skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't really know that having waited is why you can't have kids.

We're pretty certain of the causes of our infertility and they are related to a specific degenerative condition. It's true we got married too late to start with, which itself was the product of overly casual attitudes; but this is not the purpose of my comment.

The purpose of my post is as a PSA for readers who see this thread and might need to be informed that being undecided in your early 30's is very quickly too late (unless you are male and plan to marry someone much younger). Fertility declines with age, very rapidly, particularly for females. The assisted fertility system is by no means a guaranteed workaround for this, and is in fact an extremely expensive and frustrating system to deal with no matter the outcome.
Yeah I'm pretty sure the original title was "Dear HN..."

I could be wrong though.
I hate not having a second parking spot. A $199/mo lease on a Leaf seems like a no-brainer in California: HOV lane access, free parking and charging in a lot of places, and enough range for pretty much anything inside SF/Oakland/Berkeley that I'd do. Keep an ICE car for anything longer. It's probably enough that if you lived in San Mateo County, you could go everywhere you'd normally care about (SF to San Jose), round trip.
I've never seen this before, but this is seriously fantastic.
> Moral of the story: focus on the damn hacking and stay on your computer

Focus on the damn cooking and stay in the kitchen?
Can you expand on your definition of "wrapper culture" (not to be confused with rapper culture)?

Because if I understand your meaning, your comment could be applied to pretty much the entire "www". Almost everything offered by a "server" or "as a service" is something that anyone can run on their own machine. Windows is on the decline, UNIX is taking over. It has come to pass. OSX, iOS, Android, ... all UNIX. All UNIX machines can be clients, servers, or both.

The idea that someone would believe such machines are limited only to being "clients" is... PATHETIC.
I think NFC makes sense in quite a few situations. For example, if there's no wifi or data coverage, or you don't want to share private data via a third party service like FaceBook or Twitter.

Using NFC to pair devices for transfer is quicker than doing it manually. No need to navigate to the bluetooth settings page, search for device, enter pairing code, etc.
R in a Nutshell, combined with this tutorial: http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes
Prominent male members of the community burn out all the time (_why, Mark Pilgrim) too. I think sexism isn't really the culprit, so much as being exposed to the howling nether of the internet. There are a billion people online, and some percentage of them are in a shit mood, and the more prominent you are the more likely it is that someone will try to shit all over you for no visible reason. If you get famous enough, you'll get it every day.

A lot of the other stuff sounds like the mundane bullshit that happens to every open project- people promising to build stuff that then don't, bikeshedding, flakiness, poor communication and clashing goals. The eternal heartbreak of people preferring talk to action.

This sounds like her first rodeo. It sounds like that made everything worse.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that the gender stuff is basically incidental to the people making her life miserable, even if it feels central to her. Being internet famous and trying to organize internet volunteers is a recipe for awfulness.
This app is pretty clearly about dick pics and has nothing to do with photography. This article is just the author patting himself on the back for running a sexting social network for preteens. Yeah, great job, buddy.
What do you mean? Writing style? It's my run on sentences isn't it.
Or, on Linux you could just type:

uuidgen
This is exactly what gets me through my chemistry classes.

It's pretty ridiculous, but I think it puts the person back into the comfortable mindset of control. Rather than learning a big, scary thing that is beyond you, you are merely manipulating the world with your powers to accomplish tasks. For whatever reason, that paradigm is more intuitive for certain people.
On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 5949)  (FISA Senators Votes)
>> He sat in on the crowd-sourced process of writing of the application, contributing nothing except criticism to anything I wrote for hours.

That's the part of this post which really grabbed me. I went through the same sort of thing in a corporate environment not too long ago. I had suffered through discovering a massive security hole on an internal system, managing disclosure to just the right groups, writing the fix myself, and making sure it was 100% patched in production before talking about it. This went on for over a month.

When I did finally talk about it on an internal system, someone on the internal security team spotted it and said I should expand it a bit to add some recommendations about how others might avoid creating the same sort of hole in the future. I asked if they had any restrictions on content, length, or whatever, and they said that I could just keep doing what I had been doing.

I took that as a thumbs-up and started working on my new and improved writeup. This "version 2" had code snippets showing the actual problem, a walkthrough of how it happened in the first place, and details about how I managed reporting and containing it (including escalation to appropriate corporate security folks). I fired it off and waited.

Instead of a "thanks!" and an appearance in their next issue, someone else from the security team jumped on it and started raising issues with my prose. I was either "too chatty" or "too wordy" or similar, and basically, he had his own ideas for what a post should look like, and I didn't write like him, so he didn't like it. I told them they could "take it or leave it" as-is, and they wound up rejecting it.

I turned around and self-published it internally, using the same sort of chat-type channels my original writeup had used. A bunch of people spotted it and shared it around, and I got a bunch of comments. These were just ordinary engineers, not the special "security" ones who had turned me down. Yet, they managed to focus on the security and technical content of the piece, and actually found a bug in what I had written! I got some logic inverted somewhere, and they caught it, so I fixed it. The document improved as a direct result of sharing it with them.

Meanwhile, the so-called security guy was so fixated on my writing style that he had apparently failed to look at the actual technical content within.

It's that last point I want to emphasize here: some people get so fixated on the container that they completely miss the technical content (or ability) inside. That's just one way sexism rears its ugly head at times in my experience.

Original post: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/11/11/prose/
It's "locking" if it's blocking
Yes. Large numbers of home users use their PC for email, Facebook, browsing/shopping, and maybe skype/Facetime. Tablets are perfectly good for that and easy to use while sitting on the couch. Those users are likely never again buying a standard desktop or laptop.
I would probably be more likely than most to leave my vehicle but I have training in mountaineering and I wouldn't do so without a good plan and sufficient equipment. My car always holds a basic level of backup supplies including: a first aid kit, a bottle of water (which can also serve as a water container), a head-lamp with extra batteries, a multi-tool, matches, a fleece blanket, rain gear (including rain pants), mylar thermal blankets, and a simple drawstring backpack (which holds the blanket and rain gear) in blaze orange.

Even in a worst case scenario where I happened to drive up into the mountains in just jeans and a t-shirt and get caught in a snow storm and nobody knew where I had gone I could easily travel for several days through the back country (let alone alone the roads) with just that equipment. And if I stayed with my car it would definitely extend the amount of time I could survive until rescue arrived. The total cost of all of this stuff is almost nothing, it's worth it to be prepared.
This isn't the white males fault though, I am sure all of them would be happy to see more diversity. The event is open invite though and this is the crowd that it attracts right now.
the amount of code for this "service" is unfortunate
That makes sense. The Bay Area also has a lot of H1B and other (legal, not tied to agriculture and thus inherently migratory) immigrants, too (in the tech sector), relative to the rest of California.

OTOH, it's pretty safe to say Californians outside of the Bay Area and maybe LA tech industry are struggling at all ages, so if you live in Redding, and don't own a productive farm or something, jumping up to Oregon or Nevada isn't a big compromise.

I can kind of justify California taxes and other expenses if you get the benefits of industry concentration, and maybe even if you are tied in with UC somehow, but for a person working in a fast food restaurant or light machining job or something, there's a lot less to tie you to California vs. a place with faster growth.
I support Eric here. Singleton make sense in WordPress specifically for encapsulating plugins. In WordPress plugins can never have more than one instance so it's really a moot point to expect them to be anything else.

Outside of WordPress plugins, I don't currently know of cases where I'd also advocate for singletons. Yes in most other cases singletons are bad but I'm sure there are some other cases where they do make sense. And you can't prove a negative.
People seriously didn't know about this? "Secret" Groups are probably the only reason that I and any of the friends I care about are still using Facebook.
Password Disclosure in D-Link Surveillance Cameras (CVE-2012-4046)
"So far, the Wii U is selling out, but not in astounding numbers."

Outselling the 360 and PS3 launches by a huge margin and coming damn close to the Wii's isn't astounding? ( http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/wii-u-sales-data-some-good/783765 )
I love that Chicago's CTA believes in a much more open development model:
http://www.transitchicago.com/apps/
http://www.transitchicago.com/developers/default.aspx

More data:

https://www.metrochicagodata.org/
https://data.cityofchicago.org/

It's all a part of Chicago's OpenGov work and its incredible how much data and work is out there. Here's a list of apps that people made in a city-sponsored competition:

http://www.smartchicagocollaborative.org/list-of-apps-for-me...

And here's a link to one of the meetups that try to do something cool with all that open data from the City:

http://www.opencityapps.org/#about
look dude, i get your argument, but again i'm not friggin retarded about an industry i've spent a half-decade investing in/around, and in fact made my first restaurant investment over 10 years ago.

get off your high horse, i've got a clue and my extended family has been involved in food service businesses since the great depression.
I remember seeing you guys at TC Disrupt. Looking good!
Talk about a blast from the past, my dad used to read all those Mack Bolan books. :) I swear there was one where he was on a tractor shooting someone on the cover...
>she applied for a speaking spot at a conference despite her lack of experience

Non-technical are not unusual at that conference as they know they'll get a wider perspective that way.
> RDBMS exist because people use to query those systems directly , does your users log into your database directly ?

No, but I do. What if I want to analyze my data in some way I hadn't expected? SQL lets me do that with a single query.
PayPal are bastards. I cancelled my account with them a few years ago and they've since refused to process any payment using my cc. This has caused me much frustration over time and I'm not alone

Not sure if people who use PayPay for credit card processing are aware of this. I'd love to buy this - and I attempted to - but can't.
Google Web Cache and MITM attacks
This 'letter' is addressed to the hacker community, but I've seen similar behaviour at other male-dominated conferences, specifically commercial construction conferences/seminars.

I'm not trying to get the hacker community off the hook for their behaviour, I just wonder if the discussion needs to be broadened?
In the case of WordPress plugins which is what Eric was writing about you know they never will go from one instance to two.
I am in several regular groups and one secret group. The regular groups I am in - one is a local group, one is a memorial group for someone who died young, one was started by a friend for his hobby.

The secret group has a lock on its tab and says "Secret Group - Only members see the group, who's in it, and what members post". No one who I am friends with knows I'm in the group aside from people in the group. Not sure what more to say - it has a wall which is somewhat active, although content was better and more diverse when the group started, now it is mostly 1-2 boring friend-of-friend chatterboxes. It also had a chat room, although Facebook killed group chat rooms a few months ago.
One major advantage of using SQL databases is that they provides excellent guarantees for data integrity. This means I do not have to think much when refactoring my data. And I do not have to worry about production systems crashing due to old data being different from new.

When modifying the schema in NoSQL databases I always worry about if I mess up and leave old cruft which will cause my code to crash, or even worse if I lose data (data created between the last backup and the upgrade).

With proper SQL constraints there are many fewer ways where you can screw up when refactoring. And easy refactoring of data is key to agile development of systems which have been put into production.
>That's just one way sexism rears its ugly head at times in my experience

Sorry but what in your story shows that it's sexism? It could easily have happened to a guy or been done by a lady security expert and is more a symptom of a superiority complex.
> Don't hang around with anybody who routinely asks "Why am I a loser?".

This is probably great advice for any individual, but really screws your friends who are depressed or otherwise in bad places. How would you like it if you felt like a failure, were sad all the time, and then all your friends stopped talking to you because you were a downer?
I know for a fact that he didn't outsource the writing of his books
>> unfamiliar items
>> semi-forced interactions with people
>> long periods of time spent without "electronic distractions" -- ie, the ability to pay when i want, and call a waiter when i want

so just to confirm here -- you really think that's what people like about high-end restaurants? they enjoy unfamiliarity? they enjoy forced interactions? they like to not be able to pay when they want?

if so, please remind me to never put you in charge of customer service or marketing at any of our companies.

seriously: i party down with people at nightclubs and concerts regularly, but waiting in line or getting shitty customer service is never what i equate with the best parts of those experiences.
So the quarter before a major new Windows OS release, the number of computers sold decreased? Earth shattering

You're grasping at straws, Windows is not going anywhere in a hurry. You may not like it, but to ignore this fact is to ignore reality.
There are no schema-less databases. There are databases where the schema is applied at write and there are applications that apply a schema at read.
As far as speed reading books go, this one is decent: http://www.amazon.com/Spd-Rdng-Techniques-Accelerated-ebook/...

It's the best superpower: read that book first, then all the rest here in 1/5th the time!
Learn Linear Regression Through Least Squares (My own blog)
> 5. Couldn't we share digital copies and avoid the postage?

You can. There's a service called "Lendle" that facilitates sharing (lending) Kindle books. http://lendle.me/
Deployed such beast of a service myself once: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~jobp/t-uuid.php
So she is getting mad because people did things $differently at their own crypto parties and didn't obey when she told them to do otherwise?

And then all those people who created unofficial IRC channels and didn't add those to the wiki?

This whole article sounds like an ego-thing rather than gender based discrimination.
Bram Cohen: I have a question for the version control experts
We got married last weekend and have been working loads over the last few months so this time is some well earned time off.

Will probably get back to work on Wednesday/Thursday.
Federal Power to Intercept Messages Is Extended under FISA
@eamann, I gotta give @masklinn credit there, you didn't explicitly make it clear your post was focused on WordPress-related use-cases. It was obvious to me from your references and knowing your focus but maybe not obvious to those who don't specialize in WordPress if all they did was scan the article, as most people do.
The fact this information is finally out there is fantastic. But for God's sake, if this is the case:

“The existence of this sleek digital interface barely hints at the investment that had to be made in terms of hardware and infrastructure to make this enormous public benefit a reality,”

Why is this literally the worst app I've ever used? A weird old pixellated icon, non-retina bitmapped user interface elements, scrolling that doesn't continue and decelerate once you let go... not even any clear indication of which trains are uptown or downtown, no map to more easily pick a station, etc...

If they've been spending millions on the infrastructure to make this possible, couldn't they have spent more than what I would guess to be about $500 producing this app? It's like a third-grader wrote it. A bad third-grader.
The problem with avoiding schema migrations is that you end up with those migrations in your code. If you add a new field or re-arrange your data structure, you have to add code to handle that old data. In many ways, it's simply easier (and less permanent) to do a migration.

I've done it both ways and I wouldn't go schema-less again. Right now I have decade old code in my models that handles old data structures that more than likely don't even exist anymore. With a schema I can just make the change and perform any data transformations in SQL and not be required to have any code to handle legacy data.
The Rift has yet to prove itself beyond kickstarter and the gaming community.

If you notice, most of his predictions are safe, or have been happening on a smaller scale already.

Virtual Reality has a shaky history, and it'd still be a risky bet to say the Rift will ultimately succeed.
Actually, it's not good advice. It's terrible advice. You'll never get a straight answer out of them. I've tried it myself multiple times and I never got an honest answer. The ACTUAL best way to get the low down on the worst parts of working at a company is to network with former employees and ask them, since they have much less of a reason to fabricate an answer.
how does the central computer connect to the internet ? can it use a 3G sim card for example ?
Might be your term if its slow vim will be slower... For example Osx terminal.app is slow...
Actually the price will end up being pretty similar. It was more or less free when I was hosting through Heroku (pennies a month, and that was just for images on CF). It's hard to predict exactly (depends on traffic) but I'd be surprised if it costs me more than $1 per month with the new setup. Will find out for sure at the end of the billing cycle.
MVC is only part of the picture
I think you just proved her point - your tone is itself evidence that sexism is a problem on sites like HN.

By using the phrase "big bad men" you are engaging in precisely the sort of gender-oriented down-talking that she is complaining about. You are not just criticizing her, you are implying that she's an emotional woman who can't play with the big boys.

I don't know anything about the author, but just reading her post and your response, it is quite obvious that there is a genuine problem here, and that problem is you and people like you.
I'm sorry, I don't really understand what you said, but you piqued my interest. What do you mean by "suspect"? What are swaps? What is under $50? What kind of content do they have?
For reference, Amazon does about 10% of the business of walmart. So 10x bigger seems a reasonable goal.
Agreed. Still, Microsoft still deserves some blame for failing to offer reasons to upgrade. For example, they could have been improving resolution independence in Windows and encouraging high-DPI displays instead of 1366x768 dreck. Or they could have taken the correct observation that overlapping windows are often confusing, and rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater via Metro, come up with some sort of automatic tiling window manager that lets you effectively take advantage of large screens. Instead they've deliberately sacrificed desktop usability in favor of tablets, and are surprised that people aren't flocking to it.
Awesome! I requested a DUNS number a couple weeks ago and planned on just waiting it out, but it looks like Apple already has my number after all. Thanks for the link.
Yeah, as stated that doesn't sound sexist at all. That sounds like an exchange I've had with male colleagues from both perspectives.
>> "He's in a rush, doesn't like making decisions, can't do research on his own, wants to minimize interaction with restaurant staff, is afraid to ask questions"

i think you just described: 1) most moms, 2) most people who work day jobs, and 3) most people who are first-time visitors at restaurants.

in other words, you just described... most people.

so while i appreciate your right to your own dining experience, assuming there isn't a huge effing market with those needs is an extremely narrow view of the dining universe.

regardless, you're welcome to bet your own money on snooty, unresponsive, offline dining experiences with menus that are confusing and non-illustrative.

meanwhile, i'll bet our fund on the other kind, that everyone else in middle america (& the rest of the world) might appreciate.
The only secret group that I am in is for an organization which is, in turn, a secret.

I can't imagine why you'd want a truly secret group otherwise. Not just closed, where non-members can't see the content, but secret, where non-members don't know the group exists.
I'm mostly talking about the situation of reacting to the "wrapping" and missing the content entirely. The fact it comes from person X instead of person Y, and person X is not like person Y. When you see it enough times, you start hypothesizing about why it happens. Then you share notes with others in your situation and your hypothesis gets stronger.

... then you post about it to HN and have a handful of comments insist that it's not happening at all.
trustworthy, high-quality pictures lead to conversion.

untrustworthy, high-quality pictures lead to customer dissatisfaction.

regardless of my arguments, i suggest restaurants not lie to people, either by NOT including photos, or including photos of stuff that ISN'T what they're going to get.
One limit is the fear of some medical catastrophe in your family wiping out all your savings. This is the main freedom that being rich would give me.
As a hacker, you should know that even a "small" statistical bias (10%-20%) can invalidate experimental results, or contribute to large problems in a complex system.

So why is a small but real bias against women in tech still not a huge problem?
Русские иконы. Частные коллекции
I ran into many of the same issues, and my company is based in the USA and I was able to get a DUNS number fairly easily. I contrasted this with my experience with google play here: http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/890

I don't know why Apple makes getting an account so difficult.... Perhaps to filter out fly bynight mobile app developers?