skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the fullness of time, the roles will be reversed. "Daddy, you're OVERREACTING to my genetic modifications. IT'S UNREASONABLE to demand that I go for a DNA scan before you let me go to the brain-rave!!!"
Your sentiments on overreacting aside, why does it matter what gender or skin colour the speakers have? If they are qualified and best of class then they should be the ones speaking, no? Should we also invite granite rocks to presentations so that they are equally represented?
There's a fine line between being critics (constructive) and being assholes (destructive). When hiring, be sure to differentiate the two.
I suspect that was a joke about him working at Intel as opposed to Canonical (the Ubuntu people).
The importance of pointless projects
Just going to second this comment. First, for reference, here is the book mentioned:

http://pragprog.com/book/jaerlang/programming-erlang

But yes, I agree, the book is an excellent, enjoyable read. I wish I had more opportunities to use erlang in my day job.
It's ironic that unlocked phones benefit carriers arguably as much as locked phones do. An unlocked phone makes it easier to switch carriers, thus cheaper for carriers to acquire customers, but maybe they'd all rather have it be expensive to acquire customers so that it's harder for smaller providers to compete.

Either way, I don't think that the DMCA was designed to ensure a telecom oligopoly.
That is a false dichotomy. There are plenty of nice ways of working with closures with the given syntax.
Twitter is a zoo. Tweeting developer "celebrities" are monkeys throwing feces.

Let them have their fun; apparently their full-time compulsive Ruby masturbation leaves them enough time for these curious antics. As long as they are not on your team, they are relatively harmless.
Gemlock sounds more like Yolk:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/yolk/0.4.3
Reflections On Startup Weekend Missoula 2013
It looks like the entire story is hashed in the url.
sed 's/critical/snarky/g'

Or rather,

replace 'critical' 'snarky'
One nit: I'm not seeing an open source license in the repo. This is what would keep me from using or caring about this code snippet or start caring about how the developer was being treated.

Is there one and am I just missing it?
Nope, I do in fact mean the blades. Because blades are made up of 13 tons of fiberglass they bend and vibrate a lot. You have to visually inspect the blades to make sure there are no cracks or de-lamination. If there are you have to do the repairs while on rope in winds blowing up to 12 m/s.

It is in fact an extremely safe industry, Industrial Rope Access. With over 25m man hours on rope around the world there has only been 1 death offshore in the north sea in 2011.
This holds that "genuine" emotional reactions are all equally valid. What makes rage over a slightly-crushed croissant a valid emotional response?

There is also a question of what makes the "genuine" qualifier necessary. It presupposes the idea of an emotional response that is not genuine: what would this mean? What would a "false" emotional response look like, to the one feeling it (and are they truly feeling it at all?) or to others?
I agree it's total abuse of the DMCA, and a stupid idea.

But note, from TFA: "You can also pay full-price for a phone, not the discounted price that comes with a two-year service contract, to receive the device unlocked from the get-go. Apple sells an unlocked iPhone 5 starting at $649, and Google sells its Nexus 4 unlocked for $300."

You didn't buy the phone outright. You agreed to a massively subsidized price in exchange for a quid pro quo. At the very least, AT&T should be able to sue you for the breach of contract and get their $350 back.

But I think that's exactly what they should have to do, not have the government use the DMCA to enforce their contractual provisions for them.
How to store the world’s data on DNA
This is sad.

In Brazil, my home country, is illegal for a carrier to not unlock your phone if you ask.
Over here in the Netherlands, years ago, there was a (humorous) commercial by a toilet freshener called Toilet Duck: "We, of Toilet Duck fame, recommend Toilet Duck". It's a phrase that's still occasionally used when someone notices a clearly biased self-promotion, and applies to this story: a newspaper reports that working at a newspaper is more fulfilling than working at Google. Call me unimpressed.
Computer science leader Jim Horning dies at 70
We took a look at this and it should be working. Did you give it another try?
Which broker-dealer do you use to route your orders to the exchanges?

Do your orders flow through Getco's infrastructre at all?
There's still cross-browser compatibility issues, fringe cases that lead to unexpected behaviour, and so forth. Even if not typical of executing code, I'd still refer to those as bugs.
What is the name of the person ultimately responsible for this decision?
> I used to think that words were just words, logical things with defined meanings.

Well, they are! But those defined meanings are different for everybody who has a history with the word, and oftentimes you don't know that history going in. The problem with "straight white male" privilege, speaking as a straight white male myself, is that there are words which have enormous baggage for one group or another, yet I've simply never had to deal with such baggage myself.

That's where the overreacting canard comes from, and I don't think raganwald fully empathizes with this in his post. Some people simply don't understand why somebody might have a reason to be worked up about a particular issue because they've never had to care about that issue in their life. I don't just hear "you're overreacting" from people who can't comprehend that people have bad days sometimes. In fact, assuming that the only reason a situation might be personally charged is because somebody had a bad day can be just as frustrating: it really sucks, I've learned, to be "forgiven" for your bad mood when the forgiver has said something truly offensive. What's difficult, but also truly necessary, is to be able to understand why somebody's reacted the way they have – to be willing to admit to yourself that even if something you said didn't seem egregious to you, that you might have crossed a line somehow that you simply haven't learned to notice.

A lot of people forget that in any human-to-human interaction, the logical endpoints are the humans. Language, as all aspects of communication, is human-oriented; using it like it's a logical end unto itself is like trying to use Python phrases in a C script.
I don't give a rat's arse if it becomes illegal, I'm going to do it anyway.

Even so, the government has no right to declare what users can or cannot do with their mobile phones. Another "victimless crime" on the books. How has the war on drugs been working out for you, Congress? So much money and so many resources wasted on a crime that has no direct victims.

Seriously, someone needs to keep these loonies that run our country in check, because our masses are so stupid that they keep electing the idiots back into office. Ridiculous.
1) What you really have to worry about is the maintenance staff, people are in, on and around wind turbines all the time. If you are not able to maintain them due to the dager of ice buildup then the longevity of the turbines decrease.

2) It is kind of funny, but on all of the wind turbines I have been on, for complex reasons I will not get into here, don't use any of the energy they produce. They pull power from the grid to run internal computers and lighting.
So you don't take pride or feel a sense of ownership over your code? That would put you in the minority I surmise.

Fact: The vast majority of people would take the twitter conversation Heather posted as a personal attack. Not many people are able to separate attacks on their work product from attacks on themselves (for good reason - since I feel like most people derive a sense of pride from their work).

I dare say it would also take an asshole to not recognize this fact and make rude comments and not realize someone would be personally offended even though "it's just some code".
Programming a drone to act like a bull using node.js and coffeescript
Bitcoin market cap reaches all time high
Worth considering for sure and a good idea to investigate similar services more thoroughly.

Unfortunately for Austria mobiles (all rates include VAT):

Lebara: 19p/min

Skype: 11.2p/min (in the £38.99/month for 400 minutes package)

Google Voice: 8.4p/min

Out of the three countries I listed, Austria is the only one I call daily, usually for a minimum of 10 minutes, up to about 20 minutes. Ireland I call infrequently, but SMS up to 10 times per day. Australia I usually call once or twice per week, up to about 45 minutes.
Maybe this is just my ignorance on Unlocking vs Jailbreaking, but will you still be able to Jailbreak your iPhone (legally) to get access to things like Cydia?
A huge thank you to Alan for all his work over the years. Like quite a few others who ran linux back in the old 2.2/2.4 days, the -ac kernels where the place to be.

I'm reminded of the Derek Silvers article (http://sivers.org/ff) on the importance of the second guy to a movement.

While I know that Alan wasn't the actual second developer to participate in Linux, he sure seemed that way to me and quite a few others. His work was as the "gatherer of patches" in the pre-bitkeeper days was unparalleled. I don't think Linux could have prospered without his assistance.
To my eyes they always were true and complete, but you had to play the minor trick of using mutable data to get them. Here is an example of what I mean that has worked forever.

def outer ():
counter = [0]
def inner ():
counter[0] += 1
return counter[0]
return inner
Not available in most countries in the world, perhaps?
As phones become[1] no longer subsidized by network operators in the United States, this will become a non-issue.

[1] EDIT: I changed the former word "are" to "become" for clarity. What I mean, as some readers picked up and some did not, is that I expect United States mobile phone networks to get out of the business of selling mobile handsets at a heavily subsidized price (as is current practice in the United States), and thus get out of the business of needing to lock in contracts to gain revenue to cover the up-front cost of the subsidy. When handsets are sold at near full list price, the networks can charge just their network costs to customers who are free to shop with unlocked phones. The United States market is confusing in having different technical standards for basic voice phone service on different networks, but the networks are converging on similar technical standards for their data networks, so eventually most smart phone users will be able to shop for networks here.
"Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
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Beautiful comparison with photography and well said. And I would like to know the answer to this one: "What is it with people missing the point so many times in a row?" too. It's not like it's hard to understand or that there are few explanations out there.

I suspect many things and have many theories, but I'd be happy if someone concisely summarized different possible causes of such a behaviour of amateur programmers (and/or photographers). My "they're just noobs" doesn't cut it, because it may well be a description of effect and not the cause (I suspect it is).
yes a mistake, and he corrected it in his "N.B".
Thus the chain stops.
> This holds that "genuine" emotional reactions are all equally valid. What makes rage over a slightly-crushed croissant a valid emotional response?

It was from a five year old. Children haven't learnt how to regulate their emotions. That's part of the job of parenting.
No, there are two - you and me.
I think you're reading a bit much into my intent from a comment that is really just a quote from the article.
There's more, this must be a disappointment to every Poulsbo user out there, he was getting that driver in shape last year.
Same in France for instance
One of the subtler issues I've had with piping find in a scriptis that you end up calling a program N times instead of just opening N files in the program.

So if the program has overhead when loading, using a -r option instead an outer find loop can make a magnitude of difference to program operation.
Modern man 'a wimp', says anthropologist
There is no single party responsible. There are many. The entire government is to blame. We are talking about people, bureaucrats, who haven't the slightest idea of how a hard disk works or how their computer connects to the internet, and they think that they know everything about computers and can single-handedly swipe technological rights out of the American people. See Carmen Ortiz above.

It's the entire government. The sooner people understand this, things like these won't happen.
Let me get the thesis of the post out of the way first. The post asserts that the word "overreacting" is unproductive to discussion.

If someone's emotional reaction is genuine, i.e. represents how they feel, then you or I may think it's 100% bogus and invalid, but their response to the word "overreacting" is still going to be negative.

Now what I meant by "genuine"--and I'm open to learning that I used the word incorrectly--is that it represents how they feel. The alternative, to me, is when someone feigns anger or distress in order to consciously manipulate people.
It's in the article:

>(Note that unlocking is different from "jailbreaking," which opens the phone up for running additional software and remains legal for smartphones.)

So, yup, that's still okay... For now.
Obviously the paper isn't going to let him write a hatchet job on how terrible the paper is. But that doesn't mean he doesn't have some good points. If it takes months to get code pushed out at google and hours or minutes at the paper it would seem that google is slowly losing one of their big competitive advantages: innovation brought on by rapid iteration and public feedback.
This reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclideon ... Not trying to draw a comparison, i just find these "future of gaming" technologies interesting, vapor or not.
Airline passenger harassed for Princess Bridge quote on shirt
I heard he's never negative.
Ever wanted to see a bad argument? Read the post by Dylan16807!
"You might as well just install GNU sed in BSD if that's the problem"

Often not possible depending on what authorizations and hosting you have.
I've had plenty of first and second hand experience with the american health care system and I am very aware that it's nowhere near ideal. This applies perhaps even more so in the area of mental health.

Still, I think the post I replied to above warrants criticism. Reading between the lines one might come to the conclusion that he went to the ER because he was out of shape.
Your assumption is that there is a "best of class" which can be easily identified and sorted from the rest. Given that most conferences aren't going to consist only of the absolute paragons of an industry, we can conclude that in planning conferences we're selecting possible speakers from a number of very qualified participants.

In industries where there is a grotesque gender imbalance, one way you start to fix that imbalance is by acknowledging it and making efforts to pick women speakers when they're available – that both gives the speakers an opportunity that is being frequently denied them, and it indicates to other women that there is opportunity in this field, that they won't be passed over again and again by men for no merit other than their gender.

If we assume that no woman is as good as a man in this field, then your argument makes sense – but that's a silly argument, methinks.
It may not matter at all. Why should there be "Tall, Canadian, Caramel Privilege?"
I agree with this, but have a (maybe related) comment/question.

This may be naive, but having used various WebKit browsers as well as Firefox, one aspect of the discussion that seems to be missing is end user extensibility. I notice that none the WebKit browsers support the customization that is present in Firefox (or other Gecko browsers, for that matter). This has mattered a lot to me for features like those provided by KeySnail (giving Firefox a very Emacs-like set of keybindings), Firebug, Greasemonkey and Stylish.

I suspect, though I haven't confirmed, that WebKit simply doesn't support certain kinds of extensibility along these lines. Regardless, I think advocating a monoculture where such a situation might arise is myopic. In fact, I doubt Chrome would be what it is today without Firefox...it seems that its extension system is clearly based on Greasemonkey and its development tools were inspired by Firebug.
Whenever my old relatives talk about how they grandparents lived up to 120 years old in remote Russian villages without any doctors, it gives shivers. Last relative died at age 98, so much for modern civilization.

And not like they were on life support when hitting over 100, they were out in the fucking field working.

But yeah, eventually this will disappear and all we have is a book saying that 100 years ago average life span was 30 years so we are doing great increasing it to 60 :D
They're not too far off on some things (SMP, the tablet being a synthesis of other devices like camera, audio recorder, &c), but other things never took hold, like using IR as a communication system.
I've read interesting research that suggests that subjecting surfaces to ultrasound discourages the development of biofilms. This also helps cleaning.
I second this idea.

I've wondered a long time why there isn't more development of nonlethal weapons, something like a stun / tranquilizer gun.

I don't want a gun for my own self-defense, because, once you have a gun, and actually target someone, you have to be WILLING to fire it, and live with the consequences (automatic jail time here in my country, except in the most strenuous self-defense, and then only if the assailant had a gun himself).

However, I'm strongly considering a Taser for myself, after witnessing a particularly appalling mugging (I was to slow to intervene, which is actually a good thing, because I'm overweight and out of shape, I would have been beaten up).
I was going to post something similar in reply - but your comment is just so much better and more polite than I would have posted!
Tesla production reaches 20,000 cars / year
In Brazil, it's illegal for carriers to subsidize their phones. It's the carrier subsidy that gives rise to network locking here in the U.S. If you buy the phone at retail price, the carrier will unlock it if you ask.
I agree that increased production and variety of consumer goods is mostly useless if only an elite minority gains benefits from them. But I still disagree that only an elite minority has seen a benefit, i.e. an increase in the quality of life over the past 40 years, and certainly over the past 60 years. And yes, income and wealth inequality may have increased since 1950, and I agree with you that this is objectively bad. I also agree that our country has a serious and growing problem with personal debt.

But these things do not mean that the average and median standard of living has not risen for everyone in the United States since 1950, which I believe it has. I don't even see how this can be argued. Almost every quality of life metric I can think of has improved: education, life expectancy, and infant mortality have all improved, in addition to harder to measure increases in everyday comfort due to technology. In 2013, even most of the poor have a mobile phone. Almost anyone can walk into a library and talk to you or I on Hacker News. There are some metrics that have not improved, such as crime, incarceration rates, or income equality, and these are serious issues. But overall, I believe that the standard of living for the average US citizen has risen.

Anecdotal examples don't really prove much, but I'd like to give one anyway. My sister hasn't made the best decisions, and dropped out of college to move in with her boyfriend. They lived with his mother for a while, and lived on food stamps and in poverty. During this time, they had access to an Xbox 360, a car, cell phones, and a television. Their living situation was terrible by normal standards, and yet their standard of living would have been seen as good or even great by 1950 standards.
But it seems that complaints against the replace code wasn't about the code itself. It seems it's more about the fact that it isn't sed, that it's javascript, that it's node, and that they themselves would choose not to use it. For all those reasons they chose to publicly criticize the project in what can be considered a demeaning way. For an "open" source community, that's a bad thing and deserves this furor. In fact, it should happen more often than it does.
Public versus private though. If my adviser came in with a printout of something I wrote and told me, "This is garbage and unworthy of the electrons used to send it to me," I would be OK with that -- but if he stood up at a conference, put it on a projector, and said, "My student wrote this worthless crap" I would be (rightly) angry about it. Insulting someone's work to their face in a private setting is not nearly as bad as publicly demeaning their work.
Would this kind of recruitment tactic expose one to an EEOC lawsuit?
> Really. Can we not be critical on the internet any more?

I think that's a vast oversimplification.

I actually don't think this has ANYTHING TO DO WITH CODE. Anyone can walk into a subway restaurant, ask for a sandwich, take pictures of the people who made the sandwich, tweet their pictures laughing at how stupid they are and what a shitty job they did making your sandwich. You can do that to waiters, barstaff, cleaners, you can do that to anyone... but it makes you an asshole.

If you find yourself pulling up individual repos with <5 users and shouting 'Hey everybody look at these people recreating the wheel! What fools! Let's all point and laugh!' wouldn't you agree that's being an asshole? Is that bettering the community? No, frankly all you are doing is choosing to piss on a few people.

I have a ton of files on github and gist, most of them are absolute crap. I put them out there on the off chance someone happens by a similar issue/problem they might find something useful.

This morning there was a gist I was reading, and yeah it was mostly rubbish but it had the one line of code I was looking for.

That behavior needs to be encouraged by more people. We need to encourage people to put out their code and not delete it. Regardless of if it is crap.

If you see something picking up momentum with a growing base of users that you disagree with then by all means start raising the alarms; create a blog discussing the downside of using process X (examples of X could be nosql, sql, node, coffeescript, python, java, grails, groovy, haskell, go, maven, ant, gradle, etc etc)
Evolution and natural selection only apply to the long term over many, many generations. Your short term observations mean very little.
>>>and what separates people is how they deal with it.

That.
I remember that competition! I started working on an entry with a few other people in school, and remember that my contribution was the idea that there would be separate processors for video and for audio.