skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, at all? That's surprising. Certainly there are more males in tech, but that's still unusual. If you don't mind me asking, what region are you from?

Sadly, even as a woman, I myself am often guilty of assuming other programmers are men, if I don't have any evidence to the contrary.

There was a new york times article recently about the same problem in a different, and far more gender-balanced, field: medicine. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/assuming-the-doctor...
Oh well, if you're fixing them, I've a couple more issues:

'^' goes to the first character in the line, not the first non-whitespace character

'o' is not undoable using 'u' (those most other things are, strangely)

Thanks!
The iPad as a Keyboard-Centric Device
That may very well have been where I saw it. Thank you.
JavaScript - "typeof" operator & null
I think that forgetting your appointment isn't exactly a resounding sign of interest.
Have you asked the women involved if they think it's patronizing?

Or is it just something you think?
You don't think GM or Ford have ever lost power for an hour? Did you ever read about it? Did the car dealerships suddenly run out of cars for one hour three weeks later? I think you are vastly overestimating the impact transient events like this have.
Is there any other way to get an arbitrary file from your dropbox into a text editor?
Time to speak up about getting computer science in the common core
"The ones applying were the ones who were motivated to learn"

Wasn't it their parents that were applying? Doesn't that change the conclusion you drew?
>Unfortunately, most people probably promote the "don't touch it!" mentality.

Because computers are black boxes to most adults. They don't want their child to touch it because they wouldn't know how to resolve the problems that may occur. When the adult nearly breaks something every time he/she touches it, they are definitely going to be worried about letting kindergarten-aged children touch it.
The page is working, give it a shot one more time.
Cultural marxism?

Is that an attempt to discredit someone just by tossing out a scary-sounding label? What if we haven't been programmed to fear Marxism, and "cultural marxism" just makes you sound like an ignant fool?

In other, politer words, what exactly are you trying to say here?
Integrity > money
I'd upvote you a thousand times if I could. You've just modeled the kind of humility and maturity that can actually make the world a better place. Thank you for this..it hasn't gone unnoticed.
To steal a quote from Forest Gump: "Evil is as evil does".

I don't believe evil is an immutable property of an object; these kids were evil by virtue of their actions. I also believe that, yes, children can be evil. That they don't know any better is a testament to the lousy job their guardians have done in raising them.
The oDesk Flower: Playing with Visualizations
Show HN: Taking on the Freight Industry with Freightify
Of the top of my head:

* Domains + sub-domains allows for wildcard SSL cert registrations (e.g. a cert that covers .example.com).

There's also cookie registration.

* How do I differentiate between my_blog_host, my_blog_host_2 and really.my_blog_host? Are they all owned by the same person? Is really.my_blog_host associated with my_blog_host?
People always treat hjkl as the single biggest roadblock to vi(m) adoption, and I don't get it. Two points:

* First and foremost: If you rely on hjkl, you are doing it wrong anyway. You should be using f, w, ), :n (for integer n), ^d, ^f, etc. My biggest hjkl use case is using j to idly scroll through a file (or less/more/man page), in which case it's conveniently under my index finger and I love it. I also use l for off-by-one errors.

* Secondly...especially now that it's ingrained, all of the other keys "make sense" (sort of), and there's no excellent alternative. With your setup, "Why is h insert? Wouldn't i make more sense? Gosh, vim is hard to use." Etc. etc.
All good ideas! We hope our final presentation doesn't disappoint, because we think we have some pretty good ideas ourselves. =) Highlighting women in other cities as guest posts is something we hadn't thought of and I'll be sure to bring that up with the group as something we can potentially add to our long-term plans. Thanks!
I dont see where there is any conflict between how it works natively and how it can/should work with an offline web app though.

The assets shouldnt take any significantly different time to transfer between native / html, and you have the same choices of when you want to transfer them
I am the founder of freightify, if you have any questions feel free to ask me here or send me an email.
Well, you can only sync one gmail account (without buying an app which allows more) so having multiple gmail accounts means I had to forward one of my emails to a hotmail account and haven't been able to sync my other google calendar with my handset. The other program I use a lot is google music. I tried the CloudMuszik to get around this and it was horrible so I actually tried the desktop Zune interface. Again, another horrible experience. It brought my desktop PC to a crawl and would lock up and crash constantly.

Without fully committing to paying for a bunch of apps to get my stuff working, it just seems like a pain if you're hooked into using a lot of google's apps. Granted, if I was going to stay, I would invest in the apps, but I'm not quite there yet.

Just for the record, I'm using the HTC Trophy on Verizon - which is on their 3G network.

Also, if there's something I'm missing, let me know. I'm all for having a more trouble free experience with the phone.
Just use f and ; judiciously.
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/announcements/11

"We've introduced App folders: app-specific folders that Dropbox will automatically create and keep track of, even when users move or rename them."

I assume that means a fine-grained folder instead of the scary "entire Dropbox" situation. It was introduced on 8 months ago, but there's little detail on it.
I think you're both arguing different things:

jlgreco: vi/vim is an efficient text editor when you learn it! And even more efficient with a foot pedal! Don't discredit our time spent learning vi/vim when it is in fact an efficient text editor!

robomartin: vi/vim may be an efficient text editor, but in the grand scheme of a large(non-trivial) project, small improvements to text editing efficiency are irrelevant. Particularly at the sake or cost of learning and mastering vi/vim. There are easier-to-learn and more-intuitive text editors available now.

Both valid points.
Appreciate the offer, thanks. Be sure to keep in touch with us and we'll put a call out if this becomes a part of our plans.
Looks to me like the vulnerability you linked to demonstrates the exact opposite of what you think it demonstrates: The problem is that an unsigned value (a length) was being stored in a signed integer type, allowing it to pass a validation check by masquerading as a negative value.
EMail alert if you have more than usual visitors
If you got TechCruched or get similar effect you got email. You could setup yourself how many people to have at one point to get alert. Ideally that tool would pause all current A/B or MVT tests. Anyone?
To the contrary I think people are too eager to find scale free and power law phenomena.

There are several papers discussing log-normal bulk and then power law tail.

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2002/feb/26/the-phy...

http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/wp671.pdf
and more

For what it's worth my initial statement was meant to hold beyond income and wealth and generalize to say achievement and productivity and so a lognormal assumption was fitting as the distribution to pick. It also chimed well with grandalf's statement on how advantages multiply.
A quick Internet search tells me the expression predates the implement of violence, and as such is likely to refer to the swinging of an actual cat.

I have previously encountered references to swinging cats for entertainment or medical purposes, but not with credible sources.
We don't want a different system. We want no system at all. How's that so hard
to grasp? Every single proposal to "fix" patents so far either involves
fighting bureaucracy with even more bureaucracy (that's suuuure gonna work out)
or are based on the naive assertion that a shorter evil is somehow a lesser evil.

People need to acknowledge already that the patent system is not just a little
broken, it's fundamentally broken to its very core. You can band-aid it all
you want, it won't fix the inherent problem, and that is and always was the
paradoxical claim that slowing down progress will somehow lead to more
progress, as well as the utterly illogical assertion that you can, in any way,
own abstract concepts.

I completely agree with iwwr: don't be afraid to take the "radical" stance for
the sake of a twisted form of political correctness. If something is bullshit,
then say so, and demand it be stopped. Not weasel around trying to appease
the people who profit from the status quo. Patents are bullshit - the only
good patent is a nonexistent patent. Period. So demand that we get rid of this
impediment to mankind.
because a private school would not have confined my friend's child to special education because she spoke Spanish in class one day to a friend.

Perhaps rich people are getting the result they believe they are supposed to receive? As in, their behavior is modified in minor ways they do not perceive but all towards the goal of increasing the success of the children they enroll?

It really comes down to parents. Children are not autonomous for the early formative years and how the parents treat them, from setting their morals and encouraging good behavior sets the course for most of their life barring abrupt unforeseen external forces.

I have only one issue with private schools, I do not believe any politician should be allowed to send their children to one.
Wow, awesome! I was going to roll my own (pie charts) this weekend, but now I don't have to (probably wouldn't have been able to, anyway). This looks great, thanks!
Of course it's relevant... Any time you're considering moving a large chunk of data to a remote datacenter, it makes sense to do the math and determine whether it's faster/more cost-effective to move the data there digitally or physically. Why do you think AWS allows you to ship them your portable storage? http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
I honestly think that a lot of the perceived sexism on anonymous places, like the supposed gender downvotes in this instance, just is the Internet being the Internet.

Okay, this may be a little sexist, but my impression is that women take negative stuff on the Internet (wether it's a mean comment or a downvote) more personal than men does. It may be because the emotional part of the brain is more developed in women's brains or just because they often don't have the same Internet experience as many men does. Stack Overflow can be a tough and ruthless place, but that doesn't make it sexist at all, even if some women are turned off by it.

Anyway, by looking for a meaning for something that doesn't make sense, like the downvotes in internet communities like in this case, you'll most likely find something (but often not the real reason). It's easy to "see" ghosts - that doesn't make them real.

Sexism is real and should try to be prevented, but unfortunately sometimes it seems to go a little bit overboard - either by actively looking for it (and finding it everywhere) or making it sound like there aren't any differences between men and women.
Saying credit cards are bad financial decisions is like saying getting a drivers license is a bad safety decision.

Beyond the fact that you can use credit cards to your financial benefit, simply getting the card has no consequences whatsoever. (Unless you buy into the 'you must keep a balance to maintain good credit' myth.)
She's completely correct that it's the culture of the rich which make them rich.

What she's completely wrong about is that it's their morality that makes it so.

We, the rich, the middle and upper classes, are the ones who fund prisons, we are the ones who do not share our food with our neighbors, we are the ones who refuse to mix with them and share our culture.

It's like Terrence McKenna said - "Culture is not your friend". Culture is a tribal way of life - it's a gang sign, whether that sign be dressing in red or blue or wearing a suit. It's our culture which judges that those who perform certain jobs are more deserving of comfort than others. Yet without that farmer growing his crops how would you eat? Without that garbage collector removing waste, how would you stay healthy? Without that secretary, how would your business function properly? It's these value judgements which really hurt us. Someone will always need to do those jobs (until our machinery is smart enough, anyway) and, as it stands, they will always be deemed by the rest of us to be undeserving of the comfort that we have just because we do something essentially far less fundamental.

Just as power corrupts, so inequality breeds resentment and poisons society. There's a word for the solution I'm hinting at but it's too dangerous to even mention.
It's important to have a diverse group of people asking and answering questions. If the diversity is so low that the site can't even attract a non-minority like women, that doesn't bode well for the quality of the community.
I'm starting to get tired of the hand wringing around the issue of an anti-woman bias surrounding the software development/tech space.

Out of curiosity, does the same standards of equal representation exist for predominantly woman dominated communities in the case of men?
> it benefits them only indirectly by making iOS a more attractive choice

Since you agree it benefits them - and your use of the word "only" is deceptive here; having the best app catalog is no marginal thing, it is an enormous benefit, often cited as the primary reason Android tablets have struggled and why WP7 failed - why don't you think that benefit - which exists primarily because HTML5 still sucks for mobile apps - incentivises them not to improve browsers?

It would be trivial for both Google and Apple to remove a large number of the barriers to HTML5 apps replacing native apps. But they don't, and it's been long enough that time is not an excuse.
Has anyone tried compiling the real vi/vim with Emscripten?
You're fixating on the same point over and over again, probably because it is the point that every nerd ever fixates on when this discussion comes up. "The copy leaves the original owner no worse off".

If you actually think through the scenario I presented, you'll see it's more equivalent to copying than you're crediting. The M&M "cheat" is recouping the M&M owner for their cost of goods sold. The M&M owner is no worse off, because the owner can simply buy another bag of M&Ms and wait for the next "sucker" to come along and pay retail.

This is obviously an absurdity. The person who takes a bag of M&Ms, coughs up the wholesale price, and walks out with the product is obviously guilty of a crime: shoplifting. Everyone agrees with this. But the economic impact to the shopkeeper is the same.

Why do you accept one and not the other?

Please don't write another 20 paragraphs about "rent seeking" and "copying" and plans for chairs. By your own definition, the shopkeeper is "rent seeking" when he charges more than his cost basis for the M&Ms.

You put a lot of effort into writing, obviously. Put a little more effort into thinking. When someone is caught shoplifting, do we have them pay the wholesale price of the item they stole as damages to make the retailer whole? Of course not. If we did that, there would be no disincentive whatsoever to steal; if you win, you get the item free, if you lose, you get a discount. But you're applying that same logic to unlawful downloads. And, lo and behold, there is apparently no incentive whatsoever for anyone to compensate artists.
Reminded me of this: http://mumbrella.com.au/woz-not-great-92499
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I look forward to yet another HN thread about why a startup won't work.
Hi Ted,

I'm not looking for a definitive answer, I'm looking for examples and general input, observations or advice.

I've specified that I'm talking about standalone mobile apps, so I'm not talking about a mobile app that exists in addition to a webapp. I also said that users are only accustomed to paying a one-off payment of a dollar or two to buy the app. Users are not accustomed to in-app subscriptions (for standalone mobile apps).

I'm looking at these apps in the context of a startup, so I guess the minimum amount of money would be a decent annual salary for one or two people, after any expenses.

I'm open to any money making method that users are generally open to, so I think for a standalone mobile app that leaves cost for the app itself and advertising.

As to how niche, I'm asking this question in the general sense, not in relation to a specific example. Any examples from readers would be great.
So the solution is to make everyone a nurse or an engineer or a manager? Who's going to sweep the streets and grow food?
If most of the SO community was female but you didn't know about it, would your observations somehow differ from these? Would you notice?
"Today's turbulence explained" was just posted: http://blog.twitter.com/2012/06/todays-turbulence-explained....

Unfortunately there are no details, it just says "there was a cascading bug in one of our infrastructure components".
I think you might have been one of the 10% who got white on black -- they are just doing science.
Sad that he tells the students "This will be proof, I hope, of my idea about the humanities".

It's Viniece Walker's idea, the woman he met in prison, who earned the idea with her struggles.

I wish more people of privilege were aware of how often they "forget" to give credit where credit is due, especially when credit is due to someone of less privilege.
Thankfully there will be men talking about women in tech too, since some of our interviewers are male. :)
Twitter is down. The very fabric of modern life is endangered
Depending on how far back the data goes, you could try to spot language trends trough time or make a pretty graph of the average article length trough time. I'm not that inspiring.

I hope this'll get a follow up, I'm sure someone can think of something awesome to do with it.

If you decide to open source it (copyrights?), use Bittorrent: it's the perfect tool for this job.
This article is breathtakingly ludicrous. The 'humanities' and the culture that espouses them are essentially pre-scientific. The exercise described by the author is an embarrassing demonstration of that.

Inequality is built-in to the structure of our 'civilization'. There are social science studies which have demonstrated how that works. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=10&q=inequality&... Some of those might not be as ludicrous as the article (although many of the authors of those studies may be social Darwinists which would probably invalidate many of the results).

My current perspective is this: there is a very simple, stupid set of beliefs which are supporting the structure which leads to the maintenance of vast inequality. Basically, we still have castes and have gone through a few different rationalizations and slight variations over the centuries.

So I think that good social science will look at income inequality over generations in terms of social class and look at social class as an extension of ancient caste systems. I also think that at one time caste systems may have provided an overall benefits to societies, but modern technology has long since made them obsolete.
It's ironic that it's the Jews who embraced using eugenics on themselves!
Most of Jobs' patents are for trade dress and product design.
If they get there faster then the acceleration is a success.
This is an absolutely great and badly needed update. I really hope this pushes Apple to do the same on iOS. One of the biggest frustrations as a dev is not being able to respond to reviews that are inaccurate, feature requests that have already been implemented, or answer questions that are asked in the reviews.

Also, responding will show other users that the dev is active and helpful in solving any problems that come up.
I think we can get it to feel even more native too, we haven't done a whole lot of optimizing on the transitions and whatnot. Overall I'm pretty impressed with Sencha and HTML5 in general, so far.
Not bad. Resembles sparkline.
Your simile doesn't work. One needs a driver's license to drive. One does not need a credit card to make purchases.

And getting card actually can be a bad financial decision as too many cards can negatively affect a credit score.
Cultural Marxism is "just" a "scary-sounding label?" Yet you seem to freely use the jargon without understanding it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism

Perhaps you are simply ignorant of the origin of your "privilege" rhetoric.
Sorry about that, it does look like a recurring problem for some people. I cannot reproduce this issue on my end. What browser are you using?
One thing that is interesting about looking at both mean and median is getting a feel for the shape/variance of the returns.

One huge winner could randomly happen in an otherwise low-quality program and that incubator would appear higher on rankings forever after that unjustly since the result is very much not reproducible. In other words measuring by average could mask getting lucky.
I highly doubt that a site that operates at the scale of Twitter would be susceptible to a DDoS; or wouldn't at least of provisions in place to lessen the effect of such an attack.
What? The solution proposed by the article is to make quality education available.
I have better things to do than try and force men to be what they aren't and force women into things they don't want to do.
I agree with you, I think the headline in this case is ill-advised, especially since the body of the report quotes a security professional who casts doubt on a DDoS as the culprit behind today's downtime. I fear it might have been chosen because it's a more provocative headline...
Thank you! The web design is by Mark Staplehurst (who shared the build with Brett Bergmann). The logotype is Blanche by Atipus via LostType.com and headlines are in Arvo by Anton Koovit via Google web fonts.
Awesome, it's 1987 all over again.
I'd wager that your wager is spot-on. Keep it up!
Twitter is pretty quick to block access by IP. I occasionally run into it even during normal usage, when I open a bunch of profile pages.
But not having any credit cards can also negatively affect your credit score.
One needs a driver's license to drive. One does not need a driver's license to travel.
Allow me to quote myself:

In the '60s, the best and the brightest were being lured by NASA, to put a man on the Moon. 50 years later, the best and the brightest are being lured by the Silicon Valley, to sell ads on social media. Biggest anticlimax ever.
Decent, but really the context shift is too intrusive for everyday use. I use vim on command-line (with set -o vi), so it's not like a regular textarea is too small for it to be useful either.

EDIT: Deleted parent link was http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/
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"your entire program has been garbage collected"
I need this on a t-shirt.
I doubt XNA based Opengl ES will be efficient. If I were a game developer, I'd rather rewrite my code.

The Game problem can be solved with game engines. But I'd like to write opengl directly.

As for UI, Qt for android is a good approach.
Not being familiar with this guy's work, what's so honest about getting in bed with credit card companies and feeding them more signups? Selling lead generation for credit cards seems a little dishonest to begin with.
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