skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is me depriving you of your ability to live (you know, get food, etc) via economic harm any different in violence than a government depriving you of your ability to live (via guns)? Is it because slow painful deaths by starvation, caused by a guy with a grudge are what you want for the world? Is it because that threat isn't really different other than the totemic difference of the removal of the word govermment (aka your magic symbol for evil)?
That sounds like a great way to run afoul of employment law.
They've monetized. I've seen advertisements on the splash screen in SF (for the local network news team, strangely), and Zipcar, Hess, Taco Bell, and Dunkin Donuts POI indicators on the map in and around the Boston area. Clicking on those POI pins opens up exclusive offers to those merchants for Waze users. I have no idea how successful that strategy is but it's a strategy none the less.
I told you why I think that (at least, at a certain level of abstraction). Why do you disagree?
Can you suggest a client which:

1) handles ssh tunnels for me after being configured

2) Automatically handles notifications that I'm being talked to

3) Can retrieve chatlogs from when I'm offline

4) Handles afking automatically

5) Encrypts chats between people

for the mac? It would be really useful.
In a world where the next startup expect to exit like instagram ;) seems like 1B is now the new hot number :/
Unless I misunderstand, you will have to be double tapping on every page, and it seriously disrupts the work flow as you can't page turn until you zoom out.

ezPDF does have a persistent crop feature, and you can even set different crops for even/odd pages (which I understand is a killer feature of goodreader). ezPDF's UI gets really weird wrt page turning and scrolling while cropped though.

I just discovered that Mantano Reader has an awesome crop feature for PDF. The UX is really good. It does not have the even/odd thing though. This is my current leader for an ebook reading platform.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mantano.re...
I've been really frustrated by the "purchase only" digital options for movies lately. I want to watch the US remake of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" but I don't know if I want to watch it more than once.
This is a really unfortunate problem statement and solution.

I don't think a declaration that the existence of all-male panels is in an of itself a bad thing that needs to be wiped out (as opposed to a symptom of systemic sexism/pervasive sexist attitudes). Immediately jumping to a belligerent, absolutist position on the matter that won't be well received by anyone except people looking for good-person credits by taking a stand isn't helping either.

The underlying idea of Affirmative Action is sound: instead of just taking people at their word when they say they aren't bigoted (they probably aren't, inertia is sufficient), expect them to show some sign of it: Not just passively waiting for someone who isn't a white dude to wander into their social circle, but have an actual process.

For example, you look outside your Rolodex of usual invitees for some qualified new blood. If you don't find any, have your white dudes conference. It's the existence of a credible process for an outsider to get in that establishes your good faith: not some magic ratio or token representation, and not empty promises that you're totally not one of those bad sexist/racist/whatever people.

The bad news is that before anyone gets anywhere along that path, the usual brigade of people looking for any excuse to exert coercive authority over other people jumps in and starts perverting it into the usual garbage of "Not quotas, by which we mean quotas", leading to "oh you only invited $group to fill the quota" or just even "Fund our group for an indulgence". Ugh.
So you think that women are systematically passed over because they're female? What makes you think this?
The article says that lead in aviation fuels (and in solder) is a far smaller contribution to current lead levels than remaining lead paint. In the grand scheme of things, there just isn't that much avgas used, and it gets dispersed widely as opposed to concentrated where people live.

I think the real problem is the big aviation piston engine companies (e.g. Lycoming and Continental) that seem to have no incentive to develop modern engines that can run on unleaded fuel. Newer engine manufacturers (e.g. Rotax, Jabiru) run fine on auto fuel, but they have a much smaller market. (It's sort of ironic that users of those engines, who should not be run on leaded gas, have a hard time finding unleaded gas at airports in the US.)
RSS, if you're interested in what I normally think about: education, technology, the future.
Otherwise, you can use the contact form to send me your address. I'll ping you when part 2 goes live.
It depends on your definition of "general purpose computer." Technically, a signal processor buried in a radio may be a "general purpose computer," but as a practical matter it's no different than an ASIC that implements the same logic in hardware.
So it sounds like what we need isn't someone to reverse engineer or even fork the SDK, we just need someone to publish the binaries for download with an EULA, right?
I disagree. If we can reclaim that algorithms are mathematical and therefore unpatentable we can regain our ability to actually innovate without fear.
Dismissible Helpers Gem released: easy dismissible helpers for rails
all of them will become obsolete once ecmascript.next kicks in
The Original Starwars Trilogies as Maps
So then the insurance company becomes the government. (Insurance companies will merge until there is a single one... if the history of companies is to be believed).

Or the insurance company also just says "No I don't like you, and since there is no actual way for you to enforce me paying you out, I just won't". Again, if the insurance company decides not to pay, they are enacting bad things on someone and not honoring an agreement. Fortunately since they have lots of free money and no expenses (other than those required to manipulate perception -- cheap payouts etc), they can just have their newspaper buddies out-shout anyone else and not actually be harmed by bad practices.
I used Lumosity for a year and I was very sure that it helped me. Just doing daily mental exercises helped me in a way that felt similar to daily physical exercise. It think I saw improvement in the brain areas that I knew I was weaker in. My wife also did it with me, and she has definitely improved some.

Dunno if it was the "brain training" that was to credit, but simply doing the exercises seemed to be beneficial.
Indeed. In my experience, LuaJIT is insanely fast and is widely considered to be one of the fastest dynamic languages around. The term "scripting language" is, in my opinion, meaningless these days, but either way, claiming to be as faster than LuaJIT and aiming to be faster than C (while compiling to C++? [1]) and not demonstrating this to be true just seems pretentious.

[1] I guess it should be faster than hand-written C, which is, of course, possible. ATS supposedly generates C code which is very competitive.
Rushed Debate on Federal Spying Powers
Also, if you're caring about the density of specialty coffee in Downtown Seattle (where I am now) you would want to take other shops into account. There's a Starbucks on just about every corner, but on every other corner you'll find a Stumptown or a Vita or a Ladro or a Vivace or...
As someone who would be in attendance at a tech conference I will tell you: I do not care at all what the gender is of the presenter.

It has ZERO impact on my judgement of the content, discussion or presentation. I do not believe that a person's gender provides any meaningful impact to a presentation unless the topic is specifically about that person's gender.

To think otherwise is sexist and discriminatory.

Now if the best participants for panels are female and are being actively excluded because of their gender, this is a problem. But simply refusing to go to "all male panels" is a useless call to action and will not solve anything. Neither will forcing a gender count.

Find specific instances of qualified and capable women being overlooked by organizers in favor of less qualified men simply because of gender stereotyping and then publicize the crap out those incidents. Boycott those specific conferences.
Because it greatly simplifies the issue. It's basically saying "there would be more women in tech if they wanted to". And it completely ignores the issues of "Why don't they want to be part of these communities?" And if that question is asked, the answers usually circle around "Women shouldn't be offended by sexism." I can see how those two combined attitudes could offend people.

It's not about fixating on a 50/50 ratio. It's about changing the climate and attitudes so it's a more welcoming environment, so they do want to be part of the communities. If more women go into tech, that doesn't automatically mean less men. My personal belief is that it would increase the amount of capable people in the respective communities.

What I find most surprising though, is the vehemence with which these attitudes are defended.
Looks nice. Any plans for other platforms?
Agreed. Really bad excuse, and since there's been like 5 posts like yours in the last month (not to mention a couple dozen apps, CSS alterations, and alternate sites for viewing it) the people who aren't content aren't just leaving. We're here because we love the articles, content and people but the website itself is kind of a disaster.
The Hockey Cliff
Protest slows NASA open source project
Ask them if they'd be OK with a patent that simply read "using a computer to transmit a radio wave" and see if they'd get behind trolls suing every texi-cab company that uses a dispatch radio tuned by a PLL and a microcontroller.

That might help them understand where this is headed (and already arrived in many cases).

They want to patent that brilliant little algo they spent months on to eek out that seemingly impossible spread spectrum noise piercing scheme that they finally got working. That's not how it happens at the patent office these days. Worse still, after all those months of creating something genuinely usefull, they're likely to be sued by someone who's never touched a radio, or made a product, and has a patent that reads more like "walky-talkies with teh interwebs inside".
So you have two females, 0 males, and 2...aliens?
Why don't you respond to specific posts instead of lamenting vaguely?
How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
The definition of "athlete" as it is used in this article is most popular in college football. There are a variety of set positions (jobs) in football and each player generally only plays one or two positions. The term athlete is used to describe a player who doesn't have one particular set position. This is either because of their versatility or a lack of any specific specialized skill. More often than not, a player will be labeled an athlete as they enter college but will quickly be assigned a position in order for him to focus his training.

The idea is that athletes are rawer, more malleable, more flexible, but riskier and generally less skilled (therefore probably cheaper) employees when compared to true specialists. This makes them good hires for startups.

The article could have benefited from actually saying this.
That's one possible narrative. Another would be:

The idea that I can be presented with a problem, hire a dozen experts and spend millions of dollars coming up with a solution to the problem, and have someone come along and just copy the solution and use it in their own product to compete with me is horrifying.
Finding a Line Between ‘Aggressive’ and ‘Evil’
From my small amount of experience, I saw even less percentage of females in computer science. By the time I got to the upper level courses in Comp Sci at UMD, I usually had 1 female classmate. Sometimes 2, sometimes none. In my 3 years of working since graduation, I can count the number of female developers I've worked with on one hand. If I restrict the sample to American-born women, that number goes to 0. I'd be interested to see some breakdowns of technology gender ratios in various countries. If some of them have a better ratio, maybe we can start to understand why.
What do you have in mind ? Would you focus on concepts like algorithms, design, refactoring etc ? What languages will you use ? web based ? non-web based ?
For raw number crunching, LuaJIT is plenty fast anyway (when you use the FFI to instantiate native types), so unless you need something real special (SSE perhaps), it may not even buy you that much to use C++ over LuaJIT.
1-4) Long-running irssi in tmux. Throw a shellscript onto your desktop that pulls up a terminal with ssh, and runs tmux when you click it (should be just 1 line).

5) Use PGP/GPG and email if you don't trust your IRC server. If you do, just use SSL. Since this is presumably an internal server, why wouldn't you trust it? There are of course encryption plugins for all the major IRC clients, but if you think you need one you are almost certainly Doing It Wrong(tm).

I don't know any Mac specific clients, not sure why you would want one.
If you have IM clients with easy to use group chat features I think IRC might not be the best choice for professional use.
Keeping it within the IM clients allows to have a single place to log discussions and you know everyone is using roughly the same features.

Actually making it an explicit task to invite the right people to discuss when you need a group chat can be a feature in itself.

Now I love IRC, but for private use only.
I think it often is a simple comparison. Meteor & Derby, for example, are the exact same use-case - and I think in the end, one will survive the battle and the other lose steam.

People say Backbone & Angular are different use-cases, but I find so many people "graduating" Backbone and wishing they'd chosen a more robust framework. They say they want to start minimal, so they pick Backbone. You can be minimal with Angular. It's like saying "ms paint or photoshop? Well what are you trying to do?" There's only 1 or 2 people really trying to draw something in Paint, the rest "think" they want minimal, non-bloated software. The answer to the question is Photoshop.

Now, Rails v Node v Java, something like that - there are tons of questions to ask before making such a decision, there's no one-size-fits all. But I think there is a one-size in this particular case.
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Are you aware of https://irccloud.com/ ?

(some of my friends use it and seem happy with it, I have not tried it myself).
Why does the 'App Website' link take me to a prelaunch/landing page for something completely different?
I'd like to find the spot in King County/Seattle area that's the farthest from espresso. I'm going to venture a guess that it's in the middle of a lake.
Intel already demonstrated at IDF that they have Haswell running at 8W while giving the same frame-rate as a 17w Ivy-bridge part when running the Unigine Heaven benchmark: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6262/intels-haswell-20x-lower-...
The most amusing thing about coffee for me are the articles which pop now and then in the media alternating between "Scientists discover that coffee is bad, because X" and "Scientist discover that coffee is good, because Y". Althought lately I only saw a positive news.
For me coffee is just a hot drink, it does not affect energy levels at all. Neither do energy drinks, for some reason. This can be unfortunate, because I have no means to fight sleepnes if there is a need for that :(
The JavaScript DSP API, RiverTrail, and the Future of JavaScript Parallelization
While we're at it, let's tackle other super important issues:

We also need to phase out the All-Straight panel. Refuse to join a panel of all straight people!

We also need to phase out the All-college educated panel. Refuse to join a panel of only college educated people!

We also need to phase out the All-uninational panel. Refuse to join a panel of only people from the same country!

We also need to phase out the All-tall panel. Refuse to join a panel of only people over 6' tall!

We also need to phase out the All-Expert panel. Refuse to join a panel of only experts on the topic! We need more diversity of opinion!
As a matter of fact, I did drive on dirt roads and many times after dictatorship enforced curfews. No jugs of gasoline or bribe money though. Anyway, the point I was making that carrying a CPU tower, mouse, keyboard and a monitor (no alienware or volvos, btw) is not such an effort by itself, as people did it just to play. The story is remarkable but for other reasons, like the ones you mention.
Yeah, I think every amphetamine user arrives at those notorious crossroads where you either try to out-dose the accumulating tolerance or realize you need to sprinkle in breaks if you want it to work a week from now.

I don't know why doctors prescribe it as a drug that can be taken every day. Not every day is equal, and every day is certainly not Side-project Saturday (best day of the week). :)

I recommend Vyvanse, the d-amphetamine prodrug with a therapeutic slope. Makes Adderall XR feel like a tweak with a trailing depression.
The patent office isn't the entity with either the most say or the most desire to keep things the way they are. Congress determines whether or not the patent office even gets the fees or they go straight into the treasury.
I have found the Angularjs community to be thriving and most helpful. Check out their google group (1), g+ page (2), g+ community (3), irc room (4) and youtube channel (5) for an excellent place to get help. I usually get help as soon as I need it, amazing.
Also I have been impressed with the active community projects AngularStrap (6) and AngularUI (7)

1) https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/angular

2) https://plus.google.com/110323587230527980117/

3) https://plus.google.com/communities/115368820700870330756

4) http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=angularjs&uio=d4

5) http://www.youtube.com/user/angularjs

6) http://mgcrea.github.com/angular-strap/

7) http://angular-ui.github.com/
Try knockout. I wrote a quick intro to it a few days ago:

http://returnbooleantrue.blogspot.com/2012/12/architecting-k...

I personally don't like backbone that much. I don't know why so many people love the damn thing. It is hard to understand and not even that great.
SpaceX Plans Heavy Lift Vehicle for 2013
Why do you think that? The panels are going to suffer because they aren't accessing the best talent pool, and therefore everyone is going to be worse off.
I also worked in defense. The company was run by engineering PhD's and the end result of millions of dollars of R&D and man-years of labor was a set of patents.

Your line engineers aren't going to get super excited about patents, because they're not compensated for their innovation (that's a separate rant), but it wasn't my assertion that they'd come to a rousing defense of software patents. Rather, they're not going to come out to a rousing opposition to software patents like Groklaw claims.
I read the article too... that doesn't answer the question of who they think is going to pay that price. Here's a hint: not Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Oracle, Apple, IBM, Nokia, or Facebook... Perhaps they're holding out for Samsung, but that's a bit of a stretch.
Another perspective worth reading is that of the mutual fund company that originally pushed for a special board committee to investigate Black's compensation and other off-the-books financial arrangements with Hollinger. That committee (of the company's own board of directors) uncovered a number of questionable actions that eventually resulted in the criminal probe described in the Forbes article:

http://www.tweedy.com/resources/library_docs/reports/BAN0331...

(starting on page 11)
I'm sure some engineers like patents. It makes them feel important, it's something to show to their bosses (and parents) and keep a score for promotion purposes.

Managers also like patents to schmooze their bosses.

"See, I did a patent, that's like, very important"

Meanwhile the lawyers say "yeah, sure" while collecting heavy fees.

And 90% of R&D is on the finished products (incl. code/blueprints) not on the "invention".
Definitely, iOS and Android are next on the chopping block. As well as a variation for WP8.
Django was recently ported, but South wasn't, and then there are the CMS packages - Mezzanine didn't even start, and I don't see how one can even discover the Django-CMS status.
I thought paid advertisements on this site didn't allow a comment section?

Besides, I thought the whole point of the crappy site design was so that it would scare of people who either need eye can't or can't configure a browser to make it look different.
> As someone who would be in attendance at a tech conference I will tell you: I do not care at all what the gender is of the presenter. It has ZERO impact on my judgement of the content, discussion or presentation.

It's awesome that you're so noble, but there are other viewpoints. I presented at Microsoft TechEd 2012 in both North America (Orlando) and Europe (Amsterdam), and because I'm a fairly well-rated speaker, I watched the ratings board like a hawk. I was pretty disappointed in some of the feedback comments for the attractive female speakers in Amsterdam. They said things like, "I could watch her talk about anything" and "She needs to talk less so I can just look at her."

I didn't see a similar set of feedback in the US, but I can't say the US folks are above/below that. Just wanted to mention that it's great that you're so noble, but...not everybody is.
I want to ask a question that may sound like trolling but isn't.

Why is gender imbalance a problem?

Do you have in mind: 1) Women have a distinct perspective that the tech industry would benefit from having more of. 2) Tech jobs are nice and women should get to have them too. 3) Gender imbalance proves discrimination is happening, knowingly or not. 4) Something else.

I'm curious.

It is evident to me that you can't optimize for two selection criteria at the same time. Eg, selecting the fastest vehicle is unlikely to also get you the most fuel efficient one. Hence, selecting women (or men) specifically is unlikely to optimize for speaking ability, technical knowledge, etc.

Do you believe that equally-qualified women are being discriminated against now, or do you accept that tradeoff in pursuit of correcting something else?
When I last evaluated Scala, I found the following:

* Launching the interpreter takes 10 seconds; 50 times slower than Haskell.

* Compiling a small module takes 15 seconds; 10 times slower than Haskell.

* Running 100 command-line unit tests on a small compiled module takes 1.5 minutes; 100 times slower than Haskell.

I also found Scala's type system requires many type annotations even in trivial code. For example, here Scala fails to infer the type of `optBar`, apparently because `None` is also a type:

scala> class Foo {
| def setBar(bar: Int) = optBar = Some(bar)
| def getBar = optBar.get
| var optBar = None
| }
<console>:8: error: type mismatch;
found : Some[Int]
required: object None
def setBar(bar: Int) = optBar = Some(bar)
^

Workaround:

scala> class Foo {
| def setBar(bar: Int) = optBar = Some(bar)
| def getBar = optBar.get
| var optBar: Option[Int] = None
| }
defined class Foo

Moreover, Scala's implicits can pose a significant barrier to understanding other people's code.

While OCaml's type system may not integrate objects cleanly, in everyday use type annotations are not necessary, perhaps because objects aren't commonly used.

Similarly, while it's possible to confuse Haskell's type inference by using advanced language extensions, in everyday use one tends not to run into such problems.
But Apple also has superb customer support and Google fails at this.
As for Apple maps, the option to provide feedback is built-in.