skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get this so much, although I've had the opposite experience, where when people notice that I'm female, certain companies get excited for the chance to have a "token woman" on their team. Isn't necessarily a bad thing. Anyway, it made me think of all the LinkedIn spam I get addressing me as sir, Mr., "we're looking for some cool dudes like yourself", etc.

Sadly it's not just the gender thing that's going on here as well, I'm thinking of some study they did where they attached photos with the resumes - the "attractive" people (both men and women) were rated as better skilled than the "normal" and "ugly" people that had the same resume. Although, I think that if I took some fancy photos of myself and primped myself up, I don't think it would do me any favors and I'd get some unwanted attention!

My name isn't even gender neutral, very feminine...I think I once was on some board online using my real name and people were still assuming I was a guy. When I asked how they could possibly think it was a male name, they replied, "I dunno, I was thinking it was like one of those fancy Italian names, like Fabio or whatever..Fabia..yeah, same thing...they always sound like girls names."

I've now started picking the most ridiculously cutsie usernames possible, like this one, to keep people guessing. Sometimes it backfires still and people just get homophobic, but I generally stick with it anyway for fun :)
We really need to ratify and institute Isaac Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics) otherwise I'm afraid our future selves will regret it.
What if they had vague powerpoint slides?
Argh, you replied just when I had deleted. Sorry. To anyone wondering my comment was saying that I couldn't find any service comparable to Google's sync last time I tried Firefox. Google's sync effortlessly syncs all machines tied to an account including bookmarks, extensions, and themes.

I figured I'd try out the latest Firefox and see if I can get it working before I definitively make the comment.

Thanks for the tip though. The machines I want to sync between are Windows 7 and Linux though, so no can do.
I'm not sure I understand your point. You don't know if they can make enough from exporting quinoa to import more diverse food, so...?
No. This reframing of the scariness of the NSA is one of the things that drives me batty about the NSA coverage on HN.

The NSAKEY conspiracy theory wasn't dismissed in the late '90s because people thought the NSA wouldn't backdoor Windows. The opposite is true; the NSA was so feared in the '90s that people didn't (and still don't) trust standards like DSA, for fear that the parameter generation algorithms they use were backdoored.

No, the reason nobody takes the NSAKEY conspiracy theory seriously is because if the NSA was going to backdoor Windows, they wouldn't do it with the ASCII string "NSAKEY".
It's mostly artillery, which is less likely to kill on a touch. Plus I'm sure one could spin an argument about this being an example of knowing how to break rules relatively safely, too.
My biggest problems with Firefox after using Chrome for so long is stability. I find that web pages can lock up the entire browser rather than just a tab, and this isn't just a rare occurrence, when I tried to give it a chance a week ago, it happened several times. I am amazed they still haven't picked up the separate process per tab feature yet.
Sounds like a standard operational procedure when there's an emergency. From the BBC article:

A Heathrow spokesman said: "Arrivals and departures were temporarily suspended while airport fire crews attended to this incident."

"This is a standard procedure if fire crews are occupied with an incident."
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That all depends on the language. Lisp (pretty much all of its dialects) heavily emphasizes the use of macros to extend the language and build all kinds of control structures and embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs).
I made the switch to DDG about 2 years ago and am pretty happy, though I do occasionally use the !g.

Switched back to FF on my desktop a couple months ago when I got my keon and I love it. The only thing that's hard to get used to again is a search bar separate from an address bar. Chrome really had that figured out. A unified bar in FF would make it the perfect browser.
> As we've made technology advances historically we've removed working hours.

Not at all true; up until the 20th century and the influence of labor unions, technological advances mostly increased working hours. Technology removes barriers that limit working hours (artificial lighting is pretty much the textbook example of this, but is very far from the only example), and increases in productivity due to technology increase the expected marginal output of each working hour, which increases the incentive to work (or, where the value of the output is captured by someone other than the worker, to employ/compel work.)
History bias. If you're a boomer, then you were alive during the Cold War and the red scare, periods where surveillance and crimes of "words" were arguably as bad or worse.

If not before that, then you're greatest generation, and you're obviously not Japanese because you would be singing a very different tune about American civil liberties and being charged for "crimes" had you lived through internment.

These examples go back as long as there is civilization...

I don't buy your "things used to be better" nostalgia. Everything looks better decades later, but it doesn't make it true...
>could there be a case where the parties in a conversation are legitimate suspects?

It doesn't matter if they are. No one expects coffee shops to put microphones at every table on the off chance that a terrorist plot is planned there (how many mob hits could have been prevented back in the day).

We shouldn't accept the government listening in on digital communication just because it's easy.
I apologize.

The perception presented by the US press/propaganda is that these are "paper democracies" [1], in the sense that an election was held but the implication is that the outcome of that election was pre-ordained such that the person "elected" is really just a dictator wearing the mantle of democracy to give their position a bit more legitimacy.

The unintended consequence of that propaganda effort is that many of the same sorts of innuendo can be applied to the US election process, so in a way they make themselves appear less legitimate than they might hope for.

Regardless of the reality of the situation, Snowden (or his speech writers), have incorporated (or perhaps co-opted) this theme to position the US (in the eyes of US residents/citizens) as being the inferior form of government or country relative to countries that they have been told are, or are implied to be, "paper democracies" [1]

I approve of that rhetoric because it has a chance of waking some people out of their "but it protects us from terrorism" slumber to realize that some prices are too high to pay and maybe this has gone too far and its time to change. And its clear that the incumbents are lining up on the side of supporting the NSA (I'm thinking of people like Senator Feinstein here) so they are the people we need to replace. We'll see how effective it is.

And yes, there is the counter argument about "but this is just what the enemies of the US want, us to voluntarily neuter our own intelligence services so that they can get back to doing their evil deeds." which, were this a foreign policy forum, we would be going back and forth on the limits of sovereignty vs the rights of the citizenry.

[1] I came across the term "paper democracies" in a book about the Iran Contra affair as a description of countries with elections whose outcome was rigged.
some of previous cases was just making fuss out of nothing, however this is a real problem here. As HN is usually better at criticising, I don't think there is much to add...
Is there any substitute in firefox for Chrome's keyword searching? That's the only chrome feature I really care about.
Maybe he does not like having his search results tampered with at the behest of the MPAA?
Tell me how I can share private information, but avoid the consequences you describe. I don't believe you can. Therefore, I see no particular disadvantage to Facebook and GMail (over any other possible solution), as long as I realize that the government IS watching me.

And yes, the issue is government.
Intel actually sells the capability of most post-1st gen Intel processors phone home in a way that is transparent to the end user as a feature.

http://intel.ly/14U14JW
"The experiments were performed with a femtosecond laser system Pharos (Light Conversion Ltd.) operating at 1030 nm and delivering 8 μJ pulses of 280 fs at 200 kHz repetition rate."

My €0.02 bet is that that means 200 kilobit per second. In layman's terms: about twice as fast as we could send data to Voyager 1 when it was near Jupiter aka 'abysmal'.
Well, a bipedal humanoid robot that can walk on any terrain and can't easily be pushed over was also the hard part, and those problems are starting to look solved.

Probably before these things are autonomous we're going to have these as human controlled drones, which is a pretty scary thought all by itself.
"def" in Python is an executable statement, not a declaration- it creates a function object that gets bound to the specified name in the local namespace. The defaults are evaluated when the function is created.
I went through this only recently, so do not know for sure if it would save me money or end up costing more.

My last employer was paying about $1.7K per month for a family of three. Costlier than usual because it was a very good plan. I could not find a with similar levels of coverage and deductibles for cheaper outside.

The key thing that varies between plans (I am based in California) include deductible and coinsurance, which can be traded off with monthly premiums. Lower the former two, the higher the premium.

I pulled out my families older insurance claims data when my employer was paying to estimate my future expenses for each family member. Based on that, I considered various plans and ended up choosing a plan with higher deductibles but lower monthly premium (~$600 for the family). Mostly likely, this will save me a lot over the low deductible plans. This is true even when I expect to be paying just about as much in deductibles/coinsurance per month on an average based on the past data. If things go wrong, I may end up paying a lot more, but still capped by the out-of-pocket maximum that is not much higher than $1.7K per month.
Great post...one of the more detailed post-mortems I've read...this one point stuck out to me:

> Most importantly, I can't relate to my target demographic at all

> I'm not a small business owner. I don't have any employees, I don't have any physical inventory.

> I think this was my biggest downfall. I had to pay for content because I didn't know what business owners with a physical inventory wanted to read about inventory management.

How is this not painfully obvious to any independent entrepreneur? If you don't have the resources to do customer surveys and advertisements, why don't you stick to something you actually know? Because, assuming you are a reasonable person, a problem you have is likely a problem that others have. The main advantage, in this case though, is that feature brainstorming and iteration is much quicker...sometimes the time intervals are as short as it takes for a thought to reach the other side of your brain. And even if you don't have a market right away...or ever...you may have built something that is useful enough to you to markedly improve your life. So, almost a win win.

I can't count the number of times when, while working at an incubator, I overheard developers building the next awesome photo-world-traveling-sharing app, and trying to come up with features they think photographers might need...it was always painful to listen to.
There could be conscious discrimination against the resume once the "married with kids" line is added; I wouldn't be so quick to assume that surely nobody is doing it. Honestly (and this is embarrassing to admit), I'd probably think much differently about a female job applicant who had that line on her resume than a male applicant.

In particular, I wouldn't necessarily expect that line to imply anything about a male candidate's commitment to the work/job, but just write it off as a misguided attempt to look "well rounded." So, shit, I'm worse than I thought.
This is so sad...wow! I cannot imagine what goes through people's heads when they see a very qualifies individual and then they decide it's a woman and skip even considering her.
Firefox is comparable to Chrome in terms speed and features. However, Mozilla doesn't have the same incentive to collect and use data on their customers that is inherent to Google, an advertising company. In addition to that, Firefox is fully open source, unlike Chrome which contains closed source components from Google.
Documentary Investigates Hidden Dangers For User Privacy On The Internet
Of course you need men to change their attitudes - the majority of people at the top of the food chain are male, and they’re the ones that make the hiring decisions.

But you are right - it’s not an exclusively male problem, and woman are perfectly capable of discriminating against other women, and do, frequently, and often unconsciously.

In the end society as a whole needs to change how it views women, and how it acts upon those views.
So glad we found a way to talk about Elon Musk some more
Most teams eventually need to on board new people, though.

Besides that, building teams of generalists is far easier if it's easy to dive into new code bases. Even with small teams highly specialized on individual projects, there are lots of advantages to having people be comfortable digging into other teams' code, which is much easier if it's more discoverable.
Treehouse? These guys or someone different?

http://teamtreehouse.com/
Firefox sync doesn't do the trick?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-sync-take-your-...
Here's a small, shameless, open source, plug: I work on the "Cactus" static website generator, check out and fork our work here: github.com/koenbok/Cactus (current version), https://github.com/krallin/Cactus (next version)
You would need to make sure you still build the 'static site generator' on your current site (so login, search, and any other functionality dependent on your app is not exposed).

This is relatively easy, and could possibly even just use CSS with the understanding that yes, someone could have a bad experience.
When I was using Firefox I used this extension to unify the address/search bars.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/omnibar/
They're not skating on thin ice, they fell through some time ago. I'd also call the way they claim to bypass checks and balances by "storing" instead of "reading" data (assuming that's even true which seems unlikely).

And the NSA might not have sent anyone to the gulag but the Obama administration has gone after whistle-blowers at an unprecedented level. Hard to imagine the NSA wasn't helping them out some.
100 years back people said, electricity is destroying work.
we use tastypie: django-tastypie.readthedocs.org

for the most part it works really well. for a while the development was sort of stagnant/dead while the developer was looking for people to take it over. recently (2-3 months ago) a team has formed around the project and is actively maintaining and pushing new features again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary_confinement#Torture

"Solitary confinement is considered to be a form of psychological torture when the period of confinement is longer than a few weeks or is continued indefinitely. Negative psychological effects have been documented, leading one judge in a 2001 suit to rule that 'Solitary confinement units are virtual incubators of psychoses—seeding illness in otherwise healthy inmates and exacerbating illness in those already suffering from mental infirmities.'"
Interesting article. I wouldn't necessarily say you can understand gender discrimination just because you were affected by it as a side affect. It is true the author became aware or more aware of gender discrimination because of his name, but he still doesn't have the experience of living in a society where gender discrimination is a daily occurrence.

That said, gender bias a real thing in hiring and faculty practices in the US.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/201...

http://www.upenn.edu/provost/images/uploads/Gender.Racial_.B... (pdf warning)
You can search in the address bar just fine and change it to DDG: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-web-address-bar
password can fails all those plus phishing.
Good? It is clear people using this service don't want to do the task, but likewise don't value having it done either. Though the examples given in the article seem more like things one would want to interact with themselves.

If people are willing to take money for this work, and someone else wants it done, that is economics. The broader question is "does raw human labor possess value anymore?" and if the answer is no, in the sense that a working human with no domain skills is laboring below a living wage, then it is time to rethink our economic model, and minimum wage is just a hatchet to stymie the bigger issue - the systemic devaluation of human output. Because machines are better at it.
I feel like I read things like this on HackerNews about once a month. All of these posts can be summed up like this:

1) I built stuff without talking to people

2) I built custom work for a client and it wrecked me

3) I didn't listen to customer feedback

Yes, your business will fail if you don't talk to customers. We're all terrified of showing off our children. What if the world thinks they're ugly? What if the child actually is ugly? Well then, that child is still going to have to make its way in the world, isn't it, or not?

Some of the best solutions to problems I've seen start out as ugly children, but, in truth, over time they find their place in the world. The difference between what makes an ugly child grow up strong, versus one dying, is the development. If your friend tells you that your kid would look better if he had a tail, and he's willing to pay you to put it on, you'd be doing a disservice to your child to attach that tail. You have to do what's best for your business; no silver bullets, no easy answers.

I think that writing these kinds of things can be cathartic, but, to be honest, if you read enough of these they all start to look the same.

The one thing I know is that your time wasn't wasted. Learning lessons is what life is all about; doing something with them is what success is all about.

TL;DR: Your product failed because you didn't talk to customers and no one is surprised. I look forward to a follow-up post about your new product, driven by customer feedback :).
Is this not default behavior? I've never had an addon installed, but just typing in a query and pressing enter in the URL routes it to Google...

Edit: Ah, I suppose the auto-complete is different.
I was thinking the same. What a cynical and self-serving argument, given that these people were acting anonymously. This back-handed ruling effectively puts an end to anonymity and the judge knows it.

If it is determined that any of these people are U.S. citizens, then they should be able to sue for violation of their first amendment rights. Further, any information obtained via the subpoena should be inadmissible since it would have been obtained illegally.

Better still, why do we accept a double standard for U.S. vs. non-U.S. citizens in cases like these, if we are supposed to be the beacon of justice and democracy for the world?
Out of sight out of mind I guess. It doesn't really bother me that I fall out of daily touch with friends far away. A couple times a year I'll sit down and write them a letter (..email).
What's next? All the interviews have to take place in a dark room so that the interviewer can't see the color of the interviewee's skin?
Why are we yelling?
fwiw, FireFox on MacOS shrinks the tabs to favicon before scrolling, without using an add-on. The article screenshots indicate it spoke of Linux.
Indeed. Big or small, ERP is where it's at. You can't have five or six systems that can't talk to each other. Accounting here, Invoicing there, Inventory, Point of Sale, Warehousing, etc. At that point you're almost no better than managing your business on paper, because you are re-entering everything over and over again.
Agree. Another benefit of having the site mainly static, with dynamic parts loaded over ajax is that it becomes much easier to apply efficient http-level caching.
10 years later, those two programmas in that Brazilian small town would still be recounting to their fellow programmas and friends that:

- There are male programmas in America (in fact, the rumor says that most of the programmas are male) and,

- The strange ritual of male programmas from America is that they start to recite these about 100 strange sounding words, and ask you if you know any of them.
It's interesting to me that you thought this was the first time I'd encountered this idea. I guess I need to work on my communication skills.

Also, this is a bit off-topic, but "ding ding ding" is rather condescending. I believe you think I'm somebody that I'm not.
Good. Big companies are the only thing in the US with even the remotest of hopes of stopping or slowing this down. And they're not going to bother unless it's actually costing them money.

So I hope it hurts them, I hope it makes them and all the other companies bleed until they do something.
Yeah, I usually say programmer/software engineer rather than architect. Makes explaining it a lot easier
I would not quit what you're doing just yet. You built a product and have a paying customer. Congrats! You mentioned that you don't understand your the needs of your customer. I think you can build on what you've already done. Get out of the building, join your local Chamber of Commerce, and find out the challenges that small businesses are facing. There may be adjacent markets that you can enter by tweaking your product.
I think it's because many people don't separate a businessman from the business.

A businessman doesn't open more businesses when he has more money.

A businessman opens businesses when investors will pay and the market will support it.

Turns out, a businessman doesn't need his own money to start businesses, because without a market, there's no point of starting the business, and with a market, there is investment available to seize it.
While that's true, there weren't a lot of cars on the road to hit during that time, either.

Imagine the commuting public of the New York City region, all in the air above Manhattan.
The studies I've seen actually demonstrate that women get called for interviews slightly more often than men. (The studies were not in software engineering, so different industries certainly are different).
I was very surprised to see the admission of his giving family information. Employers are prohibited from asking such questions here in the US, and I've always thought it improper to put it on a resume. It either invites unfavorable discrimination or comes across as a ploy for sympathy or favoritism.

It may have been a lesser factor in this case, but I would guess hardly anyone does this today, and I had thought it was no longer considered OK even before the 90s.
that's what this analyst is saying, based on a few photos

http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2021380327_7...