skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is true, how were people not walking out?

“The IT business is one of the last frontiers that manages to keep women out. The quota of women to men in your business is sound and healthy” he says. “What are you actually doing here?” he adds to the few women who are actually present in the room.

Are you kidding me?
Ah sorry, KMS. Been working with KVM too much recently ;)
I hate these. Who wouldn't.

Firefox: View/Page Style/No Style turns the page into plain, readable text.

Think of all the effort someone went through, to take perfectly good content and deface it.
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I've looking for that feature for a while. I'm sold.

I have about a thousand different windows opened at the same time.
While I appreciate the insight I cannot fully agree with your conlusions. I've been a PO for the last 16 months (not my first scrum project) in a research project where it is simply impossible to have a long backlog. I bearly manage to keep one iteration ahead of the team. But it works. I think it does because I'm the person actively driving the development, I know the direction we should go and I do want the results

And that latter part is where, in my opinion, lies the difference. Not in the artifact but in the person.
Perhaps the article is lazy with elaborating on its normative perspectives onto a mass. The primary danger is when normative behavior is hegemonic and enforced with a uniform acceptance on what a person/child should behave like.

Stories of 'psychopathic' children reminds me of the following, but there are probably many more examples of stories about children being cruel and how people have responded to such cruelty (what are others you have seen?):
Cidade de Deus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_God_%282002_film%29)
Akira (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_%28film%29)
Léon: The Professional (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_%28film%29)
Monster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_%28manga%29)
GTO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Teacher_Onizuka)
Dogtooth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogtooth_%28film%29)
Heathers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathers)
I would say become an angel investor. A small amount of money can make a big difference to some people. Most Y-combinator companies start with under $20k. If you need help evaluating what companies to invest in, get a multitude of opinions (I will give you an opinion for free, just shoot me an email: gavanw@gmail.com -- I enjoy criticizing companies!).

I would recommend investing in companies that most VCs won't fund - namely, game companies (naturally I am biased here). Games are the "easiest" products to monetize and get traction for, assuming you have a capable team that is making something interesting (i.e. not a clone). Think of it this way: how many users look forward to a particular game coming out? Now how many users look forward to a given Web 2.0 product? Kickstarter is hard proof that users are more interested in games than other types of products. There is a lot of room for innovation in games -- whereas it is very hard to think of good ideas for typical startups.

The time it will take you to learn to code well enough to create a decent startup (read: nontrivial) is at least 1 year (and even that is a stretch), and that will cost you maybe 50k depending on the salary you give yourself. On the other hand, you could buy an experienced software engineer (with 50k + good equity).

On the other hand, you can start a business outside of software. Some of the most obvious businesses make buttloads of money: cleaning services, car washes (I know a guy who runs a carwash and makes over 3 million a year).

I am obviously not the leading expert on any given matter, these are just my humble opinions. :)
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Wow, it's an amazing app. Congratulations.
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I admit not having worked extensively with XULRunner. Maybe 4 years ago was it, but I know that html can be used via the html namespace https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_Tutorial/Adding_HTML_El...

It looks quirky, but I thought the most important part of using web technologies is to use Javascript and CSS; which can be applied over XUL elements just like HTML.

Also compared to the current project it is vastly superior in terms of features and functionality that can be tapped into with Javascript.

There is space for improvement, like with most software, but it is in fact a tested technology already.
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i was just reading about micro inverters the other day. one possible advantage is that smaller systems (less than 1KW?) may not be subject to the certified electrician, plan reviews, mains interconnect shutoff for solar on the outside of the house, etc. read up on it a little, and doing a micro install may really save some money.

read through this[1], and you get an idea the panels and inverter is the easy part. the hard part is compliance with local ordinances.

i just started reading about the micro inverters[2] and these are very different than a 12vdc to 110vac inverter you plug into your car. they track the mains power to dump your solar power back into the line at the correct phase to the grid, and if the mains shuts off, these have to shut off (called island mode? ) and not back feed. from what i can tell, these little inverters are around $1/W so for a 230W PV panel, plan on spending at least $500 total to get the matching micro inverter. really a pretty good deal.

[1] http://www.rctlma.org/building/content/docs/284_79_photovolt...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_micro-inverter
That's my feeling too. It's plausible that Dell outsourced the entertainment to a local Danish agency of some sort, and that to Dell it just looked like "Mads something, some Danish comedian". Although Mads Christensen is vaguely notorious in Denmark (for multiple things), afaict this is the first incident that actually made the English-language media, so you'd have to read Danish (or ask someone) to know who he was previously. Though whoever in Denmark recommended/booked him certainly knew who they were booking. Possibly Dell should've exercised a bit more control over the program. Definitely should've reacted more emphatically, though it's not too late to say something now.
* They have started moving now.. couple of 2600BTC transactions and a lot of others. I got bored at following the chain when it scrolled off the right side of the page.
Me too. I've lost about a hundred, and now do running events.

My life has improved by a lot. Stress is now mostly gone and manageable. I'm way confident, and feel relaxed.
This mostly due to the exercise, but it is just amazing.
My skills (in everything) have just sky-rocketed. Where it would take me months to code anything, now I can just do it in days. It is really amazing.
"You're getting a Dell, dude."

I guess that was a typo, one too many commas.
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Part of that might be a bad translation.
Ruby: p "%10.2f" % x

Progress™!
"Is it possible to compete against a gigantic company on a niche product?" Yup, this is actually the only way to compete when you're small :)

Your knowledge of and passion for the science content is your biggest advantage. Leverage that into building an outstanding product.

Your large university connection is also a great advantage. Keep expanding there, get them to endorse you and then grow to more university labs.

Build the business at your own rate. Your chances of success increase with the time you put into it. This could become a nice small business, augmenting your current income, as you work on it part time.

Since you're not a social app going for scale, try to get someone to pay for it ($n/student) sooner rather than later. That will be yet another level of validation.
The one I quoted is a yes/no question only if you ignore the norm of answering "Can anybody recommend [thing]?" as if it were "What examples of [thing] do you know of?". That's obviously the intention behind the question -- if you asked your waiter "Can you recommend a wine?", and s/he replied only "yes", that'd make hir both pedantic and deliberately unhelpful.

And the existence of the other questions is beside the point -- the title of the question is "Good examples of PHP code for an intermediate PHPer?", the body is merely exposition. I only quoted the equivalent question from the body because it had better grammar than the title.
It's mind boggling that this could happen. And that when it happened no one did anything. Why wasn't this person booed off the stage?
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The problem is that the quality of participants/knowledge on the discussion sites simply isn't as good as SE.

No knock on SE. Quite the opposite.

But I frequently have questions that aren't SE style questions, and I wish I knew where to take them for such intelligent and informed responses.
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"HBO on Cable runs about $13 a month."

HBO on Cable costs $13 plus whatever your basic cable fees, which after "introductory rates" often means $80/mo or more. Granted, you get more than just HBO then, but in the case that you just want HBO and nothing else there is no sanely priced option.
or the they simply need loewe's patents.
Right, that makes perfect sense.

However, I still fail to understand Linus' outright refusal to even accept submissions made via a web interface rather than simply say "when you do a pull request, it must follow this format".
I was only addressing your first point, not your second example which you demonstrated clearly earlier. The recursive syntax is impressive alright - thanks for sharing it. I was unaware of it, as I'm sure many others were. I was not suggesting C has a built in method for achieving the results of the second example.
I'm not certain about the compile time versus execution time distinctions. The compiler behaviour could depend on the mutability of the objects. It's possible a C #define constant would cause different compile time behaviour to variables. I'm not a compiler expert in either language so I can't provide any insight in any case.

Those GCC checks you mentioned are handy and would have avoided a bug in production code a colleague encountered a few years ago, but I imagine they are more recent than C in 1982, and certainly more recent than Fortran in 1956

#define formata "%10.3f%10.4f"

#define formatb(z) z z z "%4d\n"

printf( formatb(formata), x, y, a, b, c, d, n );

The example you've given is thought provoking!
Just to give a short recap of who this Mads Christensen guy is, coming from a Dane:

His tag line is "Denmarks big show-off" and he basically markets himself as a provocative bragging show-off, always with the rolexes, sports cars, slick hair and better-than-thy appearance.

He's not perceived as a comedian but rather as an entertainer hired for various corporate events - some obviously less successful than others.

Unless this was booked by Dell US without doing any kind of checkup, they would've been aware what would be coming. He's knowing for his provocative presentations and I have a hard time seeing exactly how a Danish Dell branch would find it appropriate or interesting to book Mads Christensen. If they wanted stand-up comedy we've got lots of skilled comedians. Mads Christensen is not in that line of work.

To be fair I don't think Mads Christensen personally believes what he presents on stage. It's the persona he's built up. Not that that makes it better in this scenario, just so flak is directed where it's most appropriate - Dell, and especially whoever made the decision to book him.
You can pay $300/hour to a statistics consultant, and you would be lucky if the consultant gave you the quality of responses I frequently see for free on stats.stackexchange.com.
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I voted for the Pirate party here in Berlin, and occasionally it seems their success surprised them more than anyone else.

Right now, both the established political parties and the voters are fascinated by the Pirates. From nowhere to 8 % - that's quite a feat in our slow-moving political landscape. It also means that both the party and those rooting for them are a mix of young people, disappointed voters from both ends of the political spectrum, libertarians and many other factions.

Many Germans are fed up by what is often called a One Party system in disguise, where labeling decisions as "without any alternative" has become Chancellor Merkel's favorite move. There were several large-scale attempts at Internet censorship / filtering (it used to be child pornography yesterday, it's terrorism and copyright violations today, and it'll be something else tomorrow), and more and more people see through the whole theatre.

However, I'm afraid that everyone and their grandmother will project their hopes on a very young and very heterogenous party. There will inevitably be some disappointment.

But then, to quote Groundhog Day: "Something is... different. Anything different is good."
Perspective is Everything
Garbage collection is completely different from these concurrency tools because these concurrency tools can be avoided by you while used by a library that you use, without you having to care. Garbage collection is like exceptions in that if a library expects garbage collection, you can't use it if you're not using that feature. Now you have to worry about the details of the library you use. That's why garbage collection is worse.

Also it's much more contrary to the spirit of the language. People already use threading libraries all the time, so having a standard one is not altogether absurd. The same is not the case with garbage collection.

The fact that you don't understand this, that you thought it was convincing to begin your post with "Do you feel the same way about, say, garbage collection?" makes it clear you don't have the C++ worldview to talk with Blunt about this issue.
“But when she visited Ohio Northern, she was won over by faculty and admissions staff members who urge students to pursue their dreams rather than obsess on the sticker price.

“As an 18-year-old, it sounded like a good fit to me, and the school really sold it,” said Ms. Griffith, a marketing major. “I knew a private school would cost a lot of money. But when I graduate, I’m going to owe like $900 a month. No one told me that.”

Don't obsess over the price, i.e. don't even ask.

The school really sold it. Easy to do when the customer doesn't even know what they're paying.

$120,000 debt, $900/month, on the front-end low-paying part of your career. That's astounding.

IF this model of school tuition and loans is going to stand, the payments have to be based on ability to pay, and allowed to go on as long as it takes. That may not be sustainable from the lender's side, but this is not sustainable from the borrower's side.

There should at least be a projectd cost breakdown and total of all things purchased, and life of the loan cost sheet to be explained and signed, before gaining admission that depends on a loan.
It's more than formatting-- it's also identity verification, for example using email addresses and/or digital signatures.
Nice idea. I haven't tried it yet. When I see the word "Excel/database", I image it's a system that can import existed excel files and generates an runnable CRUD app instantly. Does Ragic archive this?
What's interesting, I think, is that "Linux", "GNU", "Red Hat" (who write most of the software), "BSD", "free software" are not mentioned in the main article.
It would have been nice if instead of presumptuously demanding the parent read a long article (assuming without evidence that he knows nothing about such issues) you had briefly explained why the existing state of affairs with respect to C++ concurrency is inadequate and why these features are actually helpful.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. The mods are power crazed and addicted to closing questions. If people are answering, and upvoting those answers, or the question, then the question is worthy and shouldn't be closed. End of story.
Thoughts on using (Python) function signatures as a DSL for CLI parsers
cool service, I hope it remains up so we can depend on it.

Currently you can accomplish the same thing using Yahoo's YQL, if you'd rather trust a big company to stay up. Here's an example: http://y.ahoo.it/b7rnO

I'm using it on my website to parse my project's history.json file: http://ruhoh.com/latest-updates/, check the source on that to see how it works.

Be warned that YQL transforms arrays containing one element into strings =/, terrible I know but it works.
Ask HN: Wrote a Blog Post, Comments? Critiques? Constructive Criticism?
Hey HN, I just finished writing my first real blog post and I was hoping to get some feedback. I would really apprecatie it if you guys could quickly skim through it and give me any comments you have on it. The post itself is just a simple guide on SSH tunnelling through an EC2 machine.

Thanks!
Chock can do that -- and somebody has to be the first guy to get up, which can be quite scary.
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I wanted to use CORS a while ago but without Opera and IE 6 and 7 supporting it, it'll take a while until it will be an alternative to JASONP.
I grew up with a Loewe TV in our household. Loewe products are of a very high quality and easy on the eyes. exactly what Apple would look for, to get started with their TV business.

Side note:
Apple has always had a love for German companies. Frog Design made the hardware cases back in the 80s and some of the iPhone parts are from a company in Germany.
Whenever I encounter a rhetorical question in a headline or link, I assume the author is either going to reach some foregone and facile answer, or no answer at all.

In this sense, questions as headlines are not only linkbait; they're often the signs of worthless articles, usually consisting of regurgitated common sense, or else poorly distilled coverage of superior source material.

There are occasional exceptions, to be sure. But generally, if I can guess what answer an author is going to get to long before he gets there, he's wasting my time.
Dell really should just liquidate and give the money to the shareholders.
I wouldn't say "ambiguous". I'll grant you "subjective".

Does stackexchange forbid questions where there's an element of opinion, because the system's set up only for questions with "one right answer"? That seems awfully restrictive in the name of a system limitation.

Especially as, as 4ad observed, the asker chooses an incorrect answer annoyingly often -- so the "best answer" isn't always actually the best. As such, it's advisable to at least flick through the other answers anyway, despite this rule.
Looks like these are HTML color codes http://html-color-codes.info/ but that is as far as I got so far.
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State it in terms that make it accessible to another group? Not universally portable, but improved a bit.
All-in-one Android photo app lacks usability
yup. it is suppose to be that simple.
I don't want to derail the topic, but Mother Teresa isn't exactly the best kind of example for your argument.
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it will back feed through the breaker of the circuit you plug it into and help power anything on that side of your breaker box.
> Wayland does not do clipboards, rendering, fonts, networking, drivers, or anything else that makes the X server source tree be hundreds of megabytes.

X doesn't do clipboards, drivers, or fonts. Network transparency does not affect the code size. And the source tree is approximately 25 to 30 megabytes. It contains 7 different X servers (Xdmx, Xvfb, Xnest, Xquartz, Xwin, Kdrive and Xorg). The server you're talking about contains 6 megabytes of machine dependent code.

In fact, all the infrastructure that Wayland depends on is the infrastructure that X uses.
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He explains it here:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599...

In particular, "the quality of stuff I have seen from people who use the github web interfaces has been so low that it's not worth my time."
It's hard enough to trust any research than can simply be turned around and used as a political weapon. Research that supports a blanket tarring of some group's political enemies is very suspect.
Here's how I do it

Cover the pad with one hand (and maybe your wallet) and type it with the other

You can do it quite naturally. Of course it helps if you type the pin fast as well (by fast I mean not taking 1s per digit)
In my opinion, anything on a product backlog which exceeds a 2-3 iteration horizon should be spun into a product roadmap document instead - as a general rule of thumb, if you don't have enough information about a story to sit down and write a clear set of acceptance criteria for it right now, it probably doesn't belong in your product backlog.

2-3 iterations is doable - trying to maintain a backlog of stories 2-3 releases ahead usually results in a big sloppy mess of a backlog.

Unfortunately, I've worked with many clients where thinking about priorities in the future far enough to have 2-3 days worth of stories in place beyond the current iteration is a struggle. This is where things usually go really off the tracks, because you build the thing it's easiest to describe right now to keep everyone working, or run from externally-directed fire to fire, instead of setting a cadence of development which represents the business' true near-term priority mix.
It's really the software. It isn't made to host lists. Votes on lists are historically on the item (OMG YES JQUERY!!!!!), not on the answer (You should use jQuery because a. b. c. d.), and that isn't how the rest of the site works.

Besides in a Q&A network, a "list question" has "list answers" where every "answer" is a "list", rather than an item of that list. Even that doesn't really work because that's not historically the way the site is actually used.

See also the following for the rationale:

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-an...
More likely a plan for the future, like when they bought P.A. Semi.
I am quite lacking words here. Not that some people believe this -- some people hates Jews, so why not women -- but that they would him on stage.

The only guess I can come up with is that we currently, or until very recently, had politicians with power in the government who wanted quotas for the number of females in the boards of companies. This may be what he referes to when he talks about having a nice female ratio.

What gets me though is that usually US companies go way too far on the other side on the PC issues like this.
Hm, hard to say. I don't know Linus personally. If I had to guess, I'd say he was one fire about it, and is obviously passionate about it. People are people, and they get exciting about stuff they care about.
JSONP requires complicity from the remote server too
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I was wrong - not html codes
I employ the 'readable' bookmarklet for situations like this. http://readable.tastefulwords.com/
I read the Danish version -- it did not provide any substantial new information, so I doubt it was the bad translation, (I am a native Dane, so I would properly have spottet it if this was supposed to be a joke).
Right. And if your X desktop did do it, then so would Wayland. Both use more or less the same acceleration infrastructure.
Peter-Paul Koch (ppk) has a good guide to selector support in desktop browsers:

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html#CSS3

Not sure if there is a comparable mobile one.
On the contrary, it takes a lot of intelligence, of a certain kind, to bend a mass of common idiots to your side. It takes dishonesty as well, but certainly there is some skill involved.