skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
which is a whole other ball of wax

... that you are reading into it. We lack any form of context and that soundbite could mean any number of things. For all you know he was just expressing the idea that promoting teenage abstinence is futile, with his own feelings (and the expectation that the addressee shared those feelings) about female forms as an argument.
http://www.twilio.com/

I haven't used them in production, but I've started playing around with their voice API and it's pretty neat.

Also, you get $30 credit (for free) when signing up for a test account, so that should be more than enough to fiddle with tests and get your integration up and running.
Looking at the winners of this year Indian National Mathematical Olympiad ( http://www.isical.ac.in/~rmo/inmo10_list.pdf ) there are 2 girls and 33 boys.
"What kind of startup employee will you be when the only professional environment you have known is Microsoft?"

What do you think they do at MS and what do you think they do at startup companies? Ex-MS people have done places like Zillow, Valve, Fog Creek. And thousands have joined relatively large companies in their early phases, such as Google and Facebook.

Do you honestly believe that devs at Microsoft sit around saying, "Hmm... how can we do nothing today?"
Is there a list of all the promises Obama made? I know he took most off his website after he was elected. -- Just because you like Obama doesn't mean you need to down vote me because I think he should be accountable.
Tired of all the pedantry surrounding REST, but hate SOAP? JSON-RPC FTW.
This response will probably be downvoted, as I'm guessing I have less respect (should I say more disdain?) for political correctness than most HN'ers.

Congratulations, you're a contrarian! How's being the smartest guy in the room working out?
Showing a nice ass on a slide is not a sign of male privilege.

I strongly disagree. Seeing that image immediately tells any straight women or gay mean in the room that she or he is not the expected audience for the talk. The ideal audience for a Ruby talk is "people who are interested in Ruby," not "people who enjoy looking at pictures of near-naked women." The former is mostly, but not completely, made up of the latter.

I'm not the only one who disagrees with you. Here's an entry from the first hit on Google for "male privilege":

41. Assuming I am heterosexual, magazines, billboards, television, movies, pornography, and virtually all of media is filled with images of scantily-clad women intended to appeal to me sexually. Such images of men exist, but are rarer.

http://www.amptoons.com/blog/the-male-privilege-checklist/
Charity does equal giving people money. If you're not giving people money, then you're making an investment.
no this isn't stupid.
The issue isn't confidence, it's motivation. Ideas are a dime and dozen. Execution on good ideas is what matters. Personally, it seems so blidingly obvious that I wouldn't even think to say it, but clearly for a lot people this seems controversial.
I think you underestimate the value of telling people what they want to hear.
It was a sort of TL;DR of a 12 years career. Highly condensed wisdom.
The Pr0n Star presentation was forever ago. The "recent development" which supposedly shows Matt's misogyny is somebody ribbing Matt over the embarrassing incident and Matt taking it in good humor. FFS, this is a simple hatchet job on a very nice hacker who once made a joke that unintentionally hurt some feelings. Very poor form.
I think Nic's tweet was more of a "Are you a fucking idiot. Is this REALLY what you meant to say because it's what people took away"
From the article:

"My favorite along these lines is a classic, Cyril Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons." It's the original version of "Idiocracy" — the basic idea is that selection now favors the stupid, and so if we go forward in time, that's what we'll see. The concept is simple and well-drawn; the consequences unexpected."

I would say the current state of American politics is a warning sign for this condition.

edit: quote was taken from John Hawks, Paleoanthropologist, University of Wisconsin, Madison:
Twilio really does rock. Super easy to use and get started and there are other providers that provide Twilio API compatibility in case you ever need it.
> who are you or I to say what should or shouldn't discourage women from doing anything?

Those who are truly motivated are not discouraged by minor indirect impediments. The cage of political correctness and over-sensitivity is far more stifling to innovation than the minority of folks who are discouraged from entering a profession by this sort of thing. It is the source of bureaucracy, drones, intrusive HR, politics, and all the other things we love to hate about big corporations where no one can say what they think.

I agree that personalized sexuality can be a serious distraction and should be generally avoided in the workplace, however general bantering and references to sexuality are just that.
>Getting invited to play video games with people, because they haven't assumed you won't be interested because of your gender.
I feel that unless you snag a .com that's your exact name, you're screwed either way.

I ended up with [word].io, but I was deciding between that and [word][obscure animal].com . I think I made the right choice.

Fortunately, most of the traffic to my site will be from links and not casual mentions/word of mouth, so the tld shouldn't be a big problem.
As far as I can deduce that comment was not directed at you. I don't quite know why you'd take such a personal offense to it either.

In my opinion this response is an example of what aneth is referring to in thier comment.
If you have a breaker panel you can measure at that point: http://www.theenergydetective.com/store/ted-5000
In fact, I wanted to do a gem/plugin for ruby that would make the boring task of asking a user for a timezone easier.
"...great reading on dystopian robotics include Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's Dune prequel trilogy on the Butlerian Jihad"

Clearly you didn't read the same books I did? "Great"? REALLY?
I call them RESTy or sometimes just HTTP APIs.
BTW, if anyone's interested in the whole topic of privilege, I strongly recommend taking a look at the "Helpful Resources" section over at the Border House:

http://borderhouseblog.com/?page_id=54

I tick pretty much every privilege box there is (I'm a white, straight, middle-class male from western Europe), but I like to think I'm pro-equality. Reading some of the articles there challenged a lot of my assumptions and behaviours.
Ughh.

A gay man with a presentation throwing up a sculpted chest to make a point would not tell me that I'm not the expected audience. Again, the impediment is in your head, not the presenter.

Does a Python programmer using a slide of Python at a Ruby conference insult the audience? Give me a break.

Just because there are lots of people who love to be offended, blog about it, organize around it, and generally make a life of it, doesn't mean it's right.
Fucking good idea. That is awesome.

The directly linked post rather understates its claimed capabilities. Look at all the stuff this does: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3977534

However, it's hard to get around the fact that if someone thinks you're spying on them, they can just look at their phone bill and see the text messages, which tells them all the commands you ever ran with this tool. EDIT: I might be partially wrong. You can set it up so that it communicates via polling an FTP server, instead of SMS.
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You're welcome. I spent five or six hours at the computer (my whole work day today), more over the last few weeks mentally digesting what I learned and kicking around structure and phrasing.
except one could say that mexico represents Slim's philosophy and America (and most industrialized countries) more closely represent Buffet's/Gate's philosophies.

I think it's clear which philosophy has the better outcome for people in general.
Still, that's such a high level that societal expectations probably come into play there as well. How socially equality is India?
I wasn't able to find the cost until I signed in.

http://www.wattvision.com/info/sensors

$239 for hardware sensor
$8.99/mo for historical data
I think it's quite possible there are imbalances in the tails of distributions, but it still means that the middle could plausibly be more balanced. I'd personally not worry that much about gender balance among Fields Medal winners, and more about gender balance among engineering graduates from the local Big State U. The men there are probably above average in math ability, but few are world-class mathematicians; most are probably in something like the 70th-90th percentiles for math ability, a region which doesn't seem (from what data is available) to have large inherent gender imbalances.
This is ad hominem if I've ever seen it. Especially in corrupt societies, I feel like jobs would fare much better than donations by: 1) Increasing economic activity which is required for growth 2) Making sure the money goes to where it's supposed to, and used the way it's supposed to. (Remember the stolen OLPCs? Donations don't always make it to the destination if they're juicy targets.)
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My vote is for teamxls.com - I think it's more fitting than Hypernumbers.
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> OK, but has anyone managed to construct the real numbers with intuitionist logic?

I think it should be possible to do so. As long as you don't need the law of the excluded middle you should be fine.

> Maybe different logics are like different building materials, each with their own advantages and disadvantages.

I see where you're coming from, but I think logic is more than just a tool.
We had an excellent discussion on another (private, sorry) forum with regards to a member who wanted to put together a toolbox for his daughter before she went to college.

The general consensus tended to sway towards the smaller, less glamorous items, and your list would have fit right in. Yes, everyone should have a drill, but it's hard to hang shelves with that drill when you don't have a studfinder or a level. Anyone who's working with a saw is going to need those clamps you mentioned, and probably a ruler or tape measure.

As a geek, my personal toolbox favorite is a headlamp. (And in my age bracket, having a really comfortable allen wrench set is great for moving IKEA furniture.)
The US decided to do some charity work and supply Haiti with rice after the earthquake. Now the rice market is collapsing in Haiti.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11472874
Only if you don't clean your weapon every 4000 rounds :\
I have trouble with classifying the most visited site in the world as a startup. I don't find that accurate.
> I've spent over 1200 hours designing and developing and have a very strong vision for the product.

> I think my co-founder registered an LLC, but we've never agreed and signed any sort of partnership/ownership/nda agreement.

OUCH.

Sounds like there's something worth salvaging though, so why don't you two try and patch it up - maybe try to find a neutral third party or something? I think it might even be worth your while to jointly pay some kind of person who is good at mediating disputes to try and help you come to some kind of agreement.
Simpler, yes, but of the ones you cite I think only the Uzi has comparable reliability. It has been said to me that an unlettered village blacksmith could manufacture most replacement parts for an AK, and it is certainly true that bits that would be carefully machined in any other gun (such as the receiver) were stamped metal on the AK. The gun is even fairly accurate per se, although the sights are primitive and probably the source of the "AKs are horribly inaccurate" meme.
I noticed that the URL was "blog.wattvision.com" and replaced the "blog" with "www". Worked like a charm ...
The Yorkie is a chocolate bar that is sold in the UK only (I think? I'm not sure) and is quite chunky in terms of the amount of chocolate you get per chunk.

I think the reasoning behind the marketing 'it's not for girls' was because in the 80s/90s the best selling chocolate bar in the UK (and still is) is the Cadbury Dairy Milk and their marketing campaigns pushed the bars as being a woman's best friend, which I guess Nestle felt there was a gap in the market to push a so-called 'manly' bar of chocolate. I guess you could compare it too Diet Coke vs. Coke Zero.

It's kind of hard to explain and from an outsiders perspective it does seem wildly offensive to women, but here in the UK it's more of just a bit of humour that people don't really take too seriously
I imagine giving $10 billion makes you feel about as good as making the $10 billion in the first place.

I would hope it would make most people feel better... a lot better.
That's reading a hell of a lot into "suppressing all our animal instincts is futile."
Avoid further relationship with your "friend." Make sure you have good documentation/proof of the amount of work you've put in and what you've done in case anything goes wrong.
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I recently participated in a Ruby conference (SunnyConf) and was shocked to see that out of ~100+ attendees, not a single woman, other than an organizer.

At local code camps, the balance is not quite that extreme, but still, heavily slanted.

A far cry from when I broke into the field, back in the '80s, when women outnumbered men in the development shops (or as was termed "Data Processing", and then "Systems…" in them days) I worked in.

Is the same condition as with Java, Python, .NET gatherings?
I think my co-founder registered an LLC

One more validation that proves that an online database where you can explicitly pledge equity to someone upfront is a must. Check out the new http://fairsoftware.net that's what it does.

To answer your questions: if it's your code and you didn't sign anything, your "friend" is not in a strong position, since he most likely has no rights to it.

By the way, stop calling someone "your friend" when they threaten to sue you.

Now for a final word of advice and in the spirit of helping resolve a situation that I have witnessed many times, I'm willing to talk to both of you, as a neutral third party, hear each of you out and report back to both privately what I recommend. Use my contact info - I have done this in the past.
Android or iPhone. Don't touch Windows 7. The media has completely fallen out of love with Microsoft, so by writing for Windows 7, you have a big strike against you if your app is the kind that would be eligible for media attention.
A gay man with a presentation throwing up a sculpted chest to make a point would not tell me that I'm not the expected audience.

What if you were the only straight person in the room? Wouldn't you feel uncomfortable attending a Ruby talk full of homosexual innuendo in such a situation?
First I would probably stop working on it immediately.

Then I would gather all evidence you have and create a full time-line of the project. From when it started, to who did what, what was previously agreed on, either via email or in person. Then it is time to talk with a lawyer.
When was the last time you tried dropping your car off a skyscraper?
Wow, and this one is a false analogy. Just because one is from America and the other is from Mexico doesn't mean that they've been the sole affectors of their respective countries' welfares, or that the current (good or bad) state of their countries is a direct result of their actions.

What is this, fallacy friday?
I wonder: this person is your friend, and he seems reasonable enough for you to have started this project with, so what's his side of the story? What's his rationale if, as you say, you've borne a brunt of the work?

This may well be the only side to the story, but something tells me there has to be more to it.
one could say that, but I don't think anyone would would actually say that with a straight face.
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How about we call something a HTTP-based API, when we want to distinguish it from full REST, or SOAP, etc? Or say JSON/HTTP or XML/HTTP.
hey that's a very good point.i've heard NSA makes it's own CPU,memory etc..is that true??
Is the intention of the conference organizers to put any/all of the videos online?
At what point does it go from "there is a widespread misuse of this term" to "it's an academic debate"?

These days, "REST" is no better than "Web 2.0".

(Okay, it's not as bad as Web 2.0 but it's certainly a buzzword)
Looks pretty neat and something I wish I had last time I had to deal with stuff like this. Definitely bookmarked in case of future needs.

I know this comment doesn't really add much to the discussion, but still thought I'd throw out some appreciation.
You dilute your message when you resort to namecalling. You don't have to be personally offended by it, or even disagree with it, to recognize it as lowering the level of discourse.
it = jquery.svg or Raphael?
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Ouch, some friend he is. What I'm wondering is why the split was never declared before you started working together?
Once, at a Pizza Hut counter, I noticed that all the pens meant for signing credit card receipts had little flowers attached to their tops. Stuck together in a cup, the bunch of pens looked like a bouquet. I asked the cashier whether this was a new Pizza Hut policy. She said no – she had done it on her own. What would you pay to have her in your company?

Maybe he missed the point? People typically attach things to the end of pens to stop them from getting stolen. Not to make bouquets.
I'm pretty sure you were the only one who thought that.
"when the Taleban were fighting the Soviets for us."

Was this right before Regan sent lasers to space and won the cold war?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan
I wonder if they have a library of pre-made tasks somewhere? It seems like the main limitation would be one's own imagination.
My favorite is the ability to mute the ringer by placing it face down instead of face up on a table. Great use of proximity sensor.
Politifact keeps an "Obameter." I particularly like their 5-category system (including "Compromise," "In the Works," and "Stalled")

http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
He's right, and it shouldn't. That's what governments and collective decision-making are for. Private individuals shouldn't be depended on to do anything but further their own interests, even in the charity sphere. They spend money for PR purposes, to strengthen personal connections, or simply because they enjoy the environment it puts them in. The major cause of misery in the world is the lust for power and influence over other people, and money epitomises that.

What people need is security in employment and compensation, and protection against unavoidable risk, like fire and sickness. Without exploiting the weakness and insecurity of workers, you can't really amass the kind of cash this guy has, so I'm not sure about the quality of the jobs he's creating if he can skim that much value off of the top. The profit margin on fairness is a lot lower than the profit margin on slave wages, monopoly, and legislative arbitrage.

That's not to say that he couldn't, though. If he created a lot of good jobs for people with fair wages, and charged fair prices, that's a massive good and can't be denied. He won't, though, because when things are done fairly, there's not a lot of profit to be made. Sorry, rant over:)
Quoth the conference home page: "We will be posting videos and presentation slides in due course." If you notice, in the last few years they put an awful lot of the conference online after it had been professionally edited. (It is good marketing for coming to the conference in the next year, right? They certainly convinced me to fly fifteen hours out of my way to go.)
Historically many fortunes were built because of special privilege from the King.

Ignoring for a moment the anti-competitive claims against Microsoft, consider that that fortune already hinges on the special privilege of intellectual property law, which is backed in full force by the US justice system. Not all countries have this protection. Microsoft does not do anywhere near as well in countries without it. Does this protection ultimately help US citizens.....that point is up for debate, but it exists, and businesses exist to capitalize on it. Is it something that should be expected? For now, yes, but two hundred years from now, my guess is that intellectual property rights will have eroded, and we will view Gates's fortune as a fortune built using special privilege, just like oil fortunes were built before regulations against monopolies, and just like many shipping fortunes were built before that with special privilege from princes.

Special fortunes typically need something special in the first place. Carlos Slim is not that much different from Bill Gates. Bill Gates spent a little bit of time as a heroic startup guy, but he spent the majority of his career doing much the same stuff that Carlos Slim does. If copyright law changed, as many MP3 sharers wish it would, his fortune would deflate as much as Slim's.
NWS warning please, was not expecting giant ass pictures.

Fittingly, I'm sure they would have been linked if those were male asses.
That list of 'male programmer privileges' is unhelpful, and not better than a sexist 'ha ha, only serious', for two reasons. Firstly, it depends entirely on the idea that the only difference between people is whether they are male or female and that only females stand out. Secondly, it suggests this is a problem we (HN programmers or some other applicable group) can and should solve.

I'll criticise a few:

1. Not having to wonder whether you're well-known in your
community simply for being "the female one".

Because the gay, black and scarred guy don't have that problem. Half of the people are known as "the ... one".

4. Joining in appreciation of the sex object du jour
without having to be gay or bisexual.

Denying that women do the exact same thing. They also gossip about, and drool over, the celebrity hotshot of the day.

6. Never being asked by a job interviewer whether you
would mind being the first male employee in the company

Because asking someone whether they mind being the first sysadmin, non-programmer or employee, period, isn't a normal thing? Because we acknowledge that, you know, there actually is a difference that tends to cause the kind of issues we are dealing with right now and you may want to say something about it?

10. Attending job fairs without having anyone suggest you
look for secretarial work instead

I refer you to the 'male nurse' list. This problem is not restricted to your sex and occupation. We deal with the exact same problem.

These kinds of lists make me think: stop whining and start trying to change something. You're not succeeding at that by making a list of how bad you have it, completely disregarding that the lives of other people aren't easy either, for scores of other reasons. It's reducing problems to something simpler than they are and expecting others to be suddenly enlightened by the obvious simple truth and changing things. It's barking up the wrong tree.