skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gender imbalances are more dramatic in the 20-60 population than 0-20 because children have less say in where they live. In other words a 32 year old male might decide to move based on a gender, but people rarely move based on the gender of their children.

Also, a high percentage of dating age people are in a relationship. If there is a 48:52 gender imbalance in 25-45 year old population. And 2/3 the women are in a relationship (ignoring the same sex relationships) the gender imbalance is more significant among the single population. 48 /3 vs 52 - (48*(2/3)) is 16:20 or 44.4:55.6
Ctrl + Left Click (or Command + Left Click) works in just about every browser.
Maybe you should consider donating your time to providing private lessons to Caine in arguing ad hominem.

I didn't assert any superiority to hacking tech or hacking business. Give him a business mentor or tech mentor. A ledger or a breadboard. I could care less. Maybe he'll want to pivot to square foot gardening next week. Who knows. Kids are fickle like that.

I do find your repeated assertions that he is NOT already running his own business quite patronizing. He is already running a 9 year old-scale business, period.

Anyway, I'm done, just going to take the energy being wasted on this thread and just refocus on thinking about how I can encourage my 3yr old son in pursuing all his interests du jour (fortune teller machines, car washes, mount fuji).
Yeah. I guess the one thing it could conceivably block is the ability to tell where that specific logo file is being served from...but the niche group of users who need to know that most likely would use inspector-tools to find it.

I was shocked when my roommate told me that in 8 years of owning a Mac (and using a PC from time to time), she had been completely unaware that there was such a thing as a "right-click"

I recently taught some media people how to use the web-inspector...and had to explain what a "right click" was to even show how to get to the inspector's context menu.
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Are you aware of any instances of the OS /dev/Xrandom failing in an exploitable way, assuming proper initialization? I'm sure that people still mess up, but there are a lot of problems that are solved in that sense.
No, Rebecca is right - the game changed for front-end developers when client-side scripting became ubiquitous, which is a somewhat recent development:

For example, while XMLHttpRequest was introduced in 1999 (IE 5), it took years to gain traction (XHR support was added to Opera with version 8 in 2005), and incidentally, JavaScript frameworks (Prototype 2005, jQuery 2006) and distributed version control (Mercurial, Git 2005) entered the spotlight at the same time.

While serious JS-based applications were definitely around before the advent of Web 2.0 (you can go a long way with hidden iframes, long polling, chunked transfer, forms, 204 status code), these were the exception, front-end work was mostly about layout and code-reuse virtually nonexistent.
Any data to contradict GP?

I graduated last May with a degree in CS. I had several friends who were Bio (Pre-Med). The math I was required to take started at a number higher than their highest math requirement. Likewise with statistics -- I saw some of their stat class work, and seemed like a joke to me. Incidentally, in my statistics course, we talked about how doctors don't (as shown by studies) grasp basic principles.

EDIT: I went to a fairly small, but locally very well respected school.
oops, thought it might fetch all at once...a separate round trip wouldn't make sense. (Granted, you're maybe doing a smaller hop to local DNS than to overseas SSL.)
While I agree that designating what a user can accomplish on your page is making UX sacrifices, this is handy:

Ctrl (Cmd) + Left click = open link in new tab
This is correct. (I'm one of the founders of 1% of Nothing)
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Ok, but that definition still renders the numbers meaningless - it's just a box you happen to see forever onwards if you've ever said yes to one of their prominent enticements to find out what Google+ is.

If they told us how many Google+ members use those results, and how often they are picked in comparison to the non+ results, that would tell us something that justifies using that definition.

As it stands, the numbers only tell us how many people clicked through a very prominent ad.
I wish Heroku would do this :)
Your medical application should probably be using === for comparisons. I'm not defending PHP's language design, but I think it's pretty well known among professional PHP developers that you should almost always use === and avoid implicit type conversions.
That's actually not true. The way this is structured, it's the founder's stock that they're actually giving up. They're diluting themselves.
What challenges have you faced trying to work with startups on the web dev level? Does it have to be remote?
Is this your stock response for any article that mentions real-time? You made an identical comment yesterday about Meteor; only the name differs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3825728
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I think there is an opportunity here in dealing prospectus of public companies for investors.
$ echo 'int foo(int x, int y, int p) { if(x=y&&p) return -1; return 0; }' > test.c
$ gcc -Wall -c test.c
test.c: In function ‘foo’:
test.c:1:1: warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]

This warning has been there since at least gcc 2.x, I believe.

I'm not making fun of you, really. But seriously: if you are spending 4 hours chasing bugs that can be trivially found by turning warnings on in your compiler, you have some process issues unrelated to C or PHP syntax.
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I agree with you for some things, but not others. If you are making a hotel reservation it would be retarded to indicate to the user that it was accepted, when you don't have confirmation.

But, you can still use this model of data synchronization with a bit of good manners. You create a "registration" data object locally, with a "confirmed" flag set to false. You wait for that data to propagate to the server, and for the confirmed flag to be set to true. You show the user a spinner until the confirmed (or processed or whatever) thing changes.
I think you're getting ahead of yourself here. DDG has 0.1% of all search traffic ( 30m out of 23b queries per month ). They get all of their 'relevancy' from bing, and blekko. The reason you like them is because they clean up these results, provide peripheral add-ons like user privacy, no ads, easier syntax for power users, and one-boxes which function more as a knowledge-base than a search engine. They don't crawl/index the web. or if they do, we haven't heard anything about it, or seen any different relevancy rankings from the BOSS api. So they are really a new face to already extant search engines.

You mention a 'bidding war'. Who would buy them? Any 'features' they provide can be copied by msft/google if they feel threatened. They don't have their own backend search technology so partners who might want to do search with them, ask.com, search.com, etc. have no reason to work with them as opposed to the BOSS api themselves or even Bing. I'm just as excited as you are about innovation in search and competitors to google, but DDG needs to be re-architected on the back-end before these sorts of pronouncements make sense.
The link does in fact mention auditing but you have to go to the "Jobs Act Alert" linked on that page. I wanted to cite to the "Jobs Act Alert" link, but it's a PDF, so I thought it was easier to cite to html page containing the link.

Your citation to the NY Times only governs "a company's internal financial controls" - not it's financials or independent accounting requirements (which is essentially audited financials).

My original criticism of the Rolling Stone assertion as reproduced by quote in the 37Signals blog post was and is that companies are exempt from independent accounting requirements. That's supported in the information I cited.
Corporate donations are indeed deductible, but generally speaking it's when the actual grant is made. If the grant is made when the stock has a low strike price, then there's really no benefit attached. If the grant is made when the strike price is high, then it's a significant cost on the business and dilutive to all parties involved.

The solution that 1% of Nothing provides is that it's the individual giving the shares instead, only exercised when there's an exit (IPO or acquisition).
I actually don't think it's a mistake. Contra and counter are synonymous, but one is more common (as far as I can tell with brief googling). I learned something too, no need to apologise.
...Modern OSes store the bulk of your data in the cloud...

I like the idea of an OS with a built-in dead switch, but non of the modern operating systems I use are storing the bulk of my data in the cloud. So, this dead switch will require my heir to have physical access to my disk, at least until cloud-based filesystems are much more common.
yep you're right. Even the AJAX API they had a couple of years ago was a joke that gave completely different results than what you saw.
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That does not seem like a stable long-term arrangement, but what do I know.
Small investors are fucked from the start

This has always been the case. The stock market, corporate bonds, land trusts, and any other investment made by a person who isn't an expert in the field is just putting their money into a big black box, crossing their fingers, and hoping more money comes out.

If you've got $100k to invest, go buy a car wash. It's a much safer bet than randomly sticking your money into the mystical black box.

If you've got $10k to invest, find 10 friends and buy a McDonald's. Yeah, it might be buying a job, but those things print money, and if you lose money, you will have lost it betting on yourself.

These are far more sensible solutions to manage your extra cash than throwing it into a mutual fund or a 401k or a savings account managed by someone you don't know in a way that you don't understand. You're just setting yourself up to be victimized when you thought you were 5 years away from retirement.
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Thanks for sharing it! Just wondering, what's your inspiration for creating the puzzle? Did you have to design your own puzzle or it came from somewhere else?

Haven't had the chance to test it out yet but will do when I get home (does it work with iOS 4?) Cheers!
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I figured this was likely to explain almost all of it:

Founding Team Composition: Silicon Valley founding teams are 34% more likely to be technical heavy than founding teams from NYC. Whereas NYC founding teams are almost 2x as likely to be business heavy than Silicon Valley founding teams.
I couldn't help but notice the actual logo wasn't one of the download options. Although inspecting the element tells us that the original logo is at https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com/images/modules/h...

I'm not entirely sure what Github was trying to accomplish with this, other than being a neat trick.

EDIT: https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com/images/modules/h... for the non-hover logo. ;)
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Did you read the article? Most of these pundits don't hate G+, or Google's business model here, or what they're doing with social.

They hate the PR nonsense that Google's feels is neccesary to abstract away the fact that they're tiny compared to Facebook.

I do too, it feels dishonest. You don't need to post the same numbers as Facebook. No one is expecting you to. So stop lying with statistics. It's like, Do No Evil is officially gone. Maybe a few white lies here and there never hurt anyone, right?
Should I have spent more time in the locker room or at the golf club?
I know that overriding expected functionality like this is considered a "no-no", but let's not loose sight of the fact that this "UX trick" was used on a logo, on the masthead, on the site's header.

What do you really want if you right-click on a logo like this? If you did indeed want to right-click & save-as to get the image, this feature takes that a step further and actually offers you a selection of high-res images to choose from -- it's adding not subtracting.

Its not like this trick is used unabated and disables functionality completely, like those "don't steal my image bro!" javascripts...

IMO this could even be expanded further, i.e. Link to company's about/contact pages, mission statement etc.

The logo acts as a gateway to the company -- I like it.
> Technically they could make those changes to the OS, but why on earth would they?

Look at their history, there has been a gradual trend in the app store from free-for-all to sandboxing, and now code signing is moving beyond the App Store. The question is why would they stop their current trend?

> Arguing that Apple would move to a signed-only experience is essentially arguing that they would sell only iOS devices

I think it is highly likely that in the future Apple will only sell iOS devices. Look at the XServe, a profitable product line killed off solely because it didn't fit in with Apple's strategy of mobile media consumption.
I really dig posts like this. As an engineer, this is the kind of stuff that makes a startup a really attractive place to work.
Where is the boundary for JavaScript.

Is it:

1. Just jQuery—some hide/show/toggle/etc

2. That combo of "real" JS and jQuery—writing your own functions and calling them later on

3. "Real" Javascript—knowing Node.js, writing plugins and the like.

I'm somewhere between 1 and 2, and I suspect most are. The jump to writing "real" Javascript is just huge—in fact it requires actual programming knowledge.

If you get to stage 3, are you still a front-end developer or are you a programmer now? And the question I'm really curious about, should I invest all that time learning to program actual Javascript, or should I focus on all the other stuff?
This is going to revolutionize the way apps are built.
> UF had a few teachers without PhDs, which reduces a university's ranking in US News & World Report.

Does this really happen? This attitude that if you don't have a PhD you must be stupid is incredibly annoying.
There's a lot to be said for ElasticSearch's data distribution. It does sharding and replication really well. That makes my life easier, as a service provider, as well as the life of anyone that has to manage and scale an ES cluster. Or who doesn't want to have to deal with client-side sharding or worry about how many servers can crash before their search goes down.

Here's a good video on the subject from ElasticSearch's creator: http://vimeo.com/26710663

ElasticSearch has very little ceremony around creating a new index and getting started with using it. You will eventually need to do some configuration to tune its behavior for your specific application, but the learning curve is nice and gradual. This makes ES great for exploration.

The JSON document store aspect of ElasticSearch is indeed very nice. The RESTful API is simple enough that you don't really need a client, just grab your favorite HTTP client library and start integrating. Plus, coupled with solid distribution, you're looking at a pretty viable standalone data store, IMO.

Also, very good documentation. And its user/developer community is all full of the really smart, enthusiastic early-adopter types right now :)

Not least, Lucene itself is hands down the last word when it comes to search.
Oh cool! I got taught to line up the number in columns, carry the one, etc... really a painful way to do addition. :(
If it requires something from website owners, you might as well wait for SPDY.
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I'm just sayin', but this is a ridiculous strawman. (Well, you're right that it's not a syntax error in the sense of compiler output. I should have been more precise and called it a "syntax goof" instead.)

I addressed the "someone else wrote it two months ago" point above: If that happened, and this was in the code, it was dead code for two months, because it clearly couldn't have been running correctly. That's a process problem, not a syntax issue, and the appropriate fix is clearly not to modify the syntax of the language.

(Edit for ctdonath: good grief. 1.) the reply was to to3m's post, not yours. 2.) The "two months" thing comes straight out of his example, please read it. 3.) It was a JOKE, based on his chiding me for language. 4.) Why are you still flaming about this?)
Clicking with the mouse wheel usually does that
yep, i completely agree. DDG is built off Bing's platform, so they're screwed if MSFT ever made their index private. They also don't got a strong brand outside of hackers who've heard of them.

I must admit they do a good job in the PR area of making themselves seem big and sexy. But they're really not innovating search, or providing any thick value in improving search. At least Blekko was trying to create a better algorithm.
I own the original inPulse and the charge lasts about 1 day. That's the main reason why I stopped wearing it. Definitely interested in something I can let go longer with an always-on screen. I'm not a fan of thinking about my watch's charge level.
Just plug it in when you take it off at night. That step can't be that inconvenient, can it?
How does this compare to the Sony Ericsson Liveview? Other than this being more expensive and only having a monochrome display?

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Ericsson-Liveview-display-Android...
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You're right, and in Overtone we haven't really tried to mirror SCLang at all. The DSP core of scsynth is a great piece of software with many years of testing, debugging, and extension, so it's wonderful that we can leverage this externally by just sending OSC. Of course we want to pull in any good ideas we find from the sc class library or any other music system, but generally we have been working on creating an expressive synthesis language that clearly communicates what is being produced. In SCLang there are many syntactic tricks and shortcuts which allow you to create very terse definitions, but they are often to the detriment of readability. With Clojure's lazy sequences we can easily model many interesting types of generative musical structures, and with easy access to the JVM ecosystem of libraries we can now control our musical processes with external tools or devices, visualize them with nice graphics, auralize external phenomena (e.g. people have hooked into automated build/test systems), etc., far easier than in SClang.
why do you want to take advantage of this bubble? why do you want to take advantage of anything other than your own abilities?
Clicking the Like button falls definitely into the "actively uses Facebook" slot, but commenting on 3rd party sites is indeed a gray area. But I'd be surprised if there is a lot of people who use Facebook only that way. Anyone has any numbers that could shine light on this?
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Yes it really happened, and yes, the leaders publicly cited it as the reason why. "We must remain competitive in the rankings!"
Seems it would be the opposite:

The law makes it easier for startup companies (particularly tech companies, whose lobbyists were a driving force behind its passage) to attract capital by, among other things, exempting them from independent accounting requirements for up to five years after they first begin selling shares in the stock market.
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This is an important lesson about basing your business on someone else's APIs.

I am confident, however, the folks at DDG planned for events like this.
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Subscription counts in G+ are only a problem (to me) if:

A) They are too low for a user to engage anyone, which is simply untrue (I have lots of fun and engaging conversations - with strangers, often - on G+)

B) The product relies on a massive user base.

You'll have to ask Google about point B as far as profitability goes, but for me, point B does not apply because I don't care if my Aunt is on G+.

To me, G+ is a much nicer Twitter, and a way to organize and meta-tag my contacts. Nothing more. I use it every day and I am happy with it like that.

I would be very sad if G+ ever became like Facebook (which, in my very cynical opinion, is basically a 'happy birthday' rotary club & dating service).
> "Look companies that are "bad actors" are going to cheat the SEC and the public anyway, and companies that aren't "bad actors" had to go through the additional expenses[...]"

Isn't it a universal argument against any law?
Not that I particularly agree with his argument, but your comment really doesn't follow from what he said, unless you think that being interested in deep technology makes someone 'better', rather than just different.
Battery seems to be a big point, lots of people are claiming the Sony Ericsson watch only lasts a half day to a day.
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Or middle click.
It's not exactly what you suggested, but with HTML5 you can add to the browser's context menu:

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/11/html5-context-menus-in-fire...
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
this one has an e-ink display. which is readable outside.
also as a result, it has a nice battery life.
It also looks NICE.
Because he is an opportunist and likes money? I take advantage of everything I legally and ethically can. I expect everyone else to do the same when it comes to business.
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No, I've never brought it up besides yesterday and today (as far as I recall), and I'm not planning to keep bringing it up and making it a crusade. I try to be a good community member.

Interstingly, I got much more feedback this time, probably due to catching the article soon after it was posted. It's also intersting that you noticed that I'd posted an identical comment yesterday and called me out on it; I was wondering if anyone would.

I hadn't given it much thought, but if making the same comment twice bothers anybody, I apologize.
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Don't forget the scum that is HFT...ooh, I'm sorry, I meant to say "liquidity providers".
Yes, it's a long-standing issue.
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Do non-divisive comments not require "very hard data"?

You realize that we create bias if we adopt stricter scrutiny of some hypothesis over others.
Incredibly beautiful. The first column seems to have a little text overlap into the bottom "Learn More" in Chrome 18.0.1025.151 on Lion.

I feel like the about us section could use a little bit of touch up. It seemed a little redundant.

Congrats on the launch!