skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK... so as one of those people with a fair amount of spare cash lying around and no debt, I still can't quite grok this "invest in yourself" idea. Clearly I'm not about to start swallowing Ben Franklins.

I'm just a jaded programmer who is frankly terrified of the brutal startup culture, with no intention of being a founder (can't handle the high pressure and emotional roller coasters) or employee (not a fan of grueling schedules for minuscule hope of a payout). I'm also a couple of years out of grad school and have no interest in going further down that rabbit hole, so don't try selling "education" as an investment vehicle to me either.

The only area where I have a good idea of how to invest in myself is to improve my physical fitness. Still, that's mostly an investment of time and effort, not money.

What am I to do? Maybe it's time I just check out of the working world and wander for a while.
You're looking for something like the Digg bar, basically. There are other implementations of the same sort of thing, but by and large, people tend to hate them.
That's certainly a possibility. For me, however, the vast majority of scripts I write will only ever run on my own computer or maybe also on some AWS instances. I suspect this varies a lot based on what sorts of things you generally work on.
Ask HN: How do you schedule your day/week?
I am interested to know the community how do you divide your day into various chunks to cover spending time with family,working on your product,9-5 jobs and other things?
complex situation, but if you are a startup founder, have you ever felt like you can't talk to anyone about a particular problem, otherwise there could be negative consequences? That's what I meant by 'evil.'
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What’s this valley all about?
Funny, I was searching for yourself.com !

I will not pass the Turing test today.
Hi, no need for remapping of any keys if you are after Esc. Just type Control-[, it generates Esc by default.
Still can't decide if Vim is actually worth all this trouble, or if it's a cult.
>It's about believing that many women do, in fact, want to work at startups and that more will want to work at startups if we talk about how awesome it is.

This seems to be going against your point that you shouldn't be telling people what women want to do.

The author of the original article was making the point that people advocating that women work in startups (or have other professional careers) makes it hard for women like her, who don't want to do so.

In summary, you say that the other side makes it hard "for women who DO want to work at startups". The other side says you make it hard for women who don't.
The idea looks good, as does the website, but on Chromium on Ubuntu 11.10, I get the following on the homepage, which I assume isn't correct (notice the scrollbars):

http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/4247/selection002dq.png
So what is a good alternative to AdBlockPlus ? (that blocks everything and doesn't play these "non intrusive ads" games EDIT:adding ' by default.' ).

EDIT 2:

I did read the article and I know it is an option but making viewing ads of any kind opt in vs opt out is (imho) dubious. When the user installs an extension called ad-BLOCK plus, explicitly to block adds, just block them by default dammit and let any users who want to, opt out selectively.

I also don't want a situation where a user has to opt out with every upgrade and so on. Nutshell, I don't trust the devs anymore,who seem to be selling out the users.

I don't know much about ad networks or javascript so on Hacker News I am asking for alternatives, from those who are experts. Why the downvotes? wtf?
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Class, pure class.
Did you even read the article? AdBlockPlus blocks everything - just not by default.
What are the odds of suffering any negative repercussions? Especially for a minor?
It's not being blamed on the opposition from what I can tell, but rather quite squarely on the US that is meddling with Russia's internal affairs.
Obama and OWS (which I wouldn't lump together) are a red herring to this discussion.

Unless the laws have changed dramatically in the last few years, there was never any barriers in place contracting labor outside the US assuming you paid them as contractors. If anything, US labor laws favor outsourcing over insourcing "native" contractors due to tax laws surrounding 1099 Technology workers that were put in place in the early 90s.

So really, despite the fact that scales are tipped in favor of foreign contracted labor (cheaper rate, less tax and legal considerations) businesses STILL prefer to hire local labor. To me, that's very telling -- it has a lot to do with the fact that much of the foreign talent, like the US talent, is already gainfully employed and tough to access.
> what differentiates you from someone in...

the quality of my work, both in terms of the product (code, papers) and the experience of working with me (communication, cultural fit, etc)?

just because you have remote people or even just because your entire workforce is remote, doesn't mean that cultural fit isn't important! culture is about way more than how your food smells while you're microwaving it ...
If AdBlock Plus goes evil, another option might be AdBlock (not sure what they block, but it is an alternative.)

And I think both extensions are open source so somebody could just fork it.
Er, the article says it's just an option that's enabled by default, and that you can disable it if you want.
It depends how you define "small".

My company runs a few content sites that are primarily monetised through advertising. They're not small as in "some guy updating them in his free time", but they're small as in a few paid members of the editorial team, a few million pages a month. For us, yes, advertising is the difference between us being a profitable company and us not being a company at all.

That said, a.) we are doing OK before this adblock change and b.) our adverts don't fit what are being defined as "acceptable" here. We do make sure we never get too obtrusive, we don't do automatic playing videos, we don't do roadblocks, we don't do anything with sound, we don't do anything that covers content or expands when you mouseover... but some of the banners we serve are flash with basic animations. We, and the majority of our users, are happy that this is a good way to advertise without letting it become an annoyance, but we wouldn't make it onto ABP's whitelist.
This. "How do we get more women in OSS?" is the same as saying "How do we get more male nurses"? If men want to become nurses, then they will become nurses, if women want to become open source software developers they will become OSS developers.
> Stereotypes exist. Women like this.

The specific problem she is addressing is that when a woman promulgates a stereotype about women, that makes it more believable (and acceptable) to men and, therefore, makes her life worse.
Except, it's implemented on top of TCP. So you still have the head-of-line blocking problem. In a real-time application like games, if some congestion causes a few packets to be dropped, you don't care about them any more (assuming your protocol gives absolute positions of everyone involved); but in TCP, they will be retransmitted, and later packets queued until it can catch up. As websockets are based on TCP, you can't avoid this. Even if you have a "fire and forget" message based layer built on top of TCP, the head-of-line blocking will still kill your performance, causing people with bad connections to get persistent lag rather than a few dropped frames.
It is unfortunate that many people commenting here didn't bother to RTFA. In particular, from the FAQ:

Are you stupid? Nobody wants this!

The results of our user survey say something different. Only 25% of the Adblock Plus users seem to be strictly against any advertising. They will disable this feature and that's fine. The other users replied that they would accept some kinds of advertising to help websites. Some users are even asking for a way to enable Adblock Plus on some websites only.

https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads

That page is the real article, linked from the first paragraph of the submitted article, which is more like a changelog.

Please also note that Wladimir has been talking about this for years and didn't suddenly get this into his head. From a 2009 post:

As I stated many times before, my goal with Adblock Plus isn’t to destroy the advertising industry. ... So the idea is to give control back to the users by allowing them to block annoying ads. Since the non-intrusive ads would be blocked less often it would encourage webmasters to use such ads, balance restored.

http://adblockplus.org/blog/an-approach-to-fair-ad-blocking
No reason for me to enable ads, as long as they have a huge impact on my privacy. I don't intend to send a list of every single site I view to Google.

Make a sane ad system, where ads are proxied through the same webserver as the remainder of the page, and I would have no problems with activating them.
I suspect most people who install adblock plus, aren't the kind of people who click on ads. So I suspect, even if (theoretically speaking) blocking ads was made impossible, the net impact would be much smaller than imagined.

This will just impact those people who had it installed for them, and who happen to update. I doubt that will be the saviour of many small sites - if adblock plus was killing them in the first place that is.
Awesome. Maybe you can find a way to work with Mike Bostock on the Cube project. Add some interactivity to real time graphs.
That is a frighteningly sensationalist and misleading title; there's no evidence in this thread that Gecko is too big or development is stalled. The fact is that many large projects now hit 32-bit ceilings when compiling on Windows. For example, Chrome has had to repeatedly split and restructure VS projects to stay under the memory caps.
Good advice, although I personally disagree with him on the Janus front.

Janus is what got me to switch full time to Vim a few months ago, after having used Vim off and on for over a decade, mainly on the command line or for edits that were to difficult or repetitive to get done in more "friendly" editors/IDEs like TextMate and Visual Studio.

Janus provided just enough familiarity and convenience to make a full-time swap something I could stick with. After a couple of months of this I did basically dump Janus and start managing plugins myself with Pathogen (adding new ones and removing some of the default Janus ones), and customising my config (which is still based on the old Janus config, but extensively modified)
Not sure about the first half of your question, but on the second part, it would probably depend a lot on your definition of a "small website" (as well as abp's)
> If men want to become nurses, then they will become nurses, if women want to become open source software developers they will become OSS developers.

That's true only if there are no institutional or cultural barriers. From reading the experience of women who are interested in OSS or men who are interested in becoming nurses, that does not seem to be the case.
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They are very much aware of the marketing techniques which are effectively used to promote them to their target

audience as well.
He's recommending if you have a $100k in savings, you should invest in startup tech companies and not public equities which is somewhere between ridiculous and stupid to dangerous. I like Cuban usually but this is terrible advice. If he meant you have an extra $100k to play with that you don't mind losing, then maybe this advice is ok.
Being able to find the opinions of so many like minded individuals is both a blessing and a curse-- it's great to be able to skim the responses to major news items, but often I find myself just nodding along to every comment, even though the most thought provoking discussions are the ones where I end up disagreeing with the prevailing opinion.
the issue is XUL, not Gecko-Gecko per se.
tho I agree - XUL while providing this cool extensibility, gets huge.

just take a look at Fennec's nightly. what they did is wipe XUL. thats right.

- It's using Native UI, aka, it's using whatever the OS provides (here, Android's UI). and just runs Gecko in it.

- It breaks addons touching XUL.

- It uses very little memory in comparison

- It's freaking FAST. Puts Chrome, Opera, you name it to shame. Yes, really!

- UI NEVER lags. Thats right, fixes that too.

- Oh and it does support Flash for Android this time.

Then again, its a pretty early nightly of a whole new Fennec so there _are_ bugs and missing functionality.

Why I'm saying that? Well, despite the addons issue I'd wish for at least such an experimental version for Win/OSX/Linux. It's just that good.
While I'd love to look at the world with rosy colored glasses I think this is simply unrealistic. While the parent post wasn't worded all that well (sorry). Its just a fact that it isn't realistic to expect a startup or even an early stage company to go without a critical member for several months, regardless of the cause of the absence. Male, Female, Trans-gender, pregnancy, bar fight, rehab, base jumping, whatever. The cause doesn't really matter, the effect is extremely destructive to the company and I feel it's reasonable to expect those in critical positions to protect themselves against such absences. Just to be clear, not singling out women here, there are many things everyone can do to avoid issues that could result in such an absence.
It really depends on how you plan to run your startup. If you require 80 hour weeks then no, a women with a young child isn't going to cut it. However, neither is a man with a young child.

If you are demanding that working for your startup is your employee's number 1 priority then you probably only want a specific type of person--young and single (male or female).

However, if you run a more sane company married with 3 kids would probably work fine.
What prevents these projects from building on a 64bit OS with a 64bit compiler? Isn't that the simplest solution to getting rid of the ceilings rather than to continually restructure?
got one, 16gb.
That's why its sent from a "random" "new user". Has no posts, no submissions.

I'm guessing HN should downrank by default submissions from people with no posts.

Regardless, the topic is interesting, even if the title is indeed, horrible "quick firefox is dead meme!".

Heck if some Googlers are behind that stuff, that's sad.
Good read that pretty much matches my thoughts on this issue. Thanks.
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I'm guessing they have to switch the build toolchain, and its automated, so they have to make a decision before asking IT to do so. (again, its a guess)
One thing you can do is take your money out of the stock market and keep it somewhere safe.

This is investing in yourself in that your financial success is tied much more to yourself than on things you don't control. It has practical value should you find yourself in a situation where you need to rely on that money, it won't have disappeared due to external risk.
This article covers Play 1.2.3. Play 2.0 is now in beta http://www.playframework.org/2.0 and is a rewrite of the application in Scala. I was able to easily deploy a Play 2.0 app written in Scala, to Heroku with no problems. Some outlying features are still missing but all the basics are there and seem solid.
Or more to the article's point, maybe that was just when the venue was available.
Physical fitness is a great way to invest in yourself. Either you spend the money (which it doesn't really take that much of really) to stay healthy now, or you spend it down the road getting tubes stuck in you in at a hospital.

That said, there aren't any side-projects, interests, hobbies that you'd be interested in trying out on the side and seeing if you can turn into small businesses. Surely, there has to be something.
I disagree that there is no evidence in the thread that Gecko is too big. The "Gecko is too big" in the title is directly from the thread, started by a Mozilla developer.

The evidence that development has stalled is the fact that the tree for landing code changes has closed. SPDY, recently announced here, has been, or is being considered for, removal to relieve code size.
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Cuban's points were a bit all over the place, but if we're talking about wealth creation of the F you money type, taking some personal/career risk often is required. Whether that's being a startup founder, being a hedge fund trader, or the best investment banker in the world, etc.

So if you don't want to start your own thing or work at one or work hard or generally take any risk, the wealth thing is probably going to prove elusive.

Of course, if you want to retire with a couple of million dollars, a nice corporate job and frugal lifestyle is prob all you need.
It looks like all German web sites, except for the last one.

! Text-based search ads on suche.netzwelt.de
! Static image ads on t3n.de
! Text ads with small static images on focus.de
! Text ads on Sedo parking domains

In other words, they're not whitelisting Google or any other major web sites, so the vast majority of people won't notice, even with the white list turned on.
I'd agree with this.

The only exception really is to look at institutional (not cultural) barriers IMO. "Are we doing something that keeps people from being willing to have a seat at the table?"

Cultural barriers are beyond our immediate control where they extend beyond an immediate institution. If nursing is seen as unmanly, then there's not a lot one can do about that. And very often well-meaning attempts to "fix" cultural problems ends up re-inforcing them. Culture is a very resilient, homeostatic thing, and indeed, the idea that "we know what's better for women than they do" is pretty obviously sexist, but it is the same thing that comes up when saying "how do we get more women involved in X."

In general the only culture you can change is that of your own institutions, including your business and your family. That's it.

Edit: Downvotes are a bit amusing. Guess someone finds the idea challenging?
> Ok so you can't as an employer treat your [women] employees having babies as a life-changing [and work-productivity reducing] event

Read the next section after the part you quoted - since the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, those prohibitions (against pregnancy based discrimination) apply to both men and women.
I always find it weird when people say "what women want". As a man, I find it easiest to illustrate the problem to other men by simply asking them to substitute 'man' for 'woman'.

Who can say "what men want". Sure, if you listen to comedians, all men want is sex sex sex and maybe some cars and sports.

But even before you look at what individuals are like, if you just look at male archetypes, there are clear and common contradictions. The 98-pound weakling versus the musclebound beach bum. The hot stuff young programmer and the technically clueless grayhair. The expensively dressed high finance wizard and the smelly protesting hippy. The sex-mad pickup artist and the asexual man who simply isn't interested. The sports-mad bloke who hates literature and the literature-mad bloke who hates sports. The deadbeat dad versus the father who lives solely for his children.

And these are just archetypes, not actual individuals. They all have different wants, needs, skills, and desires. How stupid it is to say "what men want", to lump half the race into one generalisation. If you're a man, you should feel viscerally just how bad this kind of generalisation is; why should women feel any different when the same is applied to them?
Not really sure why the hate for nerdtree.

"Don’t use the NERD tree plugin. It is clumsy, will hurt your workflow with split windows, and it’s not particulary pretty either. You never needed a file browser pane in the first place."

"It is clumsy"

We're talking about VIM, with dozens of keystrokes to invoke everything but emacs already. The whole thing is a bit clumsy! I use it every day and have for a decade but it's still clumsy.

"will hurt your workflow with split windows"

The author then goes on to state

"You can split the current buffer horizontally or vertically. This is useful, for instance, to view simultaneously the top and the bottom part of the same file. But it’s even more useful to view different files in splits; for instance tests and implementation."

HUH?

" and it (nerdtree) ’s not particulary pretty either"

And the rest of VIM is?

Nerdtree is great, especially when I'm using it on remote systems. A vim session open with nerdtree and some tabs inside of a screen session, and life is good.
Class, pure class.

And increasingly, limited to the upper class.
I think you have a point. We are trying to hire at a large company and we don't see many resumes that make it through the HR filter. I still haven't figured out how this process works.
Seems eerily the same.
Looks good. My own module of this sort auto-escapes HTML special characters in strings fed to it, by default -- it looks like yours doesn't do this, at least at first glance. Is that right?

OTOH I think I like your syntax better.
don't forget about:

let mapleader = ","

it remaps <leader> to ',' instead of '\'
True... are we not taught to NOT judge based on prejudices?
There are so many stereotypes not just about women and men that is. There are also stereotypes about Black, Latino, Asian communities etc. Sometimes they are spread by the people of these communities itself. However, its unprofessional or wrong(? for the lack of a better word) on anybody to judge them based on these stereotypes however tempting it might be, and that is what I think our education should teach us? I must admit they do make good late night comedies and hopefully nothing more!
None, as long as you don't piss off a prosecutor somewhere who wants to punish you for being a bad person. The problem here is it makes it possible for someone to say "show me the man and I'll find you the crime."

Not a good position to be in, honestly....
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I agree. A non-XUL version of Firefox would be excellent. The mobile work in this area shows great promise.

Unfortunately support for embedding Gecko has been woeful, making experiments in this area difficult. The lack of an embedding story for Gecko is a big reason for it losing ground to WebKit in my opinion.
While the title is as usual, crap and misleading:
- i think adblock makes the hard, but right decision
- ill switch it off

And finally, I do think ads are evil because done wrongly - spammed. (Even thus the decision is right, because I also accept that our society works like that and DNT needs to be respected.)

I do not recall ANY ads that brought true value on the Net to my purchasing needs.

They're bad.

Examplification:
I browse review for the latest phone. It looks cool. If ads aren't blocked, I get hundred of "buy this phone here and there" "get cables for the phone" yada yada and some random totally unrelated ads.

I don't care for any of those. Why? Because If I wanna buy the phone, accessories, or related stuff I'm not just going to click on the first link and click buy. That's dumb.

I'm going to go to a price checker online, and decide which one has the best price/shipping/quality/rating/etc ratio!

So instead, if the ads would link me to that, and refer the review site if I do buy, I'd be much happier.

Of course I realize this cannot be because, the comparison site would be corrupted eventually, as we're talking big amount of moneys here.

My 2cts as usual. ;-)