skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A- "What do you want: a peach or a pear?"
B- "I don't know. Both?"

That's how I feel about Microsoft's decision. I've tried the metro apps and while they impress visually, they fail to help me remember them the next time I need to do something they exist for; they all look alike and lack distinction and uniqueness.

This is obviously all subjective, but I believe we'll see some major changes in the next 2-3 years to the Metro UI: Windows on the desktop users won't use much of it (not the Metro look, the native Metro apps)… Put a non-tech person using Windows 8 and you'll get "huh?" and "where's A or B?" at an alarming rate. A new user to OS X (coming from Windows) will have less trouble finding what he/she wants than coming to Windows 8 IMO, and that's not good for Microsoft.
Moose is easily the biggest administrative pain in the ass of all time. Any::Moose just makes it work. If you can get away with pure-perl Mouse, it's okay -- but once you dive into Moose... I hope you handle your own hosting.
Why are you making her wrong for her own deeply personal decisions?
>The Metro design is attempting to solve a problem but without making the choice: is it a desktop or a touch interface?

The choice they made was that we need not shoehorn interfaces into desktop or touch categories.

Why not be able to touch your laptop?

And it was a tough choice in the time that Apple separates iOS and OS X.

Android is the one that didn't make a choice and simply copied Apple in this regard.
My generic @gmail.com email address has yet to receive any casino specific spam either - and i'm from .de so it seems it has been guesswork on the part of the spammers?
The answer is no, she is not legally required to do so. (source http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/pregnancy.cfm)
Though it's none of our business, it's also not an assumption :)

http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/16/mayer-yaho...

> Mayer first disclosed to the Yahoo board that she is pregnant in late June, in a meeting with Michael Wolf, a member of the board's four-person CEO search committee. A meeting with the search committee followed, and then Mayer met with the full board last Wednesday. None of the Yahoo directors, she says, revealed any concern about hiring a pregnant chief executive. "They showed their evolved thinking," says Mayer, who got the phone call last Thursday that she was the board's choice to be CEO.
Show HN: Built a web-based competitor to Grindr. Would love tips and advice 
Our goal is to cause some disruption in how people date online/offline. we service all regardless of sexual orientation. Any feedback is appreciated for a crazy budding entrepreneur :)
P.S Phone app coming soon as well
This is how CEOs of fortune 500 companies act almost as a rule. It's the flipside of the insane pay.

I can see many new male CEOs in the same position taking the exact same approach to any small surgery.
Mostly, "about 100 times what any other laser regularly produces today" doesn't make any sense unless you include a timespan reference (since energy accumulates over time). Unless I'm being thick and "today" is a timespan reference (i.e. "24 hours") rather than a preposition (i.e. "currently").
I'm guessing 'Mac and PCs' means 'Mac and Windows', and you don't support Linux? You seem to send a windows exe to linux users.
I don't believe that the author is saying that minimal is the same as undesigned. Rather if minimal is your goal, then your design choices will be different than if you try to design toward simple. In fact you may sacrifice great design choices that would lead toward simplicity in order to remain minimal. Minimal speaks nothing to: clear or obvious, both of which take a serious complete-product focus and choice to obtain.
Usually when you resign, there's an "effective MM/DD/YYYY" clause in your resignation letter. Until that date, you're still an employee, and still bound by any contractual obligations as such.

There's no particular reason for that effective date to be "now" vs. "two weeks from now". I've certainly had coworkers that announced their intention to resign 2 weeks or a month before their actual departure (actually, the one time I've quit a job, I think I stayed for a couple weeks afterwards wrapping up my project & transferring knowledge). The difference is only that in one case, the employee is intending to resign but you don't know about it, but in the other, the employee is intending to resign but you do know about it.
I expected something interesting or insightful from your link, but it just completely seems to sidestep the idea that procrastination exists.

The Wikipedia definition is "act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks of lower priority, or doing something from which one derives enjoyment, and thus putting off important tasks to a later time".

This clearly exists, and completely disavowing it with some (semi)feel good idea about how you aren't caring enough, implicitly linking it to low willpower is way too simplistic - and totally not insightful.

My own experience has been that even when I know that the task needs to get done, even when it is enjoyable, it can be hard to get started.

Once started, everything flows as you might expect, as the author says "How many things do I need to shed ... with extreme prejudice in order to singlemindedly focus on this one thing that I love?"

The post also neatly sidesteps the idea that even if you do not care, you may need to get things done.

The attitude probably appeals to some libertarian philosophy/Protestant work ethic, but even those people will freely admit that doing beats wanting to do something -- it's the doing that counts.

If people cannot get themselves to do something, even if they want and care to do it, telling people to care more isn't very helpful, especially when pooh-poohing the very things that work for some people to do what they want to do!

"If that sounds fancy and oversimplified, then you "care" about too many things. Period."

What if you really do not "care" about the things that you are doing while procrastinating? What if you are simply avoiding the anxiety of starting to do what you care about?

There are serious psychological questions here, and this blog post just ignores them all.
Show HN: Jeff Atwood's "Effective Programming" on Hyperink's new Crowd Reader
Hey everyone, I'm Michael, a product engineer at Hyperink. Over the past month or so, I've been developing a rich, social reading experience for our content, freeing us from the stranglehold of MOBI and EPUB file formats. Today, Jeff Atwood generously granted us permission to release half of his book completely free on this Crowd Reader (paid customers get to see all of it there).<p>The problem: paperback/print always wins over digital and arguably e-ink.
Our solution: make reading a unique and asynchronously social experience.<p>I've love to get some beta feedback and hopefully some suggestions for how to improve the UI/UX. Thanks, and happy reading!
This is how it works in practice (at least for psychologists and sociologists):

1. You have some definition based on some theory or hypothesis or something. You have to argue why your definition is meaningful and relevant.

2. You try to operationalize (i.e. turn it from a fuzzy concept into something measurable) that definition as best you can while always keeping an eye out for and discussing – at length – any and all limitations you can think of (of which there will always be many).

3. You use your operationalization to create measures.

4. You collect data with your measures, analyze and interpret it.

So there really isn’t much of a need to explicitly differentiate between intelligence and IQ in scientific writing. You might want to for the sake of clarity, but that difference is always implicit.

It’s always clear (at least to other psychologists or sociologists) that when the author is writing about empirical results with regards to intelligence, she means intelligence as previously defined by her, with her operationalization and determined by her measures and analytical techniques.

When I write about my little presence (= the sense of being somewhere, even if you are not actually there, e.g. when you are in a virtual environment) questionnaire I do not write “Presence Index Score” when I write about my results (at least not every time) – I will mostly just write “presence”. That I’m actually talking about the “Presence Index Score” is implicit.

But you are right – that difference is not obvious to anyone else and can, at times, even be confusing for experts.
At first I was surprised by Authodesk acquisition. However, there seem to be some logic to this and I think it could be result in a big win-win for both of them.

SocialCam or "SocialScam" as I call it, used some spammy stuff to show traction. Right or wrong, fake or real, this traction is probably what Autodesk bought into. Given the amount of visual editing technology and image processing knowhow that exist in the autodesk, this marriage would allow autodesk a platform to build and potentially become the market leader in video editing and sharing on the mobile space.
Yeah this thread isn't going to be an embarassing rathole AT ALL, is it?

I flagged this, for whatever that's worth.
Micron puts Phase-Change Memory into production
You made your choice, she is making hers. I don't think she's implied that this is what others (including Yahoo employees) should do. Why would you disparage her personal decision, when you'd (presumably) want people to respect your decision to take a few more days off?
I should clarify: no doctor that wants to keep his license would prescribe this device. Doctors can (and do, when caught) lose their licenses (temporarily or permanently) if they get caught prescribing drugs for off-label purposes.

Documenting a medical condition which could be addressed by the use of the device is a very separate issue for medical and legal purposes.
Hey everyone, I'm Michael, a product engineer at Hyperink. Over the past month or so, I've been developing a rich, social reading experience for our content, freeing us from the stranglehold of MOBI and EPUB file formats. Today, Jeff Atwood generously granted us permission to release half of his book completely free on this Crowd Reader (paid customers get to see all of it there).

The problem: paperback/print always wins over digital and arguably e-ink.
Our solution: make reading a unique and asynchronously social experience.

I've love to get some beta feedback and hopefully some suggestions for how to improve the UI/UX. Thanks, and happy reading!

UPDATE: forgot to mention. This app is 100% JavaScript with Node and my own JS makeshift library on the front. MongoDB for database. Madness.
Sweden's attempt at equality is to instead of making women less prone to take leave a pregnancy by making them work through it (which feels inhumane), is to make men more likely to also take leave by granting couples a shared "parental leave" instead of just maternity leave.

From Wikipedia: "To encourage greater paternal involvement in child-rearing, a minimum of 2 months out of the 16 is required to be used by the "minority" parent, in practice usually the father, and some Swedish political parties on the political left argue for legislation to oblige families to divide the 16 months equally between both parents"
I agree that in that light, it shouldn't be. I think there are two things to consider though:

1) Steve Jobs took a lot of 'time off' over his last few years where he had to take a big step back. Apple could afford it because he dominated their culture even when he wasn't there.

2) I think the next year at Yahoo, if all goes as Yahoo investors would like, is more important existentially than the last year of Jobs tenure. I'm not saying the last year under Jobs wasn't big, but there is more pressure on her than Jobs had to do more to change the company.
"The gender wage gap persists across a wide spectrum of occupations. Female attorneys earn just 80.5 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts, and female physicians and surgeons earn 64.4 cents on the dollar. Women in retail sales earn 70.6 cents for every dollar earned by men in retail sales, and female truck drivers earn just 76.4 cents on the dollar.

A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) study requested by Chair Maloney and Representative John Dingell examined the pay gap amongst women and men employed in management occupations, and found that full-time female managers earn 81 cents for every dollar earned by their male manager peers. This figure accounts for many observable differences between male and female managers, so the remaining 19 cent gap between men and women may be attributable to discriminatory practices. The gender pay gap amongst managers remained persistent between 2000 and 2007, the most recent year of available data.

The pay gap is not limited to the private sector. Even within the federal government, which ought to be a model employer, a substantial unexplained pay gap persists. In response to a request by Chair Maloney and Representative Dingell, the GAO examined the gender pay gap in the federal government and found that women federal employees earn 89 cents for every dollar earned by their male peers.

After accounting for observable differences between men and women (including education, experience, and occupation), that gap narrows to 93 cents on the dollar. The remaining 7 cent pay gap may be attributable to discriminatory practices."

From Page 9 of this report performed in 2010 (PDF):
http://www.jec.senate.gov/public/?a=Files.Serve&File_id=...
Translation: women shouldn't be allowed to work since they need to be home birthing and raising babies?

Your statement implies that a woman can not do both. I know my wife would strongly disagree. I suspect many others would too.
My opinion is based on something real. Whether or not you agree, it is up to you. I don't pretend to be determining what is true or not but I think my informed opinion is of value to others… otherwise I wouldn't write about it.

You think my opinion is "wild". Do you have any hard evidence to back that up? ;)
Was the semicolon a QWERTY home row key before or after ALGOL?

Before, well before. Take a look at http://www.etsy.com/listing/10230221/immaculate-1930s-reming... for a picture of an old typewriter. The ; is exactly where it is today.

As for why semicolons are used, see http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/139482/why-ar... for a bunch of speculation on it. The one that seems most reasonable to me is dan04's answer (which was not voted up much because he put it lately.

Start with ASCII. Now take out the characters which did not reliably appear in character formats, take out characters that have meaning to us in mathematical expressions, have obvious utilities as delimiters in other context, or which convey mood. You're left with ; and :. Of the two, ; is more visible and easier to type. So ; it is.
Childbirth is %1 about the labor, and 99% about those first few weeks.
> Since when has applying thermal paste been messy and requiring trial and error to apply "correctly"?

For people not accustomed to building their own rigs or using thermal paste, it can have a learning curve. Even having done it before, I had an issue two months ago where applying a little too much kept me from entering the BIOS. After some worry I reseated it and it worked fine, but anything that makes the process of building your own system easier should be a welcome change.
I wonder if it's possible to hook this up to something like Vagrant http://vagrantup.com to use a buildpack for local development and easily install all the required dependencies.
OK, Lets see. Do you think you should be able to create a billion files on a default ext3 file system without issues? Because you won't be able to, even if you have the space for them.

Unfortunately, sometimes you have to put in some sane limits, because of constraints elsewhere.

To call software that has sane limits to cover 99.9% of usage patterns "broken" is pretty silly.

If you think as a software developer, you never have to make compromises, or make a tough call on what 99.9% of users will do, you're being naive.
Hmm.. you're probably right. But HDMI/DVI adapters work, as do DVI/VGA, why can't they be combined?
The exciting part of this for me is seeing that some of the intro courses are taught by top senior lecturers rather than just professors. I've always found some of the best learning experiences for material that isn't heavily connected to research comes from people who's careers are in teaching rather than research. One of my knocks on Udacity was the whole PhD required approach to teaching intro CS, many of the best lecturers in first year CS don't have PhD's.
That's a pretty huge assumption, that micro-nutrients are a significant part of any difference.

You've assumed, first, that it's poverty that causes the lowered IQ, rather than that both poverty and lower-IQ are both effects of a common cause.

Second, even if there really is a causal chain, why in the world would you assume that the difference is related to nutrition? Why not, for example, cultural differences in the way that poor parents interact with children compared with the way that non-poor parents do?
He is merely suggesting it is not the optimum choice.
I wonder if components and build price has lowered since february; enough so they could drop the price a bit lower. Or maybe make board, psu, wifi dongle (you'd buy them anyway) kits for ~40$.
How would they get caught stealing trade secrets through Skype? Whistleblowers? Have there been any instance of a transnational tort claim in tech?

I really wonder how much espionage is going on. Does MS have a mole at Google, and vice versa?
It's very important to emphasize this: After accounting for observable differences between men and women (including education, experience, and occupation), that gap narrows to 93 cents on the dollar. The remaining 7 cent pay gap may be attributable to discriminatory practices.

Women are making 7% in a way we can't explain, and is possibly still discriminatory for the federal government.

Women are making 19% in a way we can't explain, and is possibly still discriminatory for the private sector.

And to bonaldi: Discrimination is NOT one of the listed causes fo the distance.

Don't take everyone who says your numbers as wrong as not on your side. Sometimes its someone on your side who wants you to not sound like a misinformed ranter when you're talking with an informed person on the other side.

I dislike the fact there is probably discrimination in the works there, but in no way, is it "65c on the dollar" anymore and people who parrot that are just wrong at best and disingenuous liars at worse. Liars on your side, (which is the side of equality, which is my side too), makes it an easy target for ridicule and hard to engage those on the other side of the issue.
You make a good argument for skeuomorphism: single purpose apps should reflect the task they're purposed for. :)
Google+ Debuts at Top Spot in Customer Survey as Facebook Falls
Care to provide more backup for the use of "myth" than "none"? In a world where women own around 1% of the wealth and are minority presences in the C-Suite, it seems agenda-driven.
-1 Offtopic.
So simple. Inspired me to start using less time reading articles and more time building my new open source project.
I'm saying that interpreting IQ as intelligence is extremely narrow-minded and misleading to the general public. There is absolutely no evidence that IQ is a decent measure of intelligence. My point is that intelligence is a much broader subject than simple IQ, and using IQ as a measure of intelligence will produce both false positives (by training for the exam) and false negatives (by not targeting other areas of intelligence than the specific area used in some types of academia).

I am not saying that there is a specific definition of intelligence that is good. I am saying that IQ as intelligence is not good. I wouldn't have a problem if people did use the terms "intelligence" and "IQ" so interchangeably. If the linked article talked only about IQ, then I would have no problem, but the article specifically talks about intelligence, and then uses studies on IQ to try to makes points about intelligence.

By the way, if you are looking for a better theory of intelligence (which is beside my point), then you should look at Cattell-Horn-Carroll Theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattell-Horn-Carroll_theory) as an example.
Back in the 90s Borland extended their C++ compiler to support what he refers to as "bound pointers", which was used with their mostly excellent Windows SDK for C++ and Delphi.

myButton->onClick = controller->showAboutBox;
I nearly laughed when the article compared having a kid to getting sick or being in an accident. But I suppose male CEOs neglect their families too.
For what it's worth, I hadn't seen anyone make a big deal about this, or even remark upon it, until The Atlantic did. So, I'm not too sure about the narrative of "When will everyone finally accept this?!"
I believe this has single-handedly solved all of my girlfriend's thesis-writing motivational issues. Please, take all of my money!
Is this in response the recent article with C++0x, Stepanov and Functors with a nod to Haskell?
French student in law here. And you're so wrong it's painful to read. Police isn't acting, because damages are small, not a single ITT probably (ITT is the measure of personal damages in french law), little damage to a gadget, and the guy is not French, so the case will probably never go anywhere. That's probably why police didn't react. Not because he was considered the perpetrator... Actually the French law is totally permissive about taking photos. It's the publishing of those who may cause a problem... and even in that, the Cour de Cassation does not enforce it all the time, or with a regular severity. Maybe some persons don't like you taking photos of them. But you should not excuse them saying "it's cultural... we don't like it". No you're wrong, you don't like it, they don't like it, some people don't. Other don't give a fuck. And if you don't like it... it doesn't change a thing. It's totally legal to do it, so reacting like a douchebag is not only stupid but wrong. And actually, as described probably a felony.

And please the ... "Also, "assault" is very different here than in the US; grabbing someone by the arm or pushing him around isn't considered assault (more like a disagreement)." the description of what happened is not just "grabbing someone by the arm". But anyway you're wrong, because even in that situation, grabbing someone by the arm an pushing him around is quite exactly the main case of application of Article 222-13 of the Penal Code, under the condition n°8. And the Criminal Chamber of the Cour de Cass' has said millions of times that an actual physical assault is not needed to qualify assault (which in France is called 'violence volontaires'), but only a psychological one, or something that shocked emotionally someone is enough. So yeah... it's maximum 3 years and 45k€ in fine for each of the 3 perpetrators.

Oh, and by the way... if you think that punching a man in the face just because he entered your home without authorization and took a Coke is enough to justify legitimate defense your totally wrong. And you should go live in Florida with Mr. Zimmerman. No it's not. The legitimate defense of property (because the guy wasn't menacing you physically, just abusing your property require some details like : Asking the guy to drop the can and get the fuck out of your house before attacking him physically. And that the retaliation is proportionate. The punch, if soft, would pass this test. The gun certainly not, not for a Coke. And if you broke is nose and jaw, probably not.

Please everyone, do not take what anyone saying his french as an expert opinion on French society and French law (sadly, this also includes me).