack of context.
Zynga inks deal with Hasbro to bring Farmville to real world
when i started learning node.js i went straight to Connect since i felt Express was too bloated. best decision ever considering i was building APIs mostly at the time. i've found Connect to be pleasant to work with.

but if you're considering building regular web apps (even with APIs), Express is a good starting point, since you can always use Connect middleware and lots of examples out there.
Perhaps this is a dumb question, but what does it mean to "Mainline RSS Feeds"? (slide 12 from the link)
Some analysis here:

1. The publisher in this case has a track record, so there is less risk involved.

2. $15 for an adventure game sounds "well priced"

3. There is a bit of risk reversal on the pledgers since the game might turn out to be awful. This is compared to buying a game after it has been reviewed.

4. However, the risk is only $15

5. There is much nostalgia, and even if $15 is wasted, it would have been a nice way to thank Tim for the good times in the past.

6. Presumably the game might cost a little bit more when it is released.

7. What happens if the publishers blow out their budget? It is a sizeable team.
I never thought of it that way. At first I didn't know what the hell you we're talking about because of the whole 25 hour a day work schedule people seem to think is necessary for startups but then I realized a lot of people, in some circles like you say, do a startup to avoid real work. I'm not saying a statup isnt real work, just that there is a group of people I've seen who go into some half baked startup idea because they seem to think if you call it a startup it's an excuse to play all day with personal projects that have no business model and hope to god the magic VC fairy will come to visit them one day.
While they may be more expensive, you can easily find a dedicated server for $100 that is going to be much better then a $100 VPS.
I think the most interesting question is not what the "average" programmer (this study is likely skewed) whats, but what they're willing to do to get it. That 93% would take a significant cut to work somewhere is better is staggering to me (although I'd do the same). Money certainly does not buy happiness.
I am curious how to mount Skydrive. All the approaches I have seen rely on unofficial tools which seem to have stopped working about 6 months back.

It would be great if you know of something that still works.
My wife's father is a retired mainframe programmer. As a child, she thought it was sad that her mother couldn't follow (and didn't even try) what it was that he did all day.

Just before we were to be married, my wife had dabbled in both programming and graphic design and was facing the choice of which to specialize in. She chose to go the programmer route as that would give us more common ground.

And yet, I have no interest in learning how to knit. Maybe I should try.
Absolutely incredible. Just shows how helpful Kickstarter can be. Although they did benefit from some strong media coverage and having significant name recognition, $1 million is still ridiculous. I am also really impressed by how many donations there were at the highest pay brackets.
I think this highlights inherent flaws in the governing body approach to web development standards.

I mean, if all the major browsers have it implemented already, why not remove the prefix? In fact, why have the prefix at all? If a feature X is unavailable on browser Y but implemented on browser Z, I can't see how the prefix Z makes any difference to browser Y.
Frankly I think that spending half the intro talking about how sexy they are and then essentially giving an update on what the person in question has been doing lately with their genitalia is just wrong.

Are they in the pr0n industry? No? Well then, sit down and shut the %%%% up.
Small company develops great's educational games for the OLPC Negroponte
Anyone know if there are any plans to make this data available via an API?
There's a little bit of selection bias: I wager that if you asked the women in a Mad Men-style secretarial pool if they minded having their bottoms patted and their appearances complemented, a majority of them would say 'no', because women who minded (and had any other employment options) would have long since left the secretary pool for greener pastures with less bottom-patting (or have never gotten such a job to begin with).

The sort of people who can make it in the tech world are smart, motivated, powerful people. If they find the tech world uninviting, they have plenty of options elsewhere. So it's perfectly possible that you could survey a hundred women in tech and find that all but a handful don't notice or don't mind their peers' attitudes towards women, but that if you were to survey a hundred women who could be in tech, 95% of them would find the behavior unacceptable.
Seriously please come to Australia!

I have a project ready to go (with the exception of billing). It is almost impossible for an Australian business to easily accept credit card payments in USD.

I have looked at Saasy.com but the lack of data portability makes it an unattractive option.
Flying Blind in the Freemium Funnel
People who immediately remove your software (and sometimes ask for a refund) aren't a good target market. Seriously, why do you want to buy a Windows tablet and remove Windows? Why not buy what you actually want?
I would guess it's smaller than you think. I feel it's not that big of a subset of MIT CS majors who care about startups/the kind of things posted on HN. Including faculty, I'm going to guess 200-300 regulars at most and up to a 1000 with occasional lurkers.
I would think the Philippines would be better due to their relatively generous visa extension policies (you can stay in the Philippines for 1.5 years on just tourist visa extensions if you wanted to) and far less red tape in getting things like SIM cards, renting places and so on. You can also get half decent internet there too, it's tropical and there are beaches everywhere!
This is almost the definition of false analogy.
To consume them intravenously, as one would cocaine or heroin.
I agree with joemoon, and I also advise you to annouce what are the OS supported. So I didn't register.
Doesn't this story capture something of the essence of hacker-ness?

Someone becomes curious about tech, wants to make something, does the hard work themselves, learns the hard way, gets the skills, actually makes the thing, ships it, makes people happy?

Isn't it exactly the sort of thing that belongs on the front page of Hacker News?
"Most people will look at that and say that’s not me. I don’t have 110% to give. I have a family, I have a mortgage, I have other interests. Where’s my place in the startup world if all I have to give is 60%? What can putting in part-time give?"

If you work full time for a software company, you will probably not be legally allowed to give 60% depending on your contract. I know a lot of my friends tend not to read them before signing. Of course this doesn't apply if you don't do a software start up while working for a software company.
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From my experience, they do ask those questions.
On the other hand, it's a great honeypot for people who like to take things out of context to make a point
Quite likely. I think Sequoia's bet goes hand in hand with the trend as of late of 'democratizing' programming and CS education (Stanford online classes, Udacity, Codeacademy and others). More and better programming means more projects and more demand for payment platforms like Stripe.
Thanks for the advice. We've been fortunate that we've had a huge user base to test with initially, so we haven't put very much work in to our public-facing stuff. More to come on this...
Oh, so that's 250,000 visitors per say, not month?
Starting hand strengths are MUCH further apart in holdem and 5CD.

You can start with the nuts (Straight flush to the Ace) in 5CD, but in holdem, AA is only about 450:1 better than a random disconnected offsuit (2s 8h).

Tight play is overwhelmingly rewarded (you can start with a hand thousands of times better than your opponent). So in a 5CD game against bad players, the good players fold repeatedly until they get a strong hand, and take all the money, repeatedly.

Against people of similar skill, draw (with the antes most people play with) is more of an actual game, and less of a horrible train-wreck of watching bad players getting fleeced. But in a similar holdem game, a guy can sit down, play every hand, and will often turn out okay.

*My comments are about cash games. For tournaments, the tournament dynamics dwarf a huge quantity of the strategy in the actual game.
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While I like the look of it, the mac only is an instant close and forget for me, and I know of a few friends who would do the same, some because they don't like macs others because they cant afford them. (Honest comment I don't want to start a flamewar here)
I believe that you have misread the GP and the "for extra weird and creepy" refers only to the part after "make it a guy".
Unfitness? Pretty sure it's what qualified him for the appointment.
The typical way of doing this is to use mechanical turk, there are some third party services (their name escapes me) which are built on top of mturk to provide reliability.

The typical way they do this is to have two different people enter the data and when there's a mismatch have a supervisor decide which is right.
Can't believe they settled in just two hours. The claim must have been as specious as it appeared, but like most trolls, they might have lost the battle, but they'll crawl back to wherever they come from and regroup for the next battle.
Probably just one dev to maintain the platform, but it's more than that. You then have the business stakeholders, you have the QA resources, you have the designers, etc. When you add the whole thing up, it could be a resource drain. It's a lot easier to scuttle the whole thing than have to worry about it every time you want to introduce a new feature/design.
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Dear Everybody:

The most wonderful thing you can ever give somebody is your time.

No matter who you are, no matter how much money you make, most people have roughly the same amount of time. In this sense we're all equal.

So yes, some of us could off and spend enormous amounts of money on each other for gifts...but if I spend a week building something, and Bill Gates spends a week building something, the gift is the same temporal size.

It's like saying "Yes, I could do anything at all with this week of time, but I decided that that week of time would be best spent building something that will make you happy."

There's something that I find profoundly beautiful about that.

This is an absolutely fantastic gift. She should be really proud of herself for learning that quickly, and I'm sure he's over the moon about this as a gift.
Thanks, Zachary! Looking forward to an awesome, if crazy ride with an exceptional bunch. :)
I think Rock, Paper, Shotgun made a good observation in their article on this[1]:

> And it’s impossible not to observe that on a day when gamers give a million dollars for a game that doesn’t yet exist, Ubisoft’s customers couldn’t play games they’d paid for and received.

The old model of publishers having excessive power over game developers can't die quick enough.

[1]: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/09/double-fine-kicks...
It's not over yet.

Anybody want to take a wild guess on what their funding will be after 30 days of quieter exposure?
patio11 has written extensively about his experience promoting and selling software apps, I'd recommend reading through his blogs.
I think it's fine as long as you don't think people are born ABC. You have to draw the line, and you have to be able to recognize talent - and the lack of such.
The implication is still there that making it a guy is okay because sexualizing males is somehow materially different / more acceptable than sexualizing females. Perhaps it is with respect to the minority population of women in tech, but it is not more acceptable when we consider the implicit judgement of homoeroticism that makes this sexualization less damaging than the sexualization of a female.
As an early 20's woman in software engineering I've actually noticed differences in how older men with daughters treat me vs. my new-grad peers, and I prefer working with the former.
Of course not, but if we accept as axiomatic that corrupt people will exploit anything they can, then whose fault is it when the exploitation occurs?
Great work. I can really see a use for this kind of thing for designers.

My favorite is the side by side view. Speaking of which there is a bug in latest chrome on win where the side by side panels get dragged when using the scrollbar.
What have you personally achieved in those roles ?

(i.e. how much money have you raised using your pitching material, etc.)
It's all about how you think under pressure. You have to know the basics, for sure, but the interview is much more about seeing how you think and work through problems. If you are getting asked to implement merge-sort or something, probably not a great question. But whiteboard algorithm questions let the interviewer see your thought process and how you think on your feet.
I didn't dispute that, so you are defending the GP from a claim I did not make.
Just a fad that jumps for one school to another. See also "overheard at [school]"
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Oh my. And here I imagined some nifty webapp for easier rss reading. I suppose that would work as well.
A windows version is in the pipeline. We'll have more info soon!
Exactly. I'd be a lot less creeped out if the presenter said 'beautiful' instead of 'sexy', but it would still be a strange way to do an intro.
I also read about TV companies releasing adds with torrents that they could update every six months. This is a great idea.
We're going to try and do a better job of keeping good github repositories of NYTimes open-source projects, but for a more focused selection, there's also http://beta620.nytimes.com/
Great resume, seriously.

Pictures are worth 1000 words, as they say
As someone who recently started learning to code, I would agree with that statement wholeheartedly. Learning how the pieces fit together is the most difficult part, by far.
I've heard this theory a couple times, and I have to say it's kind of unsettling to think that my personality and termperment may be just as much a product of which infectious organisms my body contains as the behaviors I have picked up from the people around me.

I've had cats all my life (outdoor cats), and I match the description of most of the personality effects described. That said, the author also felt she matched alot of the symptoms of the infection, but ended up being clear. I guess in the end it's just one of those things where you have to push it out of your mind and just get on with living life.
I wonder how much awareness was raised by Notch mentioning Psychonauts days earlier.

The timing was perfect for Double Fine, it's all pretty amazing.

I hope Kickstarter has giant cheques.
How is describing a person as 'sexy' or 'attractive' sexist exactly?
I agree with what you're saying, but in thinking about this we can also have crowd funding without implying an equity stake in the company. Diaspora, the Facebook alternative started by some young NYU grads a couple of years ago, got off the ground with $10,000 in crowd funding without any equity stakes being sold. People did it because they wanted to support the idea. I think this is probably true about most crowd funded projects whether it's the arts or someone's cross-country trip.
You would if you were speaking to an audience full of women, where that kind of comment happens all the time.

And where, I might add, no one rushes to the defense of men with a "cut the sexist crap" article.
I took the GP to mean "make it a guy, because singling out a women because of her sex in a mostly male environment is not cool". I may be wrong, but principle of charity and all that.

I'm definitely not trying to defend homophobia, totally agree with you on that.
I'm not surprised by taking a 10% paycut for a better fitting role. I was surprised that having equity or options in the company was one of the least important "wants".
jQuery mobile and HTML5 have the potential to significantly disrupt the mobile app industry.

However, the "App Store" model still retains significant strength in the fulfillment of delivery of content to the phone, meaning, someone can currently search for what they want, be given multiple options, and execute accordingly.

Maybe what the HTML5 and mobile community needs is "App Store" type functionality?
I get worried by blanket statements such as "leaving KeepAlive on will probably not be in your best interests." Using Keep-Alive is generally a good thing in terms of web performance. Not having to establish a new HTTP connection for each new asset request is gold.

The problem is not with Keep-Alive per se, it's more about Apache's process model (assuming you're using mod_php) - the fact that you have a large (10-100 MB) process sitting there doing nothing. My advice would be to either use Apache with mod_fcgid (and php-fpm) or jump to nginx + php-fpm.

We host a number of WordPress sites using Nginx and the stability has improved massively.
I thought the same about Express the beginning but as I learned my way thru it I found it very simple indeed. You can build a Web App on a couple lines and never worry about protocols and stuff. Easily integrated with Websockets using Socket.io too.

About Rails, I think that seems like there is too much happening behind the curtains with magic. Express seems more objective.
That's because options are worth less than the paper they are written on, in the end.
I would be very complimented if an introducer said these things about me, replacing 'woman' with 'man'. Maybe I'm sexist - I think (those who are upset) are a little too uptight. It feels like (they) would like to take sexuality out of the workplace entirely.
Depending on where he's based (I'm assuming California), a large fraction is likely fossil fuel based, but there's lots of natural gas (which is at least a low-carbon FF), but also nuclear, hydro, and wind. It's also not unreasonable to assume that a Tesla Roadster owner might have put down the up-front costs for solar photovoltaics on his home.
That's not really true. The residuals of a good lossy compression algorithm ought to look like uncorrelated noise with a smaller dynamic range than the original image, and the second fact (smaller dynamic range) makes them compressible.
I hope you guys are considering offering payments for marketplaces now as well. Congrats!