skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing correct code is so close to impossible that only the obsessed will be even slightly competent. I want us to eject the army of male dilettantes from our industry, not go out of our way to attract female ones who will merely double the volume of broken crap we have to deal with.

Which is not to say that "BEER WENCHES HURR" isn't better avoided. Have some class, people.
Ok, I had to laugh at 'spend 20% of your time on upgrading and refactoring'. That will never happen, especially in a small company where engineers are focused on innovation above all costs. At the end of the day, we're so busy pushing out new features that our clients couldn't care less what version of Python we're running on our servers.
In a real world app, I think you'd be considered lucky if the web-server is your bottleneck, rather than your DB or network connection.
Thanks for replying. BTW, how do you get a good signup rate for your email list via the app? Do you load a prompt up after X amount of hours/app loads?
7.4 Magnitude Earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico
Why would anyone use this rather than s3? Especially when I can't find an object durability SLA anywhere (Amazon claims 99.999999999%) and it's the same price or more expensive than s3, depending on whether you go for RRS or not...
"map is not mathematical function - because it can interact with the global state (you can apply map twice to the same data and get different results"

I don't think I quite understand you. I think when you say "mathematical function" you mean "pure function". And when you say "global state" I assume you mean "impure operations".

But (from my understanding) map is purely functional and doesn't do anything impure like IO. Its purely a mathematical mapping between a collection of input values to a collection of output values, based on applying a function to each input value in turn. You seem to be suggesting "map f (map f x)" (that is applying map twice to the same data) is not the same value as "map f x" and therefore its not "mathematical".
I've read some of their analyses before. Most people automatically associate HFT with the Flash Crash and claim it's bad for the market. The HFT algorithms pulling out of the market exacerbated the Flash Crash by drastically reducing liquidity, so there's some anecdotal evidence at any rate.
I love how you assume all designs eventually get implemented as CSS. Priceless.
That's a commodity 2CPU machine these days, and about a month from being dethroned by the new E5 Xeons.

Serving over multiple 10GE to front end cache servers physically colocated with it would be realistic -- not sure how much of a hit that would be vs. over localhost.

Static vs. dynamic content is a reasonable optimization to make for an application under heavy load.
The problem with Olympus Mons, when it comes to views, is that when you're on it, it's too big, and too gradual a slope to see off it. Also, when standing at the base of it, the summit is off over the horizon. Give me Valles Marineris any day.
This is crazy. It was totally hilarious. 12.2 million digital copies remaining! ORDER NOW!
good idea!
i think im going to make something like this for my website but use php instead.
Appealing website. Great eBook. Fantastic Price.

TAKE MY MONEY.

Seriously though, thanks for providing me something to read on the subway.

PS: Is that Gotham Rounded?
iCloud: Automatic, Everywhere and Often Worthless
The way it probably works is that they have servers around the world, and either use a geographic DNS or IP anycast.

So the user in France contacts their nearest server and requsts the url for the resource. If the file has already been cached there at that server, they serve it. Otherwise, that server requests it from your origin server, and serves it that end user in France.

They wouldnt set up any specific virtual host for you. They just have an http server that receives all the requests, and dispatches internally based on the domain name in the url.

I get the impression that I'm going into more detail than you want.

What is it that you're concerned about?
Quickly looking over SoftLayer's price sheet, it looks to be a little over $1k a month for Intel 5670 with 24GB of RAM
You (for a wide "you") aren't talking about how to fix it.
Instead you're justifying why it would stay broken.

And then it's immoral when they try to enforce this.
See why Apple Took Note of this Little Conversation App
Marvel “Greatly Reduces” Newsstand Distribution
http://angel.co/minbox
Eventbrite’s Credit Card Reader Allows Events To Collect Payments At The Door
Surge in tech hubs give African startups a place to grow
Almost, it's Proxima Nova Soft, a similar sans-serif. Gotham Rounded is not available as a webfont because Hoefler & Frere-Jones haven't come out with a webfont service yet, so Proxima Nova (and its Soft variant) is very popular as a "replacement" around the web (although don't get me wrong, the font is just as beautiful as Gotham on its own).

P.S.: The WhatFont extension is your friend :) http://chengyinliu.com/whatfont.html
Well, actually I predicted that:

1) The iPhone would become the new dominant computing platform.
2) There would be a dev kit for more tightly integrated applications.
3) A Siri equivalent would be on the iPhone, possibly delivered by a startup or Apple itself.
4) That this would be happening soon, in a subsequent version of the same device, or I would build it myself.

While this isn't magic, it is a pretty good prediction, and a lot more specific than what you just stated.

Finally, if this was all so obvious, why didn't anyone else predict it?
Waring, this may be a fake video/viral ad for something similar to the "Liquid Mountaineering" one:
http://youtu.be/Oe3St1GgoHQ

Part 13/14 has this eerie look&feel of the "Blair Witch Project" to it:
http://youtu.be/Q0tKFOcHyrI

Sigh, I wish it's not a fake and it will be possible to purchase something like this 10 years from now...
Well said. I think there can be an element of subconscious, monkey-brain motivation behind that kind of behavior. Less status for them means more for you. At least sometimes — this flyer looks more just plain dumb.
You're right. I read history. But still, it was cool that as soon as the iPhone was out, I knew they had too. And that they would deliver.
In Russia we have an idiom for that kind of behavior:
A dog sitting on the haystack.
Neither eats nor lets others to.

Those endless "rights holders" who complain about piracy in countries where they don't even want your money.
If they can't figure it out it should equate to public domain, I think. Maybe that'd provide an incentive.
This technology "Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording" (HAMR) is expected to be supplanted by a new technology to put even more bits into a hard drive "Krypton-Yittrium Joined-Electron Laser Light Injection" (K-Y JELLI).

(Ok, sorry, couldn't resist)
Thanks for sharing this word. Like the similar term "microaggression", HN is the first I've heard it, and it really helps to illustrate the fallacy of the "oh, it's not a big deal if we have women bring us beer" crowd.
What's the point of this article? Feels like (tech) celebrity gossip.
How about the nonsensical coupling of "no empty calories" with "free beer"?

Clowns indeed. This is the sort of thing that makes me ashamed of my profession, my culture, my gender, everything.
Eventbrite Launching Credit Card Reader
Thanks for the feedback. It's so damn tempting but I'll most likely drop it and get on with things. Certainly not going to let it distract me for more than the few minutes it has already.
Gabe Newell talks wearable computers and why consoles should open up
'I just measured my palm at 91.4 degrees, for comparison.' [marco.org]
Their right to be treated as equal. How would you like it if a predominantly female group was told there would be men serving drinks? Predominantly racist group told there would be blacks serving drinks?

Some people might see it as a poor attempt at humor and not demeaning to women, but I'm sure others saw it as a reinforcement of their beliefs that women are for serving beer. When everyone laughs along, because they know nobody 'really means it' it sends these people the message that their views are OK and widely accepted.
I don't know the details of the $35M raising, but it's quite unclear on whether the attempt to estimate their cash on hand was remotely accurate. A $35M round might be tranched to hell and back and a company that isn't hitting promised targets may not get all its tranches (experience speaking :-) ).
Did he? I've been a fan of Aziz for a while - I got the impression his start was from his UCB work and MTV show Human Giant.
The problem with all these debates about "optimal" office layouts is that they're all a series of non-repeatable experiments: someone can always say "Sure, you were successful doing X, but if you'd done Y instead you would have been more successful."

The hypothesis that Y is superior then becomes non-falsifiable: if someone doing Y fails, it wasn't because they did Y it must have been another factor, and if someone not doing Y succeeds, then they would have been better off doing Y. At some point, the argument becomes completely unhinged from any real-world experience.

So really, all I can say is: we have open-plan offices, and we've been successful/productive/kept employees happy, so clearly it is possible for open-plan offices to work. For someone that's convinced that open-plan offices can't possibly be a good idea, and who rejects other people's real-world experiences, what is there left to argue over? The hypothesis becomes non-falsifiable and there's no point talking about it.

To your point about conversations, when people are sick or on leave or working remotely those conversations don't happen and we suffer as a result. We haven't found any replacement for impromptu conversation, or for gaining knowledge through overhead conversations, and so on.

Just as a stupid example (though this sort of thing happens all the time), suppose Chris goes to ask Bob a question, and Alice is setting next to Bob. Bob thinks the answer is that you have to do A, but Bob's wrong, and Alice knows it: the right answer is now to do B. On top of that, Denise, who's also sitting there, hears the answer as well, and just learned something effectively by osmosis.

If Alice wasn't sitting there, able to hear the question, she wouldn't have jumped in, and Chris would have gotten the wrong answer and wasted hours or days doing the wrong thing. Denise also wouldn't be clued in to how things should work either. If Bob had a private office that Chris went to, or it was a one-off IM or phone call, you'd have the same problems. Did everyone get a little distracted by overhearing that conversation? Yes. But ultimately, that productivity hit was worth it, because Chris was saved a ton of time and Denise and Bob gained useful knowledge.

If you can convince people to use something like Campfire where they route all communication through such that people who are remote or momentarily absent are included, I think that can take the place of overhearing those conversations, but it's impossible (in my experience) to convince people to do that when they're working in the same building: people would rather just go chat face-to-face since it's much higher bandwidth than typing.
Well, there were female ninjas too. And I frankly don't see how Martyr or Evangelist are male oriented.
Have to say you were pretty close, but:

>"1) The iPhone would become the new dominant computing platform."

By what measure?

>"why didn't anyone else predict it?"

Absence of evidence =/= evidence of absence.
Don't do it. This is highly unorthodox. Even if you can negotiate your way to a better situation, the fact that this is their opening offering says to me they either don't know what they're doing or are trying to take advantage of you in some way.
Whenever submarine cables comes to my attention, the one thing I'm always curious about is what happens when they break?

This article links to another they posted[1] and they then link to Wikipedia[2], and there's some exposition given on what happens when things break, but if these things are 3 inches thick and thousands of miles long, other than burying them and having ships nearby to go out and make repairs, is there anything special that the maintainers of these cables do to safeguard against damage? Has anyone covered that in a good article somewhere that I can read?

Not only that, but while a cable is broken, are there redundant cables along the same path, or is traffic routed around the problem via some long detour? Is there a way to see the cut-off from cross-continent round-trip time graphs?

[1]: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/96827-the-secret-world-...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable#...
Sadly, if you look at the mean-uncorrectable error rate you will notice that for a 2.5TB drive, the chance of getting an error when reading it all the way through is 100%. Or, basically you can't use 'mirror' RAID to protect your data because you can't reliably read the entire drive.

New and more interesting error correcting bits are going to be needed here. I could imagine a device with 60TB of raw capacity providing 20TB of data you could read reliably though.
I doubt HFT plays a major role. Assets under management are in the neighborhood of $100-200B, profits considerably lower.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading
nginx saturates at ~18k req/sec / core with a latency of ~24ms. This saturation is not coming from nginx in particular but from OS limits (mode switching, stack copying etc.. for read/write system calls).

There is nothing new in "modern HTTP servers". They are event-driven programs and this has existed for a long time.
Ad-supported apps leave smartphones in high-power states, drain batteries
It would be a tragedy if he had to spend his time managing a bunch of money he can't take with him anyway instead of doing what he loves and benefiting us all. It would be as big a waste as if he was broke and had to flip burgers to make ends meet. This is a rare case where reality seems to actually be optimized for all involved.

We, the collective we, have done exceptionally well in this deal, and Linus probably has as well.
I understood the JSON3 name right away. Douglas Crockford's best-known implementation is called JSON2; this aims to be a successor to it.

I agree that it shouldn't be called a polyfill.
> not especially uncomfortable if held for a brief period.

Not especially uncomfortable, but still uncomfortable.

And this is under the condition it's for a brief period.

So, not burning, but still, not the best news. Maybe it's a faulty device?
I use Do Not Track +. I'd be curious to see if there's someone with a technical background who has a preference based on experience.
Nothing a hosted solution for more $$$ can't solve
I agree but it's still a bit sad to see such a giant gap between the value he brought to the world and the value he retired from it.
If you're hiring for a job where a) the person doesn't really want it, they are just desperate for a job, any job and b) you don't really care about the motivation of your staff, then yes you've got a point - it possibly is a needless hoop.

But for a lot of jobs, that's not really the case. If I was going for a job as a step up from the one I've got now, I'd be delighted to be asked this question and would give an honest answer. If my actual motivations didn't align with what the company believed it was offering (if, for instance, they were only interested in trying to push you higher and higher into management rather than allowing you to become truly expert at your current job), then I'd want to make sure I found out before I took the job.
Wow thanks man!

You should put a Gift option on the site (as a nudge nudge), I know plenty o designer friends that will find your book helpful and at 3/6 bucks, I'll gladly gift a few!
You are aware that women are sentient beings, right? I hope it was unintentional but your post reeks of objectification.
Yeah, defining women as a "perk" is pretty textbook objectification.
Now you proved that you didn't read the prediction. GOTO line 1 of the comment and answer your own question.
HAMR time: Seagate demos terabyte-per-inch hard disk technology
I do pretty well with predicting Amazon Web Services and data stuff, a couple years out, as well as bottlenecks.
Sim City's new glassbox engine
I think the "See It in Action!" button could be better placed, though I'm not sure exactly how. This is where I looked when I saw the site: : "Promote your website's most important content", "Create A Tour For Your Website", "What is it?" and read bold text in content, "Features" and read bold text in content, "Try it on your website", switch to HN comments. I never saw the "See It in Action!" button; the "Try it on your website" button attracted me more. Perhaps the "See" button should be bigger and centered, or right-aligned like the "Try" button, or have a border around it.
Do you really not think that listing "women" as a "perk" isn't genuinely offensive to reasonable people? I'm a straight white Caucasian male and the whole thought of that in a software context embarrasses the hell out of me.
Me too; then I realized it is well suited to being a generic blog template. I'd even go so far as to say that I'm used to the idea now.
Virgin Mobile USA's text and data services are out across the USA
Optional quotes and optional EOL commas would be nice too
"Kill Hollwood."
Copyright Treaty Requires Congressional Support, Senator Says
In-Stat: Apple to be top mobile processor company
Can anyone comment on this bit? -- “The Air uses a charger that is 4 times larger for a battery of near equal size.”
There's a point on the outside of my 2010 macbook pro that is currently at 120F - and the computer is pretty idle - CPU temp is over 160F.

120F feels hot - I don't want to keep a finger in that spot for very long
Actually until I gave up wearing shoes, the best knot for shoes I learned as the Turquoise Turtle and is shown here:

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/turquoiseturtleknot.htm
Open Source is a privilege. Not a right.
Who better to replace the ejected army of male dilettantes? Right now, we're effectively excluding half of the talent pool. That can't possibly be a good thing.
Ugh... the reactions to these idiotic, misogynistic statements always feel overblown. Yes, sexism is a pretty big problem in the industry (and adjacent ones). But you're not going to fix it by griping about a horny 20-something saying something stupid about women (surprise!). You're not even going to help. You're just going to walk away with a "there I helped" endorphin rush and go back to not really caring for the vast majority of your life.

The response to funkah's "garden-variety moron" objection has brought out the excuse of, "well, this was an official flier, so it's a big deal". IMO, the fact that this happened on something "official" is less an indication of rampant misogyny (not that I'm denying it exists!), and more an indication of our ridiculously informal, fast-and-loose culture. (The poor quality of the rest of the flier bears this interpretation out.) So what it comes down to is, someone decided to turn a massive brain-fart into an "official" flier, and part of that brain fart was a stupid, misogynistic comment. Surprise, surprise.

I'm sure everybody's real proud that they've managed to detect and criticize blatant, overbearing misogyny, but I don't see many submissions focusing on the persistent discouragement of young girls from participating in science - a very real, and ultimately more fundamental problem. Lets have some. And lets give them more attention than this "moronic person is moronic" stuff.
Actually Apple predicted this when they released the knowledge navigator video[1] in 1987

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGYFEI6uLy0
P90X2- Sequel to P90X Get Yours
I wish they would throw up a flat hdd.img
He is on the Parks and Rec show which is probably where most know him from.
The bigger claim that it's bad for the market is because it's parasitic front running.
Yeah, Bootstrap 17.0. :P
Yeah, I might try. I'm currently in college, though thinking about just taking a leave of absence.

There seem to be a good number of people who are happy working low pay jobs. I can't help but think that there's an unfair social stigma against it.
It's interesting to me to compare those, and claim that "if you used this metaphor [of a 'death march'] in Germany it would be way worse than saying 'We had to work like niggers' [in America]".

(Note: I am neither American nor German, and all my problems are definitely of the first-world variety. I hope to be thoughtful, but I am sure to be ignorant.)

In the one case, millions of people (say 5% of the country?) were terrorized, then kidnapped from their homes, then treated astonishingly badly, and then many of them were murdered. And it happened during a brief period of 5 years or so, 60 years ago. Short duration, but pretty recent.

In the other case, first of all, consider only the so-called Middle Passage. The total number of people involved is roughly comparable (over 10M), and mortality rate was perhaps a little lower, but roughly comparable (millions died). There then followed generations of maltreatment; appalling as the physical treatment is, the long-term cultural impact of generations of forced ignorance is arguably worse. (I think we can all agree that the oppressed people of Germany are doing much better now [65 years after 1945] than were, say, the Americans of African descent in 1930 [that's 65 years after 1865].) The only thing that seems less horrifying about the era of slavery is that it's a little more distant, at least the really brain-wreckingly horrifying parts.

So, in conclusion, it's not at all clear to this outsider why references to "death marches" are "way worse" than references to "niggers". Seems to me like they're pretty comparable.
Here's some reading for you, Mr / Ms Perfect.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Crucible-Arthur-Miller/dp/01424373...
Let me know if you are interested in translation (pt_BR)

Thanks!
That not just a cool idea, that's essential to a cache system. What if you want store FALSE in your cache? You will get a miss everytime your cache key is accessed.
I wouldn't have written this either and it is off-putting, but I always feel funny about criticizing the objectification of a group of women when they themselves accepted it. It feels paternalistic.
I'd choose Pluto for some stunning views: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ESO-L._Cal%C3%A7ada_-_Plut...
Linus' blog entry on the pre-Oscar party mentioned in the article - http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2011/02/pearls-before-sw...
All the acronyms behind MPEG
"All three cables will connect the United Kingdom to Japan, with a smattering of branches that will provide high-speed internet access to a handful of Arctic Circle communities."

I can see it now. You can get fiber in the arctic circle, but you can't get fiber in <insert local town> near <big city>!
Coming from "Spearchucker", I can hardly consider his criticism of silliness valid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise
There are fleets of cable ships all over the world who are paid a retainer to repair breaks. When losses are calculated in tens of thousands of dollars a second (edit thousands per minute) it's worth it. On the off time they pull up and scrap defunct cables, as they can be a hazard to shipping traffic (think anchors).
On a visit to Malta a decade ago, it was 110 degrees.
I’m not perfect. I’m all for second chances. And they will get them, no doubt. I’m not for banning them from society or anything like that.
See your Google Search History
Are libraries resisting open source?