skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Network Solutions tries to explain-away the problem, asks for NDR's. Users post a flurry of NDR's, NS support requests that users stop posting them. NS appears to be clueless.
I don't know, but considering the transition would happen within 2 years, I can see how they wouldn't want people to find out 2 years earlier about it.
Viggle made $0 in 2011, and according to latest filing only made $1.7M in revenue and costs of $5.6M.

I'm with Gertig. GetGlue is a better brand, and they're merging with an entity that is completely unproven and practically unknown.
Ask HN: Why isnt Scheme popular in production environments?
We are talking about what was characterised by some (Douglas Crockford comes to mind) as the best language ever designed. Given the rising popularity of functional languages, what can we learn from the experience of Scheme? Would love to hear your thoughts.
Yes, if proven they would cease to be sexist, because they'd be discriminating based on facts, not based on his apparent prejudice. (However, since the conjecture does seem to come from a combination of sexism/ageism/confirmation bias, it would be surprising if they were proved.)

BTW: Are you proud not to be in the politically correct "lot"? All it really amounts to is trying not to be unnecessarily hateful or demeaning to one another.
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>>I'll repeat that even though I think we all know this

>>already: if you don't want to use Metro apps, you don't

>>have to use Metro apps. It is really that simple.

>>...then click on the "Desktop" tile...

I'm sorry, clearly you don't see it this way but the irony of the above is just... Well... My ghast is flabbered.
Bummed to see that the financial achievements were noted before the technical ones (and that the true technical achievements were relegated to a single bullet point).

This is hard to do at scale:
"* Achieved breakthrough innovations, including High-K/Metal gate and now 3-D Tri-gate transistors; and dramatic improvement in energy efficiency of Intel processors"
Real-World Windows 8 Apps in JavaScript
With C you are close to the hardware and you don't need as large of a mental model to understand what is going on. It really depends on what kind of problem you are attacking and what level of abstraction you need.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesignTeam
Campaign to save the incandescent light bulb
Are you kidding me? A "Show HN" to an imgur link of a photoshopped UI? Be honest, this is thinly (poorly) veiled ad for New Relic.
Wow, really love it, nice simple, functional design.
Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation
This argument will carry a lot more weight when there is a successful company (say, Instagram-successful) build and run by remote collaboration.
Any chance of adding Common Lisp?
I share the sentiments of one of the commenters, iain barnett, which is probably going to be at odds with most people reading this (and as such, I'll get pointlessly downvoted). An excellent quote from him that I think sums up this entire mess:

> If you choose not to do something because the group you'd be joining are different to you, then I'd say you're the one with the problem regarding race or gender or whatever.

That tweet about one of the women not wanting to be the token one or whatever...what a load of crap. That's her personal problem if she THINKS she's going to be perceived that way, not the organization's. Has it ever crossed anyone's mind that perhaps those original 15 speakers had the best and most fitting presentations...and maybe that is why it was coincidentally all white males? It really is quite pathetic that all it takes is one wannabe righteous whistle-blower to say something about race and an event can be derailed...in this case, completely.
Thanks for linking this. I'd only glanced at refinements so far... reading these comments and example code makes my head hurt. I wouldn't have thought "solving" monkey-patching with something even more convoluted and confusing was even possible. My favorite code example is from tenderlove:

class Foo < SomeParent
def baz(str)
cached = str.camelize
ary.map {|name| cached + name}
end
end

Could have a completely different meaning than this code:

class Foo < SomeParent
def baz(str)
ary.map {|name| str.camelize + name}
end
end

/lights hair on fire
It seems fine at the moment, just a (crappy) landing page. Still, I would never open an email from such domain.
And the patent has already expired:

Patent number 5,345,551 was filed on November 9, 1992. That makes it a 17 years from issue date patent.

It issued on September 6, 1994. September 6, 1994 + 17 years is September 6, 2011. The patent expired over one year ago. It is dead, one can no longer by sued for doing anything it claims.
37signals doesn't count as a successful company?
One of @joshsusser's comments:

"@BritRuby I don't think adding diversity at the end works. You have to start with it as one of your goals. Who wants to be the token female?"

This seems to contradict itself - if you're explicitly aiming to have a certain representation of all people, unless there's some bizarre statistical anomaly, there will be token people. Which is wrong for both the token speakers and those who missed out.

JSConf EU handled this very well and managed to get 25% female speakers - pick the best talk, but pick them blind. This stops both implicit bias towards 'people like me' AND token selections of 'people not like me'.
Yep: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/10/2/an-epic-tripadviso...
The U.S. currently has better coverage than Europe. Only a handful of carriers are offering wifi in Europe. KLM, Air France are experimenting. Norwegian offers wifi. Lufthansa offers wifi on transatlantic flights. The reason for this is Gogo, who is providing nearly all the wifi in the U.S. Gogo has made wifi relatively easy for U.S. carriers to adopt. There is nothing yet equivalent to Gogo in Europe.

Separately, Gogo is expanding its in-flight bandwidth. I'm looking forward to that. http://thebat-sf.com/2012/11/13/gogo-to-upgrade-inflight-wi-...
C++11 introduces new problems. Programmers are expected to know how a lexical closure should capture variables from the enclosing scope -- should it be by reference, or by value? Programmers are also expected to know that when they capture by reference, sometimes they are really supposed to capture by value but with smart pointers (and of course, they are expected to know which kind of smart pointer they need). Instead of fixing the double exception fault, C++11 just punts on the issue and says that no exceptions are ever allowed to propagate out of a destructor (which is another way of saying, "destructors must never signal errors, even for things that are correctable like running out of disk space).

That Microsoft would recommend JavaScript or C++ is unsurprising, considering how much business those languages have generated for them and how many programmers who support the Windows ecosystem are only comfortable in one of those two languages.
Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views A Month
This is an original title. I will take shitty idiom over censorship and prudery any time.
I'd pay in a tune of $100 for an installable version of this, but would never consider using it as a service.

PS. Though you could probably license it to smaller, well-established email service providers like pobox.com.
Sinofsky was fired by Ballmer, to clear the way for faster progress in mobile
Can I ask why the `gyp` build tool?
Again, your 'second definition' isn't diametrically opposed to the first, it includes the first. Defining 'racist actions' presupposes a definition race and in turn racism that you can't just toss aside. Defining racism as a systemic disadvantaging of certain races takes as a given the definition of racism as -- you guessed it -- the dividing of people into races and ascribing them characteristics en masse.
Seems that there was, at most, a (somewhat snarky) suggestion that the diversity of the conference could be improved.

You can agree with that or not. The fact that someone voicing concerns caused the whole thing to be called off indicates this is still an issue people are mostly not equipped to discuss.
Minority shareholders have rights, and Elon has a fiduciary duty to act in their interests.
I see what you're getting at, but some of your examples don't help your case.

Whenever someone refers to something being "obvious" it can always boil down to a philosophical question of what obvious actually means. Nothing is truly obvious, and we've obviously conditioned from our surroundings. While we've obviously adopted conventions to interact with computers, they've offered affordances (or forced us) that hint at a function.

Gestures in general offer a challenge from a human factors perspective. Gestures can be very convenient and compelling sources of interaction that can enhance UX. Unfortunately, users are working in flatland, with very little affordances. The biggest problem here and with gestural interfaces in general is the lack of hints they give to an interaction. A physical button has a clear affordance (you can argue this is conditioned/learned) baked into the interface. There are also many issues related to the lack of universal gestures within and across applications and operating systems.

In a lot of cases, Gestures are like keyboard shortcuts. Many people discover them because they are told about them (ie. CTRL+C in the copy interface), but physically trying many different keyboard combinations just isn't something people do.

Apple has recognized the problem with gestures while pushing hard to make them standard. They still keep the home button on the iPad, even with system wide gestures that can accomplish the same thing. Overall, I agree with your sentiment that particular interactions join the ranks of some ubiquitious interactions you noted, but it will take more than a few months of use from one particular operating system and there are many challenges, no matter how convenient it is.
I'll fix that wording in the pricing table, thanks.

If you really think an @cheergram email is better I'll do it
Have you seen office365.com? $6 a month per user for cloud Exchange, web e-mail, full Outlook integration if you want, plus online storage, view and editing of Word, Excel & Powerpoint. It's a lot to compete with for $6 a month.
> Silva opened by asking how rare it was these days to see companies created which were worth more than $50bn, and yet Musk himself had helped to create at least four so far.

Really? Can anyone provide me with a list of these companies?
Lessons Learned: Bringing Lean Startup to Life at GE
RabbitMQ 3.0 Released
Concurrency Patterns in Ruby: Futures
1,5000kg to LEO doesn't put it anywhere near F9 or FH.
I wish 2.0 had focused on speed, not a bunch of features that working rubyists really don't care about. Esp. not ones this poorly thought out (you'd think given 2 years discussion they would have abandoned the idea).
Back to the Mac: Parse Adds OS X Support
Video of Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Lecture at U. of Michigan
4th Gen iPad Trounces Supercomputer ... from 1993
When it comes to monkeypatching, this is one thing that JS and Ruby got wrong. C# got it right. It'd be great if you could monkeypatch in JS/Ruby in a module level scope vs a global scope. Good to see that Ruby is taking steps to remedy this. Too bad my favorite language, JS, hasn't yet.
That is my point, except Apple's new products are also a repositioning in some important cases: iOS vs OS X being the most significant.
This is the best article I've read on HN in a long time.
Of course they're going to deny it. Even if completely accurate, it's going to be a staged transition and they'll try and salvage as much as they can from current Steamroller R&D. I guarantee that AMD will do at least one more high end CPU. Without the high cost of R&D charged against them, AMD can much more easily make money on its chips, and it will do so as long as it can.

The chip might look more like Piledriver than expected, but it will have some Steamroller bits and will probably be called Steamroller.
There seem to be two very different definitions of brown noise.
I started using an ad blocker because I got annoyed at all the personalized ads I was seeing. I'd go to a website, view cost of item, every ad I then see related to that store/product. It got to a point where is was a little freaky and stalker-ish.

Also, same reasons as you listed in 3rd sentence but also I'm on a limited bandwidth plan now (the joys of internet costs in Canada!) so don't want a load of bandwidth sucked away for nothing. At this point it actually costing me money to watch irrelevant ads. It annoys me more when your site is not optimized for mobile either and I'm forced to loads ads on my data plan, where I don't have ad block installed (my phone is not rooted).

I tell you what though, it's amazing how much cleaner and more readable site content is without all those adverts. I find it extremely strange to view some sites on computers without ad block now!
I'm a bit surprised that so many people NEED a dead-silent environment to concentrate on their work. Maybe it's because I grew up with a snoring dad, but I can completely tune out a crowd of people without breaking a sweat, while all my coworkers would go crazy without their headphones. Honest question: is this truly such a difficult skill to cultivate? You'd think it would be a whole lot more beneficial in the long run than investing in an expensive set of noise-cancelling equipment. But I don't know, maybe I'm just going deaf!
The old PalmOS also had a global find option. The OS would call every app that registered for this function and pass it the query. Problem was, this meant that having a single buggy app on your device would cause Find to crash for everyone. http://mobile.eric-poncet.com/palm/tutorial/find.html
In terms of feminist theory, this is definitely true - perpetuation of sexism in language through slang and memes is undoubtedly harmful. (and theory aside, it's a matter of experimental record that language affects thought, to a certain extent.)

Sadly, my subjective brain still likes the ring of the phrases. "Science: it works, earthlings!" sounds just a little too geeky, and "humans!" doesn't seems to ring true either. And "Children, please..." irritates me from an age-discrimination perspective (I'm a firm believer that if we patronised our children less, I'm sure there'd be less extremism and fundamentalism in the world.)

curse my sexist, subjective brain! :/
I'm curious what the competition is like in the space of the UK rental market. Craiglist? etc.

Why do you think you are growing so rapidly?
They charge.

That's what the airlines that have this stuff already do. Emirates got $5 from me for a small amount of Wifi, and really I only did it for the novelty I suppose, but it seems to work for them.
Right now, my print lab will only drop-ship to the US.

I could have orders shipped to me and then I could send them off to other countries but I think that'd be expensive and I'm not sure how long it would take to arrive.
Nice pics. Are you sending out your own photographer like airbnb or people just make great photos them self in the uk?
This is how rental listings should look like.
Jeff Bezos on Charlie Rose
Creating a Reddit Browser with Node.js and Twilio
Hey tjarmain. I was actually looking into Dev Bootcamp but I decided not to follow through because it isn't where I am: Toronto. So to see Bitmaker Labs is exciting; it looks very good!

I have a question though. I'm looking at the Application form here and there aren't any cohorts starting after mid-August. Do you know if Bitmaker Labs will? I'll be graduating college around that time.
I think Windows 8 Metro apps can be written in either a .NET subset or using HTML5/javascript, right?
There are already... kind of.

the Terrafugia and the Pal-V are both flying cars, though not very sexy I'll admit.
There is definatly a lot of service you could provide even if the app is open source. As GP said, hosting and infrastructure, but also better spam filtering, taking not get and remove domains from spam lists (SPF, DomainKeys, checking your domain and custom domains against spam lists and notifying the owner, &c).

Also, a nice export to S3 or a tar.gz or something would be nice if you were a private service.
Absolutely. I'm quite happy with how it looks (thanks btw), but such a mission critical app requires a well though-out backend. I'm not even sure that hosting the data myself (on heroku postgresql) is even a viable option.
Arguably the one thing missing from Gmail right now is the ability to pick up the phone and speak to someone when something isn't working.

If you can offer that level of support at the same time, I can't see any reason for a company not to give you money.

Oh, and don't be discouraged by the people saying "no, never!" You can use third parties for handling spam, and it'll be easy enough to get mail onto peoples' phones via IMAP or Exchange. The thing to remember is that plenty of techies will say "no" because they see email as a free service. Regular consumers - and companies in particular - will be much more open to giving you money.
That page includes a random sampling of definitions used by some sociologists. One of the definitions explicitly states that racism can only be committed by white people. When you get to the point where such a definition makes sense, you are outside of a reasonable discourse. Racism ceases to have any meaning as a term.

The other definitions are not redefinitions of racism, but appropriations of the more general definition to further the term. All depend on the notion that racism is dividing people into groups called races which contain people with identifiably similar traits.

As someone who has spent a significant portion of life in a humanities department, I'll say it's a stretch to say 'most' academic work goes by the vague definition posted above. Frankly that definition sounds like something I'd encounter in a first year paper rather than something a colleague would agree with, much less endorse. Further the academic world is much bigger than sociology, and even within the social sciences (e.g. economics) there is an insistence on using less fluffy and more logically consistent definitions.
Sure, but they are still essentially a Chicago company.
http://37signals.com/svn/writers/

How about a company with principals/co-founders in different regions?
> It really is quite pathetic that all it takes is one wannabe righteous whistle-blower to say something about race and an event can be derailed...in this case, completely.

Are you really focusing in on a single tweet as the cause of a conference being canceled? You think that they decided to fold up months of work and organizing just because Sarah expressed her disappointment and dissatisfaction?

Blaming her for the organizers' decision seems super weird to me.

Also... Iain's quote there misunderstands what it's like to be a minority. The problem is not being different (we're all different in various ways), it's being singled out for being different. That's also why BritRuby couldn't fix the problem by tacking on diversity speakers at the end, the damage was already done by then.

My humble opinion is that they should have tried to weather the storm, issue a mea culpa and endeavored to do better next time. Instead we have flame wars.
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While I run into unexpected monkey-patching from time to time (i.e. just about anytime I include an "active_" library from Rails), I can't remember the last time it's screwed me over. But I can see the potential...what have been the most prevalent cases of conflicts for day-to-day Rubyists?
how can a problem be "wrong" ?

I don't much like refinements, but conflicting monkey patches from different third party libraries _has_ been an issue over the years.

The ruby community is not even the first one to notice that, there is plenty of literature on "selector namespaces" and "classboxes" from the smalltalk crowd.
LetsLunch and how to make a different Linkedin
Sure, an amazing team is great if that's what you seek, but you're still assuming growth is the goal of building a business; I'm trying to say it isn't. Building a biz and growing one are different things, but I see you did edit your original statement to remove the inconsistency, so nevermind I guess.
This post would be equally annoying had "shit" been replaced with something classier like "pompous idiotic blowhard". The issue is not with swearing, it's with the fact that a large portion of HN's front page every day is filled with one tech industry personality (or wannabe personality) slinging metaphorical poo at another.

The pointless overuse of swear words really just makes an already juvenile situation even more childish.
Done. Via Linkedin.
Also paper has different standard sizes in the rest of the world.
People can't sell Apple stocks fast enough IMO. Tim Cook seems to have no vision for the future, and "where there is no vision, the people perish."
Thanks for the kind words.

Actually: Most of the points you raise have been solved. MailGun has (as far as i can tell after a week of usage) a great spam filter and supports IMAP.

To be honest: I wouldn't even consider building the email infrastructure part myself.
I'm just wondering.. Did you consider offering a white-label version of your engine?
Good luck explaining this to the (vast majority) of Android users that have an "adulterated" version.
> It's cute that ESA tries to claim SpaceX will get more expensive and less reliable as they scale up to (sort of) mass production. Uh, no. If you're going for FUD, at least be plausible

I wonder why they put that shot of his hands in the video. In any case, the look in Elon's eyes when he says Ariane 5 has no hope is very telling, in SpaceX's favor.
'You Know What They Say About Assumptions, it makes an ass outa u and me'

tldr; you're an ass.
By definition complaining about a panel's being "100% white males" is suggesting the lowest common denominator of skin color and gender. The twitter complainers in this case did not care about the panel's nationalities, ethnicities, first languages, etc., just that they were white. The suggestion is clear.
i haven't read this entire thread, but i've read enough to say this: custom earplugs? noise cancelling headphones? white noise soundtracks? are you serious? the problems discussed here took place in a space specifically designated for quiet. why can't people make an effort to comply? if you want to make noise, go somewhere else. i literally cannot believe what i'm reading here. shaddap!!!!

this brings to mind the BWCA in northern minnesota. pure, unspoiled wilderness. many want to change that, introducing cellphone towers, water slide theme parks, boats with motors ...

to which i say: the vast majority of america has been "civilized" -- can't you leave one place alone for refuge?

in this case it's the quiet car. everywhere else is noisy, which is great/fine, but cannot you respect the desires of people wanting refuge in one tiny place? sheeeeeesh.
I immediately saw and thought the same thing. I do like the UI though.
Yeah, it's probably more exciting as well. But imagine somewhere you find pretty crappy at the opposite end of Florida to you. So it's a long drive and you're not a big fan of the area.. that's how Scotland is to me. They do a good conference by all accounts though so I appreciate I am being picky and Anglocentric ;-)
OP's argument didn't depend on the company being built entirely by a remote team. He just said that remote workers
will become more popular.

That can mean entirely remote teams, or a team with a
Central location and many remote workers.
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