skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is weird to read. What caught my eye:

"For an early stage, raw startup, your hiring focus should be on homogeneity."

then right away:

"You should be encouraging a diversity of origins (gender, ethnicity, etc.)"

I don't really care about one side of the argument or another, (homogeneity, heterogeneity) or even prejudices - but this seems inconsistent.

If you are advocating cultural homogeneity, except for political correctness or legal reasons (ie to avoid being sued by applicant you rejected because of their gender or ethnicity), why do you argue for diverse origins ?

Be consistent with yourself - it's A or B.

If it's A and B you may not really have an argument.

And I would really, really like to see facts supporting either homogeneity or heterogeneity. So far all I've seen are best described as case reports - no real trials with enough samples to have a good statistical power. Make teams of 100 persons, standardize on competence (SAT, whatever) then try and compare different mix of gender or ethnicities and pick up the top performing mixes. Do that multiple times. Then give a conclusion.

That's an argument I will be able to believe.

EDIT: some clarification - I don't care what anyone thinks/look like/believes as long as the person can deliver more than it costs, but I'm willing to consider that if conclusive evidence exists. The best I've read so far is a positive effect of homogeneity towards cooperation against others (parochialism).

EDIT2: to avoid statistical backslash, I realize that due to higher standard deviation in small samples of a given population, underrepresented genders or ethnicities may show a higher variance - hence the need to standardize beforehand on competence to select test subjects over a threshold and reduce this bias.
> I don't believe this. Please read this blog post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-google-pr....

Do you see "facebook" anywhere here? Find in page for it? Do you see any facebook features specifically called out? Just checking. I see a series of basic social features and big sections for G+'s callout features; most notably Hangouts.

> I'm sorry, but this is basically Facebook circa 2011 with improvements. I don't see a single mention of other google services.

This is an interpretation. Your interpretation. I do not mean to be cold, but it seems like a terribly shallow and ill considered interpretation of the situation.

In actuality Google Plus has often been described as a social integration of diverse Google services including Youtube, Profiles, a much more sophisticated realtime video conferencing tool called Hangouts, heavy search integration, and search signal generation. Subsequently it has become the re-definition of "Google Profile" and is basically how Google thinks about user identity, with all major services slowly coming into line with G+.

You can say, "I think that's just Facebook", but that's just you. If Google hasn't said that, you cannot claim they or anyone else is "moving the goalposts." Think whatever you like about G+, what I'm objecting to is your imprecise co-opting of precise terminology for logical fallacies to make a muddy argument about your feelings for this article.
Part of this problem is that a good part of the community is amateur/hobbyist, they won't learn anything.
Some people in the PHP community love to think that PHP is used like Java, but for most of the amateurs it's a "cut and paste what works" workflow.
I don't really get Laravel. The docs talk about dependency injection but at the same time they really really love static function calls. For example there's no event manager class, only a single, global event manager: e.g. "Event::fire('loaded')".

What if I want to use a different event manager? (To pass event calls across the network, for example.) There doesn't seem to be any way to do this, and pretty much all the core classes are like this.

http://laravel.com/docs/events
I love working with people like Patrick. In business, it's really easy to get caught up with assumptions, and come up with a design that does X, Y, and Z when all you really need is X. It's the people who're good at thinking outside the box and looking at the letter of the law, so to speak, who can take a step back and say "all we really need is X."
Quite possibly. Shoot me an email: mike@shift.com
I think as a general rule, it lies with users of the service to take responsibility for ethical behavior. However, by social consensus, teenagers are incapable of taking full responsibility for their actions. I think an exception exists, thus, when a service provider intentionally avails itself of servicing a demographic that is incapable of assuming all the responsibilities that might be expected of normal adults.
At first the Clojure environment is confusing: why do I need Leiningen? How do I use libraries in my project? This article is a good place to start for beginners, as it explains all that.
Can we all agree to stop calling critics "haters"?
So he returned 0?
> If you can't trust someone not to secretly record you having sex and then posting the video on Facebook, then you shouldn't be having sex with them.

People are awful at assessing risk; why the assumption that teenagers will be any better?

Your advice is sound, but it's also along the lines of "Don't have sex, and you'll be safe!" It's not practical.
Well yeah, but if you've got an iPhone, chances are you have a cell connection. If he can't access the internet, even over the cell network, I'd be curious to know what kind of environment he's working in.
I knew about clojars.org, but I hadn't known about http://www.clojure-toolbox.com/. Very nice!

I also recommend the Value of Values video presentation: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values. It will help you internalize Clojure's approach to data.

I really wish I could remember why I didn't experience nearly as much pain starting out as the author, but I'm glad that he took the trouble to put this together.
I have my doubts. A lot of the southern parts of the US have a lot of religious conservatives. I don't see that changing very quickly.
Excellent. Fork away!
Also, for instance, the (quite nice) Sequel library in ruby makes this painless

DB["insert into foo (bar, baz, qux) VALUES (?, ?, ?)", bar, baz, qux].insert

And the library handles all the escaping, and even type conversion for you (e.g. Date objects to SQL compatible date strings)
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You should add a "gallop" button that randomly changes the font every N seconds (maybe with a slider control to select N).
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I can appreciate an organic ecosystem, and the exclusivity of writing for Svbtle sure has an appeal, but monetization on something like this seems incredibly difficult. Do they take it a full WordPress direction with hosting, etc? Or does it fully flesh out into a reputable online magazine with ads and the like. Maybe I'm not creative enough to see another viable option, but either way, I still think it's a cool project.

shrug
Documentation and Community are a huge part of a languages usefulness. Every language that I consider to be well done has extremely good documentation and a Community that ensures that documentation is up to par.

The argument that community is not relevant to a languages usefulness is simply wrong. PHP suffers from poorer community than other languages. This is improving as the article highlights but it still has a long way to go.
Why should the principal be involved in an action that didn't take place on school grounds?
There is nothing wrong in running an invite-only network. But claiming to be a genuinely 'quality-oriented' network[1] when your are not is tricking your readers and is plain wrong.

For example, there are a lot of shitty blogs[2] on this network. Even shitty posts[3]. It's just like any other blog network with some extra-hype and a minimalistic design mixed and matched from theme sites (Trust me, I've seen a dozen themes like this before Dustin came up with this and dismissed anyone trying to create a similar design[4])

A really good quality-oriented network would be something like Quora, but for blogs. The readers, people, us should rate what is good and what is bad,what is ethical, what is unethical, what is right and what is wrong. Not at the mercy of some clown advocating minimalism to emphasize elitism and branding for himself.

[1] This was SVBTLE's pitch initially.

[2] massivegreatness.com [An arrogant, unethical Apple fanboy, writer at Techcrunch who supports anything Apple without proper logic]

[3]http://influencehacks.com/the-stunning-hypocrisy-of-ventureb...

[4]http://howells.ws/posts/view/93/svbtle-vs-obtvse-and-on-copy...
You so would have been my friend at school :)
9,000 is still a massive sum of money. And obv it's more than just me paying but the fact still remains I am paying them for a service. I expect a certain standard.
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I didn't intend to be snarky, I really did assume you didn't read the article becasue you said the article ignored the legal and tax benefits, and the it does mention both.

If you believe that the government can regulate the free speech of a corporation, where does the limit end? Can they say that Newspapers that are owned by corporations don't have complete freedom to publish what they want? Let's say they passed a law saying no corporate political speech within 1 month of an election - would that mean no New York Times endorsements?. It is safer to keep free speech as close to absolute as possible.
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I'm speculating, but: the best of the best. Everyone has off days.
> being controversial is actually a good thing for a publication.

Very true. I am sure Dustin has a vision which obviously we don't fully see yet. Still, it seems a bit absurd for a blog to raise. But hey, let's all wait and see what comes. After all, the investment was probably in Dustin and team, and not necessary in Svbtle.
> The authenticity of bullying is easy to verify because there is at least one party able to testify to its undesiredness.

And that one party ought to be able to unilaterally force me to take down content?

I understand that this is ok if I'm making a facebook page mocking a 13 year old girl, but what if I'm making a site that parodies a company, or a CEO, or a politician, or Justin Bieber?

This slope is indeed slippery as all fuck.
That is very true. I must have stolen half the lab store at school :)
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Great tweet! :) Maybe it`s my fear of finding my own post on stackoverflow. Anyway I`ll try to follow your advice. I have a bad ratio giving back knowledge to the community- mostly due to my even worse time management.
Especially when many of them are making quite long and thought out points. Haters seems appropriate to me only when applied to the most vacuous of comments. Real points deserve real responses or at least the respect of being called comments or criticisms not hate.
> The article doesn't even talk about the real lesson here: be careful who you trust. If you can't trust someone not to secretly record you having sex and then posting the video on Facebook, then you shouldn't be having sex with them. The lesson has always been the same, and there have always been people who don't learn it until it's too late.

This is nice in theory, but no one really knows who to trust - adults and teenagers alike. Additionally, girls are often guilt-tripped into sending these types of photos lest they want to be told they don't really "care" about the person. I've been hit with that one a few times, even by guys that were otherwise very respectful. There's also the "come on, everyone does it" pitch, which is true, but doesn't mean anything when push comes to shove.
@teej No, but it makes you into one too.
The container and the medium is surely important for content, especially now when (as you imply) there's such a confusion about what container your content comes in.

I just don't think Svbtle is that container. At least not yet.
It's not a slippery slope, because there is a categorical distinction between people below and above the age of majority.
And yet this kind of 'shaming' seems to happen in non-southern, non-religious places as well. Stop looking for an easy scapegoat.
The proper solution is to involve the police when someone posts such pictures of underage children on the internet.
I see many parents who forbid their children from using Facebook, but they are barely aware of what Instagram is and have never heard of Snapchat. Needless to say, those children are all over Instagram and Snapchat.

The first thing every adult says when I explain Snapchat is "oh, it is a sexting app!"
Because ALL of the people in these videos are normally underage.

Who exactly do you propose we prosecute? And for what? This is a hard problem with no easy solutions. Principals all across the nation have been struggling with it, its just not as simple as people like to make it out to be.
I'm having trouble seeing where exactly your disagreement resides, except for simply stating that you disagree.

This harassment is misogynist, and the content of the harassment is about how girls should be ashamed of their sexual behavior. If we as a society didn't think that, the basis for the harassment wouldn't be there in the first place.
Sorry if that came off as slippery slopish, not the intention exactly.

My worry with holding Facebook responsible or culpable for the actions of its users in this specific regard is that we're creating and or granting a degree of control over interation to Facebook. I don't understand why now, with Facebook, we decide this needs action. The same stuff went on before computers, all Facebook is doing is making this visible to a wider population.

I'm not trying to say Facebook should do nothing. By all means they should just as that convenience store owner report the matter to the proper authorities. Our justice systems are a much better way to punish offenders than a for profit corporation. They may not be perfect but I do not trust Facebook or any corporation to deal with this in a decent way.

The underlying problem here however is society and its views on sex for women. That and how men act and treat women in general. Both of those should be at the top of our list to fix and equalize.
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That talk's definitely a good one. I particularly like how he frames it as a discussion about the difference between value-oriented programming (good) and place-oriented programming (what you're used to, bad). Giving the two paradigms those names really helps clarify how you think about the distinctions between the two.
I was thinking the same thing ! why the hell would the principal have to make things all that much worse for the girl ? If I was the principal, id call the boys mother and punish him badly so he never ever dares to attempt this sort of thing again !
Most of this story takes place in the deep, deep... Ohio. Heart of slavery.
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Architeuthis, one of the "last mysteries of the ocean."

I thought it was generally held that we know less about the world's oceans than we do about the space around us.
I too had the same problems with the fitbit. I lost one during a hike and recently lost another one while I was snowboarding, even with a small clip tether. The things are too easy to lose. At this point I'm just waiting for my basis band to come in the mail, since I wont loose a watch in the same way. At this point I recommend if you have one right now you should tie the thing to your body with a lanyard to not lose the thing.

Fitbit will usually replace lost trackers for free if you've lost one. You just have to contact support. That is how I got my second one.
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In discussion forums I'm okay with the preface, because I read it as something like an implicit request for more information, "I think I've noticed [x] but don't have any real data, anyone know something further?" But I wouldn't write an article (not even an essay-length blog post) based on that premise.
I really like the SourceCodePro font and the Fresh cut theme; nothing helps coding like legibility and clarity.
This isnt specific to Lisp. There are people who think that learning C++ will help you learn Java, learning C will help you learn C++ etc.
Look, I got the thing extracted, or so I think. It's just not working. Go look at your syslogs and you should see the inbound failures.
Unfortunately, something being illegal doesn't make it stop being shared around the internet, specially photos.
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I think people misunderstand what Google+ is, because they're so used to the Social-Media-As-A-Product world we've all been indoctrinated into.

Google doesn't really care that much if you use every feature of G+. G+ is a way for them to round up your identity and the search-relevant signals your identity generates into a single funnel so they can make better, more customized search. For example, they get great data if all you ever do is search for something, go there, then +1 an article.

I've worked on search engines, one of them is a major player. The first thing I learned is that there are two big numbers people start with in any given search engine, "Relevance" and "Recall." Recall is the relatively easy part: how many pages related to your search terms come up. Relevance is muddier, and ultimately ties into the very difficult problem of ranking search results. It's fine to have 10m results for "how to throw a fastball" but what you want is the top 10 pages most relevant to the specific user typing in that query.

Generating data to make that judgement is really, really, really involved. And it requires vast swaths of data, not just about you and your preferences but about people like you and their preferences.

Google+ has many upshots for Google, but the single most valuable thing it delivers is a rich source of data to make your searches better. Social cues are the next big data vein people are mining, and it's why social services guard their raw data so jealously. Twitter and Facebook are also doing this, but they live in mortal fear of Google because Google already has a massive search framework to integrate all that data into, and so they receive a lot more value from the data.

Given this situation, some of Google's odd decisions suddenly snap into focus. For example, why is Youtube being migrated to G+? Because those signals are hugely valuable. Why are real names important to Google? Because real identities are grist for the mill of their relevance & ranking engine. Why does their +1 button pop up a reshare dialogue? They're hoping for even more semantic context to associate with a page to improve results.

Ultimately it's up to you to decide if you like this business model. Personally I think Google has more incentive to be honest and to think of the user than Facebook does. Facebook's business model depends on lots of users using Facebook all the time, and so they're going to do whatever they can to trap you in that ecosystem. If they want to improve their profits, they can only do so by further sharing your identity with partners. Google's value propositions are much less direct and much less tied to 24/7 engagement, and they get a lot more value out of anonymized aggregate data.
I don't like Dustin Curtis as a person, based on prior history (i.e., American Airlines, presumption in his articles bordering on know-it-all after accomplishing little, and so on). You might find that the majority of the haters you're talking about feel the same; there's been discussion about this recently linked elsewhere in the thread that I won't rehash here. If he's genuinely confused by the hate, that'd be surprising to me. I'm willing to be corrected on my opinion and come around, for what it's worth.

That said, I couldn't care less about Svbtle, frankly, though I certainly understand what it is. Good luck with Y Combinator's investment is my sole commentary on this news: I'm smart enough to divide between Dustin Curtis and Svbtle and realize that my thoughts on and the trajectory of one don't necessarily impact the other.
The number of developers who want to use a Mac to write apps for WP8 probably numbers in the double digits. Total.
Especially the picric acid recipe which our chemistry teacher decided to "do for us" to show how dangerous the JRCB was. Cracked the glass in the fume cupboard.

Best chem teacher in the world: Mr Atkinson, I salute you for making it interesting and turning a blind eye when we were stealing chemicals (because he did it when he was younger) :)
Ask HN: Should I write in a resume that I am the founder of a startup?
I'm going to move to London and would like to work as a developer. It is good to mention in my resume my startup?
Your criticism of autoloading comes as a surprise. During 2012 one of my colleagues squeezed a little extra performance out of our software by removing all the calls to require_once from our installation of Zend Framework, thus handing full control to the autoloader. It's a trick that's even mentioned in the official documentation: http://framework.zend.com/manual/1.12/en/performance.classlo.... Apparently it's quicker. Typical bloody PHP.
It sounds like the possession and distribution of child pornography took place on school grounds. I would call the boys parents after I called the police.
This may be a blessing in disguise of sorts. Many of the plugins that ship with PHP are the cause of it's poor reputation.

If a VM makes them design sane consistent and useable versions of those plugins from the ground up PHP may be improved as a result.
Looks good . What are the features in pipeline and how do u want to differentiate ?
> The key mistake here is to rank the contributions by the popularity of the project that was contributed to.

That's not the case. Repositories Contributed To are ranked based on the impact an individual had on them (recency, # commits, # issues, etc). The popularity of the project has no effect on it.
ZohoCRM, Salesforce and similar apps are traditional CRM applications. They've been around for awhile and they cover all bases.

ClinchPad is focused on a single thing - your sales pipeline. This is evident from the main screen - create, delete, edit stages and leads and assign users to leads using a rich UI. It is 'lean' in sense that it is built freelancers, web consultancies, brokers and other people who don't need really advanced features such as sales forecasting (which is the domain that Salesforce and ZohoCRM covers).
It's just baffling to see a public response so low on the taxonomic scale of debate. I couldn't agree more.

It reminds me of pg's response to the Airbnb case.
I don't think it's inconsistent. Many, if not most places these days aim to hire people who look differently but think the same.
Maybe I'm just dense, but how did Zynga damage Facebook's reputation concerning games? Aren't they really considered (by the general public) one of the premiere game developers for Facebook?
Thank you, American Gods sounds great! It didn't occur to me to look for audio dramas, but I have always liked them because I grew up listening to a show called Adventures in Odyssey that was extremely well done. (It was built around an extremely conservative Christian viewpoint that I have since strayed from, but the stories have stuck with me through the years.)
This has been going on for as long as high school has existed. Hell even way before that. The only difference is social media has amplified it. When I was in highschool it wasn't naked pictures being posted or anything like that, but more just gossip by a guy saying he had sex with some girl or a girl saying a dude has a small dick. etc. People are shitty to one another. Social media helps their shitiness get broadcast in new and exciting ways.