skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with stereotypes being excluded is you also tend to exclude people outside that stereotype who think that way. The Sims is a great game for the "Girl" demographic "Barby Dress up" not so much. The problem with "Barby Dress up" style games is you can't do the play acting that most girls do when playing with dolls. It completely misses the point for people of both genders who play with dolls and or action figures.

The Sims on the other hand let's people roll play real life while expanding on the core idea to make it even more fun.

PS: Growing up my little sister liked, Pet's, and Roller Coaster Tycoon, and some RPG's. But, at 18 she completely stooped gaming. Some of that is time constants but mostly it's sitting out of the target audience of most gaming companies.
It's not a stereotype when the data backs it up. The fact is that programming is dominated by men. In fact this story wouldn't have been a story, definitely not on the top page of hacker news, if it was just about another man that is a technical lead. I think the point of stories like these are to attempt to inspire the women who are already in our industry and I definitely see no issues with that. It's sad that some think we can't discuss the fact that she is a woman and that she probably had to overcome more than just being a great programmer to get to her position. No doubt her technical skill is amazing, but for her to rise to the top in a male dominated field is equally amazing!
Looks like Mailman http://www.list.org/ (except Mailman doesn't help with encryption, you have to figure it out yourself).

FWIIW, my experience is that Microsoft Outlook and web-based email interfaces have trained users to use incredibly bad habits with email (crappy quoting, top posting (a subset of crappy quoting), 200K Word documents for a 5 line memo, megabyte .BMP screen shots, etc.). This really hurts email list usefulness until and unless the users improve their habits.

Unfortunately...

a) Outlook use is usually required by The Corporate Overlords. Even if it isn't required, users that don't know better insist on using it because it allows them to paste Mbyte .BMP screen shots into it. :-(

b) While Outlook can be configured for usable quoting, nobody bothers to do so.

c) Even if configured in the best way it supports, Outlook is still suboptimal.

d) Web based email interfaces are generally even less configurable than Outlook and they all aspire to mimic Outlook, including promoting all of the crappy habits.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in a moment of reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current tally of five million, nine hundred and seventy-three thousand, five hundred and nine pages, says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all." In other words, - and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.

-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001). 1st American ed. New York : Harmony Books, 1980, c1979
http://www.douglasadams.com/
The article I read about it gave me the impression that the difference in taste was very minor. I rarely drink Coke and I've never tasted both in comparison, so I could very well be wrong. Forgive me my ignorance.
Given than one of the IP addresses I was given reverse-resolved to "adsl-69-111-95-106.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net", which I assume is a consumer DSL service in Chicago, I think you're right to have reservations.

EDIT: I got the same three IP address from a host in the continental USA, and from a host in Australia; I imagine it's just serving the same three hosts to everybody. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
"I quickly took it to the Xerox machine, made a copy, and put it back."

1. Don't leave anything confidential out on your desk.

2. Don't let this guy loose in your office.

3. Ethical behavior should be a prerequisite to blogging :)

[EDIT: This was downvoted within 2 minutes of posting, exactly what I expected. It happens every time. Why do people here have such a problem when someone mentions ethical behavior? Is is because they don't want to be preached to or is it because they want to do whatever they want, consequences be damned? Either way, a down vote should be accompanied by a comment. AFAIC, nothing OP had to say mattered once I understood how he got his raw data.]
Phase 4 Of Facebook’s Systematic Attack On Twitter: The Everyone Button
An attack would be if I build a two documents with the same hash and get someone to sign one of them.

That is not possible using this attack. This is just a collision atttack, not a preimage attack.

It would be a good practise anyway, that if you routinely sign files other people produce, to add your own blob of randomness as an extra hidden comment to the document you sign.

I don't think people will trust you anymore if you start adding your own data to the documents you sign.
Four Lessons from Y Combinator's Fresh Approach to Innovation 
An article on harvardbusiness.org via Bloomberg News describing YC's innovative approach to venture funding.
What do you think she had to overcome to get her position? You're suggesting people in the industry make it hard for women? She didn't suggest she's been discriminated against, so why assume she has?
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145 slides? Physician, heal thyself!
What is the problem behind Twitter, by the way?
Most definitely. But it isn't like people are out to get you. Once you've shown success, people think (rightly or not) that you can duplicate it again. And they want in on that. They want to invest their money there because it seems more assured.

If you haven't shown any past success, then you're a risk. What makes you more likely to succeed than any random person?

This is why I like to have a few nice, running web apps of my own. When applying for jobs, they show that I've "succeeded" on my own (beyond what I might have contributed to on a team at my previous jobs). Sure, there are probably many people much smarter than me who don't have such apps to show off. However, my past "success" (at writing code and bringing it to production) is there.

The problem with the $15,000 songwriter that the article mentions is that they were a risk when first signed and so they only got a little. Even as they've proven themselves not to be a risk with their weekly submissions, they already accepted the bad terms and there's little reason for the record company to be "nice" and give them more. Likewise, if the $500,000 advance person is terrible, the record company has agreed to certain terms and there's no reason for them to be "nice" and renegotiate down because they're crap.

The largest part of this is that if something looks like it will succeed with or without help, it seems like a sure thing. Sure things don't require the rewards of high risk things because the chance of loss is low.
If he adds the ability to granularly control how often each feed is updated (1 hr, 24 hrs, 7 days, etc.) I'm sold.
Exactly, I thought the allegations were not that they made up the numbers but that they swapped around one candidate's votes for another.

Very cool law though, it will come in useful in the future.
How I got here in the end, part four: the first startup death march
Yeah, lack of options is currently a problem — but not for much longer: there are around 20 new Android phones expected by the end of the year. < http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/28/google-expects-18-20-an... >

I'm guessing at least half will be available in the U.S. I'd also wager that, if not by the end of the year, then at least by next summer, all major carriers in the States will have multiple Android phones to choose from. So things are moving in the right direction; when you're ready for your next phone, I think you'll be very pleased with your options.
Twitter Inspires a Dedicated and Thriving Startup Economy
Correctness > Ease of implementation
Or "I _E_ W_A_ Y_U _R_ S_Y_N_."

But, English is redundant for a reason. Da avantige o usen more lettors es whan you not typen so great. "I c what ur syng" can't be garbled much at all before it's complete gibberish.
Can't the Pre already do this?
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People prefer "we need more X in blah" because the alternative turns a moral conclusion into a practical question.

We are obviously missing a few skilled women. We are also missing a few skilled men. If your only goal is to get the most skilled people possible, the practical question to ask, is "which group is it cheaper/easier to recruit more of?"
I got the same three, I think:

204.74.97.104 rdns3pxpa.ultradns.net
209.213.196.218 eth0.sfo001dn01.yipes.com
69.111.95.106 adsl-69-111-95-106.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net

Definitely something weird going on. I'm located in The Netherlands.
If the "regexes" can call each other recursively, then this is possible. If not, then it is theoretically impossible. The proof is often given as a problem in your basic automata class. "Regexes" are no longer the same as "Regular Expressions" in automata theory. But their origin is in automata theory. A lot of the "ew, regexes" reaction comes from this.

I'm skeptical that augmented "regexes" are any more maintainable than compiler compilers.
Your last little blurb is off the mark:
Mp3 players existed long before the iPod, but they had poor usability and no centralized store to legally purchase music. Bookstores existed long before amazon, but their inventory was limited. Blogging existed long before twitter, but it was a bit overkill to use existing solutions for micro-blogging.
I'm posting this here because I'd love to see HN's reaction to this competition. (Not because I want any of you to download IE8!)

I think it's an outrageous way of trying to pull in users. Can't attract legitimate IE8 downloaders? Bribe them instead!
I'm sure Shaun has thought about this but I think it would have worked really well as hosted solution with free and paid accounts. I'd be more than happy to pay $10 a month for Fever as I've been looking for a way to sort out RSS feeds in this way.
Same here -- I am using an IP in the Philippines:

204.74.97.104
209.213.196.218
69.111.95.106
> AFAIC, nothing OP had to say mattered once I understood how he got his raw data.

Why does that make sense?
No, the Pre has a landing pad which you put it on. (i.e. it's "specifically designed with a transmitter and receiver in mind"). This phone will not require a landing pad, and will recharge ANYWHERE you happen to be (as long as radio waves penetrate the area).
twitter interface augmented with snap.com thumbnails (thereby lowering the "danger" of shortened urls).
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You're confused - hooligans like ska and reggae and are not racist. That they shave their heads is just coincidental.
Same here. From Indian IP.

Something very fishy. Probably will redirect some X% of the DNS queries to spam/phishing sites ?
Using methods to invalidate accurate results only makes sense if you're more concerned about suppressing certain methods than about accuracy.

Of course, one can find these results interesting and agree with your (1) and (2), as I do.
I'm not sure the ethical merit of what he did is germane to the message of the article.

Either way, a down vote should be accompanied by a comment.

I said this once and PG smacked me down. I think he's wrong. Unless you made an incredibly vapid comment with no substance whatsoever, you don't deserve to be downvoted unless there's at least one comment beneath your post. (Not to say I follow this rule all the time.)
Down-voted because it's irrelevant to the point he's trying to make. Arguing ethics isn't really that interesting. Discussing success, cash advances, etc etc is far more interesting.
Doesn't look down to me...
It reminds me of a contest my old hometown newspaper used to run each year: a treasure hunt with clues printed daily in the paper. It certainly helped boost readership rates!

Yes, it's a bit odd, but it's a new way to get users to try IE8...
They say: Anyone blogging about European Web, Mobile, or Technology start-ups, and any entrepreneur blogging about his/her own product(s), please send me a tweet at @ivan_trajkovic with your RSS URI, to have your RSS Feed integrated into EuropeanStartups.com feed aggregator.
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I like how the examples were all, bar one, longer than the long-winded CSS it was replacing

... looks like a good compromise of SASS though. I might jump!
Perhaps data is only correct if it was acquired ethically? :/
Maybe the unethical collection of data introduces large margins of error from the ethic-goblins.
Yes, I am talking about using regexes where a "standard" parser would use getc() and switch statements all over the place. You can't just write a clever regex and wrap it in a while loop and have a parser to go; as you mention, this is theoretically impossible.
MySpace to cut 30 pct of jobs to boost efficiency
http://paulgraham.com/ideas.html. Similar, no?
Ruling on NightJack author Richard Horton kills blogger anonymity
I feel kind of torn on this issue (and Fever in general). I was hoping this was going to be a hosted solution ($30/year) but the idea of hosting it myself also seems kind of cool. I'm just worried that my MediaTemple grid account won't be snappy enough. Does anyone have any thoughts on that? I know people had problems with Mint slowing their servers down. I'll still probably try this out though!
Look at this - need feedback- 
"A" is me little startup, "B" some wanna be guys who want to say they run a startup. "C" a guy with an interesting idea who met "B" somewhere, used us, "A" to present for them and now want to cut us out of the deal.

everyone look at this section of an amendment to a contract that my partner signed last december. and before you read this, know these things:
1. my company "A" introduced company "B" to the team that created the business plan for investment approach for company "C". i also helped "B" negotiate a better deal with "C"
2. As of last december we were all partners. as of last summer, i was on the teams advising on strategy, my company coming up with some very key revenue points
3. part of the business plan presentation included an interactive working software feature, created by my company, and is the only working software feature yet in the package - although this "C" is an internet company.
3. i already have an email with me@"C".
4. They are claiming that they will introduce me to "C" and will sue me if i try to reach out to "C" on my own.

6.	Upon signing this Agreement, "A" shall not directly or indirectly contact "C" or solicit business from "C" in furtherance of the present projects or any other projects during the Term of this Agreement. In the event of a breach of this paragraph 6, "B" shall have such remedies as may be available to it at common law, including without limitation injunctive relief, and in the event of any lawsuit or action occasioned by such breach, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover the costs and expenses of suit, including without limitation reasonable attorneys’ fees.
Time to talk to a lawyer, methinks.
Given the number of cases GP's handle, most people wouldn't call 10 times a year 'routinely'. They would call that 'rarely'.
Benford's law probably does not apply here. The data has to be distributed in a logarithmic fashion (or something close). This would be closer to applying Benford's law to the populations of the certain regions. In any case it just does not make sense to use it without a little justification.
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Here is another paper about applying Benford's law to the iranian election: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0906.2789v1.pdf
Q&A with Clay Shirky on Twitter and Iran
"There might be something to this."

There is something to this.

I have accumulated enough business problems to stay busy for 3 lifetimes. The only issue is "What's most important?"

To anyone searching for startup ideas, get a job. You won't be searching for long.
Ever heard of Dropbox? Potentially obsolete with Unite.

Ever wanted to share all the photos/videos on your 120GB hard-drive? Unite does that too, bye-bye flickr.

Ever wanted to host online chat - it's already there in your browser now.

Ever wanted to listen to your music when all the files are on some other computer? Relay via Unite, it's in your browser.

Want to host web-pages on your local computer? Don't want to install a web-server .. no problem.

Really I find it awesome, I think we've only just scratched the surface here too. A genuinely new paradigm IMO, http://alicious.com/2009/opera-about-to-change-the-world/.

Welcome to the Peerweb.
"boring Safari", "old Firefox" and "Windows Internet Explorer 6". I'm not quite sure if they got that right…
"But you'll never find it using old firefox. (So get rid of it, or get lost.)"
This is the first time microsoft tells me to get lost. A really weird tone for the otherwise very professional sounding Microsoft.
Why would anyone choose to ingest powerful pharmaceuticals if they could experience significant improvements simply by believing that homeopathy works?

Because believing isn't a choice.

Why would anyone choose to spend his life in existential crisis, when he could experience significant improvements by simply believing there is a God?

Because I don't believe there is a God and I don't have a choice in that. If I had a choice, I would gladly believe there was a God: it would make my life a lot easier.
"The biggest startups were not found by scratching an 'itch' but through founders idiosyncratic views of the status quo"

These are outliers. For every Google, there are thousands of successful startups built to scratch an itch.
> That was 6 years ago

Things have changed. Such encounters were very common 10 years ago, less so 6 years ago, there's nothing like this now, I think that the most of those OMON guys are either dead or in prison.

The level of corruption is still very high, but things are getting better. Slowly. Because those who care do something to change the status quo. The problems like those can't be solved quickly.
Firefox: Can attract FF downloaders. Ask your obnoxious supportors to obnoxiously push it down everyone's throat. (I am tying this from FF on ubuntu, I love FF.)

This is a legitimate strategy. Just because it is MS, this doesnot become evil.
HP BladeSystem Matrix creates alternative datacenter reality
OK.

Then we agree on non interference. Which is the material point.

Just some points in the way of precision . . .

I am as vehemently opposed to helping Tibetan pro democracy agitators as I am to helping Iranian pro democracy agitators. Or, more accurately, I believe that the pro democracy agitators that we "like" should be left to sink or swim as well.

Also, I disagree on your assertion that passive support should be offered to pro democracy movements. It is "side picking" of the sort you said you disagree with. Then again, it might be illustrative to ask you whether you would want Twitter to forego their maintenance if Ahmadinejad's followers were using it to organize their rallies? I strongly suspect that the State Department would have made a call of a different nature to Twitter under the circumstances that question postulates.

In any case, in the end, we screw up passive interference as well. Anyone care to hazard a guess at what Facebook and SMS have in common? Their communication channels are, by default, private. Either the Facebook friends list or the mobile phone address book has to be accessed to send a message. And then only the receiver will get it. Interesting, is it not, that the communication channel that is by default public has been left unfettered through all of these disruptions.
S.F. techie helps stir Iranian protests
How can we know when to trust eyewitness testimony?
Considering that we as web developers have collectively wasted millions of dollars in man-hours dealing with IE's awfulness, $10,000 isn't quite enough.
The problem with an established player using such methods is it makes them seem desperate. Makes me wonder why the product can't stand on its own.
The easy problems in medicine are vastly easier than programming. You don't need a doctor to solve them for you, all you need is his permission to implement the well known solution.

If you have an Iranian girlfriend, all you need is for her to smuggle you bootleg medicine when she visits her family. That's what I did.

(Yes, Iran has more medical freedom than the us.)
Success = (Factor1 + Factor2 + Factor3 + ...) * Ethics

Ethics is a binary 1 or 0. Maybe not that interesting, but hardly irrelevant.

(Don't believe me? Let your customers find out about you lieing, cheating, or stealing. Then see what happens to your revenue stream.)
Opera lets browser be used as a server
Oh yeah, and the fact that they used images to render virtually all the text on the page shows that they still don't get it.
No one needed to pay me to use Chrome...
Is Microsoft trying out the same exact tactics that make spam emails successful? At least it's not MS Nigeria.

Let's start a counter of the number of moms that forward this campaign to their hacker kids.
the same can be said about the other group however, they could have lied or forgotten that they shared their ideas. How do you know they shared their ideas?
Six Flags, facing bankruptcy, proactively opens up to bloggers
I hear about this 20% tax from people who never ever been to Russia. What the fuck ? Where did you get this data from ? What 20% FSB business tax are you talking about ? I'm Russian, I live here in Russia and doing business for three years, I pay 13% flat tax, nothing more. One can even choose to pay 6% off the gross income.

Taxation complexities may become effective when you start making more than $1.5MM in annual revenue or if you are doing some business with natural resources (oil, gas). Till then you are treated as small business. I believe this a regular business rule for almost every western country.

I don't deny existance of curruption in Russia. It really is and very huge. But as long as you are within the averages it does not reach you. I never paid any bribes, I don't want to get caught on doing this and lose everything.
Iran Threatens Websites Reporting Demonstrations
The whole ad has that tone, but maybe I'm used to wishy-washy American ads. I guess Australia is, after all, the birthplace of HTFU.
Any git developers here? How much work would it be to swap SHA1 with something stronger?
I was immediately turned off by this article when it cited a study from 1933

That seems to suggest that as we progress we know better. However, not many would suggest that the wisdom of Aristotle is no longer relevant. And that Milgram experiment am sure was done more than twenty years ago, yet it shed some great light into our psyche.

There is no reason to suggest that we know better than the people of the last century. Humans remain humans afterall and unlike physics where truth may be more rigid, in matters of human behaviour it may be safer to trust an older source for if it has survived the tides of time, then it must have some goodness in it.
Throughout history, visionaries of the future have been attacked.

So have a lot of crackpots. Being attacked is no proof of being right.

You do nothing but preach to the quire: those that already agree will nod in agreement, those that disagree read nothing they could possibly be persuaded by. What is the point of your comment?
Add "tarnished Chrome"... which is just so wrong that I can't imagine that someone wrote it with a straight face.
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