skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The perfect UI for a child and for all other people unfamiliar with a computer all in all is the touch screen.

Agree. Android phone, or iPad. Amazingly easy for kids to use.

I'm skeptical that teaching kids starting with a command line is always a good approach.
From the interview transcript:

"[I]t’s kind of bizarre if you think about it: if you were, say, a computer company,
and you had a product that was all based on this particular chip. You didn’t build
the chip yourself. You were expecting to buy it on the outside, and your expectation
was just that you’ll be able... to buy this chip on the outside in the quantity you
want at the price you want to pay... The software engineers, the systems architects,
are often the key component in these companies, expecting to hire them right
out of college, and they don’t really have much relationships with the colleges...
They don’t get close to their suppliers; they’re just hoping it will come up.
If you did that with a chip, your board of directors would probably fire you for
terrible risk management, but when it comes to skills and employees, it seems to be
kind of a standard practice."
Why would you use Twitter Bootstrap and not give any credit anywhere?

It feels you intentionally tried to hide some of the common Bootstrap classes with your own names like "homepageHero" but went ahead and left some of the defaults like "button primary."

Also, why are there 1500+ lines of HTML, mostly consisting of whitespace?

The design is just okay, but the source code and lack of attribution is really shoddy.
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Agreed.

I used to take a lot of macro shots of flowers as I traveled and did a lot of hiking in varying ecosystems. Playing with focal depth and framing was a great pleasure, and my shots were frequently something I was really proud of.

Then I had a roommate say in a pseudo off-hand passive aggressive way that she didn't understand nature photography - "I mean, it's not like the photographer made the flower, it was already there."

I really felt it undermined some of my best efforts, while clearly not understanding anything about photography. But then she also felt a $200 point and shoot was superior to all my oversized stuff.

I guess these days I'm too lazy to carry around more than an iPhone, and not interested in spending a lot of money on that hobby. I doubt that comment has had an impact on my passion for the hobby, but then again, I remember that comment with glaring clarity and it's been about 8 years.
Thanks Heather! We love Toronto too! We're mutually inspired by everything that comes out of the place.
Turn customers into raving fans
Most of the PayPal bashing I see is due to their strange policies with merchants. Horror stories of frozen accounts, forced refunds, etc. That's the main reason I don't use them.

But yes, the terrible UI doesn't help either.
One Windows to rule them all
That's annoying. I'll tell the guys today. Thanks for the feedback.
It seems to be a trend; gloss over the article then infer most of the meaning from the title.

The title I submitted isn't great but, I can't seem to correct it.
People have a massive incentive to put themselves in bins: it gives them the opportunity to hate on the people in the other bin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingroups_and_outgroups
I think "We're really not complaining" is taking it a bit far. Sometimes the best way to handle an issue is to ignore the issue - why can't this site just be about the accomplishments of women in STEM? The allusions are a detractor.
It's another facet of the short-sighted, WallStreet-induced culture where the only things that matter are quarter profits and share prices, and where a manager who remains in the same position for two years is branded a loser.

The pressure is on cutting costs now and raise profits now and to hell with tomorrow, by the time a new employee is fully trained chances are that the manager who hired him is gone, probably following the CEO.
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I use Ctrl+[ instead of escape. This has the benefit of having Ctrl easy to reach for the few shortcuts that do use it and also for other programs.

Actually, on the laptop I'm on, I have Caps Lock mapped to backspace - vanilla unedited colemak layout. On my desktop, I have Caps Lock remapped to LCtrl and LCrtrl mapped to backspace.
> The vast majority of the apps out there today would work
> just as well as HTML5 apps.

Except that you will need to load a bunch of frameworks to get the functionality which iOS already provides.
Anyone know the legal distinction between an algorithm, which is not patentable, and a business method/process, which apparently is?

I wonder if a viable legal strategy could be to have the definition of the former extended to the latter in some way.
Thank you for point to point study! I am starting to build mobile phone apps and this post has provided me a nice overview.
That'd be cool too, but this site is probably trying, at least partially, to encourage women and girls who may aspire to enter a tech field but are discouraged by being unaware of the many admirable women who have succeeded against the odds before them.

In a perfect world, peopleandtech.com would be all that's required, but unfortunately we're not quite there yet.
Fair point and we agree – it was more that we wanted to focus on the positive, not the negative. It's an iterative project though (including the copy) and this is our first go so we may take another look at it. Thanks for your thoughts!
This is an excellent point, and perhaps an argument against at-will employment. Even if you had a candidate who was willing to commit to staying employed long enough to justify the time and expense of their training, in many US States they lack the legal power to agree to such a contract.

Extrapolating from personal experience here as a programmer but it looks tough for a couple of reasons, one of which is pay. Employers tend to give very good starting salaries for experienced people, and very poor raises. So employees sign up inexperienced at low pay, get trained and get raises that put them below market rates, so their incentives tell them to do exactly the job hopping you describe.
WebGl music videos
Intel acquires sizeable patent portfolio
I feel sick to read this. The kids learned the world in a twisted way. I really think kids should know how transistor work before work on computer. Otherwise he took too much unreal things for granted.
I thought Vim was better than Emacs because it didn't require stuff like this :)
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1,8 in that order for me.
"even" read?
I just wish nvidia would show how to keep the video card from running balls to the wall all the time, without installing their blob which can break for kernel updates. That way I won't have to avoid nvidia cards for laptops. Surely they could do this without enabling their competition to crush them.
Exactly, when my 2.5 year old uses our iPad, she is actually using it - watching videos, looking at photos.
I've been burned by JQuery Mobile performance. I think it is a joy to use but it is not ready for the app I was building.

Could you provide a quick Pros and Cons of Sencha and Kendo, just a little bullet list of your opinion. Cheers
Exactly. It's the same as telling to a blind person about the shades of colours. Only in our case I'm blind too and simply dreaming up that what we touch isn't all there is.
Totally agree.

When I read "not complaining", it conjures images of complaining. Rather, a stronger focus on "commending" "applauding" would be apropos.
> Has anyone thought of this before?

Doug Engelbart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart) around 50 years ago:

http://www.dougengelbart.org/history/pix.html

"other experimental variations were later built and tested, including foot-pedal operated, knee-operated, even head-operated ("nose pointing") devices."
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I think it's good to bring to light problems of slavery and unfair labour practices, but it doesn't seem at all accurate.
I probably share an overall level of consumption with between 500M to 1B people.

If all of the others are our slaves, then that means an average of 6 - 13 slaves per person. But this website says I have 38. And I still have to hang up my own washing.
The complete text of the response makes a few good points. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=184564 By using the same binary blob on all platforms, they have Linux support on day one for every update across all their hardware, the same driver version number across all platforms, and all extensions supported on Windows work just the same on Linux. On the other hand, that doesn't excuse their stonewalling of the Nouveau project.
Absolutely. I love and agree with the goal of focusing on the positives, celebrating the actual successes happening today. I think that small part of the slogan actually introduces a negative to the site, if anything.

I'm really glad to see this being done at all, however, and the site looks great! I hope you get a lot of traction!
Designing 404 pages with a positive impact
You really think it's feasible for a 2 year old to have an idea how a transistor works when all they want to do is watch videos of kitties and puppies on YouTube?
The you're not curious about the right things. Or probably more accurately, you're an exception. Humans are social animals.
This'll be good for all the event/ conference organisers in Toronto as well. It's always tough getting women to speak at those sorts of things!
I find myself coming out of the zone when someone comes up to me and talks to me. I feel baffled, stupified, and really confused about almost whatever they are asking about.

It's obvious to them, and 60% of the time they find it extremely bothersome because I'm nearly unable to focus on what they are asking after because I'm heavily processing whatever what was flowing around my head.

The result is that I feel irritated and being interrupted, and they feel put off because I'm not paying enough attention to them. Thus my most productive times when really digging into something are something like 6pm - 9pm in the office, alone.
"Steven Cherry: Employers can’t find workers at the going wage. True or false?

Peter Cappelli: That’s false, and that’s almost by definition the case, because we know how markets work, and markets adjust and wages adjust. I had an employer write to me the other day saying they had a skills gap, and they really did. It wasn’t wages, because they did market wage surveys, and they were paying what everybody else was paying, and all the employers, by the way, are having a skills gap, so it’s a big problem. Well, if everybody’s got the same problem, and you’re all paying the same wage, it’s probably the case that you’re not paying enough. So the way markets work isn’t you set the wage and say, “Well, this is good enough.” You pay what it takes to get the people you need, and if wages have to go up, then so be it, right? "

I think I get it except for the "and they really did".
Almost every "peopleandtech.com" blog ends up being "men come talk about tech and very very occasionally we get a woman on to talk about women in tech."

Plus, there are lots of those around. Why would we need one more?
I like this. I'm not too sure about the slogan as others have mentioned, but something that focuses on the positive achievements of women in industry to me is far better than focusing on the negative like the terrible link from last week.

The only disappointing thing was the link to Toronto, I have two women in the UK that I'd nominate straight from the get go and a possible third (although I'd need to clear it with her first).
Those same idealist techies who hate marketing are the ones who wrote all that wonderful FOSS that these marketing hacks use day-in-and-day out to make the web a shittier place.
I've never gotten to use RISC OS; could you say a little more about what you mean? Just that it was very consistent?
I agree that saying false things is bad. I have heard and seen "Cato is a Koch Bros. group" many times, and thought it was a truth. I have not seen a primary source either way though, so I am willing to be shown wrong on this.

I do agree with the statement that Cato is a very, very right leaning organization. I have never seen anything from them that does not promote laissez faire style economics, and libertarian or conservative social policy (albeit more libertarian). This is to me a far right position, and generally falls in to the far-right on most political scales I have seen. Further, many of the pieces from Cato tend to support liberties for corporations and big business rather than individuals when there are questions of balancing rights - this to me also supports the classification of far right.

I'm sure there are pieces that don't fit the above pattern (I've seen them), but IMO, they are much like the "balance" parts of Fox News or MSNBC, where they are almost comical, and only seem to further highlight the main bias, by over simplifying or strawmanning the other point of view.
This is also true. Especially in smaller companies, passion is one of your main criteria. Someone without side projects or perhaps a history of open source collaboration just isn't as passionate as someone who has those things.
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There is actually a system for dealing with that -- the apprentice system -- but that is mostly for trades.
Not a "bunch of frameworks". In our case, just one, that being Sencha Touch.
An Intelligent way to Insult People
Tweeting effect on follower growth
ACTA on life support as key EU committee rejects it
Yes, that's exactly the problem. Once you have that 2-3 years of experience, you're suddenly qualified for all of those jobs that want it, that were out of your reach when you just got out of school. Meanwhile, the 3% yearly raises have not kept up with what other employers are offering for someone with a little experience.
Didn't crash IE10.0.8400.0 in Windows 8 Release Preview 64-bit.
I have a feeling that parent's comment was intended as a joke.
Catholic church has no problem with evolution, only fundamentalists do.
starx/xmonad push this to a limit.It is just much more not feasible.
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Only problem with ctrl-c is that it doesn't function exactly like escape(for example, if you're inserting text on multiple lines in visual block mode, ctrl-c will only insert the text on one line and cancel the command, whereas ctrl-[ or escape will properly insert the text). If that's a problem for you, you can rebind ctrl-c to actually work as escape. Either way, I find it quite comfortable.
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I've worked with Titanium extensively, and a lot of this article is just plain wrong regarding Titanium. It seems like Sapan just read some older docs or articles on Titanium and did a write-up for traffic.

* Titanium uses the V8 JavaScript engine on both platforms (not JavaScriptCore or Rhino anymore)

* Titanium does not support the Windows phone platform (at least not yet), and the desktop app support has been discontinued so it technically doesn't even support Windows anymore either

* Titanium also produces Web/HTML as as output target for mobile web sites if desired (with little/no code changes)

* You can still embed webviews if you want and make "web wrapper" apps, just like PhoneGap (so yes HTML and CSS IS possible)

* Using external JS libraries IS possible, and is highly encouraged through the use of CommonJS modules

I appreciate comparison articles for the sake of the discussions that follow, but this much bad information is just not excusable.
Wanna make extra cash in your spare time working from home?
This isn't especially surprising, I probably learned to use command line when I wasn't much older. That wasn't because I was some genius, just that this was the only way to use a computer at the time.

There seems to be a popular misconception that a command line interface represents some kind of advanced brain surgery when in fact for many tasks it's simply easier.

I have done tech support jobs a few times in my life and it's a lot easier to guide someone in using a command line than it is a GUI "Click on Edit , click on Tools , Click the "advanced" tab , right click on the picture of a gear, now drag this thing into that place on the left" vs "type this in exactly how I dictate it".

Also CLI tends to be more predictable, I've seen so many people's computers where they've accidentally dragged interface elements all over the place and have no idea how to find anything.
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When I have children, I also want to do things like these. I have a bunch of old Sun computers that I want to expose them to, not to mention an Amiga 1200 and a SGI O2.
Looks like the landing page for american express
Crush the Castle developer's response to IGN's "In Defense of Game Clones"
In my opinion, the latter (the former will work itself out). All these startups we're starting, we need to remember this when they start growing and maturing. It's a kind of giving back that benefits you, too.
Interesting - the end is love or hate. Me and a friend really liked it, another friend was pained to read it.
I am not a parent so as far as childhood development goes I'm completely ignorant. Is it normal for a 3-5 year old to have the literacy skills to interact with a text+keyboard interface?
Once again they manage to get it completely and entirely wrong

>Scientists need to be more open among themselves and with the public and media

At least in the physical sciences we couldn't be more open. We even have to schmooze 'contacts' in the press to get our results mentioned. We are total publicity whores.

>Greater recognition needs to be given to the value of data gathering, analysis and communication

By whom? I think most experimental scientists are pretty convinced of the value of gathering data!

>Common standards for sharing information are required to make it widely usable

Oh dear, I see another huge government plan for another over complex family of data formats. HDF meets the semantic web. With lots of competing Eu, NATO, International committees all meeting in nice places for years withotu producing anything that is usable

>Publishing data in a reusable form to support findings must be mandatory

Fine but probably pointless. The raw data is available, it's the data processing that is the argument.

>More experts in managing and supporting the use of digital data are required

Cut researchers, hire more "digital media interface facilitators"!

>New software tools need to be developed to analyse the growing amount of data being gathered

We do - we spend most of our time writing < bleep >ing software. The average experimental physicist writes more lines of < bleep >ing code than the average programmer.
And thanks to the unique way in which UK academia is funded we did it all with open source software. If we had had decent funding in the 90s we might have used IDL, mathematica, Matlab and tied everything up in proprietry formats - but we didn't so we didn't

NEWS guys - the problem isn't the data - it's the papers.
If I want the next job I need publications. they have to be in proper journals to count. The journals not only charge money, they screw us over - you want to buy the Astrophysical Journal at a cost of approx 1 staff member/year? Then you also have to subscribe to the Ecuadorian journal of fish spotting. Want online access, fine, but you still have to pay page charges to publish in it and still pay extra for color 'pages'

If the Royal Society had any purpose - beyond big lunches - it would be to do what it originally did 400 years ago. It should run it's own reputable FREE online journal with proper referees, a citations score where I could publish results and get a job. Without having to do all the staged press releases, minimal publishable unit, getting a story on the news, interesting Discovery channel - and all the other chicanery I had to do!
Number 4 is a tragically bad idea: "Infringers should avoid liability if they independently arrive at the patented invention." I love the EFF (and donate) but as a litigator it appears entirely unworkable. The root problem is that this proposal commingles the standards for copyright and patents. In copyright law, independent creation means there was no copying, and thus no infringement. Patents (sw or otherwise) are entirely different and exist for different purposes. Patents protect early work done by inventors from poaching by later (or larger) entrants. The inherent tradeoff is that the inventor must disclose to the world how his invention works in exchange for receiving a limited time period of market exclusivity. (EFF #1 is spot-on that the current time period is too long for software).
However, the EFF is saying "If inventors can’t understand a patent, then they, as a matter of logic, cannot copy it. Likewise, if inventors don’t know about a patent, they cannot copy it." If all inventors required was copy protection, they could rely on existing copyright law. Patent protection is important because it protects 'non-literal' duplication through the doctrine of equivalents and other established principles. Done right, a patent system should protect small inventors whose creation is groundbreaking in their industry, but that could be easily reverse-engineered or duplicated by the big players based simply on recreating the inventor's product without literal copying. TiVo vs. cable DVRs is a good example.
> The perfect UI for a child and for all other people unfamiliar with a computer all in all is the touch screen.

And how does one become familiar with computers if they only live in that world? This is no different than any other professional bringing their kids to the shop/office to learn what daddy does.
Besides the above, which is completely and utterly true, legislators often want consensus, if they can get it (I realize how crazy this sounds, given the way bills often end up). They don't want to be forced to pick sides when it's large companies that support one side vs other large companies that support the other. Not just because of the lobbying money involved, but because they think they are trying to do the right thing, and if it's 25 folks they trust on one side of an issue, and 25 on the other, they aren't likely to do anything.
It really seems like you just listed out a bunch of things that are different about a bag of M&Ms and a piece of music without addressing the economic question. I think I understand that an M&M is different from an A minor chord voicing.

About the closest you came to the point I raised was to point out that even if you "square up" with the M&M vendor by paying his cost basis, you've still deprived that vendor of the right to sell their music --- oops, I mean M&Ms --- at the price they determined.

In other words, the closest you came to my point was by agreeing with me.
Thanks! We think you're right and we're already looking at changing that bit.
I am struggling to see what's hysterical about it at all. Do you not read the news? Or do you genuinely believe that most startups aren't a half day away from a game-over flaw?

Or, like most nerds, are you comfortable with "might makes right" as long as you're the one with the might, and something you perceive as a giant faceless corporation is what the might is directed at?
We had a discussion about this over on Server Fault (http://serverfault.com/q/111813/7200) and UFTP (http://www.tcnj.edu/~bush/uftp.html), UDT (http://udt.sourceforge.net/), and Tsunami-UDP (http://tsunami-udp.sourceforge.net/) all came up as viable open source offerings (along with FileCatalyst and Aspera in the commercial space).
Sadly, yes..
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