skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because of my lack of a degree, I have only managed to get jobs that pay me at most $10 a day; that despite my knowledge of three languages (spanish, french and english), good programming skills, and good GPA. I guess this happens when you are stuck in a third world country, but I would really appreciate any suggestion on how to get out of this; cause I have already done what you have recommended me to do.
I've been very happy with my Markus chair so far. I would also recommend the Mikael desk (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40079218) and drawer unit if you're looking for something cheap, simple, and functional.
Because the bush-league presentation was done by a member of the "Rails Activist" team, which I can only presume is their outreach and evangelism arm.

Guilt by association, but then that's this whole issue in a nutshell.
New Friendfeed design and email features
It would be nice to know more about how the website will be sent to my kindle before giving out my kindle email address.
i think you're ultimately right. investing in a good chair is worth it. i just wanted to make sure i would not be spending money without need (i might end up getting a used one, if i find a good deal). fortunately im not totally broke, just cheap =).
thanks for offering links to gigs too, that's very generous of you
And if you're in between, pick up some tri-tip.
"all the women looking for other women are men"

That is very annoying, I can imagine ;-) Actually, when I was on a dating site a couple of years ago, a lot of the women also were men (they just used some pictures they found on the internet). I did not have it in me to play that trick, although I would have been curious about what kind of things other men would write. I guess not all of it is very nice (I have often heard stories about unpleasant photographs...).

"I actually dislike this because it's reverse discrimination."

I completely agree, just think it would be most likely what would happen. Maybe all CVs should be anonymized by default :-/ There was this experiment where they put random names on CVs, and the black sounding names got significantly less invitations, for example :-(

"Sexual jokes"

I can't even recall the kind of jokes I mean, like to forget them asap. I don't think referring to somebody's sexiness is all that bad (it's nature), but I don't like allusions to using somebody. I can only recall the joke from Buffy "what is the difference between a toilet seat and a first year student" - stuff along that lines is unbearable (in Buffy it was delivered by a mean guy, it was not an actual joke ;-)

"details about the unpleasant things that happened to you."

Ouch. Glad you met some nice men, too - it is tantalizing to hear about women's bad experiences at work, not having the chance to set a better example.
"I really don't get all the fuss."

Let Joel Spolsky speak (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FieldGuidetoDeveloper...):

"Let me, for a moment, talk about the famous Aeron chair, made by Herman Miller. They cost about $900. This is about $800 more than a cheap office chair from OfficeDepot or Staples.

They are much more comfortable than cheap chairs. If you get the right size and adjust it properly, most people can sit in them all day long without feeling uncomfortable. The back and seat are made out of a kind of mesh that lets air flow so you don’t get sweaty. The ergonomics, especially of the newer models with lumbar support, are excellent.

They last longer than cheap chairs. We’ve been in business for six years and every Aeron is literally in mint condition: I challenge anyone to see the difference between the chairs we bought in 2000 and the chairs we bought three months ago. They easily last for ten years. The cheap chairs literally start falling apart after a matter of months. You’ll need at least four $100 chairs to last as long as an Aeron."

Re your comment: "That damn plastic bar running across the front creates a horrible pressure point and probably increases the likelihood of DVT."

The plastic bar on mine seems to create a natural pressure release because it curves downward. It seems that such a feel should occur if you've got the right height.
Perhaps slightly off topic and probably not worth its own submission, but anyone visiting this thread might be interested to know about the cool things in store for us with the next generation of garbage collectors:

http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/04/g1
That's why I think auto-collapsing threads with less then a certain threshold of karma after a period of time might be the way to go.
I would wait until you meet two requirements: 1. Have income where spending $400 isn't a big deal and 2. have projects that take up so much of your time where you need a chair to ease the burden of sitting that long

Just getting out of college doesn't fulfill those 2 requirements. Wait until the amount of work you do demands that you get a chair that costs that much. It seems you would have a lot bigger things to worry about and focus your time on than evaluating chairs.
I is, I think, due to this change constant that the site still feels new. since, in some senses it always is new becasue of the subtle changes.
I tend to agree, but chairs seem personal enough that this thread might not help: so far it seems about evenly divided between the people who, like me, love the Aeron, and the others who say it's probably not worth the money and/or don't get the hype. A few others have suggested Steelcase chairs too, but those aren't going to help with price.
Looks like they retail for around $800 based on a quick Google search (http://www.google.com/products?q=humanscale+freedom+chair)
That sentiment needs to be carved in marble and displayed prominently in Washington DC.
But human's didn't hunt alone until very recently. We are like all big mammals in that we hunted in packs (e.g. Lions, Wolfs, Dolphins). The invention of the spear/bow made solitary hunting possible.

If anything the gatherer was a role that could be done in a solitary fashion, even today woman usually take the solitary role of staying home to care for children while the male associates with his peers in the workplace.

So why aren't woman more suited to the solitary roles?

Also correct me if I'm wrong but historically, art has been a male domineered field, only recently (past few hundred years) have famous woman artists shone through. So why would art/design be a female role and not a male role?
I saw this talk at CHI. I'm really excited to see what they do with this in the coming year.
That hasn't been my experience at all. The JVM garbage collector kicks ass today, right now in real applications all over the world, and the next one is going to be even better. There is very likely a class of application out there where extreme micro-optimization is still a good tradeoff (Google's search maybe?), but anyone arguing that they really need to write it in C and do their own memory management carries the burden of proof these days, not the other way around.

In fact many would argue that for small, short-lived objects that the Sun GC outperforms malloc/free. This is a topic of debate, obviously.
Sitzfleish is a great word.
Shouldn't there be a link to the the noobs list on the lists page? There isn't (yet).
FriendFeed by Email - Posterous competitor?
HAProxy can block a 100,000-connection-per-second DoS
OO languages have not eliminated the need for structured programming. It's still just as important as ever for code within class methods to be properly structured.

Of course that mainly only applies to OO languages which also follow the imperative and procedural paradigms. Structured programming is (mostly) irrelevant for functional languages since they don't have the same control flow constructs.
Is it this? http://www.mooredynasty.com/Blog/CalvinAndHobbesKickInTheBut...

I kid :)
LOL. since this topic is making HN worse than reddit anyway, I'll post a video link. Your comments remind me of David Wain's speech in this episode of Wainy Days:

http://www.mydamnchannel.com/Wainy_Days/Season_1/6AWomansTou...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=570827
I think it's high time for Apple to break out the giant checkbook in the sky and make these guys millionaires. These guys are literally inventing the future of Apple's platform. The 280 guys look unstoppable to me.
Anecdotal evidence at best. If anything map reading is akin to being able to spot a pattern (Where am I on this squiggle of contour lines). Woman are historically great at weaving and producing patterns, reading instructions is just like following a recipe.

A male (Charles Babbage) came up with the computer but a female (Ada Lovelace) came up with how to communicate with it. Men and Women are not so different at all.
In addition to this question it would be good to know where to go to try out all of these chairs that are mentioned. Most places I've been only have the cheap ones out for trial.
I had the same problem with the plastic bar and I think it is just bad. However, I am fairly tall and I had a large Aeron chair (they come in 3 sizes I think). So I can only assume that the problem is less pronounced in the smaller sizes (perhaps because the stretch area of the seat is smaller and does not give in as much?). Otherwise I could not understand the hype.
Add a "displayName" property to anonymous Javascript functions, then hack the WebKit debugger to show that in the profiler and debugger. Simple, yet brilliant.

There's a lesson here in seeing a problem and solving it instead of complaining about it. I had heard recently about the problem with FireBug (for example) not having a name to show for anonymous functions, but I considered it an annoyance to be coped with, rather than a bug to fix.

Also a big win for open source. This process is not possible with IE.
The latest OMeta code is still being worked on and is now available here:
http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/
Is it possibly to give a nice brief summary of the kind of change that brought about this speed up? Because... damn the site is fast now!
FriendFeed Beta Becomes FriendFeed Regular. Hope You Like Real-time.
Sites such as Google offer much the same functionality as The Pirate Bay and other Bit Torrent sites but are not targeted by media conglomerates such as the IFPI as they have the political and legal clout to defend themselves unlike these small independent sites.

Torrent sites provide trackers, host the torrent files themselves, and their sole purpose is the piracy of copyrighted material.

Google and other such search engines walk the web to make searchable the content of the web, and they respect the wishes of the content owners by reading and obeying the robots.txt files found on servers. Furthermore, Google takes down copyrighted material placed on their sites like YouTube.

The difference is vast. The only similarity whatsoever is that both offer a search capability.
Ask HN: Early Stage Startup Accounting?
Multi part question:

1) In a two partner project, where both partners are contributing different amounts of time and money, do you agree that it's important to get an accountant involved early on? Assume the agreement between the two partners is clear, and fleshes out expectations very clearly including exit scenarios. Also assume an educated, but not professional, degree of understanding of finance and tax law. I imagine there are a lot of legal and tax implications that should be considered by a professional early on to help define a fiscal strategy for the company.

2) How do you manage accountants, lawyers, and other professionals in the very early stages of your company, when every penny spent is crucial?

3) How do you find and evaluate a good startup accountant? Can you refer one in the Boston area? If you can disclose your relationship to them, that helps the referral a lot obviously.
I don't think this is a weak argument and I personally HATE that you phrased this as "the same thing" attempting to immediately skew readers' opinions.

There isn't a great analogy that really exists, so here's a fantasy analogy:

Suppose Bernie Madoff obtained new investors through advertising via billboards and word of mouth. TPB here is a direct acquaintence with Madoff and Google is the guy who owns all the billboards. Why would being closer-to-the-source make you more susceptible to prosecution if you can both legitimately claim no knowledge of wrongdoing?
Micro blogging by email would compete with posterous for sure, while blogging by email for the soul purpose of being on a blog would still be intact, especially if you're already pulling in posterous feeds into friendfeed.

I think it gives people who aren't exactly looking for a blog setup for a place to send their items. I feel bad sometimes doing a one liner email to posterous where it dilutes the blog's other content with small posts. Putting small micro posts to friendfeed would be much better in those situations.
Remember that we're discussing chairs. Everyone's body is different. A single chair that fits everyone perfectly is almost certainly impossible to design. Even the best chair in the world can't expect a 100% approval rating... unless it's custom-built for you. (And, even then, the chair that works best today may not fit you tomorrow.)

Audition some alternatives and sell the Aeron if you find one that works better for you.

My Aeron's big problems: It is a fraction too short, and it doesn't have enough upper back support. I fixed Problem B by strapping a pillow to it with a bungie cord. Problem A still awaits its solution. I may try building a false floor (basically a sheet of plywood atop a few 1x3s) -- a wacky but effective solution. ;)
It's not just you, everyone thinks the site is going downhill in round-robin fashion.
These guys are hackers of the old school. Every time I see something new from those folks it puts me to shame.

All in all, I am terribly jealous.
it's like buying a mattress. you can go cheap but you probably won't sleep as well.
Google Awarded Patent for its Data Center Barges
First common sense blog post I've read on this topic. Can we put this issue to bed, er... to rest... DAMMIT!
Thanks for posting this. I found it to be quite interesting.

However, I was baffled by the comment at the end:

> For this reason, all of us must wish Patri Friedman the very best in his extraordinary experiment.

A brief Google for Patri Friedman suggests that the experiment in question involves building a community on the open sea, outside of any recognized national jurisdiction, i.e., "seasteading".

Is that the "experiment" that was referred to?
Is quitting Twitter more popular than re-tweeting?
Two loops: (I'm sure I'll get this wrong.)

for (int ii = 0; ii < n-1; ++ii) {
// ii+1 largest elements end up in their correct position at the end of this loop.
for (int jj = ii; jj < n-1; ++jj) {
if (arr[jj] > arr[jj+1]) {
swap(arr[jj], arr[jj+1]);
}
}
}

One loop:

int ii, jj;
for (ii = 0, jj = 0; ii < n-1; ii = ((jj == (n-1)) ? (ii + 1) : ii), jj = ((jj == n-1) ? ii : (jj + 1))) {
// compare and swap as before
}

Unreadable, but it's one loop.

EDIT: use code formatting, oops.
EDIT 2: add proper conditional for jj update instead of jj = jj + 1.
In all honesty, what's wrong with the phrase "work the room"? Is this a phrase that is misapplied to the subject matter? Does this phrase bring up bad connotations? Is this phrase not descriptive enough or too specific for what the person is talking about?

As a non-native speaker, "Working the room" seems like a good abbreviation of "how to behave...". Is there another, shorter, more descriptive phrase you were thinking of?
I tried one of these, and I'm tenacious as heck, but I just couldn't adjust to it. I'm curious about long-term experiences with them, but most of what I've read online has been from people still caught up in the novelty. (FWIW, I use a Haworth Zody chair now. I got a great deal on it.)

FWIW, I'm 6'3", and while I got the largest ball size, that may have been a factor.
I've had my $400 used Aeron for 10 years at home and it is as good as new. All that time I have seen at least 5 lesser chairs crumble underneath me from normal daily use. Do the math.
Exercise balls don't work very well as chairs if you have long legs.
Some very cool motorcycles. Otherwise mostly endless variations of the laptop, iPhone, and iPod.

OK, I did think the transparent toaster was pretty cool, as well as a few others.
First, I am not an accountant or any other licensed individual. I used to work in banking as an analyst and trader before I went back to school. My securities licenses have since elapsed.

Do you have cash entering or leaving the company? Are you starting to deal with accruals? If you have answered yes to the first one but you are able to easily keep track of the inflows and outflows, I wouldn't worry about needing one right now, but I would certainly start looking for one. If you are dealing with accruals, I would think about talking to one at least right now. Business accounting can be a tricky subject when cash flows don't exactly match revenues or expenses. You'll save yourself a lot of headaches if you have someone whose business is accounting at your call.
Swine flu: Statistical model predicts spread in U.S., more insights from IU
We also wouldn't hear about it if every tit and tat of this flamewar weren't posted here as if it were news.

Add to that the even worse problem that everyone who has an opinion on this, even when not directly involved, has posted on their blog about it, and those have been submitted here as well.

Normally I'm able to ignore these flare-ups, but this one really is getting old.

tptacek: been flagging them all day, glad to know I'm not alone.
Why this need to build up a public resentment and attempting to cut some members of society to size? Sorry, but I really despise that in humans. To me this is little better than those reality talk shows where the audience gets to boo at the guy who cheated on his wife. Only they are all watching it because they secretly hope to learn how to cheat on their wives. Why not just let other people alone in what they do and don't do?
I feel the same way, I feel even more that way about the AppJet guys. I try to use my envy of their obvious ability to motivate myself to work harder. It seems to work. ;)
When arc3 ?
No, "How to Work the Room" is just very succinct.
Just how practical are the many variations of spoke-less wheels shown in various bicycle and motorcycle designs? They look great. Do they work well in practice?
The Aeron chairs do not last ten years per se. One in my team uses it and the webbing wore off (as in, there was a hole in it) in under five. They did replace it under warranty after a bit of moaning.

I have been looking at the humascale chairs (http://www.humanscale.com/) but they are not cheap either.

VDU breaks and good basic ergonomic positions still get you a long way towards pain-free work, anyway. A chair can't fix everything.
That's the desk I use. It's works fine, but it's very lightweight and therefore not exceptionally sturdy. But for $80, it's not bad.
Analyzing, designing, cranking out 8,000 lines of code, testing, and deploying by Tuesday is work.

Spending good time with nice people at an event isn't.
I recently went here. It is amusing. Everyone I tried to speak to spoke Dutch. Ik sprek een kliene beetje nederlands, but every conversation went the same:
<translated from dutch>
S1: hai
me: hello
S1: A/S/L ?
me: 32, male, US
<this stranger has left the chatroom>

It reminds me of IRC back in 96. Strangely addicting though, because even though I didnt get any meaningful conversation, I couldnt stop attempting to initiate conversations.
timetobleed guy here - I'm a CMU CS alumn (class of '07). I miss the good old days of 213 and 410 =]
Wordpress also launched that recently, so Posterous better be prepared for more competitions.
uggh, yet another xml api. Either use JSON or something like Thrift or ProtoBuf.
this page seems fishy
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I can't help it; I have to say it. Stop swine flu and you'll make a boatload of money.
FTA: 2. Meetings suck. My favorite game right now? I sit in meetings, guessing what everyone around the table makes, and then I figure out how much this meeting is costing. Then I figure out how many page views at so much CPM its going to take to break even on just that meeting. I'm pretty sure I'm descending into madness, but the point is this: a demo cuts down on meetings. You don't have to spend time explaining what you want to do. You just show it. A demo is not a finished product -- there's still plenty of work to be done -- but the meetings stop being about the idea and start being about execution.
May I inquire about your thought process with respect to security implications when you wrote this code?

A. "I know this is sloppy and will be found out sooner or later, but I hope people will respect the restriction anyway."

B. "I know this is sloppy, but I hope nobody will find out."

C. "This isn't really sloppy, as I know full well the security implications and don't care about them at all."

D. Didn't really think about the implications.
Linux Defenders, Red Hat call for prior art to counter Microsoft patents
Java sucks (1997)
The main advantage of the Aeron is that it is much more adjustable than most chairs. You can really adjust it to fit your body.

Of course, it's not for everyone, but it's flexible enough to fit most people very well.
Herman Miller's Mirra chair is more affordable than the Aeron. I have been sitting on one every day for almost four years and I am very happy with it.
From iLightswitch to iBurrito, Stanford Students Concoct iPhone Apps
I love the simplicity of posterous and how they handle pictures + video.

They can also autopost to other services. But, so can friendfeed. And friendfeed has features on top of that like rooms, a realtime feed, and support for tons of services.
I agree with the points expressed on this article. Fully. But "I claim", "I claim", ..., will not convince a lot of people. Ah and... unfortunately after 10 years the situation is still the same, we are still writing malloc/free and no standard, high quality, widely accepted GC for C/C++ is here. At least now valgrind is able to remove most of the leaks without too much efforts compared to 10 years ago.
> a lot of the women also were men

Yeah, it's weird - men are men, women are men and children are FBI agents? :p (oh dear, yet another common stereotype. some people i talk to online still refuse to believe i'm female...)

I'm not sure why anyone would pretend to be a member of a different sex like that, especially if they're not gay or transgender (and the latter tend to be upfront if they're pre-op, which is infinitely more courteous than lying outright). I did talk to one who had a random female pic included with the post looking for other women, and the reply back was from a guy who sent along a pic of him naked. I did not need to see that.

> Maybe all CVs should be anonymized by default

That would be an interesting experiment, but I bet there is more on a CV outside of the name that would be discriminated against.

> I don't think referring to somebody's sexiness is all that bad...

It's not. I like to talk about these things too, even more than some guys. But I don't do them in a professional setting, and that is what the whole issue over this presentation is. The porn would have been appropriate (but barely so) at an event like a BarCamp with full disclosure to attendees that you're including some risqué images. But the GoGaRuCo organizer brought up a good point in his apology about the presentation: had anyone from Google or Apple or Microsoft done the same, they would have been fired (if the presentation were allowed at all, which it wouldn't have), and the same standard of what is appropriate would apply here at this ruby conference as much as it would at, say, Google I/O or WWDC or PDC.

> it is tantalizing to hear about women's bad experiences...

No worries, usually the good guys deal with it. :) Unfortunately can't always say the same about things that go on on the internet.