skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oh yes - I kept that sheet taped to my monitor for a few weeks as well, but once its gone.....heh looking at the keyboard while i type these days, just confuses me :)
Great article indeed!

During all of the arguments he made i couldn't help but think about the "lack of successful women in tech/business"-discussion that is - i guess - currently going on not only in my country.

1) Underrepresentation does not equal racism

or bias against women

2) News reports are focusing on the wrong part of the story and there are many women very successful already

3) Greed trumps gender

And also when he mentions possible solutions:

-) Increase the pipeline

Exactly. Often many women in my classes were very good at maths/science, yet only very few went on to really study something like maths/science or something strongly business-related.
I contributed a tiny fix for a bug in Tkinter, Python's built in GUI module. There's a contributor form to sign before your first contribution can be accepted, but everyone was friendly, and it was committed quickly once I'd returned the form.
ForrestN is not (as I interpret) saying that nothing matters. Just that evaluating the "matter-ness" of something based on some objective like making a difference to humanity is baseless. If staying passive makes you happy, then take that route. If proving mathematical theorems makes you happy, then take that route.

You seem to be saying that the pursuit of a goal in of itself matters, something that is not really at odds with what ForrestN implies, which is that the end product (the result of accomplishing a goal) doesn't really matter, given that all paths end at the same destination.

I especially take issue with your last sentence, which feels like a cop-out. "You may as well move" is a poor reason to move. "You may as well stay put" has just as much validity.
Even if you did export your data, you can't export your friends to a competing social network. The real reason there's no threat to Facebook is because of the network effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
However, much of what you described has little or nothing to do with them having bad hardware. It's almost exclusively software and amenities (bandwidth).
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I think that's what happens when you make a food shopping list entirely out of items that can be purchased online.
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Indeed. I've got an enormous monitor; surely they can find another 32x32 pixels for separate play and pause buttons.
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Hardcore developers will start using ed. It allows you to focus on one line at once, with none of the distracting "context" of screen editors.
I think a far more revealing point about Kafka is his self-view and the fact that in his will he wanted all of his works burned. I don't think Kafka was ever a very happy man in his life, so you really got to wonder how much good did the "being a genius" do for HIM regardless of how much he contributed to the world and humanity and our culture.
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Oh, that is interesting. There was a UK-based company doing the same thing (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/20/tracking_phones/) but using the TMSIs of GSM phones.

Seems they are still around as: http://www.pathintelligence.com/

They were using USRP 1s (universal software radio peripheral, from Ettus Research) at the time, although they might have switched hardware platforms by now.
Unless the atoms were moving away from the observer, then they might appear a little rouged.
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All an IQ tests, is your ability to do well on an IQ test.

It's not a particularly great measure of intelligence. The fact that you can often improve your IQ by 20 points (or more) just by practicing the types of questions that turn up should be evidence of this. Did you just become massively more intelligent relative to the population in the 2 days you spent practicing the questions?
You're seriously wondering whether or not someone is going to trust their secrets and the source of their income with a complete stranger, and further pondering whether or not you can trust an anonymous criminal?
It's different than tenure, they don't have to teach and I don't believe it's associated with a specific institution. I'm not sure exactly what it's called or how it works, I'll have to call a friend or perhaps someone here from Mexico can comment.
http://www.sugarstacks.com/img/redbull.jpg

It's not just the caffeine, it's also the sugar in those energy drinks. How many people add that much sugar to a single cup of coffee?
Looks fine in my win7/FF16 arrangement
Yeap you're right. Acually, you can simply clone the repo and open the examples in the browser. Nevertheless there has to be a demo page. I'll build one. Promise. And thanks for the feedback!
Also with the "lighthuggers" in the Revelation Space universe.
"a few rouge hydrogen atoms"

What makes you think they're red?
Nitpick: The Songs of a Distant Earth is actually by Arthur C. Clarke.
Apple has polished enough of the warts of Obj-C now that I'd be pretty reluctant to throw out all the benefits you get from tight tooling integration. I think in most cases it makes more sense to just use what Apple hath provided (but edit your code in AppCode instead of XCode).
I respect the authors' thoughts but I think that he is utterly mislead. Crappy software (eg windows) has always exceeded hardware capabilities. Buying the best (and most expensive) is a dead end. You will both pay too much and still have the same bad experience, only a little later in the future.

I would argue that all that is needed is that casual users demanding what they pay for, eg a system that works.
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Oh sh*t. It all makes sense now.

I'm kind of ashamed to write this, but I had never realized what "radio button" actually means.

I grew up knowing what they were (I was born in the 80s), but English not being my primary language, I never considered that "radio button" might mean "the kind of button you have in a radio". And I never felt the need to look for a definition :)

(are you done laughing?)
Your comment reminds me of a phrase I really like: "Being vague is almost as cool as this other thing."
this one is a really good one :)
Jay Scott Walker's personal library : A Geek's dream
"I don’t have any issues using a notebook with a 128GB SSD, because my iTunes library and my photos are on a home server. I also use cloud storage extensively, and don’t store a lot locally."

So, the casual people should allready use home server and cloud storage before buying a computer
(I assume that this is how "fixed point" algebra works, although what I assume computers do with floats and what they actually do ain't exactly ever been similar.)

You might enjoy reading about IEEE-754, then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-1985
Seems like taking a lot of trouble for a one-time activity (getting a licence). Perhaps he couldn't decide on one, like he couldn't decide on how to furnish his apartment. Given his obsession with minimalism, it is one less detail to worry about.
IIRC you're talking on the order of several hundred nuclear bombs for a single interstellar trip, i.e. a significant fraction of the current US warhead supply, but by no means the whole lot.
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>And then you ask yourself, where do the "losers" of this competition end up?

Where do they end up?
That's amazingly thin!

However, it is still thicker than a regular business card [1], and it is probably unrealistic to make the card exactly the same thickness as the thickest part on it :(

[1]: Assuming 350g/m^2 paper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_card) with a thickness just shy of 0.45mm (http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2457344)
It made me change focus on my own health and the health of my family. It was one of the factors that caused me to change job and the sort of work I was doing and make other changes in my private life.
See: http://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/WindowsPort for info on Clang and ASan.

Will probably see GCC 4.8 on Windows before Clang++ and ASan.
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The first question I asked while viewing the title was: in what time? Cause the fact of climbing 103 floors is almost useless without a second part telling us "in xxx hours".

The article says in 53 minutes! That was amazing speed! Two floors a minute!!
To be fair, English is my primary language and I've been doing web development for 10 years and I didn't know why they were called radio buttons until very recently!
HN, why do you auto-capitalize posts?
Seeing IOS instead of iOS is slightly irritating. Can users not be trusted to capitalize post titles themselves?
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I don't think the author was saying this should be a replacement for radio buttons. It's more of an informative exercise in visual design, analyzing the problems of one style and how it could be improved.
Which is even less fun in windy or rainy conditions :(

Even when there are bus shelters, often such effort has been put into making them uncomfortable for the homeless that they offer no protection from the elements at all.
What was a fiction in i-robot (Will smiths arm) is becoming a reality.Gr8..
Sweet image zoom gallery using CSS - look ma no JS
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Hm... Is AppCode really that much better than Xcode?
This just made me think that highlighting would be way more interesting if you could change the scheme on the fly. An editor could have 5-10 highlighting schemes—not different colors, but different kinds of information shown (because let's face it, highlighting is valuable information).

Examples I just thought up:

* Variable-scoping-level highlighting—variables in the same scope highlighted the same color.

* "String only"—highlight only strings and literals. Check for language bugs.

* grep-only highlighting—define a set of things to grep for quickly and highlight them.

* block-focused—highlight code blocks so you get an idea of the overall structure of your program.

* No-highlighting: if you really want a moment of clarity on your code. There is absolutely no reason to give up the information highlighting provides 100% of the time, but I could see it being useful sometimes when you need to focus.

And countless more. If I could switch with a quick keyboard shortcut to a highlighting scheme appropriate for any given programming task, it would be phenomenal. I could see it being useful for all kinds of things, and helping to show more information from the compiler than syntax highlighting does already, in a better way. It would be instant visual information, and there's no reason to limit it to syntax like we do currently.

Hmm. Sublime Text Plugin perhaps?
India-nigger, is that you?

God says...

set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of
Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, 38:3 And say, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of
Meshech and Tubal: 38:4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into
thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and
horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great
company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: 38:5
Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and
helmet: 38:6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the
north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.

38:7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy
company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
The society let them get away with this because the earnings are outside of the USA. If they do need to pay taxes for outside earnings then the company will just move to an other country.
Hi that is funny. I knew that Dianne Hackborn brought Binder over to Android from BeOS and Palm. But I did not know that also the concurrency framework is from the Be guys. Thanks for sharing the link :-).
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yep - forgot the audience
Delhi Police or CBI is best in the nation ? Really ? Since when ?

Whatever little experience I have with Delhi police, their behavior is only a little better than animals. CBI as of today remains one of the most discredited institutions.

This post does portray India in bad light but looking at our police system we probably deserve that.
Aaaand, the obligatory XKCD for this: http://xkcd.com/1125/
From the website:

"[...] the ability to zip for 265 miles (426 km) on one charge —that's the equivalent of 89 m.p.g. (2.6 L/100 km)"

I have a hard time figuring out how on earth did they calculate that. My (european) Ford Focus is not a very efficient car by our standars, yet it runs some ~700km on a single tank. Oh, it consumes between 7-8 L/100km by the way.

Can anyone tell me how they came up with those numbers above?
Ah ok, I checked the Haiku source and I think this works like the original Binder concurrency stuff (see http://www.osnews.com/story/13674/Introduction_to_OpenBinder...). Android's concurrency framework (as well as Mindroid) is a refined version of Be's concurrency APIs.
One thing that backs up your argument is the fact that Japan has extremely low income inequality[1]. This has both good parts and bad parts-it's probably useful for society as a whole in a lot of ways, but it means that if you're truly better than average you'll earn a lot less.

Anecdotally the top-performing 20-somethings I know in Japan make at most 2x the average salary, whereas the top-performing 20-somethings in the USA easily make 5-10x average (just look at how much a Ruby Developer, top-tier lawyer, or investment banker makes compared to the average income).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equ...
My first thought to that question was: "All but the hen have 4 legs, the hen only has 2". I'd have gotten the right answer, but only serendipitously.
Lol. That can come only from someone who actually uses vim when something like Emacs exists.
I think intersteller travel at sensible speeds would require rather more energy than that - the relevant Wikipedia page gives estimates (depending on the approach used) of 30 million to 300 thousand 1MT bombs which is, fortunately, a few orders of magnitude larger than any nuclear arsenal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propul...
I don't find the two-position slider switch confusing at all; it looks and behaves like a physical object - one of these: http://cdnsupport.gateway.com/s/POWER/SHARED/q0012508.jpg

The OP's controls are slightly more obvious visibly, but don't look as much like common physical switches and are more visually cluttered. The color-changing version doesn't resemble anything I've seen in the real world, though I'm sure it's possible to do.
Your assumption that there is a public library available to kids to learn to program on is sadly not true for a lot of rural children. For the majority of my youth, a public library either required a parent's time investment or was not available at all. The situation hasn't changed. Online programming training and tools are also not exactly top notch, and I would not be surprised if the tip off some "dangerous" activity with the librarians.

When we lost the class of computers that the C64, Vic 20, Atari 400/800, TI99/4A, and Sinclairs made up, we lost a lot of the onramp to programming.
Command-click works fine for me in Chrome. Is this a Linux thing?
Yes, it is like the original Be code. It was for showing the inheritage.
>When I read a book, I don’t want parts of speech highlighted in different colours. What I want to do is to read the book, to take in the information.

I actually think this would be a great idea and it would probably prevent me from having to reread paragraphs every now and then because I thought the wrong person was talking.
Nicole has been talking about OOCSS well before I wrote SMACSS. Much of what I wrote was inspired by her and others.

I highly recommend checking out this talk as Nicole covers some great topics on preprocessors and the pitfalls that people can run into.
It's a well-circulated trope that Japanese goods tend to have higher quality but less innovation. It's believed that very few disruptive innovations come out of Japan compared to the USA/Europe/India. This would fit in with the general model of Japan focusing on stability and getting the same level of performance out of everyone. I haven't done the research to test whether this hypothesis is true or not, though.
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"IKEA" is a network of many different companies. Some of them are registered as nonprofits (not charities) as a tax optimization which is probably what you are remembering. There is also the charitable organization that was mentioned above but afaik that's not for tax purposes.
Further, if you write a list of instructions (say, a recipe), you will likely follow a convention that puts each instruction on a separate line, and might make use of indentation to further delineate sub-instructions.
> ... capital/lowercase, roman style (i.e. non-script) lettering, spaces ...

I think this are poor man's syntax hi-lighting. Or at least physical world implementation of syntax hi-lighting. After all, you don't want to carry a lots of colors pen in order to write.

But if computer can do it for us, why not?
That might require us to change the name of the intergalactic void though.
Great article. I experienced a similar frustration with the Stanford-Binet, and even more so in high school with the good ol' SAT (which Mensa also considers an admissable 'IQ' test).

It seems to me that a true "intelligence" test would also throw some generative problems at you: i.e., test you for as many correct answers to a pattern or sequence problem as you could come up with. I wouldn't advocate for generative problems to the absolute exclusion of deductive problems -- but the reverse is currently the case on most IQ tests, and it shouldn't be.

As for the broader point: there's been a scientific debate, for about as long as IQ tests have existed, over exactly what IQ tests are measuring, and exactly what IQ means. Most standard IQ tests are now regarded as measuring "g" ("general factor," sometimes called "general intelligence"). It may indeed be the most highly significant factor in intelligence, but even if it is (which, again, is debatable), it is just one factor of many. There are other factors, some of which are statistically significant. So simply isolating for the strongest factor is dumbing down the entire equation.

At any rate, "g" ends up being highly correlated with our concept of intelligence, but it is by no means a perfect or complete metric. And it does tend to favor a very specific type of intelligence, given that it is a narrow band on a broader spectrum. And vice versa: it excludes many whose minds we would probably consider genius caliber.
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High performers are still a great deal, because you can pay them 2x the salary to get 10x the results. Few places realize this, but the ones that do are wonderful to work for.
Kinda fails when you don't have A grade directors running the company. Also, how do you identify an A manager, unless you're really picking the productivity of their A workers? Surely weaker managers attribute their success to the weaker employees (to avoid being 'found out')?
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I don't understand - why does it need access to my entire Dropbox? I usually only authorize apps that use their own folder.
Rather than getting rid of "average people", it seems more common to sequester top talent. I think this is what's happening with small consulting shops and startups. You often see small teams of incredibly talented people at a startup or consulting firm that create a lot of the major innovations, then sell them to the large companies that handle distribution, etc.

This makes sense because most people are average or below average. There is no way that a GE or IBM can function without large swathes of ordinary people. I doubt we'll see average performers disappear from big companies any time soon-instead we'll see the continuing rise of small startups and consulting shops with a few incredibly talented people.
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Add these to the list:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2012/07/27/large-...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2012/07/30/anothe...
First I really enjoyed the post. I'm even more intrigued now though, you have 100 paying customers at a maximum of £12 pound a month, this is only £14,400 a year. Between two of you?!?

How long can you continue to live like that?
How do you live on that amount of money?
Have you thought about raising the price?
Wow! Did not know that. Thank you for the link.
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2012/4766

The software mentioned here is tabulation s/w, not voting device s/w.

This is how Romney steals the electoral college and thus the election. His son is invested in a company that supplies voting machines.

>>

The Free Press has obtained internal memos from the senior staff of the Ohio Secretary of State's office confirming the installation of untested and uncertified election tabulation software. Yesterday, the Free Press reported that "experimental" software patches were installed on ES&S voting machines in 39 Ohio counties.

...

On page 19 of the contract, terms require the various county boards of elections to purchase additional software from ES & S if they are not compatible with this new "experimental" statewide tabulation and reporting system. This unfunded mandate clause illegally bypasses individual counties rights to make their own purchasing
determinations.

The controversial software will create simple .csv files like those produced by spreadsheet programs for input into the statewide tabulation system. According to the terms of the contract, data security is the responsibility of each local board of elections: "…each county will be responsible for the implementation of any security protocols" (see page 21 of the contract).
I never really understood what those words meant, "Live life fullest, live like its your last day, etc"

Can anyone tell me what that really means?
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I work at Brikstarter and we're slowly getting some good ideas/projects coming in from the British public. Thanks for the post.
> Was it the lack of structure that made them go for it in the first place?

Here are the first two posts that discuss their decision:

http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=693

http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=749