skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"StackOverflow is a meritocracy, therefore women should feel just as welcome as men." Some women tell you that it's not. Is your first reaction: [a] we should honestly try to listen to their feedback , or [b] publicly hypothesize that they're probably just whining because they can't take the heat? One of these answers leads to change, the other demonstrates how an egalitarian space turns unwelcoming.

Sick of hearing how sexist Internet forums are? Good! Let's keep working to change that. Other than discouraging people from pointing it out I mean.
Microsoft Screws Over Nokia
No - Twitter outage blamed on 'cascading bug'.
Getting a drivers license is perhaps the worst safety decision a modern human can make. The reality is that your _average_ person, if they have something, will use it. Whether that's a drivers license or a credit card is immaterial.

This, of course, contrasts with something like a condom, where, if you are going to have sex (unlike driving, or purchasing on credit) - you are going to do it, regardless of whether you have the license/plastic (no pun intended) - so you may as well do it safely.

It's very difficult (impossible?) to go into debt to a credit card company, if you don't have a credit card. Likewise the vast, vast majority of people who don't have Drivers Licenses (by choice, as opposed to having them taken away) - tend not to cause fatal accidents.
I want to agree with you. Could you be specific about what exactly is dishonest here and why?
Fendi Resort 2013
I remember using a Commodore 64 when I was 3. We had a book of BASIC programs that had to be typed in every time you wanted to run them, or you could store them on a cassette tape.

It's about time I start teaching my 3 year old daughter how to program a computer; hopefully she hasn't been too badly spoiled by the iPad.
Presumably his readers are smart enough to get a deal. He mentions using Google Calander to cancel cards before fees kick in. So I assume he's not selling his readers down the river, but helping them 'hack' the system.
Unless your programming is a hobby, then it IS business. It sure is to the guy paying the bills.

Imagine a conversation like this:

PROGRAMER: "Hey, boss, on Monday we want to switch to
vi/m because everyone says it is more efficient".

MGR: "Do you have any data to support that? Will the
project get done on-time, on-budget, faster, better
and with less bugs?"

PROGRAMMER: "Well, I can't guarantee any of that and
can't offer quantifiable data, but programmers who know
it swear by it and talk about how much more efficient
it is."

MGR: "It only makes sense to me if you can prove and
guarantee that switching from our current text editor
to vi/m will result in true and measurable productivity
and quality gains. Otherwise there's nothing in what
you are saying that justifies changing over."

Big difference between hobby and business.

Boy, does one have to have a thick skin to voice contrasting opinion on HN sometimes.
If you go back now you'll see we've changed the copy.
Why not just call it Piety?
One could make a good argument that Chrome was only adopted due to Google's popularity in the search space, and leveraging that to push messages along the lines of "Upgrade your browser".

Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I don't think Chrome would be anything near what it is today without all of the google.com referrals.
> The internet still seems rather men oriented I know if I don't know the gender of a person and can't make a guess by their username I default to using male pronouns and most other men seem to do this as well.

This is not a property of the Internet; it is a property of the English language.
Safari

Looks like it's working now. Well, kinda. It shows 4 entries, but when I hit More it just shows a spinner for a moment and then does nothing.
...its most dedicated users...had nowhere to complain about the interruption.

Amusing, but poignant: We go to Twitter when something is down or an earthquake happens, but where do we go when Twitter itself is down?
Comparative Advantage in economics confirmed by evidence
Objective-C Cocoa utility functions/methods(from iChat Builder)
> ...incorrectly observe what YC is and apply something very different.

Heh.

I once captured an employer's engineering methodology (from memory) thusly:

- misunderstand the problem

- exclude domain experts and stakeholders from decision making

- make decisions

- don't tell anyone

- (post mortem) identify nonparticipants to scape goat

- repeat
Paper can be found here: http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/17969.html
Keeping the product alive could be one of the terms of the acquisition, but it seems unlikely - it could lower the offer, and it's unlikely startup founders would throw away money on a matter of principle unless the community promise was somehow legally binding.

In a sense the promise is a "non-credible threat" in game-theoretic terms. It would attract users if they carried it out, but because acquisition happens after the user-attraction stage they don't have an incentive to carry it out. This means they won't rationally carry it out, which means they don't attract rational users. This situation can be avoided if they "tie their own hands".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-credible_threat
Technologists, Corporate Leaders, Academics Speak Out Against Software Patents
And not having a credit score can be a wonderful way to live life.
Is this where I point out that this happens all the time, even on HN? And you very rarely hear about it?

One of my submissions got flagged by the mods last night, I'm assuming purely because my project is called "Shithead". (Am I going to change the name? Hell no :) )
It's neverending.
One security professional said the group probably used a DDoS-for-hire site to launch an attack against Twitter on Tuesday, but downplayed the likelihood the group was solely responsible for bringing down the social media network.

"It was mere coincidence," the security professional said. "The backend of Twitter is having issues, which is unrelated to the very small attack."

More like "Twitter suffers sustained outage coincidentally during hacker attack"
Joi Ito joins NY Times Board
Yes, we mean to be as inclusive as possible.
I am having trouble phrasing it but.... a long time ago I had the opportunity to make lots of money through a popular Facebook game I created. OfferPal was interested in having me sell credit card leads. I didn't like the idea of irresponsible younger people signing up for credit cards and giving their personal information out and accumulating debt just to get more XP in my game so.... I declined. This guy did that but then took the high ground and reversed. Not because he didn't like selling leads but because he valued his freedom of expression more.
Some technical inaccuracies in the article, eg the fact that the One X is quad core, not dual core as the author seems to think...
Problem with that (aside from the lack of capitalistic motive) would be management (IIRC, ICANN isn't directly managing the new TLD's, that job goes to the companies who actually end up with them), as well as what happens when someone who illegitimately owns a .com name were to get the associated TLD.
Until you need to borrow money for a car or a house...
I heavily agree with your rant.

Many apps are just brushing old ideas with new social, mobile or html5 coatings. Ignoring the fact that the idea is still the same.
You should realize you can actually say "socialism" on this site.
awesome! will do
> ... and that there is an opportunity for "consultants" who understand this, kind of like security consultants?

Risk management consultants already exist! Many companies just choose to assess it internally, or the consultants themselves are inexperienced (often lacking practical experience).
I hope that it does not become a trend to create repositories for every blog post. Github is not a personal blog, and I don't think it should be used as such.
Use TeamGantt to build your Road Map

Not a fan of this. Especially when you are just starting out with an idea that changes rapidly. A Google Doc with a few bullet points for key goals and big deadlines is more useful.
I was introduced to computers through my Dad. I distinctly remember him teaching me how to upgrade the computer processor (in order to play a new game, Jedi Knight I think) and I was hooked. He and I spent a long time together with various programs and how computers worked. Sometime later, he bought me a small computer second hand or refurbished that was my own. We often tinkered with it until I was ready to build my own computer. He and I did lots of comparison shopping for parts to build "The Ultimate Gaming Rig" for the modest sum of $1000 that I saved.

Some dads build cars with their sons. My Dad and I built computers.

He and I still talk about computers and software, and are still excited by the latest tech. Those are some of my most cherished memories from childhood, and became the foundation of my career over a decade later.
The server is starting to be a little too slow for me.

Coralized link:

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com.nyud.net/2012/06/21/i-just-ga...
But your investment returns are someone else's uninvested consumption. Aggregate demand is like a field of crops, and our society seems to have chosen to eat its seed corn.
Hmm, Woz is a great guy but Kim Schmitz(Dotcom) is an idiot and fraudster.
I don't know what the exact unutterable "dangerous" solution you have in mind, but I can assure you, that's not it. The concept of inequality is bred into the human psyche (our hardware or software), you cannot get rid of simplistic social constructs such as communism, etc. Even if technology advances to the level of creating robots to do all menial tasks, our concepts and need for inequality will not go away (for a more pop but stronger version of this idea see Mr. Smith's monolog to Morpheus in The Matrix).

Now, there is a solution that will work and is dangerous: Huxley's eugenics/genetic engineering solution described in Brave New World. And we're fast approaching that solution, I think.
http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html
"JSVim provides Vim in any textarea"

http://ostatic.com/jsvim
Do we know that virtuous intent is what separates those who apply versus those who don't?

That might just be measuring the stability, resources, and values of the family. I can easily see how a kid with a supportive family can do well, even under challenging circumstances.

But is that fair to the kid who was born into a more chaotic environment?

Or, a family where the parents make a rational choice not to send their kid to this school? Perhaps they can't afford increased activity fees. Or perhaps they worry about their kid being a fish out of water, competing with kids from more privileged backgrounds?

Or, a family where the parents are actively anti-learning -- either through internalized racism or sexism[1], fear of their kids becoming alien to them, or a belief that the rest of society is so racist that education isn't helpful?

[1] A friend of mine from rural Quebec was dissuaded by her mother from getting a college degree, because, quote, "we're not made for great things".
I think the key difference here is the audience. Offering credit cards to college kids is very different than offering cards to a more mature audience. Especially when you've been teaching that audience how to use credit cards as what they are, tools.

There's also a significant difference here in that in your situation, you would have been providing the rewards and you would have had power to artificially manipulate the value of those rewards (make it harder to win your game without reward points. Here, the author doesn't provide the rewards he is simply stating what offers the credit card companies themselves are making.

At the end of the day, there is certainly still a moral hazard here but it is also a very different situation than the one you described.
Since when did $4,000 a month become "FU Money." Is that serious? If you make $4K a month after taxes, I'd say you have a pretty small salary to just be honest with you. The article, I suppose, was about more than this but much of it spent so much time talking about how much money this is.

I don't want any of the younger HNers around here to get the wrong idea, as I didn't really know when I was younger, this is not, in any sense, "FU money."
Rdio Hacking Post Deleted
Video: Nook Touch Playing Toy Story Movie
Max Levchin wants to see more startups trying for bigger things
The value of having FU money (which doesn't have to be 7 figures).
My "privilege" rhetoric?

What exactly are you trying to say?
It's a real return of ~2%, it's a nominal return of 6%. "Nominal" in this case means "in name only" - it's the face-value of the return, not the actual value.
Microsoft BlueHat Prize Finalists Announced
Can someone with a Top Developer Badge give us an example of a comment they have replied to?
> You need to limit the applicants to organizations with the financial wherewithal to be able to provide the stability needed

Right, like Sun, Netscape, Digital Equipment Corporation, Silicon Graphics, GM, Lehman Brothers, etc.

If any industry should know that "financial wherewithall" != stability, it's the technology industry.
There goes my plan for my Icelandic-themed casino site.
Neither the original link, nor the above are working for me now... so much for keeping his freedom of speech.
Here's Lady Ada (real name Limor Fried) who runs a $1M+/year tech company out of a live/work space in NYC. https://www.adafruit.com/about/ And here's her story about ridiculous levels of harassment in the tech scene. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3165434
Don't feel guilty about it, but you can be aware of the issue and account for it. It's stereotyping. Most of the time, stereotyping works for us in our lives - the stereotype of 'a chair' and 'a tree' and so forth all make sense. If someone says 'can you go out the back and move the chairs under the tree?', you'll know what to look for because of stereotyping. Occasionally you see chairs that take a bit of figuring out before you realise they're chairs.

The problem is when stereotyping fails. When it fails with a chair, there is no problem. When it fails with people, those people are marginalised and it seriously affects them. Given the preponderance of men in programming, it's easy to stereotype a male programmer, but it's something we're aware of being wrong. So don't feel guilty about it, but work to fix it.

Apart from the stereotyping there is a separate issue, being that a lot of men start treating another user quite differently once they find out they're women (hostility, sexual advances etc). That's unforgivable.
It's highly dependent on local costs of living. And if it doesn't require full-time maintenance, allowing one to work (or not) on whatever one chooses while still collecting a comfortable income, that is absolutely FU money.
Sure, Microsoft's Surface announcement was vaporous. No surprise there.
More than that, where is the defense of masculinity? Why should anyone, men and women included, have to apologise for their nature? Yeah, men, on average, are more to the point when they speak. Yeah, women, on average, are more in touch with their emotions.

Let's pull our collective heads out of our asses, admit that we're not identical and learn to respect each others' differences, the fact that those differences are based averages and that exceptions occur both ways.

Not to mention that we're on the fucking internet. There is no gender, race, colour or creed here. Everybody pick a neutral username and, hey, presto! Problem solved.

I'm a woman. Or am I... Ooooh! Who gives a shit.
Where are the technical contributions?

A selection of some of the major early contributions in chronological order;

first programmer - Ada Lovelace

foundational paper for computerized algebra - Grete Hermann

original programmers of the ENIAC - Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Fran Bilas, Kay McNulty, Marlyn Wescoff, and Ruth Lichterman

first compiler written - Grace Hopper

first person to use a computer in a private home & first developer of an operating system (LAP) for the first minicomputer - Mary Allen Wilkes

And all of this was done before Mary Keller became the first American woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science, in 1965, and it wasn't until 1989 that IBM had their first female fellow, Frances E. Allen.

If you are claiming to be finding it hard to find technical contributions to computer science by women and that you see no evidence of discrimination, it means you are being willfully blind, at best.
> However the reality is that almost nobody in the world or evn your town even knows you exist, much less is actively working to keep you down. If you grow up being told that life is (largely) what you make it, you will tend to do what it takes to achieve what you want, rather than remaining mired in self-pity and victimhood.

"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."

Stanley Kubrick
FDA: Software Failures Responsible for 24% Of All Medical Device Recalls
every time he says "load" I snicker like a middle schooler
I find it unpleasant also. I find there is a bunch of Know it alls there that offend me.
99.996% chance that LHC has found signal belonging to Higgs Boson
Because they're stupid and lazy;No because they're oppressed and victimized LOL ROFLMAO TLDR
The Scam Wall Street Learned from the Mafia
Wil van der Aalst – business process management, process mining, Petri nets

Hal Abelson – intersection of computing and teaching

Serge Abiteboul – database theory

Samson Abramsky – game semantics

Leonard Adleman – RSA, DNA computing

Manindra Agrawal – polynomial-time primality testing

Luis von Ahn – human-based computation

Alfred Aho – compilers book, the 'a' in AWK

Amos Nuwasiima – PHP Programming book

Frances E. Allen – compiler optimization

Alexander Scaranti – Image Processing, Image Retrieval

Gene Amdahl – supercomputer developer, founder of Amdahl Corporation

A. Annerl – multidimensional processing, computational complexity theory

Andrew Appel – compilers text books

Bruce Arden - programming language compilers (GAT, MAD), virtual memory architecture, MTS

Sanjeev Arora – PCP theorem (Hahaha. Right, I want to see who came up with Ketamine theorem.)

A. E. Hugo - parallel computing on heterogeneous multicore architectures[citation needed]

John Vincent Atanasoff – computer pioneer

Ali Aydar - computer scientist and CEO of Sporcle

Leonard Ayunar - Computer Programming Enthusiast, 1997 - At Present Software Developer

That's just surnames beginning with A. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_scientists
Very clever. Looks like a nice symbol set too.

Side note: I found the fast moving image carousels to be extremely distracting while trying to read the copy.
If the bandwagon is a programming language that runs everywhere, on the client and on the server, what's so bad about that?
That's interesting. When I used Emacs with the default bindings, I only used C-s or C-r when I was genuinely trying to search for something, not for navigation. I think I normally used an estimation like C-u 2 0 C-n exactly where I would recommend against doing 20j in Vim. [I meant 20j instead of 20h in this post's grandparent.] This discrepancy probably arose in part because I tend to edit documents as I go in Emacs since there's no mode switching, meaning I didn't usually have to do much jumping around in files, and in part because in Vim I'm used to using the /?nN keys as the motion components of editing commands, not just as isolated motions for navigation, so my fingers are used to jumping to places by searching.
What do colors mean to your users
I think you are misunderstanding the point. It's not that he was saying 4k a month is FU money (although it could be) its that since he ostensibly already has FU money he can turn down 4k a month so he doesn't have to compromise his principals.

That said if you have zero debt, low expenses and a ton of money in an account that yields 4k a month in interest, 4k a month could be considered FU money.
I think grandparent poster was referring to blogs and articles on the internet today, not all of computing history.
It's a meritocracy based on public competition. For whatever reason, nature or nurture, that appeals to men in our culture more than women.
It's certainly an interesting attitude.

But what if he had decided to change the banner, and give the money away to a charity instead?

Money is a tool you can use for good. If you are blessed with the kind of extra money he was suddenly given, you can use it to do good with.

Obviously it's all his choice, but making a big show of "freedom of speech" feels a little disingenuous. No government is trying to censor him; nobody is taking away his freedom; this is just a business negotiation. At no point was his freedom of speech ever threatened in the slightest.
Announcing Vault: safer passwords for the web
And the implication of everybody being well educated is that everyone will have white collar jobs or prestigious blue collar jobs. If everyone is well educated then who will want to take a job as a street cleaner when they've just spent $80k on their education? The solution is clearly not limited to just educating everyone, is it?
Are there any 40+ women who read hacker news?
Self employed professional here, but cannot find an intelligent female in real life. Where would women who read this site actually hang out?
Bzzzt! Different word. Socialism does not address inequality of power.
If the goal is to get the most and best answers, and you're not engaging all demographics, then you can get more and better answers by doing that.
Agreed. I assume this is font ligature magic, like when you type "Zapfino" in Zapfino?
>The concept of inequality is bred into the human psyche

If it's inherent then why are there examples of societies which lack it?
That might sound bad, but selling adds on social media is actually more useful for society as a hole and takes a lower percent of our GDP than the moon missions. As to cool tech, we are actually discovering earth sized planets orbiting other stars, that's IMO far more interesting that having people play golf on the moon and a lot harder. We are also getting ever closer to building things at the atomic scale. As well as consumer robots be they roomba's or self driving cars.

Not to mention stuff that's useful in space and at home. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PVeff(rev120404).jpg
$48,000/yr is easily enough to count, when it comes on top of whatever income you need to live on. I've seen people end up having to get a job, or take out a loan, or acquire some other millstone round their neck, for want of much less.
Implement text objects and Vim-style fFtT (character searches are repeatable via ; and ,) and you'll have me as a user. :)
I'm not Woz, but I would venture that Woz probably pitched Kim Dotcom on his new startup FusionIO, which is relevant to file hosting.

Also, it's awesome that Woz turned Kim onto the EFF.
That's a magnificent job of stereotyping you've got going there. I can think of lots of "rich people" who have done quite well; Bill Gates springs to mind.

I'd love to see some evidence showing that middle class folks aren't financially mobile.

I mean seriously? Rich people (oh you qualified it with a "most") are stupid, unmotivated, and boring. I should know not to feed the trolls, but on HN, I can't let this type of stuff slide.