skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we are talking about whether or not sexism occurred, then it does not in fact matter what someone said before or after they said something sexist.

I'm not trying to convict anyone - in another comment I note that these situations are often unclear, and many very well-intentioned people may not even realize they are harming or undermining someone (and they probably think highly of that person, too!). To be honest, my primary impetus was to explain why a comment like this is actually sexist (there seemed to be some disagreement on that part) and why it is harmful. It's not always intuitive, since we often describe our friends as "attractive" or "sexy" without a second thought in a friendly/social context.

I'm not trying to say that the introducer was sexist - the behavior was.

Edit: From the downvotes, it seems that there is disagreement here - which part do people take issue with?
The vast majority of interviews do not result in a hire. (Some of my coworkers have reported giving 20 in a row without a single offer.)

Also, I think your view of the interview pool is somewhat skewed. Most of the candidates I see do not have 3.9s from MIT (BTW, I believe MIT has a 5-point GPA, so it really would be 4.9), and a lot didn't go to Ivy-League universities.
Though I was advocating this as a possibility, I should point out that he might include some actual punctuation in the cipher as well as the standard 26 characters, so it's still possible that it's just a substitution cipher.

Additionally, it's possible that some of these characters aren't characters at all, but common repetitions. I'm thinking particularly of those slashes and backslashes.
I really like it. I love how easy it is to navigate the possible youtube videos just using the search box. A few comments:

-it's not really clear what the on/off button does in the top right

-I think the black bar at the top is ugly, I think you should just leave the social connections on the gray background

-the logos of youtube/musicbrainz look weird on the right, maybe try moving them to the bottom?

-the main box seems to be a little off center

-the name and descrition don't work for youtube videos, as seen here: http://cl.ly/2u1w1v260c1Y2V2k2E34. I assume this is because youtube videos don't have an artist and title. Maybe you could parse it from the title or just make it a little clearer that those fields are empty because it's a youtube video

-what is the value proposition for registering? what do I gain? that's not clear

-where does the "normal search" draw from?

Hopefully those don't come off as too mean, I'm just trying to give some honest feedback.

Nice work overall though! I really like it.

EDIT: Also, skipping forward in a song doesn't seem to work.
Path gets a pass? Why?
For your consideration (and cringing) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
It's pretty amazing how we just had an article on HN about how the kickstarter fundraising record was about to be broken, and then Double Fine comes along and obliterates the previous record in under 24 hours.
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When I said "like Monopoly or Catan" I wasn't looking for games similar to them in style or gameplay -- I meant like them in the sense that they have features such as cards and other additional game elements beyond just the board and playing pieces.

Come to think of it, Battleship is purely skill based though it's quite simplistic in that, like chess, it only has a board and pieces.

Thanks for the list. I'll check them out.
As an outsider looking in, it seems like the whole prefix thing is approaching the problem from the wrong direction.

Why do we have prefixes at all? Well, because developers want to start using new features before they've been fully standardized. Fine, understandable.

Browser developers make browser specific prefixes available, because you can't expect all browsers to roll out the same new features on the same day. Ok, that's one approach, but I can think of two others.

1) Don't wait for the entire standard to be formalized before expecting it to be implemented. A rolling standard approval process, if you will. It's basically what we have now where new features become available far ahead of the full standard, except prefixes won't be necessary because everyone will implement stuff on a rolling basis. That might be a little demanding of browser developers though, which leads to option 2...

2) Best effort evaluation iff you choose to use non-standardized features. Sort of how python lets you import from future, declare somewhere that you're using non-standardized features. After that, the browser switches to best effort mode, and just throws out any attributes it doesn't understand. When running in a dev environment mode, all these errors would show up, so you can see why things aren't behaving as intended if you're using an unimplemented feature.
Please, learn from the experience of Office. Menus that change themselves confuse and infuriate every type of user --- experts, developers, novices, etc.

People build up muscle memory, and breaking it unexpectedly leads to very angry users.
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That's a lot of work to go through just for an application... How to "woo" a startup? What was that about a shortage of tech talent?
Apparently google fired all of its designers. "Where should we put this?" "STICK IT IN A BIG LIST."

Imagine if every program had a "File" menu and nothing else, with all the same options.
I feel the same. I think the original concept also came from what kind of GPA a person got in university, which makes it even more distasteful.
They spent some social capital, but they're still in the black.
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Well, they said it would be a small team of 6-7 people, and their aim is to finish for October. With that math, we're looking at those devs being paid around 70k a year, give or take. Which is probably about right.

I'm not sure how taxes affect the money raised from Kickstarter -- but I assume the plan from Double Fine was to get a bunch of the money from the internet, and then throw in a bit of their own.

As for creating an adventure game, it's not a very large technical challenge, for the most part. 7-8 quality devs for 8 months? I can believe they could bust out an adventure game, at a low fidelity art style.

The biggest costs to an adventure game would be asset creation. Drawing everything, or modelling everything. That's where the money will go primarily.
I apologize for this (my) post because it adds no real value to this topic. But I just have to say, as a male, I am disgusted when guys talk like this in a professional environment.

I do not know anything about the person who said it or the companies involved, but I associate this kind of talk to a particular type of person, which may or may not be an accurate portrayal of "guys who talk like this", and I guess it is this very archetypal man that rubs me the wrong way. Here I am no longer talking about the person who said this sexist comment, but the image of a guy in my own head: a yuppie, clean-cut, trendy, smooth-talker, that thinks (and certainly can be) cutting edge in the IT or business sector, that also thinks he's got it all figured out and knows exactly what each person (not just women) is worth. He's got us all "figured out", but is really just full of himself. I've met a couple, and again, I'm not saying this person is that type, but having gathered extremely little information on him, he reminded me of this "theoretical" person, and I just have no tolerance for these "slick" smooth-talking men.

If my post is inappropriate because you deem it to be an overreaction, please delete it or advise me to, and I will follow through. I just feel very strongly about this.

I can write a whole essay on how calling anybody "sexy" sends the wrong message. Good on him for going for the un-PC, hip talk, but it absolutely fuels the image of what our society deems to be a standard/pre-defined sense of beauty or a definitive definition of "success". And the problem is that many people point out what "sexy" is to the point that we start seeing a pattern and assume "Oh, this is what sexy is", or "Oh, this is what beauty is". It takes all types to make the world go 'round.

And just to add a point that is not contentious: Calling anybody sexy in a business environment is disrespectful, regardless of gender, or how in-tune/hip with the kids you may feel you are. I feel women in power tend to downplay it or act like they don't mind for the very reason that they may be blamed for falling into the "typical sensitive, overreacting" woman role. It's like they can't escape it. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. A catch-22. So might as well make the best of it and put on a smile. (Or talk about it privately with your bestfriends.)

I'm new here, so if this rant is inappropriate, please let me know and I'll remove it or edit it, instead of getting a flood of down-votes.
HN automatically adds a Scribd link to any PDF submission. Why not just use that?
For people with cats, some reassuring text:

Given all the nasty science swirling around this parasite, is
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Even Flegr would advise against that. Indoor cats pose no
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So someone explain this to me.. how is this "sexist"? That to me takes on an air of discrimination. I didn't see any undertones, nor would those (assumed by the author) undertones exist if the gender roles were reversed.

This "controversy" seems like a lot of bunkola, to me.
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in that case, my mistake
I appreciate the thoughtful response :) Polling actually works really well for us though. It's like rudimentary time-division multiplexing for sockets. Push means you have to keep an open socket to clients, which has its own set of scaling problems.

Our challenges are related to cache design complexity, fast cache rebuild, serialization, and queuing & distribution of tasks without sacrificing timeliness of response. There's a lot of pressure for us to deliver a specific subset of the data in the same request/response cycle, which can be challenging. These are all pretty well known problems in computer science, and we feel pretty confident that we've got solutions for them.

I'm definitely going to keep an eye on your blog though. It's nice to keep in touch with companies that face similar challenges.
Hrm.. I don't use any social travel whatevers; but I have used hipmunk exclusively to look for flights since the first time I ever tried it.

It is an order of magnitude better than kayak/priceline/whatever.

Putting down hipmunk before launching when you are going to compete with them with weak arguments like "sure its good but I use something inferior anyway"--seems.. transparent.
Dynamic range is not really relevant to compression. Entropy is much more meaningful, and error images typically have a huge amount of entropy.
Since when did stealing become 'spending social capital'?

Its this type of perspective that encourages our community to condone activities that we would frown upon in other circumstances.

"Did I gain more than I lost?" isn't the type of hacker we should be striving to be.
Do you have links to those workarounds? As far as I know Mozilla is the only major browser (out of IE, Chrome, Opera, and Safari) that doesn't have site specific hacks/workarounds.
Am I crazy, or am I not the only one that never actually got the Google bar in the first place? It never came up on my account.
For sure. Big industry names don't assimilate; they mold their environment to what they know (and they usually bring other people with them who come from the same place). Because of their clout, few will dare to disagree with them.

It is amazing how quickly a company's ecosystem can change when you bring in a big name from a different environment.
If only it were this simple. The problem is that not only are these implementations not formalized, but also there is often dispute over how they should be standardized. Border radius, for example, is "-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius" in Webkit but "-moz-border-radius-bottomright" in Firefox. If you look at competing ideas for standardizing things like gradients, you'll find even more disagreement. This is why prefixes are needed.
They almost explicitly said they wanted to do this at Google IO with Android @Home http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD3Q4kJhD5w May 2011

Maybe not the Google branded part but nobody built anything in 8+ months. If you don't cooperate with Google you will soon be in competition with Google. Srsly look it up.
I think their return volley on this was pretty solid. They made a mistake. Did they know they were making it and did they do it deliberately? I am probably naive here, but I don't think they did.
http://www.square.com/ seems to go to Squareup.com now. They're probably working on acquiring it.

My point is mostly just about the name though. Square is an amazing name. Imagine if they had been called Skware or Swipify?

I think you're better off being called Square and having Squareup.com for a while than settling for Swipify.com.

That is what Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, Square, and many others have done.

Bad: Poor name + poor domain.

Good: Great name + poor domain.

Best: Great name + great domain (Stripe).
Ubuntu's page about it:

https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/etckeeper.html

Example of using etckeeper with Git on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:

http://evilrouters.net/2011/02/18/using-etckeeper-with-git-o...
Very cool. Is especially like the automatic syncing. Getting designers to actually upload things to a server, or got forbid have to type in commands to git is just not going to happen.

I did find a small bug:
in the X/Y view, your scrollbars are draggable, so if you scroll the image, then release the mouse button the view panel gets stuck to your mouse.
(Chrome win7)
Last time I checked not knowing the law isn't a valid excuse to break the law.*

*I'm not a lawyer but wouldn't be surprised if what they did is illegal.
I find it comical that they're still maintaining development for Nokia of all brands.
I would prefer to approach it as public good that is protected against market failure in few selective cases. I don't like that approach but it's an improvement over treating knowledge as private property/granting legal monopolies.
This is why commas are important :-)

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vs
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The relevant question, however, is whether (# well liked && bold) / (# bold) is larger for men than for women. You may observe very few bold and well liked women merely because # bold women is low.
I just got it like yesterday. I can't believe they're changing it back already.
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hmm not so reassuring...
"Not just "likely"; anyone who had such experience would get kicked off the jury."

I was disqualified from the jury on a drunk driving trial, because the defense was based in some way on the Breathalyzer and its design or calibration, and I have a BSCS.
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What's been frustrating for me, historically, is that the dropdown list is different for different parts of Google. For example, compare it at google.com and at gmail.com.

I think they're trying to improve it -- looks like in Gmail it lists services you use first, like Reader and YouTube, but not Voice? -- but it's certainly not consistent. Plus with each re-organization you have to re-learn all over again.
The real problem with CSS is that it hasn't evolved. Solutions like SASS/SCSS or LESS resolve this issue quite neatly. Instead of needing to know or look up the peculiar browser-specific declarations for things like border-radius, you simply say "rounded(5px)".
InSync already offers shell integration for Google Docs (and can be general purpose cloud storage too). It's absolutely fantastic, and spurred me to purchase more google storage.
I havent tested the kayak site, but I had problems with the page randomly scrolling when typing on android

the fix was utterly ridiculous and I have no idea as to why this fixed it, but it certainly helped

body > * { -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; -webkit-transform: none; }
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But look at it another way : Maybe your hands-on knowledge of KeepAlive is the kind of thing that signals a client that you're not just a regular SEO guy...
That settles it, we'd better not let students write code, in case that code invalidates patents produced by students' code.
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I love The Wire. I like how it shows the boring parts in addition to the exciting parts, but let's be honest, there is a lot more field work than desk work. The Wire does not convince me that being a detective would be mostly boring.
Extremely well put.

If we wanted to give it a name, as a point of reference to research this more, I'd say it boils down to "ethics".
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I don't think the file is making a value judgment. It's merely summarizing the Agent's interview with Jobs' reference.
Looks like there is something to the "crazy cat lady" after all.
Next step: let's have Yu Suzuki put ShenMue 3 as a project on Kickstarter so that they can start funding the game. It may be the best opportunity ever to get the game done.
I would recommend sending hashed canonical values like we do in Textie. I posted this explanation for our users and anyone interested:

http://blog.textie.me/post/17261989750/keeping-your-address-...
That would be the case with devs, although we do have some old phones lying around too I think. Anyway, thanks a lot!
Agreed on this setup, I have a blog that does 500k+ visits a month on 2x512 Linode VPS and it barely goes above 0.1 load.
What, you don't love charts and graphs fresh from Excel 95? With text so crisp, it could have gone through a brand new fax machine?

Edit: Apologies, that wasn't meant to be so snarky.
I admitted it was a good service, my commentary was focused on why I don't use it, and the reason is it isn't different enough to break my habit.

I have been told many times that you can't build a business to compete with the major players by being 5% better than them. You need to be 5x better than them, otherwise people won't switch. That is my point, and for me, I realized that the visualization of time data is not what bothers me every time I go to Kayak, so I wasn't really prone to switching.

I am merely trying to provide a little bit of introspection . . . and I guess I don't know what you expect. Yes we are putting out a travel product soon, but that doesn't invalidate my opinion on what is out there, and there is a reason a large portion of people still use Expedia etc. . . .
It'd be hard to get me to switch away from newsblur.

I've been waiting for a service that relied on published open source code, but still had a hosted option. I'm much more likely to pay in this circumstance.
Yes. Accidentally leaking information makes it harder for the FBI to gather information in the future, so they ensure that they are very careful when disclosing information. In this case, it makes the information harder to search, but that's why we pay journalists to read the released documents and summarize them for us.
Oops, forgot Skype video was encrypted. Duh. In that case it'd do fine.
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Cool!

I agree on the "good to know people with similar problems"

I can see why aggregation of the data can be such a challenge for you. My suggestion revolves around a smart client that can do aggregation through (for eg) javascript on in a browser. Our system is actually polling under the hood (that is how "Comet" works) but our backend never sees the polls.

You have a good point about open sockets being another problem. Fortunately it is thoroughly solved by messaging servers, for instance http://www.rabbitmq.com/ - it handles tons of connections so your backend doesn't have to.

Your requirements are a great fit for a single threaded server such as node.js, twisted or so on that uses that whole polling model rather than many threads. You could have (say) a twisted server that receives messages from the backend on rabbitmq, interprets and aggregates and then forwards to your clients. The send to clients happens via another publish of a message to RabbitMq on a different channel and is un-affected by the number of users watching.

But like you said, solved problems are not worth a whole bunch of engineering effort when things are still running just fine. Just throw more hardware at it and move on to selling what you have.

:)
There's a one-liner about it in here:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:tDpiI0wIzOkJ:...

It says: Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF) - Start, run, and retain workflow executions, as well
as schedule tasks, add markers, receive signals, and start timers for those workflow executions.

But the uncached version of the PDF doesn't mention "workflow" at all.

The link in the PDF is not found on the amazon servers.

"swf" is not mentioned in any Amazon documentation: http://aws.amazon.com/search?searchPath=documentation&se...
Oof, how is sub-4.3" synonymous with not-top-of-the-line? These ginormous phones are driving me nuts! I won't upgrade my Nexus One until a decent sub-4" screen (Android) phone comes out.
Is systemic exclusion of men from technology an endemic problem and I missed it?

You are assuming that "systemic exclusion of women from technology" is a proven fact. It isn't.
So, I should just throw Redis at it? Then it will be ROFLScale and I can sleep at night? I'm trying not to be a complete prick about this, but how could you even begin to make the assumption that our database is our bottleneck without knowing a single thing about our application. How do you even know we're not using Redis already?

Our bottleneck is the computational complexity of our datasets. The nature of reverse auctions is that the dataset changes frequently. The fact that every bidder is ranked on a per line-item basis means there are cache interdependencies, which cause tidal waves of cache expiration when bids are placed. Adding difficulty, there is a lot of pressure to deliver a subset of the data in the same request/response cycle, so that bidders aren't waiting in limbo for their rank. This helps maintain bidder momentum.

We don't currently have any scaling issues that we haven't solved. That's not the point. The point is that suggesting blanked solutions to problems you don't understand is major Dunning–Kruger territory.
> But how do you crowdsource money for your first, without going with the "traditional" media industry?

You work for free or very little money either by having a day job or living the life of a starving artist. Nobody is going to fund your first game, because your first game is going to be terrible. Heck, your first half dozen games are probably going to be terrible. People like to think of guys like Notch (Minecraft) or Edmund Mcmillen (Super Meat Boy) as overnight successes, but they made games for a long time before they made it big. If you are lucky, you can scrape enough together in your early career to pay your rent and eat. Heck even the legendary John Carmack was making little games for Softdisk then the commander keen games before id struck gold with Wolfenstien and Doom.
You should only be creating custom solutions if this (blogging for instance) is your primary business. If you want to kick ass as a one-person team you have to know your limits and only spend time of things which are critical.

Nice suggestion re CDN.