skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you see how much fiction is in this post? No one has made out Aaron to be a saint. There is no "cult of worship". And to call a young dead person a coward is shameful.

Aaron was loved and deeply respected for the things he said and did. Don't try and take that away from him.
I would expect the general trends to be about the same, though all less pronounced.

Say 25% of the researchers in the US were born in the US: The US column would drop significantly but since that other 75% is probably spread more or less evenly across the other columns, they would only all rise a little.

The only really dramatic change I would expect would be to mainland China. It probably wouldn't loose much, but would likely gain quite a lot.
Or is their core business marketing?

An example: Borland marketed Pascal and later C compilers. (Ok, sorry--from the deep dark past.) They outsourced both pieces of technology. So you might think that this is an example of outsourcing core competency.

But their core competency was Marketing--Phillipe Kahn, during that period had glow-in-the-dark PR.

(Incidentally, the technological genius behind both products was none other than Anders Hejlsberg.)
Is there anything in this article that would not apply to other functional languages (Ocaml, etc.) ?
When we're discussing the social implications of women in technology, it doesn't seem un-reasonable to me to use terms of art from social science. Maybe it does to you?

> implying that those who don't accept your definition as ignorant ("people who've never been forced to confront their privilege")

The point of privilege is that you don't notice it. I think the disconnect here is that you assume that I'm making some kind of judgement about ignorance. I don't think people who are ignorant are 'bad.' Everyone needs to learn these things sometime.

> in the manner, if I might mischievously suggest, of a person who believes in the privileged position of their knowledge on the subject and their right to tell others how to speak.

The thing is that in this case, it's (to switch back to CS ;) ) a leaky abstraction. If someone thinks "I get discriminated against too, as a man, so I've experienced sexism" they're totally talking past people who are discussing what it is for women to experience sexism, since they (the man) are only experiencing sexual discrimination. The 'pervasive' part is significant. It's not about policing words: it's about getting men to understand that they have not and will not be able to experience sexism in the way a woman does, even if they are, at times, discriminated against based on their gender. You're absolutely right that words have power: that's why we shouldn't let people use the wrong ones.
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One feature that I can see possibly being valuable here is the ability to filer, prioritize, or otherwise throttle the notifications.

An example would be my usage of Google Reader; there's a Chrome app[1] that shows notifications for new items, but I haven't been under 1000 new items in years ("1000+" is as high as it tracks). Yes, I have many feeds I need to prune out, but even then, I may get upwards of 100 new items a day in my reader and I sure as heck don't care about them all. I really just care about items from a few select sources, but without a way to filter out the noise it's useless.

I'm not sure if that use-case would be very common for your app, although there's times when I make a popular FB post that I tend to ignore the notifications once they get past about 10.

1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-reader-noti...
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Why does press always ignore the women? Women of the OFA Tech Team
I worked at a place where I was the only person responsible for the game dev section of the company, about 50 people.

On my second day I discovered that QA listed a bug as high priority with a "1", while the developers put a "10" on the highest priority. I think you can see that there was an issue. They had operated with this system for more than a year before I got there.

I switched them to a letter system, "A" being top priority, "B" is second etc on my third day.

Their world changed.
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Any reason for not targeting Ruby 2.0?
"The 10 Commandments" and/or the Bible itself upset me for other reasons. In this particular case I am only upset by my own ignorance.
I agree. If you look at the close up photograph of the final board (http://blog.davidsingleton.org/static/proto.png) it looks like he's got the following:

Relay connected to 5v with the diode across the coil. The base of the transistor goes to pin 18 via a resistor. The transistor is on the other side of the relay between it and ground.

That makes more sense to me because the diode is now actually protecting the Raspberry Pi 5V line.
Can you expand on why you find this ridiculous? When discussing social groups, the make-up of the group is obviously important.
A trucker is speeding down the highway along with a few other trucks.
He sees blue lights in his rear view mirror and pulls over.
"Officer, how can you pull me over?! There were at least 1/2 dozen other trucks going the same speed!"
Officer: Do you ever go fishing?
Trucker: Well, yes.
Officer: Tell me, did you ever catch ALL the fish?

Volunteering at an animal shelter does not mean you don't car about people. Attempting to improve conditions for women does not mean you don't care about people of color. Working to improve conditions for impoverished US citizens does not mean you don't care about people in the third world. Is my point coming thru?

It's irritating to always see some person chiming in about how if you are working for women you're ignoring Hispanics or some such BS. Both efforts are valid!! I can't believe Etsy is trying to at least make baby steps to helping women get into a male dominated very well paying field, and all you have is criticism. phooey.
In case you didn't know, THQ held rights for the Warhammer 40K franchise to produce computer games, which was sold recently because of bankruptcy. The new owner surely will see his new investment is safe and expects all rights defended.
I'll agree it's more interesting in that the end-result was a box that required a hard boot, but still these two issues aren't that distantly related: it effected routers and many, many OS platforms, so it's not as if it was related to some implementation detail that MS left out of Windows.

Correct me if I'm wrong (no, seriously) -- aren't both "packets of death" just poor handling of said malformed packets? Violations of their respective protocols? (TCP/SIP)
There are lots of various localized groups for women in tech in most cities, many depending on their specialties. Some of them are mailing lists, some of them are Meetup groups, some of them are IRC channels. Tap into those communities with job listings and - if you're so inclined - encourage the likelihood that one of them will apply if you state that you're explicitly looking for women to fill the role. Good luck!
I tried those posts three times now and they did not work for me. Not even a phone interview. Sure I am a recent grad (this december) who comes from a developing country (visa issues) and I lack open source experience, but my internship was with a good company and I happen to know a lot about various issues that face my fellow developers. Hopefully someone with a similar circumstance can advise me on who to work around this.
orange how you check if the person is reputable or not?
How does this handle conflicts? Multiple mobile devices and offline mode can get pretty hairy pretty fast.
Thank you. Good luck to you guys. Consumer security is a difficult problem as you may already know. However, it is such a HUGE issue especially since most solutions out there give users an allusion of security. I think we got a very good product at the moment and would definitely continue to improve the user experience. Where are you guys? Come visit us some time :)

-V.
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Looks awesome. As someone who loved tinkering with WoW's UI in my high school days, I love Unlok's approach to UI customization here. I only wish more big budget titles would do the same.
Not officially, but in practice, there's a "high court" for those entities (corporations, people, etc) with a lot of money. Defendants either don't get charged with as serious crimes for the same or worse actions, and those few found guilty don't receive equal punishment. In practice, there's a "low court" for the less well off entities. Laws are applied far more broadly (any excuse for a guilty verdict) and far greater punishments are assessed.

Again, this distinction is somewhat de facto, rather than any official status that mean "use the high court" or "subject to the low court". It's just a double standard that seems to be in place unofficially.
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Being excluded from high status professions hurts the social status of women as a whole. It's a legitimate concern if you're interested in raising the social status of women.

As far as the profession is concerned, there are probably a lot of women with the potential to become good programmers and it would be a shame to exclude them. So there is an argument from both sides. What changed is the status part of the question.
Dropbox launches simpler 'Sync API' for devs.
What does TDD with pair programming REALLY feel like? (Several Hours of Video)
a bunch of videos of how I did pair programming on a GO game with TDD.
False equivocation. The problems are not all of the same severity, and it is a fallacy to say they are "all the same" just because you use the same word, problems.
Very neat graphics!

If you were presented with a similar graphics but with "gun murders" replaced by "murders perpetrated by men under 25" how would you feel?

I suppose some people (esp. those who aren't men under 25) might think locking all men up until they are 25 to be an acceptable price. Men under 25 would rightfully complain "Hey, why are we being punished for the transgressions of a few bad apples?" Something to think about.
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Anyone read or reviewed this yet? Apart from the authors 9 friends on Amazon.
I think the real problem is that any talented ambitious employee that spends enough 40-hour weeks to get good at bug triaging is going to want to get the hell out of there as soon as possible. The work is close to data entry in its rewardishness.
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> serves the same purpose as fake thermostats on the walls of office buildings.

It's worth noting that many of those thermostats aren't "false", but just have their control disabled. That means they still provide current temperature information to determine if heating needs to be activated.
Matt - "First of all - we make this abundantly clear on the site - you should never, ever pay funds unless the deliverables are complete and you are 100% happy."

Judging from that, the decision to pay upfront was your choice. Although what happened really sucks, it does seem like it was self inflicted and in no way freelancer.com's fault.

Also, I do truly feel sorry for you, but making this post on HN is pretty low. If you hired an actual studio than chances are they have a site with contact information. You might have made an attempt at contacting them before this post, I don't know, but if that is the case it doesn't seem like you have given them the chance to respond. If their site doesn't have their contact information you can always run a whois on their domain and possibly get an email address or phone number. I know money issues usually tend to cause a knee jerk reaction but I have learned the best way to deal with problems like this is to, no matter what and before anything else, take time to calm down, relax and clear my head.

Be that as it may, everyone makes mistakes and in this case it seems like both parties did make a mistake. From the sound of it, NovaStudios handled the situation just as bad (arguably worse from a customer service standpoint) as you have. Either way, it's a rough situation. I am WordPress dev and might have some free time in my schedule coming up. If you are in a bind with your site or need some more help let me know and I will see what I can do. Good luck with the situation!
Has Kii unlocked the future of app analytics?
"This could be a major step forward for app developers looking for the Holy Grail – visibility and monetisation."
What about merge conflicts?

Looking at their API docs it looks closer to rsync than to an API you could use for collaboration. I don't think you could edit a document on your iPhone and iPad at the same time. Both clients' changes would just stomp over each other.
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/sync/docs/ios

What I'd like to see is someone offer operational transformation as an API.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation
One of the things to come out of the Rubinius project is RubySpec, which is pretty much a language spec in unit test form, and which be very useful to test Topaz.
To be honest, given the legal system and the prejudice of a lot of parents, you would have to be a fool or have 100% coverage surveillance cameras to hire a man to do child care / early childhood education.

If you worry the male child care provider might change your child's diapers or be the one to clean up your child incase of accidents, then you are part of that problem.
Just curious, for this project did you set out to write it in idiomatic ruby or idiomatic (R)Python?
Also you're a whiner.
User Experience - Adding Functionality to Navigation Menu - Worth It?
I have a decision to make. Most standard navigation menus are simple. You click (or hover) and a menu appears with a list of links and each leads you directly to a new page. However, I was contemplating adding a bit of functionality to my navigation menu.

It must be mentioned that my web app is for video, although not quite the same, think youtube or even udemy as an example.

When my navigation displays, it does so without interfering with the video. What I was looking to do was just give each navigation item an extra layer. For instance, if "watch later" or "messages" are items in the navigation, you wouldn't be sent to a new page right away. You'd go down another layer where you could scan through a minimal list within the menu. You could still click to go through to the respective page, but you wouldn't be forced to as you would with a standard navigation menu.

I suppose Facebook does this with their notification icons. You can see your messages and friend requests without leaving the page. Or you can choose to "view all" and go to a new page.

I personally find this useful. But I wonder if others feel the same? I especially find it useful to have on a video site that then can't pull you away from what you are currently watching. The functionality could be enhanced further, enabling you to write a message or upload a video within the menu. I wonder if it's worthwhile implementing this for those that don't want to be forced to leave the page?

What are your guys thoughts / opinions? Anything helps. Thanks!
Of course, I also use Coffeescript and Haml...

I'm curious: why not use Python then as well?
Hmm.. this is interesting, something we'll look into for the future of Chime. For now, we only have filtering by sites.
>What is someone going to stop doing when they start using your product?

I can't get past that title. It hurts.

Actually, I did get past the title and that's really good advice. It helps with the response "so what" after you list all the great things your app does.
Correlation doesn't imply causation.

You can't honestly expect that John Q. Public is going to be as successful as a Chrome team member for getting a bug accepted; I've seen many of the bugs that get filed for Chrome, and I'd say a fair amount of them are by non-technical users.

I'd be willing to bet that if you took any non-trivial project and ran the same metrics on the bug DB for developers vs. QA, you might get about the same results. When a dev puts a bug in, more times than not, it's a bug. But when QA puts one in, there's a very good chance that they're either mistaken about the expected functionality, or are reporting a bug that's already been fixed in trunk.
How can we know that the big companies will port their apps?

Many of the top apps were missing from the previous BlackBerry OS. What indication is there that they will be coming to BB10?

BlackBerry says they are in talks with Netflix, but they said that about getting an app for BB7, and that never happened.
Yeah, here's a TED talk from 2011 about it: http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidn...

I remember seeing this talk in person (spoiler alert) and midway through they dragged this up kid on stage who has been living with a bladder built via similar means for 10 years! Closest I've felt to Rip Van Winkle in my life.
>These are the kind of interviewers that keep asking technical questions until they find something you don't know

Don't make the mistake of assuming that asking harder and harder questions must mean I am trying to deflate your ego. I am trying to hire people who are smarter than me, and know more than me, and can bring something I am lacking to the team. I need to ask harder and harder questions to find those people.
We'll certainly look into this, but not sure if this fits the objective of Chime.
You should not be able to take down a book, a song or an album, a drawing over intellectual property.

Once it's a piece of art it should be immune to all and every trademark or copyright (if, of course, the art in question is not a strict copy of another copyrighted piece of art).

That's the only way.
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Some of those same officers get relieved due to "poor command climate" one somewhat recent example;
"[Navy Captain] was fired as commanding officer of Navy [a] Health Clinic after a survey found a poor command climate."
Doesn't happen as much as it should, perhaps, but its not unknown.
> Some observers objected to Go's C-like block structure with braces, preferring the use of spaces for indentation, such as used in Python or Haskell [braces are optional in haskell]. However, we have had extensive experience tracking down build and test failures caused by cross-language builds where a Python snippet embedded in another language, for instance through a SWIG invocation, is subtly and invisibly broken by a change in the indentation of the surrounding code. Our position is therefore that, although spaces for indentation is nice for small programs, it doesn't scale well, and the bigger and more heterogeneous the code base, the more trouble it can cause. It is better to forgo convenience for safety and dependability, so Go has brace-bounded blocks.

http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article
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True, but that's not what he's referring to. He's talking about one-upmanship, which I've seen more of than the sensible testing you're talking about. I call the former "dick-waving contests", usually followed by suggesting they put their ego back in their pants.
Really appreciate your comment! I really do agree with your sentiments.
Sorry about that, fixed :)
There are lots of obvious differences. Both companies have compromised on the ideal of a light device that runs nearly forever ona single charge, has a high resolution screen, a powerful processor, plenty of memory, all the apps you need, &c.

Each company has made different compromises. The question is, to whom are those choices/differences meaningful?

Being able to use a Surface without access to a Mac or PC is meaningful to people who are buying a primary PC that happens to have a detachable screen. Being able to store all of your music or movies on it is meaningful to those who are buying a post-PC device.

I don't know why you call iTunes "MalWare," but it sounds to me like you'd compute on an Abacus before you'd use an Apple device.
Perhaps unfairly. It showed a willingness to be critical regardless of relationships. I've never understood why instances like this are considered exceptions proving a rule.
It's pretty funny, Warcraft and Starcraft are both blatant ripoffs of GW's Warhammer and WH40k. I even recall reading somewhere the original Warcraft RTS was to be an officially licensed Warhammer game. But gee whiz, I wonder why we don't see legal action brought against Blizzard?
A lot of really smart engineers that I know personally are really bad in interview situations because they are extremely artificial and stressful, while they perform really well in normal (yet potentially also stressful) work situations. In fact, one guy I know flunked an interview exactly because of this even though I know he's really good at what he does (because I've known him a long time).
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The Peter Principle is a belief that, in an organization where promotion is based on achievement, success, and merit, that organization's members will eventually be promoted beyond their level of ability. The principle is commonly phrased, "Employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence." In more formal parlance, the effect could be stated as: employees tend to be given more authority until they cannot continue to work competently. It was formulated by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

This should be required reading:
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Essential_Drucker.ht...
At least Warhammer 40K is their actual product. As comments in TFA and here indicate the expression has been in scifi since 1932: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_marine
I know that Netscape open sourced its code and that become Mozilla/FF.
Ask HN: Which large companies don't have name badges?
I never want to wear a name badge for work again.

Which companies have no or optional name badges?
I'm not sure how common this is for HTML5 games, but I really do appreciate how I can download this and play it locally.

Being forced to always play it online via a webserver is one of the things that puts me off HTML5 games (or browser based games in general).
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> I'm a female dev and I don't feel weird on all male teams. Just another team member. But I did feel singled out when the other female developer and I were mostly assigned to work together.

Could it have been to make her feel more comfortable? With certain jobs I've had, my male co-workers would communicate differently with the other males than they would with me. Sometimes they'd talk to me like I was removing my training wheels, other times more formally, and other times less seriously. This changes with time (well, okay, not sometimes), but that was the initial approach.
I don't think it was 3 months worth of work, just that it took them 3 months to dispute.

I know personally, I had a bad experience with a contractor who delivered work after 8 months, when the timeline called for only 1 week of work.