skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, you helped clarify what I was looking to leave as an open question:

How do we hold individuals accountable without encouraging a witch hunt?

The larger developer community is open and unmoderated and as a result we have no organizational "justice system" to fall back on in order to correct behavior (not that I am proposing this).
You'd have to ask the chap who did it! This wasn't mentioned though. I think the code is available in the papers concerned; it would be relatively trivial to add "rounding to nearest available part" to the assessment criteria, I imagine.
Cathy is suffering because people are saying bad things about him and refusing to buy his sandwiches. Meanwhile, 29 states (including Self’s home state of Louisiana) let employers fire gays for being gay.

I'm confused. In 50 states, people have the freedom not to buy what Cathy is selling because they dislike him. In 29 states, people have the freedom not to buy what Self is selling because they dislike him.

Who is oppressed here?
No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app

Ok, so don't! Just because you have no use for an app doesn't mean it's useless to others, or "bullshit" as you so eloquently put it.

I have the NPR app on my iPhone and iPad. Wake up in the morning, feel like listening to the radio and don't want to start the day browsing the web? Turn on Morning Edition on the iPad. Listening to a really interesting Fresh Air interview on the car radio but now have to get out of the car and go grocery shopping? Switch to the live broadcast on the iPhone, pop in my earphones, get out, keep listening.

The BBC and NYTimes apps are less useful to me but I get news alerts on my mobile from the NYTimes and the AP. And I can quickly check world news headlines or start a BBC live radio stream on my iPhone in a matter of seconds.

NPR and the BBC are both free of ads and, in my opinion, are just trying to serve their listeners and readers as best as they can. If you think smart phones and tablets are just smaller versions of your laptop or desktop computer, fine, continue consuming your media just as you did in the 90s, you're not the target audience any way.
I picked up a SIM card for my new Nexus 4 in-store a couple of weeks ago. Just walked in, told them what I needed, was promptly given a card for $0.
Managing Managers
Quite an old issue (2011), did anybody run the script to see if as many sites still publicly expose these files?
Ira Glass on Storytelling
I believe the current propaganda term used for this sort of thing is "hard working families".
This is actually a bad sign for Chromebooks. Up untill now they have been market differentiators due to either their low cost or focus on unique features. This is just a HP laptop running chrome. I think Google needs to force manufactures to hold a different standard to get ChromeOS officially licensed on their hardware. Where is the High resolution display or exceptional battery life, or super low cost. At the end of the day this laptop and not the 199 ARM chromebook is what can tank ChromeOS. This is what people pick up and have bad experiences with and then never touch again.
That's 20 useful emails a week their employees won't be receiving. I look forward to a world where I'm competing with companies that don't allow their employees to use email :-)
I don't think the SSD _can_ make up the difference. ChromeOS is a cloud OS once you boot there isn't much hitting of the disk at all.
Because your average graphics designer or blogger has no idea what Apache is, what public directories or file permissions are. They just want to run their own blog. That's why Wordpress (or PHP for that matter) is successful; it's easy to set up and get started.
Sorry about your treatment. :(

(And here I go into down-vote territory... :D)

Before I say anything, let me say clearly I am not sexist; I am a strong advocate of equal rights (key word: equal).

Some of your attacks can definitely be attributed to sex, but it's bad propaganda just to throw them all in the sexism bucket, or treat sexism like it is the norm. I know several females in the industry who are not afraid of anything, and have never been attacked on the basis of their sex (or even been attacked otherwise). Sometimes people attack just because they don't like the cut of your jib. In other words, it can be tempting to project your experiences on the rest of the industry, but I think as a whole the majority of men are "good guys".

The simple truth is the more you open yourself to the public, the more you open yourself for attack, regardless of sex. You have almost 30,000 followers, so statistically speaking at least a few of them are probably psychopaths and/or sexist. Some of the highest profile tweeters, like Notch, get attacks daily (mostly by angry 13 year olds). My $0.02...
Borderline criminal? Do you think that your comments here are going to lead to you being arrested? Are the snatch-squads coming for you? Or is your real fear that some meaningless "karma score" on your other account might go down a bit? What a disaster that would be, given that it's such a meaningful value and lowering it would really affect your life. Having a throwaway account for comments you think people won't like says a lot more about you than about society.
It's somewhat encouraging to read the comments here and note that for a change they are not already overrun by aggressive apologists for the continuing misogyny in software development.
One thing the article misses is that a religion is so much more than mere privilege.

In the Judaic religions, Yahweh/Allah/God/Jehovah does not lie. Every word he utters is by definition true, and this means that his holy scriptures must also be true. So, when something contradicts the word of a god that never lies, how can it be seen as anything but an affront to that god?

The Judaic scriptures are very clear about their god's views on homosexuality and marriage, so unless you manage to change those scriptures (fat chance), any pressure your bring to bear on the adherents of that religion will cause a backlash and counter-revolution.

In the end, the only thing that will work is to marginalize the more radical groups to the point that they're no longer a powerful political entity (most promisingly via population attrition from decent educations). They'll still complain, but at least they'll be impotent.

"Privileged distress" is nothing compared to the full force of an organized religion with an uncompromising god.
A Strategy for Defining Order Relations
MOOCs are much more directed than just picking up a book.
If I'm understanding you correctly, then you're essentially arguing that the CATB analogy applies to the infrastructure of the web. Would you say that something like Diaspora is something which uses the Bazaar approach?

Secondly, given your model of what you believe the future of trust looks like - what do I do if I lose my phone? How do I 'get back in' to the Platform if my primary key gets lost?

In my view, authentication requires a third-party - one which provides the 'yay or nay' that somebody is who they say they are. If you don't have that, then your relationship with any client is one which cannot be verified: it's the equivalent of asking for an ID card without checking that it's real.
Thanks for clarifying - and thanks for sharing the Monbiot column. I hadn't seen it before.
It would also be interesting to know if any of the big CMS vendors (Automattic, Drupal etc) has done anything to prevent this in the newer releases.
Chrome for Linux's been having 64-bit builds for a while now.
Could be HN mod editorialising at work
Iceland is a special case. It is tiny, with only 320,000 inhabitants. That is 1/1000th of the population of the US. And the population is also highly homogeneous. The fact that they can pull off a peaceful "revolution" like this doesn't mean anything for the majority of countries in the world.
Successful democracies are not characterized by allowing every fancy extremist undercurrent arbitrary veto power. In the USA, most controversial decisions are not blocked by extremists, but by representatives who confuse the dominating media presence of extremists with actual representation in the population.

If the republicans would not go to such extreme lengths to accommodate the feelings of every conceivable nut case, they would probably be better off in the long run, and even non-schizophrenics would be able to see some direction in their politics.
The author helps with an Apache rule:

<Files ~ "(^#.*#|~|\.sw[op])$">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>

What would be the equivalent of this for Nginx?
I don't think there is much debate about it. I think it is fairly obvious that this project will advance neuroscience quite a bit, even if it would be a smarter choice to start with the C. Elgans. A project like this, putting together what we currently know from experimentation is the necessary next step. Will it bring the massive game changing understanding of the brain that it is hoped, who knows.
Everything women do, revolves around the acquisition of attention. The sooner you learn this, the better... young Horatio.
And how many speakers have porn created of them distributed during conferences? And when that happened would you expect at least a small percentage to secretly have a little laugh at it?

There was another post on the front-page just minutes ago called The Distress of the Privileged [1] and it makes the very good point that these things are about a difference of scale.

On the one hand we have one of the most high-profile of tweeters facing regular childish threats; on the other hand we have a not all that well known female presenter having to deal with porn 'of her' being distributed during speaking engagements.

[1] http://weeklysift.com/2012/09/10/the-distress-of-the-privile...
Lending Club Exceeds $1 Billion in Personal Loans
The first time I read a vulnerability report about text editor backup or swap files being served as pain text was probably in the mid-to-late-90s

Some things never change.
SQLite for WinRT
3D Print Your Own Android Robot
I'm not contradicting myself, as I said: except for filters, animations and fonts, all modern browsers have good support for SVG 1.1. By "good support" I mean it's on pair or even better than HTML5 and CSS3 support.

Files that break cross-origin policy or use non-standard tags are poorly authored by my standards.

I have a lot of experience with SVG under WebKit-based browsers and so far everything renders just fine for me except for advanced features mentioned earlier.
"thou shall not impose your will or arm another"

Looks like you failed there - I presume you meant harm there, but you wrote arm.

Having a law that prevents arming others seems a bit odd...
As some one who used to work on OSI based systems well thats just sloppy standards writing the bane of internet standards.

Its a pity that RFC's and other internet standards are not written and implemented more rigorously - for example Google have problems interpreting the xml sitemap standard and that is only 3 pages FFS.
Email is just a stream of information. It can be badly managed and annoying or well managed and useful. The one massive advantage over a random social network is that absolutely everyone has it and can use it. It neatly sidesteps all the authentication/sign up/access problems which make other services difficult to use between large organisations. It may sometimes fail as an app, but it is hugely successful and useful as a protocol.
Services as a Backend
I got a free ticket to this last year and really liked it.

I was expecting a bunch of 'JQuery is Javascript' people and it wasn't like that at all: the most popular talk as Christian Heilman on now using JQuery (ie, using Elements / Nodelists and native DOM methods).

Tip: get a hotel room in Oxford for the night.
Since when have gaping flaws in a concept been a deterrent against people trying to implement it?

Your typical Internet White Knight is most likely not explicitly aiming to get laid, but simply following the classical role model they've absorbed via Hollywood: women are weak and need to be defended, good men defend them (and get the girl in the end).

It can get a bit comical but the real problem is that it takes the form of personal defense in specific cases, and is focused on women. So males getting treated like shit are unlikely to get any help or even sympathy from a White Knight, and they're unlikely to spend any effort on actual solutions to a toxic atmosphere.
It's interesting that you say "couldn't care less if their victim is a women or black person, or whatever".

Can you come up with a good example of this kind of extreme attacking of a white man? You say "How would this look for a guy", I honestly can't think of any examples where people go anywhere near as far trolling and harassing white men. I may of course just be forgetting some obvious cases.
The main issue is

There's no more "the media". The internet is the media.

We are the media (yes, even HN), and remember, with power comes responsibility.

Still, some media outlets have more penetration than others, however, the story still gets told.

But it's the 'big media' that's losing relevance and paying the price.
I have read 'How the World Works' by Noam Chomsky, and I am shaken at the facts.
The "deeply personal story" is about shit that went down in public. Things you might have seen happening because you saw her speak at a conference. It is perfectly reasonable to "attach" it to any "speaking on conferences"-stuff.
If you think the developer community is bad, try advertising / media / sales.
I like the idea. When the battery of the first starts dying the next one could even be sent into the field for a seamless handoff.

I'd prefer it be used for non-evil uses somehow though ;)
I find it striking that Al-Jazeera (the Arab news network?) did cover it and show an awsome interview with the Icelandic President. "A too strong financial sector takes all the 21st century talent and that is bad"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5...
It was/is a similar story with dictionary apps until free software clients came along and "Hey arseholes just sell us dictionary files, mmkay?"
This is awesome!

Their look remind me "I, Robot".

When can I have one for household?
I've found a while ago an article - "eating healthily for $3 a day" (googe it). I found it to be a very interesting read (and an inspiring business idea, BTW). If you start there, you'll get $7/day left for other needs.
If it's 20 hours of time-on-task while in flow it's a TREMENDOUS amount of work in a knowledge worker job. We should all be so lucky to be so productive every week.

A lot of people's time is filled by very low-productive work such as excessive communication overhead, or fiddling around with low-quality tooling, etc.
One of the things missing from the BBC report there was that this was a mitochondrial DNA test. While many may (on paper) be a descendant of Richard III, illegitimacy is common and matrilineal heritage is the best bet.
That was a bad call from Acer to use an HDD, regardless of how much storage it really has. It's a Chromebook. Another bad call for both is that they used a crippled Intel Celeron with terrible GPU graphics (remember you need the GPU for video acceleration, as well as other stuff), and it made the machine more expensive and with poorer battery life, instead of a brand new ARM CPU and GPU, like Samsung did.
That's technically not correct. The UK royal house is paid an annuity that was given in exchange for them surrendering the revenues from their private holdings. These revenues are much larger than the annuity they are paid -- by some 5 times. Even if you take the most broad definition of the costs of the royal house, including the security provided to them and the lost revenues from the official properties they use, they still surrender more than £80M more to the state than they cost in upkeep.

There are many good arguments against the British royalty -- cost is not one of them. Were they a private family with private holdings, the people of the UK would pay more taxes than they do now.

The only way you can argue that abolishing the monarchy would save money is if you argue that they should be stripped from their private property. But if you start such land redistribution, just where should you end? Most of the land in the UK is held by aristocrats. And the US is not much better -- in the wealthy areas in the east, most of the land was originally acquired by means that would be less than reputable today.
This comment is wrong, but it can be a good starting point for what I want to say: it's very likely that in life people will pick on you for what you are. I've been tormented at various degrees because I'm short, or because I'm shy and introvert, or because I sort of like math. I mean I have been called a "pain in the ass" because I said that I don't like dubbed movies (I live in a country were dubbed movies are the norm). And all this in important settings like school and work. And not only by my peers, but also by teachers, boss and managers. But I'm not here to complain. What I want to say is that if you post photos of yourself and you are a nice lady, someone will pick on you for that. That's very sad, but it's the status quo. The hell if I know what are their reasons. But I know why they do it: because it's easy and it hurts. They don't pick on you for your work. It doesn't hurt that much and they could end helping you, pointing out one of your errors. But if it is your body, your beliefs, your personality they will do it. That's an easy bet.

So do I think that ladies shouldn't post beautiful photos? No of course, go on, you are hacking the system. You are getting a lot of good attention for that. But as always there are trade offs. A couple of weeks ago, here on HN someone complained because a young user posted something like: "I'm 14 and I developed an iPhone game". What's wrong with that? You did something and you want to advertise it. Saying that you are a young developer is a very catchy. And posting your photos is very eye-grabbing. Sort of refreshing after the n-th post about "beautiful typography" or whatever. Now, about the state of the industry. The only way to change things is for women to stick out and speak-up. Please don't hide. Soon or later things will change. I can imagine that 150 years ago, female teachers weren't as respected as men. Now, at least in my school experience, men were often the less respected one. While women were feared by students. Thing's will change, hopefully sooner than later.
These things are not "scope creep" because (for instance) timestamping can be done on top of the existing block chain - no modifications to the protocol needed. You simply pay for your transactions, miners include them and no one cares if you interpret them in some fancy manner.
Your original thought matches my definition.
Perhaps almost everyone: " Some experts estimate that 80 percent of England's present population descends from Edward III." [1] There was an Economist article posted to HN several months back that explained the general principle better but I couldn't immediately find it.

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13662242/ns/technology_and_science...
It would be worthwhile to get some more CS guys in the field. Agreed. Please join us :)
It's static content, how much could it cost?
1. Make sure your terminal advertises itself as supporting 256 colors. $ echo $TERM should output xterm-256color

2. Find yourself a nice 256 colors-ready colorscheme.

3. Enjoy.

If you can't find a 256 colors-ready colorscheme that suits your needs, you can use a Vim plugin called CSApprox to convert a GUI colorscheme for use in a 256 colors terminal.

ZyX as written a patch to allow Vim to play well with that feature in Konsole. You could try it: https://bitbucket.org/ZyX_I/vim/commits/9c4ad944627dc19bd898...
But that would make you buy what you want to avoid -- an MS-approved device.
Agreed. How is it that the most interesting comments are always the ones that get downvoted?
Is this a joke?  The onion charging monthly subscription fee
Depends on your definition of poverty. Poverty in the sense of the aforementioned grandparents has - only a fraction of a % of the population of the US lacks indoor plumbing.

In the US, people with earned income < $5k/year still tend to consume $23k/year.

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2009/income.txt

By the standards of the past, poverty more or less has vanished. We just raised the bar for poverty so that we have someone to feel sorry for.
The cool thing about block chain as it is right now (even with incomplete support for multi-signature tricks), it already allows you to leave a trace of your document using addresses alone. Without any piggybacking - you just create a transaction address derived from a hash of your document, move your money in and out, then publish the document. Everybody can compute the keys and verify that the address is indeed derived from that paper and you indeed had this document created before the transaction was recorded.
> it’s about finding female speakers who have enough of a thick skin to want to stand up infront of an audience of twitter-trigger-happy males and public speak

Was this awful incident a one off or is attacking female speakers at tech conferences a thing? I've not noticed it until now. I don't get it, why would you? To what end?
> You mean except the most important review of them all - the Windows 8 review, which got an 8.8 score, and was written by a guy who used to write Microsoft-related articles?

yes that would be one, but that does not refute what i said.

>> It makes me really think twice about any articles on The Verge regarding Microsoft.

I was asserting that The Verge do not seem to be partial to MS and i think i'm justified in saying that.

>The Lumia and Surface RT reviews which were written by Joshua himself were far more objective and fair

True but it's just not the norm.
Hmph. And I recall seeing Kamen on TV touting the completed Stirling Engine and showing pure drinking water as a side-effect. This is why I asked.
You've always managed to pay your debts?

You didn't even try to check that with Google that did you?

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article29270.html
Sellanapp: Using crowdfunding to connect App Ideas with developers
Let's keep in mind that the perpetrator of the fake porn pictures might have been a woman
Ask HN: does bitcoin mining pay off?
I'm curious whether there are people who do (semi-)professional bitcoin mining, for example with hardware like https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison, and whether this really pays off?

In the worst case, the costs for powering these devices is higher than the value of bitcoins mined, plus there is the risk of dropping exchange rates.

If it is somewhat profitable though, then I'm wondering why not more people are doing it, as it seems easy enough? If more people did it, would there be a risk of cannibalizing each others efforts? It might sound like naive questions as I don't know much about the mechanisms of bitcoins.
Unleashing the New Generation of Chef
Above comment is Exhibit A for "how to tell if an article is basically political in nature".
I've edited the line: it costs "almost nothing". Comparing to the amounts exchanged and comparing to alternative systems, it is much-much cheaper. And today you can pay zero fees for your transactions and still get them included in the block without significant delay.
Webinar recording, Entity Framework & ReSharper with hhariri and julielerman
You know you can use Vim to edit remote files locally, right? Or use it from any graphical FTP client?
"If the text editor crashes or the SSH connection drops during editing"

What about the time of editing? During that time, the temp files exist. Are they readably? I would guess so. So even if you just edit them and have to crash, you are vurnurable.
So, Google should adopt ARM policies more like Microsoft's?
Survivor's Gilt: amid losses and departures