skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incidentally: accused of harassment just for getting in an elevator with someone of the opposite sex? Huh?

He's referring to an incident where a conference speaker had drinks in the hotel bar with other attendees and at 4am said she was tired and left to go to her room. A man left the bar and followed her into the elevator and only after being secluded asked to continue talking with her in his room. edit: Found the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

Her point was that his approach made her uncomfortable. He had the opportunity to speak to her in a public place in the bar but chose an elevator.

I think he chose the elevator because it was less stressful to approach a stranger with no one to witness a probable rejection. Of course it made it more stressful for her to turn down a stranger while trapped alone with him.

She received some serious backlash from men who think it was perfectly acceptable to tail a woman into an elevator to engage them in conversion while they are trapped with you, and she would be completely wrong for feeling threatened.

Coincidentally it's the same type of guy who would have told her it was her fault for getting attacked if the man had raped her.

Edit: Also, I can't believe HN is supporting tomjen3's comment. It's borderline parody, but not.
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For context, see the commment from me_myselft http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3955287
> @davedx asks : is there a way to specify multiple different exception types in your C++ throw()?

yeah throw() can contain multiple types that can possibly be emitted e.g. int foo() throw(a,b,c,d) implies that foo can only throw either a/b/c/d types.
> Given that, Ahn Chul-soo, one of the two candidates with most public support in the upcoming Presidential election is founder of an anti-virus software company, I think days of 'Paying the Price' will end soon and abruptly.

Are you kidding?! A Windows monoculture is on the basis of his businesses.
I can relate to his frustration re Hulu ads. Discovery Channel (here in Europe) advertises mostly for their own programs - often for the program you're actually watching. The remainder is for a handful of companies. Clueless about why they'd do that.
Warren Buffet actually mentions this in interviews. He is a long time Coca Cola investor.
Needs a news.ncombinator.com :)
Well, at least he just has some blood pressure that needs tending to.

Even though I mostly disagree with the man's politics, I must say that it takes a smart prick to make a contextually accurate and funny joke in a foreign language at an indecisive moment like that.
I agree, it simpler for a dev to see inequality here, my friend has his company, they don't pay internship because generally the interns is too junior to work on anything alone, and sometimes even cost him money taking times from other dev explaining stuff.

Not only that, the intern will have to learn a lot of things he did not learn at school because it's not the market reality.

If they did a good job they generally get a nice gift (like an ipad) and sometimes a job.

Granted we have no Harvard around, i guess it could be different but, I don't think unpaid intern are dramatic at all, rarely an intern can do as well a job that even a 2 years experienced guy does.
There's an unspoken assumption behind all this, that I'm wondering about.

So, FB is having the usual IPO roadshow, but they're not doing it quite as expected. My question: Why are they having the roadshow at all?

Instead they could have done a few interviews with major business magazines (which I believe they did), put out what amounts to an annual report, to get people information, maybe even had a special hotshot-analyst-only webpage for submitting questions about strategy & what not.

What does the roadshow get them that the above wouldn't have? The only things I can think of are time & money spent, and lots of headaches.
Graphically, I think it's good enough overall that you should move on.

My concerns are:

Dark grey background doesn't really scale over the long term.

Very dark red would be better than the black.

See: http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/d4h-color-theory/
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There are big risks involved in this UI that may well outweigh the benefits. What if you accidentally "ask a friend" on searches you didn't mean to? (It's very easy to mis-click, especially on a trackpad or touchscreen.) And what about the person Bing/FB suggest to all their friends as an expert on, say, "toilet paper"?
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It looks nice, but I would like to know where does Bing gets the data from Twitter and Facebook. Either Google is lying when they launched SPYW and the data can be obtained publicly and easily, or Bing made deals with these two companies that Google didn't for some reason.
I still don't see the similarity. Just about any modern language is full of English keywords - for, while, unless, function, etc.

Unlike COBOL (which I admit to not being very familiar with) SQL uses standard mathematical symbols as operators whenever possible... + instead of "ADD" etc.
Just because you don't like the language doesn't mean its not important. It has been the gateway programming language for the web. Sure, experienced devs move over to python or ruby, but that doesn't make php any less important.

edit: seriously, its groundbreaking in the fact that it made dynamic website development accessible to everyone! That easily makes it more groundbreaking than half the languages on the list.
You are wrong here.

If you pay $300 for well constructed leather boots, they will last you for years, even if you wear them almost every day. They are also much more easily repaired than sneakers, which gives you another nine months of life. So proper boots are actually a better investment than sneakers.

I was really skeptical until I bought really nice boots from Fluevog. Additionally, a good company will stand behind their boots, and give a warranty. Fluevog replaced my boots for free because there was a manufacturing error in the first pair.

Try it. Every man deserves a decent pair of boots. They provide great support and feel amazing.
Probably true. When I asked a blackjack dealer why they didn't have automatic shufflers, she mentioned the shufflers aren't purchased, they're leased.
Who needs the scientific method: Atul Butte at TEDMED
matt from the fsf here -- i spoke to the person with him at the hospital, he's fine. they're doing some routine tests now.
Note to anyone considering using ninjas in their marketing:

It will make you seem out of touch and dated. It was clever for a brief moment a few years ago. But now it just smacks of laziness.

It's like hippies still thinking bellbottoms are hip. Yes, at one point that was true, but now bellbottoms just make you look like a hippie.

If you want to appear creative and edgy, please come up with a unique meme, not a dated played out one.

A great example is Hipmunk - a fresh meme that's actually hip.
I haven't seen the UI, but I don't think that it would be wise if you could "accidentally" share something. There must be at least two or three buttons before you share something.
The killer idea and ninja team links were dead. Where do I go?!
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I agree with the point in general, but for one subtle detail:

What shocked me even more is the amount of comments saying that “supporting IE is too much work”, not because it still costs the crazy amount of time it used to (ie6), but because they’re developing on a Mac.

No, it's not that it's difficult on a Mac. It's that it's difficult on a [not Windows]. Subtle difference, but undermines much of the "grow up" point of the article. You're saying developers are whining because Microsoft doesn't support their operating system of choice. But that's incorrect, they're whining because MS doesn't support anyone's operating system but their own.

And even if it was simply that you can't easily debug IE on a Mac, the fact of the matter is, all the other major browsers allow it. Who cares if it's unreasonable to ask Microsoft to provide us a build for easy use and debugging? Every other vendor (i.e. competitor) does it at the exact same price point: $0. If IE lacks this "feature" at the same price point as the competitors, then I say deciding not to support IE is fair game (though I wouldn't personally exclude IE for anything other than a toy side project).
Wow, if only he were in the United States where you don't have to rely on the Government for medical care...
Meh. Single threaded map reduce and very hungry disk usage. Mongo isn't the silver bullet a lot of supporters sometimes project it as (not saying you are).

Also, he actually linked 2 articles, I'd never seen the first one so it may very well be a hoax or whatever. But the 2nd one has made it's rounds a few times and has stood up (IMO) to scrutiny.
The book I referenced basically says that western civilization is an aberration caused by a unique set of characteristics, and that the vast majority of people in the world still live in subsistence conditions. Also that the west could easily slip back into those conditions.
They are asking "how can we make our product more useful."

I think it's disingenuous to presume anything else.

Just because you personally don't think you need this, doesn't mean the companies involved aren't trying to solve what they perceive to be some users' needs.
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My most recent product management hire in NYC was doing unpaid internships for four different startups when I hired him.

I partially hired him for his drive and experience, so it's hard to argue he didn't benefit from the internships, but it still doesn't sit right with me.
Months ago, I submitted my sitemap.xml to Bing. I check the webmaster tools all the time. No errors, it sees all the links in the file and reports the correct number, but it refuses to index my pages. I do a search for my site in Bing and it shows me next to a bogus social network site of a similar name. All the while, Google is continually slurping up my content and showing my site correctly in search results. I appreciate the promise of Bing, but I think the implementation still has a lot of work to do.
Some technical talent is directly impacted by these types of laws and we care. The last time I got an e-mail asking me about a position in Qatar I just sent back a link to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Qatar along with a few polite words.

The guy was sympathetic, but we both knew that was the end of that conversation.

For some of us this isn't a matter of politics, but an impact on our quality of life. And for others of us, it may just be a matter of politics, but even then, that doesn't mean it's trivial.
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Maybe they could start by importing, categorizing, and structuring the entirety of Wikipedia. That would be a good tech demo.
at times i wonder if people forget that "Y-Combinator" has a real meaning ...

Maybe I'm getting old, but I definitely don't remember an N-combinator.
Virtually every employment contract I have seen even inside California is extremely biased towards the company owning everything. It is just that in most cases that contract isn't enforceable, even if you sign it.
Excellently articulated! I ran something like this in Brighton, UK in 2009: http://www.bootcycle.com

I'm thinking of running it again this summer.

Also related: http://thinkstrapped.com/
I don't see how the example you list is relevant to my argument that with proper disclosure and warning of risks people won't be able to decide if the risks out-way the gains.

Example I listed: That with full disclosure I can make an educated choice as to what goes into my body.

Example you listed: That over 50% of people that get prescribed something decide to take that something the wrong way as opposed to as directed.

They don't seem to be the same. (for one, using a drug in a matter different then what you've been told to is just gross negligence.)
When you run your own site your job is to do whatever you want, however you want, it's your chance to be opinionated and exclusionary, and as long as you are not begging me to invest money, more power to you.

Also open source and sharing is more robust on linux and posix platforms, so people naturally develop tools they can use on their own platform, with their own workflow, and who cares if it gets ported to windows, I'm not creating a product to sell, I am sharing my personal toolset in a friendly way.

Why are you complaining about the difficulty of installing a FREE opensource project on a platform that is not native to the Devs? Of course it's more difficult! Why are you complaining so loudly? Why are your expectation so entitled? Did you even bother asking for help on Stackoverflow?
Right, because some yuppie doesn't like his style, people aren't going to invest in Facebook.
I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me out of 10k
This is an internet message board, not an concentration camp. Lighten up.
If he paid more the same pair (brand, size) and at the same time
Lighting conditions make this impractical. I clicked on several of the darker brown colors and they all had white people of European origin. In fact, after clicking a while on dark brown I could only find white people!
Blake, you've done an immensely valuable job with these class notes. I think 2 minutes average visit duration is pretty good for any blog. I think I personally didn't read any of these notes from the site as they are quite long, but instead stored them to Kippt and read later on Instapaper.
umm..the bing.com/new page doesn't exist..
i will not make a parrot joke here. i will not make a parrot joke here. i will not make a parrot joke here. ..
I edited that post before I blogged.

And I had a different Critical Update on that blog post for over 10 months with a harsher warning. I changed it today because I still had seen no progress but felt I should tone it down.

If the django-piston community updates and documents, I'll post something nicer. In the meantime, the critical update remains.
Yep, we know :). It's a "working title" (tongue in cheek)
Sounds much like an unpaid apprentice.
More a lesson about the pitfalls of building systems using technologies that you don't understand very well than it is anything specific to either CouchDB or MySQL.
I did the same and feel the same. Even DuckDuckGo does better than Bing when it comes to indexing my site.
Just implemented the ability to process payments for utilities / rent / groceries, etc.

Bovis.In allows tenants or landlords to make public announcements within a house, pay each other for rent, utilities, etc, and you can also post anonymously to avoid being confrontational.

If anyone's interested on the technical stack, I'd be more than happy to explain it.
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There are a lot of things I like about the query interfaces of PetaPoco, ActiveRecord, etc. For simple CRUD operations, they're much prettier and more concise than than embedded SQL - Person.find(123) is a lot nicer than "person = db('select * from person where id=123')"

But beyond very simple cases I feel like non-SQL query interfaces very quickly become terrible, clumsy, leaky abstractions.

I usually try to have the best of both worlds - I create a SQL view/function/sproc containing my big gross gnarly joins, and then query it in a pretty way via the ORM.
I think your statement is both out of date and quite broad. Plus you imply that a database would be limited to 500k keys which is silly, when you really mean a map-reduce job. And further, are you really doing MR over your entire dataset, all the time, or would key filtering, ranges or secondary indexes be a better fit? Its easy to do M/R in Riak over only the correct amount of data.

Hadoop may have been better for what you are doing, and logging metrics is a particular use case where a specialized database is most appropriate.

But it is incorrect to imply that Riak falls over at any specific key limit. This is simply untrue. With Riak you can always add more nodes if you need more capacity, and Map Reduce is done in a distributed fashion so adding more nodes adds map reduce capacity. Its not perfect but it is not brittle.
...can't rely on the government for healthcare...
Shrug, I never bothered to say hello.
More a lesson that requirements change overtime.
Malthus thinks that population grows like the dark gray line in [0]. Verhulst, and pretty much everyone else who has studied population dynamics [1], thinks population grows like the light gray line (though perhaps with more complexity.) Notice the actual population data following the light gray line.

[0] http://www.growth-dynamics.com/articles/Kurzweil_files/image...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function#In_ecology:_m...
Gender-balanced groups are more interesting and more comfortable than groups which are dominated by a single gender. I would certainly consider the presence of women in technical management positions to be a big point in a potential employer's favor, since it is evidence that they have managed to overcome the usual boyzone dynamics.
I clicked for a while longer, still only european looking or caucasian people. The only candidate I clicked on that actually was naturally brown was the picture of a chocolate (september 12th 2012). I'm going to stop clicking now, this site is a waste of my time as the underlying technique is proven to be a fiasco.
She definitely needs a job!
Some of us moms could probably teach you a thing or two about coding. We're not all home baking cookies. Some of us spent our maternity leave writing keygens for shareware and learning the intricacies of using softice for reverse engineering.
Yes, but in US you have to have a lot of money for receiving a very basic and fundamental human right: medical care...
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Why should students who aren't able to get paid internships be denied the right to have an unpaid internship? I would not be where I am today were it not for unpaid internships.

Some people would be helped by mandating all internships be paid, but these are not the people who need the most help. The people who need the most help are the ones that would be cut off from any chance at early work experience by such a system.

The idea of everyone having a paid internship is nice, but many places will simply stop offering them if unpaid interns aren't an option.

Also, no one is forcing these students to work anywhere. Yes, market forces drive them towards an internship, but there are many internships in the market.

If unpaid internships were banned or otherwise made illegal, companies could still bring in students as volunteers, which are unpaid. They would still get the same experience and be in exactly the same position, except now they are no longer eligible for college credit and certain legal protections. How is that a better system?

Are there any compelling arguments why unpaid internships should be made illegal? If not illegal, then how should/could they be reformed?
Hmm. I guess the N stands for "ninja". Probably full of brogrammers. No thanks.
Quick feedback on the website:

If your forms have placeholders, I can't see them.

When I type into the fields, I can't see my text.

I'm using the latest Firefox on a Macbook Pro.
yes, especially if you view the cached version 50% of the time.
"So if an acne drug causes liver failure it will still get approved as long as it's effective at treating acne."

Er, no.

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/HowDrugs...

"The goals of the New Drug Application are to provide enough information to permit FDA reviewer to reach the following key decisions: * Whether the drug is safe and effective in its proposed use(s), and whether the benefits of the drug outweigh the risks."

Also http://www.fda.gov/drugs/resourcesforyou/consumers/ucm143534... : "It's the clinical trials that take so long -- usually several years". I'm afraid I can't find any actual figures for the typical length of the clinical trials at present.

...

"Most academics believe..."

Absolute rubbish.

For one thing, you've cited only one academic (as "the River" is by a journalist, not a scientist), and he attributed it to "well-meaning European doctors and nurses"... so, er, not the US, and not the government.

But, more importantly, there's plenty more academics who think that theory is completely wrong:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11405925

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11405926

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15103367
It's also a joke which subtly reinforces the stereotype that programmers are male.
Google only gives me ads for products I've already bought. I'm not sure which genius thought that kind of targeted advertising was a good idea.

Perhaps if I used gmail, so they could read my emails and see what I've bought already, I wouldn't have this problem. I'll pass on that idea though.
Because you've already decided that this would make a great blog post, and so you want to make sure to get some pictures. A comment below by justin (who apparently works for Exec) seems to indicate this is the case.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3951355
In my experience this is still true... I still haven't found a word processor/presentation software for Mac OS X (including Office 2011) that is compatible with my university's word and ppt files.

Moreover, the ministry of education is a big costumer of MSFT, giving kids and teenagers early exposure to MS tools (think the 90s, where not every kid had a computer at home).
We were going for the "so bad it's good" thing ;)
What's wrong with having three more web service libraries? Competition is good.
Adobe links to an advisory; they are not the one releasing proof-of-concept code.
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Throwing C++ exceptions across DLL boundaries could also be problematic. Note I say DLL, and accent on Windows, because on other systems more likely one C++ runtime to be used, always dynamically linked (well, there are exceptions like busybox - but they are not even written in C++).

Anyway, in the Windows world - a mix of compilers is the norm, and even the "standard" MSVC compiler differs in how it handles exceptions one version to another.

For example all the team is on VS2010, while I keep VS2005 and VS2008 because I have to compile plugins for Autodesk products released with these compilers (not only for exceptions, but also for RTTI, virtual functions handling, and Runtime overall - for this even "C" would get the blame).
My Spanish is rusty, but the article says that:

- Stallman felt ill halfway through a lecture he was offering in Barcelona, probably due to a blood pressure spike;

- he asked the staff for medical assistance;

- meanwhile, he continued the lecture with some difficulty, but in a good mood;

- the lecture was suspended when the ambulance arrived, and was eventually cancelled;

- after being attended by the medical staff, he was well enough to walk out of the building;

- no further details on his health.
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The problem here isn't necessarily with Square, but with Jason being very quick to play the 'taking further action' card.

Being irate and confrontational gets you absolutely nowhere, and I would never say Jason's exchange was an exemplary case of dealing with an unexpected situation professionally, and with a cool head.

Having spent 7 years in customer service, I'd encounter such attitudes all the time. It achieves nothing, except to piss off the person you're mouthing off to.