skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still want to see the statistics. I don't understand the vote analogy, it's nothing like that, women were free to choose jobs long before IT became the hottest sector, and certainly today's women do not need to be taken by hand and dragged to a job (if anything, that's a proof of sexism). Also i don't speak about ability, but about interest. Just because we have fetishized technology it doesn't mean everyone must go there. For comparison: http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-medicine
Jouw Gezonde Recepten
What did you have on Symbian?
Ask HN: What some good enterprise IT products that are ripe for Enterprise 2.0
When we see todays enterprise IT products, you get a feeling of being transported back to the 90s, old stodgy corporations ripe with bureaucracy moving at a snails pace when compared to the products churned out by todays small agile technology startups. How do we bring enterprise technology to the 21st century.
I don't mind a bit of design, as long as the design is fully functional for EVERYONE that needs to use it.

Yes, that means people using older browsers/machines, users with restricted vision, anyone that requires access to a council website, or requires information about council services. On IE7, this website works, but it takes a very long time to load, probably because the home page is 1MB, with just under 950k of this being images, and this isn't acceptable. The average user couldn't care less if the site looks nice, or is aesthetically pleasing, or if they are using a browser that StatCounter claim is at 1% worldwide. They want their information.

I picked up a council project a few years ago, where an agency had built a nice looking website. However, it had not been tested using screen readers or tested using a focus group. After a few months they had received complaints about users using screen readers not being able to read the pages regarding council services for visually-impaired people.
The Story of Mel - Hacker Folklore (1983)
JDK 8 M7 update
This might sound nice in theory, but having had some experience optimizing mining rigs myself ,- you proposal does not work well.
I would not allow mining on my gear. it puts say more stress on the gear than regular gaming does. In addition to drawr more power, shortening the lifespan of components and most likely crashing the graphics driver
Plain text is not accessible. Plain text fails to help people with motor control problems; with cognitive problems; etc.
Regretably, in the US the "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act" (CFAA) makes it illegal to access a computer without "authorization". Courts have interpreted that to mean that accessing a site when you are in violation of their terms and conditions (for instance, with a fake name) is a violation of this law and thus a felony. Learn more: https://www.eff.org/ja/issues/cfaa
Badly written article, lacking improtant facts and misrepresenting things (e.g. there is not just Telekom in Germany...) just to finally go all alarmist. :/
OS X image editor Acorn hits version 4 with 150 new features
Apple has a patent on disabling cameras in a given location:

http://www.zdnet.com/apple-patent-could-remotely-disable-pro...
Acorn 4 flies through image editing with new filter UI, improved speed
I thought I had it bad with 3mb/s, perhaps that's because one mile down the road fiber means speeds of 120mb/s for roundabout the same price.
Haha that is epic.

EDIT: I apologise for the really bad comment. I have read the rules now and will only put high quality posts from now on. Thankyou.
Haha that is epic.
Thanks for all the advice guys! I'd edit original post but I suppose it gets locked. Anyway, I went through with the purchase. I think it was worth it.

Does anyone happen to have advice on domain transfer? I have a feeling it gets done through the same I bought it through but not quite sure yet. Hopefully transaction goes through soon / shortly.

Thanks again everyone!
This is not news. I do remember this news about 6 months ago.
Yup. Click on "Council Tax" on the homepage... then "Can't find it? Other council tax services"... then "See your council tax band" (Rounded red button)
so, does it mean freetype and fontconfig will render fonts pretty well without patching them with infinality for example?
I had exactly the same experience when I still lived in Germany. I lived in a rural area and the fastest internet connection was DSL 1000. It wasn't possible to watch youtube videos fluently, software upgrades took ages and video calls were a pain.
> I'd argue that the reason why there's a whole "women in technology" drama going on at all is because a lot of people (quite independent of them being male or female) in the tech scene are jerks.

More likely, it's that there are a lot of non-tech people wanting to cash in on the fact that "women in technology" is a popular political theme right now.
Enabling New Relic Performance Monitoring on Windows Azure Websites
Presumably with the caveats: They don't leak your data, and they don't use it in any of the multitude of legal manners that you probably haven't considered but would disapprove of if you had considered them. Oh, and that the data doesn't incriminate you in something you didn't do. Basically, you're relying on a combination of the good nature of a morally neutral corporation, and luck. You may be lucky, you may not.
Not technically a 3D "printer" but I bought a 3D Pen on Kickstarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1351910088/3doodler-the-...

Delivery date is set to next Nov., so we'll see what this can do!
Not all images need alt text. See the documentation from the spec[1].

[1]: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
> The problem starts in schools where girls drop out of math and other technology classes. This is not related to ability.

If it is not related to ability[0], then it certainly must be related to interest?

[0] You could probably argue that IQ standard deviation is higher in men than in woman, which could result in a slight difference in ability in the most taxing fields, but that shouldn’t be a problem in school.
Definitely, I really like the layout and use of modern styles.
Exactly agreed.
The elephant in the room here of course is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=b7VO4wED8MRumCeiX5fCnF
I am still expecting them to make it possible to have a folder synced(backed up only) without requiring a RW key to be created.
Are you kidding me? Ending up with the kid after a divorce takes opportunities away too. It’s what is expected of most women and in my mind contributes to inequality tipping job opportunities and hirability in the favor of men.
Doesn't Ubuntu and other out-of-the-box desktop friendly distros come with good font settings from the get go?

I use Arch Linux but even here it's not much of a hassle given that there is a very informative wiki page not to mention packages with good configuration presets (infinality).
Any alternatives to the voice interface could be welcome.

Maybe nose wiggling al la bewitched.
That is grim.
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Making the website more appealing for non-geeks results in more non-geeks using the website. The website is a more cost-efficient way of servicing non-geek citizens.

So spending money on good design can definitely be worth it. Assuming every penny spent on aesthetics is a penny wasted is a developer fallacy.
List view. Keeps my horizontal eye movement to a minimum.
Totally. One of my pet peeves is people who insist that "good design" has to have an emphasis on being pretty. Design is as much about function as it is form, and in the case of government sites, having easy navigation, accessibility and relevant content is far far more important than being pretty.

Sadly, most UK government sites are both ugly and horrible to navigate. Or at least that was the trend until recently, thankfully it seems some of those organisations are starting to re-fit their site.
Note to self: don't post replies when you first wake up. Those typos are humiliating :(
I can't believe banks scored as high as 7%
So you're 3 clicks deep (having searched around a bit, I guess) and you still don't have a number...
Encouraging change! Typically before entering a any .gov site something like this goes in my head:

"I'm about to enter a boring website that makes getting to a point super challenging unless you read tons of word documents."

On entering manchester.gov.uk

"Oh look at this! They did a recent update to their design. It feels fresh and trendy. Maybe they actually care. Maybe they were able to update their information architecture as well! There is hope that I won't have to spend an hour reading a bunch of text."

The majority of government websites are very apathetic and poorly implemented. I am very happy to see that this is starting to change!
For the average consumer, "Java" is crapware. It has a horrible security track record, to the point where many national computer security advocates recommend removing Java from your computer. You get constant nagging from the Java auto updater, which you must attend to or you place yourself at risk. And it installs toolbars.

On my Windows gaming box I get a dialog box that says jusched.exe : cannot verify certificate of somesubdomain.oracle.com. I don't know if I'm more or less at risk if I press "no", but I guess the average user is just going to press "yes". So I guess my Java is now out of date but I'm not going to install software with admin privileges if there's a problem in validating certificates.

I will never ever install Java on a Windows box again. I did install it because I wanted to play a game written in Java. The game was unplayable because it was so slow and jerky - because it was written in Java.

There may be bits and pieces of cool tech inside, but for the vast majority of computer users, Java is crapware.
People often go for the options they think good for them . Don't worry, you''ll get your desired employees soon!!
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As an American living and working in Germany as an engineer for the past year or so (in a large city, at that), this really shocked me actually. I thought that maybe my landlady was cheap, but it turned out there were actually virtually no better options available. It seemed kind of out of phase with the image Germany tries to project. So many other utilities and services here are really much better than their counterparts in the States. This was kind of a shock.
For me at least, http://gov.uk is a lot better - it's far more minimal and puts the information first, whereas I can't help but feel that this Manchester City Council site is more about the sexy design that it is about usability and actually giving you the information you want.
If you only want a backup, why can't you create a read-only key and send that to the backup host?
And the worse mime type is an unfunny one.
I much prefer the manchester one. They both use icons, which is nice and helps the eye scan the page. But they icons are nicer and share a consistent style.

And the look of the manchester one of more balenced, whereas the gateshead one is nice and clean, but doesn't have any beauty about it.
A lot of the time the design probably was sketched out in the 90s, and it's taken until this year to reach the development phase.
How was your next job? Better? Worse?
In many regions there is only the Telekom. Germany is not only Munich, Koeln, Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt. Many of my friends who do not live in a city have exactly the "choice" between Telekom or nothing.
Don't worry. Go for the one, you believe the best suitable for you.
I don't get the not wanting to attend a luncheon like this. Men have had their boys clubs for a long time. Why can't women have their girls clubs?

If she had a bad experience clothing teddy bears, sipping cocoa, and talking about boys, that's not the fault of these types of events. That's the fault of the event organizer. You don't swear to never receive cash from someone again because you once got burned by receiving counterfeit money.

When I was in high school, I was part of the science club. Ironically (I guess because I'm a guy?), one of the events I helped to organize every year was the Ms. Infinity Conference, a conference where young girls were invited to learn about opportunities in science, hear from women in science, learn about what was interesting about science, etc. I can assure you there was an agenda that kept the attendees focused on the subject at hand. It was respectful and hopefully helpful and inspirational.
> Doesn't Ubuntu and other out-of-the-box desktop friendly distros come with good font settings from the get go?

Yes, exactly!
Don’t live in a rural area then. With the money it takes to connect a few homes in the middle of nowhere to the high-speed network, you can easily equip many more with fiber in the middle of a decently sized city.
I'm pretty happy with our government's website. The first few versions where a complete data overload and looked liked they were made in MS Excel. Now its pretty fresh and well structured in my opinion.
link: www.eesti.ee
Doesn't Google Now already do this?
I did look actually, the stuff I found all had a strong "content" focus. Which is the obvious place to start but as they say themselves, reflecting on getting every ministerial dept on board and their first six months: "it’s barely the end of the beginning".

I did spot a mock-up of a form for reporting lost Passports, which when I googled for it was a nice 3 question form which after processing your answers used that information to give you a link to the correct PDF form to fill in and post (ok, to be fair it gave some helpful extra contextual info like the relevant countries embassy info, but to be unfair if you ask it about an Adult passport, then want to know about a child passport--because I'd imagine losing your whole families passports at once is relatively common--it forces you to answer the remaining 3/4 questions again).

So, some little steps in the right direction as far as web apps for interacting with government are concerned.
True. This hash should be appended like so:

https://news.ycombinator.com/page3/x?fnid=b7VO4wED8MRumCeiX5...
Bitcoin mining malware found in E-Sports Entertainment (ESEA) software
How do you find anything on those two pages without first mentally parsing the layouts? On the first link, the search bar is in the middle of the damned page, even though the site seems designed around search (meaningful static nav is confined to one element, the Information mouseover at the top)!

By comparison, the manchester site is dead simple, and search is at the top corner where it should be. That style of design reduces content areas (with a corresponding boost to element/object/image size, since there's less stuff competing for the space). Call it eye candy, but it's a lot easier to use for people who aren't used to visually parsing complex page designs.

My problem with the manchester site is the poor use of vertical space, and some of the icon choices, not the basic design style.
LinkedIn URLs are by far the worst. For example, the first profile that came up when I searched for Paul Graham:

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=23081590&authTyp...
Publicly traded American companies are obligated under fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of their shareholders. They are not, however, required to have _only_ their stock holders interests at heart.
UX fail: Big useless slider/carouse with the slide captions obscured under the huge pics, way under the fold... and to prevent this big fat carousel from being too low on the page (...but it still is), useful services links are one click away under that 'other services' button, instead of being able to just scroll to them!

...it's amazing how many people totally miss the point of sliders/carousels/slideshows: to sell profitable products or showcase important site content! if you use them, put them at the page top and have relevant captions with links that people actually click.
It'd be awesome if someone would develop a server for it :)
Show HN: Mind Mapping for hackers, with syntax highlighting
http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=epic
Ehy, i see nothing wrong here.
Take THAT, evil web crawlers! Maybe they are trying to get poorly-written spiders to crash when they hit the site?
Entrepreneurs Hammers in Search of Nails
We can search hnsearch.com for "poll gender". Males consistently outnumber females more than 10X. We can predict some likely outcomes of such a voting/commenting system, which I think are borne out by evidence. (https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=po...)

(Edit: and this linked article is clearly written by a self-identified female. Hope I understood your question correctly.)
Building A Business Information Brand in 2013, the Skift story
indeed, http://www.gateshead.gov.uk/ is the properly done version of this. it's as if a narcissistic graphic designer took this site, wiped his/her ass on it and turned it into http://www.manchester.gov.uk/...
And reducing bandwidth via a brilliant anti-SEO strategy.

* Useless URLS? Check.

* Eye-gougingly ugly design? Check.

* Densely packed content with tiny font? Check.

And have lots of fun reading the source.
why not use http://www.kabeldeutschland.de/? their service is available in most rural areas and goes up to 100Mb/s. i am actually surprised the author doesn't even mention them...
This page is a bit of a mess http://cl.ly/image/203V2O40372b
Complain all you want, but http://www.aberdeen.gov.uk doesn't exist at all. For the third city in Scotland I find that really embarrassing.
Then - as a long as you are a woman in court - you can always say "I don't want these kids". Bam, they go to the father. That's exactly how it happens in the courts in the US. As easy as that. Contrary to what you claim, somehow never happens. Over 90% want the kids. And I'm not surprised. Somehow they want it all.
Yes, all those *2s could easily have been optimised into a left shift operator.
Which is kind of funny because here in rural Canada we have access to fibre in farmhouses, but if you look to the neighbouring cities it is almost non-existant in residential areas.
GPU miners have much less of an advantage over CPU miners when mining litecoin; It was designed to be memory intensive as well as cpu intensive (scrypt).
Actually when you google site:www.bvb.de there are some readable URLs (not sure how they got there), upon navigating to which they do 302 redirects.
Placed Insights Debuts, Bringing ComScore-Like Ratings To The Physical World
Online Customer Flow Chart: Do You Know What Your Business WIN PATHS Are?
You make an assumption that super simple website is the optimal balance between quality and price. I think that it's wrong. First, minimalistic websites with good UX are not significantly cheaper. And second, if the webstite has a lot of visitors, it makes sense to pay lot of money for even small improvements of the UX.
> Don’t live in a rural area then.

So I should choose my preferred living place on the premise of maximizing profitability for my ISP? I don't think so.
Well, I do remember years ago when I helped a colleague debug a problem with a web app. Seems that IE was the only browser we could find that crashed with %00 in the URL. I'm pretty certain there was a NUL byte exploit we could have dug into.
Most beautiful sites can. This one does not.

Those icons are confusing. Click expand to see the whole list together. What a mess! Ideally they should be using glyphs with much bolder lines, or if they're really set on using the current ones, place each on a solid white circle. Right now they blend in with the text and seem to add to the overall visual noise.

Scrolling down the page, why the hell am I looking at a gigantic picture of a girl staring back at me? That image would be better placed on an interior decorating portfolio, not a city council website. Ideally the images shouldn't be so large and vague, but if they're set on using it, they should've overlayed the image with its headline in a large white font (currently relegated to the invisible location of below the image)

I have issues with their color scheme too. I think most governmental websites should use white as their dominant color, for clarity's sake. GOV.UK is a website that is worth aspiring towards, not this. Very much not this.
Not sure what it is but the URLs on the japanese BVB site look better: http://www.bvb.jp/
UMBC WebBase corpus of 3B English words
We have campaign period at the moment. The government will talk about everything to look competent. If they do something after the election I may be inclined to believe that they really understand the issue. Prediction (based on their actions in the last years): That won't happen.
Finland does :) It is the first country in the world to make broadband access a fundamental right of every citizen! And the speed is ensured to be at least 100 Mbps by 2015.
Kabel Deutschland is throttling as well. Unity media just revealed that they dont have any plans to do so. They also off 128 mbit for 60 eur per month.
Looks like a template as http://KashFlow.com seems eerily similar. Better that than a custom design though, I imagine it saved a fair bit of money.
Some poor PI is going to freak out when he checks his 'recently viewed your profile' stats.
Method for providing event based media streams
If keeping your identity anonymous is your goal, there is no better example than Satoshi Nakamoto, that managed to create Bitcoin, run and manage the project for almost couple years, mine a bunch of coins and still remain completely anonymous.

You need a great deal of fore-planning, but it's certainly doable and there is probably no bigger unspoken bounty on an anonymous user's head than Satoshi's, to prove the point.

Also, for those thinking of finding out his identity through text analysis of his writings (you can view about 500 posts of his in the forums archive, iirc), from my experience reading them (though not actually analyzing through proper tools), he seems to deliberately always use the simplest words and short sentences.
My first thought when I see this:

This is a band-aid to try and prevent an XSS or SQLi flaw somewhere on the site.
Thats not correct as other providers are leasing the infrastructure from DT. So you have a choice almost everywhere.