skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"reactions like yours where women are challenged and questioned for seeking knowledge in the first place"

No, come on, that's grossly unfair.

I would never challenge or question a woman for seeking knowledge. I would never treat a woman any differently. You're implying that I'm doing something objectionable like those who grope or make sexist jokes.

I'm saying that I'm not interested in anyone's gender, and I don't think it should be a property of interest to anyone except for dating.

I think that saying "hey! you're a woman! this special event is just for you! there's the main event as well, which we'd love you to come to, but there's also this special one just for you" is offensive.

Perhaps I've missed some part of the community, or I don't attend the right (wrong?) conferences, but I've never seen anything that discourages women. The only possibility is that they see an existing low proportion of women and then conclude it's not for them. Well that's their loss and their prejudice.
¿why is this topic repeated? you already have this one published: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4486870

(I'm new so maybe I'm in a mistake)
I Respectively Disagree (with Jeff Bezos)
I find it hard to believe that you can cross-compile C# code to all these platforms without creating heavy dependencies on 3rd party abstraction layers and/or toolsets (like Unity).
Opening the infrastructure stack: Why we need an Affero LGPL
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Works fine for me. (Firefox 18.0a1 Windows XP)
The page of all the election data is here:
http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/elections
Twitters open source contributions to Scala are superb and I would jump at the chance to work there based solely on that. I couldn't care less about API access restrictions compared to the effort and attention they clearly put into engineering...and honestly who would?
Thanks! I am really looking forward to using Forward (no pun intended). It looks so damn good. I think your solution is what LemonStand cart is TRYING to be but is not quite there in my opinion (and probably will never be).
You guessed right. This is how you run the app without pow. Next on my todo list is adding url path option to the readme for non OSX users, and maybe recommending something like `alias labrador-start='cd ~/.labrador && bundle exec rails s -p 5200`. I've successfully had things up and running on Ubuntu with mysql. Do you have the socket: defined in your database.yml?
Openness tends to win: the Open Compute Project
Re-expression method, new powerful approach to machine learning
usually back end first but it is an iterative process of course b/w front and back end.
He can't even claim that. Cardinal numbers include the finite cardinals, after all.
Sigh. One of the most discouraging things of Internet 'Culture' is to be the person who said "X is a failure" first, as some sort of street cred. Come back in a year or two or three and then tell me its dead, but a couple of months in? Really? Hard to plot a trend line with one data point.
Hey, we love Codiqa, and I don't see us as competitors at all. (Seriously, if you look at our pitch deck's competition slide, you're not in it.)

We just got to know the jQuery Mobile folks recently—we're planning on open sourcing the slide-right navigation in our apps. Maybe that's something we could work on together? :)
Is it weird that I read the title as, "Google Acquihires VirusTotal"?

edit: no disrespect to the VT team. Congrats to them!
Google Stock Passes $700 a Share for First Time Since 2007
Knuth hath said:
"A person who is more than casually interested in computers should be well schooled in machine language, since it is a fundamental part of a computer."

I agree with that sentiment. The whole "focus on what works" is not the same thing as "understanding what the hell you're doing."
Cool stuff!

I like brief little news feeds like this. They get to the point, there's not clutter with distracting pictures, etc. It's simple and all that's necessary.

On my computers I have Rainmeter installed and I link some general Google news feeds right onto my desktop: http://i.imgur.com/76Oc8.png . I wish I had more space though in my upper-right corner, could show more full headlines. A dual-monitor setup would probably be best...
Can that be the right word? Do you my their physiology?
You're right that an event-driven style is useful for programming mobile robots, but a lot of the time the tricky part is actually generating events (usually from sensors) in the first place. I haven't seen anyone use libuv for this sort of infrastructure, but ROS (www.ros.org) provides everything you need for mobile (and other forms of) robotics: publish-subscribe message passing, client-server, wrappers for common robot platforms. I think it has essentially the functionality you're talking about.
Thanks! Redis support and manual connections are the next features I would like to get in place.
Only jQuery at the moment. The UI seems fast because MongoDB is very good with caching and speed in general, so it kind of feels like a client-side UI, but it's actually all server side rendering.
I wonder what would happen if he created a marketplace for his services. So rather than taking orders, people would bid on his time.

I guess the downside to that is he is still fighting the 'time to delivery' problem - of people wanting it now.
An open letter to Wikipedia by Philip Roth
Merchant account providers are not in the insurance business.

And why not? They could at least be obligated to obtain such insurance. Seriously, what else are they doing with that 3% of all those transactions?

Primarily because we accept the status quo because the merchant is in such a weak bargaining position. Let us not forget that merchants and consumers form the basis of our economy whereas payment and banking systems are just plumbing.

If the financial industry had more incentive to increase the security of payment systems, then maybe we wouldn't have the absurdly insecure systems that we have now. Inter-bank ACH is fundamentally an honor system. Credit/debit networks are basically a shared secret between you and everyone you've ever spent money with.

I'm not saying merchants should be immune from all chargebacks. I'm just saying that the lack of competition in payment systems is effectively disallowing the benefits of an LLC to the little guy.
I think it's a great idea! It definitely has issues, but keep at it because it's a great start. Here's another feature idea: when I'm using xcode, i don't want other distraction to come in; so maybe find a way to make it harder for me to open browsers and other distraction (i see you, hn & reddit).
This is because everyone thinks a biometric is some sort of password. It is actually a username. You are stating I am the person whom my fingerprints/face/retinas state I am. Then the guard should challenge that person with that face to provide a password that is known to be held by that face.

Its a common fallacy that leads to people having their fingers chopped off to steal their fingerprint-recognising cars.
pg once lamented "comments that are (a) mean and/or (b) dumb that (c) get massively upvoted."

There have always been mean/dumb comments on HN, but in the past they were routinely downvoted to -4 and then ignored. The problem is that now, people have begun upvoting them, and there are more upvoters than downvoters. Thus, the reason this is a problem is a change in voting patterns, due to a shift in community makeup and expectations.

Partial solution: when a mean/dumb comment is killed by flags or moderators, send an automated warning to anyone who upvoted it and apply a token karma penalty. Increase in severity for repeat offenders -- from a larger karma penalty to no longer counting their votes to a hellban. This educates those who simply don't understand that mean/dumb comments don't belong here, and removes those who continue to intentionally violate guidelines.
Andreessen Horowitz Leads $68 Million Investment In Start-Up Quirky
The insulting tone is well justified.

No! No! A thousand times No!

You can make the exact same point in a way that doesn't smell of the condescending dick-waving and "laughing people out of the room" that debases the level of discourse. I think that HN can and should be a more civil community than Linux kernel programmers.

Here, let me take a stab at it:

"In my experience with systems and kernel development, there are some scenarios where working with a higher level language than C simply isn't possible. This sure looks like one of those scenarios to me. If the manager in this example is mandating that it be written in C, it could be that the manager knows this from painful experience."
Have they really had over a billion in investment capital? I realize they may have had investment rounds valuing the company at 1bil+, that doesn't mean they were given a billion dollars.
A good UX designer SHOULD stick around because their utility after the initial design is to conduct usability tests, user research, and user feedback to make sure initial design decisions were sound and that the experience that actual users and customers have align with the goals of the business/organization (ie - conversion rates, profitability, ease of navigation, etc).

Ultimately, the UX lead helps with product decisions by leveraging said user feedback to suggest incremental changes to the product. If they simply leave after the designs are "done" and never touch the product or app again, then their utility is marginal to an organization.
& me, i wish people wouldn't do that! it makes me subconsciously discount their opinion.
> "You don't need to have $1Billion dollars in financing to offer a service like this"

Sometimes you do. We've seen a dramatic amount of "overfunding" of social media startups, and I have a theory why.

When your business model doesn't involve well, actually making money at its core, you end up in a position where you have to staff up massively so you can pursue an enormously vast range of monetization strategies in the hopes of finding something that sticks.

How many people on Facebook do you think are working on the core product - as in the Facebook that end users interact with on a daily basis? How many instead are working on a enormously numerous systems that Facebook hopes would make them monetizable? Ad platforms, billing systems, support systems, analytics systems, etc etc.

So yeah, Twitter as defined as "that thing where you submit strings of 140 chars or less and follow others doing the same" probably didn't need $1bn to get off the ground. Twitter in the "this might actually make money" sense though, probably isn't THAT overfunded.
Burak Kanber

Hi . Though I have just started to read it at full I guess in advance it is worth deserving full attention.
It is very glad to find such a kind of research and development like this one.
Let me encourage you to go ahead

Warmest regards from

Rodolfo Davicino (Buenos Aires ,Argentina )

ongratulations
Facebook is the Jurassic Park of startups.
And again, that's 20/20 hindsight. Go look at the tablets that were on sale in 2009. Do you think that the innovation fairy just started shooting Skittles out that magically gave the iPad a huge leap? Innovation isn't always in engineering terms, boosting cycles etc. Sometimes it's in reimagining how things can be done.

Even a technology considered relatively mature (cars) changes a lot, in subtle yet important details.

Just because you can't foresee change in existing markets doesn't mean it won't occur.
Visual Designer (Wikipedia)
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A developer talks about the impact of Twitter's crackdown
I don't tell my lawyer, my accountant, or my doctor how to do their job. I'll get a second opinion where prudent, but other than that, I don't assume I know more than somebody who's spent a good chunk of their life specializing into that field.

Extend the same professional courtesy to your fellow programmers who specialized in a different field than you.

Get a second opinion if you like.

But stop spreading your ignorance.

I have about as much patience for mollycoddling your ego as a doctor would for Jenny McCarthy telling people how dangerous and pointless vaccines are.
If that's the case you're probably better off. I'd imagine they would have unreasonable expectations. Plus they would more likely hire a dishonest person that would say "of course I am!" regardless and probably miss out on a good, honest worker.
What I want to see from Apple on September 12: Absolutely nothing
That is Doing It Wrong, which he'll see when he gets to scale. Real time chat needs real-time systems. Too bad gTalk, Facebook Chat, AIM or MSN Messenger aren't available on the market. The closest is ejabberd, which is nowhere near perfect.

At least he moved away from a database, but the fact that he even considered that means that he did no research up front.
congrats on the launch Jeremy! Just downloaded and will run it through the paces over the next couple days. Looks great so far tho!

Couple minor things. Vertical scrolling is kinda weird. Can only scroll vertically if scrolling is stopped. Also, tried to search for a show and it timed out.

Cheers,
kg
Heh, you can't put 'expensive CPU time and memory' and Google in the same sentence :-)

That said, its a great use for the crawler, as long as you are reading web pages to figure out how to index them, might as well scan them for malware. As a marginal cost I expect it to be quite low once you have the crawl infrastructure in place.
Well put. I've been programming professionally for 8 years (and as a student for another 8 years prior--HP48G RPN represent!). And to this day, I find myself regularly attracted to articles, books, and blog posts about "basic" lower-division CS topics: principles of object-oriented design, language design, patterns, compilers, etc. It's the same old stuff, but reading it is more enriching and insightful the more real-world programming experience you have.
The Economist recently had an article about the "Midlandstand". (They are very pun-y.)
Ok, as someone with just a little bit of Haskell/FP exposure, that sounds cool...I think... but...English?
Completely empirical? Probably never.

But if something has no evidence presented then I don't understand why an educated person would care. We know that without evidence the advice/tips/pet theories of human beings are much more likely to be wrong than to be right.

Without any evidence I read these kinds of things like "here is some bullshit that is almost certainly wrong in a fundamental way because I am human and therefore have a multitude of biases that I am unaware of".

Doesn't mean it isn't interesting to read someones personal philosophy, especially if it's well argued and written. But why would you follow advice when you have no way of determining if it's good or bad advice? The more convincing something like this is to your "gut" the more likely it is to be a specific kind of bad advice.
My favorite part of this is that he criticizes App.net for copying but is using a Wordpress themes that copies Svbtle and does so pretty blatantly with the WP-SVBTLE tag at the bottom left
So I guess this will be brought up every time a new Kindle tablet is announced. I suppose it's useful for those who haven't heard this before.
Its not a question of understanding that those have value. the original post is just saying that there are more things that require attention than he can address.

All startups work with constraints. For some startups design & UX are less important than for others.

Products CAN succeed with crap UX (though it can severely penalize the outcome).

Products CAN NOT succeed without _product_.

So if an entrepreneur has to pick between a rails developer and a front end dev, in some cases he has to pick the backend guy.

Rock, Entrepreneur, Hard Place
Show HN: Gobza launched today. What do you think?
Does it really render on the server? Doesn't it just proxy over SPDY?
Is Siri down for everyone or just me?
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So who is a "criminal"? The article does not clarify exactly what constitutes a criminal record? Just convictions? Felonies only? Or does it include simple misdemeanors such as speeding tickets? Or does it actually (most likely) include all arrests, including those that never result in convictions (where there is NO criminal record)?
In a sense, yes. Epigenome refers to the overall body of regulatory modifications made to DNA and the DNA storage mechanism. A lot of these modifications involve the attachment of small chemical groups to a distinct bit of DNA, or alternately the proteins which DNA is wrapped around while in storage, or a number of other possible mechanisms.

Let's say your identical twin is known to be a 1-pack-a-day smoker (assume that the hypothetical panopticon has access to his history of credit card purchases). Assume that you, however, abstain from smoking and also avoid secondhand smoke.

There will be certain modifications to your twin's genetic material which may be detectable in the next few decades. These modifications may allow the tracker to positively distinguish between you and your twin.

Regarding your question -- smoking (or exercise, or severe depression, etc.) affects your physiology, which in turn may cause changes to your epigenome.
The main 'product' of the company I work for is an ecommerce platform written in Coldfusion - Electric Six played at our last Christmas party, and I can report there was indeed much dancing.
This reminds me a phone screening that I self-sabotaged:

In the "skills" section of my resume I have a list of technologies that I have "limited experience" with, on which I have included C# and Python.

During the interview the interviewer started a question with "In C#..." to which I interrupted him to mention that my knowledge of C# was pretty limited. The question turned out to be a pretty easy question about OO (or something like that). The next question started with "In Python..." and I again interrupted him, only to have him ask an easy question about dynamic vs. static typing.

This is sort of the opposite problem, where I was so afraid of overstating my abilities to the point where I made myself look bad.
Really great point re: ignoring self-proclaimed awesome anything. I automatically filter out meaningless words, but I also read through job posts quickly so sometimes I'm inexact and accidentally filter out the entire post. I guess it's up to the company if they want to read this post and improve, or risk getting ignored by busy readers?
Interesting that you bring up toothbrushes. Actually some company spent tons of money and time to come up with THE ULTIMATE shape for a toothbrush. They tried all different shapes, twists, angles and grips. The result? Simple straight toothbrushes are the most ergonomic and effective shapes.
2025 days! Woohoo! :-)

Sorry about that ... back to your regularly scheduled programming.
"[on Steve Jobs] He wore that famous black mock turtleneck ... not to make a fashion statement"

If you hire Issey Miyake to make a custom turtleneck, then you are making a fashion statement. Also, he wore black for a reason - it's a sophisticated, serious, and confident color (or lack thereof) - which was a fashion statement.
Weapon-wielding marine microbes may protect populations from foes
I wonder if there is a way to programmatically hide apps from the cmd-tab switcher? I know some apps (e.g. apps that have a system-wide menu) let you hide its open status from the dock (which in turn hides it from the app switcher); Can you show app icons in the dock and not in the cmd-tab switcher? I'd like to be able to access certain apps through the dock but don't want them cluttering up my precious cmd-tab.
Google blacklists websites run by family of Grant Shapps
We have a blue line innovations reader, and found it pretty helpful. Their software is atrocious, though, and the reader stopped working after 6 months. WattVision a far superior UI and has always looked interesting to me, but I'm not sure I want to spend $200 on it.
Thus, not profitable? Even if you aren't deducting market rate salaries, you should at least include some little stipend for you to live in the profit calculation, right?
I didn't mean to imply modern Arabic script came to be then -- it wasn't what we'd call Arabic today before the Quran -- only that evolution from inscribed block capitals to written script was happening at around the same time as that transition in other languages.

Anyway, in this context I'm counting 300BCE - 300CE as "very roughly 0CE".
I think you can reduce the list a lot more--and should. I'd choose a single language and learn it well and go from there. And I'd only work the command line features. So Ruby on the command line or JS or Java would be my choices (but only one).
TwitPic, TweetDeck, Klout, Twitter's own iPhone app was once Tweetie (a 3rd party app), Hootsuite, Favstar, here's some more http://socialmediatoday.com/node/295232
There are ways to perform document-level transactions using optimistic or pessimistic locking, in our experience so far this has been sufficient for purchase tracking. I imagine our perspective will mature as we get the system into higher load scenarios.

One of the reasons we decided to delay code release is that we need more time/resources to get it ready for the different ways developers will try to use it early on.
I perceived inGen trying to re-create complex organisms and arrange them into a simple system, and not being prepared when the consequences of chaos unfolded. I love the movie but it leaves out much of the discussion of complexity and chaos found in the book. You ever read the books?
My saying it was "non-zero" is an important part of my point. It isn't zero. But it isn't going to be the driver of the market anymore. Just as your MacBook Air is merely "an interesting offering" and not an "OMG this rewrites everything!". (It was hyped that way at the time but I don't think it worked. The iPhone killed everything that came before it. The Air certainly did not; laptops are alive and well.)

"Trailing in innovation" to grab market share is probably a very good move at this point.

I know it's chic to talk a lot about innovation, but take a serious look around yourself and what you'll find surrounding you on all sides are markets of incremental improvements, not "innovation"-driven markets. I think the tablet market is here now, or very nearly.
I have several dress shirts that all go well with an arsenal of sweaters -- I did the same shirt every day for a few years, but my partner insisted I switch it up.

This is my compromise.
Thanks Cam :)
re vertical scrolling - yeah, it's a really tough thing to get it right, we're still tweaking!

re search - what were you looking for?