skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I have been looking for this for a long time - thanks!
I got the same impression from the article, actually. As a minority in CS, I find it offensive that people just want to toss us in there to add "diversity." I have no reason to think the event's organizers were being sexist or racist (and I don't suspect it), but if they deliberately set out to find women or Hispanics to speak and set a quota for it like the author suggested I would certainly find that offensive. Just my two cents.

Edit: Just want to clarify that I think diversity in this field is a huge problem, and I care a lot about it, but the author's tone (he was immediately critical of organizers who may be innocent) and suggestion did not sit well with me.
Also different teams have slight variations from the official style guide.
I wish I was amazed by adults being irresponsible and immature.
That looks pretty awesome! Thanks Jeff. Would you happen to know if you have to use the form builder or if you can just do HTML?
Ask HN: Is there an Akihabara equivalent in USA?
Is there an Akihabara equivalent in the USA? Any in NYC? Seattle? Boston? Silicon Valley? Austin?
I hope life got better after school. I went through the same things and mine did. Being a computer nerd before the new millennium was hard. I'm glad you made it out alive. :)
I disagree with both of your main points.

During Ouya's Kickstarter campaign many people were very skeptical. Like "they're never going to ship anything" skeptical. After looking at the developer console, the Ouya team looks more competent than I previously thought. Ouya may still fail, but it won't be an epic fail.

Unlike Android in general, Ouya has no fragmentation. It has one spec. Once your game is ported to Ouya, it runs on Ouya.
What's the mechanism for this spending through legal fiat?
It seems to me that any spending that doesn't come from taxes or debt would probably have some adverse affects on the economy. I'm still a student of institutional economics, so I'm eager to learn more about this whole process.
"The population is not uniform, yet our sample is? SOMETHING IS WRONG."

http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/12/21/what-does-randomness...

Finding a cluster doesn't necessitate a bias.
This was my experience too, when I did my CS degree the brochures etc made sure to prominently show female students and the testimonials were balanced to provide around the same amount of female quotes as male.

The end result was still the same though, out of maybe ~90 students there were about 6 females at the start. By the end of the course I think only 2 remained, the numbers were slightly better for the "business computing" courses rather than the hardcore CS but not by much.

There was roughly the same experience at the job fairs towards then end. The companies recruiting were desperate to talk to the female students about technical roles. Even so from what I'm aware most of the female students ended up taking non tech roles.
I agree that you can't beat the keyboard for some things. But there are a lot of things I find easier to do with pen and paper than type: almost any and all math and any kind of drawing at all. Doing that with LaTeX or the mouse or something like GraphViz instead of pen and paper would require a lot of thinking about the tool, at least for me.
Let me rephrase: A work of art is created to be looked at.
If that's your motive, then adopt. There are perfectly fine children, languishing in child welfare systems, who need good people to show them how to be decent humans. The world has no lack of humans, which would require us to keep creating new ones -- let's take care of the ones we have already.

In my opinion, opting for biological procreation fails the Categorical Imperative (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative), thereby making that option unethical. Common-sensically, again, what is the rationalization for choosing to create a new human when you have the power to rescue a condemned innocent? Almost every answer reduces to vanity.
Follow the entire thread of discussion, right back to tptacek's original post, and the article itself.

The article's conclusion says, "... it is not a “giant bug”, it is much more subtle than that and requires a specific combination of code and circumstances to work. Most apps are not vulnerable."

To me, Thomas Ptacek appears to be suggesting that maybe there is more to this situation than meets the eye, and that maybe the article is not correct in making statements like, "Most apps are not vulnerable."

I merely pointed out that the Ruby on Rails community, in general, has a bad reputation when it comes to making claims. Often, the claims are shown to be complete nonsense.

If there is more to this vulnerability, and that it turns out that many Ruby on Rails apps actually are affected, then I wouldn't be surprised at all. I just hope that people do take this vulnerability seriously, contrary to what some articles may say, and do proper inspections of their Rails web apps.
Dotcom says DOJ lied about evidence against Megaupload
Googling for 'www' takes you to Facebook
Ask HN: Tech Down South?
I'm strongly considering making a lifestyle move by vacating the greater DC metropolitan region and moving back South. That said, I'd like to move to a city with a vibrant / growing tech community with lots of small and growing companies; this is where I'm running into a hiccup. Besides Austin, TX what other cities in the deep south (Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas) possess decent tech communities and where would be a good place to get some info about what's happening there (even for Austin)?

Scanning the last couple of Who's Hiring threads, I didn't see much outside of Austin and doing some cursory scans on job boards didn't turn up anything promising outside some megacorp positions here and there so I thought I'd tap the HN hive mind for leads. I'm not looking for a specific position yet, but would like to get a feeler for which metropolitan areas to start taking a closer look at.
No, I'm simply suggesting that once you're sufficiently indebted, there's a limit beyond which people stop lending to you. And if you're getting further and further into real debt (adjusted for inflation and growth), you'll hit that limit eventually.

And yes, America is currently the most powerful economy in the world's history, and that's why it has an AAA credit rating despite its fairly disastrous finances. But barring total implosion, China'll be the top dog within a decade or so, and what happens then?
Reinventing Biotech Research from a Computational Perspective
Um... it's been about a year since I sat around looking at the output of any of those three libraries and it wasn't worth the effort to go back and fire something up to be "certain". So I used the appropriate words "I believe" and "I'm pretty sure" to indicate that I was make statements based upon the recollections of my frail human memory ... also, those libraries are actively developed (last I checked) and could have changed since I last used them.

You have no credibility to talk about my credibility if you read too much into every single sentence I write without context.
Looking forward to Steven Sinofsky's new blog. "Learning by Shipping" - very true. Love the title.
This is a very good example of data mining and data visualization...
Great information!!!
White collars crime carrys many stigma and long term consequences.

In many states, you lose your voting rights. You lose your right to own a firearm, hold elected office, and serve in a jury, sometimes permanently. You may lose your ability to practice certain professions.

In some states, the state has the ability to restore your civil rights after a Federal felony conviction via pardon or other procedure. Other states will only recognize a Federal pardon issued by the president. Still others will not restore certain rights in ANY circumstance; New York for example profits a pardoned convicted felon from ever owning a firearm.
"Easier" is probably a bit of a troll. But it certainly seems the case that women are attracted to certain majors.

Sciences is a funny one, when I was at university I met plenty of female students studying Biology, Psychology and Medicine but very few in Chemistry , Physics or CS.

I wonder if there is some intrinsic reason that women are attracted to certain types of science more than others?
AirWatch
Only if we keep talking about it...
linkies looks like a powerful way to efficiently capture things on the web and easily retrieve them or share them
Bing is using Google for search results
For whatever reason pg just doesn't want to do that. Perhaps he doesn't want building HN itself to become a distraction (for other people) from building more useful stuff like startups. There may be a sort of contradiction where ninja rockstar programmers are too valuable to waste on improving HN, but HN is simultaneously too important to be put in the hands of mediocre programmers.

HN is kind of a double-edged sword because while it is educational it's also distracting and addictive. If making HN better also makes it more of a time-suck, the exercise could be a net negative for the community.
Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it!

It probably feels a bit slow at some points because it's actually checking each link and trying to pull out a thumbnail via the site's API like imgur, youtube, wikipedia, etc and at other times when there is no API, it's scraping HTML for a suitable thumbnail (which is the most time consuming). But this only happens once and then cached by redis. Also I'm making use of websockets so as soon as one item is parsed its pushed out to the client.

Having said that, there is plenty of room for improvement. I still plan to add some more features when I get more time such as loggin in, up/down voting, and the ability to browse other subreddits as you mentioned.
I really like the concept.
You've captured a lot in this comment.

You've characterized Arthur Shorin as a 'huckster' which in many places would be considered insulting. This guy spent 27 years at his Grandfather's company and grew its revenues by 5x [1]. That is some pretty serious credibility in the candy business. Not 'huckster'.

Then you talk about by giving up 75% you lose control. Which is true, but 100% of 0 is 0. But lets imagine that there is a chance that Arthur can grow the value of this particular company with his knowledge of the candy business and his credibility. If your company is valued at $1M and you own 100%, you give up 75% and with the help of that investor it becomes worth $5M. Your 25% stake is now worth $1.25M.

Contrast that with going broke. Having your net worth gro 25% is much better than having it shrink 100%.

Then the last lament, which I have heard many many times, is this "The real solution though is to plan things through and not get yourself in the situation of "needing" to raise cash or go bust. There are tons of ways to avoid getting stuck is this situation."

I think of it as the parallel universe theory of wishfulness, because we know that every decision creates two parallel universes, one where you made the right decision and one where you didn't. The "right" answer is not to be in this damn universe but to somehow step across dimensions into that really awesome one. Sadly people get lost looking across at that other universe.

It is the opposite of ridiculous here is to take the offer, not dwelling on all of the 'could have been' things, and resolve to learn everything you can about the candy business from this living legend. They have to take your meetings because they are in it to win, not lose their investment. Our entrepreneur is just hitting 30, spend 5 years learning the candy business (its not taught in business school) and then, start yet another candy business. Her 25% stake in this one is much more likely to be worth a decent chunk of change, she will know the people in the industry, and she'll have gone through all of the stages of getting a candy business from where she got it too before, into the big leagues. It will be much easier for her to succeed, and in that new business she will know exactly how much work it is to get into distribution and exactly how to negotiate with contract manufacturers, and exactly how to find the market and increase awareness. Perhaps we'll add her name next to Wrigley's or M&M Mars.

[1] http://artuitive.com/bio.html
The Lamy Safari is cheap but perfect for my uses. The clip on the cap is especially good: it's big, sturdy, and attractive. I bought the pen, a refillable cartridge, and a big old bottle of blue ink. It's serving me well and works great on most paper and pretty good on the rest.
One of the best papers to write on with any pen (including fountain). But if you're interested in fountain pens you probably already know about it and which inks bleed more than others.

Moleskine's are pretty average quality, Rhodia and Lichtenstein 1917 are great papers and notebooks. Lamy Safari is a great starter fountain pen.
I was wondering about that too, being the Indian (dots not feathers) that I am.
FYI, I noticed that Steve's twitter avatar is also the same OHM Symbol -- https://twitter.com/stevesi
Well, possibly.

Let's compute some simple p-values: Suppose that some fraction p of potential speakers are female. Then the probability that all 22 of the speakers are male would be (1-p)^22.

For p = 0.1, we have a p-value of 0.098, which could reasonably arise by chance.

But for p = 0.20, we have a p-value of 0.0074, which is not so likely to arise by chance.

So if you assume that at least 20-25% of potential, qualified speakers were female--a reasonable assumption, I think--then this "cluster" does indeed suggest a bias.
Thanks for your feedback. You bring up a good point, I will consider incorporating favicons of the site somewhere in the corner which should indicate weather it's an external website or a submission on reddit.
Not exactly sticking to your criteria here, but what combinations of pen, inks and paper have you tried? If you ever want to get back into trying fountain pens, then you are unfortunately going to have to find quicker drying ink and paper to put up the with potential smudges.

Fountainpen-network is a great resource where members frequently post reviews of various inks and papers, incorporating drying time for lefties.

I have been using a Lamy Safari with J Herbert ink for the past few months and it has been great.
From how I understand it this is not a javascript Tor implementation at all. It's an entirely different piece of software that allows you to create a whole lot of volatile short lived proxy servers that can then be used to connect to actual tor relays. The idea being that it will be really hard for censors to block proxy servers that only exist for a short period of time.
I am from the DC area originally and after the past 4 years of college in Illinois I am ready to move south. I have found several opportunities in the Charlotte metro area. It has southern charm but is a growing city.
You shipped code! That alone disqualifies your project from being deemed "useless". Rock on!
I think you're making a valid criticism of my position. That said, I don't know that I would (personally) put SQL calls in the same boat as crypto. Crypto involves a lot of complex math and code that, if off by a single bit can wreck the whole house of cards.

In general, I think the problem that ORMs face is that they try and match every single problem thrown at them. People criticize your ORM saying "it doesn't handle egde case XYZ in my legacy data model" or "it suffers from this performance problem when somebody puts a tire boot on the server". Rather than saying "don't use an ORM to solve your unpaid parking ticket problem", the ORM team will devise a way of providing multiple method signatures in a language that loosely supports the feature so that unpaid parking tickets will always be paid prior to the server getting a boot.

Eventually the support for all these edge cases adds up to a very complex piece of software that, to your point, rivals the complexity and fragility of crypto code.

To me... it's more about saying "I have a limited set of use cases here, I don't need a leatherman to cut this noose around my neck I just need a steak knife". ActiveRecord is an impressive freaking tool and I don't begrudge anyone for using. If you ship working code using it then it did it's job.

My personal taste is to stick with simpler tools that don't have so many edge cases so I can sleep easier at night.

Suffice it to say, where you draw the line on "too complex for my taste" and where I would draw that line is probably different and the result of both our personal experiences as well as the problems we are trying to solve.
A response to Robert Martin's "Functional Programming Basics"
Bic, Med, Blue, 29c. Best pen ever.
If I go to google.com and run the query myself, I get Facebook as the first result but it doesn't actually go there.

For me, this query:
https://www.google.com/search?q=www

Does a search for FB, does not load FB though.
It's complicated because that complexity serves the interests of the ridiculous factions in congress and state legislatures and the interests of the sprawling "justice" system.

Google "Joe Bruno prosecution".

Mr. Bruno is a former NY Senate leader who probably acted in a manner most people would describe as corrupt. But after a 6 year, multi-million dollar investigation, the Federal prosecutors didn't charge him with accepting bribes (although they leaked to the press that he did that), they charged him with something like 15 charges of failing to provide "honest services". He was convicted of one count, which was subsequently thrown out of the US Supreme Court.

Now, a few years later, they are charging him again for some other related charge, a charge that may be thrown out on appeal on double jeopardy grounds if he loses. The objective is basically to bankrupt the man, who is in his mid-80s.

Most all white collar crime can be summed up with a few high even charges: fraud, theft, embezzlement, submitting a false instrument. We should be getting rid of dumb laws that rig the process for the prosecution (ie. lying to a federal official as a felony act ala Martha Stewart) and judges should be sanctioning (ie. fining) prosecutors who do things like dump 300,000 pages of shit on the defense team.
when is it going to be live? Is it going to be live for desktop users too or just ipad?
I'm also a little bit of a (left-handed) pen geek, and I've used all three of these, plus the Hi-Tec-C. The Hi-Tec-C lays down a very nice, smooth line, but it's probably my least favorite because the narrow plastic barrel gets uncomfortable after a few minutes.

Out of the other three, the Zebra Sarasa Clip is comfortable to hold, but I don't think it writes quite as smoothly. The Signo and G-2 are both comfortable and smooth-writing... I've tended to favor the G-2 since I've been using some variant of it since high school (nearly 20 years now), and the 0.38 is even nicer. I'll probably end up picking up a few additional Signos though -- they write nearly as smoothly for me and I really like the blue-black color that the G-2 0.38 isn't available in.

I find the G-2 is the smoothest overall for me, but this may also be because of the relatively cheap writing pads I use at the office.
My rule of thumb is to find problems and create solutions using technology. If you can solve a problem you truly have a product worth working on.
You're the one calling people names. The guy who wrote the fix that was actually accepted by the Rails core team called this a "SQL Injection" and it has been filed in that category by numerous independent bug trackers.

I don't quite understand the angst about this defect being called a SQL injection vulnerability. The vector for the attack doesn't change the end result.

The cause might be that the API was broken, but it doesn't change the fact that a guy wrote SQL code that was injected into the middle of the rest of the SQL generated by the ORM.
This is a wonderful CDN, thanks for this! Especially grateful for the Bootswatch CSS files, although it would be nice to see them updated.
theblogdoctor - your account is dead
Go read zerohedge.com. There is a fair chunk of tinfoil hat baloney and traders talking their book, but they have some serious analysis on the government debt / banking / monetary system.
Yay, more linkbait from a small, unknown company that thinks they can do a tech giant's job better than them through the sheer power of design! This will look awesome on my Microsoft Surface. Can't wait for Facebook to take the hint.
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Note, my fiddly ios app somehow let my reply be to the article, and not you. So i have reposted my comment where it belongs.
I think your missing a huge opportunity. Help someone grow up in the way you didn't get to. Minimise and prevent the bad things that happened to you from happening to them. Do it the best way you can. If this is the only reason you're not having children, it seems a shame as your experiences can be used to better others lives.
That's what SSHFP records are for. You store the fingerprint of the SSH server in DNS and then turn on a setting in your ~/.ssh/config and it will check for you if it matches with DNS when you try to connect. Even without DNSSEC it creates another thing which needs to be spoofed.
The telling point, and why this is on HN, is the important threshold that a seasoned investor can buy solar to make money for the purpose of making money.
Google Pushed Hard Behind the Scenes to Convince Regulators
Small start up community is here in San Antonio
Apple is developing Pebble-like smart watch connected with iPhone
Ask PG: Is Ray Kurzweil full of it?
I've noticed that few other topics spark as much acrimony and mudslinging on HN as Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity -- maybe it's worse when the libertarian and liberal wings of HN go at it, or when the ongoing "language wars" flare up, but that's about it.

Ray seems to have a pretty impressive list of supporters - Marvin Minsky, Larry Page, Bill Gates, Dean Kamen, Peter Norvig, Rafael Reif, Tomaso Poggio, Stephen Wolfram, Dileep George, etc. - and some very high-profile detractors - Hofstadter, Kevin Kelly, Mitch Kapor, Gary Marcus, and Paul Allen.

Personally, I think a lot of his conclusions are probably inevitable in the long term - say 100 years out - but I'd guess that his timelines may be too optimistic to benefit any of us personally. It's also hard to ignore the parallels between the Singularity and religious belief, and how that might betray wishful thinking on the part of its adherents.

Anyway, I just thought it would be interesting to hear your take on it.

NOTE: this is a repost of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5005630 - it looks like I was flagged for the colorful language in the title. Sorry about that, it didn't seem out of line when I was posting it.
The best business model in the world
Sperm Donor Charged For Child Support By Lesbian Couple