skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just can't see how making jokes that include sexual imagery are at the expense of women.

Crude? yes - inappropriate? absolutely - funny? not in my mind - "against" women? I don't understand how.

I make this distinction because I think about an old professors of mine who stupidly would try to make women welcome by saying things like "Nice to have such a beautiful young lady here". His intent was to make them feel better, but he didn't get that it doesn't work that way.
More technical details here https://blogs.oracle.com/MySQL/entry/mysql_5_6_is_a

I really hope MariaDB folds in the innodb FTS into their 10 release.

They are starting to diverge.
$50 USD
I have graph search. Tried this, got four results, all male.

So yes, this seems to be true.
We're on the verge of realizing trail braking and heel toe in software development!
For people who don't have access to Graph searches yet. Just do a BangWithFriends search in app and you will see something like "xxx, xxx, and xx Other friends are using this app." under the app description. It will return the same list at the Graph search.
This isn't expensive enough to be actually exclusive, I'm guessing they're mostly preying on people with upper-middle class incomes and massive amounts of status anxiety.

I doubt they even make good bribes, as compared to other things you get for the price they're hard to show off, don't hold value over time, and are too easily traced.
Which version of Python ? Django or Flask ? Django ORM or SQLAlchemy ?
This is an interesting find. I don't necessarily care about "BangWithFriends", but I am curious if you still show up on those searches if you set the privacy to "Only me" when you signup in any app. Does that hide you from searches on the Open Graph (in respect to app usage)?

I ask this because I frequently signup with Facebook on some apps, and purposely put it to "Only me" privacy, to keep my activity hidden from my Facebook friends. I would hope that doing so, would keep me out of those types of Open Graph searches. Can anyone confirm/deny this (I don't have Open Graph Search, yet)?
"you'll never get your project done" This, it is about shipping product in the end. You will have a hard time selling an incomplete project. You are solving problems for customers.
Sexism is not isolated to acts of discrimination, it is a part of culture. Fixing sexism is not just about stopping discrimination, it is about changing culture

Maybe, but I'm not convinced: again, see Sciolino as a counter-example.

We bombard kids with pictures of sexy women in bikinis and men in lab coats, and wonder why there aren't as many women in tech even though they're so damn competent at it.

There's some truth to this—"we" should show more women in lab coats (and men in bikinis?). But women in bikinis appear in so many contexts (advertising, magazines, etc.) because so many people apparently want to see women in bikinis. If Carl Sagan's latest book or Hillary Clinton's latest achievements sold millions of copies of Vogue or US Weekly or sugared water, no one would be happier than me, but they don't.
Something wrong with your driving education then...
I picked up a similar system a few years ago, I don't remember the source, but it depends on always using 2 sets of brackets (thus, fewer rules to remember):

blah blah [][add something] blah blah

blah blah [delete this][] blah blah

blah blah [error][correction] blah blah

Read it as: "replace the first brackets' contents with contents of the second bracket".

An optional third set of brackets would be a comment or explanation.

In my opinion, this simplified ruleset can be used even to correct texts for people who do not dig being asked to memorize 'a lot of rules' and they often end up really liking its clarity.

edit: formatting
OMG literal LoL
OP here. Thanks for the tip. I've updated my blog to credit eranation (author of the original English post) and relevant links.
Is it very hard to fork Firefox or Chromium and replace the JS engine by luaJIT, pypy or even llvm ?
Ask HN: What is BangWithFriends?

Edit: a Facebook app that where you can click on friends you want to sleep with. If they have the app, they are notified. I would think this would be more cool if both of you are only notified if you both signify that you want to sleep with each other. This could also be toned down to just signify romantic interest to get more engagement.
Interesting reply, but I'm not convinced that this: "Women (and men!) feel like control over their sexuality is being taken away" is true. Again, see Sciolino as a counter-example.
That's not the real problem with BangWithFriends.

That's just a symptom or side-effect of the real problem.

As the idiom goes, if you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
They are actually dangerous.

I am one of the people who learned in a simulator, and then bought a real car.

Simulators teach some bad stuff, the wheel is amazing and it's just like the real one, but the pedals are not and the use of mirrors is totally different from the real thing.

Also, in simulators any mistake is simply a reset away, there is no survival instinct. This is a very important point, and I think, the most crucial difference.

They are dangerous because those cars, real or virtual are driven to the limit and the most minimal difference in perception will be amplified in those conditions.

Having said that, in a real car, I can brake better, with more control and faster than people who have only driven real cars. I have never missed a shift, and I change gears in less than half a second (I drive a stick). And I have never crashed. But I have never tested a real car to the limit.
I'm shocked nobody has pointed this out, but we "bother" with javascript because it runs in browsers, and browsers are ubiquitous. Why does everyone who has personal issues with Javascript or web development in general seem to forget that it has become popular because of the webs ubiquity and the promise of cross-platform development?
Every automatic I've ever seen allows you to shift to a lower gear.
Your advice sounds reasonable, but closing my Gmail browser window is not an option for me. Most of my tasks require sending emails or searching for old ones, so I use Gmail frequently. And every time I see an email in my inbox, I find it hard to resist opening and replying to it.

I've been using Inbox Pause since I discovered it at the start of last month (I use Baydin's Boomerang tool too). I now go through emails twice a day. This has several advantages: (i) I go through my inbox with more urgency, because my mindset seems to be different when I have many emails to process—especially because I start the final session about 30 minutes before leaving work. (ii) Long discussion threads appear all in one go, rather than being "drip-fed" to me. (iii) It's impossible to receive more than two replies from me in one day – which I'm happy with, because anything that requires more than two replies may be more efficiently handled with a phone call. Either way, it helps me to spend more time doing my more-important tasks.
[comment on the comments here] These threads make me so depressed.

HN is normally such a well-informed, polite place. Then someone posts a "sexism exists and is bad" post and suddenly this is a youtube comment thread where wilfully-ignorant people shout at each other (alas, with a layer of smugness because they have superficially analysed the problem, or rather, have analysed how to speak their prejudice while sounding logical.)

The contributions on the side of the angels always get more upvotes, but the sheer numbers of those on the other side often seem to drown them out.

Boo, I say! Less of this sort of thing!
>Why can't we do both? Maybe the problems are related?

That's a fair comment. But they might not be, and conflating the two might itself be a problem. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5206857 for more.
This is only speculation as the source cited for this info on wikipedia is a wired article which is not very good for factual information.
I don't see the problem here.

You can't find out who wants to bang who, right?

You only can find out that people want to bang. Which is true since the big bang 13.8 billion years ago. (well, humans evolved later, i know)
In the same way that a 5-year old child punching a 30-year-old adult is not the same thing as a 30-year-old adult punching a 5-year-old child, yes.

This gets complicated when we consider that treating underprivileged groups as the proverbial 5-year-old children can also be a problem, such as when we assume they're incapable of speaking cogently for themselves, and so on. It's a difficult problem, which is why these kinds of topics always generate 100+ comment threads and much simpler topics do not.
A good carpenter knows how to use his tools and which ones to use for the appropriate task.
Who speaks Latin these days?
I sincerely hope nobody reads this anecdote and decides to use PHP and MySQL based on it.
Is Everything We Know About Password-Stealing Wrong? [pdf]
The Grammar of Interactivity
Do your parents know how to change the default search engine on iOS?

The desktop is a different beast than mobile; I think most mobile users just use the "search field" and find what they want.

(Edited for typo)
Google should let it lapse, nothing would say that iOS devices are no longer the cool thing to own then having Bing or a lousy Apple brewed search engine be the default.
if I can't stop then I can't get out at my destination.

Different people seem to have different interpretations of this question. My interpretation was: Why have brakes instead of coasting to a stop? Coasting to a stop is popular with drivers who are 'Hypermiling' [1] - and bicycles used in velodromes don't have brakes [2].

While this isn't consistent with Richard Dalton's blog post (if you coast to a halt, you wouldn't need to throw your children out of a moving vehicle) but it isn't inconsistent with Jon Jagger's blog post, which Dalton credited as his inspiration.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-efficient_driving#Accele...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velodrome#Bicycles_and_track_de...
Nothing for "nuclear tests in north korea" about the recent test.
Looking for Love in All the Right Places
I use this, plus Boomerang [1] and its fantastic (delay send emails).

[1]: http://www.boomeranggmail.com
Anyone I know that has ever used ReSharper will struggle to work without it. ReSharper is one of the best tools I've ever used, and it makes writing C# a joy.
Obviously, the answer is to have everyone sign up for BangWithFriends. Then anonymity is assured.
>Engine braking wears transmission components

No it doesn't. Synchronized, rev-matched downshifts put negligible load on the drivetrain. Coasting to a stop with the gear already selected, putting it in neutral just before stall does that even less. The stresses produced by acceleration are ballpark estimate around an order of magnitude greater. This can be inferred by the fact that usually the rate of deceleration by engine braking is smaller than the rate of acceleration for a given gear ratio, ergo, the drivetrain is strained less.
My auto Mazda 3 has 'manumatic' shifting, and you can downshift to slow down in it. I guess it's not really the same though as the computer does a lot of shifting and timing for you even in manumatic mode.
I never related to that poem until I read the Zen Pencils version:
http://zenpencils.com/comic/88-walt-whitman-when-i-heard-the...
Enjoying a feeling is fine. I don't think anyone reasonable will take issue with that.

I do, however, take issue with calling it curiosity. Curiosity is defined as a desire to learn something or know something. Even if you do want to know, the feeling you get from this hinges on not knowing-- if not, there's no harm in actually finding the answer, and there is harm in not finding it.

Asking questions like this is fine, but, to me, calling it curiosity isn't. This isn't because it's childish. It's because it's unreasonable. Curiosity and reason are supposed to work together.
Very cool new data, but what in the world does an engraved Gurkha sword have to do with weather pressure? I think a little more detail would have been helpful there.
We use Lanner gear for VoIP, and have never seen a problem.
I'm not advocating politeness, I'm advocating for an egalitarian society. Women have historically been less free to express themselves, and sexist jokes and other discriminatory language continue to silence them. Douche was not the correct term, you are a coward. Rather than defend the freedom of those who have had to fight for it, you hide behind your own narcissistic conception of freedom and unexamined privilege.
Unmanned Gliders to Mimic Birds of Prey to Stay Aloft
Ask HN: What are some examples of really well designed websites?
Pirate Bay Blockades Upheld By Finnish Court of Appeal
US dollars can be used to purchase marijuana, US dollars can be used to buy Dominos Pizza. Coincidence? Yes, BTC & USD are both mediums of exchange and mediums of exchange are used to buy goods & services with.
I'd be so bold as to make a categorical statement: If your classes are invariably stateful, or if they can reasonably be described with the phrase "lots of layers", then you're doing it wrong. You're not doing object-oriented programming so much as the mongrel "class-oriented programming" style that rose to prominence among C++ programmers in the 1990s.

Good well-modularized object-oriented code should not be an alternative to a collection of functions. It should be a technique for making your collections of functions more effective. It allows you to write a smaller, more concise collection of functions that can operate in a consistent manner on a whole plethora of datatypes. It accomplishes this because you can write your functions against a common set of mixins that your datatypes inherit rather than having to worry about specializing them for every datatype.
OP here. I've updated my blog to credit eranation (author of the original English post) and relevant links. I was not aware of the existence of the original English post and thought that I should share it as lots of us suffers the same frustration.

I guess English-Chinese-English translation has reached an amazing stage!

I would take it as a compliment as my 'unofficial English version' isn't too far off.
Because they're not the same company anymore? Vertu was sold by Nokia last year.
Tony Hsieh: 'Hiring Mistakes Cost Zappos.com $100 Million'
What is wrong with you, Mac App Store?
They would be better off exchanging the bitcoins and using Dominos.com directly.
> Would anyone raise even an eyebrow if a woman sliped a sexy male model photo in a slide?

Probably not. The thing is that women on these conferences already feel unsafe because they are outnumbered and often inappropriately hit on.
Labeling maps with RTrees, d3, and OpenStreetMap
I was an avid reader of astronomy books as a child growing up in a major city. I thought the pictures in those books were always taken with a telescope or otherwise enhanced. Then we went to visit my grandmother, who lived back in a "holler" in the Blue Ridge mountains. I walked outside after dark one evening, looked up, and was shocked to see the Milky Way with my naked eyes. I hadn't realized that was possible until then.
Ah, ok..regarding my Edit above, the article I read about it didn't say that it only notified users when both showed interest.
It's a new service that has a mission to connect people, increase natural population growth and make the world more open place.
There are only two practical choices right now, both for Python 2:

1) Django
2) Flask + SQLAlchemy

Not that much choice, is there?
Thanks for this. I won't get the chance to try it out for a couple of days, but it's much appreciated.
A CRM for Your Love Life
The British courts recently proved this too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20033097
There’s A 10x Hidden In That Tweet
Braun UI
1. Go to Home Depot.

2. Pick the tools you like. Get a good hammer, saw, adjustable square.

3. Leave Home Depot and go get good with them.

4. If something breaks or doesn't perform a task you need, go back to Home Depot to supplement your toolbox.
OP here. Added this link to my blog post. Thanks for the tip.
Even still, I think it would be inappropriate. Part of the issue here is the anatomical differences between men and women. While seeing a women with large breasts might not seem bothersome to you, I'd venture a guess that a photograph of a closeup of an extremely well-endowed man whose penis is bulging out of his speedo (analogous to a well-endowed woman's breasts spilling out of the top of her bra) that conspicuously outlines the glans and shaft (analogous to a woman's erect nipples) would have men feeling uncomfortable at the LEAST and more-than-likely up in arms.

To take it further, just imagine if the "male programmer" stereotype was up on the slide as a "before" image with all of the insecurities of men highlighted--namely height and penis size. The "after" image shows the man visibly more endowed and taller. Again, if a WOMAN were to do this at a conference, she'd be ridiculed on the blogs for months after at the very least.
People laugh when they hear a "sexist" joke because it's funny.

What makes these jokes different, though, is that they are about having fun at somebody else's expense. Some people care about not causing others discomfort; some don't.

Also, personally, I tend to find them embarrassing and juvenile, not funny.

I mean, where does this political correctness stop?

Usually wherever inability to empathize with others begins. There is, after all, no law against being inconsiderate.
What if Google refuses to pay? Will Apple remove Google as default search engine on iOS?
Recall what happend when they replaced Google maps?
Nah, I didn't think so.

Clearly, someone at Morgan Stanley, who came up with this bollocks, must have been wearing their pair of Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses most of the time last year, when the maps fiasko took place.
> Need a js library? JQuery. period

Sure, if you love writing the same boiler plate code over and over again to make sure your dom is updated and your data is synced. JS frameworks are solving a problem, whether or not people like that there are so many out there. We are in the early days, and of course there's going to be a lot of competition. A few will rise to the top and become standards. You know, there were quite a few competing JS libraries before JQuery became so popular..
Ask HN: How to get a development job without a college degree?
I'm currently a student at a top-10 computer science school who is on leave of absence because of poor academic performance. Right now I'm taking a few classes at my local community college and I'm thinking about getting a job soon. The problem is currently I have no college degree, and if I mention my current school they will probably ask for my transcript, and I don't want to give that out because my GPA is under a 1.5.

I'd like to get a development job of some sorts, or maybe some entry-level IT position, but unsure where to start because I have no previous work experience. I have several years of experience in Web development with PHP and MySQL and a bit of knowledge in C++ and Python. And I have some projects (mostly web apps) that I made which could probably serve as a portfolio and be put on my personal website, but I'm not sure if that's enough to get my foot in the door, let alone count as work experience.

Also because my GPA is so low and my school is quite expensive, I'm thinking of withdrawing and just starting over at a local 2-year CC then transferring to a school with a good CS/eng program (there are a few in my area). I honestly don't think I'm going to graduate and get my BS in CS at this school, even though I'd like to have the prestigious degree on my resume.

What should I do?
wow, so that makes it right? Men are definitely discriminated at the workplace. I've worked at a few offices which comprised of mostly females and the sexist jokes and discrimination against men was unbearable.

It doesn't get stopped because most people don't see it as a high priority.
It's pretty simple to see that traditional braking triggers brake lights, while engine braking does not. Brake lights are there for safely, to prevent rear-ends. I'd be shocked if any driving education program encouraged engine braking.

On a slightly different note, if your rev-matching isn't smooth when you downshift to engine brake, you're just using your clutch to slow the car, which is a much more expensive part to replace than brake pads/rotors.
You're more or less totally wrong, in a modern car.

Under overrun conditions (e.g. engine braking - driveshaft turning the engine, essentially), a modern engine totally shuts off fueling completely, so engine braking alone is always a MPG win, as zero fuel consumption is less than idle fuel consumption with the clutch in.

Also, brakes these days are so good that you really NEED anti-lock. The limiting factor in stopping is the grip of the tire.
Blurrb.com for sale to the highest bidder
Let's say by 5pm CST the commenter offering the highest $ amount will get it.
The paper is actually titled "Is Everything We Know About Password Stealing Wrong?".

It's available in its entirety here:

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1618...
I was just about to post this as a reply :)
I can't believe the guy merged that pull request. What was he thinking?
Ask HN: Is it me or is Mint useless now since Intuit bought it?
For the past week now I'v been trying to add my BOF account and I just get error message after error message. There post on the issue on Get Satisfaction has been going on for a while now. Anyone else having the same issues?
Help a fun indie game concept to win BeMyApp worldcup
isn't this offering cannibalizing AWS load balancers? if I have a set of web servers with a load balancer at front and health checks that takes unhealthy nodes out of rotation, isn't it cheaper now to just use this DNS fail-over?

http://aws.amazon.com/pricing/elasticloadbalancing/
http://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/
This report is full of hedging. Examples from the opening paragraph:

According to a report from Morgan Stanley, Google could pay more than $1 billion in 2014 to remain the default search engine on iOS. In 2009, Google paid only $82 million for the privilege. Analyst Scott Devitt believes that it is a per-device deal growing every year.

Is there hard evidence that any of this isn't just speculation?
Exploit find on Facebook By Mauritania Attacker
As a computer science major this doesn't worry me at all. Learning the fundamentals, the theory, and the overall science leads me to believe we will be just fine on the market.

As an intern I use PHP on a day to day basis. At school classes have been fairly language agnostic, switching from C++, C#, Java, PHP, and others. I have classes that force you to do all your work in the terminal, and some that allow you to use powerful IDEs. Furthermore, I have classes that you rarely even touch a computer (Algorithms, which should be more aptly named Algorithms II since Algorithms & Data Structures is a pre-req).

In my experience, switching tools/languages/frameworks isn't as hindering as lacking core engineering skills.
To be honest wouldn't Google search disappearing from iOS devices play in google's advantage looking at their Nexus devices? I mean ... what are the odds Apple comes up with something beter, even third party?
> There's an obvious point being made when a slide with women clad in bikinis is shown at a geeky male-dominated conference.

Sorry, what point? The first thing that comes to mind is that the presenter wants to communicate that the tech is sexy.

> And what do you think about the contrast between those slides and the technical ones?

I might be thinking of a different slide deck, but the women were on the same slides (to the side or in the background) as the technical content.