skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sites don't (or at least shouldn't) have any obligation to serve everyone. Most people are content to render their name in plain ASCII. How much extra are you willing to pay to be able to use those symbols? Or do you expect everyone else to subsidize you?
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Clickbait. Pure and simple.

Not only that but sentences like "I appear to be the highest ranked openly female member there" appears to be a person obsessed with points, giving validity to clickbait.

I have enough points, go ahead a downvote. They do not translate into money.
This is China.
This says a lot, because Sublime isn't exactly fast. Electron is resulting in simple yet extremely bloated, battery killing apps.
Yeah, but GitHub got me early on before I cared about private repos, and honestly I was just too lazy to move stuff over. They also win me over with integrations, though I'm sure BitBucket has a similarly expansive set now. Had I ever gone full Atlassian, I'd have switched, but never wanted to add Jira to my life badly enough (though when I was seriously working on a project with a friend, I considered it).
The safety of malachite-based sex toys (slightly NSFW)
Variable Character = Vare-care

Not that I say it that way, I've always heard and said var-char
Just a heads up: VS Code is starting to implement tabs in the next milestone (not sure what that means as for when users will see it, though). [0]

[0]: http://code.visualstudio.com/Updates
That's even worse though. You can't ask for a universal GNU/Linux native appearance since there are Debian/Kubuntu/Ubuntu standards for UI. The list goes on and on too.
Git is just a format for storing data with a record of how that data changed. Saying you shouldn't store it in git seems rather like saying you shouldn't store it in btrfs. It's true that if your btrfs disk image becomes public, the data is recoverable, and it's hard to reliably scrub deleted files from btrfs, but that doesn't mean it's the wrong tool for a filesystem (or a repo) that stays entirely internal.

Saying that you shouldn't keep it on GitHub is different, and I might be more inclined to agree with that, but it still seems like it's not a 100% rule.
The neat thing about the ease of searching news sites is you can see the incredible proliferation of news articles that are just rewriting someone else's scoop.
> But that is in fact what adults do. They mediate, they don't act without doing research, finding context and getting both sides of the story. If the male says, "Well I never said that!" and you terminate his employment how is that an appropriate reaction?

Sorry, but that isn't true all too often.

We have seen both radfems and rad-MRAs starting shitstorms on the Internet over all kinds of stuff where a reasonable adult just thinks "what the fuck have they all been smoking", including SWATting, shitstorming employers, death threats, vile behavior etc.

I desperately wish that everyone calms down a lot and thinks before typing, but unfortunately, this is no longer possible: only maximum brutality will ensure publicity, no matter the costs.
This is a lot to go through, but I've bookmarked your comment so I can take my time. Thanks for sharing.
Creating a microservice-like aggregation tier with node packages
I think this is a stupid statement made by people that are not in Rio.

I live a longtime in Rio and never had Dengue, Zika or whatever.. right now it's cold in Rio de Janeiro so mosquitos are dead or dying, how are you going to get Zika with dead mosquitos right now?

Stupids and racists from Harvard, search more references first!
Slack and Spotify are two examples of apps that have gotten worse and worse. Slack is CPU heavy as hell. Spotify is laggy and feels like a website rather than a native app.
I never interpreted "everyone should learn to code" to mean "everyone should get a job as a software developer". Coding is a highly useful skill that can be applied in many professions. It doesn't mean everyone has to write professional quality software in the hottest language du jour.

"Learning to code" just means recognizing when a problem can be solved by applying a discrete series of repeatable steps and then learning how to tell the computer to do those steps rather than doing it yourself. The productivity boost we could get just by eliminating people manually copying and pasting (or, dear god, re-typing) things from one spreadsheet to another would be enormous, let alone other applications.
tl;dr: Do all the things you should be doing under the moniker of "sanitize inputs", but just don't call it sanitizing inputs because I'm very literal and it bugs me. See also: 'hacker' v. 'cracker'.
> Microsoft Office pisses me off more with its constant crashes and weird bugs than Google Docs does.

Crashes / weird bugs and MS Office... that's something new to me. I always considered MS Office to be a set of some of the most stable applications I've ever seen. Do you do something atypical, so that the bugs/crashes could be related to a platform or some rarely used features? I'm asking out of curiosity.

Google Docs et al. don't just lack advanced functionality, they lack a lot of quite basic functionality too. But my point wrt. webapps is also one of ergonomics. I do a lot of work in Google Docs and Spreadsheets due to external reasons, and I absolutely hate the experience. No matter how fast a computer I use, the lag on the Google's office suite is very annoying and distracting. Like with some IDEs which are slow enough to make one unable to ever enter the state of flow, Google's spreadsheets routinely double the time I am spending on a task due to simple lag on almost every operation.
Damn straight I can.

The marginal cost of providing content is now essentially 0, and there are few-to-no good models for how to handle capital costs when they can't be subtly rolled into marginal prices. That doesn't mean any of the existing solutions are acceptable.

A paywall subscription to the Boston Globe will run me (long term) $7/week. That's $0.30/week less than they would charge me for a daily physical paper.

Full access to Buzzfeed, meanwhile, is 100% free and still isn't worth what it costs.

So yes, I'll complain. I'll complain that I have a choice between (malware-serving) advertisements, value-erasing sponsored content, and usurious paywalls that start at monthly subscriptions.

I know this isn't an easy problem. Microtransactions (pay per article) are unappealing to consumers. Tipping (Patreon) isn't a stable revenue stream for large organizations. And no matter what you paywall, someone will put it up for free. Even academic journals haven't beaten that reality. But for all that, I still don't have to like the existing answers.
> if the woman is making the offer and the man refuses, he's likely to still feel flattered but the woman is likely to get the signal and move on.

I've had the opposite experience. I didn't feel flattered and she didn't get the hint.

>But ... many men are absolutely clueless and will never get that signal.

Weasel words. We're in Anecdote City right now.

>So I think part of this discussion needs to acknowledge that you can't write HR policy that will satisfy everyone.

The HR policies exist to prevent sexual harassment and to optimize for "safe against lawsuits." They're not supposed to make people satisfied or happy, they're there to protect the company.
I've come to the conclusion that those who defend weak/dynamic type systems and other unsafe toolchains simply buy into the fallacy of the uber-developer: the belief that while other, lesser developers need static typing and analysis, I'm so superior that I will never introduce those class of bugs, ever.
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Bringing Data-Driven Culture to Software Engineers
>teenagers contribute nothing to the GDP. we could ignore them completely

Yes, let's reduce people to their economic value.

Also pocket money.
Sadly ironic: the link to download the extension is tracked. (http://imgur.com/EqZEdhH)
Since a few years ago, any EU or UK public funded research (which is most university research) must be published as open-access. It is a requirement of the funding. So this is already happening. However, it will need to be done by a greater proportion of the world to be effective.

The only problem is that the method of open access publishing is usually to pay a few grand to the publisher for the privilege.
Tell HN: Phishing site on Google search sponsored links
A friend of mine was robbed recently and yesterday he discovered this: http://imgur.com/f9FpJXy

Unreal.
> Well, what should we refer to them as?

Left-wing extremists? Seems to cover the political movement well enough.
The results displayed on the website correlate with my experience that C++ is not a popular language in London specially for web [back-end] development.
Nothing in her profile text allows you to make the inference that her grudge is based on jealousy of his karma and popularity. Even if you think that's likely, it's a pretty lousy thing to post publicly.
I wonder how much this has to do with the francophonic Quebec culture. Montreal has two big universities, McGill and UdM. McGill is primarily English-speaking, while UdM is primarily French-speaking. French Canada has always been far more politically activist than English Canada - they shift paradigms without a clutch.
Good points, I was only basing my information on what she said about her previous experience with him, based solely on that I think he sounds "sketchy" but also notice in the same line I put "but you know how internet rumors etc are."

I don't just take her opinion on him as fact, I have had no personal interaction with him nor do I draw the conclusion he is actually sketchy, I just take it as one persons opinion about another and know either and or both can be skewed because of past history.
FWIW, this industry as a whole tends to be trending away from adulthood.
Can't use Telegram in Vietnam
It seems Viettel Isp is blocking Telegram... The application on web, desktop or mobile phone is connecting... forever
If the implication is that his statements in 2011 and 2013 were predictions that turned out to be false, I don't think these quotes are sufficient evidence.

That an inevitable correction has been delayed by sustained government efforts does not make predictions of a correction any less prescient.
> Saying that you shouldn't keep it on GitHub is different

I'd be willing to argue about that, but for my newrelic api key, a private github repo is sufficiently safe - even if I'd prefer if nobody starts having his servers report to my account.
This is like writing 'Please don't learn algebra', to me. Life revolves around computers; they are not merely appliances.
Neat! That's exactly what I was thinking of.
Scala and Clojure are both on my list of things to investigate.
> I don't like the term terrorist being used so lightly.

Eh. It sort of confused me in the context. I think that something like "zero tolerance policy" would have been better.
I'm not entirely sure. I've been called an SJW though, so i must be arational. I'm mocking the parent's sentiment. Calling people arational and "immune to basic logic" (i'm not even sure what 'basic logic' is) is just a way to dismiss people for having different views of the world. People have different values and different experiences. That's the root of disagreement.

Few who value rationality think they are irrational; few who value good think they are evil. It's always the other person who is irrational or evil. A human being arational is actually a ridiculous concept. There is no person who isn't reasonable in some way.
>The line between learning to code and getting paid to program as a profession is not an easy line to cross.

I think if you are a women then going to bootcamps is still a good choice. I convinced my cousin to quit her job and get into a local bootcamp in chicago in 2014. Fast fwd 2016 she finally founds job as a junior dev at a local web dev consulting company. You also get scholarships for women/minorities.

Learning to code is still a good choice if you see yourself enjoying it as a profession.
This is already a requirement from several government funding agencies, for instance from NIH:

https://publicaccess.nih.gov

This is based on the 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act (which specifies NIH funded research). What would be nice is if this type of act would be passed for all govt. funding agencies.
As CEO, you have a moral obligation to your employees, a fiduciary responsibility to the board and stockholders, and a legal responsibility under California and Federal law that makes your suggestion poor advice.

It is very nice that in your instance and outcome that was so mutually agreeable was reached by all parties. However, it could have easily gone differently, and can go differently in the future. As other commenters in that other thread noted: if the individual who was harassed was on a PIP, if the individual harasses an external vendor/contractor/customer, if he or someone else harasses another employee in the future, if the harassee leaves the company under circumstances that are not mutually disagreeable... all of these are very likely to result in material civil settlements to the company (and possibly the CEO personally) if this is not handled in a way very close to what patio11 described. Raising with HR vs contacting a lawyer will certainly result in the same outcome, regardless.
I should have written. "But that is in fact what adults should do".
But you do know that it's not bay area only right? Millions of people outside US use it and the price difference is a lot to bear for some of them.
While it is widely accepted that portions of the Rocky Mountains were once underwater, and were pushed up via orogenic processes, it is also widely accepted that the vast majority of the central United States spent a significant amount of time underwater due to a higher global sea level.

Since this trough only covers the western 1/4 or so of Montana[2], I think it would be safe to say that, on average, a shark tooth found in Montana was not found in an area of orogenic lifting, thus was likely deposited there by a shark, or something higher on the food chain than a shark, during a period in which the sea levels were much higher than they are today. Are there places in Montana where orogenic lifting created dry land? Yes. Are they as likely to be trafficked by humans as the others? No.

I suppose they could also have been recently deposited by a migratory bird.

[1] http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/continents/

[2] http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/continents/cretaceous.jpg
Work less. Smile more. :)

Seriously, this is one of the best times of your life...unless you take a job that squeezes every bit of energy and life out of you. Achieving work-life balance early in your career will make this profession sustainable for you in the long run; so I'd focus on that.

Beyond that: do whatever jobs interest you at the time, live on less than you make, and don't forget to backup your work.
Behind the SV Angel Breakup
Show HN: Awsm.css – Simple CSS library for semantic HTML markup
The only sort of fighting I really can get behind, to be honest.
Its like when someone use the word patriarchy or privilege. The words are there to define a group which can be generalized and excluded from discussion, and a key attribute of such terms is that the accused can't disprove that they are a SJW, privileged or actors that contributes the current social construction.

HN do not have a strict policy against such terms, and people don't seems to be voluntarily avoiding them. If the posted had said "white privileged men are part of the problem", would you have had made a similar objection?
I don't see any such flag, and about:discards and chrome://discards/ don't work. Has the feature been dropped in Chrome 50, or was it just never implemented for Linux?
Yes, I experienced serious deja vu from this article.
Moving on from Rails sounds great until you try to build a serious web app with one of the alternatives. While I think that many of the architectural criticisms are valid, Rails demonstrates the primacy of ecosystem and strong conventions over language design and cs theory.

'Tomorrow's' languages and frameworks would do well to take heed. Winning this war has as much to do with culture and marketing as algorithms and data structures.

Clojure, for example, is a much stronger programming language than Ruby on paper, but for a straightforward web app, you'll likely spend at least twice as long to get something working--and while it will be based on better engineering principles, it will also take new engineers much longer to grok since it doesn't follow any universal set of conventions.

With Rails, you end up in the weeds in the long run, but the alternatives put you in the weeds right off the bat (with the promise of eventual salvation). The reality of most product development (ymmv) is that the former is highly preferable to the latter.
I thought she was using the term nuke em playfully while she was using the term terrorist in a more serious manner.
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To preface this, I am not excusing the guy's behavior. However, I think I understand why he may have thought it was alright to call her a MILF.

MILF became a really popular term in the early 00s. Back then, it was obviously vulgar. I think the term has been thrown around so casually, that to most people, it has lost its bite. Hell, morning zoo shows will drop MILF (even though the "F" is blatantly vulgar) without batting an eyes. To a lot of people, I don't think MILF generates the same reaction as outwardly saying, "She looks good. I'd like to fuck her." To him, it was probably analogous to saying, "You look good. Really good. We should go out sometime," with the subtext of sex after the date.

Again, I don't think he was right. Just trying to provide a rationale.
> there really wasn't much else out there in the field.

What about shell scripts?
Facebook Research contemplates the user experience for dead users
>Qt 5 and QML. GTK on Linux...

List one that is MIT licensed...
>The line between learning to code and getting paid to program as a profession is not an easy line to cross. Really. It took me more than a year of self-taught study before I got a freelance gig.

That actually makes it sound easy.
What are the permissions on /proc/sunxi_debug/sunxi_debug?

Anyone know?

This could be locked down so that, say, only processes which are members of a certain group can open a file descriptor to this proc entry.

This is a lot of unnecessary effort to implement something that can be obtained with a simple /bin/rootmydevice executable that is chmod u+s. (Though it is somewhat more streamlined: no intervening process execution is required).

Which, in turn, is a lot of effort to reinvent sudo.

(But of course, those are arguably front doors; you can easily scan the filesystem image for items that have u+s perms.)

I would do this kind of hole differently: why not just hack the kernel so that any process can do setuid(0). Or, slightly hide it: say, setuid(-42) gives you root privs.
> had success

That's a really gross way of describing your overbearing behavior in a work setting. As if spitting out sexually-charged comments is some sort of win/not-quite-lose scenario.

Yeah, let's just keep calling women MILFs, or calling guys DILFs, or whatever the pickup line du jour is, until it "succeeds", and until then, well, just keep trying. That doesn't sound like a creepy, overbearing trait to exhibit at all. /sarcasm
> My point is that tools like Electron are actually making it harder to do fast and multi-threaded code on desktop

Absolutely. Electron is worse than native, I'd never disagree with that. But I don't think people are looking at Electron and saying "hmm, shall we do Electron or native?", they're saying "oh great, Electron means we can make a capable cross-platform desktop app, something we don't have the time nor budget to do otherwise".
Java:`char` type considered Harmful and should be retired
1103: "Please don't learn to read."

1527: "Please don't learn to write."

1965: "Please don't learn to type."

2012: "Please don't learn to code."
If $8 is a big deal per user, how little are you paying the poor bastards?
Looks like just a repost of a site like CWJobs.com, full of recruitment companies. While thats fine, i'd love to see a site that offers contracts that aren't through recruiters. I'd even pay for access to that. Something to think of?
It's rather fitting then to use it for a group that has "scorched earth" as regular strategy.
> On the other hand, the mass audience journalism like NYT and USAToday is replicated on too many other free sources.

This is huge. For a story that anyone can cover ("Cat Stuck in Tree!"), there's mass-market competition where a hundred players can run their own versions of the same story. If one of those players is willing to work for free (or Reddit karma, or 'exposure', or whatever else), then the value of that information drops to ~$0.

Mass market journals used to get by on marginal costs, but those are ~0 too now. What they have left to offer is writing quality and accuracy, but its increasingly looking like those aren't worth what they cost. And the quality dilution of high-end journalism has made the problem worse, by driving journalists into ever-more-direct competition with the free sources they can't possibly outprice.
The $19 billion paid wasn't for their amazingly well engineered system, it was for their massive user base.
Five marketing tactics that work on a shoestring budget
'team has too much to do' seems to be the real problem. Will your solutions lessen the team's workload or increase it due to micromanagement?

Seems to me the easier solution is to lessen their load directly, push back dramatically on deadlines, force vacations/breaks for them to unwind, and try to inculcate pride in work by increasing ownership and financial rewards. Maybe pay for design conferences, courses, museum/gallery visits or a trip to Japan/Switzerland.
We support the uuencode horror for compat (and for smaller binaries that don't change) but the answer for binaries is BAM, there is no data in the weave for BAM files.

I don't agree that the weave is horrible, it's fantastic for text. Try git blame on a file in a repo with a lot of history then try the same thing in BK. Orders and orders of magnitude faster.

And go understand smerge.c and the weave lightbulb will come on.
If anything, Michelle demonstrates a good argument for getting rid of the /leaders page on HN.

Comparing e-penises is an adolescent exercise and waste of time.
The public school curriculum was designed to prepare students for employment, which many would consider mercenary but I find perfectly reasonable. It's entirely within the spirit of public education in the US to require computer literacy at the primary level and computer science at the secondary level.
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My point is that larger companies are now be punished for a failed initial pricing model by GitHub. I prefer the new pricing model from a personal point of view, but for larger organisations it's now too expensive and I think many will relocate their repositories to BitBucket, or GitLab, or Gogs, or etcetera.

Edit: My parent post is being down voted and that's fine, my point was not made in anger, it was an observation that smaller companies are having their monthly costs decreased, and the larger companies are seeing an increase, for organisations created after today that's a fair premise, but for those organisations that have been using GitHub for years and have now seen their monthly costs increase, it's a slap in the face.