skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't find any information to back it up so it's possible I'm wrong. I've noticed this most specifically with Indians though.

If you look at Indian outsourcing shops that employ programmers there do tend to be more females than you would find in an equivalent western company.

If I had to hazard a guess I think the "nerdy" stigma attached to CS is more of a western thing. Whereas in a growing economy a woman who can go out and compete with men is perhaps viewed as more empowered somehow?
Do you realize there wasn't a official specs set at that time? Different browsers came up with "patches"/features own there own. From the blink tag to Ajax, all were proprietary to each browser.

I don't believe it ever happened or ever will. If Microsoft had to go that route, they would have done it before losing the biggest chunk of the browser share.

Retric wasn't talking about patches to IE, but rather patches to the OS that would break third-party applications (they did this to Word Perfect during the transition from DOS to Windows, too). You can all about Microsoft's colorful past in the so-called Halloween Documents, the press coverage and public documentation of the main antitrust case, and in other cases such as those documented on Groklaw.
20 kilos is 44 pounds.
60 days is is 8.5 weeks.

That's 44/8.5 = just over 5lb of weight loss targeted for each week.

Now that I've double checked my math and seen that the number I got before I started writing this comment was correct, I can tell you (or, your friend since it's not your website) that unless you are severely obese, this is a terrible terrible idea and an unreachable goal unless you want to get very sick.

Before I get into the numbers I think you should go by, let me give some information: I recently moved the entire width of the United States and started working as a software engineer at a fitness company, I've gotten really into the science behind weight loss and weight training and have gotten much stronger than I used to be while also losing 30+ pounds in three months.

From the numerous papers I've read and the experiences of the tons of people on our social network who have changed their life around completely, I can tell you that attempting to lose more than 2 pounds (around 1 kilo) a week is a terrible goal. Even if you hit it, you'll be severely underfed and feel like shit.

For your first week or two you might lose much more than that because of water weight which might make you think I'm wrong, but you shouldn't be setting insane goals like this for yourself because they'll hurt you both physically and emotionally if you follow through.

Weight loss is nothing but calories in - calories out, and making that a net negative. Use this calculator to calculate your TDEE http://www.1percentedge.com/ifcalc/ (on page 2) and then count your calories and eat 500-1000 calories less than a day. Eating at a deficit of 1000 calories is really drastic and I can't maintain it on most days, so try to aim for somewhere between 500-750. A pound is 3500 calories so being at a daily deficit of 500 calories will net you one pound of weight loss a week.

If you're feeling adventurous, go to the next page in that calculator and follow its intermittent fasting macro calculations (which will make you count your fat, protein, and carbs rather than just your calories) and incorporate a simple three times a week weight-training routine. That will help you emotionally because you'll be able to eat more on workout days and also make you stronger, and convert some of your fat into muscle.
heck just simply eating enough protein to maintain a decent nitrogen balance would probably fill your calorie intake alone. say 1.5g per kg body weight, for a most men seeking to lose weight, this is going to be in excess of 500kcal.

Simply ridiculous.
About 1900 too many words spent on trolling as a topic
Of course the fact that it's free is relevant, your argument is about switching costs and in this case the costs are literally nil.
Also their search is not a platform it's a service (no API).
Couldn't they just test the shrimp?

It definitely seems unsanitary on the front of it, but I wonder if it's actually unsafe, or if there is some step down the manufacturing process that makes it safe, such as cooking. On the front of it growing lettuce in pig shit would result in lots of deaths but it doesn't which makes me wonder if it's also a safe way to grow shrimp considering that they pretty much feed on the fish shit anyway.

The article is chalk full of experts who say something is unsanitary, but very light on data actually proving that whatever standards these operations have are resulting in unsafe seafood.

It would seem to me that shipping seafood covered in pig shit would make a lot of people sick really really fast and if it was unsafe would be REALLY unsafe and generally noticed by people concerned with such things.
That's just a bloomberg article, not a full cost benefit analysis. If some of the pig waste goes to the shrimps, less of it will go elsewhere. I'd call that recycling - a positive externality here.

Pig manure is causing problems in this world. For example, some serious effort is made to find the best storage temperature to reduce methane emissions - see www.engr.usask.ca/societies/csae/protectedpapers/c0209.pdf for exemple.

So anything that will reduce or convert the amount produced is a good thing.
DC is fed by US government.

Democrats are pro-government, so DC votes for Democrats.
September marked the decline of the keyword search era
A "parliamentary system" means a system where legislative elections are held and the party or coalition of parties that garners a majority then forms the executive branch of the government, and one member of the legislature is chosen to serve as the "prime minister" or head of the executive branch.

Americans would never accept a system that did not allow them to select their chief executives (presidents, governors, mayors).
Hi thejteam,

Yes that could actually be one reason. The marketing till today has been more to tell that it's available and less to explain what it does. Maybe we should try changing our App store desc/screenshots to reflect the why.
1. Looking at your flyers, I have no clue what its about. I'm most likely going to ignore it.

2. Prize incentivization isn't hugely compelling for me personally although it may for others

3. Since I can't see what you posted on the mailing list, I can't comment on whether or not I find it useful. (I no longer have access to my Stanford email and thus no longer get mailing list emails either way).

4. Same as #3 regarding emails for student organizations (are you guys even tracking their activity?)

5. From what it sounds like, there is no compelling reasons why people feel they should need to use your service (I'm still confuse as to what it does beyond what you describe it as here or why its useful). This might be the biggest issue but since I don't know what feedback you guys have had so far, I can't comment much further.
> and made questionable use of the downvote button

In your opinion. I think it was right on target. Complaining about downvotes is in the guidelines as something to be avoided, and predicting their onset is a slightly differently colored shade of the same thing. It manipulates peoples' reactions to your comment, and you are not at all oblivious to that.

I'm actually glad he told you why, even though it cost him karma. I wish every downvote came with a reason.

> (which comes with great responsibility, especially if you are a YC partner like he is)

I laughed out loud at this. It's the downvote button, not a loaded gun.

I'll summarize.

The CEO of justin.tv, who you've met personally (as if that's important to the issue at hand), downvoted you and you've gone after his personal image as a result. Now you're citing his responsibility "as a YC partner" to act fairly. Can we circle back toward you just not liking being downvoted eventually?

Your comment was so devoid of insight that the downvote jab at the end just became icing on the cake, and I agree with it being called out. People upvoted the article. It's a dumb article. Commenting on the people upvoting the dumb article and characterizing them as mindless IFTTT fans is just noise, and this entire thread which has now launched off from your noise is even more noise.
The I ASK 123 virus, and 2 million free pizzas, let's do it
People aren't hungry because seafood is expensive. People are hungry (mostly) because food is distributed in weird ways.

(http://www.wfp.org/hunger/faqs)

> 1 - Is there a food shortage in the world?

> There is enough food in the world today for everyone to have the nourishment necessary for a healthy and productive life.

This is from the World Food Program, a United Nations organisation.

You mention protein. Lack of protein isn't a problem for many people. Lack of micronutrients is much more serious, affecting (killing or maiming) very many more people.
This is fascinating! I would love to know the process that the author went through to find these, i.e. did they just pan over a large area or did they target certain geographic features. It's interesting that there are entries from such a wide variety of countries.
Here in the states, MA, I use Sovereign Bank who had just got acquired by Santander.

I was able to reproduce the NewUniversalCookie which showed my `username` and `userid`.

I'm a rather young adult (22) and had used Sovereign solely because my parents had used it, but now I'll be happily moving elsewhere.
Getting developers and support to work together
As far as I know, chicken contaminated with salmonella wouldn't pass USDA inspection either. While chicken should never be eaten when it's undercooked, it's quite easy for that to accidentally happen (the outside of a piece of chicken may be cooked completely, but the inside is undercooked). Not to mention that raw chicken that has bacteria on it can contaminate preparation surfaces in your kitchen, spreading the bacteria around.
I am glad you made this post, because recently I've been having similar thoughts. I don't know if it's just because I visit sites that occupy a singular cluster in webpage-space [1], but it seems like the evidence of increased conflict between the social justice community and the hacker community is popping up everywhere. Is this because the social justice community has finally reached critical mass on the web (a traditional hacker domain) and is speaking up, or did something in one of the communities recently change to trigger this? And is this collision / conflict something that we'll see more of in the future, or will the fervor on each side die down?

Either way, I think the hacker community's long term response will be really interesting. When looking for historical examples, I can really only see one clear path -- the path taken by industries whose employees already consider themselves privileged, namely those in finance and banking. They've had ongoing conflicts with the social justice community for a while now, and we've seen their response. Will the hacker community respond similarly? Hackers seem to value non-conformity and despise credentialism, so I doubt it.

So, I think the long term path of the hacker community will probably be unique. Suppose the hackers recognize that they might be privileged in some ways (e.g. high IQ). Will we see a restored sense of noblesse oblige? I doubt the social justice community let that stand. Maybe the hackers will undergo a cultural transform that satisfies them? Though I'd like to believe this is possible, no examples come to mind that give me any confidence.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/nl/the_cluster_structure_of_thingspa...
The dissertation is not online but I did find the abstract:

"Ethnographic in approach, this dissertation examines trolling, an online subculture devoted to meme creation and social disruption. Rather than framing trolling behaviors as fundamentally aberrant, I argue that trolls are agents of cultural digestion; they scour the landscape, repurpose the most exploitable material, then shove the resulting monstrosities into the faces of an unsuspecting populace.

Within the political and social context of the United States, the region to which I have restricted my focus, I argue that trolls on 4chan/b/ and Facebook digest and often perform a grotesque pantomime of a number of pervasive cultural logics, including masculine domination (Bourdieu 2001) and white privilege (Dyer 1997). Additionally, I argue that the rhetorical and behavioral tactics embraced by trolls, including sensationalism, spectacle, and emotional exploitation, are homologous to tactics routinely deployed by American corporate media outlets. In short, trolling operates within existing systems, not in contrast to, immediately complicating, and often ironizing, knee-jerk condemnations of trolling behaviors."
Once again we see members of the social justice community promoting "privilege" as the metric for which all achievements should be judged. Developed an amazing search technology? "Well, they're two straight white males... big deal". Revolutionized the mobile devices industry? "He's a straight white male of course it's easy for him". Created the largest social network on Earth? Pfff...all he had to do was show up.

The fundamental flaw with privilege theory is that there is no way of discerning where someones supposed privilege ends and where their actual achievements and talent begin.
Unless you're gong to simple say "anyone could of done that and the only reason you were able to was because you're a white male" or a "dude" or "boy" as this author seems to be fond of calling men (misandrist much?). In other words we're all equally talented, smart, motivated and lucky and the only differentiator is race, class and gender. Which I think most would agree is absurd.

One question I have though is what would be the ideal world for the OP? A system where everyone's race, class, gender and privilege are considered when making hiring decisions and then adjusting applicants qualifications accordingly?
Is that really the world we want to live in?
God damn it now I'm going to remember the name of some guy's throwaway account until the day I die.
Not that I speak for the GP but for me personally it is a question of relative similarity. My values compared to either one of the two main US parties are very different. Given that the relative similarities of the two parties it means they are effectively "the same".

If I instead compare and contrast them with each other, obviously I can too can see that they are not "the same"
Sounds intressting. Data Structure libs are one of the best cases to show of how cool and polymorthy your language can be.

I dont know if that exists allready but I think I am going to implment a persisten vector (like clojure vector) in rust and see if it interacts nice with other libs.

I have done with other languages, would give a lot of inside into rust.
It's amazing to think that some of those random looking squiggles are the center of someone's world. The eye glazes over at the multitude of hills and river bends - but some must be totally unique and meaningful to someone.
The point isn't that they're "the same". It's that they're the same _where it matters_.

That they are both bought and paid for by the same corporate money. Where do the hundreds of millions to fund the campaigns come from? You don't think that those interests might, you know, want something in return?

All mainstream political "discussion" is simply a distraction from the true issues. To think anything else is just naive.
Yahoo appoints Google's Henrique de Castro as COO
Yeah looks like my purchase at 10:10 AM which said "100+ ready for shipping now" and said "Ready for Shipping Now" at the check-out page will actually be shipped by 10/26/2012, oh well, not that bad of a wait :)
1. We had created those more as a way to create awareness - but you're right...by leaving out the what/why made the eyeball conversions really low. Big mistake on our part!

5. As you've both (thejteam and you) rightly pointed out - our need fulfillment doesn't come across and this could be possibly be the biggest reason.

(Yes, we're tracking all activity including email). I'm adding what Shoutt does and how it is useful to the question now.
If the Pipes/YQL team that is still at Yahoo had any interest in duplicating the functionality of IFTTT or Zapier, they could just do it.
Hackers should hack them into it.
The note to the left helps explain why Alabama was SO far to the right that year. LBJ wasn't even on the ballot in 64.
I'm pretty sure that the RIAA has never stated that file-sharers are bad for the music industry, just that file-sharing is bad. Those are two different things.

This style of argument has been used extensively by the various media industry associations. There's Valenti's famous Boston strangler analogy, the Home Taping is Killing Music from the BPI, etc. I don't recall any specific references in regards to file sharing, but I'm certain they've been made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videocassette_recorder#Legal_c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Taping_Is_Killing_Music
I'm still in school; just finished 3A, so ive got a pretty fresh look at things. It seems to me Waterloo's stature is rising in The Valley, and they are offering more jobs. I had about 30-40% of my class go to Apple this semester, for example.
More details here: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/15/us-britain-starbuc...

It looks like it boils down to the fact that in the UK companies are allowed to make tax-free 'royalty' and 'interest' payments to their offshore parents, resulting in tax avoidance. Surely there is a simple solution: treat all such payments as simple transfers rather than expenses. I'm not allowed to avoid tax by siphoning half my pre-tax income into a swiss bank account, so why should large companies be allowed to do this?
Yeah the flyers don't describe the product at all. I would create new flyers.
Just wanted to say congrats
> it could be argued that republicans during Nixon's time were closer to middle road democrats of today in terms of overall platform.

That's because it's correct, depending on what you mean by 'middle road Democrat'. Nixon created the EPA, created OSHA, signed Title IX into existence, ended the Vietnam war, and endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment, which nevertheless failed to pass.

He couldn't have done a lot of those things without Congress, granted, but there wasn't a Tea Party back then, either.

Now don't get me wrong: Nixon was a petty, vindictive ass who used the office of the President to pursue personal vendettas and ultimately authored his own downfall in a display of raw hubris worthy of a Greek tragic hero. The irony here was that with Watergate, he attempted to cheat his way to victory in the 1972 election, which was the biggest landslide anyone alive then will live to see. He threw away his entire future in politics trying to rig something that was a sure thing for him to win anyway.

But enough on Nixon. Ronald Reagan was too liberal for most of the people who currently lionize him.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/05/10/even-reagan...

http://www.quora.com/Politics/Would-Ronald-Reagan-not-be-con...
Natwest are a dismal failure of a bank to the extent I'm always happy to go out my way and dissuade people from associating with them in any way.

Just as a countering data point, I've been with NatWest for 14 years both for personal and business banking (plus a business credit card) and have had nothing but an excellent experience with them (the only negative I can think of is their online banking goes down for maintenance at 2-3am sometimes for an hour or two).
I'm on the site, and I don't see the reason why I want to engage. Can you give me your elevator pitch?
Lessons Learned Getting Other People to Sell My Ebook
Try not thinking of it as being "beyond mistakes"; try to think of it as "not having the luxury of being treated like a startup".

What would your visceral response be to a brand new bank that makes the news because it got robbed due to faulty locks, and oh-by-the-way they haven't gotten around to being insured yet? Is it fair that a bank is held to different standards than Mom & Pop's Corner Shoppe?

For most people -- maybe just about everybody -- a hosting company is the online equivalent of a bank. And that's totally fair.
Because I'm pedantic this way... I just need to know...

ggp wrote: I downvoted you just for the jab about "that will mean this gets downvoted".

I don't get how that gets you to write:

Why? He called you out and he's 100% correct, why would it matter who he is? --> he's 100% correct about what? what claim did he make? He certainly didn't seem to make any claim about it not mattering who he is.

no harm done for telling the truth, you just don't see it that way because you're on the wrong end of it. --> What truth, and just what is diego on the wrong end of? ggp made no claims, if anything, just insinuated that one shouldn't make comments about some company or product's fanbase. Or I'm not sure what. It's certainly not an outright clear claim of anything to me, just an explanation of what he just did. And what is diego on the wrong end of? Judging from the community reaction, people are agreeing more with diego than not.

And now my being pedantic will get me more downvoted, especially because I'm contributing to something so off-topic and non-value-adding? I just want to understand what it is you're saying because my mind felt like it just experienced a GPF.

I see a lot of people commenting now and then about how HN is not as nice or civil as it used to be anymore. Am I contributing to it or pointing it out?

But something that is worth discussing.

Becoming the leader of a company, as you know, is not a magic threshold after which you have to change who you are.

I see lots of examples out there that seem to disagree. There are lots of anecdotes about how Mark Zuckerberg had to take CEO coaching to be able to do his job. Stories I read about Marissa Mayer when she was named Yahoo's CEO said that she was not CEO material because of how she was unable to lead people, then I read further stories quoting people who said that was the old Marissa Mayer before she matured. I read another lengthy article about how Steve Jobs would not have been the high-quality CEO 2.0 he was at Apple if he didn't have the interim experience at Pixar to refine his CEO style and skills. And I can go on and on about the stories I've been reading. So it's difficult for me to agree with you on that statement.

edit: I mean, if this really were the case, I don't think we'd see blog posts like this one that are so respected: http://bhorowitz.com/2011/04/01/what%E2%80%99s-the-most-diff... I think it's quite natural that becoming a leader requires you to change who you are, unless you were a natural at it. And part of that change includes how you have to carry yourself and present yourself to others and in the public eye. It's part of leading. One of the best articles I've read on the subject I think is an interview that happened with the leader of the Firefox effort, because he was originally so introverted.
Replying to this really late, but:

> The world's second-biggest cause of child mortality, diarrhoea, kills about 1.5 million children every year. Three-quarters of these deaths could be prevented with a simple course of oral rehydration salts (ORS) combined with zinc tablets, at a cost of just US$0.50 per patient.

For years we've[1] struggled to get this live saving cheap stuff to little dying children, and haven't succeeded.

Without any massive change - just a little bit of clever thinking, we use Coca Cola's desire to sell fizzy pop to everyone, and their delivery networks, to help ship ORS.

(http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94996/GLOBAL-Follow-the-fizz-...)

I agree with you about the "We just need to [...]" school of thought being hopeless.