skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest difference between Slashdot and Hacker News is that I find Slashdot to be much more accepting of humor. There is plenty of good discussion there, but there are also plenty of quality one liners and inside jokes, both of which seem to be lacking on hacker news. It's like two newspapers, but one has a comics section. That said, I think /. is an older crowd, and I got there late to the party, Hacker News is more my generation I suppose.
Yes, and it would be cool if the tablet could detect when I fall asleep so Netflix doesn't think I finished watching what was playing.
This is a good point. It's worth noting that much of that is boilerplate for bootstrapping and datastructures, and that further code additionals would result in a more reasonable size increase. This thread mentions some of the reasons: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/clojure/...
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French Central Bank password was 123456 (really)
If you log into a service, that service can inform arbitrary third parties that you've logged in. By requesting your photo from google it is doing so, but how would you stop this at the protocol level?
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People will naturally make assumptions based on prior experiences and statistics , essentially "optimising for the common case". In the same way that I would make an assumption that somebody from say Pakistan is more likely to be a muslim than christian.

This is simply how humans operate, probably because it has survival value and is more a function of evolution than prejudice.

It's not a difficult assumption to get past anyway, talking knowledgeably about something a recruiter would probably not know or even wearing a tech related T shirt would make people change their assumptions.

The only way to solve that particular problem properly would be to have more women in tech.

An actual barrier would be a company or a CS programme deliberately discriminating against women by not employing them. Now I'm sure this does happen in some cases and would be difficult to gather evidence of because any company admitting to this practice would be open to law suits. Another example would be of creating a workplace that was somehow misogynistic in some way, but I actually find that more common in other industries than in tech.

OTOH , many universities seem to actually discriminate in favour of women for CS, in some cases lowering entry requirements on giving a priority on placement. They still tend to end up with 80%+ men though.

One observation I have made about women who work as developers or in an engineering/science field is that the majority I have met have tended to be chinese. This makes me wonder if there is in fact a stigma attached to western women going into tech but I don't necessarily think this stigma comes from the inside.
Once the site you sign into has your identity, the protocol can't stop them announcing to the world that you have signed in. But it doesn't require the ID provider to know where you're signing in.

Also, are you sure it's not from gravatar? In my case, it's the same image as the google profile photo.
But why no help or advice from Tech Support and also not able to restore or do anything using iTunes.
Steve, I was just looking at Mutt this weekend. Thank you so much for this blog post. It will give me the push to just go and do it. Learn in the process too. How can one say no to that?
I personally like OpenID, especially in combination with GMail. But if this is easier for most users (and it seems to be) then I could be fan of it as well.

One thing that I don't see is what happens if I sign up as a user now (with my GMail address) and then GMail later starts providing their own service, instead of the fallback. Do I lose my account on all the services I signed into?
I have spent hours and hours configuring my `mutt`, `offlineimap`, `putmail.py`, but I have since grown disenchanted. In my experience, `offlineimap` is annoyingly prone to crashing without any indication. Thus, checking mail within `mutt` becomes unreliable. However, my favorite aspect of `mutt` has been and remains being able to send e-mails very quickly and easily through Terminal.

echo "Hello World!" | mutt -s "Test E-mail" -a "file.txt" whomever@wherever.com

Therefore, I now use `mutt` exclusively for sending mail and using Gmail.com for reading and searching mail.
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The word "news" shows up in that article 51 times (with 5 non-article occurrences on the page). Not sure if this bothered anyone else but it drove me nuts and I couldn't finish the article.
My wife and I do (with the phone) and I'm not really sure it's healthy. She'll stay up for hours playing short little time waster games, and I'll do the same on reddit (as a long-term non-game time waster). Then we're right back at it for 15-30 minutes in the morning. I can't say either of us actually benefit from the experience, and it definitely interrupts sleep and makes for hasty mornings.

Unfortunately I need my phone nearby in case something happens at work, and they have some of the most convenient alarms in the world on them. Not really sure how to attack this problem besides pure force of will. Any ideas?
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Certainly less likely to join (unless it made me want to get in and change things, which I hope is what women reading this will do). What that gets me is the criticism of her writing, which seems harsher and less constructive than the average on HN. The thing is that it isn't completely false, and the people who post it think we won't notice they're being mean, because there's some truth to what they're saying. But it's only bad writing if you raise the bar of what makes good writing much higher than it normally is for a blog post on HN.
Installing an existing web part - Introduction to MS SharePoint with .Net – 12
I can make it configurable for site owners and users but I'd rather find good keys that doesn't need to be changed. +/- are quite good .. maybe shift + arrow keys?
This is Tom. One day Tom realizes instead of siblings he's been having gadgets... Great work guys.
Just an idea, but you could look at catering to the non-English speaking crowd. Specifically, the Chinese love to travel in big groups and they will usually skimp as much as they can on accommodation, in order to splurge on gifts and souvenirs. A cursory search turned up only very few sites that offer international hotels group buying options, even though group buying is extremely popular in China. Obviously, it would take you some time to understand the Chinese and their needs, but I'm pretty sure it'd pay off in the long run.
I worked with Tali for this version. We cleaned up a lot of small errors, typos and improved readability. It's also since translated into Korean, German, Spanish, Japanese, Portugese, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
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Wait, what are you basing this generalization on? If it's purely based on numbers, I've worked with more female programmers than african americans. If the allegation is that the software industry is sexist purely because women don't participate, then the software industry must be even more racist.
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Integrating CasperJS with Rails and Rake
Former Navy aircraft-carrier nuclear engineering officer here. The basic point --- that a carrier might be able to refine its own jet fuel --- is certainly valid. But so that future readers don't get the wrong idea: Any time a carrier is at sea, it does a lot of flight ops just about every day, whether for actual missions, for war games, or just refresher training. That in turn means most of the crew is hustling, usually 12 to 14 hours a day minimum, and sometimes 'round the clock. Maintenance has to be done in the gaps. When we were at sea, it was rare to get six hours of uninterrupted sleep in a night. Somehow I doubt that has changed.
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It is distracting how your comment has framed discussion as, "this is ugly or unoptimized for the target audience because x." What I was hoping to read here is a discussion about how this library improves (or falls short of improving) upon attempts made to build open libraries to talk to iDevices in the past.

There is a place for aesthetic critique. I would rather see this project focus on the cool work they are clearly doing, and forget about the margins.
Can anyone recommend some good cypherpunk books, aside from Stephenson? Preferably fiction that communicates ideas revolving around anonymity, crypto, privacy?

I've been trying to read Cryptonomicon, but get turned off by the "hipstery" (for lack of a better word) informal writing style and can't get into it.
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Saudi Arabia removes women from the 2012 IKEA catalog
Yes when they first put in the Javascript it was a pain, of course NoScript fixed that.

Reddit was, is, and looks like it always will be, a mess. Even when Slashdot first put in the Javascript in place you could at least still find things on the site.
That sounds really interesting. How hard do you think it would be to automate that kind of analysis of newspapers and such? Would love to hear what you think. Email's in my profile.
Try:

inoremap jj <Esc>

In insert mode you just press j twice and you get out of insert mode. This is my favorite key remap in vim.

You can put that in your .vimrc file or just try it out from the command bar.
I will make a product to limit your reading. What would you pay for such a service?
I've only ever lurked on slashdot for many years. For me it's gotten too much political/legal and mega-corporation love/hate content.

HN is very new to me, but I like the content since it's mostly technical and without much if any religious argument over various platforms, languages, and technologies.

If I had to call out HN on something it's the somewhat naive "startup" vibe I get. There are many shades of success in business between cratering and being the next Facebook and they're the most likely place we all end up.
It depends on whether you believe women are trying to enter the tech field and are being scared away, or whether they are not interested in the first place.

I would suggest it is mainly the latter, look at any IT/CS type course at a college and you will see mainly men and these are people who haven't even entered the field yet to get a chance to be scared off.

The point regards passion is an interesting one, I imagine that there are a fair number of people here who got an interest in tech at an early age long before they had to worry about starting a career.

The question for these people would be, if you were at that age and were instead a born a woman but had the same interests would there have likely been anything that would hold them back? If so what would it most likely have been?
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TypeScript: a language for application-scale JavaScript development
TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development.
TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
Any browser. Any host. Any OS. Open Source.
From Microsoft.
may i suggest mu http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/ for indexing?

i use it with these macros

macro index <F8> "<shell-escape>mu find --clearlinks --format=links --linksdir=~/Mail/search " \
"mu find"

macro index <F9> "<change-folder-readonly>~/Mail/search<return>" \
"mu find results"
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Heisenberg uncertainty principal.
Yes, many of us are.
Another +1 for non-iPad application. Kids love sharing information, but even young reading kids can't type well.

I'd see as much value in HTML5 in-browser app as in Android tablet app.
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Microsoft Introduces CoffeeScript...uh I mean TypeScript
IOS 6 Maps Breaks Facebook Check-in
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There are no laws against downloading copyrighted protected movies/music that I know of in the United Sates. Indeed, I do so daily from dozens of sites, usually paying, sometimes not - I trust the publisher to verify whether they are authorized to sell/give me those files.
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it implements the way itunes communicates with idevices in an "open" fashion
It's possible, but you can also end up with monstrosities like GWT in the end. The best bet is to implement some Actor-like layer like https://github.com/Gozala/actor upon which the "ErlangScript" depends.

Oh wait, JS compile to Erlang? Wouldn't it make sense to do it the other way around?
This is a great post about a very finely tuned Mutt setup. I always enjoy reading about high customized environments. I am someone who would love to use Mutt but I get so much HTML only email it's sadly impossible for me to do so. (Newsletters and misc friends who think large HTML footers are cool.)
Worse than that, offlineimap can be plain destructive in the right circumstances. I've had it arbitrarily delete thousands of messages due to the local cache being in a strange state.
If it only had just been ugly or unoptimized I would have agreed. Currently it is pretty much unreadable unless you use firebug to edit the CSS.
Dear nineties, please bring my Internet back, the Internet politicians didn't even care about.
If you think that is bad, how about this:

"For the Minuteman ICBM force, the US Air Force's Strategic Air Command worried that in times of need the codes would not be available, so they quietly decided to set them to 00000000. The missile launch checklists included an item confirming this combination until 1977"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link
I advocate remapping jj to escape.

Put this in your .vimrc or just try it out from the command bar:

inoremap jj <Esc>
The Agile Classroom
it looks really slick but damn did you pick a difficult market. anyway, godspeed - i hope at least you got your friends to use it.
What are the advantages of using gmail as your server rather than, say, installing your own postfix server on some linode?