skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that this sort of thing rarely happens with race in tech (not never, but it's uncommon). I think given various bits of cultural history/etc., people have a stronger internal voice saying "uhh, do you really want to say that?" when it comes to making race-related jokes in public, especially connected to anything official.
This would be extremely handy. At the moment I'm sometimes even writing

(function (a, b, c) {/**/}).apply(null, packed);

to emulate destructuring.
Including "[Ruby]" in the title would be nice.
I think you're saying that these guys didn't mean to push anyone's buttons, they're just clueless guys trying to be funny, and does clueless really deserve such a beatdown? To the guys who wrote this, this faux pas may well feel no more significant than forgetting to match your belt to your shoes. But the latter is -- wait they're supposed to match? is that why people look at me funny? And the former got them ridden out of town on a rail.

The answer is, yes and no. I'm certainly not politically correct -- I think I'm leading for Most Downvoted 2012 -- but there are some flavors of clueless that create problems beyond their immediate vicinity. This particular form is so predictable that it can easily cause a lot of women to just avoid settings where it appears, which pushes them away from activities they might otherwise enjoy and at which they might excel. If we want to provide those people avenues to what they might be good at, we have to make something more of such idiocy than we would of other idiocies.

But I think it is very useful to object to the important idiocies in a measured, thoughtful tone. Because this conveys This Is Serious, and encourages the knuckleheads to _think_ about what they've mistaken. I don't want them to learn to camouflage their boneheadedness from predictable outrage, I want them to be less boneheaded. When you're yelling at someone really the only thing they can do is make apology noises and retreat, which isn't exactly what you want here. I get that some people were genuinely irritated, I think some expressions of that help show the community's feeling, but if that's all there is to the community reaction I don't think it's going to teach all it could.
Take it from someone who uses both OSs with the same card: The Windows ones might not be great, but the GNU/Linux ones are a new dimension of evil. Check my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3734065
MIT Media Lab consistently comes up with the most amazing projects. It feels like the modern equivalent to Bell Labs.
The person hosting files should be an app. The person downloading files should be able to use just a browser. If downloading with a browser, your system will zip up the folder. Without this option you're asking the downloader to put way too much trust into you and the uploader. I'd never use it in its current form.
Ask HN: New social network dedicated to job/life. Feedback?
Hi guys, we are a small new startup based in Milan, Italy. Sincerely we discovered HN just one week ago and after having followed it as readers, now we are posting for the first time. Our startup is a social network that simplify the way to find people you need in your city. We'll be online in few weeks and we are looking for feedback and early adopters to continue to improve our work. You can check our landing page where you can get an invite for Beta testing at jobyourlife.com
Waiting for your comments!
All the best!
If you are trading only one market, no. If you do arbitrage across two or more exchanges, then it matters.
> A small barcode that can be scanned with the device that everybody already has in their pocket is a cool thing, and QR codes are nearly that.

Why nearly?
Not such a good idea to stack the selected times onto your web history either.. makes going back a pain.
I don't want to continue the mutual admiration society, but I would like to add something.

The thing to remember above all others is that the vast majority of the popular opinions we hold today were considered offensive and rude at some point in the past. The only reason we've evolved is because people holding those opinions were allowed to voice them.

Of course, for every "good" opinion there were a thousand hateful and wrong-headed opinions. But that's the way it works. You let in everybody and allow reasoned discourse to sort them all out.

Yes, there is a very rare segment of society that are actually evil, and there's nothing much to be done with those folks. Let them express their opinions, punish them when they take actions, just like we treat everybody else. You don't have an obligation to talk to idiotic people, or even say nice things about them. They just have a right to think as they choose.

What I find most shocking is the idea that simply because I am extremely offended by your opinion -- the way you think -- I should take some action against you: fire you, put you in jail, have you "re-educated", etc. No matter how offended I am at somebody's opinion, as long as they don't take action on it (express it rudely, hurt another person, become an embarrassment for the organization, and so on), I will fight for the death for their right to have it. That's the entire basis of a secular society, the root of the enlightenment. But a large majority of people don't understand that.

To me that's a lot more worrisome than a couple of jackasses. World is full of jackasses. </rant>
Or just have the relevant code next to a city that corresponds.
I always preferred IM or email to phone or face-to-face for this exact reason. IM and email can be ignored until its convenient to reply, but phone and face-to-face forces you to stop working and respond right away, even if you were right in the middle of something.
Digital is Different
Fantastic! Been looking for something like this.

Could you also put the timezone (both GMT and other name) besides the city name? (as subscript & subscript, one over the orther)
[ex: San Francisco (PDT/GMT-x)]
Totally, you just don't see some things after a long time. I haven't read the code but people mentioned the author is using malloc in a lot of places, you wont' see ill effects from memory fragmentation with a quick benchmark, it could take hours or days to see how large of holes you have in your memory space.
Tbilisi Hotels - Courtyard Marriott
Courtyard Marriott is located close to the Georgian Parliament building, Rustaveli Theater, Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theater, the Georgian Museum of History, Metekhi Church, Narikala Fortress, Vake Park and the main sights of Tbilisi. This wonderful, modern hotel offers its guests a number of services around the clock – beautiful and comfortable rooms, a fitness center, massage, jacuzzi, sauna, bar, parking and a number of other modern facilities.
Amazon. Maybe 500 books. Quite happy. Reading is 50 percent iPad, 30 percent kindle dx, 15 percent kindle touch and kindle keyboard, 5 percent on a Mac.

I also bookwarez out of a compulsive desire to collect things, but rarely actually use those files. Main bookwarez sources are private torrent trackers.
A Talk I Gave On Blogging
Quote from the article...

"Answer: One bite at a time.

The answer is simple, but I am sure when you saw this question…you must have thought about many different ways and concepts of eating this elephant.

Actually this is the problem with most of us. We always try to achieve our goal (s) at once and when we don’t become millionaire in week or month…we give up."

Actually, I was thinking whether I would want to grill it or fry it and what the side dish would be. ;)
Works & looks nicely on the iPhone but the thing that bugged me is that each time you slide the bar, you get another hash in the url - ending up in me clicking the back button about 15 times to finally get back to HN.
I mostly agree: I just think you are taking this attitude too far with the example of the MBA, unless you very consciously included that word 'constantly' there.

If I'm the only one in my company that does martial arts, I can expect jokes about having to be careful when having an argument with me. If you have a nest of pet snakes or always cook the same lunch or have an MBA, you can expect specific jokes, when contextually relevant. These things differ from being Asian or a woman in the fact that they are choices people made and that these choices can be considered reflections of this person.

Of course you can take the pointing out of such differences too far, to the point where it seems you feel this person is defined by a specific difference, as you constantly point it out. In acceptable quantities, making jokes and laughing together is quite healthy and it would be a shame to do without, even if you are yourself the subject of the joke.
I don't want to be the spoil sport, but even though this looks nice, am I the only one here that still believes in hand-coding HTML?

(Disclaimer: I'm a zealot. I don't believe in IDEs, and I'll take grep over Eclipse any day of the week. http://xkcd.com/378/)
Fantastic Collection of IPhone
I am not sure if I should respond to this, given that the submission is already long gone from the homepage and this discussion did already go out of hand, but ...

Like OP's title I used a hyperbole to make a point and that should be clear from the context in my opinion. I apologize in case you have fallen a victim to this phenomenon, I did not mean to trivialize this problem either. However, if what you are suggesting is that what you have been though is comparable to the victims of the Holocaust, you should get a reality check.
Yeah, this blog-post assumed you already knew about the event, so did a poor job of setting the context. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3733948 (link to a comment I made earlier in the thread)
What's going on with Firefox for Android?
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Antibodies and Positrons: Learning Project Management
I'm not sure if you meant to disagree with something I said, but I think I agree with you here. It's not a harmless faux pas, it's making qualified people uncomfortable. I'm just afraid that dealing with this a certain way will lead to people being uptight.

Trying to communicate with the people about what was wrong, as you suggest, sounds like a good idea. Assuming instilling good taste is a viable option for such people, perhaps if someone helps them distinguish disrespectful from edgy-but-respectful, they can safely stay on the other side of it.
United States Bookshelf
WorldTimeBuddy helps me in scheduling my meetings for people across time zones.

This tool (everytimezone) does not allow go beyond tomorrow.
Backing Up Calendars & Contacts from iCloud
Do they not have to pass a motion at the AGM to disallow premetion rights to issue new shares?
> However, that opinion is wrong. You should stop having it, and if you express it at work you will and should be fired.

I think this opinion is wrong. If one expresses his opinion about slavery, he should not be fired. Now that you had this wrong opinion about opinions, should you be fired? From work? From Hacker News? Anywhere?
Picture Hanging (or a tale of junior developers)
So how do you find the cities unlisted?
PrivateSky turns your HTML5 browser into a two-factor authentication token
'The Walking Dead' game trailer released, first episode coming in April
That approximate wing loading calculation is assuming there is sufficient force to fully load the wing. He's not going to get that load on the wing by jogging a few feet and flapping those things at 1hz.
>> gave no consideration to the idea that a woman might
>> actually want to attend an event

Spent about 5 minutes assuming that they were encouraging /women/ programmers to enjoy the female staff, and assuming all women in attendance were /lesbians/ ("Women: Need another beer?").

Like, "pff, not ALL women programmers are lesbians, you guys! ... ... ... oh wait. Oh ... "
How to Invest Wisely in “The Start-Up of You”
he probably knows that no matter how hard you try, once you're employed by these big companies (or any company really) your values are compromised. Even just a little bit. Usually unconsciously.

And you're under their control. Even just a little bit. Both consciously and unconsciously :)

I do not exclude myself from this observation of course!
JavaScript as a Functional Language
One Word Reviews: More informative than Metacritic, shorter than Penny-Arcade
I agree, and I think this is probably a response to the recent post that stated GitHub can be your resume.

However, one thing I've learned in recent tech interviews, and I'm a senior developer, is that if you don't provide good code in those interviews, you will fail those interviews. Therefore, regardless of the method you use to hack, you better be prepped for writing some solutions to well known problems quickly and easily if you want a job.
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Hipstamatic becomes the first app to post photos directly to Instagram
Neat idea and execution, but I wish there would be possibility to add your own cities/time zones. Also 24 hour format.
I don't see the big deal with asking your customer-facing employees to not buy products from the competition with company money. It's only "news" because people love watching the drama between these two companies.
Not at all. It is true that CO2 has never led temperature change before; that's because the massive anthropogenic CO2 spike in the data is completely unprecedented, so we don't know what happens when CO2 increases massively "on its own".

Climate scientists try to figure out whether this could affect global climate, and many say it can and probably is. This latter thing is what is being ignored.
Why Pay for Agile Advice?
Am I going out of my mind, or is this not a year old already?

I'm sure there was an article on the front page where they talked about the build and stuff like local storage on iPad. (it started life as an iPad web app).

I'm aware that "dupes" are bound to occur, but this was big news last time around and I'm surprised no one remembers it.
"While we thought this was a fun, harmless comment poking fun ..."

"Poking fun". Ha ha. That sounds like more brogrammer code to me. Probably RASCAL.
Nancy Duarte: The secret structure of great talks
We Can Do Better: An Apology from Sqoot
I tested it out and this is what it says:

"Thanks! You can reach me at [my number]. Could you please reply with your email so we can add it to our list?"
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Body Hacking: Thoughts Regarding My Magnet Implant
Robotic Technology Lends More Than Just a Helping Hand
Trees & Fairytales Bookcase
TIL: how to extend jQuery's selector capabilities
Ever wanted to programmatically file a lawsuit? In Poland, you can.
"The Beatles
Notice: Undefined index: cs-iso in /var/www/vhosts/jobyourlife.com/html/landing/index.php on line 112"
Some more polish would be appropriate, this looks very much like an early alpha, not a beta. At least don't let the errors,warnings and notices show directly on the (front!) page.

I mean: coming into your front page, and seeing three PHP notices displayed right off the bat, is a huge turnoff. Even if the service is actually wonderful, some users may be scared away by such first impression ("what else is broken?").
On the other hand, your code is definitely a part of your identity, and projects that are awesome got that way because people poured themselves into their work. For me, only the pieces I'm passionate about become part of my identity.
What if there had been a line immediately following with the genders reversed, with attractive serving men as a perk?

Are people upset with the objectification of women, or the assumption that women wouldn't be participants and aren't the audience of that flyer?

You need to know what the offensive issue is before you can apologize and correct it.

Does the apology go more "We're sorry we contributed to the objectification of a group of people, treating them not as an intelligent whole, but simply as a pretty object to be admired, like a piece of art, while the others work."

Or should it be along the lines of "We're sorry we made women feel excluded by targeting solely men in our advertisement, perpetuating the idea that we don't expect women to be participants in the tech event."

To me, I think the latter issue is the major one to be solved. It's something that can be easily corrected, and is specific to the tech industry (and other male-dominated fields).

I reject the idea that the two issues can be conflated, that the very practice of objectification is what makes women feel unwelcome. (Correct me if I'm wrong?) My internal counterexample I'm using is how I'd feel if the flyer offered as a perk "Men: Tired from your long hack-a-thon? Have our hot, muscled men bring you a refreshment or carry you to the lounge area to take a power nap." It's human nature to enjoy attractive people, landscapes, art, etc, and I, as a man, don't feel worse off knowing that women might enjoy ogling attractive men.
I LOVE that you are calling them bugs and taking the selection process very seriously. We (Sandglaz) had a similar experience where we went from 4000 to 35000 users after YC rejection.

That said, interviews and applications are inherently subjective and based on a snapshot in time; they will always have "bugs". It is a tough thing to do, and I fully appreciate the effort going into it.

Best of Luck!
I use this all the time for scheduling meetings across timezones.
I like the idea. But tried to give review "Immersive" to Skyrim and the app told me I can't give review like that because they don't have the word in database. What's with that?
I think the transfers are supposed to be Peer-To-Peer (if possible), thus the required downloader.
Louis CK is popular in the same way that a band like Arcade Fire is popular. Arcade Fire sells lots of albums and is highly respected by other musicians, but the band isn't as well known among most of America as a top 40 staple like Rihanna.

This represents sort of a "high" pop-culture, which would include popular indie music acts like Arcade Fire, TV shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad, and comedians like Louis CK and Jim Gaffigan.
Agree. My first thought looking at this website was, "This is awesome! Now how do I add the cities/countries I'm usually calling?" I tried to find a way but it doesn't look like that's supported yet. I'm probably pretty representative of most other people's knowledge of what cities are in which time zones, so it would be a good feature to add to filter by specific city.
http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html

Of course they should read it. It is a book of life; it contains everything from utter foolishness to profound wisdom; from vile pettiness to unrestrained love; from brutal punishment to loving clemency.

It is the right book, which would be presented to them for all the wrong reasons.
This doesn't solve my main gripe with most time converters. I normally don't want the time in Vienna, I want the time at UST-6. My common use case is that I find out an event will start streaming at, say, 10 PM UST-6 and all I know is my clock is EST-3. If I don't know what country uses UST-6, this converter is next to useless for me. My problem is with multiple standards, not with visualization.
U.S. Nukes Face Up to 10 Million Cyber Attacks Daily
Andreessen, Greylock Back Marketplace For Local Boutiques, Shoptiques (YC W12)
Analysis of the Human Bird Wings
Because I've been a part of independent recording sessions with bands who released albums using their own meager funds. It doesn't have to take much money to record and produce a decent-sounding album anymore.
Make it extremely easy for the customer to give you their money. I've never made a paid site, but as a customer I know that the more steps that are involved in taking my money, the more likely I'll be to change my mind. Oh, and give an alternative to PayPal if you choose to use it.
Perhaps the most unfortunate outcome of this whole incident is that Squoot--a heretofore completely unknown startup--has gotten a substantial amount of exposure. Thanks to their bigotry, the percentage of the tech world that knows of them has gone up dramatically. What a shame.
The design is great, though I'm still kind of confused as to what it does.

I've signed up, awaiting an invite!
I don't think this is a case of entitlement. There are plenty of people who do without rather than pirate. There are plenty who pirate after trying to make a legitimate purchase. As you say, no one is under any obligation to sell their music, books, etc. to anybody. But if you're going to make it available to purchase, actually make it available to purchase.

Setting it up so that only certain people can purchase your goods does nothing for the two parties most interested in each other: the customer and the artist.

You should plot a graph of your purchases and their subsequent decline. Every decline these days is written off to piracy while situations like yours and BRAT's (and thousands of others) are ignored or dismissed as outliers.
Sure, but the hero of this story is Reddit.

In a world without Reddit, the role of luck would have been even greater. What are the odds that, had this guy simply written his ideas into a book or screenplay and tried to send it out to agents, he'd ever have gotten noticed? Or even read? Having worked in that world before, let me tell you: pretty close to zero. Absent any connections to the film world, it's almost impossible to break in.

The fact is, Reddit expanded the range of the sets "right place" and "right time." Without it, those sets would have been infinitessimals. People here like to talk of expanding one's "luck surface area," and to me, this is a perfect example of that concept.
>"the part about differentiating between being sorry for being rude and being sorry for ideas, not the part about supporting slavery."

An apology for being rude is in the form, "I apologize for being rude." It is not of the form, "I apologize, if someone was offended by my rudeness."

"No harm, no foul," does not apply to apologies.

When I truly apologize, it is not because I have offended someone else. It is because I have offended myself by not holding myself to my own standards.

That is why I may find myself apologizing to you when you have taken no offense.
Did Nozad and the Amidis make more money from the carpet business or from Plug and Play? Even if not, it's a pretty big thing to be left out.
I think this is a great proposal. I would be very happy to see destructuring assignment in JS. In every other language I've used that supports this (Erlang, Clojure) it is a big win.
The good part: You get more compelled to improve your programming skills and style.
The bad part: Lot of procrastination and fear of rejection.

I think that just loving the process of developing and solving problems is a better approach.
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It would be interesting to see a cost comparison of AWS Beanstalk PHP compared with running the same setup on a managed LAMP VPS with average specs (e.g. 2GB RAM, 100GB storage, and 1TB monthly transfer). I've seen these types of VPS setups priced around $100 or less per month.
Tough, New Anti-Spam Law Coming to Canada
have you tried using their catalyst software? http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_lin...

I'm not a fan of binary blobs, but ever since I've installed catalyst, I have had no problems with video tearing/ X crashes. I even use compiz and its quite nice (there is a slight discontinuity if you move the windows very fast though. Its a small point, but I would have liked it to be smoother). I have also had no problems with projectors/external monitors after using catalyst. (using radeon HD4300 which is probably an old card by now)
Yeah, it's because I'm trying to use a whitelist rather than a blacklist for the words, and although nltk (python lib) has a pretty good corpus, it's still missing a whole bunch.

The plan is to manually ok those words that people add and I don't have, and hope that this doesn't constitute the majority of the words :)

edit: Sorry to immediately disappoint though.