skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moving from an manual to an automatic can still be quite jarring, even if you don't have engine braking. Ever been in an automatic after driving a stick shift for years? The brake pedal is twice as wide and is in approximately the same location as where the clutch is found ... get into an emergency situation? Your mind will automatically want to disengage the clutch and hit the brakes, so you go for where the clutch pedal would be normally and instead hit the brake pedal ...

Yeah, I was used to driving my Subaru Impreza with a stick shift, then I drove my dads BMW 5-series, got into a sticky situation in traffic and had to come to a quick and sudden stop, there was no thinking involved, push the clutch and the brake was my immediate reaction... let me tell you, that BMW stopped on a dime, luckily there was no-one behind me or I'd have to explain to my dad how instinct and sheer muscle memory on my part caused someone to rear-end me and ruin his car, all because my left foot went for the clutch and caught the edge of the brake pedal...
Perhaps this is a trivial point, but bragging about all their controls and audits and whatnot while reporting this sort of failure seems to call into question the value of all those controls and audits and whatnot. If any procedure in that company should be audited until it's airtight, then the process of securely generating, storing, and using keys should be. I doubt a more in-depth analysis will be forthcoming, but it would be nice to find out not only why they're not doing their main thing in the proper fashion but also why it took an actual breach to find that out.
Nice find, it actually works for me too.
News that adapts to your interests, written in Go
What I mean is "don't use a jQuery competitor (or jQuery 'sized' tool) in place of jQuery"

Sure, if you need something else/more use it, still I've been burned by those "wonderful js frameworks" and I'll make sure to not use them unless needed and thoroughly evaluated.
So you're saying that a Black person is like a 5 year old and a White person is like a 30 year old?

That's why people called grown Black men "boy" back in the day - it's egregiously racist and infantilizing to African Americans.
Looks neat on my Nexus 7! I'm curious what they've used to replace the Gnuplot functionality from the original.
Then maybe try to fix that instead of complaining about bikinis in powerpoint presentations?

How do you know the fix isn't to complain about bikinis in presentions?
Those crazy kids with their crazy ideas about how to love each other. Good for them.

I can imagine Version 2.0 being even more general (a craigslist of discreet hypothetical matching) for more than just sexual arrangements. But continuing the sexual theme, obviously the next logical step is N-way group hookups.

It occurs to me that something similar could also be implemented in a distributed manner (for use offline or with decentralized P2P networks, etc...) using asymmetric encryption and split keys.
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Hi, I'm the OP. It uses Go's web server. You'll notice some adaptation to your interests today, but it'll be tomorrow (one day after this launch) before full effect is approached.

It pulls from 4000 news sites and blogs including lots of tech ones. There's capacity for more sources so feel free to send any favorites of yours to hi@niflet.com.
A daily email newsletter would be a great easy place to start. Lots of people would sign up if you made it frictionless. Bear in mind that, with a daily email, lots of people will ignore it or delete it unread if they are busy (as opposed to unsubscribing), so don't trust your subscription numbers, but lots of people will get value out of it too.

The other option that comes to mind would be a background app that changes your wallpaper to your image (with quotation) daily. Or maybe a browser extension that changes your homepage/speed dial background to this periodically.

If you want to try mobile, you could make an app that changes the phone's lock screen each day. But promoting the app would be difficult.
There are a number of incompatibilities caused by outright different function names ("tfeestimate" in Matlab vs "tfe" in Octave for transfer function computations for example) or the order of input arguments in functions. Also, there are several functions in Matlab that don't exist yet in Octave.

Try downloading the AbraVibe collection of functions at http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=index&bcsId=632... and running them on Octave. Some of those functions require modification before they will run, especially functions generating graphical output.
Correct, gender roles and the patriachy are wrong.

However it's mostly women that are excluded from more jobs. The idea that "men are excluded and discriminated as much as women" is false.
Server:WEBrick/1.3.1 (Ruby/1.9.2/2011-07-09)

(via chrome's network tab)

They're also including a link to the security announcement, so at least it's not mindless.
> But women in bikinis appear in so many contexts [...] because so many people apparently want to see women in bikinis.

As far as I can tell, your argument is "because people like it, it is okay." This is obviously wrong, so please explain your argument in more detail.

> see Sciolino as a counter-example

An opinion held by a journalist is not a counter-example. You'll need something better than an argument to authority.
Women are discriminated more. As this study shows.
Feel free to write a UI that wraps it.
Where's the email signup? Kinda cool, but I'm not going to check this site every day unless you email me.
>>So do you suggest that the way women are represented + put to use in the media/marketing is okay?

>> There's an obvious point being made when a slide with women clad in bikinis is shown at a geeky male-dominated conference.

>> Personally I find what marketing does to women both when advertising to them and advertising using them utterly despicable.[/quote]

Oh come on, please...

The point being made is very likely not much more than 'look, here's some nice looking girls to make you feel good', which tends to work on male audiences, because men like looking at good-looking girls, just like they like looking at shiny sports cars. It's the exact same reason why car ads or ads for computer components often have good-looking female models in them. It gets the audience in a positive mindset, so the ad has more effect. If you take big issue with that (like you seem to do), your problem is with the simple evolutionary fact that men fancy good-looking women, good luck trying to change that...

As for 'what marketing does to women both when advertising to them and advertising using them': did you ever care to have a look at one of the millions of magazines explicitly targeted at women? They are full of pictures of fashionable sexy people, male and female, for the exact same reasons some geeks put bikini pics in their powerpoints: because the audience likes looking at them...

I don't condone sexism in any way, but trying to find some kind of evil sexist motives, intentional or unintentional, behind every instance where women are depicted for their good looks, seems extremely cynical and sour to me.
Nothing in the OP refers to A/B testing, Usability testing or in fact any kind of testing. At all.
By changing the app privacy to "Only me" it doesn't appear in Open Graph searches
Interesting excerpt about a bank's approach to physical robberies:

"In July 2009 a teller at a Key Bank branch in Seattle pursued a would-be robber after a botched hold-up attempt (Seattle Times, Aug. 1, 2009). He leapt over the counter, chased the man for several blocks, knocked him down, and held him until the police arrived. Two days later Key Bank fired the teller. He had violated long-standing bank policy to cooperate in every way and never resist a robbery. The reason for this policy, we suggest, is that banks understand a very simple principle: fear is bad for business. It is far better to comply with the demand than to risk a brawl, or a gun fight in the bank lobby. No bank wants the perception that they valued money more than customer and employee safety. The $40 million that traditional bank robbers in the US steal per year (FBI Bank Crime Statistics) is entirely manageable."
This claim is the basis for the Bing v. Google challenge (bingiton.com). I tried it, and preferred Google, mostly because I'm usually searching for technical terms.
I always got the feeling people used Octave as "the next best thing" to having Matlab. Not everyone can shell out the money to MathWorks, especially outside academia, without having an employer pay for it. I used Matlab in college and found Octave to be mediocre. The speed leaves a great deal to be desired, especially if you've grown accustomed to the Parallel Toolbox and the inherent parallelization of the Statistics Toolbox since Matlab 2011a.

As for Python/R/Julia:
Python is more general purpose than Matlab/Octave, though I have seen a push for NumPy and SciPy.
R and Matlab work in somewhat different fields (exceptions to the rule: Functional data people in statistics seem to like Matlab). I always got the feeling the math/linear algebra/engineering people went with Matlab, while us statisticians went with R. There's plenty of information on Google about why that divide exists.
Julia is more direct comparison to Matlab, and the only reason I can offer why people would not use it versus Matlab is age and wealth of libraries. Julia's a very new language, relative to Matlab, so we may see a wider adoption in the coming years from the Julia project.
Also no double-entry ledger. grr
Health Testing on Mice Is Found Misleading in Some Cases
Looks like indeed, you can! Use the graph search for "Apps that _user_ uses", or it looks like you might be able to use this url (might have to have graph search access) https://www.facebook.com/search/**userid**/apps-used
I always figured it was because you experience time relative to how long you have already lived. One year seems like forever when you are 5, because it's 20% of your life. One year at 50 is only 2% of your life, so it seems shorter.
Unsung heroes in startups
The first iOS app developed at 37signals: Basecamp app for iPhone.
How can you be mean to a web framework? It's not like java hasnt had the same crap against it for years. Should we stop being mean to it too? :(
How are the "requests per second" measured? (I assume that something like `ab` is used, but I'm wondering if it run on the same machine or from an external machine ...)
Probably just me but installing this took my TB back to the stone age with version 1.x. Be careful.
The story tells: 'Nicholas Ostler [...] compares Latin's presence on the internet [...] to a small European language - it is comparable to "Icelandic, Lithuanian or Slovenian".'

They didn't think to remove "Lorem Ipsum" texts, otherwise it must even less than that ! .. :-)
> which tends to work on male audiences

That might mean something if the audience was only men. But instead it had the effect of making the women feel like they were being ignored, as if the presenter was only speaking to the men in the room.
I like web2py's DAL
The fact that a woman who otherwise champion females in tech was behind the poster does not excuse it.

Sexism, like many complex issues exists as a continuum, degrees of which can be perpetrated by anyone, including women.
Terrain has a bigger impact on how destructive a bomb is. Fat Man was 21 kilotons and 'only' killed ~40k people.
Sure. But the point of this thread is, don't run over to Home Depot as soon as the shiny new hammers arrive.
Now the app developers have to see if they can have that as the default privacy setting for anyone who uses the app and this should be truly private info after that.
Who can spend time in the shop without a nice ball game on the AM radio!
My only point is that some may care, I have no idea if yours does or not. Personally, I wouldn't work for an employer that looked for such things, but I am also a very private person and would never use an app like that.
You may also want to check out http://compete.com.

If you can find a site that released their numbers, you can compare that site (your baseline) with other sites to get an idea of how popular they are, relative to your baseline.

While you won't be able to actually find out how many users each app has (unless they release their numbers), this can at least give you an idea of popularity. Hopefully.
I've been very happy with DigitalOcean since switching to them. This blog echo's my anecdotal experience. If DigitalOcean would open up a Chicago and West coast DC I could switch completely over...

I wish this had been a $20 vs $20 plan comparison.
Only on HN would sex involve asymmetric encryption and split keys.

I kid, but I'd wait to see if this 'crazy idea' is successful (top tip: it won't be) before planning the second iteration.
Replace AutoHotKey with NodeJS - anyone?
Just an idea, AutoHotKey is really awesome, but maybe someone wanted to create a V8 based solution instead?

This probably wouldn't make money - but hugs.
Oh I didn't notice it in the banner itself, just the rest of the body headlines. I don't like it up there either, it's too busy/awkward.
Well, at some point, there will emerge the "jquery of js frameworks."
The thing with analogies is that you have to know when they break down.

Sure the language loses. An hammer is self-sufficient; a language needs libraries, community support, job/project candidates that can replace an absent developer, etc. Do you think having NumPy isn't a win for Python?

Of course, if the language is sufficiently better than the others, maybe you're willing to write your own e.g. Websockets library to use it. But there's still a large handicap there.

For example, Plan9 is in many ways a better OS than GNU/Linux. But I still use the latter, because I rather have the support and thousands of binary packages that a larger community brings.
And the Most Respected Corporation In America Is… Amazon
Don't fuss about it.

HN loves benchmark porn. Throw some dramatic charts up, show approximately zilch methodological control, voila: front page.

(Complete with sarky comments like this one.)

My personal question is: are DigitalOcean making a profit?
See also "Octave Remote" for iOS in the Apple App Store.

It connects to a server running in the "cloud", but unfortunately the connection times out when running under iOS 6.
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The article says Linode has "predictably greater CPU performance". Am I missing something? It looks like Digital Ocean is the winner in every single benchmark other than Apache Static Page Serving.

(I'm assuming lower is better for encoding time.)
The interesting bit about this to me is not the interface, but the fact that they got it running on Android. I was curious in seeing if R could be ported to Android a few years back, and thought I remember reading there were some roadblocks pertaining to getting a decent BLAS to work on Android and iOS (which doesn't have a fortran compiler, iirc). The fact that Octave runs on Android means they must've figured out how to get a BLAS running on Android. Does anyone know what it's running? NetLib?
I took four years of Latin in high school, which equals probably 3 months of serious study. I recommend it as an intellectual diversion. I remember very little of it today, but it did open up my mind to grammar. Probably studying any other language would, but I liked that learning it wasn't an endorsement of any particular country.
I put NodeJS in the title because more people will probably understand what I mean. I realize it would rather be an embeded V8 solution.
There are plenty of VPS providers out there who are cheaper than Linode, including some with compelling SSD packages.

With Linode, I know that I am getting excellent support. There's the peace of mind of knowing that when I submit a ticket, someone will read and respond in short order.

A $5 SSD VPS sounds great, but I automatically wonder what kind of hardware I will be on (does it compete with Linode's RAID 10 configuration?), and how long my support requests will take to be addressed, and whether or not the low prices are a sustainable business model.
What you're describing is a bank. People came to bitcoin to be able to handle their own cash and not use a bank - you're missing the purpose here.

This is also money laundering, an illegal activity. If you need to do something illegal to get the bare minimum of functionality out of bitcoin it's not appropriate for business.
But if a group of people are constantly offered less (as this evidence shows), then it makes sense that that group will ask for less. The lower rate of asking for raises could be caused by the same sexism at play.

(You include evidence in quotes, to imply it's not real evidence. You can see the paper there, what's wrong with the evidence? If you don't want to accept the evidence just because you dislike what it tells us about the world, you are not a scientist)
He's referring to the fact that Silicon Valley these days operates as a company town of the VC's and BigCo's of tech. You can see it when people from the Bay Area who don't work in anything connected to the tech sector talk about their area: "You can only live here if you belong to the Tech Master Race", and so on.
One thing I've noticed: people who present themselves as old and wise aren't. The truly old and wise haven't forgotten what it's like to be young and naive.
If a simple filter (or 100 filters) are sufficient then shouldn't you ask yourself why are you receiving these emails?

Why not unsubscribe from the mailing list; or have your team document their status in a project tracker instead of CCing half the company on emails?

Not that I don't appreciate your approach. I have my mail client provide no mail notifications unless the email is from my Important list of contacts. So my inbox builds up until I am ready to spend time on it.
TL;DR: don't be like the old farts from Xerox that discarded PARC's Alto and the mouse as a novelty.
wow, so that makes it right?

No, the parent comment asked whether anyone would raise an eyebrow if a woman posted a sexy male picture, implying that men are being more reasonable in acquiescing to such humor. I was pointing out why most men aren't as disturbed by it.
Well designed for what the website does. I'm a developer that is trying to get educated in design, so I'm trying to find examples of well designed sites. I want to look at these sites and figure out what it is about the design that makes the site work well. I just feel like understanding why something is well designed will help with my understanding of how to design.
My favorite site for finding all kinds of VPS deals (some for as little as $15 a year) is http://www.lowendbox.com. It's great for finding a VPS nearly anywhere in the world for your SSH tunnel, offsite storage, or just to tinker with.
I must be missing something here. Your revs will go up regardless due to the nature of downshifting. It's just a question of whether you get there immediately or if you slowly glide there at the expense of your clutch. It seems to me you'd actually use less fuel if you didn't rev match, since rev matching requires you to blip the throttle. That said, I'll take the throttle blip over the clutch wear any day.
I remember when they said the way to go was HTML5 and all that talk. Glad their changed their vision.
It's amazing to me to watch Rails be punished for being proactive about security. I don't even use Rails anymore (most of my type of API work is more suited for Sinatra), but I'm tired of seeing it used as a whipping boy unfairly.

Are you using a different web framework? Congratulations! You probably have tons of security problems as well. Does it do things like CSRF protection out of the box? Guess what, you have a security problem right there! It won't make it to the front of HN because nobody will turn it into a short-sighted web site (doesyourhalfbakedframeworkdocsrfprotectioncorrectly.com), but it's there. Alongside a -lot- of security problems that simply haven't been uncovered yet, simply because nobody is looking for them (or because they're not being reported). There's a reason that Anonymous can just hack into any web site they want, regardless of what framework it is (actually, their main method of attack isn't Rails holes, it's probably SQL injection attacks, which is another common security problem that has been elegantly solved by the natural usage of Rails). If you use an ORM that scrubs input for SQL injections, you are probably using code that was designed based on the Rails model.

Let me give an example. OpenBSD has been considered over the years as the most secure UNIX operating system. Look at how many disclosures they have had to make in the lifetime of the OS: http://openbsd.org/security.html#51

Why so may "major security flaws"? It's because they had developers that performed security audits of their code, which discovered issues. Critics were saying that OpenBSD is not secure because of the disclosures, while sitting on Linux systems that were not receiving audits, and as a consequence were constantly getting hacked because the problems weren't getting fixed.

The most secure systems are the ones that are the most vocal about their security problems. Updating rails is an extremely easy, simple process (update Gemfile, bundle install, restart rails). Stop punishing open source projects for being responsible.
It's possible that CV+gender is a better predictor of future job performance than CV alone (for example, if female applicants are exceedingly good at writing CVs specifically).

Perhaps, but the modern law says you cannot take gender into account. The people reviewing the CVs claimed not to be taking this into account. But this evidence shows that they are.
Its also interesting that an 'earthquake' also happened on the same spot in 2009 and 2003 as well...
I think the name of that road could be user supplied data to Google through that collaborative mapping effort in North Korea. I could be wrong, though.
It's also been shown that when they do ask for higher salaries or raises they are perceived in a negative light, whereas men who do so are perceived in a positive light.

So they don't ask because if they did it would harm them.
You are a minority. The Western World has moved on, and disapproves of sexism.
I remember that in high school while most of us were able to just translate text from italian to latin and the reverse, using a dictionary, the best latin students in the school were able to actually perform conversation. It's not too hard, you "just" require to study it a lot harder and especially do a lot of practice compared to the level required to get an acceptable rating at school.
> Hindsight being 20/20 they should've stayed with the "subpar" google maps until their new maps were less "subpar".

I'd imagine widespread usage is necessary for that.
One of my favorite "easter eggs" with Yahoo search (at least on search.yahoo.com) was that until recently, if you searched for Google, it would display a second Yahoo search box in the results with a text re-iterating that you could search the web via Yahoo to try to capture these types of users.

(These days it gives a "Search the web with Google" box, and the same if you search for Bing or Yahoo itself).
Take a look at Calculator++

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Calculator%2B%2B&...

Also look at how Maple 16 does it. The keyword here is 'buttons'.
These graphs are meaningless without methodology.
(shameless self-promo ;-)

Use the DigitalOcean API from Ruby and Chef/knife to create/shutdown/destroy virtual servers ("droplets"):

* https://github.com/rmoriz/digital_ocean

* https://github.com/rmoriz/knife-digital_ocean
I have a problem: People don't take conspiracy facts and theories seriously. I also think this is a much, much bigger problem than sexism in the workplace. Will you stop what you're doing and work on my problem?

EDIT: You're welcome to work on whatever problem you want. Don't try and tell me what my priorities are though. I disagree with you.