skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Being a female developer gives you an advantage by having employers instantly agree to interview you

Wrong.

> in the hopes that your talent is enough to warrant a place

Offensive.

The gate swings both ways here; getting an interview as a woman isn't any easier than getting one as a man at any place worth working in this industry, especially right now when the demand for quality is high. If they're lowering standards for their female candidates, that hurts the business and the people alike.

Etsy is doing it because they know they can ramp those engineers up with their existing staff without putting their business at risk, so more power to them if they're able to solve both problems at once and have it work to their (and everyone's) advantage long-term. If a company does it for the sole purpose of trying to balance things out without consideration of how it could affect both production and morale, they'll sabotage themselves and further underscore the argument that women aren't as competent to begin with.
Spoken like a DuckTales virgin. ;)

This is a story about a finely crafted work of art being influenced by a commercial market.

Not everything on the site is a "how to succeed in business without really trying" morality play, linkbait product announcement, or self-help column. The guideline is "stuff that is interesting" and it's intentionally vague.

Just let it roll, like water off a duck's back.
Mouse Model of Sepsis Challenged
because the npm modules are proprietary and can't be open sourced.
I see this as a win for open source software. (Or "free software". I never know.)

Opera never open-sourced its rendering engine Presto, keeping it as a jewel of sorts. On the other hand, Apple always shared the WebKit code, so Google could come, fork it and make it better.

Opera thought that keeping Presto proprietary will give them advantage in the market. Instead, it made it obsolete and irrelevant.
I'd bet they pay, and it makes for great PR too. "We can handle 4chan, we can handle your site!"
And yes. Watched it with my father.
Yeah, the few I checked seem fine, although Apple does like to round up to the nearest 49 or 99. Apple doesn't like to reprice products though, so if there are is significant currency movement in the 6 months since something came out, it is probably not reflected in the price.
4chan is an enterprise customer. They pay the $3000/mo.
I think could be interesting for Phrack as they are (or should be) modernizing their e-zine format.

In that way, the old school boys can still keep their pure-ASCII, and others may wish to apply some other CSS to make it more pleasant to read.
I agree that you should submit this. It's a very good commentary on the article, scathing though it might be.
I would say "the latest word" and not "the last word".

That precedent is only binding on the fifth circuit. California courts are free to decide differently. If the issue is deemed important enough, eventually it is likely to wind up in front of the Supreme Court.

See http://boingboing.net/2012/03/19/liberating-americas-secret.... for an interesting case that might force this to get tested.
Journalistically, there's a rather large asterisk that needs to be put out here: http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/204097/l...
Workflowy for iPhone and iPad Works Offline (YC S10)
hey pash!

We just rebranded threed.ee to gethandprint.com and moved our entire team of four from Boston to KC!

@gethandprint
Macbook pro retina resolution is 2560x1600
>One problem is related to the fact that society values male roles more than female.

Only when we put blinders on and look at the top end of the spectrum. Male roles like CEOs and politicians are attractive, so we only look at them, and decide men must be getting advantages women aren't. Look down, there's other male roles too. Like prisoners, the homeless, the people committing suicide, the people taking dangerous jobs and dying. 97% of work related deaths are men, and obviously nobody is pushing to fix that imbalance.
Can anyone see if this supports running Zend encoded programs? I'm not familiar enough with how it works to know if this is enough to run them.

We have to use Zend's idiotic binary-only shim to run a Zend encoded PHP program and it'd be nice to replace it.
Sorry about that. We are updating the FAQ page.

Yes. The $9 per server per month gives you: starting your app by provisioning, configuring and deploying. Monitoring and managing it as well as on going scaling, backup, add-ons, load balancers and other management features like continuous deployment or central logging features.
If you didn't know what the product is just by reading the site, you might not be the target market. Converting PSD's to markup is the bane of many designers' existence, and I think most of them would know immediately what this is for. (I'm not a designer, but work with them all the time on sites that would benefit from this, and fwiw it was immediately apparent to me).
Institutional ownership does not mean what you think it means. Pension funds are not Wall St.
When I first opened the page about an hour ago they listed $6/month. Then I saw $7/month listed on the FAQ page, and now the home page says $9/month.
As one of the founding members of this team that had to return to fulltime work after depleting my personal financial reserves, our inability to explain what we were doing in such a way that convinced investors to back us has been frustrating. It was hard to understand why everyone we talked to loved the idea, loved our traction, loved our numbers, loved our team, but wasn't ready/willing/able to invest. We continued to follow the advice we received and constantly modified our pitch, but we were never quite able to convey the story in a way that investors needed to hear it.

Calling off the search and refocusing on Product Development was definitely the right decision for us, but it was a hard lesson to learn.

Although we continue to push forward, and we're seeing some awesome growth and a rapidly expanding passionate player base, there's no doubt that our progress is still not what it could be if we had been able to leverage investment dollars.
Just added real-time cursor/selection synching on Plunker using Firebase. It couldn't have been much easier to integrate.

Demo: http://beta.plnkr.co/edit/?p=preview&s=FirebaseInBeta
It could happen to you too
Yahoo Dings Bing: Mayer Says Search Deal Underperforms
Presto was not open source. WebKit is open source.

So, the internet is becoming more open, not less.
Could someone explain the reply from "Matthew Prince" to me?

They turned it off due to an attack and would turn it on again if upgraded to business ($200/mo).

Does this mean turn it on while under attack would cost, and after the attack would be free again? Or it would cost the upgrade to turn it on either way?
Looking at the value of AAPL we can see that this is not the case.

For us, sure. I don't have time to get into the details of AAPL and why I may or may not want to buy them. I honestly don't have any idea if it's a good buy. However, it's 67% inst. owned and I'm willing to bet that every single instituion that owns stock has its own person who is crunching numbers and assesing value. The fact that the big spenders are fighting with each other to sell it instead of buy it means it's more than just "goofed" estimates.
Most reasonable people can be made ok with most things given adequate communication. Expectation management is one of the most important aspects to human relationships. As a business, what was a sales opportunity became a PR issue.
I know we had an issue with the FAQ page (was stating $7 instead of $9 which is the right one). But never $6! Did you see that on the homepage?
I disagree with your notion that the top 5 sites are a good sample for development trends, but you did miss some uses of jQuery.

Google uses jQuery (and hosts it for millions of sites), just not on their very optimized homepage. They built a very large framework of their own to power their apps, but a lot of their informational sites use jQuery. Here are some examples:

https://developers.google.com
http://www.chromeexperiments.com
http://developer.android.com
"Then she got exasperated"

Expand your failure analysis... I suspect the root cause is she was trying to ask you out on a date, unless there were reasons to the contrary.

A similar scenario happened to me in high school, after I finally figured it out, my pattern matching improved.
YouCompleteMe with semantic support for every Vim omnicomplete language
Content farm buys new field. News at 11. AOL rewording at 11:05.
It seems the slightly increased virulence of the flu this winter triggered an availability cascade that disproportionately increased searches.
Yay, time for Revenge..go Oracle!
When cops become judge, jury, and executioners.
I'm not sure, and I'm wondering the same thing. Same with regards to people who think the spread of high speed fiber will result in a telecommuting revolution. I don't think a jump from 20 to 100mbits is going to revolutionize anything.

I do know that hosting a server is prohibited by Google Fiber TOS, so I'm not sure how this is going to work.
OpenGL ES 3.0 conformance with Open Source drivers on Intel Ivy Bridge
Hetzner is around $200 for 100TB with 1gbit.
You keep calling it an attack. This was normal (growing) traffic for the site.

From the comments on the site:
"I didn't notice any "attack" when CloudFlare began to route all traffic directly to us. It looked like normal web traffic - much of it, but no more than usual."
Groupon's CEO Unleashes a Tirade
Free with a tweet - Web and Mobile wireframe toolkits
This website fails completely in IE8. In fact, it gives error saying not supported and must use Google Chrome ? That could be fine for a new hotshot HTML5 app but if you are a bank, you better work with IE.
Use Vagrant to launch AWS boxes
Yahoo uses the YUI library
Want to be a founder - don't do it.
OpenBSD – A Real Powerhouse
>The gate swings both ways here; getting an interview as a woman isn't any easier than getting one as a man at any place worth working in this industry, especially right now when the demand for quality is high. If they're lowering standards for their female candidates, that hurts the business and the people alike.

Your second statement does not follow from the first. If we get 10 resumes of people who seem competent, any of them is likely to be fine. The ones who get interviewed are the ones who get hired. The fact that company policy is "all female applicants are to be interviewed" means we hire more women. Our standards aren't lowered as a result, we still don't hire incompetent women. The effect on the company isn't to lower standards, it is just to hire more women. The effect on women who apply is that they are far more likely to get a job than a man who applies.
A few points:

Why is this different (in a worthwhile way) from existing payment options? Like Stripe?

What else can you cite that Paypal does wrongly that you can implement correctly?

I don't mean to be critical, just asking hard questions. "Taking on" big companies like Paypal has been a de facto way to bring attention to projects since the early 2000s, but it's hard to actually achieve that level of eminence and market share. Being good isn't enough.
Ha, I didn't know you could just use any number until just now, makes sense, doh! Thanks.
Show HN: An iPhone App to listen to notes, while doing chores or taking a walk
I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that if you don't want to deal with infrastructure you'd prefer PaaS solutions like Heroku and therefore you wouldn't want to manage not only a software package like CloudFoundry but also the servers that run it.
Wayne from Crashlytics here. Don't worry, a shut down is not next :-)
Not earth-shattering news, but significant considering Apple's steadfast resistance to price drops historically. Apple has very rarely dropped prices on anything, choosing always to replace it with a newer model at the same price.

Apple moving something away from a long-standing pricepoint is, IMO, noteworthy.

Though in this case, perhaps inevitable - the retina pricepoint was never sustainable.
Sorry, but you're wrong. Even though it's fairly intuitively obvious, you can never trust intuition so I had tested it before I posted that. Change the line

// are cicadas and predators both present at once?
if ((y % py == 0) && (y % cy == 0)) {

to

// are cicadas and predators both present at once?
if ((y % py == 0) && ((y+1) % cy == 0)) {

or any other number than +1 to change the initial offset between the cicada and predator cycles, and you'll see that what I said is true.

> Ah, yes, the real reason for your post.

Not really, I in fact agree with (most of) what you say about psychology. This example just goes to show that one has to be careful with non-rigorous arguments (something that psychology is full of).
The mentioned leaseweb is indeed cheaper $95 for a 100TB server, around $550 for an unmetered 1gbit server.
Dell employees grumble about buyout as stock options are drowned
OpenCL on Nexus 10 & Android HOWTO
Inclusivity Is Not A Double Standard: Why Forbes is Wrong about Women in Tech
My comment: create something profitable via moonlight THEN quit your job. Just my opinion which you certainly aren't bound by.

Good luck.
Right now Fiber is only available to residential customers and the TOS restricts using your connection to serve content.
Great point! Yes. We already configure DNS records for the stack (load balancers and servers). This allows us to take the same cut of code and build scripts and execute them against another provider like Linode or Joyent when AWS has issues automatically.
I Love You Like A Fat Lady Loves Apples
I see references to scaling web servers but not for dedicated database servers. Is this possible? I'm thinking specifically of hot standby PostgreSQL servers.
OK, I understand why the title would get edited (I couldn't think of a very good way to summarize it and "Smalltalk images are (sort of) alive" may not be very good), but I linked specifically to the second answer because that's what I found fascinating: http://stackoverflow.com/a/3617319/215168

Why did the submission link get edited to point to the question? The question and top answer (which is copied from Wikipedia) are not all that interesting I think.
Great Employees Are Not Replaceable
Share Gratitude And Enthusiasm with Your Team
S3 and Cloudfront are targeted at the dabbler, who will likely only be serving a GB or two per month, in which case S3 and Cloudfront would be pennies with no long term commitment. Once you move beyond that and are storing and serving more than 1 TB, you'd be better off with a monthly commitment.
I wish you guys had metric. I don't know how tall I am in feet.
I have used this since it's been in beta because I know the guys behind the service. Besides being exceptionally dedicated and cool guys, the service is genuinely good. It definitely solved our problem of going to production with something like Heroku. It's a lot more cost/performance effective and also (as mentioned in one of the comments) you have full access to your box if you need it!

When you know what's in the pipeline, it's even more exciting. Keep up the good stuff guys.
My first AngularJS app: Papaya, a simple budgeting app
Here's another way to convert HTML to Markdown: http://www.lowerelement.com/Geekery/XML/XHTML-to-Markdown.ht...
I think you've mistaken Yegge's point if you see it as "Declarative functional languages are better than imperative ones." It's more about how the version of OO embodied in Java warps your program designs in an awkward way. He presents functional languages as the antithesis of this because, well, they are. But it's certainly possible for an imperative language to put functions and data on the same level — Yegge's favorite language, JavaScript, is an imperative language that does this.
If they do phase out the non-retina MBPs, that means none of Apple's laptops will have ethernet ports. On a "pro" machine, for the sake of shaving off a millimeter or two.

High-resolution displays are great, but Apple's fetish for thinness is causing some unfortunate side effects.
Curious, what do back ends consist of if not code?
Mainlining TV: the joys of addiction viewing
Any thoughts on service to Canada?
I've actually already been experimenting with salt, seems like a decent option for a multi-node configuration setup.
A-holes are a-holes, no matter what tools you give them. If someone adds everyone just to make fun of his/her friends, then the question is not so much about motivation, but rather why he/she still has friends at all.

I imagine most people after the age of 18 stop doing that, so I guess this might solve a problem provided there are some age limitations. Then again, you have to wonder if people older than 18 have 'crushes' they can't resolve like adults.

You Americans make it too complicated :)
Non-fiction writing is entirely built upon trust. I have to trust that the author is attempting to tell the truth because I don't have the resources to fact-check every little thing.

Jonah Lehrer violated this trust. Big time. He has shown himself to be someone who lies and manipulates. And I think this is a cynical manipulation in an attempt to restore his career. (He should donate that $20k to some charity, btw.)

But he has forever lost my trust. There are too many other good writers and good books out there -- there will never be a reason for me to pick up a Jonah Lehrer book or pay attention to his words. Sorry.

Let's find some less well-known thinkers who deserve our attention and leave this guy out of the public conversation.
of course he does. every Haskell programmer has a blog. some have several.
Sorry! Are you by chance located abroad?
YUI stands for Yahoo User Interface. They wrote it and open-sourced it, like Google with the Closure Library. I wouldn't count it as a third-party library.
4chan (and its users) probably want a fast downlink. The author touts a cheaper provider, but the service they are receiving is an order or more of magnitude slower service from my anecdotal test through wget(s) of images on both OP's and 4chan's sites. That is, a pair of dedicated and unmanaged servers is not, AT ALL, comparable to a CDN's offerings.

4chan probably also expects to have more than an email (and timely) endpoint with which to correspond with the provider of their most core site-service -- image serving.
And by abroad I mean "not US." Sorry, ignorant American here :)
"Swimsuits and stereotypes" Sports magazine accused of racial stereotyping
>"I hope that your initial interactions involve an immediate transfer of trust in your abilities, rather than starting off by always having to prove yourself."

I suspect her experiencing this has more to do with being a web developer than being a women. Web development has always been regarded as trivial work, and not "real programming". And unfortunately a huge number of web developers have embraced that idea and decided "we ain't need no fancy book learnin". It is easy to fall into the trap of assuming anyone who says they are a web developer is probably incompetent.
you ought to read comments before replying to them.

I clearly said you can not just check for `$`.
Does anyone else feel like Lehrer is receiving more criticism than he deserves? The fact that he defended the fabricated Dylan quotes is regrettable, but it's so trivial compared to lies we hear everyday from people we "trust" (media, politicians, bloggers, friends). And I don't give a damn about the self plagiarism. It was sloppy, not evil.

I personally wish we could forget about the whole thing. After this debacle, I'd trust Lehrer over almost any other science writer. If he ever writes Frontal Cortex again, I'm sure it will be the most thoroughly fact-checked journalism available.
Recent post about a Tee-shirt startup
The article was about customer service etc and how they started the company because they saw a market for no-money down teeshirt campaigns. My search foo is failing me now, can someone link it to me.
The only reason a business like CloudFlare offers a "Free plan" is to attract people to their service and then try to upgrade as many of them to paid plans.

He was happy to pay, they didn't capitalize on that.
> And are these estimates coming from the major holders? No, they are coming from brokers and analysts.

That is correct, and if the OP had asked a different question, then that would be a good answer.
Morae is expensive and I don't trust the company that made camtasia, we found it to be very buggy.
Are you using any extensions? I'm using Chrome on OSX and not able to replicate that.
I still wonder why Markdown is so popular while reStructuredText is not. I find the latter much easier to read, it looks better in both plain and rendered format (and rst2pdf makes nice docs).
I'm trying to build a mac GUI server app at the moment for postgresql for a standalone server, like Postgres.app. I should be finished in a couple of months or so and then I will write a GUI client app for Mac and iOS. If you're interested, you can download the source here: https://github.com/djthorpe/postgresql-kit
More like half a dozen people and something like 12-18 months (jgraham will correct me) to make the world's fastest JS JIT. But your bigger point stands.
This is great news.
One thing I can't get my head around, I actually spent some time yesterday evaluating using Firebase, cloned the FireFeed demo app and browsed it, but I still have one thing I guess I'm missing completely.

Can someone explain this: is there any way to have a secure app with only HTML JS and no back end at all? I assume you must at least have something on the server to add your secret key, right? Or is there some magic way to ensure no one else is writing or reading to/from your Firebase acount. I'm sure it's documented, but if it does, it's not that clear to me, seems there has to be at least one small server layer for you to make it really work, did I miss something?.
Designer at Forge here.

Those are both great questions. We're aiming Forge at people who cannot write their own backend payment processor to use Stripe, and only know basic HTML. If you have the skills and the time to code and maintain payment processing and a checkout form, then Forge isn't for you. We're aiming it at non-techies who want to sell something online.

PayPal certainly has its advantages, but we're trying to solve two main problems: the checkout experience and the withdrawing of funds. The checkout experience on PayPal has 5 or 6 steps and redirects you away from the merchant's site to complete a payment. Ours is on one page and is embedded directly in the merchant's site. Click "buy product", checkout form pops down, fill out 6 or so fields and click "buy now." Done.

Also, we automatically deposit your profits into your bank account every Friday. Our goal is to get this down to the next-day. You sell something Tuesday morning, ship it Tuesday afternoon, and the money is in your bank account on Wednesday morning.
and you can, in principle eat soup with a fork. but in practice you shouldn't.
You have to read the fine print though. Amazon CloudFront, while expensive, is designed for delivering content globally.

Take 100TB for example (the first result in that Google Search)

d. We strive to maintain a high level of service, and a lot of customers
depend on our high standards of quality. As such, we will not provide
Services to those that are using our Services for:

vii. Using the Services for a content delivery network or content distribution
network (CDN). An authorized CDN network offered through 100TB is
accepted. Special requests to use the Services to run an unauthorized
CDN network may be approved on a case-by-case basis. Failure to comply
with this policy will result in termination of this TOS, and you will
not receive a refund of the Fees.

If you look into the TOS even more, they basically disallow anything that's bandwidth intensive.
One thing I'm yet to puzzle out is whether CloudFlare handles apex domains. They say they do but DNSimple says in reality they just route it straight to your servers so that it's pretty useless.