skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this shocks me because I've never worked in an organization where that would be tolerated, and I don't tolerate it in my team either. But then again, I'd never really hire people that would think that's OK, so...

Since managers tend to hire folks like themselves, it's really a symptom of dysfunctional management and an organization.

Thankfully there are absolutely places where this insanity doesn't occur. I don't know how to find that out prior to working there, however. :(
For a platform the third party ecosystem is super important. That is most affected by # of users * how much each tends to pay. iPhone uses tend to be willing to pay more than Android users, but at some point the sheer number of Android users can make Android win out.
There are ethical and economical reasons for low to zero-cost mp3s.

1. The artist actually gets even more of a shit deal with digital distribution than they did with physical media. You are supporting the machine, not the musician.

2. The cost of developing a quality recording has plummeted dramatically, the only substantive cost remaining is the advertising. The exception might be for faux artists like Rihanna that hire top notch songwriters to pen hits, but for lesser known musicians, mp3 distribution has been shown in studies to have a positive impact.

3. mp3s can function as the advertising medium itself. The money can be made elsewhere like endorsements, or touring. Live music can never be "stolen".
Ask HN: Why is Namesys.com serving up Linux Kernel Archives?
The domain has been dead for a long time, even last week. Now it is serving up Linux Kernel Archives. Obviously Hans himself isnt doing this.

Does anyone know what is going on?
The only reason this is true is that the laws say it is.

I disagree. I think it's part of the current social code/contract, not just the law. In fact, the RIAA/MPAA ads say exactly that - "you wouldn't steal a car" - because they know people find property (particularly personal property) to be something we have a right to.

Copyright, on the other hand, is only unquestionable by the law.
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If you build good software that does what it's supposed to, there's no need for service. There may be need for additional software to solve a new problem and in that sense, you provide a service. But I certainly don't want software that I need to keep going back to the vendor for fixes for or new documentation or for training on how to use it. I think that's very much the wrong way to do software, despite your emphatic use of italics.
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You're right. That is the healthiest approach for her. Which makes dealing with the bullshit that people fling at her for not having thicker skin all the more valuable. She could go along to get along, but hasn't, so everyone else won't have to go along with this crap too.

Your "hopefully that won't come across as sexist" bit, by the way, belittles the concern. It's not just her concern; it's my concern too, and you've belittled it. Thanks, internet message board guy.
Well this sucks. I just got into Draw Something yesterday and have been a fan of OMGPOP since Iminlikewithyou (hipster), but a company like Zynga does not deserve this game, or my attention to it. Zynga is well known for being theives and gathering as much possible data as they can about their users to sell off to ad companies and such. Looks like I'll be uninstalling this Draw Something once the switch takes place.
It's a bit mean, but a Ruby-to-PHP compiler implemented in C#? I feel like 3 is a crowd here.
Who wins the race for investment money, artist or the software developer?
I find the reddit interface extremely annoying with AMA... I want to see all the questions and answers, I don't want to see the random ones that don't get answered, etc. Just show me everything in a neat organized way. Love the guys that summarize everything at the end.
You can express empathy with the other person though. And in English, at least, this is commonly done using apologetic language, "I am sorry that you feel that way and I understand that you are upset" etc.

No, "I'm sorry I made you feel that way" or "I'm sorry I hurt you."
This looks awesome. My friend had an idea for something like this, but It's not this clean.
The title is one way to recognize the rightful owner. If the title is destroyed or missing, those who believe in natural rights would still recognize ownership. Those who believe in state-given rights might not.

Also, you mentioned earlier that mere possession does not imply rightful ownership. I totally agree, as would anyone who has been the victim of theft.
Is there any legal protection against someone just shooting these drones down? They're flying outside national law, so if someone or organization opposed to them could detect them, why not just shoot them down?
What America Does For Work
"... Rob has seven years of PR experience ..."

Steps to increase exposure: I read PG essays, PG has a of exposure. I don't agree & write counter arguments. Post article & submit.
Cool art/tinkering, but one word as to practicality: transit.

I never quite got the long term plan for things like this or Sealand hosting. As one broken clock correctly said, the internet is not a dump truck. To be accessible from "the web", one requires some interactive uplink to the internet. If action can truly not be taken against the server, simply cut its cord. (Yes, it's possible to get some people to use their own radio hardware for communication with uav/minisat/moonserver, but the number of people who idealistically go out of their way to value freedom will always be much smaller than the ones who take the easiest path)

Where I'm going with this is that any salvation must come from software. The whole philosophy of the Internet is that dumbly passing packets back and forth is good enough, and the end nodes should have the intelligence to deal with whatever network failure occurs. I know that programming servers is easy, and centralized sites give the owners publicity and ad money, but the only lasting effect from these things is to create the community and mindshare from which next-gen protocols can be invented.
Outside of IT, nobody ever comments on low cut dresses?

I am glad I don't have to deal with things like the ones mentioned in the article, just wanted to chime in and say that most programming jobs suck anyway. So it seems possible to me that the expression of the suckiness apparently took on some sexist form, that is not to say that the male colleagues don't suffer through crap in the same job. It is definitely possible for male people to be in crappy jobs and having to look for something better.

So is the corollary of the article that all possible jobs for female programmers suck?
Growing Your Own Organs
http://www.sportscoachuk.org/sites/default/files/Coffield%20...

Frank Coffield and team evaluated the field some time ago. VARK was one of the few that they found had some merit. I find that a visual explanation can help some students over the 'textbook' verbal/arithmetical presentation. See

http://www.slideshare.net/keithpeter/reverse-percentages-a-v...

(Rendering oddly in Firefox, slideshare used to be so useful...)
I didn't want to engage this further, but here I go:

Mental disability is too broad a topic to cover in the comments of HN. It covers a range from phobias to anti-social behaviors.

And yes -- this man and his work are suspect because immediately following his apparent success he was alleged to be masturbating in public and endangering himself.
Practically speaking, your average person does not want to deal with international shipping. It tends to be expensive and slow and tracking is not as good which leads to troubles for the site. It would be smart for a site to segregate people in their own country. When you don't do that, you get situations like this, where a competitor becomes you with a different TLD.
It's not just the App Store, it's iTunes as well.

After buying the new iPad, one of the first things I did was browse the available movies to look for a 1080p one. I literally had to open the details for each film, scroll to the bottom to find the small print which said what resolution the HD was. The vast majority wee only 720p, and a lot simply didn't mention resolution, leaving me to make a guess based on file size.

There are also serious categorisation shortcomings for movies and films. Basically, I think Apple's entire suite for selling digital content and apps needs to be fundamentally restructured to aid intelligent discoverability. They simply have too many products for the current method of basic homepage merchandising and bestsellers lists.
The word for this is "tragedy of the commons". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
Yes, agreed, generate static everything on first request; i.e. hit the application server just 1X for live data and generate static file(s) that represent the request on the front end server (httpd, nginx)

That leaves authentication and CRUD operations for the application server to work on; the rest lives in-memory (via google mod_pagespeed, for example) on the front end server.

I'm taking this approach as I like speed, and I don't yet trust the JVM enough to handle tons of live requests and OOME on me while I'm out surfing ;-)
See also: http://mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-light-global-base-map-alternat...
I broadly agree with you; this reply isn't for you inasmuch as it's to just continue the chain - my only caution about the "in private" is that it makes it an issue between the manager and the employee. The mgr can't be around for everything; it's up to the team to self police.

Sirens and other things cause public shaming when someone breaks the build; there needs to be a public and team-based shaming for inappropriate behavior.
Incubators are not just puppy mills gambling with people's dreams
I initially thought it was real but after all the negative posts I have looked at the video closely. The GoPro camera take of the landing is what gives it away. Note how low the camera goes next to the ground, while we see the pilot always standing as he lands it. The flight was probably filmed with an RC and that is why see the camera go so low as it lands. But whether this is fake or not, it's irrelevant. This is a great idea and with the proper brains behind it, one should be able to make it work.
He's actually got a point. She may be victimizing herself and blowing this way out of proportion. There are plenty of guys out there also taking "shit" from co-workers but biting the bullet and rather coming up with a witty response than shutting themselves in.
You'd need to be pretty heartless to decry it on face value when it does something so basic in our modern world as provide electrical power for people

Have you ever been at a large campground with widespread portable generator use? There are >definite< externalities.

I would take steps to further lubricate commerce. Technology that can leapfrog the build-out of infrastructure like roads is one possibility.
Rails isn't even participating in the fight

It never did and it shouldn't.

Rails became popular because with it developers had the ability to cut down on soul-sucking activities in their day to day jobs, like building yet another authorization system, or yet another admin. That some people ran with it and scaled it to its limits, that's only because they felt in love with its ease of getting things done.

That's its main advantage. When it comes to getting things done, there's no better alternative.

The fight to become the best backend API
is much different than the fight to become the
best html server.

Basically the best backend API is the one that is the fastest / that scales better both horizontally and vertically / that's more malleable to new developments and protocols (e.g. SPDY, Websockets) / that has the least overhead. From that point of view, if you're running on top of a VM that has a GIL, or that doesn't support real thread-based concurrency, then the "battle" is already lost.

So you see, there is no fight. That fight was won long ago by the JVM and the frameworks that run on top of it. Every big website on the web right now (except Microsoft-stuff), runs either on top of the JVM or with custom-baked solutions written in C/C++.

That didn't stop people from building cool stuff on top of PHP, or Rails, or Django, or every other platform that brought instant gratification, but that's another point entirely and we are talking about "battles" here.
I can't seem to find a study which showed that while only %3 of men ever make such comments, women involved in our community experience this a steady stream of subtle harassment. And the sad fact is that this is due to the lopsided share of men to women.

If we had a 50/50 split some women would never hear such comments, some would hear then extremely rarely, while the percentage of men making them would stay the same.

And can we ever hope to get 100% of any large group anywhere, to never make occasionally offensive remarks? The crux here really is that this type of offensive remarks have only one target - women, and that combined with the lop-sided sex ratio results in harassment.
Really? Your sole contribution here is an earnest restatement of the dismissive line decried over and over in the linked piece? For shame.

Edit in reply: Exactly how are these not all the same: “Hang in there,” “lighten up,” “change your perspective”?
Imagine you were a developer who happened to be a woman. Then imagine that it's inferred you should be serving beer if you're hot enough.

The bro thing is a celebration of a certain cliched fantasy of what masculinity should be. It's a cheap shot.
Did you see the story yesterday about a teacher being suspended (possibly permanently) for reading Ender's Game to his students because a parent accused the book of being "pornographic"?

While I agree that you should be careful about knowing your audience and where the lines are, there are some people who are going to have all kinds of lines in unexpected places. Sometimes, those lines move. Last week, a wry "yo mamma" might have been an appropriate come-back to Jim. Today, you might really upset him with the same comment because his mother died the day before.

The only real solution with some folks is to never so much as crack a smile at them. They may take it the wrong way.
Judgment against Hamid Najafi in the amount of $3,426,553.45
> Your "hopefully that won't come across as sexist" bit, by the way, belittles the concern. It's not just her concern; it's my concern too, and you've belittled it.

I'm sorry if you feel that way. Someone "getting the shaft" is a common phrase. When I typed it, I realized that it had obvious masculine connotations, so I thought I'd point that out with a smiley face. The rest of my response should make it more than obvious that I took her concern and health seriously.
That's also the Kim Stanley Robinson Mars trilogy's economy.
Agreed! You've put it much better than I could.
The decision not to target the Fine Arts world is wise - an egalitarian marketplace would go against everything they stand for.
Pretty obviously a hoax, er, I mean, conceptual art project.

I may be in the minority here, but I think that just having the idea counts for nothing, even in art. Their idea is pretty shallow, anyway. They're just assembling pre-existing memes together. Does anyone remember the old "imagine a Beowulf cluster" meme from Slashdot? It satirized a similar fanboy attitude. "Imagine an autonomous flying file sharing device!"

Solving the hard problems of making a crazy idea a practical reality is the only thing that counts in my book. This is not impossible; I've seen people do it time and again, and I've even done it myself.

Or, as Steve Jobs put it, real artists ship.
That's really not true.

Here's the graph:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/09/ios-marketshare-up-from-26-...

The iPhone started selling on Verizon in Q1. There was a small dip in relative Android sales, but not many. The only time the iPhone came close to Android in sales was Q4 2011 after nearly 1.3 years of pent up demand for an upgrade.

Edit: Looking at graph again, in Q1 2011 android:iphone sales ratio significantly decreased. Android went from a 2.5:1 to just under 2:1

In China, a poorer country, I'd suspect Apple will never come close due to its large premium over medium-end Android devices.
HR should also be on your side there too because, at least in my company, HR is almost entirely staffed by women. So they quite possibly have their own experiences with sexism in the workplace and won't simply dismiss the problem.
Perhaps you are one of the Five Hundred that he mentions above, then?
Producing less of it, yeah, maybe. But people seem to be forgetting that producing content or enriching content creators is not the goal of copyright law. It's supposed to "further the progress of science and the useful arts", and there is clearly a tradeoff between allowing people to copy versus allowing creators to monetize their creations.
I would think that people view car theft as more morally consequential than copyright infringement because of its tangible nature. If someone takes a car, someone else is now missing a car. However, if someone were to illegally download a song, nothing irreplaceable is taken (i.e. the artist isn't deprived of the music they have created).

I would also think that the relative value of the items makes a difference ethically. Assuming a song has a value on the market of $1 and a car has a going price of $10,000, the car is four orders of magnitude more expensive. Imagine if only one person could own a song at a time, and that song was valued the same as a car. I don't think you would see the rates of copyright infringement that you see today. For this same reason, I disagree that if car theft became consequence-free, many people would do it. The moral consequence is derived from the value of the object you are depriving someone of; a car is far more valuable than a song. Additionally, there's the ethical consequence of depriving someone of transportation, while taking a song does not really have any effects on a person's quality of life.
>(for instance: job interviews in which she was shown pictures of her interviewer's bare ass; I was, fortunately for all involved, in a different state when that happened)

Why? Because you would have beat his ass? Cause you would have shown him what happens when he comes on to your woman? You would have had an unkind word with him? Do you not believe your wife can handle herself?

Trying to bash down a gender role by reinforcing another is pretty silly.
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Thanks for this. I’m going to be more aware of these kind of things and more watchful to make sure I don’t contribute to this myself and more observant of those around me.

Now, I have a question for the women here — sometimes I’ll hear a woman make the joke about belonging in the kitchen. Do you have insight into why that might happen sometimes and what the best sort of response would be?
How is what I said dismissive? I take her concern seriously, and I gave her my opinion of the best option for her health. I'm being a realist here, there is no "changing everyones behavior." There is only changing your perspective.
Manchildren indeed. I think the worse manchildren are found in the game industry.
I also love the high contrast look of Toner. Way too many OSM styles, and non-Google maps in general, have too little contrast.
Or one sexually inappropriate comment, one "fetch me coffee," one "apparently I'm a secretary now..." and one "we're all dudes here right?" type comment.
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All I want in the App Store 2.0 model (and I realize I will never get this) is the ability to submit a web application to be included in the store.
Google buying Aardvark for $50M is the only example I can think of.
He is just flying for 30 seconds, you don't need much battery for that. 500gram LiPo should have more than enough juice for that.

Look at your laptop battery, they are around 50Wh which should be able to provide 2kW for almost 2 minutes, disregarding the maximum current it can pump out.

This is what makes me doubt if it really is fake or not. "Why has nobody done this before"? Because light weight power storage and motors has not been available until now. But the videos smell CG so I'm still calling fake on this one.
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Sigh. It's so exhausting to have to write bug-free prose.

I apologize. Let's try that again.

What I meant to say:

Some people do not claim to understand Inception all that well. Some do. And some understand it so well that they go out of their way to publicly state their annoyance that everyone on earth doesn't see how obvious it all is. I venture to guess that computer programmers are disproportionally likely to be members of the second and third groups. (Please note that I have said nothing about carpenters! I didn't mean to say a thing about carpenters!!)

EDIT: Incidentally, I'm upvoting you even though your razor-sharp criticism makes me do more work. ;) These downvotes! They are like mosquitoes!
In another case where users have been trained by google product methodologies: I just got pissed because scrolling my mouse wheel doesn't zoom.
My absolute favorite passage is "If the dinosaurs had a space program they would still be here"... Beyond the caricatural aspect of this phrase, i think it is a deep statement that needs to be understood by all humans. We had that exact discussion the other day with a bunch of friends/geeks; we tried to calculate the cost (to humanity) of all the "wasted" time designing,building,marketing,selling things that reduce the likelihood of the human specie survival beyond then next 500 years (an arbitrary large number). Seriously just think of bankers (very popular scapegoat these days - not that they do not deserve it) and the money (=time x effort) they wasted and how this time x effort could have been a far better investment in advanced space programs. Obviously, bankers are not the only negative contributors on the planet...
I've never gotten a tattoo as I could never commit to something "forever" that I wasn't sure about.

I want a temporary tattoo painter. One that I can program or download art into and have it print on my body - it can remain until I am tired of it and I can delete and reprint myself as I see fit.

Maybe one day I want my whole body to be plaid, camouflage the next.
Ridiculous. Coming to your partner's defense is not a matter of gender, but one of loyalty. Reverse the genders in this case and the threat still applies.
ming.ly is another
Nowhere was this implied. The article says that Rails makes excellent RESTful APIs. Of course your API should do validations, access control, etc. But, Rails doesn't have to do (much) of the HTML given client-side MVC/MVVM libraries like Backbone and KnockoutJS.

Leave the rendering of the app to the client. Leave the ins and outs of the data to the API (driven by Rails, Node/Express/Railway, Django, what-have-you).

That's definitely applicable to mobile and web apps.
quite the contrary, pjax reduces bandwidth and, properly implemented, reduces total # of requests (since once html, css, js, images are downloaded, you just hit the server for the content that varies; usually the page's main content area and title)

can't get much leaner than that. IE 10 supports pushState(), so the future is looking bright.

I's all-in now, give poor ole' JVM beast a break, it might OOME on me if I actually put it to work...
The android market (oops, i mean Play) has an option to require entering a PIN before a purchase is made.
My all-time favorite commits (not pull requests) are the first few at http://github.com/diiq/Tainted-Oyster/commits/master. Navigate through to page 1, and read in chronological order.

Eventually the compiler design problem got so hard it took up all the author's neurons :/