skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read my other comments it should be abundantly clear what I mean. And I don't see how you somehow extract the exact opposite of it from my text.

> It feels like a big gaping hole in everything we achieved with women's rights and education.

I said that because it is. It feels like a giant setback. There is absolutely nothing in here to remotely suggest I could be thinking that women are less rational than men.

> It's like a large part of our women went to a parallel universe "girls school", whereas the men in the mean time learned about science and reasoning.

That's an analogy. Let's assume for a second that I actually literally meant to say that all women go to special girls schools while men are getting the real education (which, again, I am not), then it still means that I assert it's a failure of the education system. So even if you went out of your way to be offended by that analogy, and take it in the most literal meaning possible, it still does not say in any way that women are somehow predisposed for less rationality than men. It does, however, imply the contrary.

This really, really frustrates me - and you have my apologies for the symptoms of this frustration - I'm not sure if words are actually getting across here. Clearly you see something completely different in sentences that are not even remotely similar to your perception. I'm really sorry if I triggered something here, but please do not repost my own position as yours while at the same time asserting that I don't hold it. It's unbelievably rude. And worse, it's a dirty discussion tactic.
"it is possible to support both sides simultaneously"

It's really not in practice. Skepticism of evidence-based medicine is done through the prism of having bad or not enough medicine. "Alt-med" throws all evidence away but "it works for me". Some emulate studies, but they exist for marketing and potential Federal funding, not for any actual interest in success.
I am Singulartarian and so should you
While the number 1 suggestion sounds great on paper, isn't anyone else concerned about the security implications?

The ability for the browser to modify files directly on my workstation outside of caching folders sounds like a recipe for disaster.
> Professional degree does not need scare quotes.

That wasn't meant to attract undue attention to it, only because the term has no universal definition.

Apart from economic issues I agree with your points. If someone expects the Ph.D. to pay off in straight economic terms, different story.

> ... guaranteed admit to a pro programme that will on average make them more money.

By "pro" did you mean Ph.D.? If so, not any more, not necessarily. The economics are changing, and the combination of rising costs and the fact that a Ph.D. candidate is out of the job market longer, conspire together to make it a less attractive option. There are cases where a Ph.D. graduate makes less money than a professional degree in the same field.

I'm not disagreeing (and I'm not sure I understood you), only saying things are changing and the claim isn't true across the board.
>I'm also not a fan of tab-based indentation, the examples could be a lot more compact (and readable) horizontally if using two-space indentation instead of tabs.

That's the forte of using tabs. Change your display width of tabs to 2 spaces instead of 4.

Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment.
"Control browser from Editor" > "Edit in the Browser".

Think about it - everyone prefers a different editor.
Was this a reference to RA2's taunt "We will bury them!"?
True. My point was a bit more subtle: those of my (former) co-workers with PhD's in physics or maths were extra extra smart and really great programmers... But they didn't start their PhD wanting to go into finance! You start because you want and love to do real research. As a bonus there are skills that can (also) make you big money. But there are quicker ways to the Goldman Buffet.
There's a tremendous amount of baggage in the loaded term "natural". But I think there might be a shred of reason to underlying the naturalistic fallacy if you interpret natural to mean "previously present in our evolutionary environment and therefore has previously exhibited evolutionary selective pressure on the development of our immune system and biochemistry."

In other words, novel, isolated chemicals and processes have more opportunity to present our bodies with circumstances their evolution has not "tuned" them for.
That excludes TLD emails like postbox@com

I have never come across someone using one but it is valid. I would actually hate to see someone try to use one. I come across enough issues trying to use '+' in my gmail email address.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Valid_email_addre...
Not sure yet. I figured I'd give it two or three days to give everyone a good shot at picking it up at the lower price.
Two space indentation is great if you have a CGA monitor and don't have much horizontal room.
If you don't mind, I'll pinch that and whack it on the index.html page.
We actually have our own in-house charting library at Chartbeat that uses Canvas that does exactly that (roll over the main chart):

http://chartbeat.com/publishing/demo/
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Maybe that one.
Very slow, but seems to be working for me. Ocassional "The server encountered an error. Please try again later" and Go Online error messages.
What? Stop measuring and go and visit these countries. Progress is still a long, long way from developed countries.

EDIT: My point here is that calling the infant care and mortality gap between developed and developing countries a myth papers over so much of the truth of the situations in developing countries that it is actively harmful, in my opinion.

I'd go as far as to say that the data collection itself may be flawed if this is the conclusion and I hope nobody is making any actual judgements on the health care positions of African countries from this.

The data itself simply follows too smooth a path across the years, even with major political instability and war during these years. The data itself is also self reported by these countries, and they have a lot of reasons to make it appear that their country is improving.

Basically - these measurements don't appear to match up with the reality on the ground. Measuring something from across the planet with no direct context does not seem correct to me.
Gender Bias Seen in Visas for Skilled Workers
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Why would you reduce your chances of success by hiring inexperienced developers?

Sure, ok. Hire one experienced person to train & supervise some fresh-outs, and solve the harder problems.
It may have existed earlier, but the earliest I'm aware of it was in Path - who also invented a couple of other UI bits themselves (background-pan images, for example).
"is a poison therefore a system of health you don't understand"

I find it amusing that persons who abuse the word "toxins" project their own confusion on others.
I'm reminded of this tweet from John Carmack.

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/185757996473790464

John Carmack
‏@ID_AA_Carmack
I’m going to turn on every damn light in protest of Earth Hour. Lighting the darkness is fundamental to humanity's climb.
Apparently, 5 Minute Fork clones the whole repo and serves it up at its own subdomain and htmlpreview doesn't, so for example some single page JS apps (the one I tried is my own https://github.com/mikecrittenden/toogles) will work in 5 min fork and not htmlpreview.
How do you have time for anything else?
Thanks for all the downvotes, aggressive trolling, comments on "pixie dust", "spirit of the planet", "poultices" etc., very constructive discussion, very scientific...
Video presentation and demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrhzAtC8fCc
No, it was a poke at magical thinking. It may also have been unwarranted snark...

I'll agree that where it can be shown that a plant has an effect that modern medicine can't explain, complex interactions may well be at work. You gave me the impression that you think this is a general rule, where really it seems to be an exception.
This is awesome. Was thinking the last few days that I wanted to switch back to FF from Chrome but that the dev tools were the only thing keeping me around. Nice work!
As of today, there is no plan to kill FogBugz for your server. That's about as clear as I can make it.
Here is some 'evidence': http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPag...

"The number of reviews indicating that the modern biomedical interventions show either no effect or insufficient evidence is surprisingly high. Intterrater disagreements suggest a surprising degree of subjective interpretation involved in systematic reviews. Where patterns of disagreement emerged between authors and readers, authors tended to be more optimistic in their conclusions than the readers."
Not only is this irrelevant to a hacker-entrepreneur it's also somewhat irrelevant to a simple programming career. The sheer dearth of good programming talent makes it a fairly easy field to break into if you're highly motivated. You will undoubtedly be a lot better after 10-20 years of experience than you will just starting, but I've seen countless examples of kids who are more capable and better resources than some more dispassionate experienced programmers. It's such a fast moving field, and so diverse - that the opportunities for green talent are massive... far better than most other technical fields.
google have just updated apps status: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status&ts=1...

Apparently should be back up in 30 - 60 min
Thanks for feedback! Yeah, currently we are only saving the top 1440x900px snapshot of the webpage. As for other files, we store it on our servers as long as they're under 20Mb.
The stay at home mom thing does make a lot of sense, there's a strong homeschooling mindset among extremely left-wing moms and extremely right-wing moms, and both tend to be very into CAM.
No one is immune to dogma. All our beliefs eventually trace back to some foundation, including the belief that logic is the only fount of truth. The question is whether we can be comfortable with that, or we have to project our own insecurities about it onto others. Can we tolerate the unbelief of other people, and treat them well?

Or do we need everyone to be exactly like us? A lot of the screeds on the Internet reek of this tribalism. It's utterly tiring to read.
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It's sort of been the case on Wikipedia already, but until now via a pretty crufty, home-grown templating system. Most people thought of it as a mere templating system, but it had #if/#else constructs for conditional inclusion, and some similar features, so you could program in it, if you tried hard enough (and some people did).
> a zygote is genetically unique

I don't see that as morally relevant, despite your consequences.

Cancerous cells in my body are genetically unique human tissue. I fully support their eradication.

But maybe they're not human enough. If I use genetic engineering to combine my thumb with a tiny snippet of DNA from Joseph Stalin, so I could show off my eclectic "Stalin Thumb," it would be genetically unique human tissue. My fancy thumb has no rights equivalent to those of other humans.

Say I'm in a lab that catches fire. Because of the massive imminent backdraft, I have time only to save either the old lab tech, Fred, or a shelf of petri dishes containing 10 million blastocysts. According to the unique genetic material hypothesis, if I don't watch Fred writhe in flaming horror, then I'm a monster, committing one of the worst genocides in the history of the planet. (Note that a blastocyst has fewer cells than the brain of a fly.) I would contend that there is no amount of blastocysts you could save to justify letting Fred die in a fire.

I can't accept "genetically unique human material" as the sole determinant of moral responsibility, it just causes too many problems.
What kind of megastructures? I've had a very unhealthy fascination with Orbitals being blown up since reading Consider Phlebas at an impressionable age.
I wonder what formula he's using for kWh -> "servant" conversions?
Two months of work and 0 dollars
I'm new to web development, and have worked for two months creating iteration after iteration of my personal portfolio www.smaugh.net however I haven't being able to find a job or to make a single dollar out of my work. Please help! what am I doing wrong? this is my passion! I really love writing code and dream to become amazing at it.
But that's impossible
That is a lovely hypothesis, but it has failed to stand up to testing. You go ahead and eat all natural poison ivy salads.
Shoot down the stars
Big Data Brokers: They Know Everything About You and Sell it
This is one of the dangers of the Chromebooks' reliance on Google Drive and paltry local storage. Having 1TB of cloud storage is not very useful when it's inaccessible.
This is looking fantastic.

Some suggestions:

- Allow to use a dark theme on all panels. I remember that for a short time, aurora had the dark themes on the html, css panels. It was great, but then it was reverted to the white background. It would be cool if there were a setting to choose the dark color theme. I loved it.

- Add something like firepath. A firebug extension, that adds a panel to test CSS/sizzle (jquery) selectors, and highlights the selected nodes. This is an extremely useful extension for me. If enough people agree, it would be good to have it integrated in the developer tools by default.
It depends on whether you consider attaching JTAG ICD and just reading whole state of CPU out an security attack. In some aspects just attaching an ICD to desktop CPU is simpler than attacks on physical security that involve freezing DRAM chips and reading their contents with patched BIOS or whatever. On the other hand it mostly requires attacker to have JTAG ICD that supports that particular CPU. Almost all x86 chips have some kind of ICD interface, usually very low-level and complete one. But because of low level nature of registers you see through it, JTAG register maps and so on are NDA-only and thus ICDs that support non-embedded CPUs tend to be very rare and in the realm of "you can't afford it if you have to ask the price". But they exist and buying one is more about the price than about any questions of the kind "why do you need that?". But because of rarity of these things most current research simply ignores this attack vector.

Bottom line: there is no such thing like security against local attacks on almost any kind of commodity hardware (including TPMs, excluding devices explicitly designed to be reasonably secure like gaming consoles). When you need that you also need proper tamper-proof hardware.
Event Aggregator And/Or/vs Mediator: A Tale Of Two Patterns
False equivalencies aren't particularly convincing, though. Discussing flaws in thinking is much preferable to saying "some scientists can be dogmatic!" yes, of course?

That doesn't make non-evidence based medicine useful.
I know what you said. You didn't say word one about him being wrong .. or right either. You just laughed. IMHO That is a strongly implied negative statement on his accuracy.

Bingo. Just because someone maybe didn't mean to imply something doesn't mean they didn't imply it.
Also, along those same lines, is your only consideration for the murder (not trying to use an incendiary word, just not sure how to phrase this more delicately) of an animal the distress it would cause others (animals/people)? So for example, if a dog's owners die, then just put down the dog? Or should euthanasia be viewed as the unsavory last resort due to an inability to care for the burgeoning population of dogs?
The right amount of specialization can make it easier to market your business ("we do web dev using the highly performant x stack...") and get better paid ("... and we're one of few with y years of experience of doing it so we're pretty great at it"). You can be very specialized and still find enough work if you're willing to work globally.

In my experience it can be challenging to communicate the competitive advantage of a particular language let alone framework; most businesses don't care about such details. If so, you need to bring more value to the table, such as that you're one of few using x stack that solely work with e-commerce, that your web marketing skills are exceptional, etc.

What would the difference between doing freelance work and having a consultancy actually mean in this case?
Nice post.

It's kind of odd that the consumer versions of Chrome and (especially) Firefox are loaded with developer-oriented features. I use these every day, but there's not a great reason for these to be in the main release.

Perhaps there is an opportunity for a developer-focused web browser with all the complicated bells and whistles. Or, a consumer-focused browser without them.
Well, you never really say you are looking for work. You have buttons to view your CV, and a method to contact. But you never REALLY say that you are looking for work, or what kind of work (freelance, consulting, full-time, contract) you want to do.
If the local file you're collecting is under 20Mb, we're storing it on our servers. Regarding youtube videos, as for now - they're gone from Collections if they are deleted from Youtube. We're thinking of doing something about it though ;)
n@ai (Ian Goldberg's real, valid email address) is rejected by this by your minlength and by the subdomain requirement. You're better off just checking for an @ and leaving the rest to your smtp library.
As much as you guys are right in term of user's privacy, there are a few points to remember :

- data is anonymous. There is no easy way to retrieve all keys from Memcache anyway. Its only purpose is to imitate the cookie's behavior. It won't store more, it won't store less.

- I strongly agree that users should be able to deny third party cookies or cookies in general if they want. That is their right to privacy. However, Firefox's move is going to kill the business of thousand of companies all around the world (ad networks and traffic analysis companies) and I believe that is an selfish move on their part. You should think about other people when you develop these types of tools and activate them by default.

I think it's normal for us to defend our jobs.
What are the alternatives to google drive, and how do they compare?
I used to get a lot of pictures of children related to a guy with my name. That was pretty creepy.
Just bought a copy - I remember reading through the slides and thought there was a lot of good stuff there.

Whilst $79 may seem a lot for a pdf and a spreadsheet, it's really very little to pay for good advice! There really is no way to learn other than to do it and make your own mistakes on the way, but having something like this to hand should help you recover quicker, and if you avoid a few pitfalls because of it, all the better :-)
Startup engineers
Well, as I mentioned below, they are extremely slow at the moment and they are not even fetching all the feeds on time. I gave them HN's feed yesterday and when I logged in this morning, they were showing me feeds from 10 hours ago. My local RSS aggregater was providing me real-time updates. So perhaps that's where the problem is? I am not sure. As far as I am concerned, if they cannot handle couple of feeds on time, than I don't know how they're going to handle 500 plus feeds that I have.
Failing to deal with transient failures is especially bad when trying to deliver to a system that uses greylisting.
I am excited to see that visualizing event bindings is on the list. That would be awesome!
Mail checks for messages on launch and at intervals by itself. If the user doesn't know the gesture, they still get their messages. If the design blocks the user, then it's a problem. It is also very easy to trip over the feature by scrolling the list.
I don't disagree much on fact, but the attitude on display here is not helpful. It turns people off.

There was a time when people were willing to trust authority figures and accept the advice of credentialed experts without question. That time is over. If you talk this way to people, they tune you out.

Part of the reason for this is the Internet itself, and the general displacing of one-to-many communications with many-to-many communications. The medium is the message, and the message of this medium is "information is liquid, and there are no privileged points of view."

But more significantly, I think people have grown fatigued with the errors and lies of experts. Experts with all the right credentials once told women to smoke. It's a great way to lose weight. Margarine was once good for you. In 2006, the worst time to buy a house in 100 years, the President of the United States stood up on stage and encouraged more people to buy homes. People are sick of it, and they're not listening anymore.

It doesn't matter if you're right or wrong. The only way to get peoples' attention now is to speak to them like equals and explain yourself. Opaque statements that appeal to authority tend to be tossed in the waste basket by most educated, thinking people. The only people who are willing to "just believe" anymore are fanatics, and they tend to be followers of the most idiotic bullshit imaginable.
From their blog http://blog.xero.com/2013/03/making-mobile-work/

Even with frameworks as amazing as Sencha Touch, we’ve found the ability to iterate as fast as we would like has become harder as our application has become more complex. The choice to go with HTML5 was very much a choice based on us – how do we use the skills we already have to build a mobile application? Unfortunately as the application grew we needed to hire to fill out the team, and we were never able to hire fast enough to fill those roles. Ironically those skills were equally as critical for the 'desktop' version of Xero – we were cannibalizing our own team and slowing everything down.

With Xero, it seems more like a case of not being able to find great HTML5 developers and less an indictment of HTML5. This is good news for me.
Looks and feels like ruby-lang.org

Just saying.
There's Microsoft's Office 360, but I haven't used it myself.
Love this acquisition. Should be a huge lift for both companies. I'm excited about the SquareOne approach to email presentation. I've been a long time customer of Mailbox
Looks like an absolutely delicious grid system! I enjoyed your talk on abstracting the grid into it's own layer by adding extra markup.

I was wondering if you've read Grid Systems in Graphic Design?
Launching new Flattr – Add money to your likes
Seems like this addresses a lot of the problems with intro.js.

Thanks!
Ah you beat me to this idea! Nice one :)
The Kernel Column – Linux Kernel 3.8
@nnnnnick this looks great. I work with d3 on a daily basis and while I think that it's a great toolchain, the need for something small, fast and canvas based was absolutely needed. Well done.
SkyDrive and DropBox are the two that come to mind.

SkyDrive is quite good offering from Microsoft, I've not had downtime yet, but I just don't like the idea they scan my photographs for the old nudies! (Which apparently violate their TOS).

DropBox is for some reason a darling with some people on the internet, I think because they love Python. However they had a security oopsie, which I don't care how short it was for, wasn't adiquately explained to my liking as to how such a mistake could be made.
"without a complete and total police state"

And ~especially~ in a complete and total police state :)
They don't have to send the password. Allowing users to submit their password over https and storing only the hashed version is another option.
I didn't notice, since Google Drive pretty much always says "Unable to connect" for me. If I restart it, it'll stay connected for a while and then go back to "unable to connect" Anybody else have this issue?