skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My answers are more general to your growth as a programmer and not as a means to an end for help to make that desktop app.

Google Code-in starts next https://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2012/index.html .

"The tasks are grouped into the following categories:

1. Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code
2. Documentation/Training: Tasks related to creating/editing documents and helping others learn more
3. Outreach/Research: Tasks related to community management, outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions
4. Quality Assurance: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality
5. User Interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction"

You could even win a trip to Google HQ in Mountain View.

I did the college version (Summer of Code) and it was a very rewarding experience. I think the code-in can put you in contact with some organizations that might want to mentor you. The Mozilla Foundation has a bunch of projects you can contribute patches and fixes to as well.

If you don't know it already, learn how to use git. I would also suggest the book Programming OpenSouce Software by Karl Fogel (just google for it, he offers it free online).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6499095.stm is one article on what happened to her. It was pretty awful.
This. Just break it down into many smaller steps and take 'em one at a time. Make sure you always have something to work on and are making progress, no matter how slow that progress may seem.
I'm not closing my blog, where I think I'll post more controversial stuff, as I've a controversial indole. Also I'm not sensible at all, the problem is, I'm realising that Twitter is becoming mostly low content replies. Among the trolling replies I got, a lot were from respectable developers, sometimes even of products somewhat related to Redis. If it's so low quality why should I stay in an environment where that's the level? I'm quitting based on quality, not as I'm offended or alike.
I have missed that bit, where did she write that?
39 is more than halfway from 13 to 100, on a reasonable logarithmic scale.
Teachly - A video-chat education experiment (Rails Rumble 12)
What comes down must have gone up!
There seems to be a very specific pattern where someone says a problem is not as bad as it's made out to be, and they are immediately jumped on as an enemy who is not "serious" about the issue by those wishing to position themselves as being "tough on X" for whatever reason. It doesn't seem to happen in the other direction much, ie there seems to be little negative consequence about getting too excited about a particular problem.

One sees this all the time:

- outrage about someone saying that, all things considered, paedophiles are not a particularly large risk to children

- outrage about someone saying that terrorists are not the huge threat they are made out to be

- outrage about someone saying we should consider a more nuanced, pragmatic approach to drug strategy

- outrage about someone saying that maybe the IT industry is not solely comprised of misogynistic psychopaths out to crush every woman under their boot at every chance

I really hate this pattern. Needless to say there is little nuance to any of the smears, it's all just claims of "terrorist sympathiser" or "he's just sexist too". Is there a name for it?
That sounds as if it was several people attacking her? I would have thought it was just a disturbed individual? Also how come "prominent bloggers" were hosting the attacks - presumably she means comments on blogs that were not removed in a timely manner?
I thought India also had demographic issues?

My money is on Brazil and Argentina.
Defamation laws are one of those laws that skirt on a thin-line of interfering with free speech rights (similar to hate crime laws).

It's also not simply offending language that equals defamation.

From wikipedia:

"Opinion is a defence recognized in nearly every jurisdiction. If the allegedly defamatory assertion is an expression of opinion rather than a statement of fact, defamation claims usually cannot be brought because opinions are inherently not falsifiable."

also

"In Common Law it is usually a requirement that this claim be false."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation#Defences
I guess my point was that if you really take a hardline free-speech view seriously, as in the (attributed) Voltaire quote, then "doxxing" people etc. also has to be defended, as long as there wasn't a crime committed to obtain the information—because the Gawker article is just more speech, after all. It's speech that can have a negative effect on a person, but then so were the original postings he was being criticized for. I do think both violate some kind of a right to privacy, but I'm not really comfortable with unilateral disarmament, so to speak. I would be interested in some kind of broader privacy norm, if something coherent could be defined.
I got approximately to the middle, but I'm still wondering if I should have tried the original instead of buying a german translation (it's my mother language). Maybe all the enjoyable parts got lost in translation? The part where I gave up was a chapter written with such a heavy dialect that reading each sentence started getting a chore.
He was silenced with thousands of page views on his blog. He was silenced with hundreds or thousands of tweets. He was silenced by making HN front page. Yeah "controversial" opinions are really in danger.
Here's a similar story, but about "What was the slowest you ever flew in the Blackbird?"

http://www.planeandpilotmag.com/speed-is-life.html
Gitiosk: selling code as easy as git push (Rails Rumble)
China: Beyond the conveyor belt
Welcome back to the same sycophantic groupthink that had cast computing as such a breath of fresh air back when you first learned to program. While the legacy middleman economy went to shit, tech matured into the hot new thing - surprise surprise, the ignorant mob has arrived (and no, they care not for Internet philosophy). We came looking for intellectual independence, they come looking for 'social'. Much easier said than done, but don't let the bastards grind you down.
Time for the EU to go back to the Microsoft piggybank. Ka-ching!
It is my belief that Ulysses is the one true novel.

All other novels are attempts to achieve what Joyce accomplished. A sort of Platonic Ideal.

My reasoning is the evidence, meaning the reason it is the one true novel is because I believe a novel is: the act of attempting to fully represent an individual's experience; If you disagree with my definition of novelisation, that's fine, but it is how I classify novels, and in so much Joyce achieves the nearest perfection of this through the novels seeming opaque or random nature.

One's experience is a cloud of infinite affects and effects that one could attempt to catalogue, but would fail miserably. Here is exactly what Joyce achieved. Through Ulysses' failures it achieves perfection. Like Dali's belief that all things are latent with hidden meanings, or how if you hate Warhol because you think his work is crap then you should recognise that you actually love his work because his message was to show you that all mass manufacture is simply the production of crap.

It is more than What?, it is Why?.

Finnegan's Wake is an even a better example of this belief in practice, but it throws out the rules which unjustly garners it ire.
Ulysses plays by the rules, that is grammar`dictionary`genre, and that is why I believe it is held in higher regard.

tl;dr : if you think Ulysses is difficult to read and incomprehensible, you are reading it correctly. Read it without guides, they dismantle the work's truth.
I understand your point, but I disagree. There is a marked difference between being told by a cashier that the MacBook is also free, and exploiting bad coupon code mechanics for free products. Primarily, the coupon code users knew that the code was broken (the door was unlocked) and proceded to abuse it.

From my understanding, the coupon recipients knew that the coupon was supposed to only be for a single $20 discount. The only shade of grey in this case (as far as I am aware) is that there may be a user who used the code and unwittingly received a discount applied to multiple products. I believe that the majority of people in this case knew that it was unethical (and possibly illegal) but rationalized it by saying that EA deserved it.
Money is not the only motivator. Constantly having to deal with politics is a de-motivator for people who want to focus on educating students.

When the market raises salaries, it is based on ability. When government does it and unions are involved, warm bodies are brought in. Friends and family, people who are political allies, people who kiss ass.

As with so many things, you can't look at an effect and treat it as though it were the cause. For example, productive people are more likely to own real estate. Giving everyone a house won't make them more productive.

Higher salaries are the result of competition for skilled workers and workers responding to the market. You don't get the same results by arbitrarily raising salaries.

The private sector will raise its salaries to keep its workers. And the public sector will get workers that want what the private sector will never give them: freedom from having to compete.
Consider that if a dozen people submit this story with the correct title but their submissions count as upvotes / duplicates to this first submission then the algorithm may automatically correct the title to the most common submission which is likely the actual article.
Hi fellow Simon,
I do link to the code on github, for anyone that wants to look at it in full. Here it is again: https://gist.github.com/3889013

That's a great tip! I love little optimizations like that, thanks for the input. :)
Don't be fooled. The Magazine isn't a magazine, it's a blog in an app.
This is why I drink Red Bull - seriously. Transcendent marketing.
The source code has a base SearchEngine class and a Result class, which streamline the input and output parameters across different web services, so it is not difficult to add new services (= subclass of SearchEngine). There are also some general developer docs: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern-dev
Too little article to describe all the social stuff on AirBnb and the article seems unfinished in fact.
As far as I know, AirBnB was originally more soical phenomena than any other booking site and that's why it wins them all.

There's a huge difference between the site that looks like some kind of lonely place without people and the one that looks like it's crowded with people you like and the AirBnb certainly looks like the 2nd type.

Saying all this, I have to admit that there are still some things to do in the social part but I guess Airbnb will eventually do it.
3rd party apps aren't allowed to sign dynamically-loaded code (which almost everyone agrees is a big security WIN, even if it sucks a little).

Saurik (creator of Cydia):

Apple can't turn on the ability to do executable, dynamically written to memory pages just for their library: they'd have to turn it on for the entire process, at which point you could also do crazy things like download native code and execute it, bypassing the entire concept of their "codesign" mechanism.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2338338

Jail breakers can enable Nitro for other apps (like Google Chrome) by using a utility called Nitrous.
Nice app ! Hope you win :)
Anyone smart enough to have an interesting opinion on this topic is probably also smart enough to see that there's absolutely no upside to expressing that opinion. It either parallels the mainstream (in which case it's redundant) or it differs in some way, in which case it invites a retaliatory shitstorm.

In a nutshell Salvatore said that he prefers to raise the level of abstraction (as programmers are wont to do) from focusing on how _female_ humans are treated unequally to focusing on how _all_ humans are treated unequally. At worst isn't this a disagreement on methodology rather than a disagreement on values?

What purpose has been served by turning this topic into a third rail?
A mix between Gumroad + Binpress. Your comments are welcome! ;-)

Would you use this? Is this something that you think could take off?

See a demo product page :
https://gitiosk.com/ryandotsmith/queue_classic
(from our first seller (fake project of course, no real payment, Stripe test mode.))
Microsoft continues to commit the corporate equivalent of a parole violation.

The EU cannot "go back" to the piggybank, given that Microsoft has still left its pre-existing obligations unfulfilled.
Jealous! You beat me to it.
> with no chance to correct your mistake

Your mistake will result in someone losing a point on a website. Sure, it would be better if you could fix that but it's not a big deal.

You can make truly catastrophic mistakes everyday driving a car or even pushing an update. On HN other users can easily rectify minor slip-ups like that.

A much worse mistake is upvoting crap. That is really damaging to the site.
Why Gen Y won’t buy what you’re selling
Sure, but I don't think that's relevant to the discussion. It's hard to quantify, but there is some set of those downloaders who at some point in the future would probably have bought one of the EA titles they received, so there is some actual lost revenue. I suppose that's their lesson for pushing bad code into production.

But it shouldn't matter. Real loss isn't necessary for it to be a unethical (or worse, a crime).
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I think it is unfair and invalid argumentation (which doesn't prove that her claims are untrue, but also imo doesn't help support them). The analogue is parents saying "you'll understand it when you are older". Either you trust your parents or you don't, but you can not verify that claim logically while you are young. Hence I find that kind of thing not useful for a debate. Traditionally I think those statements have only helped to make kids angry :-) You may say that parents were usually right, but I don't think so.

KS or anybody else are welcome to state their own experience, but arguing "I was like you before my eyes were opened" is creating a fake additional anecdote. Just because person A went from opinion/situation X to opinion Z, it doesn't imply that all people with opinion/situation X will eventually come around to opinion Z. That line of reasoning just dismisses a persons argument without giving arguments.

Sorry I can't describe it better - I guess it just goes against my sensibilities for "fair debate". Just my opinion, obviously.
I converted my resume to markdown a few weeks ago from Word; it was like a breath of fresh air. Something about changing the format allowed to realize how much fat I could cut out of my resume as well.
That's really cool! Can't stare at it for too long though, the colors are too bold for me. I like the amount of presets you have, I'm new to this game, it's very cool to see all these things.

I have a few ideas that I want to try and implement next week, hopefully to differentiate the game's everyone's been sharing.
Yesss! One of my favorite games as a kid. Glad this doodle led me to check out the comic strip as well - the artwork is amazing.
What I actually said was that I was wrong, and that "just because you don't perceive it doesn't mean it isn't there." That's not quite the same as saying "you were wrong."

And I also didn't say "because of things you cannot know." Yes, there WERE things that I -- and perhaps others -- cannot know, but I also had plenty of evidence I was ignoring because it didn't fit my personal experience. There were studies, stats, research, and yes -- an overwhelming number of personal anecdotes from too many credible women for me to have ignored the possibility for that long.

I still do not know how pervasive or deep the problems of sexism are -- this is not a domain I have studied. But I was wrong to have used my sole personal experience as evidence that there wasn't really a problem.
http://www.redbullstratos.com/assets/m/images/mission/launch...

No soda there.
Awesome project/website. The one thing I'm not terribly thrilled about is the infinite scroll--it's nice to have coherent page 1, page 2, etc so that you don't have to worry about scrolling down, clicking through a link, and then coming back to just the top page.
The Last Article That Needs to be Written About Sexism in IT by a Male
The point is, some types of free speech should be encouraged and some types discouraged. I think you should be allowed to flame people, but I'm not obligated to provide you a venue to do so, and I'd really rather you didn't.
This is going to be short but my advice is "Jump In".

As long as you keep at it you'll learn how to swim in larger and larger oceans.

You can ask questions on sites like StackOverflow or in IRC if you get stuck.
Interesting. I wonder what the theoretical maximum height/weight is achievable with current LTA materials. I was thinking that the LTA vehicle would act as a miniature space elevator, with a launch craft carrying the traditional rocket part of the way through the atmosphere, and then launching the rocket the rest of the way up and into orbit.
That is entering the realm of criminal negligence.

This is not a simple data breach, there is stuff in there covering fraud investigations, suicide attempt documentation. This has got to be the most wide-ranging privacy cock-up I have ever heard of

Plus if this was accessible from a kiosk I HIGHLY doubt they properly segment this information internally either

A large number of heads (Including those going up the chain, supervisors, auditors, privacy managers) should roll over this one.
Missing old Google Reader?
I converted my resume to markdown earlier this year, but I've just been using OS X's Print To PDF feature for conversion from HTML to PDF. How does the quality from Pandoc compare?
The irony is rich here. A blog post of 21 paragraphs and 1,302 words devoted to brevity?

I did him a favor of shortening it.

http://tldr.io/tldrs/507b5e078edaf0c942000faa

BTW - "I do not believe email is not a long form communication medium, and my rule of thumb is that an email should be no longer than three (or four) paragraphs. You might hate this stipulation."

I assume this is a typo?
Absolutely, I found it incredibly inspirational to read about those guys riding the bleeding edge of technology - inventing and adapting as they went along.

They basically built something from the future.
Don't forget to use the credit card number 4242424242424242 to try te buying process !
5. Would you happen to be referring to this report about positive sales in China?

http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2012/05/paging-...
Congratulations for the app. Looks like you put a lot of effort into it.

I would suggest create a great video of the app and put it on the website. You can use one of the After Effects template to create the video (http://bit.ly/TR33cL)
It will take you 5 hours to learn After Effects and make the video. Or you can hire someone to make the video. But its going to be really worth the effort.
>Anyone smart enough to have an interesting opinion on this topic is probably also smart enough to see that there's absolutely no upside to expressing that opinion.

That's my exact conclusion for pretty much every interesting/controversial topic. There's a very small circle of people (not necessarily friends by the way) with whom I exchange ideas on politics/religion/philosophy or anything potentially controversial. I know these people are smart and enjoy an educating conversation. To the rest of the world I just spew the usual boring conventional opinion when I'm forced to, or change the subject altogether when I'm allowed to..
One of the entrants in the first X Prize competition was going to try this: http://www.davinciproject.com/beta/Technical/TechnicalFlight...
"people who are trolling are probably incompetent women or sexually frustrated nerds"

You sound like you are trolling
Nathan Myhrvold patents DRM for 3D Printers
sorry - deleted my comment before i saw your reply. decided i didn't want to get into this mess.

for anyone wondering what the context was, the basic point was that it is extra information and so is useful.
Hint: you are saying that my thoughts need to be "adjusted".

Yes, he did ... so what? That's his opinion. Didn't you just write an entire blog post about how everyone should be entitled to their own views?

This whole thing is little more than hypocritical whining on your part. You wrote an offensively naïve opinion piece about problems you've never faced and now you're shocked — shocked! — that those whom you've offended have responded in-kind with their own opinions that now offend you?

Embracing free speech also means recognizing the right of others to respond to you.
The book was written by Pat Morin, a prof at Carleton University in Canada, because other texts were too expensive. It's used to teach a first undergraduate class in data structures. He's open to any additions. Just fork the github project linked on the site.
B & A are going to be good, but IMHO not as good as India. I see India at the #1 spot around 2050. More people - as a billion. More education, and people moving back from the US to share their experience. Democracy (improving), and a wariness of how leftist reforms seriously damaged their country in the past. If they can fix the bureaucracy, it's going to be quite hot. (and BTW I'm not indian, this is not some personal bias - I just see a lot of potential)
Agree, as real data point here: Indian entrepreneur, with graduate degree from a top US univ, with 6 years experience at a top valley behemoth, working on their core infrastructure. Now raised seed funding for so-far bootstrapped business from a top US VC firm. But due to visa issues, having to move most of the company operations overseas. As a founder, it sucks that there is no visa which I can get to run this startup! My H1 visa prohibits me from running a company where I have significant equity.
This is just a f*ing stupid immigration policy !
A fundamental duality of software engineering
It seems to me you drew analogies between her and you, from the initial state of "seeing no problem at all", and then you realizing that you simply didn't see it. That to me sounds as if you were implying that just like you, she simply doesn't see it and there she is wrong, analogous to the way you were wrong.

Also her article doesn't sound to me as if she claims that there is no problem, just that it is obviously not a problem for every woman.
> The blog post on sexism wasn't a "controversial opinion." The author wasn't bravely standing up to the mainstream.

So very much this. The author wasn't deviating from the mainstream, he was promoting mainstream, sexist points of view regarding women and work. That many people took offense to this and called him out on it is to be expected.
Facebook moves to keep phone numbers for two-factor protection private
I don't really have time to do this because I'm supposed to be working on a paper about, wait for it, power laws, but I went ahead and re-plotted the data using log-log axes. Sure enough, it's linear as would be expected for power law type behavior:

http://imgur.com/qdWxr

I suggest you start with http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/ranking/ranking.ht....
I'm starting to agree with Maddox that "Internet really needs to stop sucking Neil deGrasse Tyson's dick." [1]

The man is not without accomplishments, but it's getting to the point of complete over-saturation. Just enough already.

[1] http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=youre_not_a_nerd