skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So remember this: at its core, App.net is an ad-free, subscription-based platform, a backbone, a dialtone. [1]

I had to go back and find that to make sure I wasn't misremembering. If the free tier includes a cap on the number of people you can follow, has the "we're not just a pay twitter" angle been abandoned?

[1] http://blog.app.net/2012/08/
Compared to ~15 trillion (15,000 billion)? That seems fairly reasonable.
And even if most men aren't rapists, many enable rapists by, for instance, complaining when people say something as basic as "let's not have instances of rape at tech conferences."
I saw that, but it's hard to tell how dated the info is. The only answer that wasn't downvoted comes from a guy who hasn't been at Google since 2007 or Facebook since 2011.
Are you able to say who this is? It sounds very intriguing as a business model. Guessing it's some sort of business/financial data subscription?
So will I, however it was just a concept ad and I'm still the copyright holder. I make a habit of not selling my copyright when I freelance, or do work for favours, makes more financial sense to license it.
Yeah you're way off here. If my doctor said "I don't look things up" I'd run out the door. A doctor who looks things up is a doctor who cares to get things right.
That's the price you pay though. You don't think it's worth it. The price for HBO is not the monthly price you pay to the cable provider for HBO.
If they were getting 25% less done, and had the data, they should have referenced that.

My guess is that given that Marissa is so data driven (to a fault - eg. the thousand shades of blue on the Google ad links as an example) that if she had had this data she would have shared it.

No, its obvious to me that this was a "we did it like this at Google and Google was successful" move without data.
Amazing that I'm still thinking back to Minority Report over a decade later (released in 2002!).
> Why is it the responsibility of women to take the stand?

Because you can't control the actions of others, but you can control your response to the actions of others. As much as any activity can be labelled taboo, humans are dynamic creatures and have the ability to break taboo at any moment, without any kind of notice.

> Isn't it the responsibility of the people making unprofessional advances to stop

Yes. But to suggest that is blue sky thinking. Isn't it the responsibility of criminals to stop criminal behavior? Why don't they?

> and silent bystanders to tell them so

Maybe. Bystanders don't have perfect insight into the victims mindset. What if a husband put his hand on his wifes knee? Should a noble bystander lay into the husband for his sexist behavior? Do you assume that every bystander is listening to every conversation within earshot, waiting for something to become inappropriate? Chances are, bystanders have their attention focused on other things, like the conference at large, or the people they are conversing with.

If a person makes it very vocally clear that they are being victimized, then yes, bystanders should do something. And thats the answer to your question as to "Why is it the responsibility of women to take the stand?"
Anyone with remaining invites, It'd be great if you could hook me up with one: sam(at)blork.co.uk
Norwegian prison where inmates are treated as people
Impostor syndrom happens not because somebody was "primed", but because one knows one's own limits of competency and internal doubts better than anyone, but of course in others such things are not noticeable, so comparing oneself to others causes the person to self-doubt since everybody seems to be lacking internal struggles, deficiencies and doubts that are so clearly obvious to self.

Of course, various "positive discrimination" programs won't help this too, since once one belongs to a group which such a program targets, one has yet another - in this case, externally validated - cause to doubt if one's achievements are of one's own merit or were just bestowed by somebody else due to the fact of belonging to the targeted identity group. In this case, if the identity group is gender- or race-specific, of course this component is very prominent.
If the article did indeed say "this experience applies to women (...)", it now appears to've been edited for clarity.
I'm pretty good with Ruby. Does Middleman offer more power than Jekyll? All I need really is to upload my Bootstrap front-end, showcase my work, have a blog with Disqus comments integrated.

What does Middleman offer that Jekyll doesn't?
So if I wanted to build a app that delivers customized news, I create a user account + save their preferences.

Then when they authenticate, the app only uses a GET request to fetch those certain feeds specified in their preferences?

Thanks for all the info, streamjoy looks pretty sweet btw
One thing may be possible - that they actually took a look at who worked remotely and who worked on site. From that they decided that the 100% remote workers were not producing as well, or were acceptable to lose.

It could be that Yahoo didn't set up their remote work procedures very well and so it lead to poor productivity from remote workers.

Obviously they're willing to risk losing employees so I would guess they put some thought into it.
How to find best talent?
It's funny how the big names are often very clueless. Google Startup Weekend picked a bill splitting app as the winner, of which there are hundreds of similar ones on the market already. Could be these people offering such huge prizes have never done a hackathon before and will similarly just award the same thing that shows up every time, or has been done a hundred times but that the judges are just ignorant about.
I do have some invites, email me at appetizer@instadesk-app.com first come, first serve :)
EB1/EB2 are not Visas, they are Green Card filing categories. You typically file for EB1/EB2 while you are on H1-B.
the best doctor wrote the original material

I agree with everything else in your comment, but that doesn't make sense. How do you arrive at that conclusion?
They believe that the protestant canon of the bible is the inspired, inerrant word of god, and that it should be taken literally. All commandments given should be followed without question.

One such commandment is in acts 15:28-29:

For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay
upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from
blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication:
from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well.
Fare ye well.

For them, that's enough. Since organs are not mentioned, they are A-OK.
Show HN: A fundamentally different dependency system for javascript, meet Mantri
Fantastic insight, thank you!
Sure, if a guy walks up to a chick and sticks his hand down her pants, that's one thing, because he's clearly out of control. But the example given in the OP was something like "Would you like to have a drink?" I don't think I would be inclined to come charging to the rescue if I saw that. I don't like that women have to deal with unwelcome advances, but I wouldn't feel right rejecting him for her.
Heck, that attitude about documentation is everywhere, not just startups. It's just that good documentation is one of the things that separates the good shops from the bad shops.
I found the following quote to be helpful,
"I may not know what I'm doing, but at least I have no idea what's going on..."
Invite please? igfgt1 [at] gmail [dot] com
> (While reading in English there are some words I don't even know how to pronounce, so how could I "subvocalize" them...?)

Easy, you just mispronounce it. You either break up the syllables that you can pronounce, hoping it forms the correct word, or you just read it as it would sound in your mother language.
Well, I can't find any canadians who don't want their system. I can't find any (non-partisan) news sources complaining of a even a small number of people who would opt out of the Canadian system. Tommy Douglas, the founder of the system, is repeatedly voted the most popular Canadian in history... And...anecdotally every Canadian friend of mine loves to likes the system. I'd love to see some, any, hard evidence that the Canadian system is such a disaster that they're fleeing to the US to escape its tyranny.
Hi, My name is David Belk and I wrote the website. I noticed a lot of traffic from here this Morning. I'd just like to say thank you and, are there any questions I can answer? I'm having a busy Morning but I'll be free in about an hour.
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents
It's a false implication that it's the body's set of physiological processes that are to blame for the inability of a person to lose weight, when in reality it's a myriad of psychological issues which are really to blame.

So yes, in practice, it doesn't make sense.
A good whiteboard interviewer will be those things for you. And language details are less important -- "well, let's both agree a for loop has this syntax for now"
Mozilla Release Engineering "We are all Remotes" talk at Hass Business School
I love that I am starting to see more and more SO answers at the top of my Google results.
Video Groups & Video Shuffle Features Now In Vidinterest
With Video Groups, you now have a chance to discover more interesting videos shared by the community in selected topic or community. Letting you create a private , member only or public groups , Vidinterest created new opportunity to connect with the people with similar interest.
Retros From a Hot Tub
I'm not sure I follow, what services you are talking about that rely on Google? I only had to generate a few ASPs for my email clients, and little more. I use most of the Google-provided apps on Android though, so I never have to actually log in to my Google account from my phone/tablet, it might be the case that on iOS the situation is different?
> It does. I'm pretty sure VB's "And" and "Or" don't short-circuit…

Interesting, didn't know that. However, I got the feeling that he wasn't talking about how the operators work so much as what they are named.
How do you adjust the frame afterwards to suit your face?
App.net was a great refuge away from all the spammers, and I'm totally happy to pay to keep them out. Very disappointed in this change of policy.
The alarm comes from schools marketing unhealthful food to them ...

How are schools marketing unhealthful food? (I'm assuming this is different from the school lunches.)
Here is the tale of BOATMURDERED:

http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/Introductio...
Pulling for these guys. Just a great David vs Goliath and they seem to have a chance making a dent.
This was the video that Popular Science featured :http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=o...
One of their ideas is quite close to something I'm working on.

However, I wasn't exactly thinking about using an accelerator, and I haven't head about them. A quick search on HN doesn't give a lot of results.

Does anyone here has had some personal experience with them? Feel free to contact me by email if you do not want to post a reply.

[I'm not interested on the PR I can find with google, but by personal experiences, opinions]
"Overcoming My Biggest Roadblock, Myself" (Sabrina Farmer, Gmail eng mgr)
Why is this a problem with Facebook's model? It just sounds like you were priced out of Facebook network.
If only there were some sort of world wide network of information where women could write about their experiences and share them with total strangers. I guess we'll have to leave it up to the occult for now.
I'm sorry but I don't get it - who are you saying Meyer is "really" targeting and why?
And yet, his behavior – whether driven by thrill-seeking or a desire to help an under-served population of Witnesses or some combination of both – is driving innovation that will soon benefit those with conventional appetites for risk and consensus treatments.

If your proposed standard of ethics were strongly enforced, such progress would stop.

The 'right-thinking' mainstream can easily become inbred and inflexible – especially so in medicine. The occasional surprise successes of nuts and daredevils are a necessary corrective, so their deviations from the norm should be respected (and perhaps even celebrated), not disciplined.
Yes! I find myself dealing with this issue really frequently. I have to remind myself that, while I can't see it, everybody's got their own internal crap they're working through and I just can't see it...so I need to stop comparing my internal bs to external achievements of others.
The number of comments on this thread stating sexism exists in all areas and seemly dismiss this as an issue that needs to be addressed in our industry is very surprising to me.

Just because the problem is not specific to the tech industry doesn't mean we shouldn't be trying to solve it. If women feel uncomfortable working or contributing to the industry because of their gender then we are missing out on possible contributions from a massive section of the population.

Will cases of sexism always exist? Probably, their will always be a bad apple or two. But we need to work to make these these cases the exception to how the industry works. We need people to feel safe contributing regardless of who they are. If you have something to contribute you should be able to, that is one of the things I personally love about this industry. Just because we can never fully solve a problem doesn't mean we shouldn't try to minimize it.
Does Google not allow remote working?
The article mentions in multiple places the saturated fat content of the junk food, often alongside sodium and sugar content, implying that these are the "bad numbers" to care about.
What I did at that age: computer training classes.

Your friends are already familiar with a classroom setting, and probably have something they could teach to people who aren't computer/smartphone/tablet savvy. Think 'Intro to smartphones' as an hour long class at a common area in the local retirement community.

This has three big advantages over a traditional job.

1. You set the schedule. So it doesn't conflict with school/study.

2. Excellent monetary return on time. $10 a head and a class of 10 people is $1k. It's a good deal for them and you.

3. Doesn't generally require a huge level of knowledge/experience like professional development or sysadmin type work.

A less visible advantage, is that it broadens your network. All of your students will have your name handy if someone is looking for an intelligent IT guy. Also a great way to generate leads if you are doing house-call type IT fix it work.

This of course depends on your friends maturity/leadership level. They have to be comfortable teach a class, and dealing with people on that level.
Ask HN: What is the best software for selling an ebook bundle?
I have a number of ebooks I've written that I'm looking to bundle them together to sell. I'm wondering what the best software solution is to do this? Should I just use e-junkie and a wordpress template? A Kickstarter type site? Something else?
At the last programming conference I attended, I saw a man and woman holding hands. These two people had not, to the best of my knowledge, met before the conference. I don't know how far this relationship went (not that it's my business), but it was clearly mutual, and it started at the conference.

Conferences are both professional and social. In fact, it's hard to think of anything that is purely professional. People form short- and long-term relationships through all sorts of initial meetings.

I don't see any women saying "all flirting all is wrong at a conference". I see them saying they don't want to be harassed. The two things are not the same. I've talked to women at length about these issues and I've championed the adoption of strong anti-harassment policies at conferences I speak at (http://blog.urth.org/2011/09/05/conference-code-of-conduct-c...).

Maybe we just have different definitions of flirting. To get back to the original article, the Twitter exchange that it highlights is not flirting. It's just a man being an asshole. I also note that the article makes no mention of the word "flirt". It talks about "harassment", "groping", and "sexism".
Did you read the article? If so I'd focus in on the "vanishing caloric density" section (and the rest of it too).

Not saying you don't have a good point, but it's not as mindlessly easy as you make it seem.
"Social media startup" is a very broad term. More specific examples of what wouldn't work (in the author's opinion) might have been more useful.

Any blog/ecommerce site with social sharing buttons on it is a form of social media startup, for example.
> Stop being dismissive. Stop being condescending.

I am dismissive regardless of gender when poorly argued points are made. It would be sexist of me to "take it easy" on a person because of their gender. If you feel like I am laying particularly hard into this poster, then I encourage you to peruse my post history and verify for yourself that I do not modify my strategies based on gender.

> Stop trying to intimidate a woman in tech who is trying to speak up about the pervasive sexism that demonstrably deters women from entering the field and then pushes women out when they do try to enter.

You say "demonstrably", but that is the exact point that is being argued. You are just taking it for a given. I am sorry, but I would need data to accept the claim. From my personal experience, I have not seen women driven out of the tech industry. I have seen a shortage of women in the tech industry, but I also saw a shortage of women in my college tech classes, and a shortage of women in my high school tech classes, and a shortage of women in my middle school tech classes. I could be wrong, but I don't think girls in 6th grade were discouraged from signing up for a programming course because they were afraid of sexism from the rest of their class. If anyone drives women out of tech, it is their parents who instill gender roles into their children from an early age.

> Stop the bullying. Stop the patronizing. Just stop

You call it bullying. I call it asking for data in a sarcastic manner.
invite plz
wilcut.matthew at gmail dot com
Postgres HLL Intersections
All the examples in the README point to the use around using this and new. I try following the Crockford school and thus hardly use any of them. So I ask myself whether this plugin is adding any benefit to me.

I probably cba to add [String] annotations.
An Open Letter to Ang Lee
Pastebin of the text if you can't see it on Facebook: http://pastebin.com/8LdPH74d

Writer profile: https://www.facebook.com/phillip.broste
Yeah, we need to always be learning new stuff and the way you learn is by RTFM. The point is that now Google is TFM. Or at least it's the index into every manual published. So unless you are already an expert in every server program, every library and every language that you are using, the way you acquire the knowledge of how to accomplish whatever specific task you are working on is to refer to the manual. You still need to know the technical term for what you are trying to do so you know what to search for and you have to know how to evaluate and select different technologies and how to fit them together, but the details of how to work stuff and solve many specific issues is best found on the Internet.
Yes it's funny when they are paying me to do tech support and the first thing i do is google their exact error message, but I know how to hone in on relevant information.
The pledge was for $50. In October, the annual fee was lowered to $36. As a result, current members received 5 extra months on top of the first year. By the time your credit is up, in February or March 2014, I'm sure you'll be able to change your account to a free plan.

http://blog.app.net/2012/10/01/app-net-pricing-changes/?utm_...
Google News: the secret sauce
I guess this could work well with Google Glass.
What separates hard evidence from circumstantial evidence, then?
Are you arguing that losing weight is purely a psychological process with no physiological component?
Yes. Malpractice insurance isn't super costly, but knowing many doctors (my father was a doctor as well), the adversarial relationship that malpractice suits sets up is a heavy burden. We know that overtreatment is a huge source of the cost overages we have in the US relative to other countries with the same health outcomes, and malpractice threats are a significant contributor to that, although it is obviously very hard to measure.

Personally, I think there could be some advantages in making a more patient-responsible system. The most expensive healthcare we have is ongoing (chronic) stuff, and most people with issues like that end up being experts on their own conditions. Why not allow them to get their own medicine and equipment directly rather than be forced to visit the doctor every N weeks to refill a prescription? Or be severely inconvenienced by being somewhere where it is difficult to obtain the right prescription for the medication they know, any sensible person knows, they need? That's silly and inefficient.
I agree... but the "best" doctor is also 5k miles away from me, and out of my immediately budget, since insurance doesn't cover it.. so.. I'll settle for "effective"
I've not found it difficult to get my kids (2 teenage daughters) to consistently eat healthy foods. Hell, we can't keep fresh fruits and vegetables in the house. A one pound bag of baby carrots lasts about a week, one pound bunch of bananas: about 3 days, a pint of blue berries: About an hour (blue berries never last long at our house). The list goes on, but that's not the point.

I don't think it's really a responsibility thing. I don't know any parent that _want_ their kids eating junk, but fresh fruit and vegetables are actually quite expensive and far more difficult to keep than your average junk snack. That's the hard part: justifying the higher cost and spoilage when you're just barely making the bills.

Most of my childhood was spent right at the government assistance threshold. During the down times, our health increased, and our dit included more fresh fruit and vegetables. During the times above that line, with no assistance, the high cost of fresh produce meant meant that it wasn't around.

So, to answer your question, "Why aren't parents more responsible for their children's health?" Because they can't afford to be. Though there are many factors that contribute to the obesity problem, claiming it's poor parental responsibility is a useless over-simplification.

Btw, I've been parenting for 18 years now. When is it supposed to get hard?
If anyone has an extra invite, would love to have one please: ootz0rz+hn@gmail.com
Is anybody going down the path of giving the candidate X hours yo complete a project, shoe iterations via source control history, showcase documentation and the overall build - plan? I would think you'd find the high performers easier in this light.

Not being a programmer by day but proficient in bash and Python I was in an interview last year where the person asking the questions did just not get it. In one example he asked me to count the number of files that had a specific string in the name. I excluded the file descriptor based on his ask. So, he said I got it wrong. I explained the way it was presented I was making the problem harder, and more exact, but he wouldn't budge. The point being, I could easily do what he asked, but wasn't actually measured on that.
A wise man that I once worked for said "The best code is the code you can steal."
UserVoice is bad for feedback
Payday Loan Spam Affecting Thousands Of Sites
Yes! It's developing the judgement that separates an expert from a non-expert. Effective use of Google is a consequence of that judgement, not a cause.

More formally, it's nothing more complicated than a standard fallacy of the converse. We have "being an expert implies being the quickest to use Google." This does not imply the converse: "being the quickest to use Google implies being an expert."