skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sexism (specifically in tech) is the new racism. If you go down that path of anything remotely sexist, expect to be torn to shreds just as quickly as if you made a racist remark. If people didn't get offended, then people like Sqoot will feel like it's totally OK to belittle women, even if they would never think to include racist jokes.
Wat is een goede zonnebril
Cooking the books is hard and doesn’t help anyone
I've started down a similar path, but I'm much earlier in the process. Right now, I'm archiving and tagging as much as possible of what I read into Evernote. This helps me create a corpus of data to analyze later. Also, I'm trying to move away from using old-style RSS aggregators like Google Reader and toward a "daily briefing" consumption style, as in Paper.li and similar tools.

This article provides some useful ideas, though, several of which could migrate into my information processing workflow.
Dutchman flies like a bird with homemade wings
haha, all I could think while reading it was "what information is actually here" and came away with a headache
Offshoring shrinks number of IT jobs
It is not facebook only. I don't use facebook. I don't remember now, but I may have logged in with Twitter authentication.
So I typed in "Backgammon" and "Go" and it doesn't seem to do anything.
Women - did you know that on golf courses the attendant who serves you beer is commonly referred to as a beer girl? Did you know that it describes the attendant perfectly because she is in fact a girl who is serving beer.

What if, the attendants at the hackathon were in fact an all lady staff?
In context, the "Women:" part denoted the title of a perk in a bulleted list of perks, which absolutely makes this more offensive. The idea that you would put "Women" in the same list of perks as "Food", especially in a widely public way, is sort of mindblowing.
This is cool! Thanks for sharing
I am somewhat more offended by their horrible spelling and grammar.

I would have probably written the whole thing off as a troll (high level of promised services, amateur spelling, unknown startup, and overt sexism. Maybe one of those things could get a slight pass)
http://machinelearning.reddit.com

http://semanticweb.reddit.com

http://programming.reddit.com

http://compsci.reddit.com

http://android.reddit.com

http://arduino.reddit.com

etc...

http://quora.com

http://www.slashdot.org

http://www.theregister.co.uk
D. Everett and the Pirahã language, or How Dead is Chomsky's Universal Grammar?
It's alright (and should be encouraged) to enjoy programming. I'm not sure it's worth being "bold" and "creative" though. For me, I'm keenly aware of my limitations. I'm human and I'll screw something up, or forget why I did something "clever" when I look back at code I wrote 6 months ago.

There's something to be said for taking the simplest possible path. There's a temptation to "show-off" by doing something complicated. That generally leads to over-engineered solutions and difficult to maintain code. Good criticism would be pointing out a simpler solution.
The secret thing about PVS-Studio
-= What is not a secret =-

There exists the PVS-Studio code analyzer. It integrates into the Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 environment and allows you to detect errors in C/C++/C++11 programs. Regarding its advantages, we can note usability, detailed documentation, on-the-fly analysis and the best diagnostics of 64-bit errors.

-= The reason for the secret =-

Unfortunately, being one of the PVS-Studio's creators, I'm sad about the number of the distribution package's downloads from the site. They are very few. I see the reason: people are accustomed to thinking that it's not so easy for a programmer to try a commercial analyzer. You have to deal with the commercial manager at first and only then you might be allowed to get the demo version. I think many people even don't try to visit the Download page waiting to see a huge fill-in form or a message kind of "if you want to try, write to us".

We don't approve this method. We believe that a person should be able to easily try and purchase a software product. Our opinion completely coincides with the one of Alex Payne who has written the article "How Not To Sell Software in 2012": http://al3x.net/2012/02/29/how-not-to-sell-software-in-2012.html.

-= The secret =-

The secret thing about PVS-Studio is that nobody knows that you can easily try and purchase it. Moreover, PVS-Studio can be used for free at first. The version you download from the site is completely full-function!

The demo version's restrictions will only occur when you have fixed 100 errors in your program using our tool. If your project is small or contains just a few errors, you will be able to use PVS-Studio without purchasing a license. But if you have fixed 100 errors in your program with PVS-Studio, it's fair that you buy a license to go on eliminating both old and fresh errors.

Download and try PVS-Studio: http://www.viva64.com/en/pvs-studio-download/
It seems you're outputting other's peoples' lists where there's at least one game in common with those I like.

Couldn't you take this a step farther and aggregate all those lists, with those games that appear the most frequently showing up at the top? For bonus points, weight more highly the games coming from lists that more strongly match (and using Bayesian averages, too!)
Dr. Seuss: Before He Drew Great Children’s Illustrations, He Drew Great Ads
IPad heat tests, round one: Warmer, but not yet a problem
I don't think that the backlash would have been as strong if they had mentioned it in the way that you are suggesting. But they listed Women in a bulleted list of perks next to food. It is 100% objectification.
"(female) event staff get it for you" == "They're less likely to dose it with roofies than a man would be."
I think the argument that it was a joke is hard to swallow. It doesn't even approach humor to me. A commenter on the apology got it right:

> From the original press release it sounded like you were just trying to throw a party with "hot waitresses serving drinks"

I'm not rmc and I won't answer for him, but I'll answer your queries from my own point of view.

Do I believe that they're sexist because of that one statement? Yes, I do, absolutely, but: does that imply that I think that "they look down on women, and think they shouldn't be working in the industry?" No, I don't believe their sexism is of that sort.

I think that most sexism in the US today is significantly more subtle than an outright looking down on women. In this case, its subtlety makes it all the more pernicious: it's harder to spot (even in one's self), it's harder to call out, it's easier to excuse. Saying women are trash will make you into a pariah, and no one will patronize your business. But what does a much smaller objectification of women, like this case, do? It has a chilling effect and it normalizes similar behavior; it contributes to the culture of sexism.

Are statements ("jokes") with such negative effects acceptable? It's hard to argue that they are, and so it seems to me that the argument in defense must be that the statement doesn't have those effects. And I think from the backlash, well written comments on the apology, etc--I think that's a steep hill to climb.

As for them personally: I don't think it should be judged that they're bad people. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't. I don't know. Are they sexist? I said they were, absolutely, because their behavior was, which they're culpable for. So they're sexist even if only partially and unconsciously. I'll give them that benefit of the doubt, so it's an offense, but it's a forgivable offense. There's a lot of sexism around. I've been guilty of sexist behavior in the past, and I'm sure I'll be guilty of it in the future.

That's what happens when it's ingrained in culture and remains normal behavior. And that's what happens when statements like this are allowed to slide. We do things without knowing their full weight, meaning, and impact. And then we learn, and we adjust. And most importantly, through adjusting our behavior we introspect to the causes, and so learn more about ourselves and our world, and what makes it all tick, so that we can eliminate that which doesn't live up to our ideals.
The "women:" bit is a listed perk.

PERKS
* Women (who will serve you beer)

The people at Sqoot really need to learn better writing - their listing on EventBrite was full of typos.
Why Rackspace Remains Hot - it's 70% gross margins
Differences between Play Framework 1.0 and 2.0
And they're really buggy. If your window isn't wide enough for comfortable, it shifts down to the more compact version which looks terrible. Responsive ≠ cramped!
Groupon (Netherlands) accused of spamming links
Groupon is in The Netherlands accused of organized spamming of links. They hired some students and let them register on dozens of internet forums where they act as normal users who are there to introduce themselves and later on just go with the flow, while subtly inserting links to Groupon.nl in their comments.

Groupon even thought it was okay to spam on a forum that is created specifically for people who suffer of multiple sclerosis. Groupon still have to give an official statement, but in their first reactions they say that they did not hire any students and that they know nothing about the link spam. Althought, some zealous forum members of the forum HigherLevel.nl discovered that all those spam accounts can be traced to Groupon.

I’m curious about what will happen next. First I’m curious of what Groupon really will have to say about this, and further more what Google may do, if they discover that Groupon is spamming links to improve their SEO results. And last but not least, maybe Groupon will get some pretty big penalties (a maximum of 450.000 euros (600k dollars) per violation) of the Dutch consumers authority.

( Dutch source: http://www.higherlevel.nl/forum/index.php?board=40;action=display;threadid=41332 )
E-mail headers, BBS stuff, and of course IRC. I can't remember if it was { for ö or another special.
Why Skillset Doesn’t Matter
I have. I should repeat it with a stronger magnet. I just used one from the 'random magnets I've accumulated since I was a kid' pile and picked one primarily for the size, but it only allowed me to sense sizable motors. A simple band-aid was all the social camouflage it needed, which was nice.
Cecilia Capriotti, sex and her self-portraits on Twitter
Absolutely. I work currently doing QA as a large portion of my position (even though my title is GIS Analyst).

I write multiple testing scripts for our company's software tool that are immensely helpful and time-saving. No one else on our team has these kinds of scripting and automation skills and it can end up being frustrating. Many of the other GIS Analysts are surprised about what can be automated. I built a basic unit testing system for us that none of the programmers really had time to build. I'm basically going alone when I do these things.

I enjoy the scripting portion of my job more than the QA portion of my job by far. Perhaps the reason you don't find too many dedicated QA people who can write scripts is that, by and large, people who can script/code like doing that more than testing.
There's a little bit of discussion in these two papers on the relationship between LIDAR and the "full" solution to transient illumination:

* http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~amsmith/papers/ucsc-soe-08-26.pdf

* http://cameraculture.media.mit.edu/files/TransientImagingICC...
The JSON api should degrade gracefully if results aren't found. I.E. There should be a JSON message explaining that that item doesn't exist.
Yep, I need to work on the matching, but for this I need more sample data
Has anyone had any success with off shoring development jobs? At a large software company that I worked at, we worked with an Indian team, and I found that they were nothing but trouble. They would miss deadlines (with nothing but reassurances that everything was on track up until the day that we were supposed to release), and the code that they produced was both incredibly buggy and had poor code quality. Now, I probably cost the company 10x what they did, but still, I feel like it was a bad expense to offshore. They ended up creating a lot of work and resulted in lower quality products. Alas, software development is one field where it's easy to have very negative productivity. That said, this is only a single experience, so this may have been bad luck.
Well, maybe I should put "video game" somewhere in the text.

Edit: Also, chess maybe?
I had to follow back to the submitted article's author's earlier blog posts, a couple of degrees of linking back, to figure out where the "log-plot of the wingspan vs. mass for different birds along with the human with wings" came from. It came from the author himself, without a validation study, and "anyone can edit" Wikipedia. People who know their history of physics well will remember that Galileo showed that in general, as an animal's size scales up, its mass increases with the cube (third power) of the scale factor while its surface area increases only with the square (second power) of the scale factor.

http://dinosaurtheory.com/scaling.html

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/609.ral5q.fall04/Le...

To scale up flight by arm motion to the mass of a human adult would have to result in a very different wing loading from that of any bird. There is a lot of hand-waving about electric motor power (at what weight?) for the wings in the video being discussed here on HN, but no verifiable figures about what energy is input into the wings versus what weight the total assemblage has.

As astute comments pointed out in the earlier main thread about the video, it would be easy enough to verify this extraordinary claim just by letting some professional journalists take a look at the rig and weigh it and photograph it up close and do their own videography of a set of flights of the rig and its operator. There is no reason to take an amateur, self-produced video with unverified claims seriously about an issue that is so contrary to well studied principles of aeronautics. Until there is better quality evidence, there is no warrant for believing this extraordinary claim.
Justin Bieber Is First Instagram User to Reach a Million Followers
"Best" is a bit of stretch, and link-baiting: let us be judge of that.

Anyway, I don't mind the "Freckle" ad at the end, but please don't hijack my clicks. If I want to open it in a new tab, don't use a js on_click, and put a simple link to the website.
Learn faster. Learn more. Be awesome.
Thanks. I thought so after posting. But when I updated the title and prefixed "Ask HN:" the update wouldn't reflect. May be we just have to do it when we do the original posting.
I would disagree: I think there is a point. The issue isn't necessarily the wording of the joke or semantics in the apology. It's this idea that the entire tech community is male and should be treated as such. It's not about this being politically correct or agreeable, it's about the attitude being insular. In my opinion, it would have been fine if they had said something similar, yet gender-neutral. Comments can be sexy without being sexist.
Cross-reference: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3734497
How to Attain Magic Tea Effect in Photoshop
For those who have an eye for latest Photoshop techniques, here is a wonderful tutorial that deeply explains How to Attain Magic Tea Effect in Photoshop
Or any body parts that might be in the way between the pinky and the MRI machine.
A bit OT, but does it depend on the metal used? My wife's wrist was reconstructed using a set of metal plates after it was shattered a few years ago. However, she's had at least three MRIs (for an unrelated problem) since then. The plates may be titanium and not surgical steel, so perhaps that's the difference?
Why are reads from CouchDB so slow? (1.5MB/s or thereabouts)
Checking out some resources like 365PSD, I find many of those PSD gorgeous, but I have no idea how do you use them on websites.

For example, how would use those elements on a web UI?
http://365psd.com/day/2-106/
All of Iceland's public administrations moving towards open source
Bill To Help Start-Ups Hits Roadblocks in Senate
http://livelystocks.com (for live stock news)
1. Not obligatory
2. He's not using the magnet to generate AC electricity
3. If he were to face comic character Magneto, it would be much like the MRI case
4. If you're asserting he is Magneto, he has no ability to shape, or even move metal at a distance.

Can you explain what you were trying to say using more than two words? I really don't follow what you're trying to get at. Both words seem meaningless and wrong in this context.
Boston API Jam's "marketing" problem
Rarely would you get higher than inflation returns from just parking money in a bank. In reality it just gets eroded away.
In my opinion they aim for different groups of developers.
It's more of a question if you like monolithic frameworks like django where you "get more" at the expense of flexibility vs. pyramid where you are in control of what is going on, the components are better - like default orm sqlalchemy or templating but the learning curve is a bit stepper - but you are way less likely to reach a dead end when "something happens" in the middle of the project(yeah i know it shouldnt be the case but we all know how reality is sometimes).

Personally after I did django tutorial and more "magic" appeared, I decided it's not a project for me.
Import this into the USA, and the RIAA/MPAA will integrate the API into their torrent detection tools before you can say dmca. Then there will be an automated interface to subpoena ISPs for subscriber information (GET /subscriber/info?ip=123.45.67.89&time=1234567890&judge_signature=b76c8a23), and the only thing missing will be an automated interface for customers to be notified, view, and quash subpoenas for their information. The last one is crucial when the lawsuit is being filed thousands of miles away, but I doubt that the MAFIAA will allow that to happen.
Trackt - simple, real-time collaboration
Yesterday I climbed from 51 to 36 in the US app store and received 4,119 downloads.
that's true. I do skip over some links. I am eclectic but i end up hitting the limit anyway.
I meant to compare with the sensation from my implant. (",)

It's also been tried with sticking tiny magnets to the fingernails, then varnishing on top: http://www.psfk.com/2010/06/fingernails-implanted-with-magne...
Someone else said that full support will come with kernel 3.5. But does that mean Linux apps will be able to work on Android then?
If they really mean what they say, they should work with the women in the NYC startup scene (GirlDevelopIT and others) to launch a new more inclusive event.
Why your business needs to systematize customer success and how to do it
JavaScript (client-side) Messaging Anti-Patterns
JoGo Equipment Wants to To Build Outdoor Fitness Stations to Fight Obesity
Whoops, it mentioned Lake Oswego in the article, so I thought it would be in context, I'll be clearer in the future.
Yes hackathons etc. are male dominated. No-one's saying they aren't.

The question is should they be this way, and if they should not be, what can we do to make things the way we want them to be like.

Things can be funny and sexist at the same time. Humour doesn't exclude any and all behaviour that someone wants it to. Sometimes the fact that it's funny is the sexist part, as in, the fact that 'humour' is used an excuse can be a symptom of sexism. It would be rare and mostly unacceptable for a bigwig businessman to do a black face show (à la an episode of Mad Men) and then claim "hey I was only being funny".

A thing might be funny for some people (e.g. straight male hackers), and be off-putting for others. If the others are the people who you think should be participating more (e.g. women hackers), then you might have found the reason why the world isn't the way we want it to be (i.e. this might be why hackathons are male dominated).
That's correct. Titanium is widely used for implants and is non-ferromagnetic so you can safely be MRI'ed with a titanium implant.
+1 to worldtimebuddy.com

I use it almost daily.
Ask HN: Help, we need (real) NYC office space.
We've grown from our apartments, to working within consulting client offices, to a small WeWork office (executive suites), to the open loft in Projective SoHo (co-working). All of these options have the same major drawback: distractions.

At home, the distraction is being separated from each other. In other spaces, the distraction is another company's non-hackers doing whatever it is they do (loudly). The recent HN link to "open floor plans must die" is spot on.

We'd love to follow Joel's old advice (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/OfficeNewYork.html), but we don't have the time to find and build out an office from its skeleton. We're hacking towards deadlines.

After conversations with brokers and small biz owners, it's obvious the commercial real estate game is just as broken, if not more, than the residential one. I think in an ideal world, we'd just rent a residential loft and hope no one minded half a dozen folks hacking there instead of sleeping.

Have you gone through this? Do you have any ideas or leads?
Could be. I'm in a similar situation as your wife -- wrist and partial hand reconstruction -- but I'm under strict guidance to avoid MRIs, and have to report as such at hospitals and doctors' offices. I've also got a metal fixture in one of my toes on my left foot -- but, for whatever reason, that one's never caused an issue. Pretty sure the toe plate is titanium, and the assorted hardware in my wrist and hand are not.
I personally are more interested in the comments, and I bet you cannot exhaust those very quickly. In some cases the comments are so long and tree-y you forget what the original link was about.
Did you get into the run of startups because it was fun and you enjoyed it and you were good at it?

Now you're doing it because a)you have the skills b)people are pleased with your work.

Sounds like the level of excitement has faded to zero.

Make your own dream come true for a change
Here's Quinn Norton's talk at 23C3 (five years ago) about functional body modification, including her personal experience & some of the problems with embedded magnets: warning it's a little graphic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voA7Uz7uABE There's a text-and-picture summary here if you don't want to watch the video, also with graphic photos: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2007/01/quinn-...
Flapping wings do not simply vibrate vertically. Wings are hinged so they can greatly reduce the amount of air they push back up on the up stroke and to generate significant amounts of lift it takes a really dramatic motion. You can see how bad the motion is by compare flapping motion 35 seconds in vs an actual bird.

Also, trying to generate the type of energy required for flight with your arms is significantly harder than your legs.
The worst inconvenience I've had with mine is handling small change; 1, 2, and 5 Euro-cent coins stick to it. ",)

And I've done a little rock-climbing since I got mine. Not enough to be entirely sure with it, but some.
Ask HN: Code Rails in the browser?
I'd like to be able to link up to my git account, run the server and code in the browser (pushing to heroku would be great too). Anyone know of something I can do this with?
she is in fact a girl who is serving beer.

I didn't think many golf courses could employ children.

Unless you're trying to belittle adult women by calling them childish names. This has been done many times, e.g. the old habit of white men calling black adult men (before & after slavery) "boy".
Mobitest – Free Mobile Web Performance Measurement Tool
Hmm, well that's pretty good, then...