skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These kinds of technologies have been tried before (and largely abandoned.) The real problem in long term data storage is figuring out how to interpret decades old binary formats for which the software no longer exists. It doesn't matter if you have a thousand perfect PDFs if Adobe has been out of business for a hundred years.

The other issue with long term data storage is that the whole advantage of using digital technologies in the first place is that data is easy to copy. Using specialty technologies like this totally nullifies that advantage.

If your goal is simply long-term data storage/archival, you'd do better to just use durable and popular media of the day, to maintain an index of your collection, and to upgrade/migrate your media and file formats regularly to keep up with the times. If you're going for really long term storage, such that might go multiple human lifespans without being needed or needing maintenance, you might as well just skip the digital to begin with.
She had a tantrum in private, which is the correct place to throw a fit. After you've calmed down, then you can do something about the problem, which she's doing.
You can't see why a woman would want to be paid quite handsomely to do work that is mentally challenging, not physically arduous, and -- in many cases -- can have a positive societal effect?

So... why do -you- want to work in IT?
Upvoted.

It's worse than just females in tech, it's OMG men and women are different! Eeek!

I kinda like the difference myself. Not because I don't want women in tech, but because women should be able to pursue whatever they want that makes sense when you consider their differences from men.

I assume this makes me a bad person.
Lean Domain Search Launches New Business Name Generator
Where's the spoiler alert? Psh. No need to watch LOTR now... :)
Project creator here! If anyone has any questions then please fire away. This blog post may also shed some light on a few things: http://csswizardry.com/2012/09/inuit-css-v4-oocss-sass-and-m...

Cheers,
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Except for our beloved Green Line. The oldest subway in the country doesn't even know where it is--so it can't tell us.
Cue is hiring engineers in San Francisco.

Generalist: work on problems like "how to match a calendar entry to related email", or "extract all addresses, relative dates, signatures, and more from an email in under 1ms", or "scale a document analysis and indexing pipeline to handle billions of documents"

Mobile: iOS or Android or both. Work on problems like "create custom ui", "prioritize network requests in varying network conditions", or "design an efficient format for information retrieval on mobile devices"

We're a tight knit team - we work hard but always find time to duke it out in Smash Brothers Brawl or ping pong after lunch.

E-mail us at jobs+hn@cueup.com or try out our programming challenge at http://challenge.cueup.com.
> don't want my e-mail address, password and website usage statistics transferred to Mozilla's servers in the US

Isn't the whole point of Persona that... it's not? Or it doesn't have to at least? In fact, two of the main motivations of Persona are 1. decentralized identity provider (so you don't have to rely on Mozilla) and 2. that the identity provider should not know which websites you're using (so whoever you're relying on doesn't have to know you're looking at cat pictures)
The Lean Startup for the third time in a row. :)
The new algorithm is designed to target low-quality EMDs. HN readers are less likely to know the term "EMD," so I went primarily for an explanation and chose the example to help convey the connotation of low-quality.
I'm actually reading academic papers from ssrn.com about platforms, shorter than most books and usually just as much information/learning and often times more.

For fiction I'm reading stuff my friends write; currently The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There and David Drake's Hammers Slammers omnibus volumes.
San Francisco, full time

Soldsie - Full stack rails engineer

We have a small team working on a new form of social commerce that actually works for our customers. We're growing fast, and looking for someone to take over the tech lead position. We have three engineers including me (co-founder) and work in a great space out of the mission.

Our app runs on rails on heroku with Postgres and Redis, and we are looking to do some interesting machine learning. The front end is a multi-page app with jquery and backbone.

You will be making technical platform decisions, leading the engineering team, and working with me on product decisions, including talking directly to customers and working with the sales and marketing people on what we think is possible. We move pretty fast, and try to make decisions that will be good in the long term. Plus, it's a pretty fun group of people.

If you're interested, just email me personally at arrel at soldsie.com.
Just as a side note, this is not a 'learn Scala' class. This is learning functional programming using Scala as the functional language. So, you won't get a lot of info on how Scala's complex type system works. But, this would be a great class if you are not familiar with functional languages (or what functional means). The functional aspect is very easily transferrable to other functional languages as the application is very close in all other functional languages (just as imperative OO language semantics such Java, C#, Ruby, Scala etc. are easily transferred).
If you look starting 6 days ago, this story has been submitted 5 previous times.
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It depends on the style really. It's one thing to say: "We've improved on what's already available, solved problems A, B, C and can demonstrate how. Previous solutions were lacking, but we're giving you something new now".

It's another one to go from: "This just doesn't work" to "This is the first solution that works. Because we've done it this time and we're that good." I know they don't have to respect their competition... and it probably doesn't matter for them what people like me think. But that doesn't mean we can't disagree with the way they're phrasing their announcement (especially when it's incorrect - there were many shared solutions before theirs)
It really comes across that way at first. My first reaction was to close the tab at the "throw my water bottle" statement, but after reading the comments here, I read on and saw the author had more to say than just "someone move my bathroom." It's just poorly written, that's all.
How browsers should connect to web servers
Ok, interesting enough article, but could we cut back just a tad on the attention seeking headlines?
Tons of iPhones deactivated, is this a sneaky way to force us buy an iPhone 5?
Very true. If you add the words twitter, peak performance, and about 500 words - that thought could be published.
Remember, Oracle is the master at trying to charge everyone the most that they will bear. If Oracle is managing your database, I guarantee that they will use the data they collect in doing so to attempt to figure out how much they can charge you. I would not touch this offer with a 10' pole.
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Can you give an example? Thanks!
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Working for Khan Academy is one of the highest educational impact positions you can imagine, and we've been called by Wired one of the best places to work in Silicon Valley: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4157078.

We're hiring designers and all types of devs -- mobile, frontend, backend, whatever you want to call yourself. Big plans ahead.

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She isn't upset by the fact that the ladies room was relabeled as a mens room, she was frustrated by the fact that she didn't find as many female peers at the conference. She felt encouraged around other women to discuss technology and wants to encourage other women to become excited about the field.

I have some insight into this. I'm engaged to a mechanical engineer who works in a largely male dominated industry. To this point, I've never heard her discuss another female engineer at her company. We've discussed the issues of women in engineering and how interesting the dynamics are for a woman and I can agree that it would be an enjoyable ideal if there were more women in her field. At the same time, she wants nothing to do with women in her field that are simply there to prove that women can do the same jobs as men. I have to agree with her on this point. Every time I see ads for computer schools encouraging people with no experience to get a degree and flood the market, I shake my head. Why should I want someone with no passion, who simply wants a job, to enter my market and drive down the price of labor?

So, I understand where the author is coming from here. She enjoys the company of her sex and would like to have a larger network of her peers be female. I have no problem with that. I would say, though, to be careful about what you wish for. You want women who are passionate to join the workforce, not just any old gal.
Relocate the downvote button to the right
Currently the downvote icon is directly below the upvote icon. This gives a small margin for error and I have noticed a few times were people have accidently downvoted an artcle due to this.

Instead of the layout we have now ( A= Upvote icon and V= downvote icon):

A Name n minutes/hours ago | link

V

I propose that a layout such as this:

A Name n minutes/hours ago | link V

At least to me it would make more sence from a usibility regard to avoiding misclicking and more useful for those upon smaller screen sizes as well.

What are peoples thoughts upon this suggestion?
Flightfox is a good idea (though I'll admit I'm unconvinced computers cannot reliably beat the crowd), but it needs work on implementation.

I tried it out and the winner quoted me an incorrect itinerary cost -- didn't notice that the airline's quoted price did not include airline fees and taxes (which are in the hundreds of $$ for international flights). In the end, the true winner beat skyscanner by less than the cost of the contest.

Honestly, I find skyscanner amazing; it is the only system I know that finds airline consolidators (well flightfox does of course too) - and has a very easy to use tweaking interface.
Thanks for you feedback. An affiliate partnership would certainly be interesting. How would you go about setting this up? Would you use something like Commission Junction?

One area we are exploring is in relation to partnering with other travel-related services. A selling point for us is that regardless of whether a group accepts a hotel's deal or not, we know that this group will more than likely be in a certain town on a certain date.

So, when a group registers on the site, we can have an opt-in email option. Travel-related services in the locality then have a chance to advertise to this group via an email sent to the group prior to arrival. "10% discount on golf for your group this weekend in X Golf Club". Things like that.

We're trying to tease out a few different revenue models, so thanks for your suggestions.
Hey guys,

I launched Lean Domain Search on HackerNews earlier this year [1] and a lot of folks have found it extremely helpful for finding names for their startups. This new tool is geared towards helping offline businesses find a professional business name that also has an available exact-match .com domain name (that way they don't have to pay thousands to procure it after they settle on a name). The tool is behind a paywall, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on the concept, the landing page, and the pricing page.

Thanks!

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3470977
I don't want to get more women into programming. I want to end the endemic and prolific discrimination against women in programming. The lack is a symptom.

I also find it very weird that an entire industry went from being female dominated to male dominated and everyone defends it saying "it's always been this way! Equality isn't about enforcing even ratios!"

Well no, it's not, but when you have these situations, where the number of people who could do something is vastly different to those that stick it out as a career, and those that do talk about systematic intolerance and abuse, there is a problem there.
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No need, you can find great seedboxes in Europe that do everything you need. My personal favorite is FeralHosting[0].

0: https://www.feralhosting.com/pricing
The nexus 7 is scarcely a 1.0 device (and I had an iPad on release day and it worked fine on iOS 3.x). My kindle fire, with its many flaws has never seized up this way.
At first I thought she was complaining about the fact they took away the girl's bathroom... But I think the article evolved into a critic of the lack of women in the field in general - saying it's Not OK that so few women are in the industry...

She probably could have been more clear of what she was not okay with. But a decline in women in the tech field is a deep and complicated topic, and the solutions weren't probed in this article. This article was more of how things are today - and we all already know that there's an extremely small percentage of women in the field. What would have been more provoking of an article would have been discussions of the root causes and reasons of why there are so few women in the industry, and why their career paths tend to differ than their male counterparts. Contributions to this topic by someone like her would be enlightening for sure.
IT might beat ditch digging or hauling garbage (or not, I think those are both honest work), but how does it compare to other avenues, such as business or medicine?
There is a huge stereotype that tech is for men. There is a ton of misogyny in the tech sector. The hope is that by bringing women into the tech sector this stereotype ceases to exist. This is important because there are women out there that get interested in tech but society pushes them away because it's not feminine. There is a ton of wasted potential out there.
Glad you like Maily! We're planning to develop an android version in the coming months.
Everyone who rushed in here to say "calm down, dear" in a patronisingly male tone of voice, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.

Stop being sexist.
Thanks for the suggestions, I like the idea of a perceived discount offer, that's something we'll look into implementing.
If you mean physical orientation, then well, I just lay it in a way that it's supported by pillow or bed wall to keep it vertical.

Also, I like sleeping with my tablet because I don't have to get up from bed to turn it on and check e-mail & HN ;).
How I Avoid Thumb Pain From Too Much Coding
Whilst my outline above does not fully capture how close the up and down arrows are for up and down voting this comment will at least serve as a reminder that only a few pixels seperate you from a misclick.
Upvoted as well.
I see more and more of these complaints lately and it just feels that people complain just for the sake of complaining. Perhaps for the rest of the women (me being a woman in tech) programming and tech just isn't interesting enough to pursue it? That could just be one of the reasons - like i have no interest in nursing, thus i am not pursuing that as a career. Stop looking for reasons for complaining and go and pursue stuff you love.
You can take a 4 hour ride in Paris for 2$.
One day ticket is 1,70 €, first 30 minutes are free, you have to pay if your trip is more than 30 minutes or you can just take another bike for free, that will reset the countdown. Not really handy but most trips are < 30 minutes.
By the way the annual fee for unlimited 30 minutes rides is only 29 €
Source : velib user here.
Because there are plenty of jobs that are mentally challenging and physically arduous that can have a positive societal effect, but come without all the jerks you get in IT.

Who said I wanted to work at all...
That's not a bad suggestion. However, it still doesn't overly help with conversions. If groups are coming onto our site for quotes and then going off directly to finalize the booking. We need to start increasing our conversion rate and thus increase the revenue we do generate through the site. However, a flat fee is not a bad idea as it does remove the issue of fluctuating numbers.
Nah, I sleep with the Nexus 7. Better battery life, for one, and it doesn't feel like a wet dog nose (cold aluminum) poking me in the chest.
This article does not mention CIR. When you factor-in CIR the French tax environment becomes extremely favorable for entrepreneurs, at least those who hire developers.
Conditional CSS - an alternative
> Just because we strive for gender equality doesn't mean every job has to have exactly the same gender ratios.

Actually for pretty much any job not based on manual labour it does mean that. And even then it's mostly because we don't have enough robots.
I had a similar experience when I (a gent) took my grown daughter to a NKOTB reunion concert as a nostalgia trip. The audience was at least 95% female, and the arena restrooms were re-purposed accordingly. I asked an usher and he told me it was common practice to adapt to the gender mix of the audience. I observed many groups of women noting this reallocation with loud triumphant braying laughter. I doubt the Strange Loop men had a triumphal reaction to the bathroom allotment.
The point isn't to have exact same gender ratios in the tech industry.

There are women out there who would make great programmers / sysadmins / etc, but never finish the process of becoming one, are dissuaded from ever starting, or flat-out quit the industry after N number of years, simply because of the barriers put in place by men assuming that the field is only for men.
This is really bad for your[0], but unfortunately a lot of people don't realize that. The health benefits of putting away your gadgets at least an hour before sleeping are huge.

0: http://lifehacker.com/5778483/screen-reading-before-bed-stil...
'Some random guy complaining about people trying to do something.'

You have just written my epitaph.

In all seriousness, you're right. I should write more contributory posts in the future. I wrote that in a foul mood this morning and should've left it in the text editor.
Not really, the anecdote was described poorly and the exit to her main point messy.

I am also slightly bored of people finding things they wish to change and then simply publicising the observation. I was actually hoping that somewhere near the bottom she would offer some insight and/or offer solutions. It might be "Not OK" - but please take a few extra steps and suggest what you think could be done?
I definitely agree with your view that there aren't enough women in the field, but starting an article, where most of your readers are going to be men, by saying you threw a temper tantrum because a venue swapped the bathrooms to benefit men is inviting readers to disagree with you before you even started making your point.

I read the first part and immediately thought how immature you were, then I read more, and being more open-minded I read over your point, swallowed my previous thought and agree. Not everyone will do that.

I agree we need more women representation, I disagree with the manner the article was written.
My String[] really is substitutable for an interface{}[] within the context of a function that doesn't modify it, but there seems no way to express this.

Not really. The underlying representation is different, an interface is a pointer to a type and a pointer to a value. A string is a pointer to the character data and a length.

It'd get even more difficult with other data types, since an interface is two machine words, and other data types can be anything. Since a slice is backed by an array, there would be no way to do reliable indexing.

I do see your point: a slice could hold the type of its elements and then you'd have to prove that no other types are stored in the slice. But that's not really simple either.

A more consistent solution would be to store 'interface values' as pointers (rather than a pair of pointers). Then you could use a slice of pointers as a slice of interface{} (or any other interface the pointed-to type supports).
In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 seconds
I definitely agree with your view that there aren't enough women in the field, but starting an article, where most of your readers are going to be men, by saying you threw a temper tantrum because a venue swapped the bathrooms to benefit men is inviting readers to disagree with you before you even started making your point.

I read the first part and immediately thought how immature you were, then I read more, and being more open-minded I read over your point, swallowed my previous thought and agreed. Not everyone will do that.

I agree we need more women representation, I disagree with the manner the article was written.
Let's compare this to golf, circa 1965. Caving to pressure, a local club opens its memberships to Blacks. One or two tokens with strong business relationships to Whites join, but where are all the other Black businesspeople and professionals?

A liberal White member sighs, "I don't understand why the Black people don't want to relax in our luxurious club, play a round on our excellent course, and eat our sumptuous dining fare. What is the problem?" Meanwhile, the Blacks are thinking, "Who needs to join the club and have all these racist assholes resenting the fact that we're in their club and tiptoeing around us in case the N-word slips out in our presence. How fucking uncomfortable."

p.s. Did I say 1965? What's the deal with Agusta National and Blacks and/or Women?
Ah indeed I read more in your comment than you actually wrote.

Regarding free samples, it's a good point that I overlooked. According to reference [3] above, free samples account for 28% of marketing expenditures. The remaining 72% still represent 18% of revenues spent on pure marketing. So even if all free samples were used by doctors to help the poorer patients, there is arguably more money spent on marketing than R&D.