skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So I'm gonna create a new topic and answer questions there...
Turns out I can't do that with a newly created account. Bummer.
Neat. I've often wondered about the port on the bottom of the lock. Thanks for clarifying.
Given the topic of the post, OP should also watch Brazil.
Oh! I'm sorry if I came off as insensitive. I didn't mean to criticize you as a person or anything. I was trying to convey that your post held undertones which weren't really compatible with the goals of events promoting women in tech.

Sexualizing doesn't have as extreme connotations as you seem to think; like a lot of sexism these days, its manifestations are much more subtle.

Anywho, I hope you go to one of these hackathons! It's easy to make friends when you just respect and treat everyone equally, man or woman (or extra-binary adjective).
CRM is a broad concept that goes way beyond shared access to your company's contacts. If you can answer the 4 W questions (who, where, when, why) + how for each opened ticket and periodically use this data to reshape your internal processes, then you have reached an elementary CRM implementation level.
If a female wants to be a good engineer, they will do so. Obviously most women don't want to do that for the same reason I don't want to be a good women's clothing designer or seamstress.
No, you don’t need a real-time data dashboard
One way we are different is that we also offer a fully featured consumer experience, the API is awesome for businesses but we also bring an audience to brands since we are a marketplace with both sides.
Social commerce - startup idea to do it right
Nitpick: you'd save with a PUT. Otherwise, yes, that's exactly what one should do.
And on hn:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4283217
There are a number of things that I find annoying about stories like this about Jobs — but the most pronounced is that I doubt he would have condoned his own behavior as seen from the outside. Jobs' attitude is a side-effect of his convictions.

I think people seem to overlook how a personality like that actually works. Oftentimes this happens while overtly being assholes in an attempt to imitate someone they admire but could probably never become.
The 8 Kinds of Projects You Meet at a Hackathon
Some companies are aware of this. Google seems to actually teach[1] project managers about this, as recently summarazied by stcredzero[2]:

"A workable program for teaching technical people how to effectively manage others in specific technical contexts is probably one of the most potent things a company could have.

So much of the quality and productivity of a programming group depends on how well the group is managed. Despite this, the production of effective managers is often shockingly haphazard.

They are not going to do something for you just because of your title. You really have to make your case...

"One of the practicalities of a less hierarchical company is that you aren't necessarily going to have the position power to decree something or dictate something..."

This is actually the case at most BigCo. If you think otherwise, then you've bought into the window dressing."

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230341040457746...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4204150
The way to get good people to work with you is to be the kind of person people want to work with. Seems obvious to me. I have worked with jerks, and with people I continue to love and admire to this day. Like many of you, I'm sure.

Since I am sadly a shitty programmer, I had to take my inspiration from baseball managers… people who did not play the game, but tried their best to make sure that the team won. you don't win by leaving your best pitcher in for nine innings. (Usually :-). You try to put people into situations where they can succeed, day after day.
In Person: Fieldrunners 2
Official PhoneGap Emulator in the browser (powered by Ripple)
Many paid applications in the visual effects industry are primarily run on Linux.
Is that why new self checkout systems are immensely frustrating, but after a few months they're fine to use? I'd assumed that the tolerances were lowered because too many customers were getting so frustrated that they were refusing to use them.
You don't have to pay them to stop filtering - just make an account and disable the setting (my information is a few month old, I've since changed to Google DNS - it is faster for me).
Apple seriously needs to implement support for paid upgrades on major version releases without having to add an entirely new, separate product. If that were easily done, this point is moot. No one seriously discussing this really expects free updates for life. I'm happy to pay for a major new release every year or so.
Another one to pancreatic cancer...

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
I love it! We have a similar thing in my company. We run a hosted CI service (https://circleci.com), and occasionally tests on Circle, but don't locally for the customer. That would just cause the customer to stop using us (and therefore not sign up at the end of the trial).

So we added a "report this build" button, and some text: "Uh-oh, this failed. If you didn't expect it to, report this build and we'll look into it". Since we added it about 3 months ago, this has led to dozens of bug fixes on our end, tons of improvements to the docs and language in the app, and lots of conversations with customers which helped us refine the product.

We should definitely add the same thing to our docs, like Stripe does. See the footer at https://stripe.com/docs/api
Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Crtl-Tab, Ctrl-T, docs.google.com, New Document, Ctrl-V, Share. Done.
Getting a 404 on the homepage.

http://www.refer.ly/
Average return to work after inguinal hernia surgery:

worker's comp case: 6 weeks
self-employed: 2 days
Instead of adding another unicast network to the mix, why wouldn't you start using an IP anycast network? DNSMadeEasy / Route53 / EasyDNS / etc..
It seems crazy to move from one service that purchases 6 name servers to another one that is only on 6 servers.... DNS Made Easy fought an attack that was over 200 Gbps a few months ago.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150668694804467&...

Can any unicast provider even really get close to fighting an attack like this?

Let's be serious at some point.... 6 servers... the MOST you can push is 6 Gbps. And most likely they are bound to about 400 Mbps of DNS traffic (based on CPU load). Unless you have hundreds of name servers and multiple locations... are you even really competing in uptime anymore?
No mention here, of the obvious tie between your reciept and your debit card (assuming you can't use cash.) A nice audit trail. And you probably swiped your clubcard too.
The Value of Nonverbal Communication
I always figure that the maintenance guy and probably half the staff know the master code.
IOC Releases Social Media Guidelines For London 2012 Games
It's always refreshing when people building web services actually understand the web. (Note: not sarcasm, unfortunately this is rare).
I'd be overly cautious with this company. I've had over the minimum required to cash out for a month, and they will not let me cash out my account. The claim is that there are still in beta, so they won't pay you yet. Will they ever exit beta? Will I ever be able to cash out?
While I realize that the plural of anecdote isn't data, this is pretty much my point exactly. The venture capitalists take a large position for a small amount of money... minimizing the risk and maximizing their potential profit. the founders try to play a similar game with their highly skilled employees. Welcome to capitalism.
Who said anything about lowering the bar for anyone?

Cletus, in the post you replied to.

As for using gender as a predictor in admissions, you'd also need to penalize high scoring women (and reward the low scoring ones). I have no particular objection to any of this.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/08/variance-induce.html
You clearly don't comprehend the context in which that statement was made. Specifically, "It's certainly possible that the problem-space is too advanced to really tell it in layman's terms". Conceptually it's not advanced at all, in fact it's not even new. Nowhere do I allude to the implementation as trivial, which it clearly is not.
It's Like the Internet...but Real
I've tried playing around with the trackpoint speed under Xfce, and it doesn't help that much. The pressure needed although not much, is enough to put stress on my upper body.
BBC, NPR, and Christian Science Monitor are all pretty good.
Yeah. Once someone grabs the CEO title they think it's all about talking. They fail to lead through example.

No. It's about doing.

"In the hour of danger it was shameful for the chief to be surpassed in valor by his companions; shameful for the companions not to equal the valor of their chief. To survive his fall in battle, was indelible infamy."

I mean, Gibbons was writing about barbarian warriors; rather a different breed from your usual computer nerd. However, I think this particular lesson is still applicable. If you are leading nerds, You need to spend some time working alongside them. If they see you create, your words will carry more weight than years of rhetorical training. (I find that in the short term, sophistry can often carry more weight, especially with less experienced employees... but in the long term? they need to respect you. And they will only respect you if they see you working, and they see that what you produce is not stupid.)

The romance of Gibbons aside, if you don't spend at least some time actually doing the work of the company, you are trusting without verifying; Delegation is important, but it's also important to occasionally verify what is actually happening.
I've written a little experimental python client that connects to a sentinel and keeps an image of the state of the monitored cluster as it changes.
http://bit.ly/NNrQdI
Doesn't need idolizing - he made himself an icon, and there's the right-place-right-time factor.
His biography never says "Be like me" by any stretch of the imagination.

Nobody is a perfect role model - everyone has faults. Is his attention to detail something we shouldn't forget? I think so. Is childish behavior the way to lead people? Not if it means tantrums and inappropriate responses - but then again, we may lose to much of the child in all of us when we hit the corporate world... there should be room for some playtime and wonder in the things we build.... nobody is perfect.

It's awfully hard to say a billionaire who made such an impact on people all over the place and died far too young isn't someone we should learn a bit about if we can, is it? (There are more out there than just Steve Jobs, of course... biographies exist. Jobs is just fascinating and current.)
Or there's those hotels where you have to leave the keys at the front desk. Each time you come back you say your room number and they give you the key.
How much capacity does DNSimple have though. It appears as though you are another unicast network.
ns1.dnsimple.com is a server at Slicehost / Rackspace
ns2.dnsimple.com is a server at Linode
ns3.dnsimple.com is a server at prgmr.com / EGIHosting / Hurricane Electric
ns4.dnsimple.com is a EC2 instance on Amazon

How much computing power and attack traffic can those really handle?

If you are going to offer a solution to a massive DDoS I would think that you would be careful on when to propose your solution.

Instead of adding another unicast network to the mix, why wouldn't you start using an IP anycast network?

Please explain how much capacity you have.
I should add that I did read that before posting. And that's part of my point: you seem to have developed the tip amount framework without any regard to the larger market. My point is that the fact that many people gladly tip their bartenders > $1/week is relevant to your project. In the real world, $0.25 is not a tip, it's pocket change. (Here's a list of suggested tips, note the conspicuous lack of tips under a dollar: http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/10/12/basic-tips-on-t...)

The other gripe I have is that you match expected tips for a "top open-source programmer" with an average salary for a "mid-career engineer". Why shouldn't a top open-source programmer be able to make top engineer money (read: a lot more that $160k) with Gittip? And why is there a max tip amount? What if my business wants to "tip" someone more than $100/mo? (I know, it's insane to think that code would be worth that much but to some it may be.)

So I guess I would ask you to reconsider:

1) The signaling issues around the idea that a quarter or a dollar is a reasonable amount to contribute for good programming. How do you explain to non-techies why your work is worth so much more than that?

2) The expected top end of the range for super-successful devs probably shouldn't be in the range of what recent grads are making at top firms.

Again, I'm trying to be constructive, and I think that if you want to meet your goals of helping programmers find a living building open source software, you could do a lot worse than asking folks who choose to tip to do so in amounts that are commensurate with the education, training, and thought required to build useful open source software.

Anyway, good luck with your project.
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Hey Chad, I wonder if Apple would allow a Gittip app using in-app purchases? They just released subscriptions too. That way every downloading user would already have his CC on file, and be a click away to donate.
In the US our foreign born population is roughly similar about 13% foreign born in 2009. However the percent of foreign born people in the US has historically been very high.

Wikipedia points immigration to Norway has risen very recently because of it's membership in the European Economic Area. It is entirely possible that united states has issues caused by continued high levels of immigration that Scandinavia has not had time to experience.

Since our foreign born populations are similar, adjusting for that shows that when native born Scandinavians and Americans are considered, Scandinavia is much more ethnically/racially homogenous than the United States.

Furthermore Scandinavia doesn't have a recent history of institutionalized oppression of a very sizable racial minority. There is still a generation of people alive here who actually lived under forced segregation, and more generations who were raised by them.

I'm sure if America was composed only of people who's ancestors came here voluntarily, and who weren't kept as second class citizens for decades, we wouldn't have many of the problems we do.
As a Canadian, I can say that Americans have more fun in life than just about anyone.
Sure, we canucks and the rest of the world like to call them out on their shortcomings all the time, but they brought us disneyland and superman, etc.
Yes, but they have to recalibrate them every so often and they get overly sensitive again.

Problem is, every time it beeps at you and the cashier overrides it, it averages your item's reported weight with the ones its seen before. So if a cashier is overriding it all the time (as tends to happen with constantly beeping things) the weights drift off, and the whole thing is quite useless.
As an industry we are a pretty awful people.
Performant isn't a word.
> But he's the paragon of the self made man, in the Ayn Rand sense [...]

I was just thinking this. I'm sure Jobs hated Rand, given his politics, but he sounds an awful lot like Hank Rearden in TFA.
How far along is the ruby API? I'd throw this up on my business for a little just to test it out, see what happens
How about the value of having a product that works?

Still doesn't work on Linux + Google Chrome or Chromium, built-in or plugin.

http://cl.ly/image/2F2C110Z0C0q/o

(This is the third or fourth time I've had to post this. Do I need to gift you my thinkpad?)
I think you mean $13/year not $13/mo; I think you're comparing monthly fees with annual fees. In any case, tipping is optional and there is already a floor > $0.01.

We can't have it both ways. Either programming is worth something (we hate the idea of the quarter) or it's not ($13/yr is sooo expensive!).
Interesting. I also prefer criticism, if it is intelligent and useful. Mere praise won't help me get better.

When you go to a good music instructor, for example, you're paying for the well reasoned criticism, although encouragement is also vital. The masters can give both, in the right proportions.
Finally someone who agrees with me. I like Backbone quite a bit and a large part of our application is now using it... However, the added code, layers of abstraction, and lack of any "right" way to do things make maintaining it more of a hassle than anything else. I like that many people are trying to build application frameworks on top of backbone (marionette, etc) but this is just making things worse as now you have 20+ choices on how to write your backbone application, thereby making it harder to maintain across developers (what are the chances the new guy you hired is not only proficient in Backbone, but also backbone using handlebars instead of underscore, and also backbone + chaplin -- or vertebrae, or thorax?)

When our js guru started porting our app the backbone, it was intensely difficult at first for the rest of our devs to make trivial changes to our front end code. What used to be a well defined information flow was now spread across dozens of files.
Show HN: Weakest Link Reporter
This is my first post, and the first project I will be posting to a community... so be nice please. Also, I am not really interested in any other projects that do the exact same thing… I often like to reinvent the wheel, just for the experience.

I work as a front-end web developer, and whenever I am about to push a site live, there is usually a huge list of bugs and general issues to fix, before a website can be seen by the public. The lists of bugs, are generally created by non-programmers, which means they really only care about the content of the site (ie grammar, spelling etc)… If I can fix all of the programming related errors before they get a chance to make these UAT lists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_acceptance_testing#User_acceptance_testing), it makes my life and their lives easier. One of the most common problems are bad links, as I hardly ever click each link that I create. I created this tool to test all links found in every html file, found in a target directory, recursively; and generate a report on the results. If the script finds an internal/relative link, it checks to see if the file exists; if the link is external, it does an http request.

I wrote this script in perl and made it work like a unix command line tool; I eventually want to make it a real command line tool, but I don’t know how yet. Also, my co-workers who are not unix friendly, suggested that I make a web form interface to activate the script. There are many things I can do to make this tool more useful; this version met a specific set of criteria for a project. Now that the project is over, I plan to expand this tool for more general use.

Let me know what you think, if you would use a tool like this, and if you want to help dev it.

Project: https://github.com/mathew-fleisch/Weakest-Link

Script: https://github.com/mathew-fleisch/Weakest-Link/blob/master/weakest_link.v1.0.pl

Sample Report: https://github.com/mathew-fleisch/Weakest-Link/blob/master/bh-eu-12-link-report.xls
What about using Mozilla's Persona (formally BrowserID), instead of those commercial services you mentioned?
> If you wish, you can hold your own hackathon without 50/50 male:female enrollment.

When did I ever say anything critical of their limiting attendees? If they want to do that, that's their business.

If they want to write a blog post about a bunch of tricks that might help your event be more inviting to women, that's great too.

The problem is with representing the results as due to those tricks while ignoring the other hugely significant factor (limiting attendees).

Consider this: how about I write a blog post about how I changed my headline color from red to green and got a 300% increase in sign ups. Oh, by the way, I also added a free usage tier at the same time, but that's more complex and I didn't want to include it in the same blog post. You should definitely use green for headlines, though.
Too bad I didn't came up with that name before. It sure has a nice ring to it.
Sparrow did everything right. They built an incredible email app

I would say they did everything right except choosing to build an e-mail client. The days of paying for e-mail clients is long gone. The days of even using a local mail client are over for most people. It's just a tough sell to make money selling a paid client to a free service. I use Sparrow and will continue to use it but I can understand why they were going to have difficulties making any real money off it. Way too small of a market.
Step by step from jQuery to Agility.js
You're not the only one, but it does seem that many, many Americans don't care about the government running up trillion dollar deficits every year and taxing us out of our rear end to pay for it.
Not if you raise instead of lowering the price.
This is an interesting problem, good luck!

Here's where I'd start:

1. See what resolution you need to get the level of grays you want. Your example shows 29x29 pixels for a cell be for it's resampled down. (2900%) so 841 possible shades of grey, (minus the artifacts from converting to polar and back. (the stair stepped edges))
but if you only need 12 shades of grey, render it at 400%, 4x4 pixels and add up the results for each cell. (But with shadow maps, you need a larger render to reduce the effects of the polar conversion.)

2. See if your shadow map approach or ray casting (or this http://www.redblobgames.com/articles/visibility/ ?) is faster to get this type of result:
http://www.jasonnall.com/polar/images/Scale.png
With your shadow mapping you are processing every pixel several times. With ray casting you can optimize and and only process what the player sees, and you don't have the polar conversion artifacts.

I'm betting on ray casting/ this http://www.redblobgames.com/articles/visibility/ and I bet there's a quick test for partially occluded cells, then chop in half and get the percentage exposed. Yeah, it may be more work to figure out, and not worth it. But you can still super sample only the the partially exposed cells 4x4 for 12 shades, 5x5 for 25 shades etc... and just render what you see instead of everything.
Interesting way to solve the problem. Just as curiosity, have you ever checked the ascii roguelike "Brogue"? It has a kind of line-of-sight and color scales.
Remember folks : "performant" is not a word.

http://boulter.com/blog/2004/08/19/performant-is-not-a-word/
A tragedy, and I wonder if being in space had anything to do with the development of her cancer. Astronauts must be bombarded by levels of radiation that people on Earth are not exposed to on a daily basis.
If they had verification against a database there would be no point in printing these in the first place, they could just get the discount info from the DB.
There was a good TV program of a tear down of a decommissioned shell/esso rig from the North Sea oil field. On yesterday (Sun 22nd July.)

Apparently there was a shift in European law, that now forces companies to tidy up after they've finished. Brought about after pressure from Greenpeace for Shell trying to ditch the Brent Spar in an underwater trough.

Quite how you'd do this with anything deep sea is beyond me. Worth a watch though.
I completely agree about Wondrich. I'm partway through Imbibe and it's fantastic.

Not sure about American whisky aging, though that sounds plausible.
I took a more general message: a $3 app cannot sustain a funded startup in any field.
You might be interested in Andrew Ng's ML course via Coursera.
Sending to 1,000,000 subscribers costs $55,000+ per year on MailChimp and other premium services. A cheaper option with the same deliverability would be extremely attractive to anyone who doesn't like setting their money on fire!