skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one big benefit of unraid (for me) is that the individual data disks are all independently mountable (formatted with reiser.).

If the whole thing goes pear shaped and I lose the array (lose the hba, mobo, etc) I can always rebuild the array with new disks and just copy the data off the old disks onto the new array.
I don't think efforts to create "the X for women" (e.g. X=reddit, anonymous, etc.) would be effective or productive: as such they will always be wanna-be or follower type efforts. What is much better is to build on unique strengths/problems/concerns that women have, e.g. I really liked the nameyourrapist.com mentioned (although, of course, with a better name), e.g. women can tell stories of harassment, inequality they faced in companies (naming the company or not) and how they dealt with it. There were many examples of such blog posts on HN recently, collecting them in a central, searchable location would be very useful, I think.

On a different note, the hacker society is very meritocratic (as it should be, since it is based on doing stuff, as opposed to talking about it), so all the ideas in the OP has to be prefaced with the effort to create more hacker women with killer creds and skills. The Etsy-Hacker School effort is a great step in this direction.

On still another tangent, read the story Houston, Houston, Do You Read by James Tiptree Jr. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_Houston,_Do_You_Read%3...) if you have the time, to see a provocative take on what technical and social developments a world of women will produce (you should buy the collected stories book, if you want to be cheap, you can read it here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/20608868/Houston-Houston-Do-You-Re...).

"Thank you." He takes the small, pink bulb. "Just tell me," he says to Lady Blue,who is looking at the bullet gashes, "what do you call yourselves? Women's World? Liberation? Amazonia?"

"Why, we call ourselves human beings." Her eyes twinkle absently at him, go backto the bullet marks. "Humanity, mankind." She shrugs. "The human race."
Man, I wish Facebook would just charge $25 a year and then focus on making the actual user the customer, rather than making the end user the product and advertisers the customer. If they did that, there would be no more advertising, no more creepy selling of personal data, no more spamming my feed with "Susie likes Walmart" messages. On the plus side, if they fail to make the end user the customer, maybe a business opportunity will open up for someone to create a social network that isn't evil ...
"It's a negative test, if you can't do it, then [you're] not ready for a real programming gig yet."

To which I will add, if you can do it, it doesn't mean that you are ready for a real programming gig. Yet.
Correct.

In fact, because the allocation of parliament seats is calculated on the basis of the total vote and because of the adjustments that this entails for the allocation of constituency seats, you can be the first party in a constituency and yet get fewer seats in that constituency than the second party.
You're right. The bigger boys are in various stages of getting it together, it's the ones that don't seem to have immediate column-inch impact (Oracle, SAP etc.) that aren't quite there yet, and then you've got everyone else who lack the resources or interest to pull it off.
That's the punishment for a separate law. From TFA:

"A separate, but related, law has also been passed that bans the use of gold/item farming bots in online-enabled games. Players found using programs that “allow in-game characters to hunt and collect items without the need of a player controlling them” will be made illegal and blocked from internet access.

The punishment for breaking the law will be a 50 million won fine (£27,612) and a maximum jail sentence of five years."
This is absolutely true. Market validation goes both ways! Don't assume a product is either viable or unviable without confirmation from the intended consumers.
Lots of it is lovely until it gets into the misandrist stuff. I find it interesting that feminists find it okay to write off any male opinion by dismissing it as "mansplaining", because they would be mad as bees if anyone dismissed a woman's discourse because of her gender. And, no, of course a website allowing you to anonymously post details about rapists wouldn't be abused by anyone, I don't know why these douchebags dare ask "what about the menz?"!
In grade 5, one of the perks of arriving early to school was getting to play Gorillas before class.

Can't believe I'd forgotten about it.
For anyone else who hates stickers as much as you and I do, I found the perfect tool for removing them: the plastic toothpick from a Swiss Army knife.

The toothpick has a very flat tip that will go right under the corner of a sticker and let you lift the corner - and then the rest of the sticker will pull away easily. At the same time, the toothpick is soft enough that it won't scratch whatever surface the sticker is on.
Sure,

Some companies have a financial incentive to effective tell the open source movement to f-- off. Sure, when they take that, they may not be being evil on a grand scale. But hey, if they are telling linux to f-- off, it seems appropriate Linus return the favor. He's just making things clear.

Is there anything wrong that?
Yep. I reread the top comment after your comment and I'm pretty sure 'apl just skimmed this post; regardless, he's missed the point entirely.
Apple seems a bit behind here; you have been able to get 16GB notebooks from other vendors for quite a while now.

Still, the price of that 8G has dropped pretty dramatically over the last 2 years.
I said nothing about changing the desires of millions of people. If people want to eat white bread, let them eat white bread. However, don't subsidize corn to the point where white bread suddenly contains large amounts of corn syrup. Don't give societal support for monoculture and drug-culture of food crops and meat. Let the farmers farm, and the people cook.
No one (or close enough to make no difference) would pay. Seriously, people may complain about ads but they have almost always proven that they prefer ads to paying, hence the reason the vast majority of media channels (tv, print, web, etc) are free with ads, or cheap and ad-subsidized. And not having 80-99% of people I want to friend (because they dont want to pay) would be death for a social network.
Thanks for the comprehensive reply; however, a quick search turned up a couple of small, portable and embeddable Lisp dialects (Hedgehog, PicoLisp, ECL) that all seem to target the same niche Lua is apparently designed for. Admittedly, Lua has probably been developed for a longer period of time, but small Lisp interpreters shouldn't be very complex, so I guess they are pretty stable.

Lua is probably going to be faster, but one wouldn't exactly use a scripting language for math heavy stuff etc either.
Most countries have a policy of only issuing work visas to foreigners who have an exceptional skill.
That is, the role can't be filled by local talent. I'm not sure web design/development alone meets that definition.
In addition, the paperwork is onerous for any hiring company.
Why do you think you have the right to work in the UK?
My SAT Math score is 660, ACT Math is 26, I'm in average-level math classes and usually wind up with an A- or B+.

I've done MIT Intro to Computer Science on OCW and am currently working on Stanford Algorithm Design and Analysis on Coursera. MergeSort took maybe 10 minutes to implement in Python. I have little trouble with recursion (now), and am decent at understanding and mentally modeling complex systems (i.e. AP Chemistry).

But The Powers That Be have decided that the rapid and accurate selection and application of procedures to small, contrived "problems" are the best measure of suitability for a STEM education, so I have little to no shot anywhere besides my state's JavaSchool. Maybe they're right.

But from experience, I will say this: when you teach or test sorting algorithms, you're teaching and testing ideas and how students think. When you teach and test fractions, you're teaching a procedure and testing a student's ability to execute it quickly and accurately without getting bored or transposing digits.

IMHO, the relative weights we put on those completely separate abilities are backwards.

(I have never had trouble with the ideas behind fractions, but make me find the common denominator ten times in 5 minutes and I'll probably screw up once or twice.)
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The same thing happens in Firefox.
I believe that difference went away in 2000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Availability#Selectiv...
When I see these things I always wonder, what is the best way to integrate these monitoring stuff into your existing stack.

So server restarts and failures are just okay.

Anyone used similar monitoring utilities in production?
Stuck learning Objective-C? This should kick you off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xqn5IHbusA

65 really simple to follow tutorials, most of which are 6-7 minutes long. He does tutorials on pretty much everything; from iOS to go kart building.
I've had a good experience with Ubuntu on one of Dell's Vostro laptops. Vostros are part of Dell's small business offerings, but you don't have to actually run a business to buy or use them.
Setting the stage with iOS 6 and no moving parts
Ask HN: Just ordered my first Mac- what apps should I know about?
Getting my new Macbook Air on Wednesday. I'll be using it for RoR and front end coding (not a dev but trying to move away from/add to the "Product Guy" label), VM (will run Ubuntu in a VM).

So far these are the apps I know about:

-Adium to combine all my chat accounts

-Growl for notifications

-iTerm2 seems to be an interesting terminal emulator

-Any Notepad++ equivalents on OSx? (I'll end up using Vim and some Notepad++ equivalent)

-Recommended email clients?

-Recommended media players? (I use VLC on Windows)

-Recommended calendar apps to sync with Google and Exchange calendars?

-CSS editors?

-Anything else that a Mac newbie should be told about?

Thanks.
I grew up in South Africa, where most of my family were anti-apartheid activists.

My family made extensive use of IBM computers and technology in their ANTI-apartheid activities.

They wrote speeches with Wordperfect and Wordstar on IBM XTs.

They saved them to Verbatim floppy disks, printed them out on Epson and HP printers, faxed them with imported fax machines (Canon?), scanned for viruses with McAfee antivirus, shredded evidence with imported shredders, and powered it all with no doubt dubiously imported UPSes and petrol generators.

Then they used US Robotics modems and PCAnywhere with encryption software (2) to transmit files to people both around South Africa and overseas.

They used personal-database software to keep track of press articles and potential supporters overseas, and then used Lotus 123 to calculate where the money was going.

They used the international telephone system (Gasp! Technology!) and Swiss Bank accounts (I think - I was never sure on where the banks were) to transfer money that supported anti-apartheid causes.

They also smuggled people over the border, no doubt using foreign-manufactured cars, airplanes, and perhaps foreign weapons in the process.

Did my family help more than having a computer system run the Pass system hurt? Absolutely not - but I like to think that by having access to some of this technology things changed for the better sooner.

Somehow in this history I've picked up a healthy anti-respect for authority, a view that some things can be used for both good and evil, and a fundamental respect for the power of computers.
Balance in all things.

1. Many of your friends no doubt earned their pocket money by cleaning the yard and taking out the trash. I earned mine by shredding hundreds of pages of activist documentation for my grandmother.

2. The encryption software they used was dumbed down thanks to US ITAR export rules, probably putting the lives of countless good people in danger.
"The train" gives me the chills
Yeah, I had a lecturer in Artificial Intelligence who was very pompous about how little Philosophy had to add to the debate about intelligence but what he didn't seem to realise is that his half-baked arguments against Philosophy were in themselves just philosophy done very badly by someone without the background to put together a decent argument.

People ask what Philosphy has achieved: the very existence of science as a seperate field is the work of Philosophy. As is computer science, artificial inteligence, political philosophy much of economics. Philosophy works at the things we don't have frameworks for dealing with yet, and it asks questions about the applicability of those frameworks we do have. Not everything in Philosophy becomes something tangible in the world, but much of our intellectual framework for dealing with the world has its origins in Philiosophy. I mean, what do you think Schrodinger was doing with his cats in the box other than posing a Philosophical question to sharpen our thoughts about an existing field of (real world) research?

So, back to the poster I was responding to: yes, I think much of the criticism of Philosophy comes from those who don't understand it. Ironically, you can't valuably criticise Philosophy without actually doing it.
I don't play D3 or TF2 , but I do enjoy the trading systems in other games. Maybe it's not for everyone, but it adds fun for me.
SDR (software-defined radio) enthusiasts also found something they can't identify: whistlers. You can see/hear them in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hv--BR0ddE

also briefly addressed here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuRcaxpbYCw

edit: not on topic, should have refrained from posting as it's a VLF radio phenomenon and not a sound.
Files in the cloud: Feature, product or company?
An again economics is firmly in our corner here, since the effort to build exploits for exotic targets isn't that much less than the effort to target e.g. Android... but the incentive to build those exploits is far lower.
I've never found the treemap view of filesystem viewers all that useful. Pie charts aren't any better. A basic hierarchical list of directories sorted by size is fine. I can use it interactively and drill down if I need more information. Tree maps like this for example* seem to contain more information than I can easily process.

The one thing I like about that one is that you get a quick, rough overview of which file type (Applications, System, ...) use up how much space and where they are located in the hierarchy. But I don't generally care about the latter and the former would, again, best be served by a simple sortable list or tree list.

* http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/treeviz_colorful.... from the article
Since you obviously didn't just make that argument up... care to cite your sources?
Isaac Newton Action Movie Won't Be As Crazy As His Real Life
Explain what? The video is about the product, not about the sister.
They could just redirect the .com records to .cn in every DNS server in the country.
I did this before I became a citizen and before I had residency. Trust me: You only have one minor problem right now and it's not having a merchant account. Focus on solving that. Setting up a US corporation is a world of expense, complexity and hurt you don't need. The issue goes beyond the obvious, for example it's likely you'll be refused entry to the USA on a tourist visa if you're a shareholder and director of your own USA C corp. [No it's not documented anywhere so don't bother Googling]
Show HN: Payback, a web app to make spending and borrowing money easier
If you use Stripe, you dont need a merchant account, only an EIN. Only problem then is having a bank account to transfer the money into. This can often be done in person on a short trip to the US. Be sure to find out exactly what you need in advance - when I set up my bank account BofA told me I needed a form from city hall, which wasn't available on Fridays.
There's a difference between "you're probably going to fail" and "you're probably going to fail so don't even hope (or try)."
Everyone in your startup is a marketer
MIT Researchers Develop a New Kind of Lie Detector Test
I don't understand this.

What, is there an archive out there that has every recorded sound by every single human being and along with has complete information about the recording, and only these 7 clips are not understood?
I re-read the article and have to admit that you and everyone else here is in the right. Crucially, I misread this paragraph as the kind of self-glorification that happens to be way too common among so-called "makers":

> You see most people aren't hackers. Most people can't
> build a todo app. Most people can't use an API.

He doesn't draw a line between makers and programmers, but between makers and the general population. That is reasonable. I still maintain that the optimism is misplaced (product business is difficult, even for great developers) and that the FizzBuzz myth has gotten out of control.

Other than that: point taken.
http://httpstat.us does this too.
Quicksilver http://qsapp.com/ - I never opened an application from Finder or Dock again.

From their site:

Quicksilver is a launcher utility app for Mac OS X which gives you the ability to perform common, every-day tasks rapidly and without thought. An introduction to Quicksilver's abilities include:

* Accessing applications, documents, contacts, music and much, much more.

* Browsing your Mac's filesystem elegantly using keywords and 'fuzzy' matching.

* Managing content through drag and drop, or grabbing selected content directly.

* Interacting with installed applications through plugins.
Because they're all using wordpress/blogger/etc which put it in for them.
Why Sharing Your Work, Setbacks & Struggles Breaks Creative Blocks
I have to disagree here.

Technology itself clearly is not something that you can "make sure..is used for good". The problem is not with any one piece of technology (eg. the computer) or technology as the sum of all individual technologies. I see the root of the problem being technologizing. Oppression is more oppressive because we've technologized it. Totalitarian governments are more controlling because they've technologized control. The essence of technology is control. The plow let farmers control where and what things grew in an area of land. The hydroelectric dam controls the flow of an entire river to generate electricity. Your cellphone lets you control personal and professional interactions. Control and technology are deeply connected. That is why technology is both dangerous and beneficial. Technologies are not transformative they are indicative of trends in the larger field of control/power.
A better tool for private social and working networks? Using Apache Wave
Doesn't solve your exact problem but we own a couple hotspot devices. We don't always have a need for them but use them at least a couple times a month on the go around town so they are more than worth it. When you add in trips whether for vacation, business, or anything else, boy do they come in handle. Take a look.
Also, by the same thing: Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array.

I can't find much about it after ten seconds' worth of googling, but maybe that's when it was constructed?
A bat with a stupendously long tongue
That's interesting, I've got two QNAP TS-419p boxes running Debian on armel. Had no idea that similar, AND x64-64 based hardware was available for much cheaper!
If you don't like Quicksilver, Alfred is really good too (http://www.alfredapp.com/).

Sublime Text 2 is pretty great (http://www.sublimetext.com/2).
Colloquy[1] is a fantastic IRC client.
TextWrangler[2] is one of my favorite text editors.
If you're familiar with Linux, you'll want a package manager- popular options are MacPorts[3] or Fink[4].
As far as media players, VLC[5] has a very nice OSX port.

[1] http://colloquy.info/
[2] http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/
[3] http://www.macports.org/
[4] http://www.finkproject.org/
[5] http://www.videolan.org/
it goes the other way (grouping of things, rather than subsetting):

1. X sound is found and nobody understands what causes it

2. X gets a wikipedia page

3. someone creates a list of various pages such as X

4. optional, some other people add more pages such as X having noticed the list
re: package managers.

Check our Homebrew: http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ and read a few articles about the pros and cons of homebrew vs Macports. It's a sticky topic.
Awkwardness about anal activity
Nita replies to her readers letters. Advice strictly for grown ups.
It's become a lot harder to get work visas for the UK since they closed the Tier-1/HSMP program a few years ago. Under the new visa system the only people who are likely to be willing to sponsor you are large firms (IBM, Google, investment banks, etc.) who have the capacity to deal with the overheads required.
I'm not condemning the readers. But are we really assuming a dichotomy between "Forever Alone" and following in the foot steps of "pickup artists"? Especially in a thread where the original article shows that you can convey the essential information without machismo self-help lingo?

If it's from sleazoid to sleazoid, okay, let them simmer in their own subcultural juices. But as you say, a part of the reader demographics is oriented towards the socially insecure, and there this approach can be damaging (and seems inherently exploitative to me). There are other books about this, from targetign the shyness angle to basic social interaction ("shmoozing") to flirting – or to bedroom performance, if you're concerned about that. You don't really have to reach for the "seduction community" shenanigans.

Apart from the moral/ethical angle, there's also little actual value in that part of the bookshelf, from what I have seen. It's bad self-help, coupled with huge amounts of self-promotion (to establish the required credibility of the author). I'm not saying that it doesn't work, mind you. Not necessarily because of the clever tricks and lingo, but because of the basic confidence boost. "You can do it!" is probably all a lot of people need. Just like lots of diets or GTD type of books work just by the customer deciding to watch what he's eating or trying to organize his life.

Still don't think you should hand your money to that sector of virtual wing men… Maybe all joking aside, we would benefit from a "advanced social skills" Hacker News (There's probably a subreddit for it already).
Jesus touched me
Nita helps a reader with a particularly spiritual problem
As a developer I very happy, that http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ exists. It's a package manager (#packages as of today: 2024), like apt or yum - with a very nice command line interface and a great community.

> Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn't include with OS X.
The first things I install on any Mac (and goodness knows there have been lot of them):

- Google Chrome (http://chrome.google.com)
- iTerm2 (http://www.iterm2.com/)
- Xcode (http://developer.apple.com/xcode/)
- Homebrew (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew)
- For emacs-snapshot, zsh, git, gnupg, etc.
- Google Drive (https://drive.google.com)
- Flux (http://stereopsis.com/flux/)
- TextMate (http://macromates.com/)
- VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc)
- Transmission (http://www.transmissionbt.com/)

Then, things like the Sonos controller, the Rdio and Spotify apps, Adobe Lightroom 4, Photoshop, etc.

But the above are the ones that seem to make it onto every new machine in the first day or two.

Enjoy!