skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be true, but I know of many females on here who use androgynous names to avoid the (unfortunately all too common) sort of prejudice and sexualised conversation described in the post, and of some who use their real names and risk the same sort of unwelcome comments.

While my username might give away the fact that I'm speaking from a position of "male privilege" (and that is a choice I made without having to consider that it was male privilege, which is itself a symptom of my male privilege), I don't think it's helpful for someone to use their username to signal an aggressive viewpoint, at the same time as urging a more moderate approach (honey-badger comment aside).
Love this! Easy to support someone who is taking the unromantic look at entrepreneurship.
Exhaust systems need replacing, usually far more frequently than most people do. If you've got a rusty mess of an exhaust system, you're just blowing unburned fuel through your engine.

I think 80 years of R&D is overly generous. There's been no fundamental change to the ICE since its invention apart from the addition of more and more compensatory systems being introduced to mitigate the shortcomings of the traditional four-stroke piston-driven engine. The Otto cycle sucks but we stuck with it because it was the best trade-off between implementation cost and mechanical performance. 120 years ago.
Back in 2006? That's a bit unusual but entirely realistic for a heavy user. The binaries were not optimized for loading from disk, because no one was anal enough to do that until 2010 https://blog.mozilla.org/tglek/2010/04/12/squeezing-every-la... The history and bookmarks were completely overhauled in 2007 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Places#Timeline_and_History But if you had a lot of tabs open, and a bunch of extensions, it could still take nearly 30 seconds to do a warm start in 2010 according to this forum thread http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=20509...
Hydrogen cars always seemed like a solution waiting for a problem to me. The fact is if you can distribute and store hydrogen reasonably well then ordinary everyday cars could run it today, as easily as they do petrol except they only produce H20 as exhaust.

If you have to create hydrogen from water and electricity you'd have been just as well using the electricity directly.
First, thanks for the specifics here, it is very helpful to someone like me who is grasping at a starting point.

Second, I so want to believe that this is true. Even if I could just make 1k/mo, my stress level would go from 9.5/10 to 0. I've been told so much by my parents that I'm a fool to pursue such a thing, that I'll fail etc... I think it's really ingrained in me that it would take nothing short of a miracle for me to succeed doing this. It doesn't seem at all rational, but I fear it for some reason.
That's awesome. Congrats guys!
Been a happy bombfell customer for 7 months and absolutely LOVE it.

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Their own website doesn't work in portrait mode on my Android device (HTC One X using Chrome) and the logo doesn't load even when I rotate the phone into landscape mode.
Will it be doxygen compatible ?

Most of our C and C++ code is documented with what's pretty close to Javadoc comments, which is one of the flavors doxygen understands. We are certainly not going to rewrite comments for another tool even if we'd like to use that tool.

Pretty much all code I've seen that's documented to be used with a documentation extraction have been doxygen, or some flavor that doxygen can handle.
Those ARE better examples, but unfortunately, they aren't examples that driverless car visionaries are envisioning, as it doesn't represent an advantage to them. They think that their technology will make their commutes faster!
I have a great respect for the attitude that goes into running 37 Signals. Making something simple, enjoyable, and useful is much more concrete, from a development standpoint, than making something "the best". It also allows 37 Signals to sidestep the trap of defining oneself by competitors. This seems to allow them to spend their energy on making their products and their lives good.

Jason Fried has talked before about the importance of making things simple and easy. Simple and easy to use are hard to categorize as "best" when selling a product to customers or investors. Having more features, doing more work, saying "yes" more often gives you easier metrics to claim "best", but they often lead to overly-complex and difficult to use products and harried, stressed, unhappy employees.
None of the top five websites use jQuery.

Of the top 20, I've got one fifth of them using jQuery: Amazon, eBay, Wikipedia, and MSN. Not in the hospital yet.
Wait, when you spoke of $2-3k/month, did you mean active or passive income? Because I was speaking of active one - as in, you directly exchange your time for money.

Can't comment on your plan wrt template selling, but it seems you might start earning money faster if you get right to freelancing; though it's up to you, of course.

Speaking of timeline - in my opinion, it might be more optimal to target real-life tasks and not some deadlines: that is, instead of saying "I'll spend 3 months learning JS and then will start creating templates" you might just do the tutorial, maybe make a couple small projects to get comfortable a bit. Then pick some task - like a template, or just browse freelance sites, pick a job you like and use it as a target - start doing it and then see whether your skills are up to it or not. If not, learn more until you get there.

And speaking of money - from what I saw on elance, $10/hr is about minimum for Python/JS, that'll get you people who can barely speak English. Around $15 is not impossible for a person with a bit of experience, and from then on... well, that's a whole different story here, about marketing, client network, connections, self-promotion etc etc. Though, again, for the first couple of jobs there your main goal should be not getting high rates, but actually winning these jobs and creating some reputation.

So to sum it up - why exclude yourself from development freelancing for 6+ months? And relying on templates sales looks a bit risky to me, direct freelance will get you income faster. Though passive income sure is great, so in the end it's for you to decide.

Oh, and seconding jQuery. It's great.
My pet peeve with these type of articles is that they miss the fact that there are two type of growth challenges that a organizations face. One , the happy growth, is where a lot of people begin using the system . The other growth is team growth -- when you need to on-board a lot of people quickly and get them up-to speed so that your organization can sustain its growth.

I appreciate the fact that Scala with Akka is very good at concurrency issues.

I am curious to know how well organizations have scaled up their Scala teams. How easy was it transition new developers into organization-bread-and-butter type of products.
Not yet - still iterations on the service we want to push through before expanding to UK.
With no offense intended to the author, this post is 500 words of unsubstantiated generalities. Not that it's terribly written. It's just looks more like a preface to an article that contains the actual substance.

The author makes this statement: "...that focus on instruction...has become something of a burden. iOS is pinned down by its early interface decisions..." and doesn't offer one example to back up the claim.

We've heard the 'Apple design is too skeuomorphic' for years now and I just don't see how writing another generic article about it is noteworthy enough to make it the top of HN.

Yet, here I am commenting on it.

EDIT: And another thing! If Apple changed their design philosophy to a less skeuomorphic, more trendy, metro, flat style they would simply be accused of copying Google and Microsoft. Lose, lose.
The author also forgot about the apple newton, their previous attempt at a handheld computer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform)
if A$1 = ~US$1.04, the price should be lower in Australia, not higher
I find this a very good question!
Linode is my favorite provider on the web right now. For us, Linode is the best. It could be overkill for someone else, or a variety of other reasons unrelated to the speed of their hardware. For example, my neighbor only buys stuff from women-owned businesses, no exceptions.

I don't think anyone can be a "hands down winner", because it varies based on the needs of the user. Businesses frequently use Cogent for bandwidth at the lowest price point. Their business model could even depend on it. Other businesses require low latency, service level agreements, etc.
There are quite a lot of linux distros that run (or can run) from ram (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions_th...). I've used porteus(http://porteus.org/) and slax(http://www.slax.org/) and although the experience was interesting, some things needed quite a lot of effort to work.
When people ask me what OR is, I say it's "mathematical modeling and computer simulation" or "system analysis and optimization" or just "optimization".

Good resource for OR fellows to fish for some nice examples and descriptions:

http://www.scienceofbetter.org/
We have a thriving, helpful community already up and running at http://www.reddit.com/r/Scholar/.
but still the majority of them do, by a wide margin. I don't even know why you're debating this, it's completely obvious that jQuery has by far the largest mindshare.

edit: ok now I get it, I had a look at your website. You like Closure so jQuery must suck, right? Also I would be in the hospital after 5 shots....
I stopped using Owncloud after the sync client deleted a new local file. If a component that's designed to synchronise files will happily delete them in an unrecoverable way, that's a design that I won't trust my data to.
So what happens when all bitcoins are mined ?
I have the same frustration with speed and the same proposed solution (keep all your live data in RAM, journal updates to disk). My netbook now has 1024MiB of RAM; my first Linux machine had 800MB of disk and 64MiB of RAM. Current laptop computers are powerful enough to keep a full working environment in RAM and never have to go to disk or even flash RAM for software. (Maybe for data if you have a large dataset, but not for software.)
"Thanks so much! Boy am I excited. This app offers great word prediction with a robust dictionary. It also works along with iPad accessibility features including speak text and word highlighting. Love it! Will spread the word! "

Wow. That is one coherent mom.
... as though batteries and electric motors were just invented last year
I have found http://www.myfitnesspal.com/ My fitness pal to be the best choice for calorie counting. This is mostly because it keeps the records accessible on the web as well as through the app, and because it has the largest and most diverse food database, including items in the UK and Ireland.
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I had no problem with her tone, actually, which was pretty much on the button.
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Because most content is from untrusted sources? ;)

Anyway, on my Windows computer I uninstalled it last week and installed Foxit. Too bad so many Websites still need Flash.
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What are your criteria for investing. Want startups focused on certain core competencies? Or maybe local to you?

You have to remember as an investor, you need to be bringing more than money to the table.

I would suggest going to Co-Founder Wanted meetups or FounderDating. Go to a startupweekend or Lean Startup Machine event and make relationships with the more promising entrepreneurs you find there.
The Tesla's range is between 160 miles and 300 miles on a charge, not 600. This is well beyond getting you to your office of course, but 160 miles is well within reach for many busy suburban people (read: kids).

This and the fact that apparently there's substantial power loss if you leave it overnight without plugging it in (say, you're staying at a hotel on a trip), and the dramatic range loss in cold weather (which much of the US is subject to), and you've got a vehicle that doesn't give people the level of reliability/confidence they want.

Not to mention, the car is more than just what gets you from home to work - much of the US lives in extremely large metro areas, particularly in the northeast where the NYT reporter was based. I have many coworkers here who drive hundreds of miles to see family on weekends, for holidays, etc. You have family scattered all the way across the northeast from Boston to NYC to DC to PA, and beyond. This level of social distribution is common in the region, and whatever car wants to succeed in this market needs to account for that.

But no, let's just all pretend that everyone pointing out the range problem is corrupt and in the pocket of Big Oil.
'The Mysterious Cities of Gold'. What can I say, pure gold and personal favorite of most of me and most friends that watched it.

I remember thinking this show has the best graphics ever! The gold shining in the sun off the flying bird plane when they first discovered it is etched in my memory forever.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Cities_of_Gold
Or read the source and see how it can be broken from a security perspective.

VMware and windows source code leaks in the past have had the effect of "pant shitting" for their former clients in case there is a whopping great big hole in them somewhere. The same is true for this.
We started out wanting to do a co-op, but after some legal woes we realized that wasn't going to be easy. This was our compromise.

> In particular, what happens if one of those side-projects becomes insanely profitable?

So far that hasn't happened. Much like the Y-Combinator model, we have a small stake in the company. If one of the projects became insanely profitable, we'd stand to benefit immensely. Just the involvement would likely generate all kinds of spinoffs (i.e. media coverage, etc)

> Do you formally give your employees full rights to their work (which is part funded by you)?

We try to stay away from owning or licensing code in general. We have a bit of a mantra here, we build ships, we don't sail them. In that regard, we'd rather benefit from the spinoff potential than the possibility of a windfall.

> Do you have a formal agreement giving you a stake in their work?

Yes, but not in perpetuity. We're interested mainly in fulfilling progressive ideas and seeing them through. After working in the biz long enough, you start to see a pattern among passionate people. They pour their heart into their craft - for someone else, and that works for many people, but for those who want something more, you lose an employee regardless - might as well benefit from it.
For those of us who have never heard of it, Zend Optimizer+ speeds up PHP execution by opcode caching and optimization. It stores precompiled script bytecode in shared memory. This eliminates the stages of reading code from the disk and compiling it on future access. For further performance improvements, the stored bytecode is optimized for faster execution.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PHP_accelerators#Zend_O...
How are they horrific at the gaming business when they're moving billions of games a year? And what infrastructure pieces are they missing?

GPU-rich devices installed and networked, check.
Friends lists, check.
Local multiplayer, check.
Networked multiplayer, check.
Distribution, check.
Billing, check.
In-app billing, check.
DRM, check.
Ad story, check.
Developer program, check.

All they need is a controller if they want the living room.
You don't need antimalware on Windows 8?
What would happen if oxygen were to disappear worldwide for five seconds?
A follow-up blog post about the New York Times article by a very astute behavior geneticist:

http://blog.chabris.com/2013/02/six-big-problems-with-why-ca...

Bottom line: I still like the New York Times article (and shared it widely) even though the explanation of genetics in the article is in many places flat wrong. The information about educational practices in the article is quite good despite the errors on genetics.
Indeed, you can't even scroll horizontally on iPhone either, so this is your mobile experience:

http://imgur.com/cu0fokf

I'm sure this will be fixed soon, and they are just launching now, but it is kinda funny.
Dragonfly is in my opinion better than Webkits inspector. I love using it.

Does anyone know what will happen to Dragonfly after the switch?
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Haha. Next time if you are just trying to make a point to the open source maintainer who's supposed to be reviewing your pull request, write the payload but comment it out so it doesn't actually do anything.

The real lesson here is DON'T MERGE PULL REQUESTS YOU HAVEN'T LOOKED AT.
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I'm who this service is made for. Typically when I find a place, i'll stay loyal to them for a while. The right place has to have these 3 qualities. First, the price has to be a good value. I don't want to pay a lot for something that will last a short time. I wear cloths until i can't. Second, there has to be at least one employee there that is willing to help me find something. I can't pick cloths out, I need a guy/girl willing to say "this is not a good shirt for you". and the 3rd is the universal, the cloths need to be close to my style, which I would describe as business casual. I'm probably going to start with the essential, but i might sample the "luxury" level first. If it proves fruitful, perhaps i'll stay with it.
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At $3000/day 'revenue', can anyone chime in for the cost of electricity to run that rig assuming $0.10/kWh, not factoring in the initial investment of the hardware?
If you are a "friend" or family you don't have to be accredited.
OK, was thinking the same. But got struck by the tone, that seems to radiate from your comment.

Yes, I agree 100% with what the creator wrote. I am really, really sick with women earning less then men, having to fight harder, having to endure sexiest jokes and inappropriate comments.

I really despise inequality.

So, that said, I now have a problem. What ever I could no say, to discuss this issue and the site, might come about as as some kind of relativization.

Because, I got sidelined by the twitter-handle. Whatever I had read to this point got covered in some judgmental-icing. My first emotion was sadness, that such an great site, such great words had been used for satire, as this was my first guess to what the handle meant.

Sad, I know. Wrong, I know. But this was my first reaction.
If you want an excellent OR role model, I suggest you check out Gene Woolsey. He has a book that is a collection of stories of real world OR, not just solving traveling salesmen problems: http://www.lionhrtpub.com/books/wp1.html He's an excellent example of a non-stuffy academic that focuses on applying OR to the real world.
Bit unfair. The article repeatedly says there are promising techniques for crowd-sourcing etc and that Google Flu Trends has been quite accurate in the past. Also says that a few methods have entered the mainstream. It's a rather good overview of the efforts for tracking flu IMHO.
Again, that's not a business relationship, that is quite literally exactly how feudalism worked. Your liege lord was not an expert on your plot of lands agronomy prospects or the physical state of your knights, so he had to trust you.

Its possible some of the confusion is state based vs action based. If you define business relationship by state, then absolutely anything that happens in a cube farm while wearing a tie is a business relationship, from a free market to blackmail to slavery to blind faith. If you define business relationship by action as a theoretical ideal of how roughly equal participants in a competitive market in a rule of law system treat each other, you get a completely different analysis.
I will miss the 'Douglas Crockford of browsers'
The answer is yes. There are lots of non code related things that are done from work pods: reading a design doc, joining a video conference, planning work travel, performance reviews, and so forth (uh ... reading HN on a break). The common spaces are a nice change of scenery. I've worked at places before where I have had 4-5x the amount of office space. Our desk areas are comparatively small, and we are packed close in most instances. As much as I love my standing desk with dual monitors, it's sometimes a good idea to move around to not get cabin fever.

I am, however, skeptical of the people who bring their laptops to work out of massage chairs. I like massage chairs, but they are way too distracting.
Well, don't provide a test like "you'll be in the hospital by #20" if you haven't vetted the results of it first.

My personal advocacy for the Closure Tools does not discredit my views on other tools, and I'm hoping this ad hominem nonsense doesn't fly in such a forum. Quite a few people come into the IRC channel and are using the Closure Compiler with jQuery and I don't give them shit. I take no issue with you using, liking, preferring jQuery.

You know why I like Closure? Because it makes the hard things possible. When you're talking about JavaScript running the web, it's websites like Gmail that matter the most. And you'd have a hell of a time getting Gmail to run as smoothy as it does using a library like jQuery, or even ExtJS.
I don't think the argument is so much that "gender is irrelevant" generally but that it's irrelevant in the specific contexts herein. The holy grail so to speak is being able to identify yourself as a woman an have it not matter.
$10K is not serious and you're most likely going to lose it. That's not me being a jerk, that's me being realistic. Statistically about 8 out of 10 funded companies are going to fail. VC's make their money by playing the numbers. They need to get their money back from the other 2/10. You don't have that option if you're only playing with $10K. Angels are people who know this and can afford to lose the cash they put up, they do it because they love it not because they need more money. Do more research before you flush your money down the toilet.
The wikipedia page is pretty interesting. Particularly the link at the bottom to a Win PE -- a live version of windows that's available from MS. I didn't know that existed.
Off the top of my head, tax debts aren't dischargeable.

The bankruptcy code defines a bunch of things that you can't discharge, including debts you acquired through fraud, through embezzlement, through larceny, or government fines.
Hmm...

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Current-Foxit-Rea...

Plenty more to come I reckon.
What torrents no longer work in AU?
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Correct me if I'm wrong (and I very well may be), but isn't the JS runtime separate from the rendering engine?

I was under the impression that Chrome uses WebKit for rendering and V8 for JS.

So, even if Opera switches over to WebKit, that shouldn't affect JS.
i didn't realize we were so intimately familiar with the source of human consciousness. i'd think, if our consciousness was conclusively just the sum of our synapses, we'd have stopped debating life after death by now.

i'd be happy to read more if you care to source.
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There are some countries where it's illegal to have people's personal information without their consent - and that includes specially email adresses.

If you {live,make business} In that country, you should send your unsubscribed emails to your mailing list providers so they stop sending them to you.
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