skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not even a question of intelligence, but of interest.

Software development is a low-status profession. Lately it has become more highly paid, largely due to a bubble, which raises the social status and gets feminists upset about the fact that there aren't enough women in the profession. If the bubble bursts and developer pay drops to saner levels, expect the controversy to suddenly go away. Feminists aren't nearly as upset that there aren't very many women in the garbage handling industry, after all.
I would point to Best Buy as a prime example of this "release now, worry about the flaws later" philosophy. Their website has been a mess for years mostly because of this very approach.

It's an old adage, but you should really do it right the first time.
Me too!

If only companies compiled manuals for their products these days. I miss my old hard copy System 7 manual. Good times.
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How is PandoDaily making money?
No, it's exactly the same SGX core. Apple just uses more of them. Other players in the high end space right now happen not to be PVR-based (Exynos 4 is Mali, and of course Tegra 3 is NVIDIA).

Frankly if you really want to argue (and for the record I think such an argument is ridiculous), ARM and NVIDIA have much more "elegantly scalable" solutions that don't require high level brute force duplication of the core.
I'm not defending the USPS, just observing things like the tens of millions of people who get bills and checks in the mail.

I believe we need some minimal standard of universal postal service, but I certainly do not believe we need the postal service as it exists today.
People already do that by moving into the city, esp. NY, SF, and CHI. (People moving to LA buy more cars...)

Taxis are disproportionately located in cities because that is where they make the most money (largest customer base). Making taxi rides cheaper would cut into their earnings, and would result in a corresponding loss of taxis until profit margins are restored.
It doesn't disprove anything. We spent a few percent of GDP for a few years to get a dozen people on the moon then we got bored then cut the budget. I'd greatly expand NASA's budget, explore the solar system, build the tools to start constructing on Mars/Moon, etc and hoping find a great reason to send people.
I predict Windows RT will have more apps at launch than Android tablet currently exist.
Blank Facebook ads get as many clicks as real ads
> "functional programming as universal panacea"

To me at least, the endgame for any complex system that you end up with a large number of modular decoupled components. This endgame looks more or less the same today in both functional and object oriented paradigms.

The difference is how you get there. In functional programming, you start with modular, decoupled components. With OOP, you make a mess and you 'refactor' into somewhat modular, somewhat decoupled components later.
Iranian Oil Embargo Shakes Up International Trade
Scribd - San Francisco, H1B, INTERN are welcome

Scribd (social publishing, top 100 website, YC '06) is hiring talented hackers and other technical people for a broad range of technologies.

We've hired THREE people from these "Who is Hiring" threads, including one just last month ... it really works!!

We're looking for people who want to work with:

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

* Javascript

* iOS

* Machine Learning / Data mining kinds of problems

* Back-end problems: scalability, web crawling, analytics

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you.

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a zipline!). We've got flexible hours, a very engineer-driven company culture, and a really terrific team.

Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire.

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Bummer. Visual consistency is inherently anti-Web, in that it can't be reconciled with users choosing tools that reuse content as they wish, and we didn't really need another single-use-case marketing channel.
YWorld celebrates launch page debut with Apple iPad giveaway
The higher-end Surface will ship with a full Windows 8 build that supports the traditional desktop. It's meant for legacy customers with big investments in traditional line-of-business stuff (banks, insurance, traders) who run .NET apps on the desktop. This device is intended to compete with computers.

The lower-end surface will be for consumers. It will run Windows RT (previously called WOA, "Windows-on-ARM"), and support Metro (touch) apps exclusively. Main expected software distribution channel is the Windows app store. This device is positioned against the iPad; it's an Apple-style "shrinkwrap" experience that resets everything for the sake of this version, which wouldn't ever fly in the business world.

I've been studying this extensively because my company (Crittercism) will have a build of our mobile crash instrumentation on Windows RT from the day it launches. Email me at david@crittercism.com if you want access to the beta.
I'm not sure you can get a touch UI 'right' on a desktop PC. Even if there was some theoretical way to add a fully-functional touch layer to a desktop OS without obscuring or limiting access to the OS's functionality, you'd still end up having to support two distinct and unrelated interface conventions for everything, which means that in practice, every interface paradigm will likely be suboptimal.

MS's stated intention was to have a consistent UI across phones, tablets, and desktops. This strikes me as an utterly absurd notion: different products call for different interfaces, each designed to maximize the unique benefits of that particular product. Phones, tablets, and PCs are not generally substitute goods; each of them has its own set of strengths and weaknesses, and a common UI just obscures them beneath a lowest-common-denominator facade.
I can never understand why this comment pops up about every Kickstarter. Why on earth would you take out a loan when you can take pre-orders instead?
I think the announcement is well-worded. I hold the writers and editors of this press release in high regard.

The message however, is typical of the hyperbole, ultra-positive marketspeak/corporatespeak that one expects for such things.

Here is my list of short phrases and words that I think they clearly want to hammer home:

important milestone;
proud;
exciting;
new;
incredibly collaborative;
new PC experience;
new world of scenarios;
preserving an [...] investment;
breadth of participation;
most widely and deeply used;
16 million PCs actively participated;
openness;
unique perspective;
deeply committed;
transparency;
promised refinements;
meeting the needs;
reached our [...] milestone;
real world experiences;
improve support;
“fast and fluid”;
thousands of new features;
exciting innovations;
rapidly expand;
opportunity for developers;
deliver innovative (and profitable) apps;
unique;

I'm sure I missed a few hum-dingers that would be in your summary list.

With a few replacements of numeric values, dates and product-specific wording, this press release would be usable by many software development and software-related businesses.
Kurzweil Talks About Achievable Immortality On PBS NewsHour
Which scripts did you write yourself among https://github.com/getchabooks/getchabooks/tree/master/asset... ?
Normal consumers can't get their hands on it until October. But developers, system administrators, and OEMs can download the final bits starting later this month: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive.... This is so that they can be ready with applications and hardware for the official consumer launch in October.
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Familiar turns your many devices into social picture frames. More at http://familiar.com/
We're hiring software engineers who like building user facing products. We use a wide variety of technologies from CoffeeScript to Objective-C, so lots of opportunity to learn something new.
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This woman is pounding the Google Authority Map
Oh man, I'll take that bet.
I have never heard of shotgun ammo being used in a handgun. Your PS does not explain that. I am going to go with CWuestefeld's response until I see some actual stats on the issue.
I'll be surprised if notch doesn't drop a few thousand on this before it's over.
I just put it up on Github now: https://github.com/benwasser/whodiedhere

After I built this I played around with some other information in dbpedia to see if I could get anything juicy out of it. No luck so far, but I'm sure there's a lot to uncover.
Microsoft Officially Signs Off On Windows 8, Releases It To Manufacturers
Given the fact that many interface functions in the Windows 8 UI are undiscoverable from within the UI, and require advance knowledge of mouse gestures, etc., this isn't quite so far off from the truth.
The video sets off all sorts of alarm bells. Something about this is very, very wrong. Why would all these game developers agree to be in a video endorsing the product, but not actually front money for it?

iD/Zenimax, Epic and Valve would all see the hoped for $250 000 as chump change for a dev kit. Split between the three and it's essentially nothing. My guess is Microsoft or Sony would love nothing more than to tie up an exclusive peripheral for their next-gen consoles, and buy the company outright (as MS did with Kinect). This would be a true differentiator.

That they're looking to Kickstarter to sell $300 dev kits makes me think something very bad is going unsaid. My wild guess is that they still give people headaches as with previous VR attempts, and no-one is willing to put money in the pot with the expectation that it is unsolvable.

People putting money into this are as crazy as those who put money into the OUYA.
I had similar suspicions as well.

The only graph/data that actually supports "the masses getting richer" by a per app basis is the last graph which shows revenue per app rank[1]. However, this graph only shows the top 100 apps, which when taking the universe of 600,000 apps, is only 0.0166% of the universe.

Let's suppose that "middle class" of the app universe would be around the 70th percentile in the universe [2]. In this case we should look at the year over year revenue growth and market share growth of the 180,000th ranking app in the app store. I wonder if we could get numbers on such stats?

[1] http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/revenuen...

[2] Potentially flawed assumption.
The Unholy Union of Innovation and Stability
On the flipside, this phenomena is emulated in developing nations as well. Even the poorest of poor feel a need to be connected to the outside world. Research validates it. Wish I had time to put a link to it. Google around.
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Techie CEO - telling the story right
Thanks! https://github.com/benwasser/whodiedhere
I've kicked into 2 projects and one has delivered so far. I expect the other will eventually.

Jot stylus - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/531383637/jot-capacitive...

They are still making progress albeit slowly. Openvizla - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bushing/openvizsla-open-...
Steve Blank Introduces Scientists To A New Variable: Customers
Catering to NoScript users is dead simple - show them a broken website and they will whitelist it.

Seriously though, NoScript user base is - and let me really blunt about it - a vocal minority with a bloated sense of entitlement. Catering to them makes no practical sense. There are obviously edge cases, but the best option is to put up a note that JS is required. If Digg doesn't have it, they should add it, but beyond that it's money wasted.
What about all the lives your work might save? What if you figure out how to crack the encryption of a network of evil doers so that the next bombing of civilians is prevented?
Ok I am in. Let's implement the above, (as a spec it beats many I have known!) run it past a lot of security reviews and let market decide

@homakov - will you host bare repo on github? (possibly you are and I missed that bit)
Appcelerator Announces $30,000 Mobile Dev Challenge
What you are talking about is still incapable of recommending (with a high chance of the recommendation being spot-on) new things. In music a new thing would be a completely different genre, not a new song in your favorite genre.

The system you are describing will find people who have a strong correlation with me and who also like:

1) Classical music and Justin Bieber.

2) Classical music and Metallica.

3) Classical music and Dubstep.

And it will recommend me Bieber, Metallica and Dubstep. I might like Dubstep, but I won't like Bieber and Metallica. How is it better than listening to random songs?
Yes, but adding inline markdown support makes it useful to me, at least.
I'm more interested in the answer to question 3

"Is it even something we ought to be concerned about?(I won’t dignify that last one with an answer.)"

I'm guessing that the reason the author won't dignify the last one with an answer is that she feels the question is rooted in deep sexism, or dismissal of a serious problem. And I'd agree, discrimination and/or stereotyping that leads to women giving up on CS is a serious problem.

However, a slightly less extreme version of this question is important: "is it possible women are finding better professions than software development". As an exercise, consider the case of a young woman who has entered your office to talk about whether she should pursue a career as a programmer or apply to medical school with the ultimate goal of becoming a cardiologist. Make sure you address longevity of careers, pay, stability, social standing, attrition rates from graduate programs, and so forth.

I do think it's very important to ask why women aren't going into CS. To the extent that stereotyping is responsible, yes, we should fight it. It clearly is a factor.

But young women are starting to outperform young men academically. A recent RAND study concluded that young Americans are rationally avoiding PhDs in STEM fields because they are not competitive with the professions (where women are closing the gap rapidly, and in some cases creating a gap that favors women). In this case, avoidance of these fields may simply be one more way that women are making better decisions than men. Programming careers can be very rewarding, but they're hardly the only game in town, so it makes no sense to analyze it in isolation.

If women aren't going into CS, what are they doing instead? Should we be telling young women who choose nursing, law, accounting, and medicine that they would be better off studying CS and becoming programmers? If anything, we might want to encourage young men to look at what young women are doing and learn something from them!
You're right - we start with that analogy, presumably because it's more concrete. But I'd argue that basis is only popular by convention (and in any case, it breaks down soon enough) - SICP-like intro courses start at expressions combining, being abstracted, simplifying and evaluating, and steal intuition from (and here you're very right) math. They do just fine - I think that's just as accessible; it's just that the former is preferred because it's less abstract. (And, to be fair, I'd rather spend my time learning how programming a computer is different from what I already know - the point, in the end, is learn what programming is all about, and not just what it's like.)

But what was the original point? Programming can be just as abstract or as nitty-gritty as you like, and I'd rather have a feel for the breadth of programming, and more bits and pieces in my toolkit of expression, than simply limiting myself just because I won't be earning big bucks directly from it.
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That's a tough bet to make. Maybe. But I'd say 6 months or more after launch they'll have more
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Finally!! I've been hoping HelloFax would do this for months now. This is exactly the right move and a good lesson for other companies that are faced with a similar two use-case problem.
Valve Moves to "No Class Action Lawsuit" Policy
Nah, if it's technically capable of running Metro applications, then no sense in making them unavailable to people who are running it on PCs.

I just remain unconvinced that the integration was as smooth as it could have been. And, let's admit it, it's going to be a while before I forgive MS for killing off the start menu mere moments after they finally figured out how to make it really good. The Metro replacement looks great, and I'm sure that approach will work as well on tablets as it does on smartphones. . . but for computers, the Windows 7 version was really pretty good, and its replacement just isn't doing it for me.
Right, because trying to use an algorithm to filter a firehose will never end up with a firehose blasting through that particular kleenex.

If you want to see a bad job of filtering, by all means rely on an algorithm that is designed to give minimal acceptable performance because anything else would soak up too much CPU. I'll stick to moderation and subfora.
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Android Engineer

At Path we believe in the art of high quality software craftsmanship and design. Our culture is centered around happiness and empowering engineers to have creative freedom. We are committed to building a world class technology company where engineers love to work.

In addition to writing high quality software, we seek individuals who also enjoy the other aspects of building a new company: designing features, making good product decisions, programming at all levels of the stack, creative marketing and recruiting, and the wearing of many hats.

We are looking for extraordinary talented engineers who share similar values and who are looking to join our small family. Above all we look for passionate individuals who enjoy the craft and seek to live balanced and happy lives.

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Implement beautiful user interfaces.

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B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent or 4+ years of professional engineering experience.
Experience engineering, releasing, and supporting Android applications.
Proficiency in Java.
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Ideally

Expert knowledge of Java.
Experience building consumer products.
Experience using Git for source control.
Learning a little more about Javascript
The query syntax for CL is reasonably sophisticated, it supports phrase match, grouping and it's possible to specify to specify a price range, using minAsk and maxAsk, you can also specify exclusion terms.