skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What we think and what there's evidence for are diff things. Obviously everybody's entitled to their opinions.

There is research that suggests, however…

* priming people to remind them that they belong to a stereotyped group actually causes people to perform worse (stereotypically) -- this is called stereotype threat, lots available if you googles

* guilting people about their culture's bad behavior / their personal bad behavior actually causes them to dig in their heels, not to feel bad and then change (because feeling bad is an identity threat (irony)) -- the study I'm thinking of for this one took young Germans and primed them to think about the abuses perpetrated by nazis (before they were ever born) and then polled them on attitudes towards Jews and found that the people who were exposed to the priming were less sympathetic, not more; the researchers had reason to believe this was due to the emotional knee-jerk reaction to guilt

And on and on. The research suggests that the furor is probably paradoxically counter-productive.

Furthermore, people who speak about "women in x" presume to speak for everyone, but they sure don't speak for me or most of my female friends. But they are painting us with the same brush because we've got the same genitals. Bothersome.

As for pg's opinions about startup-women-with-young-kids, it fits well with his other writing (programmers aren't just programmers, they're hackers; hackers are artists; nerds are unpopular in high school because they're way too awesome, etc) which is all about reinforcing identity. And of course he runs a business which depends on extraordinary (I would say over-)involvement with, and (over-)commitment to work. He also says he won't work with people who won't or can't move, too -- a non-gendered but identical outcome based on "devotion," not body parts or reproductive status.
If we make aerial cameras illegal, only criminals will have aerial cameras!
The tipping point is getting closer but I would still recommend Python 2.X for the time being, primarily for third party support.
You don't seem to realize how the American government works.

In all levels, from local to state to federal, their constituency consists exclusively of special interest groups whom represent businesses at large.

Consumers are left in the cold with regards to influencing policy since they are disorganized and (more importantly) they lack the political and economic will to exercise control over their government.

Consumers rarely (if ever) contribute to campaigns, lobby, or propose legislation themselves.

If you do understand it then your proposal is simply a pipe dream since this iron shield is impenetrable to individual citizenry.
Can you point out an OS that did not come with a terminal app standard?
There is absolutely no chance that this bill will pass.

There've been too many cases where it seemed this way, then the bill passed (or was only narrowly defeated), for us to ignore anything that appears to have no chance of passing.
> Django 1.5 introduces support for a configurable User model. The basic Django User model is still around, of course, but now there's first-class support for specifying your own model and having Django's auth system make use of it.

I guess having it be a special User model is just part of the deal with Django's good out-of-the-box admin. I don't even remember how the various Rails plugins (ActiveAdmin, for example) generates the scaffolding needed for an authenticated user.
Even I thought the same. I think failure of a startup is nothing short of grief.
No love for the poor Vista people?
Very nice, but you really chose the wrong title. My initial reaction was "how is a replacement for alert() interesting in any way?" Glad I clicked anyway.
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I don't have the desired gmail that I want. my desired email is paddy@paddymullen.com. my gmail account has a ".gm" appended to the end to get a unique name.
not sure if OP advanced the debate
Because the use-cases for phones and macs are exactly the same! Because there is no valid use-case for GateKeeper other than Apple wanting to control every piece of software on your machine. Because Apple totally doesn't care if third-party developers jump ship from their platform because the developer tools are locked down.

Because paranoia is so much more fun than rational thought.
I remember this as a Microsoft term, based on notifications from Outlook and MSN Messenger. The analogy is that it pops up like toast from a toaster.
The "risk takers" who "cross on their own terms" can be equally judged as "gamblers" who gamble with their life. I mean this whole analogy given by article poster is pointless first of all. And then comparing SFers with New Yorkers based on their road crossing habits is even more pointless. In developing countries (like India), where in most cities/towns there is no designated zebra stripe crossing (and definitely no push button pedestrian crossing signals), every one crosses at their own terms, some times dodging medium sized vehicles, giving respect to large vehicles and stopping smaller vehicles(bicycles, bikes etc) by waving their hand as they cross over. From the street hawkers to the bankers, from a school going teen to the old man with walking stick, every one does that. How does that give you any insight into the psyche of a person !! Or the psyche of a geographical region? New Yorkers cross on their terms more often possibly because there's just more people, lot of whom are in rush and "crowd learns soon from the behavior of few"

Trying to glean any meaning from such behavior is a futile exercise.
Their media stores take hours, sometimes a day, to propagate metadata changes. Any time an App Store app gets released or updated, there's a fun game where you watch it slowly propagate to visibility among your friends and acquaintances.

Their store for physical goods goes down every time they make a significant change to the product offerings.

Both are highly successful, but all this tells us is that a web service doesn't have to be particularly well run in order to be successful.
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not much experience but AFAIK cloud SQL is targeted for enterprise, and is far more costlier than say AWS.
Good job and a nice article!
From a NYT article on the matter: A respected Harvard researcher who also is an Internet folk hero has been arrested in Boston on charges related to computer hacking, which are based on allegations that he downloaded articles that he was entitled to get free. (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/us/20compute.html?_r=0)

It is also reasonable for one to think they wouldn't get in trouble for this. Either way, at the root of civil disobedience and activism is the desire to change.

I think Dr. King's quote is being taken out of context in these discussions. Dr. King doesn't mean to simply "grin and bear it", Dr. King means that fighting for our freedom is hard, and thus activists must, in order to have any chance of producing change, be prepared for the worst, in some form of self sacrifice.

Atwood is saying (I feel erroneously) that Swartz came so close to creating a change, but gave it all away when he "ragequit".

The point is, what happened happened, and I hope we never have to have a "next time", but I'll bet that if there is a next time, it will play out very differently, and for the better, thanks to Swartz.
This title is unfounded drama. If you want some clue, you can read:

http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/35868077/BSidesSanFranc...

http://adainitiative.org/2013/02/keeping-it-on-topic-the-pro...
Pascal's newsletter is one of the best "blogs" on entrepreneurship and innovation out there. He's just awesome and has a ton of reflected experience and a great pool of guest posters. You'll love the format. It's concise and to the point. I also recommend going through the archive. A ton of great holistic advice in there.

If you are into startups and shaping the future subscribing will be one of the best things you did today.
You shouldn't trust any company. Not Apple, not Microsoft, and not Google. Which is why "the cloud" is a stupid idea.
I would say 2 because every package out there works with it, not the case with 3 still. So it will be easier for you to follow docs and tutorials.

Plus, 2 is not going away in near future, and you'll be able to pick up 3 easily after that
I'd say it's mainly SQLite by itself over Libre/Open Office or Kexi or Glom because the others don't have viewers and SQLite is bundled with mobile devices and operating systems.

Of course, the comparison may seem odd given that Access has a GUI and SQLite is just the database engine but some consideration should be given to the fact that people who operate databases often know how to use SQL commands and won't have any problem learning scripting languages to build applications to ease data entry. Software like GAMBAS makes that easy on Linux. Access users should have no trouble converting to GAMBAS at all.

But for casual use outside of custom applications design Libre/Open Office are the biggest threat to Access.
Sure. But "respecting Atwood's grief" was outweighed by "challenging his dangerous ideology", especially since (as he says in his post) he'd never met Swartz.

Don't think his suicidal thoughts are relevant to his chosen topic of noble activism. If anything, Atwood mentioning it came across a little "I beat suicide... but this guy couldn't".
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Thanks. I will look at this. Firefox is my preferred browser.

The google voice integration is by far the worst. I have to log into google voice, which then calls my gmail, which then calls whoever I want to.
If it's anything like my friend, it's because their phone has every single photo they've ever taken, it's set to do an iCloud backup, and it's over 5 GB. Very easy to do.
Open sourcing Databus: LinkedIn's low latency change data capture system
In a way, I agree with Jeff, and I wonder what would happened if some other famous activists have taken the path Aaron took.
I know everyone is rushing to decry Apple and their draconian behaviour ("first they took my unsigned apps, now they want in my email? TO THE PITCHFORKS!") but the likelyhood is someone has fiddled with the spam filtering and they've broken something. If the first thing you jump to is some conspiracy you're ignoring the simple rule of technology that behind every good wild goose chase is a member of staff who's quickly hitting 'roll back changes'.
Millimorts-measuring risk of death and its applicability
I like the Template element, but what I'd really like is a way to escape out of JavaScript and html directly to my JavaScript views. That'd be more convenient than splitting client side view development across the JavaScript logic and html templates that reside somewhere else.

Plus, I think that'd offer caching benefits vs. having to send templates across the wire every time.
I think I would devote those 5 years to writing a new browser. My goal would be to have a browser that is 100% standards compliant. My browser would run, and display web pages, equally on Windows XP+, OS X 10.5+, as well as all the major flavors of Linux.
But in Stable it's not quite that cutting edge: v0.7.63.
That is correct. It maybe doesn't apply if taken by the formal meaning. Doesn't mean that there isn't a second meaning behind that. It sure is a play of words with the uncertainty of the legalness (else why mention the barely at all? Why barely, which also means "not really"?)

My point was, it has nothing to do with children.
This is the sort of thing that happens when there are 3 or 4 gigantic ISPs instead of 15,000 local ones. Enjoy what the 1996 Telecom Deregulation Act has wrought.
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(co-founder of Balanced here)

Have you looked @ balancedpayments.com? We nail the marketplace payments system out of the box.
That doesn't conform to RFC 2821:

4.2.5 Reply Codes After DATA and the Subsequent <CRLF>.<CRLF>

When an SMTP server returns a positive completion status (2yz code)
after the DATA command is completed with <CRLF>.<CRLF>, it accepts
responsibility for:

- delivering the message (if the recipient mailbox exists), or

- if attempts to deliver the message fail due to transient
conditions, retrying delivery some reasonable number of times at
intervals as specified in section 4.5.4.

- if attempts to deliver the message fail due to permanent
conditions, or if repeated attempts to deliver the message fail
due to transient conditions, returning appropriate notification to
the sender of the original message (using the address in the SMTP
MAIL command).

If it's spam, the email should be rejected while the SMTP connection is still established with an error code (4XX or 5XX). If the email was accepted for delivery, there are really only two options: deliver the email or bounce it back to the sender.
Er, because in contrast to nuclear weapons anyone can build their own drone?
intended versus unintended consequences and which Federal agency has authority
David Brin's Transparent Society gets more relevant every day.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Transparent-Society-Technology-Bet...
Why should I choose that over disabling Gatekeeper? Your way adds more steps but is not any safer for me.
I think that's supposed to be download.php, not index.php. At least that's what I've experienced. (this was several years ago btw)
I'm sorry, but successfully running a digital download store in a desktop app does not impress me. Apple's innovations with the store were not technical but contractual (originally getting record labels to agree to flat per song pricing).

iTools/.Mac/MobileMe/iCloud are all the same thing, but signify the number of reboots they have had over the years. Each time they say "it's fixed!" and then yea, it's not.

Be my guest if you want to believe Apple is great at the web. Meanwhile Google will be feasting.
Counter narrative: nothing has changed. Apple has just expanded their business. If Apple made toasters, whether they were locked down or not wouldn't affect my opinion of what was likely to happen to my Mac. iPhones are toasters, not computers.
Python 3 support in Django 1.5 is experimental. I would wait until Django 1.6 is launched or there are well-known, well-working examples of Python 3 implementations of Django on high traffic sites.
Why is the answer on how to use Javascript to use Coffeescript? Does all RoRists use CS instead of JS, or is it considered best practice?

(I don't use either Ruby, RoR, Coffeescript or Ember.)
If you need some dirty words to test with, have a look at Searchdaimons list of adult words phrases:
http://www.searchdaimon.com/wiki/Adult_words
That's the library.
People have been doing this for at least 10 years.

CloudFlare is a YC thing, so that's why this is even news.
Excuse me. I only meant to point out that Apple already has a platform where they control every piece of software on your machine, and so it's not absurd to think that they might try to do this on their other platform. I don't think my post merits your implication that I'm not thinking rationally.
The people who consciously choose to believe that women are inferior to men in software development, either due to misguided beliefs about genetics or intractable upbringing issues, aren't going to be persuaded by angry blog posts or anything else. They're already dug in to their positions.

The people who benefit from alertness to privilege, culture, and bias issues are the ones running or helping influence the operation of development shop who don't understand the problem. They're the ones who think "avoid hiring women with small children in early startups" is an innocent enough statement --- after all, they won't have enough time to put in. They're the ones who ask women at interviews how they're going to handle picking up their children after school. They're the ones who think if you spend 8-10 of your 14-16 working hours a day at work, it's only natural that you'd try to find dating partners at work.

I believe you when you say that stereotype threat is a real problem with "angry blog posts". Personally, I think the overt bias problem is so bad right now that we can probably set stereotype threat aside until we cut back the active prejudice a bit. But it's also worth pointing out that the mitigation strategies for stereotype threat aren't "pretend the stereotype isn't a problem".
iOS/iPhone took from 2003-2007: http://betanews.com/2012/08/08/10-interesting-things-weve-le...

If only SJ had to applied to YC/Kickstarter, would have been so much faster (and more Bootstrap-y too)!!!!
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Wild parrots get names from parents
Food (all aspects):

- use warehouses to build automated aquaponics food farms managed like servers (the info available on this stuff is not exactly scientific)

- fast food that is _real_ food (and potentially grown in an abandoned warehouse close-by).
I've had a double stapedectomy (replacing the stapes bone with a metal prosthesis) and I can't tell the difference between a $400 pair of headphones versus $100, but I can tell a difference on the low end. As my hearing is likely to degrade, this will be of interest when need to get hearing aids.
A platform to combine the services that I (and everyone else) use: social networks, self-tracking tools into a simple, chronological interface. I've started at lifegrid.co but have not began integrating APIs from services.
well if you want to think the worst in people...

I would say this law would be a pain for farmers and ranchers that are taking the next steps in technology. Plus architects would get caught eventually.
I'm afraid none of this addresses my point and the question I implicitly raise - namely why do women choose the work they do?

I'm not saying that biology is not a factor - physically demanding jobs may always be the domain of men - but there's little apparent reason for so few women choosing computer and engineering fields besides socialization.

As for the business owner angle, I think another poster here had it right, women tend to be bad at negotiating but even that has confounding factors, e.g.:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07...

"Both men and women were more likely to subtly penalize women who asked for more -- the perception was that women who asked for more were "less nice".

"What we found across all the studies is men were always less willing to work with a woman who had attempted to negotiate than with a woman who did not," Bowles said. "They always preferred to work with a woman who stayed mum. But it made no difference to the men whether a guy had chosen to negotiate or not.""
> Their store for physical goods goes down every time they make a significant change to the product offerings.

That still amazes me. No wonder why WebObjects never took off...
Mac OS, prior to Mac OS X.
Python 2

I really, really wanted to say to you Python 3, because:

- It is better (it fixes some annoyances)

- Django is working really great with it

But some things (that Django uses, but are not Django) are not working yet. Things like MySQL adaptors, South, etc

Or maybe go with Python 3 and wait for the issues to be fixed, they probably will, soon enough
Angry blog posts keep the conversation alive to a degree. Then they troll, polarize and reinforce stereotypes. Sadly, thoughtful blog posts don't get nearly as much attention. That is the distinction I'd like to make: creating a hostile political environment only fuels more hostility.

The only women's conference I've ever wanted to go to is RollerCon, anyway.
i'd say that if you want to learn python, go with 3. if you want to build something on third party libraries while learning python at the same time, start with 2.
I can buy the idea that iOS being locked down doesn't tell you what's likely to happen to your Mac. But once Apple started bringing iOS-like features across, then it becomes pretty reasonable to compare the two to guess at what they might do next.
Considering that imgur serves... images... no, their transfer isn't being cut by 50%.

This article is just a press release about a feature that has been done forever (look up "WAN accelerator").
And Al-Jazeera isn't? All news media is biased.
Freelance translators might work. But, please, don't be cheap. I am brazilian, and an odd, "google translator" type of language is worst than keeping it in english(or even using portuguese from Portugal).
For those of us who understand english, if the the portuguese is not perfect (I mean, really perfect,well worded, clear, with common words), we prefer it in english.
For the brazilians that do not understand english (and there are a lot), an english language app might even be tried, but mostly ignored. But an ugly portuguese language app will make you think is a scam and run away.

I don't believe any kind of "lean translation" actually works. Codecademy, for example, have translated some parts of their site, mostly buttons and navigation. But with the relevant parts in english, it makes no diference at all.

And a tip, if you have a video, english subtitles helps a lot! I mean, a lot!
Hm, maybe it was download.php. Now I'm not sure.
That doesn't make any sense. If a person is unproductive or abusing a policy, you fire them, publicly. You don't ban the policy.

Now everyone who wasn't abusing the policy but was only still working at Yahoo because of it will leave. This is called throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
It sounds like you think all scientists should learn how to code.

I am certain that there are many people who rarely use calculus and physics simulations in their work, and who would never need to program even if they knew how.
Also, thanks for your patience, it's running on a micro EC2 and I haven't put too much effort yet into optimizing request handling (just using waltz over web.py at this point)
Agreed. MuteTab development was started back in Fall 2010 when it wasn't clear to me if Adobe would ever work toward making the changes required to enable such a feature.

The extension may live on if there are features that people want but that Google decides do not need to be a part of the browser.
You have to reach some Google-controlled threshold of app quality before you can use it, according to this: https://developers.google.com/+/features/play-installs
Clearly it has nothing to do with people's evolving eating habits and new found rejection of processed carbohydrate-rich flour based foods.

Clearly.

I also understand in the article the author focused on Celiacs vs diagnosed but-not-really Celiacs, but the author should really expand his thesis. You might not even have a medical condition but would still choose to reject white bread, Twinkies, crackers, pizza, etc.
Thanks! The Persona team is working hard to get past the "your users won't have it already" bit.

1. By the end of March, we'll turn on a Persona <-> Yahoo (OpenID) bridge, followed by one for Google (OpenID) and Hotmail (OAuth). Net win: A billion+ users can fully complete a first-time login with Persona using just three clicks. (Try it today! Use a Yahoo address at http://beta.123done.org/)

2. A subset of the team is working on a Persona-backed replacement for Firefox Sync. Net win: tens or hundreds of millions of additional users added to the "Persona-ready" camp.

3. The upcoming FirefoxOS phones all have Persona baked into the default Marketplace. Net win: time will only tell.

The above projects just streamline the initial onboarding experience: anyone can use Persona right now with any email address. FWIW, last time I checked, Persona's is averaging > 13,000 daily login transactions over a rolling 7-day window.

I don't want to derail, but if you have questions or need help getting Persona set up on your site, please free to email me.
An interesting response, perhaps you're being downvoted for an English mistake?