skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likewise, I don't think a study that simply states that both genders are affected equally actually answers the question here; there's a depth that needs to be calculated, rather than just a yes/no.

The Langford study also says that men afflicted with Imposter Syndrome are much more likely to take risks than their female counterparts. I think that says a lot more about how women interpret themselves due to the societal expectations they mention in the beginning of the paper than the final results the study infers.

Do both genders feel this way? Yes. Are you less likely to act on something because of it? If you're a woman, yes.
Pretty much all engineers have some kind of professional licensing equivalent to doctors and lawyers, except in software.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_profession...
you know the first thing I did upon loading this page is to go buy a bag of Doritos... thanks HN! It was very tasty!
I wonder if the real litmus test is "ship a project and talk to the satisfied customer after fixing a few production bugs". Arbitrarily I'd say that the project would be at least a couple weeks personal time investment at least, and then also maybe a month of follow-up for bugs. And by "talk" I mean even just indirectly be part of a team to sign off on a project as done.

An experience like that really affects one's coding habits and makes them structure things in a more future-proof way: things like having loggable errors, even basic usability sense cannot realistically come from anywhere but hearing real user reports, going through the most basic deployment process, finding an issue on a live system.

In addition, certain naive over-engineering impulses get tempered by real shipping experience - because YAGNI is honed as well.

It's been described that anyone creative/constructive plays both a "writer/implementer" role and an "editor" role (using a book analogy here). Writing code is what we learn in school - but editing and directing and culling that output is something that takes real exposure to user problems to get better at.
Empirically. I got my hands on a piece and measured the density myself. It's roughly 430 kg/m^3.

Still have a box full of the damn stuff, actually, just in case someone can figure out any half-sensible way to translate the other properties into something DF uses.
Same. Especially for "I didn’t build an audience"
Could I get one too? mcochran [_at_] linux.com
Head of Edmunds car review site reports that the Model S's on-board touchscreen failed:

https://twitter.com/edmunds_test/status/306067589589774336

The Twitter conversation is ... interesting!

BSOD in an electric car, what will Musk say this time?
For someone who used the "we have the data and the data proves we're right" approach, something just feels off in what Musk is quoted as saying:

>
"We did actually get a lot of cancellations as a result of The New York Times article. It probably affected us to the tune of tens of millions, to the order of $100 million, so it's not trivial,” Elon Musk, the chief executive, said on Monday.

“I would say that refers more to the valuation of the company. It wasn't as though there were 1,000 cancellations just due to The New York Times article. There were probably a few hundred."

"Probably" a few hundred? Can't he be certain how many car orders have been canceled? And in what time period, and how long of time period, did these cancellations take place? And how does this rate compare to other periods in time? And if he's going to claim that the impact was non-trivial, then why leave so much fuzziness in the interpretation of how much was lost in direct car sales and how much through a loss of valuation?

The use of data, as it did in his rebuttal to the NYT, would help his case here. But in this interview he sounds like someone just throwing out rumors he heard from someone in the finance department.
The Spotify mobile version has many areas of improvement I'd like to see. Among other things I want: 1) the ability to see the track popularity and 2) a "see more" option when searching.
Joel didn't donate anything. Donations are given without return consideration which is hardly the case here since Stackoverflow was his business.
Here's a thought, why doesn't Linus Torvalds tell all the Linux core committers that if they want to continue to have commit access, they must show up at the office?

When I was a kid, I learned most of my programming through IRC channels. I worked on projects on Campfire, Skype, Hangout. It's not only possible, but provides a written log and account of decisions made. As well as giving people time to reflect.

The bottom line is that if you don't trust the people you hire, you've already hired wrong. Remote works if you trust your team. I had people working in person playing video games in the office. You can't coerce someone to work; you can only control this at hire time, not runtime.

Yes, it's impossible to tell who will work well remotely. But it's usually pretty obvious. People who will look for new things to do will do so, and people that will steal time can probably only keep up the con for only so long.

Hire right, and remote working works. That also includes in-person hires; they might be sitting there in seat...
You can't change Windows code to 'add ntfs mounts to that list'.

Windows 8 will in fact do hibernation when you think you have turned off the computer.

Bottom line: You can't dual boot safely with Windows 8.
I'm always curious why Grooveshark gets left out of these conversations.
Ah i like it! The implementations along with the comments are clean are easily comprehended. Lets hope for updates! (was also thinking about delving more into cs so this is perfect)
>If nonsense like "Electric cars don't work in the cold" gains traction

Well, isn't that kind of true? Obviously, EVs work, but the cold weather has a large impact on batteries.
I had similar feelings when I started to use 'programmer' and 'developer' on my CV, and when I started my first IT contracting job. I had done programming in my previous job, but it was in no way acknowledged in my job description or grade. Similarly when I started to earn more than I had previously, I questioned whether I deserved it.

The chicken-and-egg situation with job experience and employability makes it inevitable that you will be in positions where you 'don't know what you're doing'. But if you have the determination to seek out answers and fill the gaps in your knowledge, you'll become that expert you think you aren't.
I've been using TuneIn internet radio stations for new music discovery. It's definitely more random, but I've found many new artists to listen to when just flipping through the stations.
When you're browsing, you don't see most of the stuff you mentioned. Chrome may present different options to you but these are opt-in and possible to hide permanent.
Amazon SES. It's cheaper than many of the alternatives, but it has less features.
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Google needs to focus on affordable ARM-based Chromebooks with 10h+ of battery life. That's the sweet spot for Chromebooks.

It's not touch, it's not "retina displays" and it's not expensive Intel processors and terabytes of storage. None of those are needed for a successful Chromebook. In fact they detract from the success of Chromebooks as they make them much more expensive and kill its battery life.

Chromebook Pixel is fine as a "one time only" thing to create halo marketing for ChromeOS and Chromebooks, but they'll never be able to actually have a business with $1,000 Chromebooks.
Recent Spotify user - I hate that whenever I start an artist playlist, it almost immediately starts the same series of songs.
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I use RDIO because my friends work there. The downside is that music disappears from my library as labels decide to discontinue their licensing agreements. I wonder if the same thing happens at Spotify.
My very first personal "venture" was a craigslist killer, back in 1st year of University. I hated how crappy craigslist looked and was convinced I could outdo them.
I later found 100s of classified ads websites.. needless to say my attempt failed as well.

PS. if you do are looking for a real time messaging system, I would be able to help with that.
I wonder if NASA has done comparative studies on native vs foreign language wrt sub-vocalization and reading/speed reading ?

It is rather well known that native language and (all) foreign languages are "stored" in separate parts of the brain (with some limited controversy over whether there exists "bilingual" people in a biological sense).

I wonder if that has an effect on how we read written text (other than that most people presumably read faster and with better comprehension in their native tongue).
Not to mention, many ecommerce sites explicitly forbid this sort of thing. I'd be interested to know how they got around it.
The platitude sounds like something I can get behind but it's so much more than knowing how to search -- it's knowing where to search. I know programmers who are great at searching but have no idea which online information sources to avoid, which is at least half the battle.

In a world of copy/paste programmers, bad code gets worse as it's regurgitated around the web.
The stuff that is included with Chrome shouldn't have any impact on performance, the webkit and v8 engines are the same as that of Chromium. For Google, they do all their development on Chromium (which is an open source project), then apply a few patches and a new logo on top to get Chrome. It isn't some great conspiracy that they don't distribute Chromium binaries, it simply isn't their end product.
Except you're comparing apples to oranges.

Cold weather pilots never let their aircraft sit outside for too long if they intend to fly within the hour since the fuel starts to gel. They plug in to the hanger if a power source is available or keep the engines running (although that's rather expensive these days). That doesn't mean those aircraft are in any way inferior to their warm weather counterparts.

The system is fundamentally different. Different is not inferior. Different means it can't be treated the same way as a fossil fueled vehicle.

FYI... The batteries do have heaters to improve efficiency, however that too drains power so a glance at the manual (and some common sense) would have told him to leave it plugged in. A bit like having to run a diesel engine a bit to make sure the fuel won't turn to gel in the lines.

I'm not sure if deliberately sabotaged the test drive, but I do think there's some driver naivety (negligence?) at play.
The simulation is pretty wonky, yes. There's quite a gap between things that are somewhat reasonably simulated and things which are... not. Throwing is pretty OP though.

Also try dropping a thousand socks on someone. Its hilarious.
My post is off topic, but anecdotes are data. Poor data to make decisions about systemic changes, but good data to make decisions about individual choices and policies. A single instance of a wrong is enough to discuss how it might have been avoided.
That's the point - it's "kind of" true. But the takeaway from that NYT article is "you'll get stranded," which is much more painful than the truth: "be careful in the cold."
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He knows how many were canceled. He doesn't know exactly how many were canceled because of the NYT article.
It didn't work on my site :(
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No, that's not kind of true. When something doesn't work, it doesn't work. But if something works but with lesser range, it still works some what.
With the NYT's article, they gave the impression that driving tesla means you may end up calling tow truck often, which isn't entirely true.
>Seriously, if that is actually the case, organize.

Perhaps this is the case but people who are naturally timid online are also less likely to organize?
I started using Spotify first about 6 months ago. I wasn't in love with the UI and I couldn't easily figure out how to use it the way I wanted to. After two weeks I switched to Rdio and fell in love. Maybe I was just being lazy when trying to figure out Spotify, but honestly your users shouldn't have to put effort into figuring out how your features work, especially with a type of product that's been around for so long (eg. iTunes). This was enough to cause me to switch to Rdio and I've been very happy with the selection and technology there ever since.
Can you ensure that common activities such as typing, writing, stretching etc. won't be registered as intended triggers for actions? Anyway, amazing product! I can totally see myself using and developing with one!
Some of the code is based on Postgres, based on their own marketing materials: "Paraccel has leveraged Postgres for some of its parsing and planning functions". So the head node continues to have Postgres origins, but not the compute nodes. Also see this write-up on their paper discussing the links to Postgres: http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2009/07/paraccel-and-their-p...
Cold weather also has a large impact on diesel and aircraft fuel, yet somehow engines that utilise both fuels are still in use.

The lesson here is that EVs need to be treated differently to gasoline engines. Once those habits kick in, I'm sure we'll see a few in Siberia.

Misconceptions are quite harmful to progress.
The Curse of Taleo?
Anyone else working on this? My hunch is that HR i.e finding, on-boarding and developing people is critical in our now largely service based economies. (More so than say production, supply chain etc)

Hiring internally is popular but it seems the process of hiring externally is still not intuitive. I'm thinking about working on this as a side project and would be happy to discuss in more depth with anyone.
Aluminum strikes me as a very poor choice, one reason it's so popular is it's strength to density ratio, i.e. it's a lightweight metal. It's also catches on fire very easily, is the fuel in typical thermite and and various rocket motors including the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster, and pretty clearly played a role in the Hindenburg disaster (hydrogen doesn't burn like that).

It has a role in e.g. GAU-8 (A-10's) PGU-14/B ammo, cast around a depleted uranium perpetrator, acting somewhat like a sabot in allowing the bullet to be lighter in weight and therefore faster, but outside of that sort of thing I don't see it having a role in ammunition.
Well yes, there are constant suggestions for UI improvements and menu redesign on the forums.

Little known fact, there was a 3D predecessor to DF. This is what it looked like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ARLSii23w8

Yes, that person is dying to a bush. A named bush. And that animation... oh man.
You aren't alone, some folks just can't help thinking about random things. But surprisingly a not insignificant number of people just sort of 'freeze up' when they don't have someone telling them what to do. You will run across these people, be nice to them, teach them curiosity and the courage to try new things.
>I thought the reporting on the Q4 results that Tesla released last week [checks story] showed that some of those order cancellations preceded the publication of the New York Times story.

But in that article, they mention 1500 cancellations, while Musk is only attributing "a few hundred" to the NYT article. That makes it sound like he's compensating for the baseline cancellations they were having at the time.
You can copy the libpdf library from a Chrome install to a Chromium install, since they are the same.
The reporter boasted of having been a whitehouse correspondence. the place where reporters ask questions carefully because they know asking touch questions at wrong time can can their career.

and he did report years ago negatively about ev industry. not exactly sign of an unbiased reporter.
Tell that to Linus Torvalds. Rails core. Ruby core. Give them an ultimatum: move to where HQ is, or lose commit access. See how quickly those projects die.

Microsoft has an in-person team whose Win32 user land APIs are confusing, some of which came from Win16 bolted to the side of Win32. Which is made bigger with the WinRT APIs, which also keep all the Win32 APIs thereby making Surface unwieldy. And I imagine Ballmer likes to keep his team on site for chair throwing...

And yet Linux is eclipsing many kernel projects not just in share but performance. Hell, Torvalds is fully capable of flaming people to tears via email! They're half a world apart and he can still rip a new one :)
Github offers five, whilst Bitbucket offers what is in essence an unlimited account to academic users.
Not all cancellations will have been because of the NYT piece, so no, he can't be certain how many car orders were cancelled because of it.

Also, there is probably a feeling that some would-be orders were not placed because of the article. Quite hard to quantify that.
I don't know, but I suspect it's a completely meaningless unit.
For anyone who wants more background on Chrome's multi-process model:

- Architecture: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/multi-pr...

- Models: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/process-...

- IPC: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/inter-pr...

- Sandbox: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/sandbox
The same could probably be said about extjs, too, but you'd find lots of intranet apps written in it -- often replacing predecessors written with Swing or even Tcl/Tk. Another popular approach here seems to be GWT. None of this is exactly "sexy" and blog-worthy, but neither are the POS and CRM apps themselves...

And here I could see some inroads for Cappuccino, if it were targeted in that direction. Lots of companies are making their own business iOS applications, so having browser-based systems with a similar UX and API would be worth it. But to gain enterprise customers, you'd probably need more marketing in that direction and paid support.
I read the NYT article. The takeaway for me was that there are serious problems with the car in cold weather. Regardless of it is "kinda of" true, cold weather concerns aren't "nonsense."
Those weren't scare quotes. I am sure their sources are anonymous, and that they are staffers, not congresspeople. I am also confident HuffPo accurately reported that they'd developed impressions and not firm conclusions.
Anyone else working on this? My hunch is that HR i.e finding, on-boarding and developing people is critical in our now largely service based economies. (More so than say production, supply chain etc)

Hiring internally is popular but it seems the process of hiring externally is still not intuitive. I'm thinking about working on this as a side project and would be happy to discuss in more depth with anyone.
I don't know about these claims — just because most OS research is now 20+ years old doesn't mean that a result, process isolation, is antiquated. You likely use a very modern operating system with process time-sharing (1964) using virtual memory (1950s/1960s) and so many other results of OS research from 30+ years ago…

This is how science works: research suggests some result; until other research suggests a different result, the first result is our best working hypothesis. Process isolation is hardly antiquated.
Not sure if you're OP, but thanks for the writeup. I love Spotify and am glad my choice wasn't in vain.
It happens in the corporate workplace, too.

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/10/14/2gb/

I found a problem in production, figured out what was going on, wrote a workaround, mailed out a patch, and ... they hated it. I didn't want to fight forever. So, I took my ball and went home, so to speak.

Months later, a different, nicer, person came to me and asked if I still had it. Fortunately for him, I had kept a copy of the change separate from our SCM in my home directory. I handed it over, he merged it, and that was the end of that problem.
So now App.net wants to waste both my money and my time?
There is one core library class that's thread safe, and it's Queue.

Otherwise, take a lock, or don't share data.
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He accused the writer of fraud, of wanting to drain the battery by driving in circles for a whole 0.6 miles. Imagine, 0.6 miles (the reviewer said he was trying to find the gas station in the parking lot, a very plausible explanation)

Something like this would have done wonders, compared to the mess they created: "We are sorry that x writer had a bad...however we still believe that our car is ...... As always our engineers will keep working on improving the batteries even more and educating our users...
Some retailers get their own sku's for common products, (to prevent price comparisons?)
The drop in capacity of electric batteries are well tested (in airplanes, for instance).

What came up was two other hidden factors which were usually ignored (at least by one person - me).

The heater systems for the gasoline cars run on parasitic heating, so does the power brake vacuum generation.

Both need to be artificially generated for EVs, which busts the "slow brake" traffic MPG gain myth that the hybrids perpetuated.
I'd just like to emphasize: when you're browsing, you don't see that stuff.

I do not see any of the additional stuff that the above poster mentioned. I use exactly one feature in chrome other than just it's web browsing at that is sync. Even then, I haven't interacted with sync since the first time I installed Chrome on my computer.
There's so much braggadocio in programming that it's easy to develop feelings of inadequacy for everyone. It' just not a "social problem" if you're a male victim.
Yeah after re-reading I think you are correct. And yes, I certainly agree that it was a real vulnerability!
Except when you are typing a URL.
In other words, males will feel slighted if you don't explicitly include them in a piece directed towards women? Is it so terrible that males might not be amongst your audience?

Here is the only gendered sentence in the entire OP:

> So to all the girls learning how to code, and not sure where you stand: screw it, and just call yourself a developer already.

Is it really so insulting that she didn't say, "girls and boys"? There are only two other gendered words, and they're both pronouns referring to a specific individual.
The actual phrasing is "antiquated style of process isolation", which leads me to believe that he's not saying that process isolation is inherently antiquated, but that the way Chrome does it is.

In that case, it still needs some explanation. Chrome's process allocator is apparently pretty complicated, so assuming a reader knows enough to just take it as read as "antiquated" is a bit much.
just don't sync your account and don't use apps, and don't install themes (though I can't see how that could slow it down)
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Everything I've heard about this is that the monitoring is being done by the ISPs themselves, not the content owners.
You can never step in the same river twice. That doesn't by itself suggest the river has dried up or turned to poison.
The number of places you can, the speed at which you can, the relative frequency at which you have to refill all work against electric cars at the moment.

Diesel, AFAIK, is better of in the sense that you can drive farther without refilling.

Also, for both petrol and diesel, customers can somewhat reliably estimate how far a tank will carry them. Part of that is experience, but for now, I have the impression that Tesla, with all its electronics, cannot even break even with 'normal' cars at that single measure.

They are working hard on refill speed and refill locations and I expect they are working hard on their battery control systems to improve remaining range estimates. I think they need all three to create a viable mass market product.
This is really impressive. I'd love for a similar Android product.