skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be conflating "like" with "respect." I've worked with a lot of extremely effective salespeople; I've liked some and disliked others, but liking someone has absolutely nothing to do with their effectiveness. Many that I've disliked have earned that specifically because they were so effective, which leads to another issue with your suggestion, which is that you don't seem to separate good/ethical sales from hard, manipulative sells. Someone who can manage the latter is almost always VASTLY more effective, but deserves neither your respect nor your friendship.

Yes, a good salesperson is a massive asset. No, "effective" does not imply "good," though your requirements on that point may vary. No, "respect" does not require or imply "like," and no, this is not such a black and white issue.
Given the state of the economy and the average savings rate in the US the "typical" diamond engagement ring is simply not affordable for many people. More so, the idea that acquiring a diamond through the De Beers cartel does not at worst indirectly support conflict in sub-saharan Africa and at best help prop up brutal dictatorships is just extraordinarily naive.
Titles matter.

The exponential suppression of new articles is deliberately harsh. The first few early upvotes are critical. Getting them early and often requires either the right hook or a voting ring.

Copy matters in the real world too.
As far as I can tell that should be what happens. I'm a programmer and I have friends who are economists.
Glass doesn't have a compelling use case yet. At least they have not unveiled it.

With iPad, for example, it was very clearly positioned as a media consumption device from the very beginning.

With Google Glass, potential customers are being asked to brainstorm what they would do if they had Glass.

Does not seem particularly innovative to me.
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Why Android Updates Are So Slow
>> I hate that starting a company is becoming almost trendy now and everyone is trying it.

I don't think that's true, it just looks that way inside our tech bubble. If I look at the 100 people I know best (all in their early/mid twenties) only myself and 3-4 others have started businesses. I've stuck at it for about 5 years now, the others only lasted between 1 month and 4 months. I don't know for sure but I believe most businesses that are started are still local service businesses (barber, butcher, convenience store etc.) which you wouldn't think from reading the tech press everyday.
Try sending a gold coin to the other side of the planet in 10 seconds...
I seriously do not understand how this issue is repeatedly brought up. I've been using multi-monitors on linux with nvidia-settings for more than 10 years without any issues.
"The Android way: Our problems become your problems."
Presumably the reason you get a salary increase when you switch jobs is the value-add you give the company from the experience you are bringing in.
How do you signal the value of your bank account besides using it to buy expensive things? (And this is certainly not a gender-specific problem: consider sports cars, gold chains, or bottle service at clubs)
That's a beautiful boat. Perhaps not a first choice in heavy seas, but pretty nonetheless.
Feds said to probe Microsoft over foreign bribery claims
That's not easy to fix with more lucrative mining. Suppose your economy is growing at 3% real rate per annum. Now suppose that you try to have 3% more Bitcoins per annum, produced by mining. People will compete for these Bitcoins until the competition stops being profitable, i.e., until price exceeds profit. Then 3% of all your planetary resources are being burned on wasted computing power that competes to mine Bitcoins.
Bitcoin has almost trebled in value over the past two months
It Took Five Years To Make a Beautiful Android Phone
I'm considering using this library on a project that involves a number of donut charts that start out all one color and gradually have a second sice added as the user changes settings. Beyond showing changes, I'm thinking an initial animation might help to show the user that they can change.
When Github started, they didn't just use Rails: they used Rails and shelled out to command line programs to integrate with git. If you have misgivings about engineering at Github now (I don't; I have the opposite of misgivings about they way they handle software), imagine a site built in the equivalent of shell scripts.

I think the short answer is probably, nobody at Github has a lot of macro-level regrets at this point.

I think the real issue is that the Rails community should be supremely grateful that they have a team like Github's building on the framework they've chosen. They all get to draft off the deployment/security/development/reliability work Github sinks into the platform.

And, painful though it will surely be for HN to hear this, snags like the one today are how frameworks eventually get to be solid. Spent much time looking at Java Spring's track record?
If a competitor is looking to market their version control solution to enterprise this email list is going to be a very good place to start.
Twitter gets a patent on... Twitter
I think the main value of Bitcoin is that it's a perfectly hard currency, not that's it's anonymous (or not). Monetary dilution is alarmingly easy with today's fiat currencies, and replacing them with Bitcoin would fix that basic flaw. (Disclosure: I currently hold Bitcoins.)
Have you ever been pregnant or had a child? It's 9 months of misery punctuated by 12 hours of stress and agony, relieved only by the epidural. That's followed by weeks of pain and bleeding, and major bodily changes of various degrees of permanence (stretched out abdominal muscles, stretched out hips). Oh, and post-partum depression. And that's if you're lucky. Childbirth can last way longer than 12 hours, it can involve vaginal tearing that requires reconstructive surgery (not uncommon), and is ultimately the most life-threatening and risky thing your average person will ever do.

Yeah, it's "magical" and whatnot, but my wife would rather be water-boarded than be pregnant again.
Agreed that Adria had every right to feel offended. There is no place for humour in public.

You are not the first person though to be caught telling dongle jokes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI
While fully realising that the language itself is pretty terrible, Java + Spring + JavaMail is a pretty good framework and as a bonus involves minimal XML these days.

I'm sure one of the alternative JVM languages would make this setup tolerable to work with, even pleasurable, but I don't know them.
Apple Hires Adobe Executive Kevin Lynch as Vice President
I've already received an "invite to check out Dropbox" to an email address that only GitHub knew.
Did you miss the part where they included direct copies of the Designer News logo and several other of Layervault's illustrations?
Forgetting about diamonds for a moment, I think there's something nice about a ring: a symbol of commitment that everyone can see. Only bummer is that it's not customary for a man to wear one before marriage.
Yes I would definitely trust an application much more if each and every one of its SQL queries was lovingly hand crafted by a human being.

Because if there's one thing computers are truly bad at, it's transforming high-level things into lower-level things.
Mars Rover ‘Back on Track,’ NASA Says
It's interesting how Adria attaches the importance of dealing with these men since they were sponsors, but then when dealing with it went completely from her personal platform. As SendGrid, her company is a sponsor, shouldn't she have run her response/reaction through the proper channels? This of course had an effect (hopefully short term) on the comment maker, but I think Adria will find in the long run she just shot herself in the foot in the tech space as far as further employment is concerned.
You can argue that the diamond market was mischaracterized here, but right now you're arguing a strawman.

(Scroll down for more reporting on how the liberal view and equality mindset might currently clash with reality; the explosion of this comment thread is more evidence of the same phenomena)
No problem, not sure if it's linked somewhere but there is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Why do you refuse? Here, I'll lower my rate to 1.05x. If CPI remains stable and mtgoxUSD goes up by 1.06x between now and next year then you'll owe me less BTC than what I gave you. If mtgoxUSD goes down then you'll owe me more than 1.05 BTC but it'll be that much easier for you to buy them.

I am happy to offer you the loan, because Bitcoin prices are volatile and there is no guarantee if I keep my Bitcoin in storage that it will still be worth much one year from now. There have been many crashes. But if you agree to repay me an amount equivalent to 1.05x my current spending power then I know whatever you pay me I'll be in a better position than I am today in terms of my ability to pay my rent.

Such a loan offers me a drastically different risk profile than holding Bitcoins. If BTC were as guaranteed to increase as you say then they would cost more.
Until someone gets the bright idea to push all your complex queries down into stored procedures. Then it becomes a mess, the dba quits, you go back to an ORM, have some weird issue like this Rails bug happen, then someone says, "Hey, what about using raw SQL...we'll just make the gnarly bits into stored procedures..."

Circle of life, man.
You're comparing the Bitcoin monetary policy to what you think will be the ideal automatic monetary policy.

But it's more interesting how the Bitcoin monetary policy compares to the current real-world human-controlled monetary policies of government money - which in the cases of most countries is definitely pure instability and filled with error.

The Bitcoin monetary policy doesn't have to be perfect to be an improvement, because the status quo is very imperfect.
Yes, I was pointing out that Rails made backwards-incompatible changes to core functionality in a point release primarily targeting security. I don't know how much more succinctly I could have originally put it, and I thought that it was obvious that this is a Bad Thing. You can't reach everybody.
Curly's Law: Do One Thing (2007)
I've started a side-project using Go + Gorilla. It's actually very nice, but I don't think it's quite as productive for the early-stage as Rails is.

I can certainly recommend Django - I've been working with a large-ish Django codebase for 3 years and have yet to see a security vulnerability as bad as the ones Rails seems to have every month.
I did miss that, because they didn't.

You could argue that Flat UI's icons were derivative works taking inspiration from LayerVault, but they were certainly not direct copies.
Yes, I never saw this claim til now. Link to source?
Ask HN: In Search of a Technical Co-Founder...
Visionary media startup seeks someone that wants to change the music business...for the better (don't worry, we have a profitable business model).

If you don't have a passion for current music (i.e., you really couldn't be bothered downloading what's available/becoming available as concerns new recorded music), we understand - you're efforts through the startup will singularly help build a better music business for the public, music fans, music artists, as well as music labels. Details at duvo1.jottit.com/2.
See: http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2010/07/assortative-mating-regr...
You bring up good points.

However I wonder if many of the stigmas you mention are ingrained into society only by the persisting culture, and so one should not fear challenging them? There are many single-dads that do a wonderful job of raising kids alone as a single parent (admittedly I don't know any who started taking care of the kids below the age of 2 -- and I do accept that even 2 years is a hell of a long time).
>The previous posts said there would be no possible way to transfer the item into dollars.

"Possible" and "legal" are two different words, and two different concepts.
You need to take legal action.
You made a joke which hurt someone's feelings.

They turned around and made a post which is causing you harm.
CISPA would not authorize JSTOR to share information about a user exceeding the bounds of MIT's licensing agreement with the site. It says so explicitly. There was no need for it to say that; nobody was clamoring for CISPA to make abuse investigations harder. But it does, because the bill is not about TOS violations and they wanted to be clear. I do not understand why you're pretending that it isn't clear about this.
Chief Technology Officer at Adobe, Kelly Lynch, leaves for Apple.
Please educate me why Apple would hire him? Kelly defended Flash and quite frankly Adobe's web technologes such as, Flash, Flex, Cold Fusion are not aging very well.
If I want to protect my privacy, I can wear a ski mask to any place with surveillance cameras, such as banks and gas stations. But this does tend to strongly suggest that I'm there to rob the joint.
This was one of my reactions, too. I've seen several friends' businesses fail, even though they had a great product, because they couldn't/wouldn't market/sell and saw no value in people who could and would, in a tech space. No matter how great the product, most products/services really don't sell themselves - at least without a nudge. I thought the suggestion about working on product demos and helping customers was great. I assume you would at least improve your customer communication skills, if not your sales skills. And, for introverts, this would be a great way to ease closer to that often huge line between development and sales - or just having a relationship with the customer.
I remember reading this very good Wired article [1] ("Armed with inexpensive, mass-produced gems, two startups are launching an assault on the De Beers cartel.
Next up: the computing industry.") and assuming we were on the verge of a major disruption. But that was 10 years ago. Anyone know why it didn't quite work out that way?

[1] http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html
He has been fired for cause. Best case is the victim (whose real name we should cease using in this affair) wins a ruinous lawsuit for long-term damage to his career, and Adria Richards is blackballed by the industry as vindictive and profoundly unsafe to have any kind of interaction with. But we know that nothing is going to happen.
The purchase of the TV itself is not what's being discussed here, and frankly a bit of a strawman. As useless as it may be, a lot of households consider TV an essential item, so the question of TV marketing affecting men more has to do with _which_ television you buy, as opposed to buying a TV per se. Per Nielsen, women watch significantly more TV than men anyway[1], so talking about marketing to men in the context of _whether_ to buy a TV is pointless.

As far as the _quality_ of the TV being purchased, it seems the point that GP was making (whether I agree with his larger point or not) is that the 60" TV fills its function a lot better than the 19" one which costs a tenth of the price. By contrast, as far as I know there is no correlation to "how well a purse carries items" and its price (beyond the very very low end, of course, but far from the $2000 level). GP's point was that the price difference between a 200 and 2000 dollar purse is being spent almost entirely on brand (even the appearance is the same, when you consider off-brand purses), and the difference between a 200 and 2000 dollar TV is being spent on a VERY large difference in quality as far as functionality. This distinction between "paying for brand" and "paying for functionality" is exactly the point that GP is making about marketing.

As a thought experiment, consider what would happen if Sony started selling its current flagship $2000 TV for 20 dollars, and it was widely known and permanent. Now consider what would happen if the same happened for Louis Vuitton's flagship $2000 handbag. The perceived value of the handbag would vanish almost instantly. No one wants a status symbol that's cheap. You can't destroy _real_ consumer value (vs brand/marketing value) that easily just by dropping the price.

[1]http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/05/nielsen-gaming-tv-console/
I think there is a lot culture can do to help make the distribution of child-rearing responsibilities more equitable. But who wants to risk their career progression to challenge the culture?
"Prosecutor, judge, jury and executor [sic]...public summary execution." Um hello? NO ONE IS DEAD. Please stop for a moment and try to recognize just how ridiculous you sound.
You were told this would happen. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5358720
I can't help but think gender-less bathrooms are a better solution.
Out of interest, are there any services offering loans of Bitcoins?
No, I think you've misread the bill. CISPA allows for the sharing of "cyber threat information", which is defined in the "Definitions" section as:

* Information

* DIRECTLY PERTAINING TO

(i) a vulnerability

(ii) a threat to integrity, confidentiality, availability

(iii) efforts to deny access, degrade, disrupt, destroy

(iv) efforts to gain unauthorized access

(All this subject to the "Exclusion", detailed upthread, of ToS violations).
Remember that feeling when you got your first subscriber?
On the other hand - I'm not sure which problem AZ is solving here. Maybe enough women weren't calling the police saying "there's a man in the bathroom!"
I missed it it seems. I saw comparison pictures [1] of the Layervault logos and the Flat-UI logos without spotting a single copy. I'm sure you have a source for your claim?

[1] : http://imgur.com/IH1osAD
But all this is something that we don't say in polite company, because we have fully bought into the mythologies about marriage that are in vogue at the moment: that it's just about "love" and all that matters is a mate that makes you "happy" and that it's an arrangement that is costless to enter into and exit out of.

What you so casually disregard as "mythologies of marriage" is the result of striving for equality. A hundred years ago, marriage was indeed just another economic transaction. The suitor paid the father of the girl, who was happy to have her off his hands, being of no use in succeeding him to lead the family business.

We have not yet reached equality, so alimony is still law and being pregnant a career ender. Hence we still need the economic signaling provided by diamonds.
I wonder if this is Karma for all the hyperbole and bad nature comments that the Rails community has thrown at Java. This is some really good schadenfreude. Please keep them coming Rails/Ruby.
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Did you miss the part where they didn't? Here is a comparison of Layer Vault, Flat UI, and The Noun Project which preceded LV and Flat UI: http://imgur.com/IH1osAD
No references to any published studies in that link.
It is interesting that you think it's a better idea to revisit and reweigh the privacy decisions of every privacy bill that could interfere with attack data sharing, so that we can relitigate the sensitivity of driver's records or patient health information, rather than simply crafting a measure that says "leave intact every privacy regulation on the books, don't crack open laws that settled policy disputes about privacy years or decades ago, and instead just do the commonsense thing and let IT people at companies share Netflow and botnet information."
Lulz and Leg Irons: In the Courtroom with Weev
This is very similar to fashion in the amount of sense it makes as a consumer. The reason this is more interesting is because of how striking it is as what essentially amounts to a conman's (DeBeers et al) success story, on a gargantuan scale. On top of that, people who buy into fashion are pretty much aware of what's going on, but I'd be willing to bet that a LARGE amount of people (myself included, until ~my late teens) are unaware that so many of the "hallowed traditions" surrounding diamond rings are marketing nonsense dreamed up a few decades ago.
BitField in Shaders (SM 3 and before)
You could signal directly, such as an ATM receipt.

I understand the point you're making -- the value of expensive things in signaling to someone you don't know. I can't see the point in marrying someone if I couldn't trust them with my bank account.

Edit: I'm realizing that this is entirely from my perspective. How does a woman without earning potential display her husband's wealth to her family and friends? She asks him to buy her an ornament to prove how much he values her. This puts the man above the woman, inequalizing them.

Is there any custom where a bride and groom exchange gifts of equal value?
TechCrunch generally disclose when Crunchfund invest (albeit they didn't do so effectively with Orchestra/Mailbox). Having said that I don't feel that they need to disclose that a former founder & now part-time Writer, has an investment in a VC firm - which he has no control over - and they have made an investment in a startup which, he may not even be aware about.

Micheal Arrington is an LP in a16z, Benchmark, Lerer Ventures, SV Angel as well as being a General Partner at Crunchfund[1]. I think the disclosure of Crunchfund is enough otherwise, on every post there will be a disclosure stating Michael Arrington has directly/indirectly invested in a startup they are covering with/without his own knowledge. Don't forget this is the same, Michael Arrington who stopped investing when he founded TechCrunch and the ones he had invested in - there was a clear disclosure and he never personally covered them.

[1] http://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-arrington
Someone should just modify the StackSort algorithm that was posted yesterday (made up by xkcd) to search for Square Root functions instead and run them.

http://gkoberger.github.com/stacksort/
Are they asking for a timing attack, then?
Jesus. If getting that many bots in an evening is so easy, it's a wonder botherders spend so much effort on exploiting vulnerabilities in apps or engaging in phishing. Granted, Linux boxes probably aren't going to have the banking or email info you could grab off a Windows machine, but at the very least you could generate a decent number of bitcoins for very little effort. Actually, for that matter, 420k bots could launch a pretty nasty DDoS were the herder so inclined. That's enough firepower to take out some fairly large services, which I'm sure someone would be willing to pay for.
From what I've read about this project so far, it requires adding "a single line of JavaScript to the site." So what's to stop scammers and spammers from just blocking the file from loading?
I sometimes wonder if a good alternative to django/rails is to use the most minimal framework that's reasonable to start with, and then gradually customize it away.
The only possibilities seem to be a timing attack, exploiting a bug or taking advantage of an implementation that puts the dividend value in the exception when dividing by zero.

I'm not sure anyone will bother writing the timing attack since he apparently gives out no prize.
I got tired of regression testing my apps for framework changes.

I get tired of paying taxes and brushing my teeth, too, but I still do it, because life will get worse in a hurry if I don't.
Is there a bug about it you can link to?
Since when does any standard of evidence include "...tied to your finger"?
I'm not sure this is interesting. Unless I'm missing something, the question is "find what way of breaking the compartmentalization of the JVM we haven't forbidden in these English-language rules".
On the flip slide, if a developer cares about their tools and is looking to jump ship then they now have a shortlist of companies and contact details as to whom to approach within the company. ;-)