skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah, the Ubuntu fanboys will be busy. But seriously, I need my main work machine to just work (TM). I need audio to work without a 4 second lag on skype (I know that's skype's fault). I need Eclipse to default to fonts that I don't notice, rather than spending 20 minutes tweaking. I need Teamviewer to work correctly when I have 2 monitors on Ubuntu.

I know that's off-topic, but I really think everyone/thing Ubuntu related should be focusing on the fact that the desktop doesn't cut it, the OA is off-topic if you like. When you write software, you write it first, properly, then worry about optimization when it's functional (with a few exceptions). If it doesn't do its job, who cares that it can unzip twice as fast.
I forgot to mention that v2 of allmyapps won't require signup anymore.
I don't have exact number, unfortunately. All I have are the experiences of working there for several years while watching people show up, get burned, and leave.

This means I can't really answer your question about proportions with hard data. I can tell you that the ratio in engineering, and particularly in the kernel team / cluster management area (where I was at the end) was seriously lopsided just by looking at things. This meant when a woman did leave, it was pretty obvious.

I know this isn't much to go on, so I started digging around. Lucky for you, I found a short video I shot when there was some kind of release celebration in September 2009. I counted 25 people in my shot (so I'm not including myself), all standing around in front of what used to be my office. Of those 25 people, there was one woman. So, add me behind the camera, and that's 8%.

That's the best I can do for now. Hope that helps.
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We haven't raised a cent and we got decent coverage:

http://www.lostremote.com/2012/05/07/vidpresso-offers-low-co...
http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/07/vidpresso-wants-to-help-tv-...
http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/07/vidpresso-aims-to-disrupt-b...

The tech press actually helped with customer acquisition because people were more willing to trust us. I think if you just spend your time meeting the right people, you can get coverage if you, by just being you, can prove you're not a douche / self promoter.
Best Practices for Linq Enumerables and Queryables
> The birther thing is straight up racism, not education.

Birthers think that all Blacks/African-Americans were born in Indonesia?
"This is because of the way an alternate OS is installed on Apple hardware - it's actually running on top of a low-level layer that prevents the OS from having proper access to the hardware."

This is entirely inaccurate. Even using the BIOS CSM ("Boot Camp") gives you full access to the hardware, and people are moving away from that to native UEFI booting.
“The Father of Java” Loves Jelastic
The site's back http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201104-7945/
Let's not forget that GNU/Linux is intended to run on any damn machine you throw at it, while the latest version of OSX is only intended to run on Apple hardware that is no more than 3 years old. It's amazing that Ubuntu is even competitive with OSX given these circumstances.
Functional Thinking: Rethinking dispatch
My Mountain Lion Review
Visual Studio Zen Coding 2010 extension
It's not only that maternity leave policies in the US suck in the majority of companies, it's that fact that quality child care is so expensive, that many mothers find it cheaper to stay at home or work part-time, especially those with more than one small child.

Add in the fact that many companies are understaffed to cut expenses, that there can be resentment from coworkers when a mother goes maternity leave. You might get some blowback from the non-parents and singles in the office when you expect them to cover for you with no incentives, not even a thank you. Try working in a office with deadlines and critical projects when 40% of staff are expecting...
In Europe you can recycle used nespresso capsules. Looks like it is available in the states as well. http://www.nespresso.com/ecolaboration/recycling.html

Just relaying some personal experience here... in Austria we have had the off brand capsules for a while. I have tried various brands which all tasted like crap. On top of this, these "crapsules" completely ruined my machine. A colleague had the same experience.
> they are all 501(c)(3) organizations which means that they are also overseen by the US Gov.

The US govt does not do significant oversight of 501(c)(3) organizations. They don't care at all about effectiveness.
Paid Time Off

Family Medical Leave Act

-- https://www.google.com/
TLDR: A soulless corp stops at nothing to tarnish the image of a world-class athlete and all around nice guy. When he gets tired of the fight, the corp declares victory.
I'm curious about that article about the relentless pursuit of evil, but for reasons that I don't understand, you linked to your blog's front page. Ctrl+f 'evil' didn't help. Could you maybe give us the actual URL(s)? I'm genuinely curious, because you're pushing a button that I didn't know I had.
I quick back of the envelope calculation seems to indicate the nespresso coffee cost 4-6 times as much per kg as good quality espresso beans, so assuming you keep your machine for a few years and drink coffee on a daily basis you'll more than make up that price difference.
Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged
I love this story. I hope I can get similar success from my experiences here.
High-tech historic racecars help build smarter cars for our future
I've already decided to steer well clear of Win8, going to buy a new laptop before its forced upon me and wait for the next release. This just confirms my decision.
For your standard 'php developer,' $20-40/hour.

For an actual programmer, doing something that requires more than WordPress + jQuery, $60-150/hour.

That's in a highly depressed economic market and not a city. In a big city (like NYC), you can probably charge 50-100% higher.
> There are plenty of papers out there showing monetary reward does not improve people's performance.

So?

You pay people to get them to work on what you want them to do.
How about not criticizing the article for what it's clearly not about? The title is misleading, but if you get past it and read the article, it becomes clear that the message is not "Google's sole initiative to retain women is to extend maternity leave", but rather "maternity leave is important and most employers are doing the wrong thing, kudos to Google for daring to do the right thing".
Selling Your Product May Be Harder Than Building It
I'm with you. knockout.js is a sharp tool that does one specific job very well. It lets me stop writing boring JavaScript, and focus on business logic.

Backbone just feels complicated by comparison.
but then you play it anyway, and it is actually Rick Astley at his finest.
Packeging Materials - Moving
At Global Self Storage, we try to provide movers with a single place to find every single thing needed for a successful move, and that's why we provide a complete catalogue of storage bins, packaging materials and all the supplies you'll need to get packed up.
Angular.js doesn't really solve the hard parts of writing web applications either. The hard part is structure. Not data binding. I don't need a framework to automatically update an <input> for me, input.value = val isn't costing me sleep at night.

What we need to make web applications easier are equivalents to things like UIPageViewController in iOS or Activities in Android. Real views that do real things. It seems that JS frameworks only give you the very top level base View class that does almost nothing.
Nice Twitter Security List
a useful list of security experts from around the world
Great advice! Building a basic search engine is pretty awesome and keeps you engaged. Really enjoyed it and now I'm taking as many courses as my time permits :D
Linux Has Lost the War for My Desktop
http://octane-benchmark.googlecode.com/svn/latest/index.html
Android Voice Recognition Tutorial
If you are going to get funded, chances are it happens one of two ways - fast, or very slow.

If it happens fast, it will be very fast - weeks to maybe two months on the outside. This usually means you have a couple of offers and are in high demand and/or are a high profile startup. Obviously the bigger your company and the more complex the deal is, the longer the legal legwork takes.

If it happens slow, it will be very slow - I've seen companies court a single VC for 4+ years before getting funded.
And if you're looking for reasonable fiscal decisions, Europe is definitely an A+ place to look.
If you have a device that supports tethering, you can do that today. Turn on tethering, plug in the device, and they'll get a mini-LAN running over the USB connection.

If you have a WiFi-only device, or a cell plan that doesn't allow tethering, then this won't work, sadly.
That's somewhat naive in my opinion. Reducing maternity leave would lead to women leaving work rather than not having babies. So citizens and companies lose ultimately.
0,2 or sometimes 7-8 weeks. Maternity leave is a combination of medical disability for late pregnancy and post-partum (should be covered by disability insurance) and family leave for a primary caregiver. There is absolutely no reason to enshrine sexism in the policy. Lay out a sex-blind policy, and accept if women tend to exercise it more than men, that's plenty of (acceptable) imbalance.
This happens within 2 seconds.

I'm sorry but statements like that freak me out a bit.

Do I get a warning when my instance is going to be migrated instead of resized, and an estimate of the downtime?

Because unless you found a way to defy physics you are pretty surely not migrating e.g. a 4GB Ram/40GB disk instance in anywhere close to 2 seconds.
It's interesting... On the one hand, I think it makes total sense, from a "treat your employees with respect and show them that you actually care about their welfare" perspective, to offer extended maternity leave and what-not. It's also probably good for retention and is probably a net win for the company (and therefore, the other employees) in the long run.

But you can also see the viewpoint of single / childless people who feel like they're being punished for being single / childless. Sorta like the way non-smokers sometimes feel like smokers get more "free breaks" by virtue of the fact that they smoke.

That said, once we get Fogbeam Labs to the point where we have paid employees and have to worry about issues like maternity/paternity leave, etc., I'd like to do the same thing Google is going (or better). The question I'm chewing on right now is, should we do something different for the childless people. Call it a "mental health break" or something.

Bear with me, I'm just thinking out loud here, but can we assume that childbirth is fairly infrequent, and that a given employee isn't likely to use maternity/paternity leave more than once every couple of years? If so, how about a policy for employees that you can take a "mental health break" (MHB) of n months, every y years, unless you've taken maternity/paternity leave in that time?

Of course, that opens the door to someone taking MHB and then show up pregnant a year and a half later, and wind up taking both...

Hmmm... like I said, just thinking out loud here. But it seems like there ought to be some way to construct a mechanism where the people without kids don't feel like "people who have kids get extra special treatment."
Blog post dates: Precision, or Freshness. What's important?
"Unbeknownst to Raskin, Jobs had his own reasons for visiting PARC: Xerox's venture capital arm had recently made an investment in Apple, and had agreed to show Apple what was going on in its lab."

I think this is kind of the point they make in Steve Jobs bio as well. Xerox allowed Apple to use some of the concepts in the lab because they were investors in the company. Also, if I recall correctly, Apple engineers went a little farther in the window metaphor, allowing, for example, to overlap and stack windows, something XEROX wasn't able or willing to do.
For the record, I think pies are awesome too. Now that I eat them so rarely, I think so even more.
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I meant 'search engine', that was a weird typo. Sometimes my fingers don't listen to my brain.
Throughout the history of journalism collateral damage has never been allowed to stand in the way of a good a story.
Don't thank Backbone. It merely uses some of patterns that desktop applications have been using for years.

If you really want to be a better programmer, I suggest you learn Cocoa, or other well written desktop framework.
I think that these views are going to happen, especially as the Angular-UI project moves forward. The documentation of Angular needs a lot of work, but the fundamentals are sound and I think we might have a framework that genuinely gets us building apps instead of struggling with jquery.
So this patent battle might be handy - without vendor lock-in to a single type of "pod" (even with many flavours of pod) you might be persuaded to buy a machine?
That gcc and a lot of the open source technology used by both OSs, is a win for the Open Source movement, and also may explain why performance is similar.

A lot of the linux and GNU software is hardly just developed by "teams of hackers" at this point. As someone who got sent to a RedHat class for a week ( migrating from hpux -> linux), I can attest Linux has large corporate support at this point. My former employer wouldn't have touched it if it wasn't supported.
Extreme performance is interesting. Should we even care about banned substances anymore?
Bayesian networks.

Linear programming - not because it is cool but because it is so useful.
Making a mobile app immortal
> remained stable for a full week at a temperature of
> 1,100 degrees Celsius

This statement is too ambiguous to me. Did it break down after a week, or did they just stop testing after a week?
Every civilized country has it better than USA in this regard. Every. single. one.
In many of them, the minimum mandatory maternity/paternity support that every sweatshop must (and does) provide is better than what google is offering now.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People
In what way is it interesting? Wouldn't we rather test substances on mice?
I got a job through one of the monthly job posting threads and getting the job has completely changed my life, however I interviewed and impressed and got the job myself. Without hacker news, I probably would never have heard about the job, but everything after that point was under my control and my own doing.
Engage core developers not the ivory tower bastards. If the core team is not helpful and you think you have a good idea, fork!

As well if you PRs are bug fixes then there is no excuse, if they are feature additions / changes then you might want to invest into a fork, do some cool work and then get noticed. Maybe they'll merge!

I haven't had any trouble getting my PRs accepted takes about a week to three weeks.
Well to be perfectly honest, extend 'more maternity leave' to 'more vacation time' and you'll have better retention of men as well.

Men and women, not all that different.
I quit caring about sports 15 years ago; unless it's something that you also participate in (and thus retaining a modicum of relevance), then the whole concept of being a fan is quite ridiculous. "My team/player is better than yours!" Who cares...
Depends how much money you have. Unless you have fluctuating scaling needs I would stick with a VPS or dedicated. You will get a lot more 'bang for your buck'. Just avoid companies like GoDaddy, Linode etc.

Have a look around:

http://webhostingtalk.com
Ethical Coffee's capsules are biodegradable. They already sell about 1/6th to 1/5th as many capsules as Nespresso.

http://www.ethicalcoffeecompany.com/en/capsule-biodegradable...
Another batch of screenshots revealed. Look at how easy it is to search and embed images and WebPage screenshots into your graphics and diagrams.
On the contrary, setting up a regime of specially-named functions is error-prone and clunky, and structures with function pointers are a language idiom in C, and, finally, if you're too new to the language to understand function pointers, you can't use either technique, because both rely on function pointers.

Ultimately, the real problem is that teaching bad designs to people because they're new to the language is counterproductive.
> "Be happy Bike to work"

You're not a Londoner, I see.
Well, I can't describe all the services you listed - we didn't even know all of them. We started by really focusing on websockets, not mobile cloud or mobile app backend, but I'm not denying there is similarity to other push services (hope they have tons of customers :)
More details here --> http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...

FTA "This essay was written by Bruce in 1996, and is reprinted here with his permission. Bruce was one of the main designers of the Macintosh software, and he worked at Xerox for years before that, so he's uniquely qualified to discuss their relationship."
Or you could think about it a different way. Maternity/paternity leave is a social service for a fellow (albeit new) citizen who is unable to care for itself--kind of like disability benefits. It's a way to level the playing field at the very beginning for this new little citizen, or it could be if the US offered a universal policy like Canada's.

Those children you are paying other people to have and raise? Just think of them as the future tax base for the Social Security benefits you will be collecting one day.
You seem to be really angry about this. I mean, shockingly so.

Your comment just really jumped out at me and caught me by surprise. So much so that I felt like it might be good for someone to point it out to you.

I'd like to prescribe an afternoon of UrT. Take about 45 minutes to frag the hell out of a Steve Jobs avatar and post back in the morning. :)
Backbone didn't make me a better programmer, dealing with it's bullshit has.
Actually an all-drug Olympics would be interesting!

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/update-all-drug...
Great opportunity for SF engineers, no a-holes
It would depend on the types of stress that the material is good at withstanding. As far as I know, an orbital tether / space elevator would mostly need to be resistant to tensile stress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_(mechanics)
Tambur.io looks great.

Another alternative if someone is looking for hosted SSL on a free plan would be Buddy http://www.buddy.com/pricing/, free for the first half million API calls with unlimited applications. Pretty steep at $250/mo for 500,001-10MM calls.
And on a related note, in Quebec, public child care centers are 7$ a day. Though it's not all perfect, those programs sparked a mini baby boom and as a result there are not enough places for everybody. But private child care centers are usually around 25$ a day.

"Many massive deficiencies" is overly dramatic.
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One factor many people forget was that Doug Engelbart did "The Mother of All Demos" back in 1968 to over 1000 computer professionals:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/12/dayint...

http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html

Far more primitive than Alto or the Mac, but the ideas were percolating out there. SRI's NLS/Augment system definitely inspired the work at PARC (which didn't open until at least a year after the demo).

Steve Jobs later said that the GUI overshadowed other innovations at PARC (ones which later drove a lot of the work done at NeXT).

"And they showed me really three things. But I was so blinded by the first one I didn't even really see the other two. One of the things they showed me was object orienting programming they showed me that but I didn't even see that. The other one they showed me was a networked computer system ... they had over a hundred Alto computers all networked using email etc., etc., I didn't even see that. I was so blinded by the first thing they showed me which was the graphical user interface. I thought it was the best thing I'd ever seen in my life. Now remember it was very flawed, what we saw was incomplete, they'd done a bunch of things wrong. But we didn't know that at the time but still though they had the germ of the idea was there and they'd done it very well and within you know ten minutes it was obvious to me that all computers would work like this some day."

Triumph of the Nerds transcript http://www.pbs.org/nerds/part3.html
Hurrah for a sensible patent suit outcome. But less hurrah as there'll be more terrible coffee capsules, which whilst they're a massive time saving convenience I've always found quite bland, I'm planning on shifting from a french press to an Aeropress soon just to try save a bit more time, but I've always found you get slightly more taste than the capsules.
Post added to our action wiki https://didthis.com/bikecommute Thanks for inspiring us to "redo" & spread this lifestyle meme!
If you really need to demand-load and demand-unload lots and lots and lots of plugins --- and that's the only design I can think of where dlclose matters, but maybe there are others --- fork a plugin host process from the main process, and kill it off when you're done with the plugins. You can use anonymous shared memory to communicate between the two processes (since there's a simple parent/child relationship).
This matches my experiences. I ride most mornings before work since I telecommute, but it's the same idea. The positive effect on my mood surprised me — it only takes a little bit of exercise!

As an aside, please be careful wearing headphones when you ride. There are plenty of flame wars over that (and helmets, and brakes) over in /r/bicycling.
The Benefits of Interactive Prototyping
For me, Hustler has always had a negative meaning, one I would hesitate to self label, or be proud if someone else gave me the label. I'm sure it was that way for the 'hacker' label for those on the outside looking in before hacker no longer had a negative association.

It's funny, "hustler" definitely has a couple of meanings in American pop culture that would have negative connotations for most people. To a lot of people, it means something sorta like "con man" or "pool shark" and the connotation involves conning people out of their money. To other people it's synonymous with "drug dealer" which has it's own connotations.

BUT... "hustle" also has a pretty positive association in other contexts. For example, being a fan of (American)football, you often hear players described as "having hustle" which basically means "good work ethic, doesn't loaf on plays, always gives full effort until the whistle, etc."

And now we're seeing this startup related use of the word hustler which, to me, basically means "entrepreneur with hustle" or "entrepreneur who has great work ethic, works his butt off to find a way to achieve his goals, has pigheaded determination, etc." This almost strikes me as combining a bit of the connotations of the "drug dealer" thing with the football player example. Not exactly, but you can see elements of both... Anyway, used in this context, I don't see the problem with "hustler."
Don't have kids, do you?:-) The first few months of having a kid is no vacation!
Growth like Path (part 2)
What about paternity leave?
Most of this is not true. At all.
This is misleading and confusing. Armstrong mentioned in his statement that (among other reasons) he quit fighting this because he believed the USADA doesn't have the authority to strip his titles.

Here is a snippet I picked up.

"The agency can impose a lifetime ban and recommend Armstrong be stripped of his titles. That would put the question in the hands of the International Cycling Union, which has disputed USADA’s authority to pursue the investigation and Tour de France officials, who have had a prickly relationship with Armstrong over the years."

So, I believe that it's not a given that Armstrong will lose his titles, but there's probably a much greater chance for that to happen than if the USADA had not been able to make this recommendation.