skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in the Computer Engineering program at my school. There are gender statistics here going back to 2003/2004 - http://www.ece.iastate.edu/the-department/key-performance-in...

2003/2004 was 8.7% female in that program, but that was after my year. The statistic I remembered from around 2000 was 4%. Three of the five MS interns that year were also Cpr E, the other two might have been computer science, for which I don't know the ratio. I don't think there was conspiracy among groups at MS to only hire women, I think the only people from my school who got interviews that year were women. And my impression was that MS handles intern recruiting differently than fulltime.
CLI for Building & Distributing iOS Apps
Just because android allows installing third-party softwares now doesn't mean it will remain like that forever. Remember when you could install chrome extensions the same way but now Google only allows you to install them from their store and the only other way is not so client friendly workaround?
Thanks - It's not the same as http://www.taskerapp.com/, is it?
Zurb Foundation?
Well, the founder apparently was motivated by the whole Sichuan earthquake thing. Article says he wanted to figure out a way to cheaply and easily build tall buildings that were both environmentally friendly and earthquake safe. FWIW, the article says: Broad's design has aced 9.0-magnitude earthquake tests.
All of the products you list are hardware, which doesn't count. The only exception is Google's social stuff; Google had shipped many social products to get where they are today including Gmail, GTalk, Orkut and Buzz. They didn't sit in their offices and build Google Plus for 10 years, they iterated again and again, and that's what Mayer is asking for.
win8 arm is already locked down. You can't have a JIT engine on it.
A quote: "When we get to a place it is hard to see how that places is anything other then the importants we have attributed to it."

Honest to God. It's time for you to segue into creating videos of your thoughts and abandon writing altogether. You're definitely a member of the YouTube generation.
PfSense - Squid + Squidguard / Traffic Shapping Tutorial
I'm not talking about the inclusion of an app store. I'm talking about the trend to make that app store the only distribution channel available.

iOS may have been a success, but that's only because it's good at what it does and because people don't need it to do much. Prior to smartphones, a phone was only good for making calls. And with tablets it's all good as long as it has a browser and some freebies.

The elephant in the room that nobody is talking about when speaking about closed platforms is ... piracy. Take away the ability of people to pirate stuff on their PC, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Ask HN: What resources for a new college grad launching a startup?
So I'm looking to put together a lean startup program for people who have very newly graduated from uni/college.

There are a lot of blog posts with a billion resources for lean startup, but those lists are a bit overwhelming.

What core books, courses resources, things should they read/do in order?
It seems almost willful, doesn't it?
>Just about every Windows app I've tried to install in the last couple of years has also tried to fool me into installing some bundled 3rd party crapware. If you want an open platform , use one that is open by design in other words a Linux distribution.

and yet the latest Ubuntu comes with Amazon Shopping bundled. I think its becoming a trend to monetize on everything, both open and closed. No necessarily a bad thing but everything seem to merge that way. Think the future might redefine the words "open" and "free".
I think it really depends on where you live. Nordic countries (just moved to DK) seem heavily unionized, while it's much less prevalent in the French IT sector, for instance.
Or the better HTC One X... :oP
Executive job in USA
For the nginx to node connection, it's a unix socket. No issue.
What browser and platform are you using? I'm using Firefox and it's working fine for me.
Could you please link to this NFC tag - where can you buy it?
Chunky Bacon in the Land of Lisp
As mentioned above, two factor authentication.
FreeMind (and I'd guess Freeplane) supports symlinks [1], [2] between nodes, so you can break the hierarchy somewhat.

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Arrow_link
http://blog.mindleaders.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Freem...
Mozilla has "Extended Service Release" versions of Firefox which receive updates for major security issues. v10 is the current (v17 upcoming). Organizations are expected to migrate over quickly once a new ESR is available.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
> It's the latter. For now it seems like Microsoft is doing what Apple has never considered - building a streamlined frontend interface with a certified app store so casual users can safely and easily access a wide range of software, and maintaining a fully tinker-able backend and not closing off other software distribution channels for expert users.

Isn't that exactly what Apple has done on OS X with the Mac App Store?
BASICS OF RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN
Very good question indeed.

I believe though, in the evolution of gaming and game makers, that the "brains" at Valve have taken one look at the "Windows Roadmap" and bet against it. Remeber that Windows 8 is the foundation of the "future" for microsoft. We going to see a massive shift in it's laws/legalities/processes for both gamers and game makers.

The change won't be over night, yes, but it's inevitable. Given a "free", open platform is now realitvely stable, why not move to it and not have the headache of having to "conform"?

I love linux. I don't mind Windows. If i have the option... it's an easy decision.
This whole situation with facebook passwords shows the difference between the states and Europe, imho. I have hard time imagining European companies asking for a facebook password. Whether it's legal or not.
I've had some bad experiences with Packt's books.

Choose very carefully.

This comment [1] summed the one book I read quite well:

This book is so badly written that reading it will
give you a very good appreciation as to what it must
feel like to be dyslexic, the words just come at you
in a random order.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/1849511446/ref=cm_cr...
> What is he even complaining about?

I thought that was pretty clear. He thinks that "Apple briefs these guys, but instead of having the balls to do it on the record, Apple feeds them some spin with the condition that they will write it up while attributing their info to sources who are familiar with the situation."

Too bad that there is no way to know if he is right if it is just his opinion. Doesn't sound too far fetched, though.
Fake online reviews mean cash-for-comment is rife
This is true ; although Google has the disadvantage that they made Android open-source. This means in case the Google stewardship goes awry, companies and individuals will have the ability to fork.

This has happened before with other projects and Amazon has already forked Android just because they can. Also my Galaxy S came with an alternative, albeit shitty app store - which goes to show that phone makers are aware that they need some control over the platform.
Don't forget Namecoin, repurposing the Bitcoin block chain for storing DNS records!
Meet the new Flowplayer
> in colloquial use "Mode 7" tends to refer (somewhat inaccurately) to that 3D plane effect.

That is amusing.
Indeed, as a European this sounds unreal. Might as well ban employers for suggesting sexual favors to prospective employees and interns.
One of the test images with 4 cats on it was reported to have only 2 cats on it by the cat detector. Still, good work :)
I've spent much of last week wondering why I spend valuable lifetime discussing trailing whitespace on github, instead of simply solving problems. Did programmers of past decades have other pointless battles to fight?

They have been fighting that one for longer than you know. :-)

Seriously, based on http://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/eri/pf45/head/usr.bin/inden... I suspect that in 1976 there was a developer at the University of Illinois who was already sick and tired enough of fighting with others over how to indent code to write a program to just do it The Right (ie his) Way.
I have the same issue. I'm on Chrome + Ubuntu.
Ask HN: My employer forces me to like company product pages on Facebook
My employer who otherwise has banned Facebook use in the company has a standard process. Whenever we launch a product, Facebook is made available for an hour in the evening where we are told to login and like the company product page.

Is this process followed anywhere else ?
Passwords are not the only authentication option. This could be a good way to replace all your passwords with something stronger (2 way, fingerprints, you name it) if your provider supports them.
How does the lower gravity affect that? Does the lower gravity mean the rocks are easier to carry, or does the lower gravity mean the water flows slower?
It's been completely ineffective so far, but it's a nice idea! :3
Tales of Creation: An Interview With Stu Green From Project Bubble
Games/Music/Hardware/Software always iterate to completion - the web isn't special in terms of this. The key component is and will remain time to search through a product space to where you can actually add value.
Douchiest comment on HN. Commenting on this while im at his house drinking his beer, and this is still worded poorly.

http://i.imgur.com/NNMd4.gif
I was thinking the same thing while reading it, I have heard 10 versions of the same story in the past 15 years. There is nothing to suggest that the latest version is the correct one, and the scientists at NASA say as much.
Version 5.0.0 is raw HTML5 and CSS3 and Flash only emulates the native VIDEO tag.

This is a complete rewrite. Took about a year to finish it.
Had the samme issue. Chrome 21 (and now 22 after checking version). Happened when I dragged and dropped an image from another Chrome window. Worked fine when dropping a local image.
I am sitting directly behind this gentleman and I approve this message.
> Would we want to change either of these things? Surely no one is going to argue that we should prefer lower factor productivity.

Try imagining these things happening for, say, doctors, civil engineers or something else that matters. I'm sure many are going to argue that we should prefer lower factor productivity.
Likely his Twitter. I think he's said as much.
I don't agree with gist of ajacksifieds comment.

If im understanding the OP they have created some tools for helping to create SPA web apps, not solve SEO.

turning ajacksifieds arugement around,
I don't see many guys on the SEO threads complaining that the keyword stuffing needs more SPA.
Windows 8, chrome 22, opera next, opera 12.02, firefox 15. Hmm, actually in ie 10 it's doing it's stuff.
Looks like rose-tinted glasses to me.

> Bad programmers will still build bad software tomorrow too, but I think there are more of them now than there were then and that’s the real problem.

Of course there are more bad programmers now - because there are many more programmers now. But this doesn't make the great programmers any less great than their predecessors.

And things like higher barriers and lack of powerful search engines may have been true, but do they really improve a programmer's ability? I'd argue they simply affect a programmer's productivity, whether the programmer's skilled or not.

Human greatness (or lack of) in a particular industry doesn't vary over time in my opinion, especially over just a few decades. I don't think the achievements of the past are any better or worse than the achievements of today. It's just much easier to recognise great achievements (and achievers) in retrospect - as time passes, the signal-to-noise ratio improves.
I agree but it is ingenious of Google to tie their premium products around open-source that it becomes an inseparable feature. An android fork without the Marketplace, Maps, Siri like features just seems crippled (Amazon Kindle is an exception). Remember Google sent C&D to Cynogenmod a few months back forbidding them from including any of the apps above? Now think about convincing a handset manufacture to accept the fork or trying to teach a technologically impaired about rooting the phone and installing a fork. It may seem possible but sadly its not practical.

Today I noticed my chrome changed its icon from the wrench to the 3 bars, which atleast for now I find it hideous. However there is no easy way for me to fix it despite chrome being an open-source application (chromium - which I believe is not being actively developed anymore).
Research In Motion has posted a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss
seems like a good excuse to buy a new shiney laptop to me
Couldn't you set up a proxy and just whitelist that? Excellent piece of work btw.
How is bloatware impressive?

The vast majority of the world will never need to use any of that.

Built-in ad blocking is about the only useful thing you listed, and Ad-Block and ABP are widely used.
Yeah, with local images it works fine.
I've went to quite a few such places in Tokyo 10 years ago. I really liked it, and wondered when the concept my spread.
Say Hello to Gifts, Facebook's New Mobile Revenue Stream
Not really. All 2 factor authentication schemes that I've seen give no protection against a compromised client machine.

In theory you could probably device a scheme that would require the use of two independent devices to perform any sensitive action and that would guarantee that if only one of the devices is compromised, the attacker would have no way to perform any action in a name of the user. But I'm afraid any such scheme would be a complete failure from a usability perspective.
May be Facebook will open it's 'Gifts market place' to finely-tested eCommerce businesses through an API!!

This is more meaningful, because Facebook doesn't want to be an eCommerce company. It's vision is connecting the world. And it makes more sense to open the platform to external businesses which are tested for 'great experience'. In this way Facebook itself will not have to be another eCommerce company and it can have just enough control, share and work over the platform.
I was thinking the same when I wanted to try this framework few days ago.

It makes me think that whole Yii is insecure... :(
The player is minimal and gorgeous.

https://github.com/flowplayer/flowplayer

----

The Flowplayer website is built with the hyde static website generator. We use backbone.js for our account management interface.

The new discussion forums for Flowplayer are powered by moot: http://moot.it/.
I want my personal website's links on the first page for any query.
We just had a post on how to build your own private google to facilitate looking shit up http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580537

Machines are more powerful these days! The unix kernel used to fit in a book. How many books would it take to fit the linux kernel?

These days we happen to have in place an efficient communications system, built by these very giants of the past, that actually facilitates getting advice from your peers.

Why do you want to use a framework? Well it's not just about not writing the code, it's about having code that has been well tried in action and honed. Any eventual problem is probably documented somewhere on the net. Write your own core stuff and you'll need do manage the cost of stabilizing the software.
That's exactly how I felt.

You know that saying about "First Impressions"?
If their basic introductory tutorial is showing passwords in clear-text, I can't really justify continuing learning the framework.

Maybe that's harsh or a knee-jerk reaction, but in this day and age it is unacceptable to be showing passwords in clear-text like this IMO (Even if it is only a tutorial).
Trying to build a new product price comparison tool
Trying to build a new product price comparison tool like pricegrabber,bizrate,nextag, google shopping but more powerful than these tool. We need to search more merchants than these sites. Can you suggest me some new algorithm or way to build it
Yay for worker's rights.
If their website is down you can browse their books on amazon ...

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?keywords=packt+publishing&...

(sorted by publication date)
They also hijacked your keyboard controls. Boo.
Find Exciting Travel Deals on Southall Travel Facebook
Connect Southall Travel Facebook and getting latest updates about tourist destinations, airline fares, exotic location and other more information.
I wonder if that's related to their recent strategy of "don't pass anything".
Apple files patent application for intelligent automated assistant
Siri's managed to make it into several Apple devices now, so it doesn't shock us to spy the company's attempt to patent the polite (somewhat frosty) tones of its voice navigation system.
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Seat Leon si VW Golf VII prezentate in premiera la Paris
Failed to find cat on grass
http://catoftheday.com/archive/2012/September/25.jpg

Failed to find cat yawning
http://catoftheday.com/archive/2012/September/28.jpg

Found two cat faces with image of one houseplant and one cat
http://catoftheday.com/archive/2012/September/28b.jpg

Success with Sphynx cat
http://catoftheday.com/archive/2012/September/27.jpg
If you happen to be in Paris: Momoka is amazing.
Show HN: Minecraftmojo: My weekend JavaScript experiment
Hey all,

I am looking for some feedback on my latest project:

http://minecraftmojo.com/

Uses three.js (and jQuery) to offer a fun and easy way to browse minecraft texture packs.

Only works in WebGL enabled browsers!

Thanks for your time,

Morphanite
It's actually somewhat out of character for the US too. The first time I heard about it, it didn't seem real to me.
I don't think you need to throw asterisks everywhere.

I think a simple opening statement like "our current theory is" followed by the main text would be more than enough, but it is good to remind people that theories are just that - theories.
It was already a proof of bad judgement before it became illegal.
A brave answer
Free food, eh? Sounds like a great place to work.
Are you likewise forced to have a facebook account?
Or if that's related to "less government". Or "freedom works", which in this context reads ironic.
Failed on a blatant cat face: http://d.pr/i/sAJK
Resque new signal handling path
Future has made £5 million from iPad magazines in a year
UK: Yup, this sounds absolutely planet zog. People do get themselves into trouble through facebook, twitter and blogging (see below), but employers don't ask for passwords, that is for sure.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15347868

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/jan/12/books.newme...

(the chap was later re-employed)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19010842

I just tell students that social media are 'public speech' and that they have to think...

The US patents system seems pretty odd as well mind you.
If some gatekeeper standing between me and my customer has a veto on my product and sometimes even on my communications with my customer, calling it "some degree" of anything is an absurd euphemism. Particularly if there's only a handful of such gatekeepers world wide controlling entire industries.
What are you talking about? Java was running on OpenBSD on ARM years before the iPhone even existed. Years before Oracle even owned it.
You'll love this horrible abuse of CSS3 and HTML5 I dreamed up with my friend, then:

http://orangestar.cats4gold.net/drogz/

Why yes, that is an instrumental MIDI converted to MP3 and OGG.
State of Data #118
"The process is already inherently unfairly biased towards men"

This is untrue. There are probably all sorts of societal issues that affect whether one enters the tech industry based on gender, but those aren't inherent to the process. It's also not clear that hiring practices will help the problem. A desirable company can improve its gender ratio, but only by hurting the ratio at other companies. (I don't think this is a bad thing.) Something has to cause more women to become programmers, and I doubt hiring practices are the solution.
How many people have actually been asked to reveal any personal password to a prospective employer? Is it more than zero?
Flare: a free open source RPG with tons of potential
SecureBoot, UEFI and such, the PC is forced to stop being a general purpose computing device, and more like an xbox, ps3 or smartphone - a computing device where the manufacturer and/or os-maker controls what can and will run on the device.

Its about your freedom. Freedom to run whatever computations you please on general purpose computers that you own. With SecureBoot and win8 so is not the case.
This has been tried a number of times, and none have succeeded.

The reality is examiners have a very small amount of time.
Somebody has to do the work of verifying submissions, and making it reliable, and they don't have time to look through large sets of maybe unreliable data.

It's not enough to just submit an idea, you need the date the idea was conceived of, as well of some verification that this occurred.
I get a bunch of Alerts at the end.
The current scheme of things strongly signals to women (pretty accurately) "your odds of getting hired are lesser than your equally talented male friend."

Do you have some sort of evidence for this? Anecdotally, talented female programmers stay on the market far shorter than males do. Most companies desire a gender balance, which makes the limited stock of female programmers more vlauable.
I agree. Piracy and porn and a long tail of other things. But I fear that 99% of the money to be made on software for consumers will be in the locked down part of the world. People who pay for stuff can be easily intimidated because they have something to lose.
What pbiggar is saying is that hardware doesn't make sense to measure on the same timescale as software, not that it doesn't involve iteration. Think about the "time to ship" of sites like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc and you start to see numbers closer to or within the 6 month time range.
> Apple's behavior is not exceptional. It's how every
> monopolist behaves when they own the market.

What is has to do with monopoly? Apple behaved the same way since the very beginning, I'd say it is even more relaxed now compared to few years ago.
Many tech guys on HN often ask: what use are business co-founders?

Superior domain knowledge would be one thing. If I'm going to team up with a business guy, I want him to be a top notch expert in his field.

There's a tendency for tech guys to discount domain knowledge, believing that it's just a matter of "hacking something out in a weekend, after all it's just a matter of shovelling data" (I used to fall into this trap myself - now I know the value of domain expertise).
There are numerous distributions of Linux out there, if you don't like the advertising in Ubuntu, there's nothing stopping you from uninstalling the advertising features or moving to a different distribution

That's the whole point of Linux.
I could spin that the other way: Sure we're not as good, but who cares, the tooling and the methodology are much better, so as a whole, we're probably producing better quality on average.

I'm sure you can cherry-pick a few great names from the past and tell us how massive their shadows still are in nowadays' programming, but the average back in the day was probably not very good, especially since everyone was using tools and languages that were by nature very unforgiving.
That's already true of doctors. The barriers to entry to being a GP are lower than those to being a neurosurgeon. Like building rails websites has lower barriers to entry than writing code for the Mars rovers. In fact, if you so much desire, you can set up a homoeopathy practise without a degree in medicine.
He takes homebrew to a whole level by building his own CNC plasma cutter.