skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, nearly every major firm I've worked with rolls their own metrics.

Mixpanel and all these other metrics startups are cute, but at this point in time the risk with integrating MixPanel is almost certainly viewed by most managers as greatly exceeding the risk associated with rolling your own metrics.
How is the difference important at all.

Regardless, I consider the after-conference 'events' often more substantial than some of the conference, it is my favorite part and I often learn more out of the (usually drunken) disucssions.

The thought of having the anxiety or fear like this ruin that for me is terrible.
Theory: The key sign that business/life coaches just want your money is that they call themselves business or life coaches.
>Somebody just wanted his damn DVCS to be written in C :-)

Who can blame him?

Certainly nobody can criticize the decision these days and keep a straight face. Results speak louder than ideaology.
Why is that site slow to load. Isn't it just coming from google?
Hit the 'text only' link
Yes. Report it to the police and certainly write a blog post to bring attention to the matter! I assume sexual violence is a problem at any gathering with a large (intoxicated) mixed crowd. Perhaps the thought was that it was not as common in tech conferences as it might be elsewhere?

But naming a person before they are even a police suspect, that I do not agree with. Plus…as evidenced by myself…it may draw attention from the real problem at hand.

Edit: I disagree with naming names at this stage of events because it sets a precedent that will lead to irreparable damage at some point. Given the police has all the necessary details, the potential downsides of publicly naming a person outweigh the potential benefits. I will leave it at that.
Maybe it's too much to hope for, but I would hope that tech events filled with smart people would hold themselves to a higher standard. Even if it's not a tech-event-specific problem (women get assaulted in bars in every city every weekend), we should try to get rid of it here.

I do agree that this is where most of the problems happen, though. I've only heard of something along these lines happening at one academic conference I've been to, and it was the most party-ish one, where the academic and non-academic/drinking parts were pretty loosely separated. The kind where 100 people get in a drab room on a university campus and listen to talks for 8 hours, then go sleep so they can get up again at 7am for the next morning's keynote, seems to result in no trouble of any kind (admittedly, there could be problems at those too and I'm just out of the loop).

Oddly, I've never heard of any problems at the most party-ish hacker event I've been to, SuperHappyDevHouse. I don't know if it's the culture, the frowning on drunkenness, the mixture of people it attracts, the physical layouts, or what.
Context doesn't change that a woman was sexually assaulted. It didn't happen IN the conference but it certainly happened adjunct to the conference. And she says it happened at a bar nearby, not in the private room. And I certainly hope when you say "too many drinks involved" you are not implying that she should have drunk less (or not at all) to protect herself.

ETA: Or that she should have not put herself in the vicinity of drunken people.
Early versions of Erlang were implemented in Prolog.
Factual correctness warrants down vote? Seriously?

"the wrongful appropriation, close imitation, or purloining and publication, of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions, and the representation of them as one's own original work." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism).

This was not plagiarism.
Interesting approach. Thanks for the clarification.
It is loading Javascript from her site. She probably has Apache KeepAlive on with a maximum number of connections far insufficient for the number of people currently trying to request files. They all get into a line and request their file, get it almost instantly, then keep the connection open for 2 ~ 3 seconds waiting for another request to come in... while several thousand people behind them have their requests time out. Javascript included in the HEAD of a document will block rendering until it is either downloaded and parsed completely or times out. Thus, it doesn't matter if Google's CDN gives you the HTML in 5 milliseconds -- your user-visible experience is dominated by her server's timeout on the Javascript.

Apache KeepAlive: it kills more blogs than cancer.

For learning about this general subject, I recommend the YSlow presentations.
I'm guessing it would be too expensive if you were bringing me something every day. I can eat the same dinner for a week, though. I'd sign up for this.
Yep. Alice is a superset of SML. I have them both running under Emacs and I have to do a double take when something doesn't work in Alice, just to discover it was SMLNJ that I was running.
I'm sorry, but this comment is poorly thought out and poorly supported.

First the commenter sets up a straw man in which it is claimed that these particular scientists are "deeply attached" to the issue (which implies they are not objective). There is no evidence for this conclusion in the article, nor is one supported in any way by the commenter.

Then the commenter makes a really terrible analogy about doctors and lawyers working with themselves as clients. How exactly are scientists studying these dolphins analogous to a doctor swabbing her own throat and prescribing herself an antibiotic for her strep throat (which, by the way, is in no way unethical, and probably often done)?

Again, I'm sorry, but the commenter doesn't seem to understand word one about either science, or the role of science if he/she thinks scientists and science are supposed to be some glorified "information please" clerks who are there to provide whatever information you think you need to make a decision.

And you put forth a really muddled view of that constitutes ethical behavior. Are you really trying to advance the theory that physicians who advocate for healthy public policy are "unethical"? A pediatrician sees his community ravaged by whooping cough - you are trying to tell us he shouldn't get on the phone to his congressman and local newspaper and raise hell about vaccinations? A water scientist notes that local wells are contaminated by petroleum contaminants. You think she's wrong to pick up the phone and give an interview advocating investigation, cleanup, and prevention? You really think that people like Einstein and Bohr shouldn't have tried to influence policy as a matter of ethics and their professional duties?

Bullshit.

Part of the problem in this country is the lack of ability of "the public" to "make the decision on these issues". Science, physicians, and other professionals have a clear role in both informing AND persuading the public. We want the people who know the most about these issues speaking up the loudest...beyond politicians....and definitely beyond business people, who without a doubt are the ones who inevitably have the deepest conflicts of interest.

Thank God scientists ARE starting to speak out more, instead of the cacophony of "know nothing" we are hearing from certain anti-science segments of "the public". We just got done with eight years of an administration which put science on the back burner, while advocating the most irrational of policies.

The return of American "know-nothing-ism", exemplified by the commenter's little screed about the role of science, is a symptom of what has been going wrong with America over the last decade. We need more scientists speaking up and out.

Louder.
It's hard to say. Kettles certainly aren't an expect kitchen appliance/item like a drip brew coffee maker. Though at the same time I don't think I've ever been in a home owned by some one over 30 that didn't have a kettle some where in the house.
Apparently this guy is a twitter dev. Should heinous behavior like this at an after party be grounds for firing him? What would you do if you were his boss?
More to the point, they define high-end as "over £500". The site isn't aimed at us.
I would suggest you to do a trial run asap with a few select folks.
Again - ASAP !
The reason why I stress on asap is because I used to know someone who did something similar, albeit within the Indian community only. Ultimately, he decided to end it since logistically, it turned out to be a nightmare - especially with home delivery options.

Also, if you are actually getting the food from chefs/restaurants (who arent employed by you), it will add additional hassles - what happens if the chef falls sick ? what if one of the chef fails to deliver ? or fails to deliver in a timely manner ? My guess would be that margins will be small - unless you are directly employing the cooks / chefs.

Too much work for too little -- thats what my acquaintance said about his experience.
If someone assaulted me, and I wasn't at all unclear about what happened or his identity, I would absolutely name him. You don't need to convince a court to convict first -- that's absurd.

Third parties may or may not believe or take action unless otherwise convinced. I would be highly suspicious of someone who has been credibly called out for something like this (and would probably not invite him to drink with me, especially if I were female), but would need more evidence before taking much more action.

Even in the UK, it's not slander or libel if it's true.
Wow, think about waking up from a drunken night to realize not only that you made poor decisions the night before, but that you are now the Internet douchebag.

This guy probably wishes he kept his hands to himself.
DefCon is an outlier even by tech conference standards. Especially for DC2-DC11 or so, it was basically a party which had a bunch of computer hackers, and while there are lots of parties at other conferences, at early DC the party was basically all day (although I didn't go to DC2-DC5 myself). DefCon was basically Burning Man or a comic/fan conference, although it did become a bit more "industry" around 2000.

BlackHat (which runs contiguously to DefCon) is much more of a "professional" conference, while still being more "fun" than something like RSA, or the academic conferences from IACR.

(I really enjoyed DefCon, and have spoken a few times, but going without knowing what you're getting into would be a mistake)
It makes a difference in terms of being able to tell women: You're going to be safer at the actual event than at the after-event drinking parties.

In terms of excusing the man's behavior, it makes no fucking difference.
Couple of approaches that I can think of from papers of which combining in some way would probably mean decent results. Matching left and right fragments of n length, adding POS tagging to the matching fragments and using wordnet relation closeness for terms that exist in wordnet.
Anyone else completely baffled by how they got their hoodies on??

The photo on the right doesn't show any buttons and the opening for the neck seems way too small for them to fit their whole body through it.
The author's views are consistent with those of the (air cooled) Porsche engine building community. Here in the US, Brad Penn 20W-50 and Valvoline VR-1 Racing 20W-50 have the necessary Zinc.
Disgusting! It's equally appalling that this has happened to her numerous times.

wtf?
TLDR: Alternatives:

"Anyway, if you intend to soldier on in the post-GOOG-411 world, here are your options:

- Use Google’s even older, text-message version of GOOG-411, which is still available. You can text, for example, “home depot dallas tx” to the address 46645 — that is, GOOGL — and you’ll be texted back with the information. Unfortunately, that’s nowhere near as quick or as hands-free as GOOG-411.

- Use the Google Mobile App. It’s available for Android, iPhone or BlackBerry. You speak what you want, just as with GOOG-411 (“CVS pharmacy San Diego”), and you’re shown the best matches on a map, complete with prominent, one-tap phone numbers.

Unfortunately, it’s not hands-free and it works only on those three app phones.

- Use Microsoft’s competing service, 800-BING-411.

BING-411 is a renamed version of TellMe, which Microsoft bought in 2008 for about $1 billion. (You can read about the service here. Or read my original 2001 Times review .)"
Probably because it isn't just a webcam. It projects hundreds of IR dots all over its field of vision to help calculate depth.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/11/04/what-kinect-looks-like-...
"it may draw attention from the real problem at hand."

This man (allegedly, to lawyer it up) sexually assaulted a woman. If that's not the problem at hand, what is?
Red Foundry Raises $1.1 Million To Make Mobile App Making Easier
Because to assume that each individual's brain is so different would go against all other evidence we have to the contrary.
Brochure: A Ruby web micro-framework with the directness of PHP
Depends on what kind of startup you want to start. If you can't find a co-founder, just do something that you can handle. It doesn't have to be the next google or youtube.

Something like 37signal's basecamp can be written by a single person. In fact, I think it was (at the beginning ..)
Don't do long ambitious projects in Lisp. Instead, implement a small library everyday. Do something that itches you now, and be done with it the moment you get bored.

It's more fun and educational that way.

If you cut yourself a "project", the remaining 10% will suck the life out of you and it's not fun.

Try not to close your Emacs. You need to be able to find lisp on an impulse. Do all your arithmetic calculations with it, first. And gradually write your shell scripts in it and other admin types. Download libraries and read their sources; you can get to the definition points by typing M-. in Slime mode.

I encourage you to indulge yourself, have fun, and feel free to jump from project to another. In fact, you will do just fine having multiple "projects" in one source file; I had scratch-buffers tens of pages long.

Hedonistic, irresponsible programming :-)
I wouldn't say "typically", but it's sadly not uncommon. I'm a guy and make no real effort to observe (or even attend) most of these kinds of afterparties, and have still seen stuff ranging from "somewhat inappropriate" to "wtf" a few times. Usually a really drunk guy is involved, and it often turns out that said drunk guy has done inappropriate things while drunk at previous events. Not sure how to make it happen, but there are some people who really should not be drunk at public/semi-public events.

(There are also people who are totally out of line while sober, but I think it's a minority of the serious incidents at conferences.)
'Unbelievable' disguise fools Canadian airline
Also read: http://lesswrong.com/lw/p7/zombies_zombies/
ANSI Common Lisp is good. I did _all_ the exercises.

You might consider playing with GUI stuff with LTK:

http://www.peter-herth.de/ltk/
If you're targeting a specific platform, it can make sense to use a virtual machine instead of installing that platform on your development machine. As far as code is concerned, it doesn't care that you're running it on a Linux VM inside a Windows dev machine rather than directly on a Linux dev machine.

That being said, if you're trying to target Mac or Windows, it's generally a good idea to use that specific platform's tools. It's reasonable to develop Windows and Mac apps on Linux but it may not be the best environment to do so. It's really up to you as a developer to determine the best toolchain and processes based on what you're trying to accomplish.
What about a flat weekly/monthly charge for being on call, plus hourly charges for any actual work you do? Is that ever done?
If you're really poor, it would likely be useful to know that hooking headphones up to the microphone jack gives you a usable microphone. Just speak directly into one of the earpieces.
And when that's still $1.3 billion dollars, you know you have built a very big company.
yeah but life doesn't work like that dude. ceteris paribus never exists in the real world.
The presumption of innocence and punishment only following guilty verdicts at trials arbitrated by neutral parties are hard ideals to stick to when crimes are heinous, it is clear to any right thinking person what happened, and a message needs to be sent... and that is precisely when they are most valuable to society.
Colfm - a console, column-oriented file manager
I'd say yes. At a conference-related event, you still represent your company on some level. (This of course assumes that the events happened as stated.)
I'd fire him in a second with sufficient corroboration of the story. There's a non-negligible chance that such poor decision making isn't confined to just women.
First, no physical science has "provable" results - they are merely correlational. Second, such a study would have a gargantuan cost, merely for results that would have limited practical use. An expert in stress relief can probably come up with a very accurate list of techniques for someone that would help them out. Using your approach only gives a small optimization on this.

However, scientists should investigate why stress relief techniques work, and that investigation may overlap a bit.
I know [just the billionaire](http://www.alleninstitute.org/) to spend some money on helping these people out, in exchange for getting to do some science.
Well, one of the big problems in Monotone back in the day was that since they (we? I contributed a bit to Monotone, but was never a core contributor) broke people's repos several times with data integrity bugs, and so got very paranoid and added lots of slow integrity checks to make sure that didn't happen any more. Part of the reason for the breakage was that they were still experimenting with the basic representation of history, merge algorithms, and the like, and so had to do data migrations quite often, which sometimes introduced bugs.

Git had the advantage that it could learn from Monotone's mistakes, and focus on speed, and not have to experiment as much since much of the basic design ideas were already there. Git also made several better architectural choices, I believe, going with a much more simple and stable repository format than Monotone had.
Unfortunately, the after-event drinking parties are where most of the fun and the networking happen.

I don't think telling women "oh sure the conference is perfectly safe but watch yourself at the after-parties, geeks can get pretty handsy when they're drunk" is going to encourage more women to come to conferences.

(Sorry for the sour sarcasm, it's the only way I can handle such a uncomfortable subject)
Probably not the first time. Most guys who pull this shit are serial offenders. Once they realize they can act with impunity, they repeat the behavior.
"It’s not the first time something like this has happened to me, at all. It’s not the first time it’s happened to me at a tech conference. But it is the first time I’ve spoken out about it in this way, because I’m tired of the sense that some idiot can ruin my day and never have to answer for it."

At this risk of everyone taking this the wrong way....

(1) If it's not the first time this has happened, it might be time to re-evaluate the pattern of behavior that led up to the unfortunate event.

(2) Never have to answer for it?!!? Um if you're sexually assaulted (multiple times?!?!) you should definitely be reporting that to the POLICE where the offender will, I'm pretty sure, have to answer for it. Right?

I totally understand that blogging about this must have been incredibly difficult for this person, and perhaps naming the accused in the post lightens the burden on her a bit... but this should definitely be a police issue, not a blog issue!
Okay... I am a pretty experienced party animal, and this stuff (sexual assault, that is...not random hookups) is NOT normal. I've heard the occasional story, but both you and the author of this post seems to imply that this is a pretty regular occurrence. Hell, if "it was everyone else's job to prevent being sexually assaulted" and her friends "managed to do this job on several occasions" (parapharasing here), this sounds like one of the seediest parties I have ever heard of. Stuff like this does NOT fly in any normal social setting - the guys usually have the decency to back off before things get too awkward, and if they don't, someone will usually break in and stop it.

I've never been to one of these conferences, but what's the deal here? Being a bit of a cynic in regards to the social skills of a lot of techies, I'm thinking that this is could be the result of alcohol + desperate and socially inept guys + a few women that don't have the critical mass to put up a proper pick-up shield. If this is really a normal phenomenon at tech conferences, I'm a bit shocked that no one have mentioned it before.

The incidents that have been mentioned sound more to me like completely clueless pick-up attempts than any genuine attempt at assault or rape, but the end result is pretty much the same.
Depends which god you're talking about. A god that created the earth and everything on it in seven days some number of years ago is in direct conflict with observable evidence. The generic "idea of god", where it may be possible that some being with powers that shouldn't be possible according to our understanding of physics exists somewhere in the universe, does not conflict with evolution. If you don't think evidence is powerful enough to let us infer the existence or non-existence of something, well...
Better be careful about making any decisions on a blog post. That's how wrongful termination lawsuits get filed. The correct response is to talk to him, get his side of the story, wait to see if the authorities will get involved, and make a decision once more of the facts have been aired.
A friend in college was accused of something worse, luckily witnesses (her friends) and a video camera proved otherwise and she finally admitted the truth to the police two months later. No jail time for her lying, but this guys whole life was on the verge of destruction - jail time, registered sex offender for life, everyone in your social circle would think you are a monster, all friends in your hometown, your parents, their friends, any future employers that could Google, etc.

I'm certainly not saying that in this case, but this type of thing is completely your word versus theirs and an ounce of caution should be taken in the rush to judgement until all the facts come out.
I think you have to take what he has said about C++, or OO in general in context. What he said (at least what I've read) was that C++ would never make sense for the kernel, and his reasoning seems sound to me

I've always taken the opinion that OO makes sense where one needs the ability to model abstract systems in a way that can express and even explain them through the code. Modeling an computer doesn't require or benefit as much from such abstractions.
hmm it might be, but I've never done that.. basically clients would pre-pay for a chunk of hours (use them or lose them) and overages would be billed at normal hourly rate
I'd post this to her site if I could but I'd like to sincerely thank Noirin for speaking out about this. We as a community have a long way to go and speaking honestly and openly about problems is the very first step.
The article is down - but, without evidence (a conviction, confession, or eyewitnesses) I wouldn't take any action.

Assuming the twitter dev contests her version of events, I see no reason to believe either one over the other. It would be stupid, and frankly sexist, to default to believing either side.
I'll probably get downvoted for asking, but I'm curious, would everyone be as upset over this had it been a drunken female guest inappropriately grabbing a guy's package? And if the male blogger had then written a similar blog about being sexually assaulted at a party, naming the female who grabbed him?

I'm not endorsing this sort of behavior obviously, but the public shaming element here seems fairly twisted. If a sexual assault occurred she should go to the police about it and press charges. Not start an internet witch hunt.