skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I am walking on eggshells right now for I can not express myself freely in a forum like this without suffering from social manipulation (downvoting, hellbanning)"

That's certainly a good sign that social sanctions for sexism, racism, etc work. People ~should~ think before they speak, much more than they do in most sites and blogs.
Thanks Barry, I think my profile says I've been here all of 49 days at this point (or sometime in the recent few days).

I've heard of HN for a long time but never visited. Now it's my go to site for interesting and tech-related things.
Maintained, not wrote.
John Wiegley wrote both.

http://www.emacswiki.org/PlannerMode

It is cool that Sacha maintained it, volunteering is awesome.

I am pointing this correction out because Sacha's primary career is as a self-promotion specialist (http://sachachua.com/blog/), so I have to be skeptical of how her name gets attached to technical work, more so than someone who doesn't pursue celebrity for profit.

People shouldn't think that it's so easy to be famous and a technical contributor. The larger contributors (like John Wiegley in this case) tend to be less famous.

Example:
Sure, Linus Torvalds is a celebrity and massive contrbutor, but there are dozens (hundreds?) of other massive Linux kernel contributors who are less famous than, say, Jeff Atwood.
Give you the ability to see what kind of access you've granted which application, and the option to 'nuke' (i.e. disconnect) all apps in one go. The alerts as mentioned below as well.
attempting to mislead

You've moved the goalposts from explaining a metaphor to "quantify[ing] all such traits and trends." I can Google to find sources for statistics, but so can you. Here's a starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male%E2%80%93female_income_disp...

(The section on "Explaining the gender pay gap" answers your later request for evidence quite thoroughly.)

For example, women choose web design over programming and HR over trading. Women choose to leave the workforce more than men.

The fact that women end up in these professions is bad evidence that they prefer them, much less that they naturally prefer them independent of social expectations. A few factors to consider off the top of my head:
* Hiring bias
* Differential tracking by family, teachers, and mentors
* Hostile working environments or a fear of such
* Differences in which related basic skills people are taught (self-confidence, 'nurturing' vs 'making')
Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless
What about the fact that the Lightning connector is superior to MicroUSB in the following ways?

* It's omni-directional

* It's much stronger

* Once inserted, the cable securely engages with a mechanical latch, rather than friction

The only way in which MicroUSB is superior is in cost. A USB cable need not include any microchips, but the Lightning cable must have a chip to detect when the cable is inserted so that the pins don't short when it's outside a connector.

I have serious doubts that Apple's choice to use a proprietary connector is about profits. If that were the case, they could have saved a boat load of money developing the Lightning connector and made some slight alterations to a standard USB connector.

Having used an iPhone 5 for a few weeks now, I really appreciate the Lightning connector. The only thing I'd appreciate more is wireless charging, but that has its own set of drawbacks. Until I can have both -- wireless charging, plus an auxiliary plug-in charging port -- I'll take Lightning.
So you are opposed to separate male and female lavatories?
Canary is great for AngularJS development as well, as it's a test bed for things like Batarang and the AngularJS inspector before it's shipped to stable.
Microformats vs. Microdata
I wonder whether the hexadecimal floating-point syntax 0x1.23p45 referred to in http://stackoverflow.com/a/11840637/139746 will qualify as “bug fixes and usability improvements”. This notation is very useful for the tiny fraction of programmers who need it.
UK Resident here. Yes, bring it on, but I suspect there will be a rear guard action from Microsoft and also from the IT sellers and IT staff. The latter may not want the cheese moved.
Quality users move on, status chasers move in.
I know I cannot be the only person who sees this and thinks text only emails are still the way to go. If you are going to generate something like this maybe you should just make it a pdf and attach it to the email. HTML emails are still a bad idea.
Here's the thing: I develop websites for other people, people who most likely aren't also using Chrome Canary. I'd prefer to develop on a browser that will show me something closer to what they will actually see. Whatever sweet-ass bleeding edge features it has don't really apply to my dev work.
Perhaps topically relevant:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positional_good
This is a misleading title as the content of the article is basically a shill for his latest investment.
Hi there, allow me to correct this misconception. I've debunked that idea often enough that I wrote a blog post about this four years ago: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/toolbar-indexing-debunk-post/ I wrote an earlier debunk post in 2006 too: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/debunking-toolbar-doesnt-lead-...

I noticed a new twist in your post though: you're saying that because of Safe Browsing (which checks for e.g. malware as users surf the web), those urls are sent to Google. The way that Chrome and Firefox actually do Safe Browsing is that they download an encrypted blob which allows the browser to do a lookup for dangerous urls on the client side--not by sending any urls to Google. I believe that if there's a match in the client-side encrypted table, only then does the browser send the now-suspect url to Google for checking.

Here's more info: https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/ I believe the correct mental model of the Safe Browsing API in browsers is "Download a hash table of believed-to-be-dangerous urls. As you surf, check against that local hash table. If you find a match/collision, then the user might be about to land on a bad url, so check for more info at that point."

Hope that helps. Further down in the discussion, someone posted this helpful link with more explanation: http://blog.alexyakunin.com/2010/03/nice-bloom-filter-applic...
Thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed, perfectly valid explanation to clear out the misconceptions that many might have had.

Good day.
This is a weird subject. I think, as a social group, we're on a hinging point where women will be making equal footing in the tech industry, but haven't yet. Its coming.

Women are going to get disproportionate treatment during this transition in one or two different ways, and it depends on who they're interacting with. Should they land themselves alongside the stereotypical basement dweller they'll be cast aside and thought less of. They'll first need to prove themselves in an uphill battle. This will take great self confidence because there is a lot of misogyny still in the tech workplace. Too many tech gurus grew up being shunned socially and still have those emotional barriers preventing them from being rational and fair.

On the other swing of things though we have the opposite treatment: "A girl? Oooo!" I feel jealous sometimes of my female friends in the industry because of just how easy getting face to face for new jobs comes for them. I fight to keep myself in check because they're damn good professionals who deserve it but the thought remains: what sets them apart from me? Directly out of university I was competing locally with a lot of them for jobs and the treatment of women in the profession was quite apparent. I still see it a bit in my jobs now and its slightly disheartening.

Ultimately I think this problem will solve itself in time. Tech jobs aren't about the basement dweller anymore, they haven't been for years. The natural transition where everyone in the workforce has been part of it for the years where equal woman representation has been around and the awkward or preferential treatment is happening. We need vocal women to encourage more to join. Those classes in university will definitely be unsettling when 20 slobbering unkempt males are trying to wrestle their way to the only female group partner but to push through is going to be tough.
Ugh, for 111kclub I'd expect a much more specific, exclusive error. I can get a general error anywhere.

Maybe members-only get to see the exciting details of the error?
1. Go to Distrowatch.com

2. Pick something other than Ubuntu.

3. Stop having to find something else you need to 'easily disable' every 6 months.
I don't think "here's the dictionary definition" is usually a useful argument, but in any case it's hard for me to see affirmative action as "excluding" white people, since it's generally practiced in fields where they remain dominant.

I agree that in a world where racial discrimination is a thing of the distant past, affirmative action wouldn't make sense. But that's not our world. See for example: http://scholar.harvard.edu/mullainathan/files/emilygreg.pdf
Couldn't agree more. Apple tried to throw its weight around when it clearly had no business suing. Apple's working on the principle it is too big to fail.
Link seems broken, page fails to load.
Just another article on Deploying Rails
At least it's not a 3D pie chart.
There are alternatives that don't require extending the language or having to work directly with a mess of nested callbacks. A bunch of flow-control libraries here: http://dailyjs.com/2012/02/20/new-flow-control-libraries/

This is definitely more hairy to use than if the language supported it natively, but not so bad, and can be implemented in a very lightweight way (this approach http://daemon.co.za/2012/04/simple-async-with-only-underscor... is a few lines of code on top of Underscore.js which a lot of sites are using already).

(PS: sorry if OP's article already mentioned this stuff, I can't load it at the moment)
Ask HN: Is an IP address sensitive data?
When data is released it is usually scrubbed of PII. Information like names, birthdays, addresses, etc. I am wrestling with opening data from my startup but cannot make a decision on user IP address data. Are there precedents for or against providing this kind of information in an open dataset?
Taking the true measure of a storm, with physics.
Not sure there is enough there to get me to upgrade my Nexus S but then again mobile phones have reached a plateau of maturity for the moment and I can't see any "must have" features around the corner.
Nanotechnology is awesome, but most of it seems to be in early research stages. Any good references for nanotechnology products used commercially today?
They were not saying that all people who collect figures and display them are manchildren.
Richard Feynman - Not Knowing Things
I think your hypothetical attractive 23y/o woman who goes into the office of a middle-aged manager who barely knows who she is and comes out with a better job will be very much rumoured to have "exploited" her "sexual 'assets'", whether she has or not, and that in itself is dangerous for her social status.

I'm also not totally sure that youth is such a negative for a man's social status in the workplace. I can think of a few charismatic young men I've seen get disproportionately (disproportionate to performance) far up the ladder. And maybe I'm mistaken, but terms like "rock star programmer" seem to invoke the cult of youth - in my mind it implies a hip young gunslinger.
Eh, I quite liked my Motorola Droid -- I loved the form factor, and once I overclocked it a bit the performance was much better. Also, it was a fucking tank!

At this point it's obviously a bit obsolete.
No, we should stop writing javascript and start writing elm - a language that compiles to javascript, works like described in that page, and is the subject generally of the site hosting the article.

At least, that's what the article is saying. There are a few interesting things on the horizon there, but I've been watching elm with some interest.
Show HN: Flipso / Sell stuff to friends & followers
http://www.flipso.com

Flipso was created with the intention to sell your stuff to friends and followers in a very simple way. It is made for things you'd like to get rid of at some point but where time and profit are not of utmost priority. Call it eBay meets Twitter.
There was something like this a few years ago. Facebook changed something (and/or FB changes made maintaining the plugin impossible) and it stopped working. Like any business idea dependent on the goodwill of an API to third-parties, a conflict with business priorities will always resolve in the API owner's favor.
1. Sometimes a bank can have better rates on ONE currency but not another, e.g. my bank, Nedbank [1], has better USD/ZAR rates but worse EUR/ZAR rates than Bidvest [2].

2. Depending on where you're from, some countries won't even grant you a visa unless you show them proof that you have sufficient foreign currency (e.g. Germany requires this of South Africans applying for a Schengen visa)

3. Specialist banks offer you additional benefits, e.g. Bidvest gave me 2 electronic bank cards to access funds in a separate, new, account when I travelled in Europe, which had 4 distinct advantages:

* lose one card I have a spare (my local bank couldn't offer that, nor would AMEX)

* my cards were not linked to my 'real' cheque account, protecting me in the event of theft and ensuring I had a backup plan if something really bad happened.

* I could protect myself from currency fluctuations by choosing to hold an account in a currency of my choice, e.g. EUR; if the exchange rate got worse, I used the EUR card, if it got better I used my local bank's credit card

* managing my budget was easier because I had allocated funds for the trip to my new travel account

[1] http://www.nedbank.co.za/website/content/travel_check/forex_...

[2] http://www.bidvestbank.co.za/foreign-exchange/retail-rates.a...
Elon Musk is boss. He puts every other visionary out there to shame. What a guy!
But is it an excellent opportunity for people with older phones to buy a nice new one. Only downside is the gigantic screen.
MS had to do this. As many point out there already are alternatives and it's clear mobile devices are the future. MS made the tough choice. Will it hurt them in the near term? YUP. It's an unpopular, bold move but I think the correct one. Kudos to Balmer for having the gonads to push the company in this direction. We're looking at maybe 2 years before Win8 takes hold.

For what it's worth, I think Win 8 acceptance will be molasses slow. Win 8 will affect Android's share not Apple's. I have a newer ICS tablet and I still prefer my IPad Gen 1. ICS feels slow despite having a much faster processor.
If you say the datalog query aspect of Datomic, I would be tremendously (maybe embarrassingly) happy.
IP Addresses are PII, you should generally scrub those. If you, for example, wanted to be in NAI, Network Advertising Initiative, you'd be required to delete IP addresses in log files.

Also, addresses can be tied to other actions across the web to build a profile.
I guess "believable" is the wrong word. They were one-dimensional and boring. The book is a terrible description of a way of life masked as a story, and in my opinion, that's all it is.
Indeed. A friend just sent me this:

"china can't compete because all their aerospace students are spies
(joke from my chums in the physics department)"
I encourage you to look at Achron http://www.achrongame.com/ , a RTS with timetravel as an integral gameplay mechanic. It doesn't deal with relativity explicitly, but does have multiple independent timestreams.
Also, I believe a lot of companies and people skipped Vista and was eager to upgrade to Windows 7.

But I still think his overall point holds: "force" people to choose and they might choose something else.
Your assumption that "direct and clear communication" requires that you use offensive and exclusive phrasings is false, and your complaints about your inability to exert "power" over others are unmoving.

"they've had so much trouble trying to legislate against the First Amendment"

If you believe proper behavior has anything to do with the First Amendment it would do you better to read the US Constitution.
Sorry, I misspoke - I didn't mean the runtime (what would that really be?) but the compilers. That is, I do not know, a priori, that the internal type system would deal equally well with constant sized arrays, as with variable based ones. Currently the size of all variables on stack is determined at compile time, and the compiler generates code for those offsets. If this now changes, one would have to see what needs to change in the compiler internally, and the executable that gets output by it.
It can certainly "be done", but things need to change in order to accomodate it as part of the language.
Ask HN: Where else do you get your news?
Where besides HN, TechCrunch and PandoDaily do you get your news and discussion fix?
I agree. I was surprised that many people planned to switch to Windows 8 already.
I don't really agree with this article at all. For one thing, as people have already pointed out here, making coclusins based on companies' plans just does not make much sense.

1. Do people really and honestly think that companies will abandon Windows for iPads or macs? I find that extremely unlikely for reasons that I think we already know (iPads are not good for productivity, I doubt companies will shell extra $$$ for Macs). Companies being wary of a brand new Windows release is nothing new. Remember when Windows XP came out? People and companies hated it initially. The article's comparison to Windows 7 is funny because it failed to say how most of these companies who looked forward to upgrading were running an OS that was 8 years old! (XP - the same one they initially claimed they would not use)

2. I don't buy the fact that most people think that they can get away wit just having an iPad. Most people that I know use an iPad as a SECONDARY device. It is more fun than a laptop for consuming content. Sure. But what if you have to actually, you know, do some work? This is basically Windows 8 / Surface's entire value proposition. One device to work AND play.

3. Why is the article ignoring the fact that most people won't feel comfortable spending ~$1,300 on an Apple computer when they could get an HP or something for $600 or even less? Let us not forget the fact that not everyone can shell out the money for a Mac.

My 2 (3?) cents :)
Ask HN: "Like if you support [obvious cause]"
Lately my facebook feed seems to have been taken over by pictures of maltreated dogs/brave soldiers/ill children with text along the lines of "Click like if you support [thing in picture]. Keep scrolling if you [hate soldiers/beat animals/want more kids to get cancer]".

Apart from obviously needing a better class of friends, is there a business model here? Are the people that run these annoying pages making money off the back of the "likes" that they manipulate people into?
That might be true in general, but I do have perfect LTE (Verizon) coverage almost everywhere I go -- on campus, downtown, or near my apartment. I have unlimited data and can setup my phone to tether, so it's really kind of amazing.

I didn't realize how much faster LTE was until I downloaded an ubuntu ISO in 7 minutes. It's far superior to any sort of wired internet connection I could reasonably afford.

I'm not saying google should have included LTE, but in some regions like mine, it turns out to be pretty important.
Man that's actually really exciting to see Clang and LLVM come into their prime on a popular OS. Great work, guys!
You joke, but the largest export of Martian colonies will probably be patents. Frontier living tends to push envelopes a lot.
So the logic here is "Wow, the new start screen is different, so I might as well go learn a different OS, with a different set of apps, and different hardware"?

Not to mention if the person has more than a single PC, they're now using two totally separate systems? It also ignores the folks upgrading to Windows 8.
Yes, deregulation had many market effects. Positive exceptions prove the rule no more often than negative ones, and (re)regulation of the telco industry on the telemarketing front does not return us to the price-setting ways of long-distance in the past.
If you had a program back then full of gotos and an assembly language that didn't support structured blocks, your problem was just as bad.

At its core, FPR only requires higher-order functions to work. (And nearly every modern language supports them to some degree).

The things that Elm provides are additional niceties:

* A type system with parametry polymorphism (aka generics) helps you spot otherwise nasty runtime errors ("expected a function, got a signal").

* Abstract data types - The only way to create a signal is through the API. The only thing you can do with a signal is pass it around and feed it back into the API.

* Language purity - This one is probably the hardest sell for average languages, since every modern language (save Haskell) allows for unrestricted side-effects. However, as long as you don't bypass the API and update the UI directly, you don't actually NEED purity.

The nice thing about Elm is that it compiles directly to Javascript. You can integrate it into new pages on your existing site without giving up anything. I think the language -- and more generally FPR as a basic tool in your toolkit -- has a lot of potential in the future.
How does an app get on the "MyPermissions' Safe Permissions Program" list? Where is this list?
Science Hack Day: Bridging the gap between coders and chemists
Ideas don't succeed by themselves. Different people will build differently and therefor succeed accordingly. Hire talented people so that you can reduce the risk of failure by solving your problem better than anyone else. If you can execute better than anyone then you shouldn't be worried about people chasing your idea.

You only realize how much commitment is required when you get around working on a project. People don't really have the time to build your dream. even If someone steals your idea, they will only get to the first version of your product, you have the vision for the later versions and updates (you'll always be ahead of the game).
I deal with this every day when I meet founders. They tell me that they're keeping their idea under-wraps because they don't want anyone to steal it or pass it on to someone who could.

Not once has any of these people succeeded with this approach. On the other hand, Joel at Bufferapp who I've been watching since the early days was very public. Got out there to find out if people wanted the product pre-MVP and when there was an MVP he let people use it. Today they're based in SF, have strong revenue, a team, venture funding and hundreds of thousands of users.

The people with "stealth companies" that succeed are serial founders with money behind them. Most of the time they don't keep it under-wraps, they just don't share it online. If you ask them what they're doing they'll tell you and they're constantly getting out there talking to partners, investors, etc. Many of these companies fail such as Color.

Unless you're starting a new national airline that could be stopped if a competitor found out what you are doing and went to congress or partners to block you from entering the market.

I recommend talking to competitors if you're put in a situation with one. This is something I've done and they've been very helpful, on one occasion one helped me out without intending to by talking about why one feature probably wouldn't work without a tweak because they found out it doesn't work without X.

In the end it's about execution. Get as much as you can out of the door as you can and learn as much about the market as you can.

I actually wrote an article about this a new months ago: http://brack.in/post/32461803751/stealth-is-bullshit
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"It is so hard. But, somehow women are naturally good at this, and I am just as fascinated by this fact."

Have you never interacted with a single father?