skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Levitas watch referred to on the second page: http://watchpaper.ru/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Konstantin-C...

Impressive. And not because of the crapton of diamonds.
Are you perhaps thinking of variable length argument lists?
The Better Advertising Project, with the basic idea to profile end-user ad-blocking activity on the Internet and to resell this data to advertisers. This might be OK with some people, but for me, personally, it's just too close for comfort.
Whilst Violet Blue may be the journalist's legal name, the flurry of trademarking, and other assorted activity, leads me to strongly suspect it is not her birth name. In which case, she has no more "claim" to the name except being "first to the gate" (then aggressively defending it).
Show HN: Links Baby Minimal Beautiful Aggregator for Tech Links
Hey Guys,

I finished my side project, and I would love some feedback from the community.

It's a simple clean way to browse tech links. It really scratched an Itch I had. There are plenty of places to browse links, but they often have terrible UI's and unreadable formats or are super complicated rss readers.

I just wanted something simple to get the best of whats going on around the web and put in my Pocket Queue, without much fuss and in a super clean interface.

Tell me what you think.
Regarding the "specialized semantic data", isn't Google already offering similar stuff and/or in the position to offer more? The only example that comes to mind is searching for word definitions, but I'm sure there's more.
Is the backend/search kernel in Perl to?

I wrote the first prototype of Boitho (Norwegian internet search engine, now defunct) in Perl in 2000. That did not work at all because memory access and sorting was so slow. We had to write the next version in C. Of course a lot has happen with Perl in the last 13 years, but search kernel in Perl still sounds odd in my ears.
That does not even remotely make sense. The point was to compare companies, as they are compared on their turnaround they are compared on their output.
> engineering degree

I'm sure you meant your "knowledge".
As someone already mentioned these end-user surveys seem to be closer to popularity contests. I have no doubt MS, Google, Apple etc are astronomically more popular than Mozilla and will rank higher based on name recognition.

These results probably do hold another meaning but it would take someone better than me at testing to figure that out.
I think it's a function of cost. If it cost $100k design, build, and test prototype a feature/widget and you have 1000 users than it costs $100/user versus 10 cents/user if you have 1 million users * lots of features an you havelots of costs. I think thats why you add plug-ins or usb connectors, etc.
When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?
You're trolling.

1. Ubuntu comes with a more modern kernel than any Debian release.

2. If you don't care about system internals, then you're probably more productive with ubuntu than with, say, arch.

3. I've never used mint, but based on its description, it seems to be even friendlier to beginners, so I don't really understand your point.
I don't know any theoretical explanation, but I try explain it.

You see static String.Split and normal method Split of String objects.

First method does not belong to string objects, it belongs to String class.

String class is an object itself, so why not make this distinction more explicit?

It exactly so in Scala: classes are classes and all static members goes to companion objects. Companion objects by nature are singletones.

I think it's much more natural this way than in C++/Java/C#. Everything on its place, even singletones became elegant.
perfectly accurate is a massive overstatement since it depended on what kind of light hit the diode.
Five years ago LEED was what they did on government buildings on the Left Coast. Ten years ago, people couldn't spell BIM. Fifteen years ago, there was still a debate about whether CAD was a fad. Twenty years ago, ADA was new. Twenty-five years ago Rapidiographs were replacing ruling pens and Kroy machines were replacing Leroy sets.

And that's just tools. The International Building Code changes every three years. So do NFPA standards - there's hundreds of them. Fail to keep up to date and I can get sued. Personally. There's no corporate protection for anything I seal. My ass is on the line. My house is on the line. My bank account is on the line. Please. I have to have a license because people may die if I fuck up. It's not just a fail whale.

Like I said I deal with the demon spawn - an owner using uncertified welders to install seismic components to save a few bucks isn't surprising. They see one little piece of the picture. Maybe he even outsourced the spec to the company doing it for free. Those specs probably didn't require a special inspection.
I need an iPod (OK an mp3 player). I need all my music with me and was carrying CD wallets around, then the mp3 player with CDROM media. My first portable mp3 player was still iPod, but not because I wanted it (and only it), but because it was light and the biggest HDD at the time. I'm not sure if this is a counterexample or you would say I am supporting the article statement.
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I sure hope that post isn't sarcastic, because it's a perfectly valid reason to want Ubuntu.

I'd feel a little unwelcome if Hacker News was reduced to make sarcastic posts poking fun at people who want interesting tech on their smartphones.
Well they are moving to everything. Their idea that eventually you will be able to use your phone as your work computer. Go to the office, put your phone to docking station (that has monitor and keyboard) and work.

See first image here: http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android or here http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android/features-and-specs

I can see how that might help close this bug.
> Both stop and frisk as well as the bag searches on the subway do not pass even a cursory constitutionality examination, but that doesn't seem to bother anyone.

Correction: "s/anyone./white people, and we don't pay much attention to whining from those other people./"

The point of this was that the cops were supposed to stop and talk to people (685,724 in 2011) and frisk those if the officer is reasonably suspicious that the person has a weapon that could harm the officer (381,948 in 2011). Of those, 7,257 have a weapon. Have you ever been interrogated by a policeman? Should you be put in that position every day?

See:
http://www.nyclu.org/news/new-nyclu-report-finds-nypd-stop-a...
Who likes traveling with a laptop? As much as a soft-keyboard and connectbot suck, I already commonly use them as a replacement for carrying around a laptop. The convenience of needing a pocket instead of a bag is worth it.

(Also, who cares about speed? It's not like you are going to be rendering or building on it, so even the most modest of smartphones today will be more than enough. We no longer need the latest and greatest to be productive.)
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apple iPod was cool, it had great iTunes (for the time), biggest HDD and the ratings. Ratings changed the way I listen to the music (songs vs. albums)
Pixels don’t care
What makes you think they're passive scanners?
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Fine, then the felony should be hacking the bots, not the DDoS.
It's not about writing quality but about clothing. On the West Coast there's far less of an expectation that business professionals should "dress up". If someone is wearing a hoodie in Seattle or Portland it's not something to comment on, lots of people wear hoodies, even CEOs sometimes. From a West Coast perspective commenting on wearing a hoodie seems a bit like commenting about wearing jeans to work.
Many OS's kernels use their local domain socket codepath/interface for 127.0.0.1 <-> 127.0.0.1 communications, completely bypassing TCP/IP... This is transparent to the application.
This party mode they used sounds a lot like the original goal of color before they changed their business to....buzzwords? I dont even know. But this sounds very cool. To Sad that it will probably never be really used as there are just to few people on G+.
So the theory presented here is:

=

Attractive women are disproportionately hired and promoted.

Many of these attractive women are not intelligent enough for upper management therefore there is a limit to how high these women reach in an organization.

At the same time, less attractive women languish in the lower rungs, far below their intellectual potential.

Furthermore, this phenomena does not affect men because they are judged based on their ability.

=

Well, there seems to be a lot of assumptions baked into this theory, but one I think is most likely to sink it is this one: Attractive women are, on average, less intelligent and capable than their less attractive counterparts. Seems a bit prejudicial to me.

Edit: You all are right, of course -- I shot from the hip. While it would be relatively easy to fill a single position with someone who is both attractive and intelligent, when taken across a workforce (assuming it is a widespread practice -- widespread enough to skew the curve) you would end up with a smaller pool when taking anything but intelligence into account.

I've got to wonder, though, how ubiquitous it is when hiring for skilled positions that can eventually lead to management and how much those types of factors differ compared to men?
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How does Newegg recoup the loss of time and money involved in raising this lawsuit?

Wouldnt it make sense for Hacker News to provide an affiliate URL to Newegg? After all, you wouldnt be shopping there if it werent for YC notifying you of their noble actions - YC is driving business to them and receiving no sales commissions.
When I type my words in the little magic box mozilla sends them to the one company I want to see them -- google. I'm not sure how that's a betrayal of privacy? (unless Mozilla is sending other words to google.
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If I'm understanding you correctly, you wouldn't need to SSH in to your phone from another device. You could run something like SQLite locally and access it from the terminal, or write Ubuntu applications that expect services to be available on certain ports.
Not true. Many, if not most, programming jobs require a college degree to even apply, at least in the US.
Yes, it does; of course it does. Google's reason for getting everyone connected through its services is to gain an audience for targeted advertising. It's certainly not "sensationalizing" to point that out. It needs users for its advertisers, and it sells access to those users.

NBC does too--they are a business that depends on readership/viewership because they make their money from advertising. That means that their business is to attract as many consumers of their content as they can so that their advertisers can reach them.

I'm surprised that this would even be considered a controversial point to make. Perhaps you don't like the wording: calling you their "product" and the advertisers their "customers". But there's not meant to be a personal element to it. It's simply an explanation of what their business model is.
Does anyone know of a Go HyperDex client? I don't want to write my own unless I have to...
All the guns you can hold aren't going to help when the only potable water is rationed. Historically, poisoning the public water supply was suicide. Now that we can efficiently distribute bottled water for weeks, it's a feasible strategy to break a resistance.
New Oracle vulnerability bypasses fixes for Java applets
I've gotta say, I love DDG, I rarely ever use Big-G for anything anymore. If I had to guess, it saves me a couple
hours a week!
Here are the female CEO's of the fortune 500.

Meg Whitman, HP (#10)

Virginia Rometty, IBM (#19)

Patricia A. Woertz, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)
(#28)

Indra K. Nooyi, PepsiCo, Inc. (#41)

Irene B. Rosenfeld, Mondelez International

Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin (#58)

Ellen J. Kullman, DuPont (#72)

Phebe Novakovic, General Dynamics (#92)

Carol M. Meyrowitz, The TJX Companies, Inc. (#125)

Ursula M. Burns, Xerox Corporation (#127)

Sheri S. McCoy, Avon Products Inc. (#234)

Deanna M. Mulligan, Guardian (#250)

Debra L. Reed, Sempra Energy (#266)

Denise M. Morrison, Campbell Soup (#334)

Ilene Gordon, Ingredion Incorproated (#390)

Heather Bresch, Mylan (#396)

Kathleen M. Mazzarella, Graybar Electric (#451)

Mary Agnes (Maggie) Wilderotter, Frontier Communications (#464)

Gracia C. Martore, Gannett (#465)

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo (#483)

Beth E. Mooney, KeyCorp (#499)

Ironically despite being low on this list Marissa Mayer is by far one of the most recognisable, probably because as an attractive woman it's a good brand for Yahoo.

Just in my opinion, but the most interesting thing the article brought up is the attractive lawyer being fired for being incompetent. It seems like a company could get great talent by assessing women independently of their looks and hiring appropriately.
Not sure why yegg's (Gabriel Weinberg) comment was killed. It says:

> We also do about 12M API requests per day: http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
Skipping the first note, the author makes a strong point about keeping it simple. You may have an amazing idea, but if the user can't jump in, perform <x> and then jump back out, it's not likely to catch on.

By only having one thing (add text to photos), you're really letting the users vote about whether they would use that functionality. Try to pack too much into your first version of an amazing idea, and you'll have a tough time parsing out which needs tweaking when you're not getting traction.
They certainly don't fear less. Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared; it means you ARE scared, but you do it anyway.
The most useful part for those considering self-publishing is the stylesheet linked later in this series of blog posts,

https://github.com/aginiewicz/createspace
I just wish they'd make some high resolution chromebooks.
You'll notice that all the windows the guy brings up are simply video players with progress bars that show where in the video it displays. So that's how the real-time is done for PBS. :) All that wonderful dragging around of windows is standard touchscreen mouse cursor functionality. I wouldn't be surprised if the top-secret stuff is just a bunch of empty boxes and a beach ball covered by a tarp.

In a real-life scenario, it likely only streams enough pixels to show you the area(s) you're interested in. So you can take advantage of 1.8 gigapixels by selecting which 1M pixel area you wish to focus in on and that feed gets streamed to you. If you focus in on multiple areas simultaneously, it is likely to support as many 1M pixel streams as the bandwidth allows with degrading quality (lossy compression) beyond that.
I have founded the slideshow before, but I didn't see the gallery. Some interesting images from the gallery:

http://www.acqao.org/images/gallery/ANU_squeezing_lab.jpg : I think that this image is from another experiment. It has the light paths marked. I'd like to see something like this for this experiment. It looks like a mess, but each one of those things are bolted to the table and then carefully aligned.

http://www.acqao.org/images/gallery/ANU_QO_lab.jpg : From another experiment with visible light, probably a green 532 nm laser. It's difficult to guess the path of the light, but the image is nicer. In this image is easier to see the how the things are bolted to the table.
Visa Credit Card Processing Down in Canada
If Hypothetical Bob gets sexual pleasure from sending videos to many people; and knows that he's sending video to minors, then Bob has committed an offence.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5028218
App.net moves from Twitter clone to cloud platform
Thanks for fighting the good fight!

Just curious ... when you fly, do you get hassled or barred from the plane?
Atari Jaguar - always wanted it, never had it. So many fun looking buttons :)
Just curious, as a non-DDG user: what features are you using that are saving that much time?
Funny: Mystery Shopping applied to churches [2008]
Yeah there have been a few apps that have attempted things like this (including Color to an extent).

As for G+ -- another reason that this is so great is that you can make the events private so only the people involved in the even can see the pictures later. And everyone with gmail can then access the photos if they are invited.

While I agree with you that people don't usually use G+, I would say most of the people who came to these parties asked to be invited to the G+ event so they could get @ the pictures or upload their own. They also allow for everyone to download the full size image (in our case ~4MB) while facebook compresses everything you upload.
PlanGrid (YC W12) is looking for engineers in SF
We’re a small team of hackers, construction engineers, and ex-rocket scientists building intuitive, beautiful tablet apps for construction. We love disrupting an industry that makes up 11% of Global GDP because no one ever cared to do so (for comparison, defense is only 2.5% of global GDP). Our users are project engineers, architects, superintendents, and electricians, and they love our app (because it helps them build real things more efficiently).

We're looking for front-end engineers with a passion for making beautiful intuitive products. Our front-end tech is iOS and backbone.js. You will be our tenth team member and fourth member of engineering.

We've been around for a year and we're growing fast. Unlike a lot of early stage startups, we measure our growth in revenue, not users, and it's been exponential since the day we launched.

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Send your info to: jobs@plangrid.com
I fail to see how a world with iPads and Chromebooks replacing the traditional PC is any better. Instead of the unhealthy fixation on Microsoft, concentrating on user and developer freedoms regardless of vendor is better.
And the point is that the arguments he made about why dbus is useful (a lightweight IPC mechanism with use cases not covered by UNIX sockets or TCP sockets, doing much more) and why do we need a gnome session on the gdm (to get i18n, network and accessibility features you need most if not all of the session) are well reasoned and make sense to us out of the loop.

Could you provide the counterarguments?
Sounds like she founded the company with money she earned as a talented student, rather than rising through the ranks of an existing company (where hiring and promotion bias takes effect).
Most people are just trying to avoid Google tracking. Startpage claims to not even record your IP address.
And it was hosted outside of the USA, but it seems that isn't the case anymore...
See also http://www.konstantin-chaykin.com/chaykin/collections/watche...
Stanford Breaks The Million-Core Supercomputer Barrier To Study Jet Turbulence
I'm slightly apprehensive (terrified) about commenting on this topic or any relating to gender/race because it seems like the bar for public crucifixion is somewhat low, even to those who just want to add data or other side-points to a discussion.

Anyway, and I apologize in advance if I derail the topic, but I think there's a semi important distinction to qualify this discussion, because I do think the discussion applies just as much to men as it does to women.

Casually attraction does seem like less important of a factor for men, but in data that seems to be because height is vastly important instead. So much so that a woman's attractiveness is not congruent to a man's attractiveness, but his height.

I find this to be true casually and it certainly has some scientific backing[1]. In online forum threads (okay fine, AskReddit) and female friends have nearly universally expressed less interest in short males precisely because they are short.

In fact, I think if you replace "attractive women" with "tall men" you have a slightly better scientific basis for this article, because we can base it on studies and not the author's perceptions of attractiveness.

10% of Russel 3000 CEOs are women, and similarly 10% of (original source doesn't say) CEOs are below average height. Wikipedia says[1]:

> A survey of Fortune 500 CEO height in 2005 revealed that they were on average 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) tall, which is approximately 2.5 inches (6.4 cm) taller than the average American man. 30% were 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) tall or more; in comparison only 3.9% of the overall United States population is of this height.[11] Similar surveys have uncovered that less than 3% of CEOs were below 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) in height. Ninety percent of CEOs are of above average height.

[1] See especially the "unsolicited messages per week, by height" graph: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-biggest-lies-in-online...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_discrimination#In_busine...
https://metrics.librato.com/
I wouldn't call it a "need", more like "occasionally desirable". The short version is that it's a convenient method of letting the compiler handle resource management when you have a variable number of values and sufficient stack space. As others pointed out, it's particularly handy for multi-dimensional arrays.

There are also some possible applications here:
http://gustedt.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/vla-as-function-argu...

In fairness, I've used them only rarely, but those few times I've used them have saved me a bit of grief.

I could easily live without them if required...
It's a speculative article, but it does address your last point:

"In no way am I suggesting that attractive women are necessarily incompetent. But I am saying that the greater emphasis on looks we place on women shrinks the pool of exceptional leaders we might get tomorrow."
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Not quite; those are handy too. Admittedly, varargs is more useful than vla, but vla can be useful for these functions as well.
The assumption is that women selected for attractiveness are, on average, less intelligent than women selected for intelligence. That doesn't mean attractive women are less intelligent than unattractive women.
Steve Wozniak turned down offer to work on 'Jobs' after reading early script
Lot 18 does Wine, Caskers does Spirits. Both sites use pretty standard ecommerce templates with tweaking. Lot 18 absolutely has done a ton of tweaking and great design work but the core remains the same. A gallery style page with big, friendly images. None of it is groundbreaking design work. Upon closer inspection, the user flow isn't very similar.

I haven't looked at the source but there's a very thin line between taking inspiration from another sites interface and biting it wholesale. Copy Pasting = Bad, Taking the core concept and evolving it = good.

I work at the same startup space with the Caskers guys and honestly, they look too busy killing it and expanding their business to be sitting there plotting how to steal Lot 18s swag.
Sounds similar to http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-devel.... I've found writing my manual first to be a great way to define my project. I usually even keep a volatile roadmap, FAQ, etc that I update frequently as a way to manage tasks. Also helps make sure I don't let features creep in keeping me from shipping.
Why no mention of Keek in any of these Vine discussions? It's the closest competitor in functionality and has some serious traction in the microvideo space.
Another self-taught watchmaker with some beautiful pieces http://www.pita.es/jsp/thewatches.jsp
My Mom's First Time Using a Galaxy Tab 2 (or any tablet)
Congrats Jeff and David!!
Silicon Valley's Chosen Road to Nowhere
The Starter League Partners with Mayor Emanuel to Launch Web Development in CPS
Meanwhile, 60% of Android devices that accessed the Google Play store in the past two weeks are running 2.3.7 (from the end of 2010) or earlier... http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
It's been 9 years since the bug was reported - how much have the stats changed since then?