skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This link for alternate themes was featured on HN a few weeks ago: http://bootswatch.com
FTA:

>During our tests, I held the new iPad in my hands. When it was at its hottest, it felt very warm but not especially uncomfortable if held for a brief period.
I thought so:) thanks for clarifying!
Data now 85% of mobile traffic but 39% of revenue. What gives?
Hmm. Perhaps if the crime were committed in "that object" that was was launched. But what if it's outside that object, on the surface? Or within an object that was constructed on the surface?
Honest and helpful. Thanks.
Guy in a polo shirt talking about "chicks": Garden-variety moron being a moron on his own time.

Guy in a C++ shirt talking about chicks at a programming conference: Representative of the RAMPANT MISOGYNY in our industry and wasting the time of everyone he's talking to who came to the damn conference to learn some shit, not awkwardly listen to a jerkoff make a fool of himself and alienate people.
My position is mostly selfish. I care about myself and I care about my future children. For myself, I'd like more women to show up to tech events because I generally enjoy mixed company. For my future children, I'd like them to feel comfortable in any industry they find interesting. (I also have that desire for most people in general, but it's particularly poignant when I think about potential children.)

There's little chivalry involved here. The advertisement for this event makes the tech industry worse for me.

As a side note, only considering the input of women on this issue is problematic when so few are involved in the first place.
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The Real Reason Google Bought Kevin Rose And Milk: It Needs Designers
Agree with vangale, also a disruption is something that would likely cause an entire set of jobs/companies to be irrelevant, I don't see that here.
"...he rubbed elbows with the likes of Robert Downey Jr., who didn’t know who he was, and Mad Men star Jon Hamm, who did."

I'm mildly disappointed in RD Jr... he had so much geek cred after playing an awesome Iron Man, but I guess that's why it's called acting.
I think a more important use of the cable is that it can't `accidentally` be broken by a chinese anchor in the luzon straits.
Super-dumb thing to write. Plus the other misspellings indicate the writer had little other writing talent, as well. Maybe he was drunk.

But, enthusiastic young event promoters aren't the most enlightened crew. (Indeed, too much enlightenment could kill your chances of launching a hot new bar, 'energy drink', or various other kinds of youth-oriented events/venues/local-deals.)

So there's a message here about culture and the reckless generalizations of youth, but not especially one about tech events. (Other than: at a tech event, this sort of thing is noted and corrected very quickly.)

As with a dog and a carpet, sometimes shit happens. The dog only learns slowly, and by the time it learns: there's another puppy making the same mistakes. Give quick and firm feedback – one wap with the newspaper! – and get a correction/apology, but don't dwell on it. It's not something that stains everyone vaguely associated to the Nth-degree.
I ask because wired.com pages consistently take 20-30 seconds for me. Ping is on the order of 60 ms just now. Just curious about what makes it so slow for me.
Oracle's Profit Rises 18% on Growth From Software Licenses
It's the way numbers are formatted in France. So, I would say oversight more than typo.
Why is it when I type in drudgereport.com it looks the same.
Othering. Get that word into your head, and keep it there. Othering.

Othering is when you make someone feel as if they don't belong in a community, that they're different from other people there. Making stupid (racist) Asian jokes about the only Chinese-American member of your team. Writing flyers that assume that your entire audience consists of a certain type of heterosexual man. Even something small, like constantly poking at the fact that one of your fellow hackers also has an MBA. The list is endless.

Usually it's best to not call attention to such things at all, even in a positive way. Telling someone how awesome they are for being different is still making a big deal about how different they are, as opposed to helping them fit into your group.

All of these things make those people feel as if they don't belong on your team or in your community. It doesn't matter if you think it's "in good fun" or "just a joke". It doesn't matter if you think "oh, it's not really sexist". It makes people feel unwelcome. It's dumb, pointless, and it's the responsibility of any hacker to just not do it.

Othering can happen in any community that is dominated by a relative homogenous group. It turns off many hackers who might want to work with you. There is nothing inherently "straight upper-middle-class Caucasian male" about wanting to build a working product; stop acting like there is.
I downvoted you for reducing the relatively nuanced, respectful and civil conversations taking place here and elsewhere to "zOMGSEXISM!!!1". Assuming you aren't just being hyperbolically disingenuous, and that is actually what you think is happening here, I'm not surprised you don't get why so many reasonable people have a problem with this.
People Are Having Trouble Charging Their New iPads [Ipad]
I predicted the iPhone 4S in August, 2007
I don't believe that's the reason. It's a relatively new phenomenon.

If you region-lock your games, then people in Europe/Asia can't buy the cheaper North American version and play it locally.
It's always befuddled me that when it's a woman making a conscious choice about her body or when two men wants to marry the small government party see no issue with injecting themselves into peoples lives.

Also, it's slightly ironic to compare the american view on murder with a european view when you're the ones executing people.
Thanks again for running this Stripe. It was quite fun and informative to actually implement some of these exploits rather than just recognize the possibility for it existed. Every level was instantly recognizable for the weakness that was available to take advantage of, but it sometimes took me hours of effort to write something that exploited it.
If anyone else was confused, a "polyfill" is a pure javascript implementation of behavior the platform doesn't natively provide, and calling it "JSON 3" is not trying to claim that the JSON grammar has been revised (that's pretty much impossible); it's just the unfortunately generic name they chose for this implementation.
A comparison with older hardware would have been nice. Also using localhost is not a very good indicator of real-world performance.
I Love it!!!!
Really well done.
See also Venkatesh Rao's piece on 'plazas vs. warrens':

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/10/27/warrens-plazas-and-the-...
Isn't "large amounts of liquidity" enough?
Onswipe launches real-time touch analytics for publishers & it’s awesome
It took less than a second, running latest firefox on linux and noscript/adblock/flashblock/etc.

But on the same vein of off topic, I just want to know if the microwave and coffee maker on that picture run linux.
3. That's actually not a close icon, but an "expand" icon. You can just click anywhere to close the lightbox

That's also a usability issue with the lightbox UI. I couldn't figure why the "close" button was not working, either.
The flipside is that as time goes on, this benchmark becomes less impressive. The server in question had 24GB of RAM and two CPUs with 12 cores each.
I'm interested in more info on your linux TCP tuning, especially how you decided to tcp_tw_recycle and tcp_fin_timeout (and how you decided setting the former to 1 is safe)
Crap, no, and it's too late to edit. I intended to link to: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/news02.html#rng

Thanks.
That's fair. Although we really needn't limit ourselves to only women currently in tech. It's just hard to get a woman's perspective on the matter, which I think would be highly elucidating, when there's so many vocal guys offended on their behalf.
So you can drop a half million dollars and spend 2 years of your life in a tiny compartment millions of miles from home to visit a dead, cold, rusty rock without a breathable atmosphere?

Does that sound unappealing to anyone else?
Sigh, another completely synthetic benchmark with big iron:
A dual Intel Xeon X5670 with 24GB of RAM from SoftLayer. The X5670 has 6 cores @ 2.93 GHz, 2 threads per core, /proc/cpuinfo shows 24 CPUs.

Serving a plain HTML page over localhost via nginx. A medium length blog post with pretty much no real-world information.
While I could very easily be wrong Linus always struck me as the kind of guy who would want a microwave and coffee maker that just works and wouldn't really care if they run linux or not.
So it seems the PSD doesn't work in GIMP after all, sorry :(
A great idea, but in my country would be targeted by stones and vandalism.
Private.
Either a group of investors do it and look for telco customers to rent bandwidth to. Or cable laying companies like Cable and Wireless will lay a cable if they have spare capacity and try and sell it. Or sometimes a consortium of telcos will lay a cable.

Outside china I can't see a government fronting money for a cable
RedHat's $1m stock is his only big payout, apparently. Rather sad, considering the number of mid-level facebook engineers who will become many times as rich in a few months.
I think sqoot should also reconsider autospamming their "apology" message to anyone who mentions them on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/sqoot

(Not because they shouldn't apologise, but because there are better ways to do it than spam.)
It sounds like you've got some serious Futuristic (http://gmj.gallup.com/content/673/futuristic.aspx) in you. Harness the crap out of that strength.
I think it's important to want to support women in tech for non-selfish reasons too. The idea that half the people in the world don't feel like they can pursue hacking because of unrelated issues is not acceptable.

Still, I agree with your self-interest arguments and would even add another:

I am tired of only ever working around guys all day. It has been long time since I worked with any non-guy low-level coders. Heck, bring in some transsexuals, either direction, I don't care. Just mix it up a bit. An all-male work environment becomes tedious after a while.
Thanks :) That is a really great link, reading it now.
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Ok cool Great tip on the enterprise thing. Thanks for the feedback.
Which of those will be remembered in 200 years. Wanna be the richest guy in the graveyard?
Many of the people angry about this incident believe that
sexism is wrong, but advocating atheism in Dawkins' manner
is not wrong.

Right. However, the group of people who are against sexism are objectively much more culturally and economically powerful than the group of people who are against Dawkins. Heroku doesn't fear any lost business from supporting Dawkins, but it dropped Sqoot like a hot potato.

You could quantify this by comparing a Facebook-based StatusRank for the anti-Sqoots vs. the anti-Dawkins. The former group will have much higher socioeconomic status than the latter. Harvard graduates are much more likely to believe "sexism not ok, Dawkins ok" and high school dropouts are much more likely to believe the reverse.

That is, sexism is "not ok" and Dawkins is "ok" in this thread because these are the beliefs shared by the most powerful people in society. This has little to do with right and wrong and much to do with socioeconomic status.
> how do you expect us to find these amazing developers hiding in the Midwest?

I don't really think you're trying and that was my point.

You're telling me the Midwest developers who move out to the Valley don't know a single great developer from back home who would jump to work for your startup as long as he could do it from home?
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i was interested in this book until i tried using the site, and promptly got stuck inside the lightbox which i couldn't seem to get out of, not matter how many times i pressed the X in the top right hand corner.
The 12.7 million copies remaining was a huge indicator to me it was joke
Which is why I think it would be an interesting startup.

The base case alone would be enough to get many to buy your component but for a subscription (where the real money is) you need to provide continuous value.

So your pitch could be that using your product would instantly get you the best industry standard input forms but over time they'll get better because you're going to apply a/b testing and machine learning on them continuously.
All this was predicted a couple of decades ago. There is a natural progression here. Sometime in this decade, you'll slide a keyboard and mouse next to your phone and it will be your desktop computer. Hopefully, the video to the monitor is wireless too.

The real trick is to figure out how to get it all sooner.
Among other reasons...
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I've always like Pixars office. Certain areas for people that need to work in groups and offices in upstairs hall ways for people to work in private offices. Sort of the best of both worlds.

http://www.home-designing.com/2011/06/pixars-office-interior...
I'd like to point out that if we replaced the "Womens" perk with the "Perfect Fuel" perk, nobody would be complaining about how this insulted people who don't eat dark chocolate. Obviously not every guy cares whose serving their drinks, the same way not every guy attending the event cares to eat dark chocolate. They're trying to get people to go to their event. I'd imagine most people going to Hackathon's are heterosexual males. It makes sense for Sqoot, and it's saddening for me to see how we blindly kowtow to the PC police.
There seems to be evidence that this is, at least statistically, true. There will of course be good developers in the Midwest. But when you combine the draw of the valley, with the fact that most of the best developers got to where they are by the interactions they have with other developers. Add in that the best programmers are driven by their trade, and highly likely to move to where they can get the best, most challenging problems. I could easily see this to be true

Sounds like you live in a bubble. There are tons of great developers who'd never move to San Francisco (family, personal preference etc), and I can interact with other great developers without leaving my city ... additionally, doing startups isn't the only interesting programming work to be done :D

Then, when most developers are hired by personal reference, how do you expect us to find these amazing developers hiding in the Midwest?

Maybe relying only on personal reference is doing it wrong then ;)
This is as predictive as Darren Brown showing people how to win the lottery. A billion anonymous Internet denizens typing on a billion keyboards, and so on.

Any real legitimacy in this realm is only derived fron being a consistent predictor over a long period of time.
On the issue of abortion, you can't see the other side at all? At the least, you're preventing a human life from happening. That doesn't give you cause for thought and reflection? Call it what you want, but if your mother had an abortion you would be dead.

The opposition believes that nobody has a right to make the conscious choice to kill another human being. That sounds like a reasonable place to start.

I'm consistently dismayed by the amount of intellectual and moral atrophy displayed in discussions of politics.
Expressing outrage at "sexists in tech" is an important signaling ritual on Hacker News, as evidenced by the 50 million other threads interchangeable with this one.
This is not this reportable?
Amusing anecdote:

A few months back I was at the local Petsmart; getting out of my car I noticed a guy walking toward the store. I thought he looked familiar, so I looked back over my shoulder at him again... I didn't really recognize him but I thought he might have been somebody famous for some reason.

Anyway, when I got back to my car I saw that yellow mercedes, and when read the plate holder saying "Mr. Linux. King of Geeks." I figured out who it was, kind of neat.

At the time I don't think I realized he lived in Portland.
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I'd be happy to be that guy ;)
I think you're both right. Success can be understood as binary, depending on how you interpret it. You either fail or you don't. But YC can help you find that faster than without YC. So there's room for improvement even if success is binary.

These guys got 10k users in a month. But maybe they'd get 100k in 3 if they had YC. Even if you understand that either way it would be a success anyway. It's still reasonable to assume that it would be a worthwhile deal for them. If YC missed the opportunity to help them get even better, even faster. It's reasonable for both sides to treat that as a bug.
So it is a pretty obvious link bait for whatever company they are advertising.
Once it's been given? Unclear. Google "regulatory taking." When you downzone property you have to be worried about lawsuits. It seems like you could make a similar argument around copyright.
Very interesting point - although the point stands in general. The game is, if not zero sum, then close to. The amount of land we can own does not rise in a remotely commensurate fashion with a society's wealth, because methods of creating land (particularly in crowded countries like my own) are extraordinarily expensive.
"The step after that will be glasses which will coordinate with GPS and cell location to overlay 3D imagery on the street, in malls, etc..."

Is that a prediction of the forthcoming Google Glasses there, too? ;)
In fact, if you read that article more carefully, you'll find you're not reading the relevant part of that article.

The Kola Superdeep Borehole set two records: deepest point reached, and longest borehole. The latter record was, as you say, surpassed twice by oil operations. But if you look at the context of the comment I was replying to, it's clear that Dr Stalker was talking about deepest point reached (surely no one thinks Cameron could dig a multiple-kilometer hole from his submarine). And so it is the deepest-point-reached record that is relevant, which was not surpassed by oil operations. This is because those oil boreholes are diagonal, with a large horizontal component.

Also, based on the information I could find, I don't actually know how deep the KSB is, relative to sea level, because I don't know what altitude its "ground level" is, and all the depth measurements I could find are relative to ground level.
No, you predicted natural language personal assistants that were integrated into your phone. Demos of those already existed in 2007, and natural language assistants have been in the works since the late 80s. Here's a paper from 1993 that describes a lot of the Siri functionality that exists today: http://www.media.mit.edu/speech/people/lisa/interchi93.html

Siri and the iPhone 4s is nothing new, Apple simply tied a lot of things together that already existed and added a bit of shine and sparkle.
This may be a myth. Nanex (http://www.nanex.net/) does a lot of detailed analysis of the HFT. Their view, and it is supported by a lot of data and many very detailed, if not intuitive graphs, is that HTF does not help liquidity.
That's nothing. I predicted the iPhone in 2005 and even built a prototype.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tensafefrogs/49199489/
> May not be the only benefit, during the Medieval Warm Period humanity benefited greatly from increased crop yields and milder winters.

"Humanity" meaning Northern Europeans? The MWP led to prolonged droughts and floods throughout other parts of the world.
> At my work, disagreeing with the upper management gets you fired.

Even if they're wrong? Well, in that case, good riddance.
Cool, thanks for that.

I realize that this isn't going to be a new subject for anyone in an entertainment business. But as a programmer, it's not something I've thought about nearly as much.

Tolerance for old material probably varies by audience, too. Those catchphrase comedians get amazing mileage out of unbelievably scant material; enough to become fodder for other comedians. ( http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/comedy-tour/131... )

I wonder if these big-splash events where a comedian sells a clip DRM-free for a simple payment might be better suited to comedy than to music, given the more time-sensitive nature of the value of a comedy bit.
...when we learn how to start selling software to women. Having female engineers will probably help with that.

No, no, a thousand times no. The gaming industry used to think like that. Ernest Adams explained the fallacy of that thinking most eloquently in his article "Games for Girls? Eeeeewww!" [1]

You don't want to "sell software to women". You want to sell software to your target userbase. You want to sell software to people whose problem that software solves. Unless your software is solving a specific problem that only women have, then you're not "selling software to women".

[1] http://www.designersnotebook.com/Columns/004_Games_for_Girls...
Yes, and the Apple ones after those.
I expect there are many people who would find that very unappealing. I also expect that there are people who would put down the money right now if you would let them.
It sounds awesome personally
I agree that it is immoral to hold 'self preservation' as your ultimate value. It does not prevent a few people choosing to do so from time to time, and when one of those gets cornered, the results are horrific.

On the other hand, you need to consider that for you to have grown up "in a pacifist background" its quite an unusual event in the History of Humanity. In particular, it means that there's someone somewhere doing all the dirty deeds that keep the pacifists safe and unaware for long enough to raise any offspring. In the primal environment, uncompromising pacifists would probably end up darwinized!
as always though, what would more money actually buy him? Early retirement from something he seems to love doing?
nginx was probably using around 20mb ram, too. 24gb is ridiculously unnecessary, but it was probably the least the author could get with the rest of the specs.
Couple things:

(i) arc4random is among the older of the widespread CSPRNGs (WinAPI CryptGenRandom is of the same vintage but has been updated).

(ii) arc4random is an implementation of RC4, which is not a well-regarded stream cipher particularly with regard to biases.

(iii) As I recall (note: I could be totally wrong here) arc4random depends on RC4 as its entropy management function; modern designs tend to use secure hash functions for this.

(iv) arc4random in isolation implements only one component of what Ferguson and Schneier would call a cryptographically secure random number generator (the "generator"); it doesn't handle entropy gathering, it doesn't handle heterogenous entropy sources, it doesn't manage entropy pools, and it doesn't build in functionality for handling cold starts (ie, it doesn't inherently persist its state).

One issue that encapsulates all of these (and also blunts any criticism you might perceive of OpenBSD in this comment) is that arc4random as implemented in OpenBSD is not the same thing as openbsd-lib/arc4random.c; OBSD handles entropy gathering, for instance, in the kernel. On the other hand, FreeBSD ignored some of these issues back in 2008 and had a cold start problem. Point being: if you just grab arc4random.c from OpenBSD CVS and stick it in your project, you probably hurt your security.

I like Thomas Pornin's suggestion to this on Stack Overflow: take AES (you probably have it in hardware on modern Intel chipsets) and run it in CTR mode, with random (from random sources) entropy keys (expanded with a fast secure hash), rekeying regularly; this has the advantage of keeping the RNG state in some sense away from attackers as well.

But of course what you really ought to do is just use /dev/random.