skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoever runs the comcast network really knows his stuff.

They are one of the first large ISPs to actually start real work on deploying IPv6.

And I remember calling during an outage and speaking to someone on the front lines (not second tier) who was actually very technically knowledgeable.

Whatever you may think of their business department (silly things like internet + cable costs less than internet by itself), the network side is really good.
It was mentioned on HN (I started using it after spotting it on main page). Reveal.js is more practical for daily usage at the moment - basic HTML convention lets you work with it. But I'd prefer two separate stylesheets - the basics and a theme.
Excellent.

I was just about to write a Chrome extension to do this.
I frequently have to deliver the bad news to bewildered drivers that the federal building they are looking for is in the middle of Seattle, not on a suburban street Kirkland which just happens to have some similar street numbers - they are always using Google maps directions...
Well, they obviously didn't skip a week, and making snarky comments like that misses the point. Whatever testing they did, and the way they interpreted it, meant they were happy to go ahead with the implementation you see.
Since I don't own an iPhone, your assumption is incorrect. My spouse and many other non-technical people I know do own iPhones. And it is very common for them to use apps rather than their browser to access web content.
http://gizmodo.com/329104/consumer-reports--cellphone-servic...

It's called Google and there's an option to search within date ranges. Highly complex stuff - AT&T has consistently rated among the bottom rungs of providers since, well, forever. Sure - they've gotten a bone thrown to them a time or two based on regional comparisons (Southwest US is where they've been known to have better service), but overall they've pretty much sucked. Just like your uninformed comments.
To be fair I think the photograph posted on peta pixel is an order of magnitude better than the photo shown here in this post.
FWIW, Sweden only implemented their mandate that government-funded publications be open access after the US NIH did so (2009 in Sweden, 2008 in the US).
Funny you should mention that.. This was, surprisingly, one of the most discussed topics internally when developing the app. The background image changed almost daily over a 3 month period (along w/ 2-3 complete redesigns). We wanted something that conveyed warmth, food, friendliness and was aesthetically pleasing. The process was really just lots of trial and error (and photoshop), but we're happy with how it turned out. We think it fits well with the food/restaurant theme - almost like you're sitting down at a table with friends about to enjoy some delicious food.

Now the website has to play catch up!
Customize Your Stuff - Shoes, Clothes, Bikes, Etc.
Isn't the idea to be a minimally-functional programmer, rather than an awesome one?
If I used Sumblime Text 2, I'd absolutely use the Lint plugin. Looks awesome and I've heard great things.

I've really grown to love my MacVim setup, though.

Thanks!
No.

At least, I've certainly seen no research suggesting that is true; you may believe it but "most" people don't and if they did they haven't provided evidence for that belief. If your hypothesis is correct, how do you explain the massive variation over time in gender gap even just in the United States? (citation: http://phrogram.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityS...)
In general people seem to be finding a lot of value with these new "random" connections of people who share their interests in tech things or just "interesting" things. It strikes me that all of these people existed before, but none of us knew we "wanted" to be connected to them, we just happened to be at the right place and the right time. I can't wait for the first social network to help us connect to interesting people we don't know without us having to take arbitrary external steps. Google circles, Twitter suggestions for who to follow... these are baby steps to a future with great potential.
"Mozilla Europe: Founder and president"

So ultimately, his money comes from Google advertisements, which are not free. He can afford to do photography as a hobby because he has income from another source, that can be traced back to a scarce good.

If all information goods were free, the power would shift to those who actually have something scarce to sell, which would likely mean fewer information goods of some kinds because some people at the margin could no longer afford to produce them if they were no longer able to generate an income by doing so.
What tools are out there to generate an HTML doc of your api? I don't necessarily need it to parse my code, but I want to take the busy-work out of coding HTML.
The point is not that they have to become great programmers, but that just a basic level of knowledge would help them in many ways.
So you're saying that women aren't taken seriously because they feel like they aren't taken seriously? Did you even read the part of the article about circular logic?

I am embarrassed for you.
This Photograph Cannot be Efficiently Priced
How do you mean 'break'? As I understand it, NXDOMAIN also has to be signed with a trust chain back to a root authority. I guess what I don't know enough to answer is if there are other equally sufficient error codes that don't require a trust chain (which would be surprising because allowing any non-trusted responses would seem to defeat the entire purpose of a non-tamperable DNS service)
There's this thread on github:
https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js/issues/5
Buffett Offers to Match Deficit Donations From All Republican in Congress
I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Google+ is one of the easiest correctly sized columns of text to read on my iPhone.

The following is a screen shot. Do you care to elaborate on what is wrong?

http://imgur.com/xDksb
The day Samsung "becomes the next Apple", how will it be able to keep "innovating", as they'll have no one to copy anymore...?
It depends on what the cause is, now doesn't it? If the problem is men's behavior it is sexist, not to mention impossible, for women to fix it.
TeX and LaTeX in industry applications
If you're looking for an overview of cryptography in an easy-to-digest format, take a look at:

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Code-Book-Science-Secrecy-Cryptography...

It is light on the math but Simon Singh does a great job reviewing cryptography over the last 4000 years. It was a fun summer read.
Half the population is below IQ 100 (in America and Europe). For these people, learning basic algebra is like pulling teeth. Coding? Forget about it.
Apples and oranges. At least until recently, NY was known for having some of the fastest building construction teams in the world, and some of the only ones able to put up a story every two days. by having them pouring on one side of the floor and drying on the other.
The new .NET HttpClient class
It's not yet rolled out to all users, regardless of whether they're Apps customers.
'Last fall, Senator Mitch McConnell said that if Buffett was feeling “guilty” about paying too little in taxes, he should “send in a check.”'

'So, Buffett has pledged to match one for one all such voluntary contributions made by Republican members of Congress. “And, I’ll even go three for one for McConnell.” That could be quite a bill if McConnell takes the challenge; after all, the Senator is worth at least $10 million. As Buffett put it to me: “I’m not worried.”'
NOnononononono.

If it "works" superficially it will be considered good enough by management. High fives all around, the checklist is ticked off, and everybody moves on -- except for the poor developers have to maintain the mess.

Nimbleness doesn't mean creating crushing technical debt that has to be solved immediately by somebody else. :)
I think this comes from the idea that it will be easier to integrate/extend understand, as much of the complex functionality moves out of the project and into jQuery. That means that often the project becomes smaller and easier to digest.
I wrote a compression algorithm, hire me?
https://github.com/YoavGivati/Givati-Compression

A smart and lossless data compression algorithm with a focus on repeating data structures like JSON/JSONH, network and language permeability, decompression without requiring a pre-agreed dictionary, and minimum size over speed. Compression and speed comparable to Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) implemented in Javascript, PHP/Python coming soon.

I'm a software engineer/entrepreneur with design sense. I have 8 years of programming experience and 5+ years of experience building cool interfaces / apps, and consulting for some well known people. Fast learner (I taught myself about data compression, conceived of and wrote this in 3 days). I've been a technical co-founder at a stock related startup and have managed a small team of developers.

html5, node.js, mongo, mysql, php, flex, python, jsp/jstl

I'm building [inkapp.co] as a part of [chalkhq.com] but need funding, or a steady income for a few years at a loving company that wants me on their team.

Anyone hiring in the Toronto-ish, Ontario-ish, Canada-ish area? willing to relocate anywhere for the right gig, 3 and 10 page CV available on request.

Dear hacker news, please help me get hired before the end of January.
Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?
I think Hacker News should stand with reddit to go dark in support of SOPA. SOPA seems very important for the future of HN and startups associated with ycombinator.
Yes, HN should go dark to protest SOPA
No, HN shouldn't go dark to protest SOPA
Berlin Theatre Stages 1st Live Facebook Production
I would assume Apple's existing licence with Google for using Maps covers this.
I also have mobilek.it if anyone is interested
Your rewrite is completely valid. Were you expecting it to be absurd? It's not. The same interesting questions arise.

I think the point is, that when "women in tech" comes up, the default assumption that people (particularly feminists) tend to jump to is that sexism is keeping women out of tech. More specifically, that sexist guys in tech are keeping women out. Even when not stated explicitly, this accusation has been made many, many times, and underlies every discussion about this topic.

But the immediate assumption when it comes to nursing is almost never that women in nursing programs mistreat men. In fact, I've almost never heard that accusation, even though it's considered the null hypothesis when it comes to "women in tech". People are much quicker to look for other explanations, for instance that men are more likely to be bothered by the working conditions, pay, autonomy, etc. than women are.

I'm sure you can come up with reasons why men may choose not to make their living caring for children, even though they'd prefer to do so. Is this not a problem we should attempt to fix?

Absolutely, we should address these problems. First we need to know what they are, though, and I think the discussion about this topic has been much more productive in nursing than it has been in tech, because sexism is not considered the null hypothesis there.
HN doesn't provide oauth api (or any api for that matter)
You guys are doing excellent work. I also find what you are doing with predicate dispatch very interesting. I think that class of methods are/will be really powerful - especially for big complicated programs. Have you been able to get it to work efficiently for most cases in clojurescript and in general?
I once lost a pair of needle nose pliers I had left in a bag and totally forgotten about. I have no idea why they thought those might be a problem.
Or want to hire new college grads for your start up for less than $80,000 a year.
A 10-Step Recipe for Marketing Success
Watch Modern Family Season 3 Episode 12 0nline - Egg Drop Free
Watch Modern Family Season 3 Episode 12 0nline Egg Drop Streaming for Free Vide0 Modern Family Season 3 Episode 12 0nline HD Full S03E012 Free Watch Modern Family Season 3 Episode 12 0nline streaming Megavide0
The Irish Religion of Copying that Saved Civilisation
...and also that there is an infinity of worlds

Giordano Bruno beat him to the punch by four centuries (if of course one accepts 100,000,000,000 as a reasonable approximation of infinity).

http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/brunoiuw0.htm#IUWTOC
I so wholeheartedly agree. I was just thinking about writing about the decline and fall of documentation.

It seems to me that as open source software has risen, good documentation has declined. That is probably inevitable, but it doesn't make it good.

If you can wrap your mind around making your documentation every bit as elegant as your code, you'll win friends and score career points.
The point of going dark is to announce to bystanders the peril. Everyone who reads Hacker News already knows the peril...
It might also lower the financial costs to addicts. It still wastes their time, but I think that's what they want. :/
Are you better than the average man?
lots of downvotes when it comes to lack of substance in a comment... or defining things as "a lie", "dumb" or "it sucks"
Fun and this works in the browser for client side compression because it's fully js. Snappy is written in C and doesn't work in the browser.
PopCap: People Who Cheat In Social Games Are More Likely To Cheat In Real Life
Thank you for your kind words. I confess that I am completely taken aback that in 2012 there are still people postulating that women are not capable of or inclined toward intellectually rigorous or difficult work.

Oh those ladies and their feeble, overheating lady-brains!
I’m a Clojure user that switched from Python. We’re now using it at the startup I founded. So far it seems to have been a great decision.
I think you're inventing specific requirements to win a debate. So essentially "I can imagine a scenario that would hard for you to accomplish". Are you saying there is no scenario you can fathom that's difficult to accomplish in ruby? If that's that's the case, you should probably be lobbying to replace javascript with ruby. Not to spend lots of time and effort and pain to turn javascript into ruby.
Over 400,000 Sites Use Facebook Comments Box, Now Supporting Mobile
Intel has the largest share in the PC graphics market, over 50% of the total.
Anyone who cares about Hacker News already opposes SOPA.

Anyone who supports SOPA would be glad to see Hacker News down for a day.

What's the point of shutting down Hacker News again?
"Launching a one-man startup now has a very low barrier to entry. So we end up with a world where everybody wants to be a startup founder, and nobody wants to be a co-founder."

a very sad world, where the only person with skin in the game you have to bounce ideas with (or take the heat it takes to build a business with you) is... yourself.
US PC Shipments Slip 6 Percent In Q4;Apple’s Jump 21 Percent
If you're talking about the sharp decline in computer science degrees granted to women around 1984, I have a couple of guesses.

First, no one really knew what kind of career path getting a computer science degree entailed until around then anyway, and once women had figured it out they decided they didn't want it.

Second, in my opinion women are much more sensitive to their career's stability and predictability than men are, for the simple reason that they're the ones who have to plan out when to have children. You'll notice that the drop-off more or less coincided with the first (or second, or maybe third - I forget which) big bust in the PC industry in the 80s. Mainframes and even microcomputers did not have boom-and-bust cycles like PCs did in the 80s, although individual companies might blow up the industry as a whole was relatively stable. College students looking for stability around that time might sensibly decide "computing" wasn't for them any more.

My favorite reference in this discussion (well, about women in science and engineering as a whole) is Philip Greenspun's article (http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science) who basically makes the argument that the median scientist who doesn't win Noble Prizes actually has a pretty crappy career and that women are smart enough to stay away.
Ask HN: Have you ever had Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? How did you deal with it?
Just in the last few days I've been getting Carpal Tunnel symptoms. I've bought a wrist brace, a new mouse, and a new keyboard. They seem to be helping, but I'm still worried that if this continues or gets worse, it could endanger my career.

What has been your experience?
Music and computer programming are correlated as well. Once upon a time orchestras were overwhelmingly male, but now there are a lot more women in orchestras, not to mention world-class soloists. This is partly due to the blind audition process that became common ~40 years ago.
Okay, so let me revise my previous statements. I'm a high school journalist writing a story on SOPA. I've done research on the bill for the past couple of hours and I think I've grasped the concept of it. So I am here now because I want to get a hackers' point of view.

Obviously, every average teenager can download movies and music on the internet for "free". How much power do hackers have on the internet (what do you do)? Why do you enjoy hacking? Is it a hobby or job? And are you worried that SOPA will decrease freedom of speech and censor major sites, or because it could potentially hurt the hacker world a lot?

I apologize if my questions are rude or stupid, but I am not familiar with hacking and I am doing my best at the moment.
Critics on Google Search+: EPIC Cries Antitrust, Twitter Provides Evidence
A bit out of date but I have used rapi-doc in the past: https://github.com/sabman/rapi_doc for some of our internal API reference docs, for quickly reminding ourselves of the current state of our API's. It's for Ruby on Rails though, so if you are familiar with RoR, it will parse your controllers looking for API related comments for each controller action. Here's an example https://beta.spacialdb.com/apidoc/layers.html But I am sure there are better tools out there, I'd be keen to learn about them.
most of these features are so hidden, you learn them the first few nights with python
The feature I'm really waiting for is pseudonym support. Vic Gondotra promised it several months ago at Web 2.0. I don't feel comfortable using Google+ at all right now, given that my account, among others, was suspended.
Nick Kristof on Occupy and the rise of citizen journalism
It's actually not incompatible with SOPA. The bill demands that ISPs block DNS routing for certain domains. Returning no response to a DNS request would not break DNSSEC. It would just look like that site did not exist.

Some people have proposed that instead of blocking DNS, ISPs should redirect a DNS request. That would be incompatible with DNSSEC--but that requirement is not in the bill.
Since is it fairly common to hear mention of Asperger's syndrome in reference to software developers, I went out and found this study: http://www.la-press.com/gender-ratios-in-autism-asperger-syn...

It turns out that there is a 12:1 ratio of males to females with the Asperger's diagnosis.

I wonder if the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in males contributes to behaviors that might give one an advantage in the software development field? It only takes a quick reading of the characteristics of the disorder to see that many of them are common among software developers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome

Of course, there are exceptions and I don't mean to imply that one cannot create good software without these characteristics. I only suggest that perhaps these characteristics provide some advantage in a field that is young and constantly changing.
First time I've ever been to this site, and immediately a giant pop up appears over the content. I doubt I'll be back.
It was meant to be about database design, tables and sql. Not access specifically. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/11/digital-lite... has some more examples.
But it's not such an edge case in javascript where asynchronous programming is the norm and stacks get thrown away all the time. In fact it's exactly the scenario that people will immediately try to solve with blocks, but they will fail.

function getMyData(input) {
asyncDataCall(input, {|data|
return data; // fail
});
}
I stopped using mouse totally and use the trackpad. For some reason it feels better. Also I use the Anti-RSI software to remind me to take break regularly.
From the blogpost:

"I took the picture because I like taking pictures. I've invested into a lot of money into camera gear over the past 27 years or so and never made a dime from it. On the other hand, it has given me a lot of joy and pride. The joy to take beautiful pictures."

The author is an amateur photographer, he shares his work and people enjoy it. That's great.

There are also quite a few developers who contribute to open source projects. That doesn't mean that they or others can't ever charge for programming work or software products.

Some photographers license all of their work to the public domain, most professional photographers don't. I don't feel there's shame in that. People need to respect and adhere to the license a work is published in. The fact that you had to download a picture in your browser to view it doesn't mean you have the right to republish it.
But, er, doesn't the observation that the actual ratio is different evidence constitute "evidence"?

Fowler's point is that lopsided ratios existed many times in the past, and people argued that they were natural, but they turned out not to be, as was proven when the barriers were torn down and the ratios equalized. So in that sense, he's arguing that ratio observations do not count as "evidence" in this context.

However, what he's overlooking is the fact that in most cases, those imbalanced ratios in the past were buttressed by direct barriers to entry - women and minorities were usually actively excluded, and then when the active discrimination stopped, things started to equalize, often very rapidly (the "Jackie Robinson" effect).

We have seen this happen in most fields (tech has just about the worst gender imbalance in any field apart from nursing). And now we're at a point where explicit barriers to entry are all but absent. So as time goes on, the observation that the ratios are not approaching 1:1 in tech suggests more and more strongly that there's something else going on, and that the methods used to create parity in other fields (fighting -isms, mainly) are not addressing the root cause of inequality in tech.

That's not to say that this is evidence that there's not some other sort of more subtle discrimination going on; that's certainly possible, and I'm open to evidence that something in tech is somehow worse than in other fields (I've never seen any numbers to suggest this, and when looking at data like salary gaps, tech appears to be more equal than most fields). But it does mean that we should be wary about drawing the same causal conclusions that we drew 60 years ago when the situation was very different...
Depends. We serve ~40 PHP requests a second (and that's NOT counting stuff that hits the cache) on reasonable hardware - an 8G webserver VM, and a 4G DB VM, both with 4 cores allocated, and hot copies of each for failover. Our site is pretty interactive, and even the stuff that's cached is short (5 minutes or less) timeouts.
If I had to guess, they're running with the stock Ruby GC parameters, which are fairly horrible for a Rails app, and can result in multiple GC cycles per request. Ruby's GC is painfully slow, so if you're kicking into it, you're going to slaughter your response times.

REE and Ruby 1.9.3 both offer GC tuning parameters, which let you instruct Ruby that you're going to shove a huge app at it and to not garbage collect every time someone sneezes, which can have a pretty massive impact on response times.