skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is interesting watching this discussion play out.

I've been wondering whether people are put off becoming musicians/writers/artists due to others having sexist stereotypes in their material. We don't seem to see the same widespread demands for apologies and desistance in those fields (consider the amount of songs talking about "bi^ches" and the like) - or do we? But then I realized that we have seen racism (and homophobia) become taboo in pop culture and the arts, thankfully, yet sexism is still a free for all. Why?

As idiotic as "brogramming" is (IMHO) and as much as I think software development should be a semi-academic, tight-knit discipline with progressive and respectful norms, many of these things causing offense seem to be misjudged attempts at injecting pop culture. "Brogramming" is on par with the group "LMFAO" in terms of stupidity and tact, yet LMFAO are not called upon to apologize or up their game to stop offending people. Why? (Differing standards for pop culture celebrities vs professionals, maybe? But are some developers also pop culture celebrities? Tricky.)

Bear in mind this is just armchair sociological analysis, and no opinion of mine can be derived from these questions (well, other than that brogramming is a bit silly and that I think we should all treat each other with the respect we'd also want to receive) :-)
Nice point. I, too, think that CS stands to benefit from more diversity, of all kinds.

I find it interesting that you assumed that by "some women" I meant "me." These are not actually my views, exactly, on brogramming. If I were the only woman in the world, I wouldn't consider "brogrammer" offense. I agree--most of them are pretty harmless. Blah blah red bull.

But there ARE a significant number of women who ARE offended. And I don't think that you, or me, or anyone else, should tell them to not be offended by it. We haven't had their experiences, you know? Even as a woman in tech, I don't understand the full range of female experiences and perceptions.
i like the idea of buying it...the question is would you trash the site out of spite or would you remove all the crap and keep the "good" content? :\
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"LOL @ Phi Delta Toolbag."

I would think that's pretty offensive to anyone who's in any sort of "* Phi Delta *" fraternity. In a thread that touches on the offensiveness of stereotypes and subsequent alienation, the irony of both the comment and your LOL reaction should be pointed out. As far as "thoughtful comment" goes, there certainly wasn't much thought put into the phrase "Phi Delta Toolbag".
Burger's Equation predicts a backwards propagating density wave when there's a discontinuity, eg a traffic jam even after the original accident has cleared.

(Whenever I'm out in LA I think about it, calms me down.)

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!!!

I drown in approximately 2GB/year and that's after deleting some stuff and many attachments. Do you make a lot of phone calls or hand-write letters? Or not run a business maybe?
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Although I have up voted you, it is known that humans are more prepared to face new dangers than software applications. And a quad-copters flying over a city is exposed to a multitude of unknown dangers that its software may not expect, thus it's plausible that in the same situation of danger a human may find better solutions than a quad-copter.
I wonder why people worry about how good <anything> they are. Isn't life all about continuously improving yourself and using whatever skills you have to create value for yourself and this world? Doesn't matter how good/bad you are there is always room for improvement.

"Dealing with failure is easy: work hard to improve.
Success is also easy to handle: you've solved the wrong problem; work hard to improve." - Alan Perlis
I read an article about the U.K. testing the waters with looser regs: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/...
You're right, that hadn't occurred to me. I'm sorry--if I'd been a bit more thoughtful I wouldn't have reacted like that. I was, in part, trying to be appreciative of a comment that was clearly thoughtful.

Penn sometimes jokingly refer to our CS group (which has the abbreviation "DP") Delta Phi, especially when we're planning social events or the like. So it was an amusing coincidence, too.
Can't find a reference for this at the moment, but I think PG has since modified the HN ranking code a bit to put interesting stuff at the top. (This is since his last arc dump, so I don't know exactly what it is.)

Also, I think the situation on HN is quite different from reddit because vote totals aren't shown here anymore. It's not clear that you necessarily want to use the same ranking system as on reddit, where current vote counts affect how people vote in the future.
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Yes, earlier today threads on the Geeklist situation were closed, or so I heard... Well, I'm glad I'm still around.
I am disappointed by the lack of comments referring to this as the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy finally realized.
Imagine landing pads on the top of every house/city. They would look like giant targets used for this copters to land. There could be one within a few meters of where you currently are.

You place an order on your cell phone. The copters immediately go to work delivering whatever you needed. A SMS would alert you that your goods have arrived. Maybe there would be secure drop zones where a giant chute would automatically route your package into a secure locker. You would open the locker with your cell phone.

Okay I will stop dreaming now.
I recently created http://ribbot.com for this exact purpose.

And it's open source: https://github.com/barmstrong/ribbot

It's great to see companies adopting this model for support (validates my theory) and it looks like Stripe has stepped it up a notch design/feature wise which I think can inspire ribbot. Ribbot.com (hosted version) also supports custom domains etc.
The solution to that is good regulation, not complete banning. While software has the disadvantage of being unable to adapt on the fly, it has the advantage of never making mistakes - if it's written correctly, it will not randomly fail. That's decidedly not the case for humans, as we see every day with automobile accidents.
htmldog: http://htmldog.com/ is good resource. i know this is a far stretch but they're some really good books out there for quick referencing...i know it's not as fast as opening a new tab, but some of the books: "the definitive guides" are great.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_sq_top?ie=UTF8&#...

i generally write code at my desk more so then on the go, so i always have those books handy
What's the most amazing is that the legal framework is what's holding it back. The technology is already here.
So am I the only one who just reads it as 'subtle'?
Wrong. Think of the three big mouths to feed in Android running modern apps or a browser (all of which require the embedded WebKit):

* Kernel

* Dalvik

* WebKit

The middle one is in fact a big memory and CPU pig for real workloads. Take it out, and B2G fits with room to spare on the 256MB QualComm phone we demo'ed at MWC -- ~128M used by kernel, Gecko, Gaia and apps at most.

Android does not even fit on this phone.

Your assumption that native-app framework and VM code loaded in practice is a "tiny bit of overhead" is false.
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I stand by my point that your ire is misdirected.

Here's how I see it:

1. Bros be bro-ing, with alcohol and weights. (not sexist)

2. Bros decide to program, bringing with them their bro-baggage (not sexist).

3. This becomes a meme: brogramming (not sexist).

4. Douchebag recruiters capitalize on latest meme in sleazy fashion, advertising "naked women" (definitely sexist).

5. Some women (ok, more than just you) and all reasonable persons are (rightfully) outraged at that blatant display of sexism.

I still don't seen anything offensive about brogramming itself --- insofar as brogramming consists of bros who like to program. If assholes are going to make sexist remarks/be sexist, you are entirely justified in calling them out for those vile acts, and I will happily join you in doing so. But your blogpost reads like a witchhunt against bros for... being bros.
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That's fine if you also realize don't (in general) have the right to not be offended.
If it's written correctly [...]

No one argues this is not true, it's the premise that's unlikely.
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This is what ProFounder wanted to be.
Sadly they were ahead of their time.
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They're perfectly happy for the police to use these drones so that's not the problem here.
Not to mention that it would cost (1Tb * $109 @ newegg) * ( 25,000 Tb) $2,725,000 just to replicate it.
There's several apps out there that do this, with what appears to be only limited interest.

I created one myself as a side project - to suit only my favourite type of game, driving games (www.mungoscott.com). Using an iPhone as a steering wheel avoids some of the issues with no tactile feedback, because the entire device is the control. It works very well for driving simulators and games, but I haven't worked out how it could be useful for say a first person shooter - the latency alone (typically 5 to 10ms) is less than ideal for a good FPS.
They are super subtle, how are they even remotely distracting?
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What does the poster's age have to do with it?
The problem is really a combination of the two. People expect kudos to be tracked in a reasonable fashion for the reason that, if the counter exists, it must be taken seriously. The rest of the system is stripped down, leaving people with the impression that whatever is left must be important. This is a false impression, and that's what's disappointing about the feature. Dustin Curtis has taken a serious (read: pretentious) approach to the rest of the site, but he's left the kudos system hanging by a chad.
Probably easier to allow small robots on the roads or sidewalks, running around delivering pizza or whatever.
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You are right that humans are better when it comes to adapting to new situations. But that doesn't matter. What matters is risk vs reward. For automobiles, we have about 40,000 deaths each year. But as a society we accept that cost because the utility of cars is worth even more. The same thing will eventually happen with UAVs. The utility will offset the cost.
To quote Chris Anderson, CEO of DIYdrones and Editor-in-chief at wired:

Did you know the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary?

Sigh. Prepare for loads of credulous coverage, matching the wave of reporting on the Pirate Bay's stoned suggestion that "we're going to use, er....GPS drones!....to file-trade from the sky. With Raspberry Pi."

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/did-you-know-the-word-gu...
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They're just downvote-happy nowadays. I gained "downvote priviledge" two weeks ago and still haven't used it.

If I don't like something, I don't read it. And if the comment is legitimately against HN community guidelines, usually 5+ people have beaten me to the downvote, so I don't waste my time.
Don't panic. I'm sure they are coming.
> The question is whether or not he will be accepted.

Touche
Ah, I wasn't under the impression that this would become public - I wouldn't reproduce something open to others.

Thank you for making something like this a reality - I had a blank-page type editor a while back but didn't have the chops to make it actually usable at the time (hence my interest in recreating this).
Mostly that the Mozilla docs are far superior, and it hurts all of us if newbs continue to hit up really confusing documentation.
> A good name is a word that you can tell someone over the phone without them asking you how to spell it. Period.

The problem here is that a good name (has become) one that doesn't collide with any popular search terms, and whose URL won't be taken. This is sort of at cross purposes with being easy to spell.
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If this had actually happened, it'd be in the media by now, given how many pro-piracy individuals there are.

It hasn't happened. It didn't happen. Sorry to burst your dishonest little bubble.
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Again and again, this topic keeps coming up and the surprising truth is: paper is the answer. Don't discount it.

There was entire writeup about this (I think it was posted to HN) that I can no longer find and would be grateful if someone could point me at (my Google-Fu is failing me on this one) that of all the data storage mechanisms we have, paper is the one that we best know how to maintain and preserve. It's nowhere near as "bulky" as people make it out to be, and when done right and taken care of properly, can last centuries.

Here's a link that touches on the topic of preserving info for future generations, a great read: http://www2.library.ucla.edu/about/2483.cfm (What do you preserve? How do you do it? Why? For whom?)

The other article I was referring to earlier pointed out the pitfalls with all the modern "wonders" of storage and how woefully inadequate they would be for attempting to preserve knowledge/data in the big picture. Namely interfaces, specs, requirements, readers, electricity, and all the other goodies that silently play their role in powering your USB stick or bluray disc.
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Not really disagreeing with your preferences, just with the blanket statement that smartphones make/will make terrible game controllers.
I'm not saying that I don't want to see UAVs flying over my head. I'm just saying that maybe a bit of over-prudence is justified here.

Should we start testing UAVs for commercial applications? Yes. Should we allow 13 years old kids to code on them and build their new cool pizza delivery service? Not yet, I think. Just my $0.02.
Well, virtually all modern cars have software running critical systems. How is that regulated? I don't think it would be too difficult to adapt those regulations to flying "tacocopters".
I've been using GA's visitor flow for a few months and I still think its presentation is really neat. It only shows the first 3 pages viewed, at least on my free account.

I suspect many people still don't know about it, since it wasn't featured upfront like Mixpanel is featuring Flow here. One of those low-profile upgrades that is really quite useful but left unmarketed.

edit:
Another thing is that GA's flow presents the actual size of flows visually, whereas Mixpanel's doesn't - the sizes of the circles are based on step number, and you have to mouseover the small points to see the traffic flow percentages. I have to say Google's is superior, at this point.
I don't think there's any difficulty getting a pistol to where you need it already.
I agree that the purpose of what you are trying to achieve is important. Some people just care only about the status of getting into an accelerator program but I think the real value lies in building something that has an impact and changes the way we live our life.
The problem with people just wanting "the credentials" is like the people who want to just get into a school for its name but don't really care about the value it can provide for them. When people begin to realize that the credentials are just an added value to all that the program provides they will come to the realization that working on an idea that makes an impact for the right reason is far more important than those credentials.
I didn't miss it - I actually addressed it in another comment. While stealing your website code would be unpleasant, it doesn't really matter that much. First, backend website code is not protected by copyright because it's not published - only the design is. Second, do you really think Facebook became Facebook because they found right magic color and right column widths to be successful, and if only you could use the same design you would be billionaire? This is obviously nonsense - Facebook success is composed of many factors, design being very very minor part.

As for DDG, I used it for a month to test, and unfortunately had to go back to Google - for my loads, its quality proved to be inadequate, Google found what I needed in more cases than they did. It may be because usually I search for very easy and obvious stuff. I would like to say my coworkers "why, you still use Google? Man, it's so 2000s... It's 2012 now, use something that's not ancient!" Unfortunately, it's not the time yet that I could do that.
It breaks discoverability by executing its action /during discovery/.

Imagine if you, using a new web browser, clicked on the "File" menu to see what was there and instead of dropping down a menu, it opened a file browser. In the end not a life-changing or permanent problem, but bad usability problem.

Also, usability is a subset of UX.
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Your idea is pretty much exactly what Google Analytics' Visitor Flow does, complete with 'waste' flow dropping off downwards:

http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

Good that you had the idea, though :) Maybe you can apply it profitably in some other domain.
Fixed! Thanks for pointing this out.
You're sounding a bit like "you hysterical women" "mind your tone." While I'm all for civil discourse, I certainly don't blame anyone for getting emotional or angry. And, both sides got emotional, by the way. Nobody was being calm and rational, which you could blame on Twitter.
This is exactly what I was thinking when I was looking at it. I'd prefer even a plain/text version of the data, so I can interpret it the way I like.
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I think Kiln is a brilliant product name for what it is: a source code repo (kilns are designed to hold quantities of things) that encourages peer review (kilns dry or harden things).
That would be a Wikitravel reader.
> First, backend website code is not protected by copyright because it's not published

Unpublished works are protected by copyright. http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm
I wonder if this is an opportunity for a startup, and/or an insurance product sold to SaaS end users, hosting facilities, or developers.
I think they were posting from the opposite side of things, more "Given a $100 device that runs for a year on one set of AAA batteries; why not put Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg books and OpenCourseware and everything else possible on it."
I can't believe I've never heard about this. That's one of the coolest things I've ever heard of.
Still can't install on a case-sensitive file system. Seriously Adobe, how hard is it to fix your Makefiles?
The script is trivial! Just view it as a concatenation of strings whose elements are pulled from a discrete set of terms.
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As a once upon a time finance guy who made the transition to web designer / founder, I have the following observation:

Wall street was the hot go-to destination, and it was as 'bro' as it got. The never-ending conversation was "can women fit in on Wall street?"

Now SV is the hot go-to destination, and its getting 'bro'. The new conversation is "can women fit on in SV?"
Who is perfectly happy?

Police in Mesa County, Colorado received the first authorization ever for police to fly UAS. That was last year. Since then, a county in Florida received authorization. Police in Texas toyed with the idea, but decided it wasn't in the budget. So i know of precisely two police precincts with legal authorization. It's possible there's a couple others I haven't heard about, but the total number is still very small. Even the Utah Highway Patrol got slapped down by the FAA for flying without authorization.
I can't up this enough. My wife is a Java dev (I am a .Net dev), and I hear about the crap she has to endure almost weekly. It truly makes me want to walk into her client site and smack some faces. It is so hard to believe that this can be so common, especially since the field is made up mostly of younger "enlightened and tolerant" guys. This speaks so badly for our field (and society in general). (Now we are both in the early stages of "age-ism", but hey, we can fight that with talent, right?!?)
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Even if no one is actually that ridiculous, sexism (often the unintentional and ignorant variety rather than the intentionally malicious one) is fairly rampant in programming circles. That's something we fix, and the first step is to make everyone recognize the problem.
Paper is a good answer. Unless civilization has collapsed, and libraries are burning. (They are burning - or rather, being closed down permanently, one after another, right now in the USA.) Paper is the answer, unless you are a refugee living in your car (should you still have gas) or running with what you can carry.

Paper is not the answer for a pauper with no room to call his own, nor for a factory hand living in a dormitory. There are many people alive right now for whom paper is already not the answer. But some of them could benefit from a Wikipedia "gameboy."

Yours or my paper library will carry knowledge into the ages quite well - until some vagrant burns it to warm himself in the wintertime. A piece of electronics, on the other hand - assuming we could make one that really lasts - could be passed down as an heirloom. And, should it begin to flicker out, the words could always be read off and set to paper.
Finally a practical use of QR codes? Each landing pad could have some information embedded via QR to help the copter to distinguish them from one another.
s/discrete/finite/

Although it definitely is discrete as well.