skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
T-Mobile in the States is, if possible, even worse. I visited Puerto Rico in February and decided on a T-Mobile stick because the one I use in Budapest works perfectly. In PR, though, there were URLs that simply didn't go through - and there is literally no support. None; you simply can't get support at all. No phone, no email - just a "community support" forum where you can post things if you feel like blowing off steam. And it still cost $10/GB.

Not only that, you can only purchase a new block of 5 GB after your current one has already been used up. Before then they simply don't take your money - unless you set up autopay. And you can't purchase time online, because the URL forwards to nowhere - see above lack of any support facility. You can't even report this breakage.

So you have to do it by phone. But there are two systems; first you have to load money onto your account, then you can use the money on your account to pay for a new 5GB block - but these are two different systems with two different numbers and they each require you to punch in your phone number and a PIN code. Different PIN codes, if I recall. And again, no human support at all.

But then let me tell you about our T-Mobile cell phones here in Budapest. My phone started sending me "premium" SMS messages at 1500 ft a pop (about $7.50 per premium message) until the entire balance was used up. As service messages so they don't show in the Inbox. T-Mobile was able to block that, but my wife's phone started mysteriously "accessing the Internet" (it's not a smart phone), again at something like 500 ft per access, invisibly, until her balance was used up. The only recourse is to go to a T-Mobile store and stand in line for half an hour, because they do kind of have phone support here in Hungary, but the only thing they can tell you is to go to the store and wait in line.

The store has no permission to escalate to technicians. The people in the store "disabled" Internet on my wife's phone three separate times; the theft continued each time. Sometimes they'd refund some money and apologize and swear up and down that everything was disabled.

Finally, it seems to have stopped on its own. Maybe it was a system misconfiguration, maybe not. It's impossible to know, because clearly T-Mobile itself has no idea.

Their Internet stick (in Hungary) works great, though. So I continue to use them - it's just that if there's ever a problem they are entirely unable to fix it. The entire company is so Balkanized and so incredibly poorly managed that they can only barely function if nothing goes wrong.
Apple doesn't support physical goods in their payment system. Their focus is strictly on in-app tokens and DLC. My guess is that physical goods have too much potential for mistakes and require things like returns and shipping tracking.
Taste and Trend in Design (and Music)
> glib with this comment

In general I agree with your sentiment. But you do make it sound like people in India are dropping like flies because of diarrhea (which I am not sure is the case)
> if we go by shows like Mad Men

Then it's probably good for you to realize that Mad Men purposefully uses the construct of a fictional past to create a neutral stage for the exploration of contemporary issues with sexuality and power dynamics in modern culture.
Mind me asking where you're from? :P
"... search is at the top corner where it should be."
Did you ever visit the Google homepage? Why should search be at the top corner?

I don't know if you understand Dutch but since text is part of the interface maybe this is why you are having issues with the design?

"My problem with the manchester site is the poor use of vertical space, not the basic design style."
Well I was talking about exactly this. The Manchester site may look nice but it is lacking overview. Design is more than looks. It is also about text, interaction and so on.
I'm really glad to see an article like this and it's exactly how I feel about a lot of women in tech events. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only woman who feels this way and it's a betrayal to denounce these groups in the midst of all these gender debates we're having in the hacker community.

I joined a women in tech group in college when I started Computer Science. I was super excited and sincerely believed in the cause and I threw myself into it 100%. By the end of the semester, what had I accomplished, really? I had made countless posters and pink ribbons and cutesy giveaways for our school fair booth and what felt like zero progress on making things better for women in tech. Instead, it was just a monthly meeting where we patted each other on the back without really doing anything.

I'm sure there are groups out there that accomplish real and admirable things but I think it's far too easy to fall into just self-congratulating each other and approaching all the wrong issues.
Cellphone Thefts Grow, but the Industry Looks the Other Way
That may be the reason we enjoy such a high standard of living (in most areas) - Progress depends on dissatisfaction with the status quo and complaining is the most visible form of dissatisfaction.
Physics Teacher Creates World of Classcraft
> "someone who is not always politically correct (PC)"

Definitely not my definition of a jerk. I have no problem with people being rude, crude, etc. In fact, if you were to sit in our office, you'd find that the amount of lewd jokes going around is alarming! The next thing you'd notice is that most of those jokes are originating from my cofounder/fiancée, and one of her (female) friends who's also employed by us. The guys are actually much more PC than the girls... you might say we have a sexist environment - guys are being abused here!

The only thing I find worrying/alarming is that we are already this depraved in an open-plan office where anyone can hear us. I shudder to think of the depths we'll be plumbing once we get our own, private office :-)

So, Jerk != un-PC. A jerk is someone who is disrespectful to other people by their meaning, not their words. You can be a jerk without swearing, and you can swear and make lewd jokes without being a jerk.
Ha! Try moving to a rural area in the States, then. Soon you won't even have mail service if Congress has its way. But cable or Internet? Forget it.
I'm going to go against the HN grain and say that it's great. Frequent complaints I hear about local authority websites boil down to:
1. Too much top-level navigation - choice is confusing.
2. No idea which information is in which section.

This one gets you to (what they believe to be) the most-commonly requested issues instantly, and gives you a quick idea of what you can find in each section. This is the perfect place for search results suggestions too. Remember, most visitors to these sites are not going to be frequent users - they won't have the time or inclination to learn a more complex system.

I don't think it's perfect, but I think it's a great idea that just needs a bit of extra polish.
I never understood why HN has such a peculiar URL for accessing pages. It times out after a while too, is that to stop crawlers?
Although I haven't tried 13.04 yet, Qt apps on Ubuntu weren't that great on font rendering. There's room for improvement there.

Also, take into account that Linux is not Ubuntu. It's a growing trend to identify Linux with Ubuntu, as if other distributions (or even other desktop environments in the same Ubuntu distro) weren't to take into account. Have you seen KDE font rendering? Open a Chromium browser, navigate to some pages, it's awful.
I had the same reaction. I think the last time I purchased a card in the store it was about $4 before postage. So not only is this cheaper than the way I used to do it, it looks better (better envelope) and is more convenient.

Now if the had an Android version I would be happy. :)
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Adobe's post http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2013/05/adobe-contribute...
Are you saying the representation of sexism in the 70s is inaccurate? (I'm asking honestly, I don't know the answer)
so you need to take it out of the context to call me shameless? You changed the meaning and you know it.

Better downvote without commenting if you have to employ dirty tactics like this.

EDIT: typo meaning instead of meanings
I think what he's saying is when you're upvoting/downvoting someone, you don't actually know whether they're male or female based solely on the username.
Jesus Christ, you're a piece of work. I was relaying my impression from your words and other signals. If my impression was wrong, then so be it. Your hostility is completely unnecessary and just serves to further degrade the conversation around here. If this place is purely for self-promotion, perhaps you should take extra care to follow the rules and assume good faith as this exchange has been an extremely poor reflection of you.
Awesome! I was looking for that kind of intelligent lightbox plugin. It's exactly what I wanted. Kudos to you, me good sire!
This Epic 3D Diagram Explains How Online Ad Fraud Actually Works
Or you could add this little bookmarklet to clear the lightbox: http://blog.mclemon.cz/hiding-foreign-policys-social-media-p...
That's not too bad for an information-dense site. You've not had many page loads.

Plus, you can find it very easily by putting "council tax band" into the search box.
MSVC does not exist.

The only product Microsoft sells is called "Microsoft Visual C++".
Last summer we listened to music in a rowing boat in a lake in the middle of nowhere in Finland. Streaming from YouTube. It felt somehow wrong. Like "into the wild", with a 20€ unlimited data plan, and the ability to send live video from the forest. Later, when driving back to civilization, we spent 2 hours playing our favorite tracks in a moving car. Again streaming.
Show HN: Rapidly create lists and sync with Dropbox (iPhone app)
Try it for free: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/listacular-for-dropbox-rapid/id624606571?ls=1&mt=8

Listacular is a streamlined list and note app with Dropbox sync (txt). With Listacular, you can rapidly create to-do's, outline projects, or take notes. Since it syncs with Dropbox, you can pick up and work on your lists from anywhere. The coolest part is that you can share lists with others and collaborate on lists (imagine a shared grocery list with your friend/partner).

I'd appreciate your thoughts on this. Lists use a markdown-like format for easy list creation and editing. You can edit lists from anywhere, and the app uses a 3-way merge strategy to intelligently bind changes from multiple sources.
'Girls Who Code' Combats the Gender Gap in Computer Sciences
That's what they are doing -- they are trying to "sell" adoption and a city festival.
Quite. If a company wants to maximise shareholder value then it needs to appreciate that its shareholders may value more than money.
The Chadwick Chair
http://www.bitcoinplus.com/miner/embeddable

(and others, via http://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin%20in%20javascript )
>This is the perfect example of everything wrong with modern web design.

This seems to be quite the hyperbole. Sure, it might over use some modern design trends, but there is nothing inherently wrong with that. Also, what is wrong with themes on themeforest? Many are built with great design in mind.

More than anything govt. sites are not friendly, don't organize their content well, and do a horrible job at engaging their users. I would say this site does all of three, making it at least a decently designed and well built site.
Nice plugin sir. Thank you very musssh!
They are ids to lookup closures in a database. They time out to stop the database overflowing ;) It's called continuation-based web development [1], popular with Lisp and Smalltalk-based web servers (because who else has continuations?)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation#In_Web_development
not "that" cheap, my father currently pays 40 euros (~$50) for TV service and a 50/10 Mb/s connection in southern Germany. In comparison I pay $80 for 20/2 Mb/s Internet only.
For me to add basic cable TV it would go up to $120
I'm presuming this will lead to cheaper laptops :) not to mention higher res panels ably powered by the on board GPU
In what context could those statements (1) make any sense, or (2) be in any way acceptable? And further, you wrote one piddling paragraph. Any reader can plainly find the context: It is that you believe in gender roles so strong, it sounds as though you are an early 19th-century time traveler who just hopped out his ship. You conceal this in what I think boils down to, "men are better at everything," but it's clear you think that women belong in the kitchen and men in the mineshaft (especially when reading your other comments for this article).
However, T-Mobile's advertising in Puerto Rico when they were expanding into the market a couple of years back was fantastic. Very well-localized. Most people have no idea at all they're a German company - my wife and I laughed that the only giveaway on their billboards was their heavy use of sans-serif fonts.
> T-Mobile in the States is, if possible, even worse. I visited Puerto Rico

Judging the 'United States' based on Puerto Rico?
Nice plugin!!! Good work!!!
Nice, although I find a few issues:

- A few commercial compilers are missing.

- How much of POSIX does SUA in Windows support?
Not quite sure what your point is? Government websites are not there to show of designers ability, they should be simple.
A serious start up should not be using consumer grade DSL lines.
Ask HN: Are you planning on getting Google Glass?
If so, how do you plan on using it? If you plan on developing for it, what applications do you want to target?

If you aren't planning on getting it, why?
I believe it's a continuation-style server—hence fnid: function id—and the continuations are only kept around in memory for ~5 minutes.
Testing Tuesday #3: Behavior-driven development with Cucumber
The laptop department sounds a little limited currently: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=136255349221059&w...
It doesn't prevent growth in tech sectors in the US.
Always glad to help!
Very nice - beautiful, chrome-light and mobile-friendly. Decent API. Good documentation too!
I have access to a 3D printer and I printed my first parts yesterday!
Oh German telecoms in the DBP days was always very much you get what you are given citizen.
April 2013: ten Cisco vulnerabilities
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As they have been for most of the last decade. Here's hoping this time they do. :)
I had similar internet when I was living for 3 years in Poland (Gdansk). 125mbit for ~50 PLN (which was around EUR 15).

Now I'm back in Germany and have fabulous 16mbit for nearly 50 Euros. (Fastest internet I can get here.)

Also it's ridiculous that my internet access in Poland was set up within 2 days and here I had to wait 6 weeks for everything to work properly.
If I saw someone winking in my direction like the author did in the video, I'd assume they have something in their eye.
I have written a plain text to base64 encoder here : http://www.getbitcoin.info/assets/misc/base64generator.html

Soo.. instead of sharing keys, you can just share keywords and then generate the keys from the keywords. It's just javascript that I based on another base64 encoding example. Feel free to use as long as I get a credit somewhere.
Shared mutable state strikes again.
AppEngine 1.7.8 - now with PHP
Sounds like a good idea to me - if users can try it out simply by installing it and either aliasing scp or modifying their scripts very quickly, then I'm sure more would be willing to try it out in a real-world scenario.
+1: I wish everyone who spoke up in disagreement with me did so in such a manner! This is why I read HN.

I think you're right that things have gotten much better. I'm in academic math, and I hear horror stories from 40 years ago. Women tell me that sexism is still a problem, but a substantially less severe one. And also, as you mention with regards to GrantTree, I know of several efforts in math to deliberately reach out to women, which seem to be paying dividends.

40 years from today, I hope all of us will agree that these discussions are no longer necessary.
I'd agree with you on the slider not being a good use of space. But I'd argue that it does get some other things right which a lot of uk government sites fail on.

In particular the simple presentation of the primary services people access with the option to expand out for other less frequently used ones. This is a huge improvement on, for example http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/home.htm

I have to use that site quite regularly and pretty much the only way to get anything is googling site:www.lambeth.gov.uk with the service you're looking for.

Agree accessibility could be an issue although looking at the fairly prominent accessibility section at the top of the site, it does look like they've at least considered it. I don't know enough about accessibility to evaluate whether what they've done is sufficient.

Perhaps holding this up as how they "should" be designed is a step too far but to me it looks like a step in the right direction.
When reward points are being offered, you are being inefficient with your money if you do not take advantage of them when everyone else does. I agree that they shouldn't exist in the first place, but that is out of my control.
The YouTube HTML 5 player is basically done now, it works just as well as the flash one. I wish they would stop "experimenting" and roll this out across the site. They seem to have no timeframe for releasing it.
Oh so the *2s have some sort of meaning beyond random URL garbage? Please explain! I've always been curious.
Quoting is practically by definition taking something out of context. That doesn't mean it is wrong, especially in this case where I would say it sums up your apparent attitude quite well since you ARE talking about "natural advantage" of men.
I pay Unitymedia about 54 € / month for 20 MBit/s Cable, which includes landline phone flatrate, digital cable tv and a rented PVR.

Next month, I'll switch to a 16MBit/s DSL connection including a phone flatrate (who needs tv, anyway?), which will be about 25 € / month.

I live in Darmstadt (which is about 50km from Frankfurt).

15 bucks for 100 MBit/s sounds rather nice though!
If you post on Pastebin via a proxy chain through as many different countries as you can (Home > Chinese Proxy > Russian Proxy > UK Proxy > USA Proxy > Japanese Proxy) I don't see how anyone could ever trace it back to you without total cooperation from every link in the chain.
Here in the Netherlands we have 100MB/s internet, TV with DVR settop box and cheap landline phonecalls for a little over 50 euros, and that's not even the cheapest option. It really surprises me, my friends live a stone's throw away from the German border (in Enschede), and they have cheap fiberglass internet there...
I used to think this way.

I've found that I spend 5-8% less on average on food, meals, etc. I'm not a spendthrift by any means, I budget and pay my bills just fine and don't have money problems.

I had a wallet stolen while travelling and lost access to my cards (except AMEX, who had it FedEx'd to my hotel by 8AM the next morning) for about a week. So I ended up using cash for about a week and I was shocked that it actually had a measurable impact.

Try it for a week -- you'll be surprised.
You can still find offices today that closely resemble that of Mad Men and in the 60s you could also have found offices that are as respectful of equality as today's average office.

Why they chose this stage, and why it became such a success, is because it's capable of touching this nerve in modern culture by having a story line that is just extreme enough to be able to say "thank God we're not like that anymore" but still recognizable enough to think "that's a bit like X from the office."
Did it really take one weekend to make this? ;)
It's certainly going to be creepy if someone who you're not comfortable sociably with approaches you wearing gGlasses and winks at you.

That would still be creepy without the gGlasses though.

It's also going to be creepy if someone who you currently are comfortable sociably with approaches you wearing gGlasses. "Mate... take them off please"

All roads lead to creepsville in normal social situations, unless the person is using them to augment something like adventure sports, visiting an exhibition or the like (which is why Google chose to lead with those marketing videos and demos obviously)

I wear different shit when I go hiking or skiing. I don't do my daily commute wearing ski goggles. The barrier to surmount for this to become acceptable rather than creepy-couture or ubiquitous in normal daily activities is possibly insurmountable for the foreseeable future (admittedly that's my wishful thinking, and I say this as someone who doesn't live in the Silicon Valley area).
I'm lucky that all the key jobs at GrantTree (Client Management, Sales) are naturally not predominantly male or female.

Obviously that's not the case for every company. Ultimately, if 90% of developers in the country you're in are male, it's going to be pretty damn hard to keep any kind of balance in your development team. I think you just have to accept that, and continue to hire based on excellence rather than trying to bias towards gender (which is illegal anyway).

However, there are completely legal things you can do to try and tilt the balance in other functions, so that at least the company as a whole is balanced. For example, advertising on sites that aren't themselves predominantly male, and wording your job ads so that they make it clear that women are most welcome, helps to tilt the balance of applicants, which allows you to maintain the company balance while still hiring the best applicants.

I don't think you can solve macro-societal issues like gender balance among software developers in general just by tweaking your hiring process (though I'll be happy to be proven wrong), but that's not an issue of sexism, just an issue of reality.

I haven't yet considered how you'd solve that problem at huge scales, like if you were Microsoft - probably others might have more useful opinions on this. My points above are more relevant to smaller companies. I'm sure there's a number of people at Microsoft worrying full-time about this.
It's not about what lines your startup uses in the office. It's about what lines your customers have available to them.

Try getting something like a video streaming service running if your main consumer base has a traffic limit of several gigabytes a month.