skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a woman. I was one of the top three students of my graduating high school class. I turned down a National Merit Scholarship. I thought I would have a career and family, etc. I ended up a homemaker for two decades. I have read a helluva lot about feminism and all that over the years and thought long and hard about what went wrong with my life. I woke up this morning super cranky about feeling like I still need to choose between having a brain and a sexuality, between having a man and a fulfilling life. I strongly suspect that most men are uncomfortable with so called "feminism" because they fear that if women get lives of their own, no man (or they personally) will ever get laid again. Stupid, stipid, stupid. I have read at least one article by a man who was involved with a feminist. He and the other men would wind up in the kitchen, feeling bad about being male.

Besides, the t-shirt is a play on words for getting your penis enhanced. I have never met a man who wants to proudly display on his chest the announcement that his dick is too small and needs enhancing. It looks to me like the stupidest possible play on words they could have chosen for a male dominated field. It will no doubt die of its own stupidity, winning a Darwin award, without anyone needing to criticize it as "sexist". Having a sexuality is not "sexist". The sooner the shrieky so called pro feminists figure that out, the sooner we can work on real issues and stop freaking out about the normal, routine fact that "sex sells", thus sexual references are incredibly common. The real way to promote gender parity (which I am for, even though I role my eyes at "female equality") is to promote the idea that women are also entitled to enjoy sex and stop implying that if a man likes sex, he clearly is a disrespectful pig who should burn in hell.

Anyway, I have an errand to run. Which is for the best because I was grumpy about this topic before this piece was posted.

Later.
In the domain I work in (firmware for digital instruments and industrial systems), knowing assembly isn't necessary for performance reasons so much as for sanity reasons - a lot of vendor compilers for embedded devices are incredibly flaky, and if you can't inspect the generated assembly you'll never know what the hell is going on in cases where the code doesn't behave the way you expected it to.

Heck, even when I have the privilege to be treading a more well-worn path (eg. ARM/GCC), it's helpful to be able to tell what the compiler is transforming (on a less charitable day I'd say "munging") my code into.
Hmmm... yeah, I agree with some of the other sentiments here.

I personally don't find Lorem Ipsum distracting, and like others have said, think it would be quicker and easier to troubleshoot design issues using real copy. (The no descenders thing especially gets to me.)

If Lorem Ipsum is genuinely distracting to other people, though, then to each his own! Glad there's options out there for everyone.
It looks like he only wants to emulate 8086, so ACPI and booting Windows/Linux are not a possibility.

Not saying that its simple to implement an 8086, but it should be significantly easier than implementing an 80386/80486 (which is what one would expect today as a minimum when referring to it as x86).
You are right, this can be useful during initial stages of the design process. Counterproductive was a poor choice of word, let me better elaborate my concern. I assume the use for this typeface is to present wireframes to the client, free of "distracting lorem ipsum". I think showing clients any web design that lacks a typographical direction is an omission of the majority of the design in most all scenarios [1] and not fit as a representation for the future of that design. My personal design philosophy for the web is to accommodate the other aspects of the design to the typography, not to fit the typography secondary to the balance created by the preexisting design.

[1]: http://informationarchitects.net/blog/the-web-is-all-about-t...
A Better Testing Process for App Store Developers
Non responsive design
The patent in question: http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=...

Speech output device for data displayed on mobile telephone converts data from display into speech data for output via loudspeaker
This is my pet project for lateral thinking riddles lovers-

You couldn't solve this kind of riddles on the net because you need to ask someone yes/no questions to figure out the story :(

So I built this site to have fun, and play with angular.js / real-time (faye)
Comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5265839
It's crazy how similar this is for App of the Day's for apps to get to the top of the app store.
How to Write a Calculator in 1 Python Line

print input()

> 25*4-50
> 50
Using make in no way means that you have to use the monstrosity that is Autotools.
I'm not suggesting a 1:1 comparison, and am intimately familiar with Japanese culture, and being a foreigner within it despite holding citizenship. Consider, for example, the parallel situation of US gun culture, where a relatively small number of consumers are the main driver of sales, which continue to rise is inverse proportion to the overall popularity of guns.
> If no one does that, how will anyone know?

Common sense?
Why Do Some U.S. Radio Stations Begin With 'K' and Others With 'W'?
It's a bit silly, but when I feel depressed or down, this is always good for perking me up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrdEMERq8MA
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/09/13/opt/

and

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/09/14/mac/

Lack of technical detail, that's me, all right.
I used to teach OS classes a local university, every summer I would teach 3 to 5 students how to build a bootstrap and a simple 'kernel' just using asm. The rest of the class would just use GRUB and do something better, faster.

Anyway, I don't think this matters to our usual professional life.

(this person deserves to be heard, he built a large OS, dead comment)

he wrote:

"If you love programming more than anything, you are probably the kind of person who wants to know assembly language. If your full heart is not into programming, maybe not."
We were slightly worried about it too. The reason we chose to be generic is that we want to be the de-facto app to solve needs. We're trying to keep it narrow by the kind of communities we market it to.
Merge sort is a bad example - it can actually be useful in real life, because the library sort functions are limited to what will fit in memory while merge sort is not. It's also simple enough to keep in your head without needing to look it up. I've had to code it up on the job more than once.
I recently had a discussion with a friend about a similar situation -- incentivized downloads in the App Store to reach high rankings. There is a continuum of advertising tactics, from directly buying downloads, to buying placement inside apps that give some benefit for installing an app, to advertising an app in as many places as possible where a lot of users would see it.

They all start with the same input (money) and end up with the same result (more apps installed, higher chart position), just they go about it via different means. Where should the line be drawn?
You're right but it's not as benign as you suggest. Our genes are stupid.

They don't care if you are happy or not, as long as you are potentially reproductively successful. They are so stupid they can't even tell the difference between drug-based euphoria, or other addictions, and genuine success. And our genes don't even care if the entire ecosystem collapses underneath us, because the whole species is acting the same way.

Sometimes this restlessness does "advance humanity", but that's not inherent in what our genes want. It's only because we have carefully set up institutions and practices such that the best way to compete is to serve other people.

But, barring the discovery of some infinite source of non-polluting energy and materials, at some point - either tomorrow or in a thousand years - this restlessness will have to be tamed. In short, there are limits.

And for individuals, those limits are much nearer, and the benefits of controlling your desires are as well.
F# is a very interesting language and one of the best things to come from Microsoft in a long time.

It could be a very very good thing for MS in the next decade if they invest in it properly (which they seem to be doing).

Interesting times.
In my experience, this usually occurs because you naively use a seemingly simple API function that only supports 4.0, but would take significant time to backport. (I've done this accidently with the DownloadManager API when I needed to support pre-Gingerbread apps).
Show HN: A Sublime Text plugin to automatically show/hide tabs
The White House wants to find a solution that will be fair to all stakeholders.

The only stakeholder that should be considered is the U.S. tax payer. We funded the research, whether we wanted to or not, under penalty of imprisonment or death, and in a manner that violates the intent of the Constitution. Why then, are we prohibited from seeing the results of our investment?
USPS is an institution that provides a low margin business to the masses. The majority of mail is not the glamorous packages that can demand shipping rates in the $20-$50 range. It's the letter-sized envelopes and mailers that ensure that a postman stops at every residential & business address on a daily basis. That basic service the federal government guarantees ensures the USPS can't bring itself out of this rut until this changes. One solution would be to spin off the profitable portion to compete head-on and finance the low-margin side.
Even in Windows 7's file explorer, you can move up to any ancestor directory in the path (not just the immediate parent) by clicking on that directory in the path displayed at the top of the window.
I would argue that there's a difference between "overly optimistic" and "overly confident."

VCs may find overly optimistic people suspicious, but I think overly confident is met with boundless praise in most spaces.

The first is about the project and the latter is about the person. Someone can say, "Oh you know, we have x, y, and z obstacles, but I know we're going to beat them." That's admitting there's problems. But if they said a word about doubting themselves, well, no one ever applauds that. And the inability to be truly open and vulnerable as a human being seems to be the stuff that leads to desperate loneliness and suicide.
Private companies are legally obligated to fund defined-benefit pensions. There are some waivers given out, but it is generally required.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR00004:@@@L...;

Though strangely, defined benefit non-pension plans (e.g., retiree health care) are not required to funded. That's a loophole which should definitely be closed.

You are correct that the private sector has abandoned pensions for defined-contribution retirement plans, and with good reason. The public sector should do the same.
I would never buy my girlfriend Diane-35 
Diane-35 contains cyproterone acetate and ethinyl estradiol. This is an oral contraceptive which works by preventing pregnancy and by restoring abnormal menstrual cycles as indicated by the medical doctor. Diane 35 is also prescribed for the treatment of acne.
Just as a logic puzzle might be a bad predictor of how you'll perform on the job, it's probably also a bad predictor of the quality of the company doing the asking.
Interesting, to me, it doesn't feel like zombie-time.

For me it's the adventure time. Reminds me of taking trips that require getting up at 4AM.

But the hardest part is, of course, getting to bed early enough.
> At some point we should be able to do a VAX

You mean a processor where all of the complex opcodes are implemented in loadable microcode?
Wow this reminds of this video: http://vimeo.com/40000072

This generation has not lost their innovative spirit!
So here's the tricky question...

Why was it fun?
Until this 2006 law that requires the pension to be fully funded for 75 years, and that this be achieved in three more years, the USPS was self sufficient.

Well, self sufficient if you ignore their pension obligations.

The same logic says that if I run a business with $100 in revenue, that pays $50 in cash and $75 in IOUs to suppliers, it's profitable.
Not really my problem, but Mailbox on the Apple App Store (yes this is a fractal of trademark abuse) or Orchestra Mailbox (like Google Tasks) works.
Maybe the shirt isn't 'PC' but it's also just an ugly shirt. No need to throw a temper tantrum about someones terrible taste in apparel. Just seems petty to me to decline sharing your knowledge with people because you are easily offended. I don't think it's a detriment to women as a whole, but certainly to an individual who is willing to opt out of educational events because of a shirt. Imagine if every woman adopted this attitude, the end result would be less women at these sorts of events. I don't see that helping anyone's cause.
Sendfiles2.me is live
What is high and what is low is of course speculative.

When investing in the stock market I of course use that basic logic by analyzing the KPIs of the securities. This was less of an investment and more of an experiment in modern technology, prompted by some skeptical comments from my friends. For that reason it was more like purchasing a lottery ticket.

My $1000 lottery ticket didn't perform well, but due to my real investments paying off well over the years, I can handle the loss without much thought. Win some. Lose some.
Ugh. I've heard the bestsellers list is nothing but jumping through hoops and hacking loopholes anymore.

Danielle Laporte's book, The Fire Starter Sessions, sold more than many of the "bestsellers" at the time, but because the majority were sold online, she lost out on the ability to call it what it was. It's gross.
Since we're all guaranteed postal service in the constitution...

Could you cite the relevant part of the constitution?

As far as I know Congress has the power to "establish Post Offices and Post Roads", but there is no requirement that they do so.
It accepts more than just numbers though:

>>> print input()
"a"+"b"
ab
Kind of funny considering that the whole point of Lorem Ipsum was to get rid of the distraction of actual content in the first place.
Yeah, they make really good hammers. And I once saw someone open a beer with one. They have sooooo many uses other than killing things.
I can see the clients (and these are the same ones who get confused by Lorem Ipsum) complaining that the "font is unreadable".
I experimented with this exact sleep schedule when I went from working entirely remotely for 8 years to working in an office for a year and a half. I found that physically going to an office would exhaust me anyway to the point that I couldn't accomplish much after coming home, so this schedule was great for optimizing the time where I'd be most productive anyway, and putting me to sleep when I'd otherwise be useless anyway.

I'm introverted enough that the social interaction I had at the office was sufficient for the day, so I wouldn't be going out afterwards anyway. I'm also a night-owl and find myself much more productive at night.
I was just taking a look to it as I'd like some of my non-technical staff to understand how regex works - they need it for Google Analytics filters - and it looks wonderful.
> whiteboarding code by itself is not a great filter. It should be used in conjunction with a multi-faceted interviewing approach that involves testing fundamentals, the ability to construct a relatively simple algorithm, the issues of working on a team and on a production code base and systems design.

This I can heartily applaud. However, I take issue with this:

> tests like the FizzBuzz test [1] are, in my experience, remarkably effective [...]

I'd never heard of the FizzBuzz test before, just tried it.

You may as well have asked me to sing the solution out loud. It was that bad.

Paper turned out to be a completely unfamiliar medium for coding, despite years of whiteboarding solutions with colleagues. I instantly felt like I was using a totally different part of my brain. I practically lost the ability to write with a pen and significantly lost the ability to code. My heart rate rose substantially with fear of the unfamiliar. This tiny test took me ten minutes, and when I checked it later I found a syntax error.

And that was in my favourite chair, at my desk, at home on a quiet sunny Sunday morning, working in a language I know inside out. Under pressure, with strangers, in an unfamiliar job interview room? I'd have just fallen apart completely.

Back at the command-line? 30sec in a one-liner in a language I'm still learning.

I will not be adopting this method to filter hires, having self-identified myself as a false negative. I am never out to embarrass someone in a job interview - I want them to show me their strengths! If they prefer it (they usually do), I'll give them a real computer and ask them to shine using that.
"Volunteer scientists do not do the curation. They do editing and peer review, but they don't do the editorial work of deciding what articles are published, how they are presented, what's featured, etc."

What exactly do you mean by curation? Editing and peer review IS what determines what is published in the journal. If the paper passes those, it gets in-- Elsevier and Springer do not make a habit of telling editors-in-chief, "sorry, this paper you accepted doesn't cut the mustard". As for what is "featured", the order in which papers appear, etc., this is negligible even if the publishers do decide it (probably not), since journals are not like newspapers, not intended for cover-to-cover reading.
Google Stole Apple's Thunder
This entire business is predicated on a government sanctioned extortion of the airlines. The moment this thing gets popular, the airlines would lobby the government heavily to remove the regulations and tank the business.

A good idea while it lasts though. :)
The. Best. Comment. Ever. :-)
being a foreigner within it despite holding citizenship

Wait... are you one of those exceeedingly rare Japanese citizens who have no Japanese blood ancestry or are you just foreign-born Japanese?

And I do agree with you. Japan is a leading indicator in many respects.
I believe he means preprocessors like Sass, Less, or Stylus.
Why big companies cannot innovate
...100? Your calculator seems broken :)
This is essentially my grandfather's sleep schedule.
He uses the early morning hours to go hiking, snow shoeing, hunting, reading, and journaling. This schedule works especially well during hunting season because it allows him to have breakfast and hike out to his spot before the animals wake up with the sun.

I'm considering adopting it because I telecommute and it would give me some quiet hours to work before the kids and wife wake up.
or just 'python'
Surprisingly accurate analysis (IMO) from BI, a notorious click-bait shop. The last part truly nails it.
Apple really is leading the way with accessibility. A family member, also sided with an iPhone over a visually-impaired-targeted phone.

Moreover, they prefer OSX's built-in accessibility features over JAWS and similar software available for Windows.
Just two comments:
* when having cases that should match and other that not, It would be ok to differentiate them
* in some lessons it would be ok to force the full string to be matched. If not it's too easy to write i.e. file in http://regexone.com/lesson/8? and pass to the next one.
This reminds me greatly of Terry Pratchett's computer. It had ants as its computing media and had unreal time clock. With a cuckoo.
There's a lot to love about F# (type providers are especially sweet, for example). I'd like use it more, but the challenge seems to be more about getting C# devs to embrace functional development. Which I suppose is the challenge of functional languages everywhere...
But skylan_q wrote that in his case parent directory was not listed in address bar. I don't know how it's possible, but believe him.
A friend of mine once put it that if you're the kind of person that thinks a Chromebook is neat, you're not the target market for a Chromebook. I think you and he are both right. The only reason I even attempted it is because I damaged my Series 9 so much that it wouldn't start, so for a few months I just used what I had.
America? The war where the tyrannical overreaching government wanted to take away people's right to own other people and enforce more control over the states than the southern states wanted? Because the government; it won. (I'm pretty happy it did too!) :) So, yea... Great example.
It is kind of funny how responsive design has become perceived as a silver bullet for web design. There are still situations where a traditional m.domain.com approach is better.

Responsive is great if your site is mainly concerned with serving up content, like a news site or blog. But if your mobile users have significantly different use cases than your desktop users (as is sometimes the case with applications), it may make sense to serve up a separate app entirely.

Not to mention that it's still really hard to optimize responsive to the point where it performs as well on mobile as m.domain.com sites
That doesn't help with the very real fact that suicide and depression are heavily stigmatized in our culture.

If you're down, that's fine. Everybody has rough days.

Depression, the kind that leads to suicide, is very different.

I've spent quite a bit of time around depressed and suicidal people: My brother (whose son committed suicide), both of the first two girls I fell in love with, and more than a handful of friends. So while I'm not a psychologist, I can speak from some experience as to what they go through.

A friend of mine once described depression as being this massive black ball that hangs in front of your nose that nobody else can see. It blocks out almost everything else in your vision, but nobody else believes it's there.

When you try to talk to people about it, they treat you like a crazy person, because they can't see this massive thing that is impacting your life.

The people that suffer from this are treated as if they have some type of permanent crippling disability, rather than a treatable medical condition. Oftentimes when they try to get help, they're ostracized by their peers because they're a "crazy person" because they've got a mental illness.

Mental illness. The label obliterates the person underneath.

People that talk about it, that try and get help, find that they've got fewer friends than they used to. That fewer doors open, because nobody wants to hire or invest in a crazy person, and even after that person gets the treatment they need, the stigma remains.

Many startup founders and Silicon Valley hotshots exhibit the signs of severe depression, but it's completely taboo to talk about it. Admitting that you're spending time working with a therapist or taking medication is effectively a career death sentence (unless you're already a success). And so the problem stays buried, and every now and then we hear about another bright mind that just couldn't take it anymore.

More people need to come out with these problems, so that we can talk openly about this as a community, but that process needs to start from the top, from the investors and the big-time successful entrepreneurs.
Lest anyone take this as a mean-spirited joke: This is the actual truth. He suffers from schizophrenia and has a long-standing interest in algorithmically generated Christian messages, which he seems to find meaningful.
It took me a really long time to understand why that shirt (apart from simply being ugly) would be considered offensive to women. I think the author of this article should engage in some introspective self-criticism and try to pinpoint the psychological factors that cause her to get so upset at trivial externalities that dont completely synch with her worldview.
But perhaps they don't know they know?