skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you can compare a programmer more to a musician than to a doctor specialist.

If you have the feeling for the music you can create music using anything. Ideas just blow to your mind. The tool, well, it's is just an interface to concretize your idea.

But I think specialization is not a bad idea.
> Sounds like people need to be more willing to stand up for themselves and their friends

Potentially "being different" in addition to standing up and out can be a daunting prospect. There's a lot of perceived social risk in such situations.
Flirting isn't professional when it's at an after hours party? How else should one signal that they're available and interested?
I agree with you, it very expensive for small startups not taken off yet. For example Cloudkicks charges $99/month for their entry level offering. May be their target customers are startups/companies which are taken off (profitable, VC funded).
Also as suggested by other commenter (troels) , monitoring may be not essential for all startups at the early stage.
‘Inevitable’, Eh?
They would be visible from Earth because they would be everywhere. Even if some members of a galactic-expansion-capable civilization did not want to expand enough to exploit all available resources, they would be quickly out-competed by the ones who did want to.
You get a special 'secret' email for your kindle. You aren't supposed to share it with people, so it's relatively secure. You can also change it at any time if someone does manage to get it.
I believe that even when you're operating a business you should still have ethics. Perhaps even more so. There lots of shady things you could do to lower your expenses without actually breaking a law. But you still wouldn't do them, right? Because you feel they are WRONG. Why didn't Amazon see this as a wrong thing to do?
As much as it disgusts me that they would cave to political pressure, you have to make a choice between running a business and becoming embroiled in politics.

Free speech is great, but if the management of Amazon wants to do anything to protect that they'd do far better by doing so unattached to the Amazon brand. That is, if all they're interested in is money and the success of their business: something I suspect.

The only thing which annoys me about Amazon is that they didn't just say it how it is. (Or so I suspect.)

edit;
Having said that, on a personal level I agree with the OP. I have no interest in supporting a company run by people that do not care for my values. They are far more important to me than a few savings here and there.
Online game rivalry ends in real life murder
This is not correct. The fundamental - only, in many cases - goal of a terrorist is to inspire terror. The founders of the United States did not leverage terror in any capacity, rather they waged a conventional war to achieve their aims.
I've got an Xbox, but I am thinking of grabbing a Kinect as well mainly for hacking. The games don't interest me for the most part.
Julian Assange answers questions from Guardian readers
The point of a boycott is to give them -- and other companies -- incentive to act less cowardly.
They would get free publicity? "Wikileaks attacked but Amazon's infrastucture was able to handle the DDOS and serve the site"
In your original post you said it was a human problem. Among social animals, humans are unusually effective at avoiding being pushed around by selfish males, probably due to communication.

So I think it's good to talk about it. If more people recognise the problem then they're more likely to intervene next time they see it happen, and to marginalise troublemakers. They're good outcomes.
I think you should read about LTM and what it wrought. Look what Lehman's collapse did. When everyone is over leveraged then it doesn't take much to get a crisis rolling. If Ireland and Greece aren't propped up then Deutche Bank will suffer. It was German and French banks that lent to Greece and Ireland. Do you really think DB would survive if their Irish and Greek bond holdings become worthless?
A lot of complaints about sexism in FLOSS conference mainly refer to sexual references, or (semi-)pornography. If you want to have a professional conference, then yes you should have a 'no sex' policy.

However, are women really that anti-sex?
High frequency trading is generally done by colocating servers at the exchange data centers, or another data center with a very low latency link to the exchange's. (The link must be necessarily very short due to the finite speed of light.) You don't need to buy a whole building to do this, and in fact, buying a whole building is unlikely to help.
>Potentially "being different" in addition to standing up and out can be a daunting prospect.

This is laughable considering how much talk there is in the hacker world of defying convention, challenging conventional wisdom, standing out from the crowd, changing the world and associated platitudes.
> but the chivalrous guys far outnumber the jerks.

If this is the case, why do these incidents keep happening?

I guess it comes back to the cliched "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good [people] do nothing".

And having a stated policy in place is a pro-active way to demonstrate "Hey, in case you were wondering, this kind of behaviour's not okay and this is how we'll deal with it".
Monster Waves on the Sun are Real
Because it was the right thing to do, in their eyes and many others, and they have every right to do it. Rebecca MacKinnon enunciates this well here: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/12/02/mackinnon.wikileak...
I'm looking at that and McCarthy's eval now.
Assuming bacteria reproduce once per day, a century would be ~30000 generations. Not billions. 760,000 years ~ 3e8 days, whether that is "tons of time" I can't comment.
I want to reward the author(s) and encourage them to create more works.

I have purchased all the Futurama movies. A new season of the TV series was then released.

OTOH, the government should not protect flawed business models for 95 years at a time.
Agreed on both points.

The reason I don’t pirate much (more on that later) is because I value my time and the time other creators put into their work. Even if said work may be shitty, that doesn’t give me the right to steal it. A creator stealing the work of others—especially one that have the means of paying for it—is sleazy IMHO.

That being said, I still sometimes obtain music immorally if I cannot find a copy online that I can pay for. It’s such a pain in the ass. Usually a good torrent will still be far from having the quality of a legal release: the cover art might be low res, the track names might have the track numbers in them, there will be a torrent scene slogan in the comments section of each track (or even the genre) and such. All these have to be remedied before an album fits in with my library. Even if I don’t torrent many albums, it will all add up eventually and I’d much rather have iTunes, CDBaby or whoever take care of these matters for me.
As a general rule: Don't shit where you eat. Some of the incident she describe are legit sexual harassment and others are a male trying to pick up a lady. Don't do that ever where you work or have important business to attend[your technique maybe lacking].

I Genuinely think this is not really a Geek problem. There is statistically large number of people with sexual deviation. For instance, it is estimated that between 3-9% of the population are Pedophiles[1]. At a conference with about 100 people there maybe 3 persons there with a sexual deviation. But it only takes one of those guys to approach all the women in the conference and spoil the whole thing for all of us.

My suggestion is if ever you were to encounter a situation of sexual assault report it immediately to the police[not the conference organizer]. I don't want that guy who hits ladies on the bum to be walking around freely in society. He would not be operating at Conferences alone.

As a side note to how important it's to report these things:"nonincestuous pedophiles who molest boys had committed an average of 282 offenses against 150 victims"[1]. As I said previously, just one deviant can crash the party for a whole lot of people.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia#Prevalence_and_child...
I certainly wouldn't presume to berate you for your opinion, and it's good to see someone who considers both sides to an argument, but I think we do need to keep hearing about these things otherwise we get to the point where we assume it's not happening when it clearly is.
I'm not in the US either, but patience is a virtue, and good things come to those who wait. The Kindle is great, but don't let it form the limit of your world.
This appears to be the same story as submitted over a week ago. No comments there, but a different source:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1937112
Try using the fitBounds method to set the map to a LatLngBounds object.
I'm not being naive at all, I question the very premises that you take for granted. I don't believe that any group can legitimately claim a monopoly on force, especially when consent is not granted. The justification of a Rousseauian social contract is an example of sloppy thinking, that has been used by the opportunistic to seize power.
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

Anyone read this? Opinions? Sounds interesting.
If this is the case, why do these incidents keep happening?

Because as a culture we don't know how to talk about these things - when they happen and when we see and hear about them. And when TV shows - like Freaks and Geeks - come along and try, they're canceled after one season.
New Life Form Lives on Arsenic
What's the point of disabling wikileaks when anyone can access them from the biggest news sites?

What's the logic behind this decision?
The problem with the Euro is that it forces a central monetary policy but each country is mostly on its own to set its own fiscal policy.
Some Angel Investors Have Not Earned Their Wings
For high-frequency trading purposes 3 miles is about 16 µs
> The only "sexism" I observed was excessive delight: "Oh wow, a woman!" which I hardly consider harassing.

FWIW some people would consider that unwelcoming/harassing--I think the term is "othering". i.e. what's treated as important is not the person or their skill but their gender.

And, yes, it can be annoying for guy in a "traditionally female" domain as well.
Ellsberg's book "Secrets" is a great read, describing his evolution and eventual decision to smuggle out the Xerox copies of the Pentagon Papers.

In 2008 when I was helping organize the Get FISA Right protests on my.barackobama.com, some email went across the list from somebody named Daniel Ellsberg. I sent him mail saying "you probably get this all the time, but by any chance are you the Daniel Ellsberg?" Much to my delight, it was, and we struck up an email conversation. Wow!
From the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In Submissions
...
Please submit the original source. If a blog post
reports on something they found on another site,
submit the latter.

Here's the original source:

http://www.wfaa.com/news/health/Man-hospitalized-after-phone...
I'd really like the filter by location feature. I think not having that is really holding you back. Good luck.
I agree, it's unfortunate when 'lifestyle business' is used in a derogatory manner. I'd rather just take the term back, like "monkeypatching." Words can mean good things in one crowd, and bad things in another.

(and I'm not the OP. ;) )
How did this get voted for?

The doctor is far more knowledgeable about a VERY complex engineering system (the female reproductive system) than you or your brother are ever likely to be in any sphere of knowledge. She probably hadn't, as you put it, checked out, she was just being polite and waiting for you to stop babbling pedantic trivia. Perhaps amusing herself by wondering if you might have Aspergers.

Your final 'impression' of her thought processes is banal and insulting. And people wonder why geeks don't have girlfriends.
I seen What Technology Wants mentioned several times now around the web. Is it really that interesting, or is it just riding some hype?
I have a Linux VPS I use everyday, mostly just privately. It's very handy as a way to get around the corporate network blocked sites, and I can use it if I feel the Wifi network I'm on is sketchy to try and encrypt my traffic. Mine is only 3 bucks a month and that's easily worth it to me. Lowendbox.com has good deals pop up all the time. It's no speed demon, but it works for all I do with it.
Wikileaks can feel free to use our startup's services all they want. I'm not releasing server logs or user data without court order.

If the US government starts shutting down tech businesses due to their users political activities, I'm sure that will be better press than I could ever hope to pay for. No senators will want it on their record that they are destroying small businesses to play politics.

Would the US Government shut down Amazon over this? I highly doubt it.
It's a kind of marketing. But yeah, it's bullshit. It's the new "SEO consultant".
DDoS'ing DNS providers is common enough...
Thank you all for the suggestions. Its given me a lot of food for thought.
I doubt Lieberman knows anything about DNS and don't see how any of this is related beyond WikiLeaks being involved in both. everydns.net revoked the entry because DDoS attacks were affecting their other customers.
I agree with you. It should be much more accepted and encouraged to seek therapy or coaching when suffering from a strong lack of social skills, being very lonely or even from social anxiety or depressions.

Nobody should have to carry those hurt feelings around all the time - this would also contribute a little bit to a better world ultimately.
All germans know that this is not going to happen. The euro is here to stay, and germans (at least those who generate most of the GDP for germany) are willing to pay in order to keep it. After all, we can do the math.
Slow. Oh so slow. I hate having to wait for the bloody animation to finish unwrapping itself before deciding to show me something that wasn't quite what I wanted, and then having to wait again to find a different hot spot to hover over and see what it deigns to tell me.

It might be a clever implementation, but understand this: I browse by opening up to 30 or 40 tabs, then skimming through the first ones while the later ones load. I can touch and flick through literally 60 to 80 pages per minute. (edited: I said hundreds, but that was an exaggeration. However 60 to 80 is conservative when I'm in fast search mode)

You want to slow me down? Don't expect me to visit again. OK, I'm not normal, and I'm not average, but I'm incredibly frustrated by this interface.
Maybe you're a lot more confident in social situations than I am then. :)

I don't think the hacker community is any more welcoming of dissenting opinions than the world at large. Standing out is a good way to get flamed. Or be told that one's opinion is "laughable". :)
At first I thought it looked like an incredibly dumpy building for $1.9 billion. Then I read that it's actually the entire city block that they're buying.

Am I correct in thinking that New York City planning regulations would make it damn near impossible to tear down that dumpy-looking building and build a shiny new one?
From my perspective? No, she really doesn't have the right not to face that. She's a woman. It's biology. Part of being a human being is interacting with other human beings, many of home would like to sleep with you.

She should have to deal with harrasment? Nope, but that's a different thing entirely. Somebody scoping out your card and then asking you out on a date isn't harassing you. They're asking you on a date. It's what happens after you say 'no' that things become different.
I understand the concept of a library. What I don't understand is: JavaScript was designed as a domain-specific language, yet performing the most common tasks that it was designed for (manipulating the DOM)is, as you say, "very, very painful".

If you consider a language's standard library to be part of the language, then it seems like poor language design not to build-in functionality that makes manipulating the DOM at least as easy as jQuery makes it.

Thanks for the response, I will certainly peruse the jQuery source.
It's not that I don't enjoy it, it's that I try to balance my life around it. I really enjoy playing video games as well, but I'm not going to sacrifice the most important relationships in my life so that I can play a few more rounds of Call of Duty.
We can do better than targeted ads
The largest amount of Irish debt is actually held by the UK who aren't a member of the euro...
> In fact that stereotypical geek has, I think, never been the one to pull of these sorts of overt sexual advances (so the link is/was an unfair one).

But if the people at these conferences aren't "stereotypical geeks" then who are they?
Which is interesting because my business falls much more into the latter category.
So, um, where do I sign up with these folks?
On the other side, the article mentions the double bind women are in: they are generally treated as "non-technical" and so need to use tricks to get others to pay attention to what they are saying, yet these trick that end up being interpreted as flirting and sexual advances.
Please edit the title to make it informative.
It's not impossible, just expensive and annoying for business or frequent travelers. When I was younger European currencies used to go up and down like yo-yos.
I would be surprised if a link on the frontpage of HN didn't lead to more subscriptions - but I could be wrong.
So your advocating stealing from those who are responsible (savers) and giving money to those who are reckless (debtors). Also, when inflation happens it normally hurts the middle class and lower class much more than upper do the lower classes not owning assets - stock/land etc.
I use Versions and Kaleidoscope all day. They are integral apps to my workflow. Functionally, I think they're awesome. I have two quick questions regarding the UI though:

1. In Versions, the active Timeline/Browse/Transcript button is the one that doesn't look pressed. Why didn't you go with the opposite? http://yfrog.com/fyh6rp

2. What's up with that navy background on the initial Versions screen?

Not big issues, just curious! Keep up the good work.
7 Game developing things I've learned so far
Your comment blames the victim. Don't do this.

Whether it's a professional networking event or a fun, crazy, not-so-professional party, no one should be treated in this manner. No matter her (or his) behavior or the atmosphere. Period. Also, she mentioned "sitting on laps" because there was no room in the party, and people have a right to flirt without being, uh, sexually molested.

Finally, the linked article cites this as one example. There are many others, like when the author

organized a group outing to a pub, only to have one of the invited workshop attendees grab my ass while I was having a completely normal conversation.

(EDIT) sp332 points out that GP is discussing the environment at these events, but we're operating in shades of gray here.

The author talks about how the attitude towards women at these events is "institutionalized sexism." That is, people hired strippers etc. for years, and that attitude still exists at conferences/events. Noira could've been out-of-bounds by sitting in someone's lap, but we don't have any information on whether she knows the person, has a relationship with them, etc.

Still, GP's comment implies that Noira's behavior fosters the "sexualized environment" the author is complaining about. My point is that there's a big leap from Noira's flirting to women being groped.
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It was at a breakout party in a hotel room - hardly the main stage of the conference.

Even in a sexually charged environment where people are strongly flirting with each other, a reasonable person will know the line between flirting (and back off if the signals are poor) and assaulting someone. When a woman rejects your potentially reasonable advance, shoving your hand down her pants isn't step 2.
Yes... and there was not necessarily anything wrong with making a pass at her (i.e. taking her aside and going for a kiss etc, although it's hardly well executed it is harmless and she clearly views it that way)

But when rebuffed you don't then feel her up. There is a line to be crossed; she brought the passes on herself to be sure, but not the assault.

(EDIT: the replies to this make it clear my point got a bit twisted. I was rebuffing the parent to this' point about her being flirty at the party; by suggesting that flirtyness is not wrong and neither is [in many cases] making passes at flirty people. But that assaulting them after a clear rebuff is always wrong. In this case it is clear he was entirely in the wrong. Using the word "necessarily" was meant to convey that, obviously that didn't work ;))
Seriously. Amazon is not a charity organization... they exist to make a profit. ANYONE that threatens that will get removed from their services. This is why you can't fire up a DDoS cluster on their services. Anyone that has the ability to affect the rest of their paying customers or the core business needs to get cut off.
Correct. I could have written "bored by the whole exercise" rather than saying she had "checked out of the conversation".

To recap-- my brother said, literally, one sentence. I added one more sentence, relating the question to another field of study. Our friend was instantly, irremediably, and unabashedly bored.

From which I concluded that she took little pleasure in exploring any aspect of the statement she herself had introduced.
Weakening a little is completely different as to what reporting was coming out about the iphone 4 (full bars to 0) when it first came out.

It should be understandable why this happens with phones without an external antenna, and this kind of attitude is what puts me off of daringfireball.
I am making one, Javascript and Canvas

Aren't there already a lot of Javascript games out there though?