skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should add some evidence to your comments... I've seen no evidence women are driven away en masse from programming by anything other than their own wants and desires.

I hang out on IRC quite a lot, and if someone brings up the fact that they're a woman, most people are just 'meh'... it's irrelevant to how they're treated and the value they add to discussion etc. That's one of the great things about this industry - it really does not matter.

Girls and boys are very very different biologically, with extremely different strengths and weaknesses. Extremely different brains. Lets stop pretending they're the same.
Baroque music generally does it for me. Bach is the exception. When I listen to his more abstract works -- the keyboard partitas, the violin partitas, the well-tempered clavier, the english and french suites, goldberg, the art of the fugue, a musical offering, inventions and sinfonias -- I become so totally absorbed that I just cannot do anything else or even think any other thoughts. Is this what is called /samadhi/?
Excellent example is the "Mexican Cola" story: coke with real sugar that costs way more than coke with corn syrup.

Or iPods, really.
For home use, one would use a filter can, at a fraction of the price of bottled water.
I didn't. I thought the title itself was extremely condescending and sexist. Bit of a turn off.

Imagine if it was an interview "Inspiring black people in gaming". How about "Inspiring ginger people in gaming"... Or "Inspiring gays in gaming"

It's suggesting that being a woman is some sort of disability and that the person has overcome the odds and achieved something despite this. It's belittling her actual achievements.
I'm not sure if working at a large company is the most efficient way to get inspired.
It's late and I'm tired so I'll just come to the point. The OP advocated intervention on the part of the US. Now presumably he or she is advocating intervention on the side of the opposition. An opposition that may have been unsuccessful at the ballot box it must be said. At the same time he is being upvoted by people, I am assuming like yourself, who are saying it's:

"Time for the rest of the world to just stand back and let Iran decide its own future"

What is being discussed by the OP, and on this thread however, is how to help the protesters. I was giving my reasons for a careful consideration of the consequences of helping these particular protesters. Let's be honest and admit that people here are discussing something other than self rule. And it is my opinion that whenever we start talking like that, things go horribly wrong. Perhaps now, perhaps twenty years from now, but they do go wrong.

Or perhaps you don't consider CIA airdrops of encrypted satellite phones interference?
African Y Combinator "Clone": Appfrica
Actually, they say "loosely modeled after", but I'm not sure how to put that in the title.

It actually looks pretty cool. One of the great things about the internet is how fast good ideas can spread.
Do you have any evidence to back up this hunch, or is this just the usual sort of unreasoned paranoia that sees third-party involvement behind any action against a disliked government?

The protests are real; the photos and video that have emerged so far are proof of that. And they have unfolded in a manner that's entirely plausible and did not require the involvement of non-Iranian third parties to get to the point they're at now. Until any plausible evidence emerges that significant numbers of tweets were forgeries, I think the more reasonable position to take is to assume they're real and Iranian. Of course, this does not mean they should be automatically believed, as like all low-level eyewitness accounts they are necessarily subject to inaccurate rumours, flawed conclusions, personal biases and all the rest, but the mere fact that many of these tweets are inaccurate does not imply that they weren't posted in Iran and it does not diminish their value in letting the rest of us know what it's like for ordinary people at street level in Iran's cities.
Yeah, they'll be looking for some action then...
url:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/
Again, just a question.

Are you implying that the form of intervention being advocated will restore that trust?
An attack would be if I build a two documents with the same hash and get someone to sign one of them.

Why would anyone do that? Perhaps they open the document and see its all good stuff, but don't spot all the hidden comments (like HTML's <!--) which are there to make the collision work.

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.
Looks like the new url is:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/17/state-asks-t...

The day seems to have changed. (Perhaps their CMS updates the url as a side effect of saving an update that happens on a new day?)
I think he should be a bit more specific here. Zig Ziglar says:
Share "give up" goals with everybody. Share "Go up" goals only with family, friends, and people you can rely on who will support you and not bash your ideas.

So if you want to give up smoking, tell the whole world and they will hold you accountable. If you want invent something new and exciting, only share it with people you know will support you.
Iran, new networks & old media. How you can help
Two corporate browsers
On the contrary, if smart people can be convinced to ignore the practically inexhaustible and freely available supply of water in every building in most first world countries, then I think the de-commoditization of water was an astounding success.

(I mention this because it is intellectually interesting to me, not because I hold contempt in my heart for people who buy bottled water, by the way.)

Incidentally: HN doesn't support unordered lists very well, particularly if you like starting them with asterixes. The best alternative I have for you is starting them with + signs and putting two linebreaks between points.
I am really suspicious of these 100:1 metrics because I don't think they're across the board. That is - they apply to different people at different times. Let me give you an example. One thing I do at work is crunch numbers and make predictions. I do this a lot, and I can grab data from all over the place, parse it or munge it, fit curves, draw graphs, show how two or more datasets are correlated, package all this into a nice report, schedule it to run regularly or generate the report in response to some event, blah blah. Sometimes I can turn around requests in just a few minutes because I have a ton of Python I've already written, I know where to find all the data, and so on. Another equally talented person could take a week or two to do some of this stuff, if they started from scratch and didn't have my mathematical background. And there's stuff they can do that I'd be so much slower at. For any given task, 100:1 differences in performance between team members is normal. Over time, tho', over a range of tasks, I doubt there's even a 5:1 difference within most teams, maybe not even 2:1.
No bombast intended. Chill out.
/
perhaps the next time you hear it you'll get it.

Contradictory?

Look I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings

You didn't - but you still didn't answer my question. What makes it OK for you to hijack Iranian government websites based on hearsay you read on the internet, but makes it bad for the Chinese to hijack the Dalai Lama's computers?

Now that this story is a couple of days old, there seems to be a little more perspective on this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=660169

This is an article explaining how an echo chamber effect through Twitter and the net may have convinced people that the election was stolen, even though it may not have been. The situation isn't black and white like you painted it; things rarely are.

I don't suppose you'll even consider that you might be wrong, but it would certainly be nice if you had gone about it with a little less conceit.
I think you mean, people are very different biologically, with extremely different strengths and weaknesses and extremely different brains. You cannot reliably make any predictions about a particular person's behaviours, aptitudes or motivations if given only the fact that she's a woman.
There are models camping outside stores??
The way I've been doing something similar is to take deployed defense contracts which last 3-9 months at a time (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.), and make enough during that period to live for the rest of the year (and a couple additional years).

I've also been working on startup projects in my spare time, since I have good Internet connectivity while doing the day job. The "non-deployed" time can be spent traveling, or working full-time on any of the startup projects which have traction -- with the added benefit that I can provide my own financing up to a series A.

Somehow I get more done on projects in early stages when they're "side projects", and this way I don't have to worry about my burn rate during early stages (since it's substantially negative).

There are tax benefits ($91k/yr deduction) for being outside the USA 330 days/yr, so once you've done 200-250 days deployed as a contractor in a year, it makes sense to spend the balance outside the US as a tourist -- at a high marginal tax rate that's basically $30k, and I can live comfortably in Vancouver, Bali, New Zealand, Japan, etc. for a few months on way less than that.

The #1 thing I've learned is to totally automate my "administrative life" -- I use a mail-scanning mail forwarder, autopay on all my bills, etc. When you travel a lot, it's easy to miss a credit card bill, and it can be a black mark on your credit for 7 years.

The other nice thing is most of these contracts are "go home at night and not worry about it", vs. normal consulting where you can be called back at any time to fix something. And, the separation between dayjob and any personal projects is a lot easier in an admin/ops contract than in a developer dayjob.
Clojure goes Git
The consumer has been screwed so long, regarding mobile phones, that we think it's normal by now. I mean, overlapping networks when wifi is widely available, roaming charges, paying extreme prices per megabyte when sending a text message. If intel would start restricting which OS you could run on there processors, people would go crazy. Microsoft must even provide a IE free version of windows in Europe.
I agree with everything else you just said. Maybe we are not so far apart in our doctrinal views…Peace and Grace to you
http://www.ed-hardy.cc/ ed hardy
http://www.ed-hardy.cc/ed-hardy-clothing.html ed hardy clothing
Where in Europe would you get doctor and medicine for cheap like that if you didn't have social medical plan? Only a routine examination costs double that amount in most of european countries if you don't have medical insurance.
The pure functional world was pretty much impenetrable for me for that very reason ... until I encountered Monads in Haskell. Monads have changed the game completely by providing a very clean encapsulation of side effects in general. There are people who are trying to generalize it even further using what are called "arrows", but just groking Monads in Haskell will give you a new understanding, somewhat along the lines of what learning exterior calculus does to your view of traditional vector calculus.
I have considered offering free hosting to YC companies. Most of them seem to be a bit, ah, brand conscious (thus going for slicehost over linode) so I haven't bothered to push the idea.

But yea, if any YC company needs free hosting (and really, hosting is so cheap these days that it's all pretty much free) I'd be happy to give it to them. I'm younger than linode, but I've been renting Xen VPSs since 2005, which makes me older than slicehost, I believe.

I'm not asking you to go exclusive or anything (in fact, I think that's a bad idea. don't host all your stuff with the same provider.)

That said, I'd be a little surprised if any of the YC companies have to pay for hosting. Many, many ISPs would be happy to give away a little bandwidth in exchange for some publicity.
http://www.max-sky.com/ Air Max shoes
http://www.aj2u.com/air_yeezy.html air yeezy
http://www.air-shox.com air shox
http://www.cigarettes-home.com Wholesale cigarettes
http://www.cigarettes-sky.com cheap cigarettes
if you want more than 15GiB... use hardware. For less than half what a 16GiB slice sets you back, I'd be happy to rent you your own 8 core server with 32GiB ram.
I've just started using sass/compass for a project and I can tell I am more productive than ever, though I am using 960.gs instead of blueprint with compass. I am using compass for sass/960 and staticmatic for haml - so I can output a set of html/css files which are used in my php project.

I am loving it, especially since staticmatic has preview mode and compass has --watch mode - so I have both running and auto updating my preview while I work on it. Even if I didn't use haml at all and no framework (960), it would still make sense for sass variables and mixins with input variables alone.

building sites that work across browsers is easier with reset+some framework, but I still have to have IE7+ specific css, and compass seems a bit moody on windows.

edit:
I am not sure if I would be comfortable using anything external to css to output css that has the same syntax, like less seems to have - it would most likely pollute my way of thinking down the road.
> Evil, mean bastards every one.

I know few guys who are not like that and who actually fight crime. But they are overshadowed by overly corrupted minority (I know other guys among them who sell drugs for example).

Things in Russia are not that simple and you exaggerate the problems. In general, you just have to know the right people to conduct business there. C'est la vie.
so you like external pressure. I don't. actually, I hate external pressure.

that's why I never tell anyone I know in person about my projects. I usually spill my guts to folks on IRC. they're liable to either find it an utterly fascinating idea which lacks execution or it turns into a trollfest. either way, I'm still left with zero external pressure, some nonspecific encouraging words or lots of close-minded opposition that needs to be shown the finger by Getting It Done.
According to the article, 'Morro' may be the name of a beach in Brazil, but it also means 'Moor' in Spanish. That's certainly what I first thought of when I saw the article - the Moors were certainly ferocious warriors, but I'm not sure that's the slant MS is looking for in hispanic countries :-)
Perhaps not as techie as you may think. It's superior in ease of use to the Java and native IRC clients that preceded it. I was part of a site that used it to provide new users easy access to the IRC room; in that case, it would be less technical visitors using the mibbit (iframe) interface. Many of these sites were previously using Java applets, but the only one I generally see has poor usability and can be quite slow. Mibbit is a very strong alternative for non-technical users in this case. I haven't even addressed the case of people using it to get into IRC in general, which is also probably going on to some level.
Also discussed yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=660034
exactly. if you keep quiet, you can't disappoint the people you'd have opened up to.

perhaps a defense mechanism?

don't kick me. i'm talking about myself here. i'm no psychiatrist, just a programmer who talks too much.
Perhaps not the work alone, but the networking a standard job provides can give valuable insights into marketable ideas, through
discussions on the job or at lunch.
Will the bulk of the browser wind up inside the NaCl sandbox? A supervisor runs a bunch of sandboxes - one for each tab - each having the minimum necessary hooks for communications, storage & interface.
There might be something to this. Work at a big company or any company really in an industry to find the anti-patterns or problems that you never knew.

I have worked on systems for Healthcare communication, strategic marketing, online promotions and game development.

Almost everything I am working now it based on problems or immense walls built up at companies in those industries that I wouldn't have had the insight to understand had I not taken the apprenticeship through anti-patterns via horrible political walled situations at other companies first.

Also, every company has good patterns and anti-patterns that can be applied and work in many other situations. Maybe something can come from all the pain.
Or, alternatively, it suggest that being a women doesn't fit the stereotype of a game developer, and therefore is an interesting trait in itself.

I wouldn't think the stereotype of a game developer includes skin or hair color, or sexual orientation. Other professions does though, so, say, an article like "inspiring heterosexual opera singers" could be valid for expanding the view of what an opera singer can be.
what's the most extreme form of underpromising? promising nothing? not promising?

and then you pull the rabbit out of your hat.

the buzz might be achievable by just giving off the impression that you're working on Something Big, Details Are Secret etc...
And is expected to be out on Friday, ultrasn0w unlock through Cydia, and the general jailbreak through the usual tools on announced on the team's blog same day.
Journey of Bollywood:Frozen,first Black&White film of 21st century.
How is a site like Mibbit possible without JavaScript? AJAX is, after all, asynchronous JavaScript and XML, and a site like Mibbit which is constantly updating and communicating with servers isn't the same as a site which uses JS for menu rollovers. This seems like a case where the technology necessitates JavaScript usage.
Indian Fashion, Salwar Kameez, Indian Sarees
How do you get 10K Twitter Followers legitimately?
Debunked: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8104318.stm
Hmm, I do kind of see the point he's trying to make though - 'Fail' seems to be like a fratboy in-joke, the kind of thing that's OK to shout out because it's funny, but that is actually a little thoughtless and sometimes cruel. The tabloid press and TV are full of that already; the article author obviously thought that the internet could do better, and is disappointed to see it isn't.
Given how much connectivity in Africa is likely to grow in the coming years, this looks like a good thing for Africa based entrepreneurs.
on the surface they said "we won't support", but what they actually meant was "we'll break it next version".

How do you know that?
Hỗ trợ lao động huyện nghèo đi xuất khẩu lao động tại Yên Bái: Thiếu cụ thể 
(LĐ) - Bước đầu triển khai thí điểm QĐ 71/2009/QĐ-TTg (về hỗ trợ huyện nghèo đẩy mạnh XKLĐ giai đoạn 2009-2020) tại Yên Bái cho thấy cần có sự điều chỉnh, bổ sung văn bản hướng dẫn....
Transcend MP320R Pink Digital Music Player Launched Worldwide
Transcend Information, Inc. (Transcend), a worldwide leader in storage and multimedia products announced that its popular MP320 digital music player is now available in a stylish new pink version—MP320R. Created with fashion-conscious female consumers in mind, the fresh new MP320R has a glossy eye-popping color scheme that emphasizes individuality and unique personal style.
Still, I’m tired of being sold the story of someone’s life, when it’s their work that will impact mine.

This sentence did it for me - I definitely agree. There's a tendency to focus on life stories these days, and they're given the same importance as the accomplishments of the people whose stories they're looking at, which doesn't seem right.
It's just reinforcing the stereotype though! It's not helping! :)

Look what we're discussing on this comment page... Top comment is discussing the fact she is a woman. We have completely ignored what she has achieved, and are instead focusing on the fact she's a woman. That must be terribly disheartening, and IMHO really doesn't help people feel welcome.
I don't see why this is a good example.

Coke with corn syrup is far cheaper to produce, but tastes really bad.

Coke with real sugar costs more to produce, and tastes better.

Care to enlighten?
Why to trust them when there is YC?

I cannot see any name (PG) or other advantages (the Valley) I would combine my startup with.
I agree. Consider twitter on the other hand.

I would argue that while it may have been introduced to solve a certain “problem” (communication hub for friends/local groups, “I want to have a dispatch service that connects us on our phones using text.”), its success comes from accidentally satisfying different needs.
Developer friendliness/ support?
I only played with the first Android release so far. Yet, honestly, for me the Iphone developer documentation and support seem by far better.

Openness?
Why do I still have to jailbreak and unlock an Android phone, when it is so open? (Rhetorical Question)

Price?
Yes, check if you want phones with really bad battery lifetime (so far, let's see when a decent phone comes out, I might reconsider).

Btw, is it true that you can only use the phones if you have a google account and that there are several phone home features in the phone?
Some reasons why I hate Codeigniter
How is Japan to live in, btw? I have been told they are very closed to foreigners. Can you make friends despite your ethnicity?
Good post, but I dislike the "ideas are worthless because there is no market for them" idea:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2007/04/26/ideas-are-worthless
By trying to undermine his opinion you only ended up reinforcing it.
1) 20% "business tax" or knowing the right people. Can be interpreted as paying someone 20% of X to put me in contact with the right people. The point is getting business done should be transparent and only the buyer and seller need to exchange any money. Paying 10 guys in between is not how normal business gets done.

2) I feel very strongly about police corruption. Even if it is only a small powerful minority. The fact is the rest of them know there is a problem but won't do anything to stop it. Which means they are part of the problem. And if they are overshadowing then it is institutional corruption. And once they are that embedded than numbers don't matter because every part of it is rotten.
I'm not sure if anyone's gonna buy this. I understand from my look at tgethr that its about collaboration, security and email wrapped into new clothes. But then, the popularity of a service hugely depends on the size of its userbase right? How would tgethr ever get a huge userbase by putting restrictions and making people buy to get a feel in the first place.

I think the domain togethr.com would've been better, matches the pronounciation ... tgethr sounds like T gethr or something... I keep forgetting the domain for I thought it was togethr when I tried to open it after 20 minutes...

I wish tgethr could have a nice favicon, can't see any in chrome.

BstOfLck
Denver SEO
Drupal Web Development and Search Engine Optimization in Denver - New Media offers varied services such as Denver Web Design, Denver SEO (Search Engine Optimization Denver), Denver Flash Design, Drupal Consulting, Application Development and much more