skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"At least for local papers (and probably TV too), if you're not local, don't bother with emailing them."

If you're not local then you need to find a user of your service that is local and base the story around them as the reason to write about it.

Say before twitter was famous the story would be "After the fire in her hotel room, Megan stayed in touch with her family in Topeka by a new service called "twitter" which allowed her to..."

You'll note that on traditional media when someone appears on a national TV show from the home town they almost always do a feature in the local paper.

That's the angle that I have taken which has worked in the past.
I think you may have an error in the AGPLv3 description, where you say "No" in the "Web Apps" column.
It hasn't, it's well known around the javascript community.
in other news Forbes used its right hand to reach out to the cloud and gave a hand job. Cloud reciprocated creating what is otherwise known as a circle jerk.
Rails - Respect the Active Record
An active and egnaging discussion on sexism in tech and PR in the social age gets deleted as irrelevant (twice), but this sticks around? Awesome.
"Obviously there are a lot of jerks, assholes and plain rude people around. Most of them are men, some are women."

Not a very good addition to the sexism discussion.
OH RLY? Does anyone really thought it was real? I bet $ 100 it's a viral for Red Bull :)
A plea to YC companies: don't put "whatever it takes" in your job ad
I just came across it again in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3740320. This phrase makes me nervously chuckle when I think about it. What if doing whatever it takes endangers my life, health, or my marriage, or my well-being? Obviously, the phrase is not meant to be taken literally (right?), but then it starts to lose its meaning.

So please write what you really mean, instead of that phrase.
Ask PG: Would you help HN lobby for a mandatory Congress vote history API?
If something like this is already in place, I'd love to know about it.

Wouldn't it be much easier to hold Congress accountable if we had access to an API that provided us public information about each member of Congress?

Useful data would include:

-Entire voting history for each member of Congress
-contact information
-information about their district
-what bills they are sponsors/co-sponsors of
-any earmarks or money they have received, the amount, and who it was from
This is neat looking, but I'm not sure how actionable it is. Of course there is going to be a drop-off of users as they drill down. That happens in almost every funnel situation. Also, this doesn't seem to account for other factors that may be to blame. What happens if you stop your marketing? What if you pushed a new version the night before?

What is most illuminating for a chart like this is seeing these numbers as a total % of activations/daily users/daily visitors over time. That way, you can see if a particular change you made (such as doing some landing page optimization) actually increased conversions which is ultimately what you're trying to look at in something like this.
At the viewing distance specified by Apple, the human retina is in fact capable of discerning a far higher pixel density anyway.

Yeah, just not according to actual doctors and optical specialists. But what do they know?
Stallman is not a lawyer, and just because he is the author of the early GPL does not mean he is correct regarding copyright law.

It's just like how the authors of the AGPL make insane unfounded claims about what you can or cannot do with AGPL-licensed software.

What Stallman claims doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is the license and the law.
Luke Wroblewski: key reasons to consider mobile first
The way they approached the problems with Sunwell in 3.0 and 3.1 seemed really good. All of the content was easy to finish, but fights like OS3D, firefighter, yogg+1, and algalon were engaging for a long time. After that the hard modes stopped being significantly different from the normal versions of the encounters, which makes them a great deal less exciting. The lack of excitement in high-end raid content should only impact high-end raiders, though, so this probably has very little to do with the people who are leaving the game.
Newspapers and TV shows have well-established advertising systems, unlike websites. And Reddit hardly even monetizes itself.
My guess as to how they got users that fast? A lot of people wanting to learn programming to make higher pay, plus, a spike in folks wanting to start web startups but are not already a programmer (with a good percentage of those excited by Facebook's story). I've had to review resumes and interview folks for software jobs before, and a surprising percentage can't seem to program or not know what they're talking about. Lure of money is strong.
Actually, I just confirmed that i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 compiles gcc 4.7

I don't know what other versions of llvm-gcc are shipped with Mac OS X
> is Scala an acceptable ML?

I thought it might be until I tried OCaml, and the difference between type inference that only works on locals and pervasive inference is huge. Also the fact that JVM interop makes it hard to avoid null pointers is a big strike against it.

Still, I agree that the odds are in its favour vs OCaml for things that don't need to be close to the metal.
they don't want put all eggs in a single basket.
Awesome UI - Nicely done. Fancy UX always has its limitations but also serve as exploration into future trends, etc.
I agree that the least harmful approach is to let the victim initiate the defense, but like you said, people might feel awkward raising the alarm.

The underlying problem here is that we are taught (by our culture) that:
1. It is okay to be subtly sexist but even worst,
2. We're being bitchy (uncool) if we defend ourselves (I'd argue that it's part of our intense worship of "being cool" but that's another topic)

I think we would be in a better position to tackle these problems of subtle sexism if it was more socially accepted (and encouraged) to stand up for yourselves (especially for females to stand up for themselves).

A side note: I read once that when asked, females would attack a rapist who is raping their friend or sibling but would not attack when they are themselves being raped by the rapist.

I think this stems from the theory 2 above: that we are viewed as bitchy if defend ourselves, but we are praised if we defend someone else.
I'm not sure. Yes, we can (to some degree) independently test parts, but like I said, each part requires a significant portion of the environment to be up (or simulated). And "unit" testing (that is, testing an individual routine or module) doesn't really make sense given how the code is written (receive a message via SS7---the network stack I mentioned) and convert it to an IP based message). To test the portion that talks to the telephony network requires a telephony network (very hard to mock out---lord knows I would love to) and another major unit we wrote (which is another part I test) to even be testable.

And to test that other part? Well, it requires I mock out the previous unit (or run it), plus three three other parts (one including a cell phone---which is really a simple script at this point). And again, it doesn't really make sense to test individual routines because this takes the translated IP packets from the SS7 module, and makes several queries to other IP based services. So a lot of what's going on is just simple translations (in a multithreaded/multiprocessor environment---more fun!).
I'd love to hear your comments as to what you'd improve. Feel free to email me - contact(at)codecademy(dot)com. As I've mentioned earlier in the thread, we're pushing improvements every day based on user feedback. We'd be happy to help fix your concerns too.
It's hard to imagine it being worth the cost proposition for them to support several flavors of Lunux plus all of the hardware driver support issues that would crop up. It would cost them a tremendous amount in development, upkeep, and support. I'm sure there's a market for it... just not big enough to be worth it.
Yes you have. Jedi hand wave. :-)
Or maybe host your slashdottable blog on another site/server/service :D
Yea, seriously. WTF is a food handler's card? It's not like a medical license.
Decision Trees in C#
Unreasonable? No.

Intended on my part? No. (That was my point)
Many people in many countries view the United States as bullies. Should we never be appeased? Never be reasoned with? Never be tolerated?
The very GNU GPL itself explicitly allows code licensed under it to be sold for money. What makes you think that code transferred for money cannot possibly be Free?
This bug is sort of funny (in the frustrating way) when you're looking for high-resolution wallpapers for the iPad - At least on InterfaceLIFT on-device, you get a 1024x1024 image when trying to fetch the iPad3,x version.
Surely this depends a lot on where in the world you are? I regularly break the speed limit while overtaking police cars in the UK and have never been pulled over (but never by much - I figure there's too much work involved to give me a ticket for only going 5 miles an hour over the limit). In fact, I've unintentionally overtaken police while going over the limit in Qatar and the US as well without being pulled over - both places where I'm more fearful of the police than when in the UK.
neat, thanks!
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Is this supposed to be sarcastic or a genuine observation? I don't have any context so it's impossible to tell.
My local university now requires tests to be submitted with homework. Sometimes though tests are provided.
That's ok until Google infects a current search with a previous search as it seemed to do for me the other day. In some cases that might help, and although they were in the same domain I was actually looking for something else. Maybe it was an accident, but the result (at position 3 or 4) looked very much like it'd been boosted from my search a minute earlier. Anyone else experience this?
"""For example, according to the FSF, if the GPL code is a library, well then you do have to release the other code under GPL, even if the GPL-licensed library is only a small component of the codebase."""

[citation needed]

I have never seen this claim made by any member of the FSF. If you're going to make incredible statements like that, please cite your sources.

"""GPL has held me back from doing several interesting projects that would have depended on an old GPL-licensed C library."""

No, you held yourself back because you were tricked by a cloud of unreasonable fear that has been spread about free- and open-source software.

Assuming your project was open-source, there is no reason at all that you couldn't have it depend on a GPL'd library.
Awesome. I've been wanting to see this in analytics for a long time. Not because I would use it, but because I thought it made the most sense. I came across this article on HN a while back that seems to hint at the same thing: http://www.contrast.ie/blog/the-future-of-analytics-products...

I believed it was such a necessity that I worked on building a MVP for about a year, but then gave it up a few months ago. The project was way outside my technical ability even after all that I learned and I had absolutely no experience with analytics in general. It was a bad decision to work on it for any period of time, let alone a year. Especially since I had other ideas that I was better suited to build and believed more in.

Now all that's left of the project is a demo video I put together for a job application. This isn't really what I had in mind then, but what the hell...

Show HN: Real-time, visual, click-path, analytics (pathtrends.com)
http://vimeo.com/27327367
Yeah, the number of "this is how things should be" type comments here is silly. As if we can wish away the neurological aspects of human beings we don't like or that don't fit with whatever utopian ideology they espouse.

It's naive but I did expect at least a little pragmatism from this group.
Is the global interpreter lock there in AOT compiled code too or just in interpreted code? (IIRC OCaml supports both compiled and interpreted)
I think that you should check out Angular.js. I have a blog post on it. Basically to write the app "no library no framework" (or even using jquery) - would be a lot more work. I think that you're trolling but I'll bite and link you anyway. http://edwardhotchkiss.com/blog/2012/03/11/jekyll-live-searc...
It's important to note that headline-grabbing trillion dollar figure is for a timespan that reaches 40 years from now and covers at least 2500 fighters. It's also worth noting that the JSF is funded by a consortium of nations, including United States, United Kingdom, Italy, The Netherlands, Canada, Turkey, Australia, Norway and Denmark .
This specific fork is not the one that is going to eventually be merged in to CoffeeScript. Follow the (very large) issue here: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/558
Sadly, Paul Graham has endorsed the idea of using the downvote to express disagreement. I personally dislike this use of the downvote, but it does have official sanction. Read this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
What Is Unique About LinkedIn's Databus?
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How did you go about making first contact with TC?
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarium_Capital#Recent_performa...
I meant in a way that was not traceable back to them --or traceable back to any state secret agency. You're right, if you mean they could, using any means --such as a recognizable drone. What I mean is, if they supposedly could pull off something like this crazy guy (in this case fall guy, if we are believe the conspiracy) why would they not pull the same to get rid of a problem in the ME --who just about everyone but Russia and china want gone?
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Yeah that's a fair enough comment. The truth is that I'm probably using more like 2% of the program. I think for someone like me the perfect balance of features/performance was at about cs2/cs3 maybe even cs1, I cant remember. So I most likely will be downgrading.
Think Hiring a Ruby Developer is Hard? Try Staffing a Nuclear Reactor Startup
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Transparent OLED display + Kinect = 3D interactive desktop
Yes, but the time it takes for the html to reach the browser is not what makes HN seem slow.
Odd, there were reports of iOS 5 fixing issues with contentEditable: http://www.symphonious.net/2011/06/10/contenteditable-in-mob...
The co-founders brought up the fact that they have families, that her employer is their client and ignored her complaint by repeatedly saying her tone was inappropriate. I would consider that anything but professional.
It sounds like you're a pretty good JavaScript developer. Great! Not everyone doing JavaScript is as good as you, and frameworks can help guide them toward better solutions.

Could you elaborate on the "horrible idea that increases the cost of development"?
They're not necessarily derogatory, just ignorant. For instance, "least Europeanized" is indeed a generalization to Western culture, just a negative one.
It was removed twice - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3740378

I don't know why it keeps being flagged - there are loads of relevant issues at play here:

- Why sexism is a real issue within I.T.

- How Twitter can amplify customer criticism

- How (not) to handle complaints
I have never asked anyone to apologize to me for using the word "fuck" and I am not interested in a debate about how serious a concern the words "fucking disgusting" are.
Do tech reporters also come here to try and get the scoop on new projects before they become mainstream?
I always like applying statistical theory to things like estimating true average ratings (Bayesian weighted), and logarithms to scores that increase exponentially. Applying suitable functions to transform values is just a great way to fine-tune the measures we use in our sites and give exactly the sort of behavior we want.

Thanks for a great link.
The article SHOULD be titled "Now is the worst time to get locked into a two year contract".

Blatant crap IMO.
You know, I come to HN mostly for the enlightened commentary on the news articles that are posted. Yet anytime something related to sexism in the industry comes up, I am stunned at some of the comments.

Yes. It is hard being a woman in the industry. It is hard being a woman in general. But the worst part is seeing how many men think we act like an entirely different species, and its disheartening. Sometimes, comments speak of women as if we don't even read this site.

Obviously there are many cultural and sociological norms at play here, but I expect more from this community. I guess thats my fault.
Everything was open source, but "everything" wasn't much. There was no VisiCalc, no WordStar, no Sierra adventures. Bill Gates's packaged software business model allowed a lot of new software to be created.
My website is working: http://readbo.com
and its a social news reader, that means you can read twitter and facebook through it :) might be useful for China
However, when Apple is the one pushing the particular technological advance in question (which it very often is lately), then it certainly is appropriate to acknowledge fact and reality.

Which technology advances has Apple pushed forward?

Sounds to me like you have some animus against Apple.

I have an issue with people who have technological blinders on -- completely unaware of what has been happening in the industry -- who confuse Apple success with Apple innovation. Apple may have made big media waves with the "Retina" display, but they didn't invent high density displays (and they certainly didn't invent the programming model behind it. If anything they regressed 15 years into the past). They didn't invent tablets. They didn't invent the A5 beyond putting together two A9s and a PowerVR GPU. I could go on and on.

What Apple is credited with seldom correlates with the reality.
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possibly offtopic but as a non-beginner javascript developer I find some things taught to be not best practices. its possible that the user is being guided up to a place where he fully understands "this is why this method is better". an obious example is the use of global variables and functions whose main purpose is to act on global variables. while not technically wrong, it is definitely a no no in modern development.

From what I went through I would say its a good platform to learn syntax and keyword definitions e.g. "this is a function" but it doesnt address the application part. and no having a step by step project at the end of the lesson does not address the application part. application needs to teach how to think in programming, how to take problems conveyed in english and solve them with programing.

lastly, ive found technical errors in the way instructions are worded. what they are asking for in english is not exactly what they expect as the code solution. needless to say this frustrates beginners.

its very hard to teach.
Researchers show that memories reside in specific brain cells
Great post!
But actually, there are no ideas that are good enough to pass all the tests. And every ideas need small innovations that we all should come up with. And to come up with small innovations, we have to tacle the idea seriously. So, I think most important thing is just doing it. But we should not start it with others' money, if possible.
How is that remotely offensive? I think you need to re-read his post.
No game can last for ever, and for WoW to last nearly a decade is pretty impressive.

Blizzard has plenty of games in the pipeline for the next five years. SC2:HOTS, SC2:LOTV, Diablo III, and the presumed Diablo III expansion pack. Plus 'Titan', whatever that ends up being.

It might not be as robust and predictable as WoW subscriptions, but running a profitable business isn't supposed to be easy.
When someone mentions "whatever it takes," I can't help but think of this (XKCD meets Die Hard) comic strip: http://xkcd.com/705/
Both - it's required for the garbage collector.
See slide 6 of this IBM presentation http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~amaral/IBM-Stoodley-talks/Uof... (warning: pdf). Note how little compilers cost relative to other ways of improving performance.

You are still thinking "cathedral" as the project structure. I think "bazaar" is a better approach - try all the things, fling stuff against the wall and see what sticks. Use the terabytes of existing code to learn. I see the latter like spoken language translation. The approach used to be coming up with rules from experts which is very expensive. Nowadays they use statistical approaches which relies on having lots of data, uses humungous amounts of machine time to build the translation, but uses very few (expensive) people.

A YC startup doesn't have to be profitable or even come up with a MVP - it has to show there is merit to what they doing and some probability of success in the long run.
Those were deleted?! Wow...

I work in a predominantly female office, and don't hang around with the typical IT crowd, so as a man I have very little experience of sexism in the workplace or in IT (I'm the lone coder in a digital media team for a non-profit focused on adult learning). But I can definitely say it would be shocking and not at all tolerated in any group I'm involved in if someone were sexist in the ways those posts describe.

As to this article, I love learning the history of things like this and how big societal changes like WWI and WWII change our perceptions of what is male or female dominated. We rarely realize our assumptions about what fits one gender or another.

Just last night, my friend (male) was biking in a pink helmet and wearing matching pink shoes. Another friend's daughter, probably around 5 or 6 years old, asked "Why is your helmet pink?" to which he replied "Because I like pink. Dont you?" She smiled :)

It's amazing how we can inadvertently influence children into this way of thinking without even realizing it. It's important to be mindful of that.
yeah. that will always be "true" btw.

at every point in time you could say "don't buy gadget X because any time now they will have gadget Z available". and you will be correct. works for cellphones, cars, kitchen knifes. anything.
I think we have a pragmatic difference of opinion on your first point.
I have a difficult time accepting that many people are going to track licenses on separate lines of a file into perpetuity.
I'm aware of the Aggregate clause in the GPL, but to apply that you need to get into whether or not various lines are "extensions" of the original work, and it's a beast.
I really think that people are best just treating each file as GPL, if you add GPL code to it.

As for Linking, I don't think you can legally link to a GPL program, from a non-GPL program.
This is why the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception exists.
The GPL says that GPL and proprietary code "are not combined in a way that would make them effectively a single program."

Stallman's position is that this prohibits both dynamic and static linking.
http://fsfe.org/projects/gplv3/torino-rms-transcript.en.html...